X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=344e6b1cc73c1a0a056cf4ecc7a31824fff07795;hb=79f321d0f505385438a9fca01ef87a658abf6bc7;hp=b779b627351bfad9e0c7a7c036b1ea4354c3bacf;hpb=c52344e8590bef4ca034eb03270125dd37bef3e3;p=features.git

diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index b779b62735..344e6b1cc7 100644
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
 * Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
 
 * Default shortcuts for saving bookmarks have been changed to Alt-NUM, where
-  NUM is the number of the bookmark. (They were previously Shift-F1, etc.) 
+  NUM is the number of the bookmark. (They were previously Shift-F1, etc.)
 
 * This allows Shift-F3 to be used for word-find-backwards (i.e., find previous)
   on Linux and Windows.
 
 * The shortcut to use the selection for a find on macOS is now Cmd-E, as is the
   Apple standard.  The shortcut for find the next occurrence of the current
-  find buffer text is Cmd-G.  The shortcut for toggle of font emphasis has been 
+  find buffer text is Cmd-G.  The shortcut for toggle of font emphasis has been
   changed to Cmd-Ctrl-E.
 
 * Continuous spellcheck is now on by default, but only if the user does not have
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@
 
 * Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
   encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
-  
-* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e. 
-  only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous 
-  implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples), 
-  some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a 
-  DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on 
+
+* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e.
+  only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous
+  implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples),
+  some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a
+  DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on
   sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
   Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
 
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@
 * \citation_search_view lyxpaperview: determines whether external script "lyxpaperview"
   should be used for looking up citation source.
 
+* \draw_strategy partial|backingstore: when this is set to
+  "backingstore", the drawing code will force the use of an
+  intermediate surface, instead of just drawing changed regions on
+  screen. Note that "backingstore" is actually always enforced on
+  macOS and Wayland (default: partial).
 
 !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
 
@@ -92,8 +97,6 @@
 
 !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
 
-* bidi is a helper function to implement icons that are different between LTR and RTL text. 
-
 * buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next
   export.
 
@@ -140,6 +143,11 @@
   ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
   context's language).
 
+* tabular-feature: added toggle parameters "toggle-all-lines", "toggle-border-lines"
+  and "toggle-inner-lines"
+
+* branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status).
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
 
@@ -166,7 +174,7 @@
 
 * The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized.
   They are now much more structured (by means of layout categories) and thus
-  consist of many new subfolders. 
+  consist of many new subfolders.
 
 
 
@@ -212,6 +220,8 @@
        (or xsltproc) you can use configure parameter --without-saxon to avoid
        installation of this library.
 
+* bash_completion script was updated for a newer syntax.
+
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0
 
@@ -220,12 +230,21 @@
 
 !!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x
 
+* LyX now uses the parskip package for vertical paragraph separation. Since the
+  output differs from the previous (sub-optimal) approach which applied paragraph
+  separation to sections, lists etc. as well, existing documents
+  are converted to use preamble code that maintains the previous layout.
+  The downside is that the workarea looks as if paragraph indendation rather
+  than paragraph separation was used (output is correct). We encourage you
+  to try if the new layout suits you, remove the respective preamble code
+  and re-set the paragraph separation to use the new layout.
+
 * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
   for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
 
 * Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed
   to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain
-  codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161). 
+  codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161).
   Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
   delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
   in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.