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diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
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--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -14,21 +14,32 @@
   while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
   stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
 
+* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts.
+
 
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
-* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
-  existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults and templates.
-  That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
-  you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
-  as Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be changed manually
-  if desired.
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
+  not affect existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch
+  personal defaults and templates. That is to say, if you still see
+  traditional encoding preset for new documents, you can change that
+  by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save as
+  Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be
+  changed manually if desired.
 
 * LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
   "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
 
 * 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 
+  sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
+  Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
 
 !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
 
@@ -97,6 +108,10 @@
 
 * date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
 
+!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle.
+
+* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change
+  direction with language.
 
 
 !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:
@@ -131,6 +146,9 @@
 * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
   Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
 
+* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
+
+* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.
 
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0
@@ -143,13 +161,17 @@
 * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
   for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
 
-!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
-
-* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
-  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
-
 * 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). 
   Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
-  delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX.
+  delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
+  in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.
+
+  Also note, that while it is still possible to compile LyX against Qt 4
+  these math symbols will not be displayed correctly anymore on Qt 4.
+
+!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
+
+* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
+  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes