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@@ -3,17 +3,41 @@
 
 !!Interface changes
 
-- It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
+* It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
   to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is underway.
-  The LFUN for this is export-cancel.
+  The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the 'spinner'
+  to cancel export.
+
+* The items on the Edit menu have been reordered, and many of the shortcuts
+  have been changed so that they are more intuitive in the case of often
+  used items. We understand that this may frustrate some users and apologize,
+  while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
+  stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
 
 
 !!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 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".
 
 !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
 
+* \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking
+  are underlined in the workarea (default: true).
+
+* \ct_markup_copied true|false: determines whether change tracking markup should be
+  preserved on copy/paste (default: false).
 
 
 !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
@@ -29,6 +53,9 @@
 * \use_qimage
   This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter.
 
+* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage
+  There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore.
+
 * \date_insert_format
   The function date-insert has been removed and superseded by info-insert date.
   The latter does not need a pref value anymore.
@@ -36,8 +63,25 @@
 
 !!!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.
+
+* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document
+  in the (personal) templates folder.
+
 * export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes.
 
+* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children.
+
+* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document.
+
+* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph
+  surrounding the actual cursor position.
+
+* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
 
@@ -45,19 +89,38 @@
 
 * info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
 
+* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion
+  ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
+  context's language).
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
 
 * 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:
 
+* As a result of a major restructuring of the templates and example
+  directories, almost all examples and templates files have been renamed and
+  moved to subfolders that reflect the layout category.
+  The files now have much more decriptive (and longer) names, and they use
+  URL encoding for specific special characters such as '(', ')' and '&'.
+  Notably also the file that opens for new users has been renamed (from
+  splash.lyx to Welcome.lyx).
 
 
 !!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory
 
+* 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. 
+
 
 
 !!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4:
@@ -73,6 +136,8 @@
 * 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.
+
 
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0