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@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 
 !!Interface changes
 
-* 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. One can also click on the red 'x' next
-  to the spinner to cancel export.
+* It is now possible to cancel background export processes at any time. 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. One can also click on the red
+  'x' next to the spinner to cancel export. Thanks to this functionality, we now
+  remove the "Stop command?" prompt, which polled users whether to stop a long
+  process.
 
 * 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
@@ -14,7 +16,8 @@
   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.
+* Backspace and other forms of deletion will now merge paragraphs even when they 
+  have different layouts.
 
 * Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
 
@@ -38,6 +41,13 @@
 * The actual enabled state of the synchronize TeX output option of the document
   is used to enable or disable the menu item for forward-search.
 
+* When using the document compare function, there is now an option to display the
+  differences using a special "Document Compare" author.
+
+* InsetRef now supports starred commands. The starred commands stop hyperref from
+  creating a link (and are only available when hyperref is used). There is a 
+  checkbox "No Hyperlink" for this purpose.
+
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
 * LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
@@ -54,6 +64,11 @@
 * Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
   encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
 
+* With LyXHTML output, there are now different CSS classees generated for
+  different depths: enumi, enumii, enumiii, and enumiv, and similarly for
+  itemize: lyxitemi, etc. There is also a new HTMLClass tag, which makes it
+  easier to provide specific classes for paragraphs.
+
 * 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),
@@ -153,6 +168,9 @@
 
 * tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
 
+* tab-group-next, tab-group-previous: Activate another tab group in split view.
+  The new functions bound to F6/S-F6 in CUA bindings.
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
 
@@ -169,6 +187,16 @@
 
 * branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status).
 
+* word-delete-forward, word-delete-backward, char-delete-forward,
+  char-delete-backward
+
+  The 2.4 behavior of these functions is almost equivalent to the
+  pre-2.3 behavior: without argument, it just deletes the
+  next/previous element; with the "confirm" argument however, big
+  insets are selected on the first call and deleted only on the
+  second. This new behavior allow scripts to work intuitively and
+  require the argument only for interactive use.
+
 
 !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
 
@@ -213,7 +241,8 @@
 !!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4:
 
 * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
-  Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
+  Qt6 the configure option --enable-qt6 has to be used. Qt4 is not 
+  supported anymore.
 
 * The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
 
@@ -277,3 +306,10 @@
 
 * Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
   https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
+
+!!Detailed list of 2.4 changes
+
+* For more comprehensive list of changes and new features in LyX 2.4 see
+  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
+