Prepare ANNOUNCE and NEWS for rc2

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@26091 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
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--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1)
-=============================================
+Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2)
+=========================================================
 
 We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
 
-The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in 
+The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
 
 The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
@@ -43,20 +43,20 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
    internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
    Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
 
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+You can download LyX 1.6.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):
 
-       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz
-       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.bz2
+       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.gz
+       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.bz2
 
 Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
 from version 1.5.6.
 
 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
-       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/devel/
+       ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
 
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc1, you may either
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc2, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
 

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
-What's new in version 1.6.0rc1?
-----------------------------
+What's new in version 1.6.0rc2?
+-------------------------------
 
 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
 
 
+What's new in version 1.5.6?
+----------------------------
+
+This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
+started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
+even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
+further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
+languages.
+
 What's new in version 1.5.5?
 ----------------------------