* Windows 7 or newer
* Mac OS 10.13 or newer
- A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for
- Windows).
+ A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeXLive for Linux, TeXLive or
+ MikTeX for Windows, MacTeX for OSX).
Python (2.7 or 3.5 and newer) to convert old LyX files and for
helper scripts.
number "2.x.y" indicates a stable release '2.x', maintenance
release 'y'. In other words, LyX 2.3.0 was the first stable
release in the 2.3-series of LyX. At the time of writing, the
- latest maintenance release in the 2.3-series is LyX 2.3.7.
+ latest maintenance release in the 2.3-series is LyX 2.3.8.
Please note that maintenance releases are designed primarily to
fix bugs, and that the file format will _never_ change due to a
series. To summarize, there are three possible types of file names
that are of interest to normal users:
- lyx-2.3.0.tar.gz -- stable release, first in the 2.3-series
- lyx-2.2.4.tar.gz -- fourth maintenance release of LyX 2.2
+ lyx-2.4.0.tar.gz -- stable release, first in the 2.4-series
+ lyx-2.3.4.tar.gz -- fourth maintenance release of LyX 2.3
lyx-2.4.0rc1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable release candidate
Note that the goal is not parallel development as for the Linux
If you get the source from Git, the version string will look like
one of:
- 2.3.1dev -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
- release 2.3.1 will eventually be tagged.
- 2.4.0dev -- this is the main branch on which stable
- release 2.4.0 will eventually be tagged.
+ 2.4.1dev -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
+ release 2.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
+ 2.5.0dev -- this is the main branch on which stable
+ release 2.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
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