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Public release of LyX version 2.2.1
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We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.1. This is the first
maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. You can download LyX 2.2.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based 
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.

LyX 2.2.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more 
reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number 
of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless
encourage all users of 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.

One important change is to the behavior of character styles. By default,
these now prohibit changes to the paragraph layout. Putting a description 
inside a character style typically results in invalid LaTeX code, so this 
makes certain mistakes harder to make. Power users who have taken advantage 
of the previous behavior can restore it by adding "ForcePlain 0" to the 
declaration of the character style, so long as this is done after "LyXType 
charstyle" has been declared.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.1, please open a bug report at
http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel 
<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask. 

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX 
users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org).

We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.1.

The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org


What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Enable the use of LuaTeX for all polyglossia-supported languages.

- New document parameter "Save transient properties" under Document Properties >
  Format. (Output has been renamed into Format.) Disabling this option is made
  to play nicer in collaborative settings. (bug 9841)


* USER INTERFACE

- Syntax highlighting in the preamble and and the source view has been made
  compatible with dark themes (bug 8325).

- Changed the display of buttons for collapsed branches. We now display the
  same thing as if the branches were open (bug 10213).

- "Provides <package> 1" now works with fontspec, subfig, and listings (bug
  10257).

- Added a new module "Title and Preamble Hacks".

- Bring window to front after loading a document in single instance (bug 7875).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Interlingua, Italian and Slovakian user
  interface localization.

- Increase the maximum value for the number of last open files that LyX can
  remember (bug 9924).

- Change mouse cursor to indicate row/column selection in tabulars.

- Make inset-select-all select all cells only in tables.

- Automatically show the review toolbar if the document has tracked changes
  (bug 8738), and related UI improvements.

- Implement "Dissolve Inset" and "Show Label" context menu items for
  arguments (bug 10150).

- Restore selected reference when using "Go to label" and "Go back" in the
  cross-reference dialog.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Correctly protect the \pagebreak command when needed (bug 10092).

- Resolve problem on Windows with importing files from directories with
  accented characters on FAT drives (bug 10218).

- InPreamble styles should be written to the preamble as many times as the
  user requests them, even if it results in duplicate commands.

- Make sure we output all XHTML table cells, even the empty ones (bug 10153).

- .svgz images are now converted to .svg for XHTML export (bug 10160).

- Ask where to export file if not yet saved (bug 8814).

- Fix size issue with outliner icons on HiDPI monitors (bug 10125).

- Load math packages automatically with JSS template (bug 9242).

- Calling a Computer Algebra System from LyX works again (windows only bug 10262).

- Fix command clash between beamer and covington (from the Linguistics module).

- Fix crash on Buffer preview when not exporting in thread.


* LYX2LYX

- Fix paragraph argument conversion for \labelwidthstring etc (bug 10243).



* USER INTERFACE

- CharStyles now prohibit layout changes by default (bug 10237).

- Fix display of labels in right-to-left languages (bug 10169).

- Fix button label font of inset arguments when some traits are inherited.

- When a counter is stepped, reset recursively all subcounters (bug #10063).

- Fix on screen narrow box when using \width as box width unit (bug 10048).

- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.

- Fix small typo in Reference dialog (bug 10194).

- Fix default location for RPM based hunspell dictionary search (bug 10071 and 10192).

- Fix double input of tabulations with Qt5 < Qt5.5 (bug 9218).

- Do not omit the first space of the selection when copying (bug 9995).

- Do not allow non-default layouts to be pasted into table cells that are not fixed
  width (bug 8782).

- Display the correct column alignment and a better column spacing in AMS
  environments (bugs 1861, 9908).

- Disable properly toggling math display in places where it is not
  possible (bug 10033).

- Fix horizontal scrolling feature when inside a collapsable inset
  with several paragraphs.

- Fix selection of large formula with the mouse when horizontal
  scrolling kicks in (but 10094).

- Fix bug where cursor can't be put at the end of a line before an
  inset (bug 10180).

- Fix display of collapsable insets when the same document is shown in
  two views with different width (bug 9756).

- fix display glitches when editing changes the dimension of insets
  (bug 6691).

- Raise GuiView on buffer switch to bring it topmost in multi-window mode.

- Fix cursor position after Redo of a document settings change (bug
  10097).

- Handle undo after deleting end of paragraph in change tracking mode
  (bug 10253).

- Disable Edit > Dissolve Inset in tabulars (bug 9954).

- Shortcut preferences: ask the user for removing bindings when using the
  "restore" button (#9174).

- Shortcut preferences: fix the already-bound-key detection logic.

- Shortcut preferences: don't forget to trigger the search when it is
  initialized with the previous value.

- Remove extra spacing around button insets (bug 10149).

- Fix drawing of buttons by enforcing equal left/right spacing (bug 10147).

- Fix problem with drawing of lists after pasting normal text (bug 8735).

- Accessibility of the document class selector from keyboard (bug 10035).

- Fix title of LuaTeX and XeTeX error dialogs (part of bug 10013).

- Remove special code for Qt5 to load SVG icons with HiDPI (bug 10281).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Move documentation change logs to lib/doc (they are not distributed).


* LYXHTML

- Output width of table columns (bug 8168).

- Fix output of math sizes (bug 10129).

- Fix output of vertical space in the middle of a paragraph (bug 8154).

- Fix output of ABOVE and CENTERED label types (bug 8843).

- Output correct entities for named delimiters (bug 8280).

- Added class attribute for mathbb to allow customization (part of bug
  8521).

- Use 'text-align: center;' with displayed equations (bug 8654).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Due to bug fixes, it is no longer discouraged to build against Qt 5.4.

- Building against Qt < 4.7 no longer fails.

- Fix monolithic builds with autotools on Mac OS X.

- Avoid 'ar' warning with recent binutils versions.

- LyX compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 runs now on Windows Vista (bug 10186)

- Add some missing oxygen and IPA icons to the distribution.