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Public release of LyX version 2.0.6
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.6. This is the sixth
maintenance release in the 2.0.x series.

LyX 2.0.6 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all
LyX users to upgrade to this version.

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.

You can download LyX 2.0.6 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.

If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.6, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org), or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.

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 2.0.6.

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


What's new in LyX 2.0.6
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- New layout file for the document class APA6 (bug 8391).

- Output BibTeX metadata in LyXHTML output (bug 8451).

- Added CSS styling for Memoir's epigraphs (bug 8611).

- Use master document's setting for all HTML math output (bug 8607).


* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS

- support for listings with options (bug 8066).

- add new option -m to select needed modules (bug 8393).


* USER INTERFACE

- Categorize paragraph styles of the linguistics module.

- Show a symbol on collapsed branches indicating whether they are
  active.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated German, French, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Slovak,
  Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localizations.

- Updated the lilypond example file.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fixed occasional crash when exporting a document while View->Source is
  open and being updated (bug 8425). 

- Load the babel package also if the document is English-only (bug 8423).

- Fix call of nonsense font packages in some localizations.

- Documents with document language Belarusian are now compilable (bug 8593).

- Documents with document language Serbian (using Cyrillic letters) are now
  compilable (bug 8590).

- Do not let child document's settings override master settings (bug 5941).

- Correct output of text in changed font size and with decorations (bug 8424).

- Layout file for JASATeX: solved problems with natbib and added missing
  short title for the document title

- Fix problem using lyxpak.py when outside the LyX tree: Variable was
  undefined.

- When using the knitr module, use new "encoding" parameter of knitr if 
  available (bug 8504).

- Fix layout conversion bug involving quoted Flex inset names that do not
  contain spaces.

- Fix crash while exporting document with images to xhtml from the command-line

- In order to avoid NFSS problems with certain font packages, load the needed
  font encodings when inserting Cyrillic and/or Greek characters (bug 8467).

- Reordering citations in LyX is now rendered in the output (bug 6955).

- Fix InsetLayout's LatexParam output: \begin{inset}[latexparam].

- Fix TeX crash involving font changes in URLs.

- Properly output alias for formatted chapter references, so prettyref
  documents work when converted tor refstyle.

- Fix lyx2lyx bug with non-ASCII layout file names (Debian bug 700828).

- Made \lyxadded and \lyxdeleted robust (bug 8435).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix crash when clicking on a completion in math mode (bug 8296).

- Fix assertion when searching for next change (bug 8370).

- Fix regression in which clicking in the main work area always resets
  the selected format in View -> Source (bug 8411).
  
- When selecting text and then using the menu Insert -> Preview, immediately
  display the preview (bug 8075).

- If 2 columns are chosen for the document they are now also displayed RTL
  if the document language is a RTL language (bug 6389).
  
- Allow arguments in PassThru environments (bug 7646).

- Consider deleted text when inserting quote inset.

- Fix a few selection bugs in tabular (bugs 4981, 7988).

- Handle properly undo after deleting a paragraph break when change
  tracking is enabled (bug 8633).

- Fix `select whole inset' function in math editor.

- Fix confusing behavior in search when changing directions (bug 8543)

- Fix several issues when using multicolumns/multirows and decimal alignment in
  table cells (bug 8285).

- Show the output of configure.py while the LaTeX packages are being checked
  rather than all at once at the end of the check (bug 8477).

- Do not crop wide characters in Symbols dialog (bug 5707).

- Make sure that inset-forall does not skip insets.

- File format viewer & editor combo boxes are correctly initialized (bug 8237).

- Do not create an empty environment variable LC_ALL when launching
  external processes (bug 8537).

- Do not try to process included files when viewing source (bug 8557).

- Reorder Look & Feel section in Preferences in order to fit the dialog
  into netbook screens (bug 7524).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Make the thesis template compilable again.

- It is now possible to spell-check Serbian documents using Latin letters
  (bug 8628).

- Fix compilation of modernCV example file for all themes.

- Update the Xy-pic manual to avoid any LaTeX and LyX warning when processing
  the file (e.g. bug 7753).

- The Hungarian Tutorial now has default output format pdf2.


* LYXHTML

- Reset counters properly when outputting included XHTML files (bug 8598).

- Fix the output of LyXHTML bibliography with richtext (bug 8486).

- Fix linking from citation to bibliography in LyXHTML output (bug 8490).

- Use document language when exporting citations to LyXHTML (bug 7732).

- Do not convert --- and -- to entities when outputting listings to 
  XHTML (bug 8561).

- Translate "elsewhere" when outputting XHTML (bug 8587).

- Fix problem with XHTML output of captions with listings (bug 8604).

- Fix problem with HTML output of simple formulas like "y[i]" (bug 8609).

- Clean ids for citations before outputting them. Characters like ":" are
  not allowed in HTML identifiers, apparently (bug 8606).

- Respect InsetLayout's PassThru setting for XHTML export.


* TEX2LYX

- Correct import of the command \framebox (bug 8223).

- Import \verb+\+ correctly (bug 4468).


* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE

- Fixed problem when searching with regular expressions and ignore
  format off (bug 8382).

- Cursor moved at proper end of selection before starting Find Advanced operation 
  (fixing bug 8543 for advanced search).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix building with system boost on FreeBSD.

- Avoid annoying warnings with newer gcc versions.

- Properly quote arguments in configuration (bug 8648).