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Public release of LyX version 2.2.3
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We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.3. This is the second
maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. 

You can download LyX 2.2.3 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 2.2.3 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 in themsevles, but the combined result of fixing them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.3, 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 2.2.3.

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


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

- Allow use of verbatim and quotation environments with IOP articles
  (bug 10505).

- Search for input files relative to local layout files, when those 
  are provided and relative paths are used.


* USER INTERFACE

- The title bar is now set according to platform UI. Read-only and
  version control are shown by indicators in the status bar.

- The toolbar context menu and the View>Toobars menus are now
  identical. Both allow to change icon size and to enable individual
  toolbars.

- The citation dialog has been redesigned, following user suggestions.

- Remember citation style settings both within and between sessions
  (bug 10256).

- Improve cross-references dialog design.

- Implement wrap-around in change tracking's next-change function (bug 10388).

- The Math Delimiters dialog now has a "Swap & Reverse" button (bug 10457).

- Document Settings > "Output" has been renamed to "Formats" now that it
  also contains the option "Save transient properties".

- The title of the source pane now reflects the format being previewed,
  e.g. "LaTeX (pdflatex) Preview".

- Improve information preview of bibliographic references (e.g. in the
  Citation dialog), particularly for bibtex databases that use biblatex
  features.

- When using Return in an empty paragraph and the depth is reduced,
  the layout of the paragraph is now changed accordingly.

- Issue an error message if incompatible languages (in terms of language
  package requirements) are used (bug 10456).

- Improve display speed, especially when compiled against Qt 4.x.

- Polish the BibTeX add dialog (bug 9795).

- Fix regression that was not allowing inserting more than three consecutive
  dashes without jumping through hoops.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New Arabic translation of the Intro and Tutorial manuals and the Shortcuts
  documentation file

- Updated translation of the French EmbeddedObjects and UserGuide manuals

- Updated Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese, German, Italian, Slovakian, Swedish,
  Ukrainian and French user interface localization.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Correctly determine whether the X11 backend is used by Qt 5.8.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix nested language handling with polyglossia (bug 9633).

- Fix usage of multiple varieties of the same polyglossia language.

- Fix LaTeX output of fixed-width cells with decimal separator (bug 9568).

- Fix strike out of deleted display math with track-changes and pdf
  output (bug 9678).

- Do not hardcode required packages for Note inset.

- Make *-lyxformat-* backup files use .lyx~ extension.

- Quote filenames used for forward-search with SumatraPDF (bug 10342).

- The '|' special character in index insets must no longer be inserted via
  TeX-mode.

- Fix preview of language switching commands for single paragraphs in some
  corner cases.

- Show symbol name and description in plaintext export of nomenclature
  entries (bug 10459).

- Correct encoding for Baltic languages like Lithuanian (bug 10474).

- Fix some quote inset bugs (bug 10451):
  # Adjoining closing Single + double quote becomes double + single quote
    (for English, Swedish and German).
  # French double quotes are converted to << >> in the LaTeX file and to
    double inverted question/interrogation marks in the output, if the font
    encoding is set to [None] or OT1 but the global default is T1.
  # Quote type ignored for LyXHTML: always "English" quotes used.

- Output correct identifier for DocBook XML.

- Correctly escape hyperlinks for DocBook output.

- Fix mathtools, amsmath and amssymb not loading automatically for some
  symbols (bug 10467)

- Protect citation arguments (pre and post text) which contain brackets
  (part of bug 2751).

- Handle backslash in label and ref insets (bug 4595).

- Output Preamble code of InPreamble styles before the styles themselves
  (bug 10215).

- Fix CopyRightYear with ACMSiggraph 0.9.3.

- Use \providecommand for logical markup macros. This fixes a LaTeX error
  with strong and fontenc.

- Fix problem with deleted paragraph breaks when changes are shown in
  output (bug 10579).

- Allow for empty .lyx files to be opened (bug 9198).


* LYX2LYX

- Do not convert "--" to "\twohyphens" in formula macros.


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix wrap-around on (simple) replace and in the spellchecker (bug 10378).

- Fix logic of OK/Apply buttons in cross-references dialog (bug 10376).

- Fix display of Examples and Sub-Examples labels in linguistics module.

- LyX keyboard shortcuts now take precedence over Qt accelerators. In
  particular, under KDE, the automatic accelerator reassignment no longer
  steals keys from LyX shortcuts (but can still leave some accelerators
  inoperable). (bug 10261, see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10261#comment:16
  for a workaround to KDE's bug.)

- Do not issue an error on missing characters in 'nullfont' (bug 10394).

- Fix on-screen display of font changes for text-in-math, so that now
  $\textbf{\textsc{a}}$ is also boldened on screen other than in output.

- When selecting special logos, set their color correctly.

- Fix display of Arabic text when compiling with Qt5 (bug 10436).

- Fix selection painting in right-to-left texts (bug 10424).

- Fix cursor movement when the document contains high-plane Unicode
  characters (bug 10443).

- Fix wrong on-screen text layout where a word would be alone on a
  line.

- Fix wrong on-screen flushing of a row that was cut after an hyphen.

- Fix crash when the document contains Unicode line-breaking characters.

- Fix assertion when selecting muticolumn in math (bug 10486).

- Allow using colors supported by xcolor inside mathed (bug 10417).

- Change description of "frame of button" color to "button frame" (bug
  10135).

- Fix height of cursor inside insets (bug 10478).

- Fix bad painting of collapsable insets sub-label when selecting (bug 10475).

- Always prefer breaking lines at word boundaries even for very long words.
  This fixes line breaking issues most noticeably in languages where spaces
  are rare such as Chinese (bug 10299).

- Do not use the clipboard stack when transforming selection into an
  inset (bug 6570).

- Fix display and output of math macros with optional arguments appearing
  in the optional argument of another macro.

- Do not prematurely cut selected text when inserting a Hyperref (bug 10306).

- Consider the argument of the hyperref-insert function even if there is a
  selection.

- Fix size of Section* headings in amsart.

- Fix possible crash with Save As... when online spell-checking is active.

- Correctly enable/disable citation dialog widgets on initialization.

- Correct width of the navigating window in the document settings and
  preferences dialogs in non-English localizations.

- Fix display of some text-mode accents in the citation preview (bug 9340).

- Fix font display in preview insets (bug 9732).


* INTERNALS

- Squash annoying warning from Qt when attempting to delete a non-existent
  file.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Fix compilation of the Fexynman diagram example file.

- Added some comments to User Guide section 6.1 about defining formatted
  references (bug 10545).

- Fix translation of Fixme module description (bug 10058).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Update boost source to 1.62.

- Fix compiler warnings from clang 3.9 and gcc 6.

- Fix compilation with Qt 5.8.