diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index a2df4e2886..d49ae8640f 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,23 +1,22 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.9 -=================================== +Public release of LyX version 1.6.10 +==================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.9. This is the 10th -maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.10. This is the 11th +and final maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. -LyX 1.6.9 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version -even more reliable and stable. We have fixed yet another number of crashes -that have been reported to us and ironed out many small glitches. Also, -some features and additions from the forthcoming 2.x series, such as -support for CVS revision control and a new Swedish localization, have been -backported to LyX 1.6.9. +LyX 1.6.10 concludes the successful 1.6 series, which has been our stable +series for the past two and a half years. The most notable new feature of +this version is that it is able to read and import documents of our new +stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit of users who want to +stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want to cooperate with +users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still writes the 1.6 format, +so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's new features. -A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems -are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. +Read on below what has been changed and fixed in this version apart from that. +Remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. -While our next major release, LyX 2.0, comes closer and already can be -tried out by the curious and brave, LyX 1.6.9 is the release for everyone -who is relying on a rock solid and polished application. We thus encourage -all users to upgrade to this version. +Anyone who intends to stick with the 1.6 series is strongly encouraged to +upgrade to this version. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: @@ -43,39 +42,39 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. -You can download LyX 1.6.9 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.6.10 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host the .bz2 versions): - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz - http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at: - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.9/ + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.10/ If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may want to apply one of the following patches instead: - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.bz2 Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not produced by the patch. -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.9, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.10, you may either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ @@ -88,198 +87,6 @@ Enjoy! The LyX team. -What's new in version 1.6.9? +What's new in version 1.6.10? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- eLyXer is now always run as a script, not as a python module. - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- CVS support: - + Synchronization of whole directories (bug 6255). - + Add implementation of checkOut operation. - + Utilize read-only checkouts with "cvs edit". - + Check for conflicts when doing checkIn/checkOut operation. - -- Allow Ctrl+Arrow to move between table cells (bug 1839). - -- Add support for showing on screen italic uppercase Greek letters, - either inserted in a \mathit inset or through AMS macros (bug 4606). - - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Re-introduce Swedish User Interface localization. - -- Updated Basque, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, - Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portugues, Serbian (Latin), Slovak and - Ukrainian User Interface localizations. - -- Updated French translation of the Customization manual, the Embedded - Objects manual und the Linguistics manual. - -- Updated German translation of the User Guide. - - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION - -- Allow using autoconf 2.66 and 2.68. - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Correctly break URLs at the end of lines in DVI output when hyperref - is used (bug 7033). - -- Escape "]" in subfloat captions to prevent LaTeX failure. - -- Fix DVI output of the document class "letter (lettre)". - -- Do not output PDF settings if these are disabled in the document - settings (bug 7052). - -- Avoid inserting a blank line before the end of an environment when - exporting a custom inset to LaTeX (bug 7254). - -- Correctly check for RTF and DOC viewers. - -- KOMA classes: Support the optional argument of Addpart, Addchap and - Addsec. - -- Letter class: Support Quote, Quotation and Separator. - -- Don't pass the letterpaper option to the geometry package when using - default paper format and margins are explicitly set. - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- Fix crash when using a computer algebra system from within AMS math - environments (bug 7058). - -- Fix crash when pressing up or down arrow while editing a macro name and - an inline completion is suggested (bug 7068). - -- Fix crash when removing a math macro argument while instant preview - is active (bug 7090). - -- Fix crash when inserting quotes with a selection spanning multiple - paragraphs (bug 7200). - -- Fix crash when clicking on the beginning of an unfinished command in - math when autocompletion is active (bug 7209). - -- Fix assertion when pasting a column in a math matrix (bug 7106). - -- Remove traces of long removed index settings dialog. This fixes a crash - when issueing the non-functional lfuns "dialog-show index" and - "dialog-show-new-inset index" (bug 7180). - -- Clear column width field in the tabular dialog when moving in a column - without a fixed width (bug 6976). - -- Correctly save the settings of UI components. They could disappear when - starting LyX with a modified default.ui file and changing the - preferences afterwards (bug 7099). - -- Fix the painting of the workarea for a non-standard DPI and using - emulated scaling on Windows Vista and Windows 7 (bug 7187). - -- Fix insertion of a user math macro through the math-insert lfun when a - selection is present (bug 6939). - -- Don't shadow user math macros defined in child documents (bug 7183). - -- Make the modules description in the menu "Document > Settings" fully - translatable (bug 6987). - -- Fix table line bug when unsetting a multicolumn cell via the table - dialog (bug 7000). - -- Fix the display of table cell alignment in the context menu (bug 7053). - -- Don't allow to make tables within floats "long" as this could lead to - LaTeX errors (bug 6585). - -- Don't use absolute paths on internal copy/paste operations on Mac - (bug 6538). - -- Correct the denomination of the languages Norsk and Nynorsk. - -- Do not allow to put the cursor in an InsetInfo. Instead, a context - menu item is added to facilitate copying of the contents (bug 5446). - -- Fix the display of the horizontal alignment of table cells (bug 7007). - -- Numbered items in insets that do not produce any output (e.g. Notes) - no longer have a number associated with them (bug 6315). - -- Update the status of the buttons in the Text Style dialog when the - cursor is moved (bug 6952). - -- Correctly toggle the numbering of an equation when issueing the menu - "Insert > Numbered equation" on a displayed equation (bug 6709). - -- Fix the painting of non-text insets with a transparent background - (such as quotation marks) as well as the description of a caption - (bug 4889). - -- Fix painting of math-macro templates while moving the cursor or - performing a selection with the mouse (bug 7193). - -- Fix unexpected behavior when inserting big math delimiters around a - matrix (bug 7088). - -- Fix saving of personal dictionary path to preferences (bug 6688). - -- Fix unexpected behavior of some "insert math" menu/toolbar entries - (bug 6709). - -- In the table dialog, disable the column width and column alignment if - there is a LaTeX argument (bug 3517). - -- Fix aspell spellchecking with Farsi (bug 7171). - -- Fix the enabling of LFUN_SPLIT_CELL in the math context menu (bug 4849). - -- Recognize the program listings' parameter 'breakatwhitespace' - (bug 7077). - -- Wake up from waiting state after encountering a file parsing error - (bug 6950). - -- Fix enabling/disabling of Instant Preview widgets in the preferences - dialog (bug 7190). - -- Allow to undo the insertion of math macros (bug 7125). - -- Add some visual aids to distinguish opened files: full paths in - statusbar for recent files items, absolute paths in tooltips of tabs, - and longer paths in the window title (bug 7182). - -- Fix the response of the update button of the view source window after - reopening a file (bug 5600). - -- Don't allow to set an alignment for rows in math substack environments - (bug 2498). - -- Allow paragraph breaks and nested environments in framed boxes. - -- Trigger LaTeX rerun if requested by the package "etaremune". - -- Fix EndFont tag in the svmult.layout (bug 7257). - - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Fix LaTeX errors in modernCV.lyx example file with recent versions - of the LaTeX package modernCV (bug 7272).