some updates for 1.3.0

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@6025 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-02-04  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
+
+	* NEWS: add entry for LyX 1.2.3
+
+	* UPGRADING: update for 1.3.0
+
 2003-01-30  Kayvan A. Sylvan  <kayvan@sylvan.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am: test for the presence of rpmbuild.

NEWS

@@ -117,6 +117,22 @@ to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
   multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
   installed.
 
+
+What's new in version 1.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
+where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
+special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
+Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
+
+** Updates
+
+- updated italian User Guide
+
+- updated french localization
+
+
 What's new in version 1.2.2?
 ----------------------------
 

UPGRADING

@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ Edit->Reconfigure automatically the first time the program is run.
 
 If you have your own layout files, you may need to update them a little:
 
+- floats are now defined in the layout file, using the "Float"..."End"
+  construct. In most cases, adding "Input stdfloats.inc" to your layout
+  file is enough.
+
+- counters are also defined in the layout files, using the
+  "Counter"..."End" construct. As for floats, adding "Input
+  stdfloats.inc" is probably a good idea.
+
+And of course, if you upgrade from LyX 1.1.x, remember that since
+1.2.0, you have to do the following changes:
+
 - all layout files should have a "DefaultStyle" entry
 
 - the "Latex" font style does not exist anymore. If you really need
@@ -47,20 +58,23 @@ written using previous versions of LyX. All versions of LyX as far back as
 0.12 are supported, so any klyx users still holding out for an alternative
 to xforms will finally be able to put their dinosaur to rest ;-)
 
-Of course, this means that you must have python installed in order to
+Of course, this means that you must have python (at least version 1.5)
-use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents.
+installed in order to use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents.
 
 lyx2lyx also has the framework in place to be able to convert documents
 to an earlier format. However, these converters have not yet been written
 so older versions of LyX will NOT be able to read documents saved with
 LyX 1.3.0.
 
-If you were previously using the floatflt paragraph option to
+If you were previously (in LyX 1.1.x) using the floatflt paragraph
-wrap text around a figure, you will need to modify this for LyX 1.2.0
+option to wrap text around a figure, it was necessary to modify this
-manually, as described in the manuals. Please ask on the lyx-users
+for LyX 1.2.0 manually, as described in the manuals. The feature has
-list for assistance if you have trouble with this.
+been re-implemented as "Floting figure" inset in 1.3.0. Old files will
+be converted automatically, but you may want to convert the
+1.2.x-style ERT constructs with the native solution (see section 3.8
+of the Extended Features manual).
  
-The babel package is now loaded after the user-defined
+Since LyX 1.2.0, the babel package is loaded after the user-defined
 preamble (because some packages really need to be loaded before
 babel). If you relied, on babel being loaded before your own
 definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at