From 225f7c606810ceb9f081db0033ecec25ef4c4819 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20Matox?= Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:32:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update and trim announce git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@27312 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ANNOUNCE | 66 +++++++++++++++----------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 554e74716b..67c97d978c 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,30 +1,7 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 5) -========================================================= - -We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. - -LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the -release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the -result. - -This is the last planned release candidate. In order to guarantee a -stable release of LyX 1.6.0 there are very few changes when compared -with the last release candidate (rc4). -The changes committed refer to bug and performance fixes and there are -no known regressions compared to any of the previous release -candidates. - -As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly -visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and -some of the new features are the direct results of this work. - -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 - -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 +=================================== +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: @@ -33,37 +10,28 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license. - LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, - right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting - details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page - boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary - TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. +LyX 1.6.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the +release of the LyX 1.5.0. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the result. - On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or - richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like - nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all - looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably - different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' - your dissertation the evening before going to press. +The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 - LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully - internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the - Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. +The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release +compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of +issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes -You can download LyX 1.6.0rc5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, -which yields smaller files): +You can download LyX 1.6.0 here: + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.0.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc5.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc5.tar.bz2 +Prebuilt binaries (for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows +installers) should soon be available at + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.0/ Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.5.6. -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ - -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc5, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0, you may either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org