diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 2e974b6d8f..afab4d0781 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) -============================================= +Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) +========================================================= We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ 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 +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 @@ -43,20 +43,20 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. -You can download LyX 1.6.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.6.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc1.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.bz2 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/devel/ + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc1, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc2, 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 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c8278eae66..305a74f2eb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,19 @@ -What's new in version 1.6.0rc1? ----------------------------- +What's new in version 1.6.0rc2? +------------------------------- The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 +What's new in version 1.5.6? +---------------------------- + +This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been +started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX +even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also, +further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23 +languages. + What's new in version 1.5.5? ----------------------------