diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 2af534bb65..4acf3b3e51 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.4.1 -===================================== +Public release of LyX version 1.6.5 +=================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4.1. This is a small -update to LyX 1.6.4, which was the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x -series. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.5. This is the fifth +maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. -The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac, -which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible -via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue. +The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly +reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and +some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX +server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other +applications such as JabRef on this platform as well). -A detailed list of changes in 1.6.4 and 1.6.4.1 is appended below, -remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. +A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems +are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. -All Mac users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. For users of -other platforms, there's no reason to upgrade from LyX 1.6.4. +All users and distributors are urged 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: @@ -39,33 +39,36 @@ 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 1.6.4.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.6.5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.5.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-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz - http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz + http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz -A prebuilt binary for Mac OS X should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4/ +Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows +installers) should soon be available at: -If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply -one of the following patches instead - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.1.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.1.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.5/ -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.4.1, you may either +If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.4.2), you may +want to apply one of the following patches instead: + + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.5.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.5.bz2 + +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.5, 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/ @@ -78,22 +81,7 @@ Enjoy! The LyX team. -What's new in version 1.6.4.1? ------------------------------- - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* USER INTERFACE - -- Revert an erroneous bugfix that was introduced with LyX 1.6.4: - "Disable some menu entries when the document windows does not have - focus on OS X (bug 1720)." - This re-enables the access to the Preferences and About LyX dialogs on - the Mac menu (other platforms were not affected). - - -What's new in version 1.6.4? +What's new in version 1.6.5? ---------------------------- ** Updates: @@ -101,106 +89,93 @@ What's new in version 1.6.4? * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -- LaTeX import (tex2lyx) was updated and now also supports: - * nomenclature entries - * the LaTeX-package esint - * the alternative LaTeX document language names "portuguese" and - "brazilian" +- Add support for Extended Greek characters (bug 4997). -- Implement separate chains for Japanese bibliography and index - compilation. This allows for proper support for jbibtex and mendex, - pLaTeX's bibtex and makeindex replacements (bug 5601). +- Support GraphicsMagic when ImageMagick is not found (bug 6056). -- Lyx now recognizes dviout as DVI viewer (bug 6103). +- New layout files for Inderscience journals (bug 6293). + +- New layout files for the document classes tufte-book and tufte-handout. + +- New layout files and templates for Springer's svmono and svmult document + classes (bug 6253). + +- Add support for jmakeindex (Japanese version of makeindex). * USER INTERFACE -- Support for chemical formulae via the LaTeX package mhchem. For a - description see LyX's Math manual. +- The LyX server is now available also on Windows. See Chapter 4 in the + Additional Features manual for how to enable it. -- LyX's warning about different textclasses in master and child now has a - "Do not show this warning again!" checkbox. Checking it will disable the - warning for this specific master/child constellation over sessions - (bug 3218). +- Paragraph ends can now be marked by a pilcrow character (bug 6129). -- Tooltips for toolbar buttons now show the main shortcut associated - to the action. +- A "Reload" menu item is added to the Graphics context menu to + manually force a reload and conversion of the image (bug 6134). -- Tooltips for footnotes and some other insets now wrap, so they can - actually be seen. +- Handle LFUN_FONT_UNDERLINE in mathed too (bug 2045). -- New commands inset-begin/end (bound to Ctrl-Alt-Home/End) allow to jump - to begin/end of insets (and outside of the inset if the cursor is - already in place). There are also versions that select text. +- Emergency file can be deleted after use (bug 2120). -- The LaTeX Log File dialog has a search facility. +- The size of previews (InstantPreview) can now be specified in the + LyX preferences (bug 6176). -- The notes context menu has a new item for toggling all notes. +- Include new modules to do equation/figure/table numbering sectionwise. + These modules are now used in the AMS classes instead of the previous + preamble hardcoding (bug 6123). -- The math context menu has a new item for numbering a single line in a - formula. +- Include new modules for more control over theorem numbering (bug 5880). -- The math context menu has now a status flag indicating the type of - equation. +- It is now configurable whether each tab has an own close button + (bug 5977). -- Some context menu items haven been stylistically revised. +- New LFUN inset-select-all allows to select the whole content of + an inset (bug 5991). -- The include inset context menu indicates the selected inclusion type. +- SVN support: synchronization for whole directories (bug 6255). -- Add a graphical user interface for the SVN file locking property. +- Complete tooltips in Spellchecker preferences (bug 6185). -- Preferences about automatic popup and inline completion are now honoured - when pressing Ctrl-L in math mode. - -- Make it possible to copy from a deleted section (bug 5390). - -- The merge changes dialog has a new button for backwards navigation - (bug 2213). - -- Copy as Reference is now also implemented for equation labels - (bug 5948). - -- Visual support for the integral signs \fint and \fintop in formulas was - added. +- Add tooltips in the Math Options section of the Document Settings + dialog. * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -- New Slovakian translation of the Introduction manual. +- New template file "svjour3.lyx" for article submissions + to journals published by the Springer group. -- New French translation of the specific manual "How to write Braille - with LyX". +- New Slovak translation of the Splash manual. -- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, - Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and - Spanish localizations of the user interface. +- New Chinese translations of the LyX Intro and Tutorial. -- Updated EmbeddedObjects manual: New section about subfloats. +- New French translations of the XY-pic manual, the powerdot example + document, the linguistics manual and the seminar example document. + +- Revised French translations of the example_raw and example_lyxified + documents. -- English Extended manual: Updated section about reverse DVI search. +- Updated French manual how to write Braille with LyX. -- Updated English Additional Features manual. +- Updated French Intro manual. -- Updated Intro manual for all languages. +- Revised appendix A of the Math manual. -- Updated English, French, German, and Spanish Math manual. +- Revised English LyX Tutorial. -- Updated German and Spanish User's Guide. +- Revised English, French and German template for 20 min. Beamer + conference presentations. -- Updated German and Japanese Tutorial. +- Demonstrate the use of fragile frames in the Beamer example document. +- Updated LyX User's Guide. -* BUILD/INSTALLATION - -- Added a shell script (lyxeditor) for performing reverse DVI/PDF search - and a python script (lyxpak.py) for creating archives of a lyx file and - all its ancillary files (graphics and so on) to development/tools. - -- Take advantage of some bugfixes in Qt 4.5 for internal file handling. - -- Added some cygwin-specific scripts and utility programs that are - compiled and installed when building on cygwin. +- Clarify usage of layout tags No_Emph, etc. in the Customization manual + (bug 5412). + +- Updated Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, + Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian user interface + localizations. ** Bug fixes: @@ -208,254 +183,238 @@ What's new in version 1.6.4? * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -- Prevent data loss when shutting down Windows (part of bug 5525). +- Do an emergency save if LyX attempts to destroy a dirty document buffer. + This is a last resort to try to avoid data loss. -- Fix conversion of documents from LyX 1.5 with multiple URL insets - (bug 6121). - -- Fix conversion documents from LyX 1.4 which have multicolumn cells in - tabulars with expert border settings (bug 6018). - -- Partially resolve bug 5702, "tex2lyx cannot deal with modules". We - now treat the "DefaultModule" tag as if it were an "Input" tag. This - is not a general solution, but does deal with one of the most serious - cases of the bug. - -- Fix language settings after an environment (bug 5096). - -- Fix layout conversion problem with AMS classes (bug 6140). - -- Fix the output of spaces that are at the beginning of a block with - a new textcolor (bug 4473). - -- Fix output of alignment if default aligment is not justified (bug 5995). - -- Fix problem where updates in some child documents were not recognized - and no LaTeX update was performed (bug 6024). - -- The default eLyXer configuration now handles images correctly on view - and export (requires eLyXer >= 0.27). - -- Fix loading of UTF-8 encoded files when a byte order mark (BOM) is - present (bug 6030). - -- Fix reverse DVI/PDF search with child documents (bug 6020). - -- Assure that a longtable caption is in a first header even if the table - does not have one. This assures the caption is not repeated after a - page break and consequently in the list of tables (bug 6057). - -- The file encoding is now properly restored after a LaTeX environment - or command with local scope (bug 5690). - -- Enable the possibility to read documents from a path containing a - $-character (bug 4177). - -- Enable document margin settings and hyperref settings in the - article (beamer) class. - -- Fix bug involving incorrect requests to overwrite external files - (bug 5522). - -- Fix occasional wrong occurrence of theorem style (bug 6036). - -- Fix the on-screen representation of headings in the AMS article and - AMS book classes. +- Fix a tex2lyx crash when importing a LaTeX file using an unknown + encoding (bug 6142). +- Fix a crash when no external templates are defined (bug 3974). + +- Fix a crash when loading a document that specifies mutltiple labels + for an equation (bug 5968). + +- Fix crash when moving down with the cursor in a Unit inset (bug 6351). + +- Fix infinite loop when reading Mac-formatted layout files (bug 3605). + +- When using the PDF-Pages external inset, copy the included PDF file to + the temporary directory, where LaTeX searches it (bug 6345). + +- Add encoding "ansinew" as a synonym of "cp1252" for the benefit of + tex2lyx (bug 6142). + +- Fix support for optional argument of \bibitem in tex2lyx (bug 6249). + +- Fix (again!) reading of default modules by tex2lyx (part of bug 5702). + +- Fix reading of caption texts, which got broken in 1.6.4 (bug 6276). + +- Fix support for polytonic Greek with multiple diacritics (bug 5976). + +- Assure the author name is encoded correctly in the LaTeX output of + change tracking markup (bug 6225). + +- Remove the last '\\' in the output of multiline equations. This caused + labels to appear twice (bug 2969). + +- Put "|" characters in index entries in ERT when converting old documents + to LyX 1.6.x format, to assure the character is treated verbatim + (bug 6179). + +- Properly reset the stream encoding after an environment in order to + match the required file encoding when exporting to LaTeX (bug 6216). + +- Fixed layout file for the document class svjour3 (bug 6198). + +- Add support for \specialsection in amsart layout; improve on-screen + appearance of headings. + +- Added the separator style to the layout file for the document class + elsarticle and adapted the elsarticle.lyx template file accordingly + (bug 6189). + +- Correctly distinguish warnings from errors when using teTeX with + file:line:error style (bug 6258). + +- When including a child document whose language is different from + the master document language, restore the master language at the + end of the child rather than the child language. + +- Set the correct document language when importing TeX files. + +- Set the correct style for the quotes when importing TeX files which + use the new German spelling. + +- Do not eat blanks at the beginning of inserted text in change tracking + mode's PDF output (bug 6282). + +- Include packages for commands used within a \boxed (bug 6297). + +- Close font-changing commands before a program listing. + +- Ouput empty cells in a matrix with vertical lines. Omitting these + empty cells caused gaps to appear in the vertical lines (bug 6310). + +- Fix counters in powerdot layout. + * USER INTERFACE -- Prevent a crash in Qt when scaling images on screen. This could occur - only for certain scaling factors and image sizes (bug 5957). +- Fix crash when finishing certain math macros such as \frac or font + changing commands (bug 6110). -- Do not close hidden documents that have unsaved changes without asking - whether the changes should be saved (part of bug 5863). +- Fix crash when undoing changes to an unknown math macro name such that + the macro becomes a known user-defined macro (bug 6208). -- Fix bookmark navigation crash when multiple windows are used - (bug 6000). - -- Disable the "sort" option in the outliner for the Table of Contents - which triggered a crash (bug 5983). Sorting the TOC didn't work anyway. - -- Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with split views (bug 5998). - -- Fix a crash when applying preference changes (bug 6064). - -- Fix a crash when accessing the Navigate menu after an empty inset has - been dissolved (bug 6003). +- Fix a crash when searching for a string that is found in a table, + while the cursor is in math (bug 6112). -- Fix a crash when performing instant preview on an uncodable character - (bug 6116). +- Fix a crash when closing a window after a document was opened + multiple times and each time a new window was opened (bug 6188). + +- Fix a crash when navigating to a child's heading with the outliner after + the child was reloaded (bug 6233). + +- Fix a crash when navigating to a label in a child document (bug 6252). + +- Fix a crash when trying to launch the settings dialog of an unknown + external inset (bug 6259). + +- Fix crash when copying a math inset containing a non-ascii character + which is missing a LaTeX command representation in the unicodesymbols + file (bug 6250). + +- Fix a crash when leaving an empty superscript or subscript (bug 6193). + +- Fix an infinite loop when selecting multiple displayed equation right + after each other with LFUN_SCREEN_UP (bug 6237). -- Fix a crash when navigating in a table with math insets (bug 6158). +- Fix a crash when pressing PageUp in an empty document (bug 6327). + +- Fix crash with autosave on Mac OS X 10.6 (bug 6168). + +- Fix a number of assertions when displaying error messages (bug 6205). + +- Fix assertion when clicking on left side of inset in RTL text + (bug 6165). + +- Fix bad allocation exception when displaying long tooltips (bug 6215). + +- Fix shadowing of user-defined math macros by internal ones and make + LyX behave as LaTeX, i.e., user macros take precedence (bug 5530). + +- Fix width definition in the box dialog after a box inset was transformed + from "Inner Box" type "None" to "Parbox" or "Minipage" (bug 6298). + +- Fixed problem involving inability to turn off auto-save (bug 6227). + +- Sort document classes case insensitively (bug 1492). + +- Fix wrong cursor position in RTL text (bug 6161). + +- Disable to insert floats into another float when this is not allowed + (bug 6045). -- Fix a crash when closing LyX while a master and its child were open. +- Disable the float positioning dialog for subfloats (bug 6125). -- Fix a crash when documents were hidden, the view was closed, and - the same documents were made visible in another view (bug 6162). +- Do not close the cross references dialog when selecting an item from the + list (UNIX only; bug 6204). -- Fix communication between lyxclient and server, which leads to a - crash once CTRL+D is used on the client side (bug 6106). - -- Display the filename suffix in the tab header if it is non-standard - (e.g. ".lyx15"). This avoids a crash when loading two files with - identical names but different extensions (bug 5646), and disambiguates - such files in the user interface. +- The menu item "Close Tab Group" is renamed to "Close Current View" to + better relate this to the action "Split View ..." (bug 5067). -- Disable Symbols dialog for read-only documents. This prevents a - potential crash. - -- Fall back to default UI file if the specified one cannot be found - (bug 6076). +- Fix a bug that the keymap settings in the Preferences dialog could + not be deleted (bug 6119). -- Fix assertion when a nested math hull appears in a math macro - (bug 5996). - -- Fix assertion when pressing down arrow in the command buffer while - the history is empty (bug 6001). +- Fix a number of small issues regarding menu items and menu shortcuts + (bug 6164). -- Fix assertion when selecting with Shift-button in math editor (bugs - 5046 and 6026). +- Fix a bug that it was possible to request the wrong context menu + by moving the mouse during the right-click (bug 5796). -- Fix assertion when starting spellchecker in math mode and clicking - "replace" (bug 6013) - -- Fix assertion in mathed when moving the cursor immediately after - pressing Ctrl-L (or '\' with inline completion disabled) in front of - another character (bug 6063). - -- Prevent a window resize when applying the Preferences when the - LyX window is maximized (bug 6034). +- Fix the painting of RTL text. All rows except the last one of a + paragraph were painted slightly too far to the left (bug 3997). -- Fix the upward scrolling when selecting with the mouse (bug 4464). +- Fix the \kern primitive in mathed (bug 6246). -- Make Tools>Statistics ignore Note insets and inactive branches - (bug 2566). +- When pressing at the end of a math formula, do not remove + label or numbering when selection is set (bug 6273). -- Take into account file system case sensitivity when checking whether - a path starts with a given prefix. This fixes a bug with reverse PDF - search when using SumatraPDF as a PDF viewer on Cygwin. +- Fix Ctrl-Shift-Tab shortcut for tabs (bug 6194). -- Fix the maximum number of the files stored in last-opened-files list - (bug 5980). +- When starting LyX, open each document in a new view when "Open documents + in tabs" is unchecked (bug 4906). + +- Fix the location of context menus requested by the menu key (bug 6108). -- Disable unused functions in the citation dialog (bug 5987). +- Fix undo of removed script in mathed when both super- and subscript + are present (bug 6264). -- Fix display of BibTeX entries in the info field of the citation - dialog by only converting text mode latex macros to unicode glyphs. - -- Convert LaTeX macros such as \"{u} to proper unicode characters - for the display of authors/editors on the citation inset button. +- Fix parsing of selection when used as argument of a math macro + (bug 6270). -- Fix pop-up of ToC and Source code panels after fresh install (part - of bug 5082). +- Fix inset-[begin|end][-select] when the cursor is at the beginning or + end of a paragraph. -- Maintain session settings over version changes (also related to - bug 5082). +- If a static EndLabelString is defined in a layout file it is now + correctly displayed on screen (bug 2972). -- Do not reset toolbar settings after a change of UI files that do not - concern toolbars. +- Do not remember documents for next startup when closing a window + but not closing LyX. -- Fix math-insert lfun behaviour in the absence of a selection or when - something outside mathed is selected (bug 6033). - -- Fix casing inconsistencies in the English user interface. +- Fix the painting of the last character of a paragraph, e.g. + added/deleted paragraph breaks in change tracking. -- Fix context menu for insets inside a branch inset (bug 6022). +- Do not swallow spaces after a LaTeX macro appearing in text mode + inside mathed (bug 6284). -- Fix command "tabular-feature align-(left|right|center)" which was - inadvertently disabled for a math matrix (bug 6041). +- Show the correct context menu for insets nested in closed insets + that are opened by the navigate or search functionality (bug 6820). -- Ensure that pasting into the preamble and the nomenclature dialog's - description widget resets the font formatting (bug 3936). +- Fix the positioning of the cursor in some cases with mixed RTL + and LTR text (bug 5061). -- Fix wrong labeling as "child only" branch if branches were unknown. +- Set the correct language after dissolving an inset, which could have + given strange effects especially when dissolving an ERT (bug 6292). -- Fix typesetting of chemical equations by adding support for the mhchem - package (bugs 6047, 4043, and 5394). +- Fix the appearance of the combo boxes in the Text Style dialog + (bug 5063). -- Fix display of unknown math macros that become known after editing their - name. They are now correctly expanded and not left in red (bug 5923). +- Fix double blinking cursors in Graphics/Nomenclature dialogs (bug 3852). -- Fix display of macros when clicking away (bug 3706). +- Fix display of e-mail addresses in the About LyX dialog. -- Fix the inconsistent behaviour of the cursor inside math (bug 2034). +- In the Linguistics module, do not switch to the buffer language in + glosses (this was only a cosmetic issue in the LyX window). -- Fix the toggling of the outline-button on the toolbar when closing - the outliner with the 'x' (bug 3918). +- Allow PgUp and PgDown to position the cursor on the first or last row. -- Fix the pasting of multiple cells in a table when a range is selected - (bug 4952). +- Dissolve the caption when unsetting a longtable caption row (bug 5754), + and when converting a longtable into a normal table. -- Do not open files during startup that were closed in the previous - session by Close View or Close Window (bug 5458). +- Move the contents of a table row into the caption when setting the row + as a longtable caption row. -- Remove empty paragraphs and superfluous spaces when leaving an inset - (bug 5435). - -- Fix the scrolling problem that when scrolling with PgUp or PgDn, the - cursor could end up on a row that is only partly visible. This causes - the cursor to end up somewhere else when scrolling back (bug 5944). - -- Fix selection of math insets on some archs. - -- Fix of painter glitches caused by uninitialized variables (bug 6077). - -- Fix uninitialized variable in Dialog code (bug 6081). - -- Fix the enabling of the page height and width fields in the Document - Settings dialog. - -- The width unit of table cells can be set before entering the - value (bug 6070). - -- Re-allow the insertion of glue lengths in the VSpace dialog and the - VSkip widget of the Document dialog (bug 6097). - -- Fix bug where multimedia keys were intercepted by LyX (bug 6043). - -- Disable some menu entries when the document windows does not have - focus on OS X (bug 1720). - -- Add the emf an wmf graphics format as a parameter of LFUN_PASTE. - -- Fix the enabling and disabling of some items in the longtable - section of the tabular dialog. - -- Remove the black box around the work area that is visible with Qt 4.5. - -- Fix middle-button pasting between different tabs (bug 6120). +- Correctly position the cursor after pasting to a multi-cell math inset + (bug 6342). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -- Fix icon image files so that they appear correctly when the - documentation files are converted to DVI (bug 5945). - -- Fix encoding of the Hebrew documentation files to make them - compilable. +- Fix the compilation of the example file powerdot-example.lyx with + recent versions of the LaTeX package powerdot. * BUILD/INSTALLATION -- Detect multithreaded boost libraries if included boost is not used. +- The internal boost libraries have been updated to version 1.40. Now + LyX builds with gcc 4.4 without the need to use --without-included-boost. -- Fix small documentation bug in configure.py (bug 5881). +- Clarify that we require automake 1.8 (this was already the case, but + nobody noticed). Accept autoconf 2.64 (bug 6352). -- LyX now recognizes both elyxer and elyxer.py. +- Fix buglet in configure script with recent bash versions. -- SCons: assertions are now always disabled in mode=release and - enabled in mode=debug. - -- Added support for automake 1.11. - - -* WINDOWS INSTALLER - -- All ImageMagick and Ghostscript resources are no longer installed as - separate files but included in the applications. This improves - performance and makes maintenance easier. - -- Updated download location. - -- Fixed compatibility issue with recent NSIS versions. +- The script ext_copy.py can now also copy files in subdirectories. + (useful for external converters) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8742ee380e..b4b561e633 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +What's new in version 1.6.5? +----------------------------- + +The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly +reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and +some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX +server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other +applications such as JabRef on this platform as well). + + +What's new in version 1.6.4.2? +------------------------------- + +The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on +Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). + + What's new in version 1.6.4.1? -------------------------------