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ANNOUNCE
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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 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.5. This is the fifth
update to LyX 1.6.4, which was the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.
series.
The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac, The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue. 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, A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.
All Mac users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. For users of All users and distributors are urged to upgrade to this version.
other platforms, there's no reason to upgrade from LyX 1.6.4.
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 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): 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-1.6.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.bz2 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-1.6.4.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.4.1.tar.bz2 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 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions): also host the .bz2 versions):
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/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-1.6.4.1.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-1.6.4.1.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-1.6.4.1.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-1.6.4.1.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-1.6.4.1.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 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4/ installers) should soon be available at:
If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.5/
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
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 <at> lists.lyx.org), e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/ or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/
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The LyX team. The LyX team.
What's new in version 1.6.4.1? What's new in version 1.6.5?
------------------------------
** 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?
---------------------------- ----------------------------
** Updates: ** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- LaTeX import (tex2lyx) was updated and now also supports: - Add support for Extended Greek characters (bug 4997).
* nomenclature entries
* the LaTeX-package esint
* the alternative LaTeX document language names "portuguese" and
"brazilian"
- Implement separate chains for Japanese bibliography and index - Support GraphicsMagic when ImageMagick is not found (bug 6056).
compilation. This allows for proper support for jbibtex and mendex,
pLaTeX's bibtex and makeindex replacements (bug 5601).
- 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 * USER INTERFACE
- Support for chemical formulae via the LaTeX package mhchem. For a - The LyX server is now available also on Windows. See Chapter 4 in the
description see LyX's Math manual. Additional Features manual for how to enable it.
- LyX's warning about different textclasses in master and child now has a - Paragraph ends can now be marked by a pilcrow character (bug 6129).
"Do not show this warning again!" checkbox. Checking it will disable the
warning for this specific master/child constellation over sessions
(bug 3218).
- Tooltips for toolbar buttons now show the main shortcut associated - A "Reload" menu item is added to the Graphics context menu to
to the action. manually force a reload and conversion of the image (bug 6134).
- Tooltips for footnotes and some other insets now wrap, so they can - Handle LFUN_FONT_UNDERLINE in mathed too (bug 2045).
actually be seen.
- New commands inset-begin/end (bound to Ctrl-Alt-Home/End) allow to jump - Emergency file can be deleted after use (bug 2120).
to begin/end of insets (and outside of the inset if the cursor is
already in place). There are also versions that select text.
- 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 - Include new modules for more control over theorem numbering (bug 5880).
formula.
- The math context menu has now a status flag indicating the type of - It is now configurable whether each tab has an own close button
equation. (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 - Add tooltips in the Math Options section of the Document Settings
when pressing Ctrl-L in math mode. dialog.
- 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.
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION * 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 - New Slovak translation of the Splash manual.
with LyX".
- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, - New Chinese translations of the LyX Intro and Tutorial.
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and
Spanish localizations of the user interface.
- 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.
- English Extended manual: Updated section about reverse DVI search. - Revised French translations of the example_raw and example_lyxified
documents.
- Updated English Additional Features manual. - Updated French manual how to write Braille with LyX.
- Updated Intro manual for all languages. - Updated French Intro manual.
- Updated English, French, German, and Spanish Math manual. - Revised appendix A of the Math manual.
- Updated German and Spanish User's Guide. - Revised English LyX Tutorial.
- Updated German and Japanese Tutorial. - Revised English, French and German template for 20 min. Beamer
conference presentations.
- Demonstrate the use of fragile frames in the Beamer example document.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION - Updated LyX User's Guide.
- Added a shell script (lyxeditor) for performing reverse DVI/PDF search - Clarify usage of layout tags No_Emph, etc. in the Customization manual
and a python script (lyxpak.py) for creating archives of a lyx file and (bug 5412).
all its ancillary files (graphics and so on) to development/tools.
- Take advantage of some bugfixes in Qt 4.5 for internal file handling. - Updated Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian user interface
- Added some cygwin-specific scripts and utility programs that are localizations.
compiled and installed when building on cygwin.
** Bug fixes: ** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT * 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 - Fix a tex2lyx crash when importing a LaTeX file using an unknown
(bug 6121). encoding (bug 6142).
- Fix conversion documents from LyX 1.4 which have multicolumn cells in - Fix a crash when no external templates are defined (bug 3974).
tabulars with expert border settings (bug 6018).
- Partially resolve bug 5702, "tex2lyx cannot deal with modules". We - Fix a crash when loading a document that specifies mutltiple labels
now treat the "DefaultModule" tag as if it were an "Input" tag. This for an equation (bug 5968).
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 crash when moving down with the cursor in a Unit inset (bug 6351).
- Fix layout conversion problem with AMS classes (bug 6140). - Fix infinite loop when reading Mac-formatted layout files (bug 3605).
- Fix the output of spaces that are at the beginning of a block with - When using the PDF-Pages external inset, copy the included PDF file to
a new textcolor (bug 4473). the temporary directory, where LaTeX searches it (bug 6345).
- Fix output of alignment if default aligment is not justified (bug 5995). - Add encoding "ansinew" as a synonym of "cp1252" for the benefit of
tex2lyx (bug 6142).
- Fix problem where updates in some child documents were not recognized - Fix support for optional argument of \bibitem in tex2lyx (bug 6249).
and no LaTeX update was performed (bug 6024).
- The default eLyXer configuration now handles images correctly on view - Fix (again!) reading of default modules by tex2lyx (part of bug 5702).
and export (requires eLyXer >= 0.27).
- Fix loading of UTF-8 encoded files when a byte order mark (BOM) is - Fix reading of caption texts, which got broken in 1.6.4 (bug 6276).
present (bug 6030).
- Fix reverse DVI/PDF search with child documents (bug 6020). - Fix support for polytonic Greek with multiple diacritics (bug 5976).
- Assure that a longtable caption is in a first header even if the table - Assure the author name is encoded correctly in the LaTeX output of
does not have one. This assures the caption is not repeated after a change tracking markup (bug 6225).
page break and consequently in the list of tables (bug 6057).
- The file encoding is now properly restored after a LaTeX environment - Remove the last '\\' in the output of multiline equations. This caused
or command with local scope (bug 5690). labels to appear twice (bug 2969).
- Enable the possibility to read documents from a path containing a - Put "|" characters in index entries in ERT when converting old documents
$-character (bug 4177). to LyX 1.6.x format, to assure the character is treated verbatim
(bug 6179).
- Enable document margin settings and hyperref settings in the - Properly reset the stream encoding after an environment in order to
article (beamer) class. match the required file encoding when exporting to LaTeX (bug 6216).
- Fix bug involving incorrect requests to overwrite external files - Fixed layout file for the document class svjour3 (bug 6198).
(bug 5522).
- Fix occasional wrong occurrence of theorem style (bug 6036). - Add support for \specialsection in amsart layout; improve on-screen
appearance of headings.
- Fix the on-screen representation of headings in the AMS article and - Added the separator style to the layout file for the document class
AMS book classes. 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 * USER INTERFACE
- Prevent a crash in Qt when scaling images on screen. This could occur - Fix crash when finishing certain math macros such as \frac or font
only for certain scaling factors and image sizes (bug 5957). changing commands (bug 6110).
- Do not close hidden documents that have unsaved changes without asking - Fix crash when undoing changes to an unknown math macro name such that
whether the changes should be saved (part of bug 5863). the macro becomes a known user-defined macro (bug 6208).
- Fix bookmark navigation crash when multiple windows are used - Fix a crash when searching for a string that is found in a table,
(bug 6000). while the cursor is in math (bug 6112).
- Disable the "sort" option in the outliner for the Table of Contents - Fix a crash when closing a window after a document was opened
which triggered a crash (bug 5983). Sorting the TOC didn't work anyway. multiple times and each time a new window was opened (bug 6188).
- Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with split views (bug 5998). - Fix a crash when navigating to a child's heading with the outliner after
the child was reloaded (bug 6233).
- Fix a crash when applying preference changes (bug 6064). - Fix a crash when navigating to a label in a child document (bug 6252).
- Fix a crash when accessing the Navigate menu after an empty inset has - Fix a crash when trying to launch the settings dialog of an unknown
been dissolved (bug 6003). external inset (bug 6259).
- Fix a crash when performing instant preview on an uncodable character - Fix crash when copying a math inset containing a non-ascii character
(bug 6116). which is missing a LaTeX command representation in the unicodesymbols
file (bug 6250).
- Fix a crash when navigating in a table with math insets (bug 6158). - Fix a crash when leaving an empty superscript or subscript (bug 6193).
- Fix a crash when closing LyX while a master and its child were open. - Fix an infinite loop when selecting multiple displayed equation right
after each other with LFUN_SCREEN_UP (bug 6237).
- Fix a crash when documents were hidden, the view was closed, and - Fix a crash when pressing PageUp in an empty document (bug 6327).
the same documents were made visible in another view (bug 6162).
- Fix communication between lyxclient and server, which leads to a - Fix crash with autosave on Mac OS X 10.6 (bug 6168).
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 - Fix a number of assertions when displaying error messages (bug 6205).
(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.
- Disable Symbols dialog for read-only documents. This prevents a - Fix assertion when clicking on left side of inset in RTL text
potential crash. (bug 6165).
- Fall back to default UI file if the specified one cannot be found - Fix bad allocation exception when displaying long tooltips (bug 6215).
(bug 6076).
- Fix assertion when a nested math hull appears in a math macro - Fix shadowing of user-defined math macros by internal ones and make
(bug 5996). LyX behave as LaTeX, i.e., user macros take precedence (bug 5530).
- Fix assertion when pressing down arrow in the command buffer while - Fix width definition in the box dialog after a box inset was transformed
the history is empty (bug 6001). from "Inner Box" type "None" to "Parbox" or "Minipage" (bug 6298).
- Fix assertion when selecting with Shift-button in math editor (bugs - Fixed problem involving inability to turn off auto-save (bug 6227).
5046 and 6026).
- Fix assertion when starting spellchecker in math mode and clicking - Sort document classes case insensitively (bug 1492).
"replace" (bug 6013)
- Fix assertion in mathed when moving the cursor immediately after - Fix wrong cursor position in RTL text (bug 6161).
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 - Disable to insert floats into another float when this is not allowed
LyX window is maximized (bug 6034). (bug 6045).
- Fix the upward scrolling when selecting with the mouse (bug 4464). - Disable the float positioning dialog for subfloats (bug 6125).
- Make Tools>Statistics ignore Note insets and inactive branches - Do not close the cross references dialog when selecting an item from the
(bug 2566). list (UNIX only; bug 6204).
- Take into account file system case sensitivity when checking whether - The menu item "Close Tab Group" is renamed to "Close Current View" to
a path starts with a given prefix. This fixes a bug with reverse PDF better relate this to the action "Split View ..." (bug 5067).
search when using SumatraPDF as a PDF viewer on Cygwin.
- Fix the maximum number of the files stored in last-opened-files list - Fix a bug that the keymap settings in the Preferences dialog could
(bug 5980). not be deleted (bug 6119).
- Disable unused functions in the citation dialog (bug 5987). - Fix a number of small issues regarding menu items and menu shortcuts
(bug 6164).
- Fix display of BibTeX entries in the info field of the citation - Fix a bug that it was possible to request the wrong context menu
dialog by only converting text mode latex macros to unicode glyphs. by moving the mouse during the right-click (bug 5796).
- Convert LaTeX macros such as \"{u} to proper unicode characters - Fix the painting of RTL text. All rows except the last one of a
for the display of authors/editors on the citation inset button. paragraph were painted slightly too far to the left (bug 3997).
- Fix pop-up of ToC and Source code panels after fresh install (part - Fix the \kern primitive in mathed (bug 6246).
of bug 5082).
- Maintain session settings over version changes (also related to - When pressing <del> at the end of a math formula, do not remove
bug 5082). label or numbering when selection is set (bug 6273).
- Do not reset toolbar settings after a change of UI files that do not - Fix Ctrl-Shift-Tab shortcut for tabs (bug 6194).
concern toolbars.
- Fix math-insert lfun behaviour in the absence of a selection or when - When starting LyX, open each document in a new view when "Open documents
something outside mathed is selected (bug 6033). in tabs" is unchecked (bug 4906).
- Fix casing inconsistencies in the English user interface. - Fix the location of context menus requested by the menu key (bug 6108).
- Fix context menu for insets inside a branch inset (bug 6022). - Fix undo of removed script in mathed when both super- and subscript
are present (bug 6264).
- Fix command "tabular-feature align-(left|right|center)" which was - Fix parsing of selection when used as argument of a math macro
inadvertently disabled for a math matrix (bug 6041). (bug 6270).
- Ensure that pasting into the preamble and the nomenclature dialog's - Fix inset-[begin|end][-select] when the cursor is at the beginning or
description widget resets the font formatting (bug 3936). end of a paragraph.
- Fix wrong labeling as "child only" branch if branches were unknown. - If a static EndLabelString is defined in a layout file it is now
correctly displayed on screen (bug 2972).
- Fix typesetting of chemical equations by adding support for the mhchem - Do not remember documents for next startup when closing a window
package (bugs 6047, 4043, and 5394). but not closing LyX.
- Fix display of unknown math macros that become known after editing their - Fix the painting of the last character of a paragraph, e.g.
name. They are now correctly expanded and not left in red (bug 5923). added/deleted paragraph breaks in change tracking.
- Fix display of macros when clicking away (bug 3706). - Do not swallow spaces after a LaTeX macro appearing in text mode
inside mathed (bug 6284).
- Fix the inconsistent behaviour of the cursor inside math (bug 2034). - Show the correct context menu for insets nested in closed insets
that are opened by the navigate or search functionality (bug 6820).
- Fix the toggling of the outline-button on the toolbar when closing - Fix the positioning of the cursor in some cases with mixed RTL
the outliner with the 'x' (bug 3918). and LTR text (bug 5061).
- Fix the pasting of multiple cells in a table when a range is selected - Set the correct language after dissolving an inset, which could have
(bug 4952). given strange effects especially when dissolving an ERT (bug 6292).
- Do not open files during startup that were closed in the previous - Fix the appearance of the combo boxes in the Text Style dialog
session by Close View or Close Window (bug 5458). (bug 5063).
- Remove empty paragraphs and superfluous spaces when leaving an inset - Fix double blinking cursors in Graphics/Nomenclature dialogs (bug 3852).
(bug 5435).
- Fix the scrolling problem that when scrolling with PgUp or PgDn, the - Fix display of e-mail addresses in the About LyX dialog.
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. - In the Linguistics module, do not switch to the buffer language in
glosses (this was only a cosmetic issue in the LyX window).
- Fix of painter glitches caused by uninitialized variables (bug 6077). - Allow PgUp and PgDown to position the cursor on the first or last row.
- Fix uninitialized variable in Dialog code (bug 6081). - Dissolve the caption when unsetting a longtable caption row (bug 5754),
and when converting a longtable into a normal table.
- Fix the enabling of the page height and width fields in the Document - Move the contents of a table row into the caption when setting the row
Settings dialog. as a longtable caption row.
- The width unit of table cells can be set before entering the - Correctly position the cursor after pasting to a multi-cell math inset
value (bug 6070). (bug 6342).
- 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).
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- Fix icon image files so that they appear correctly when the - Fix the compilation of the example file powerdot-example.lyx with
documentation files are converted to DVI (bug 5945). recent versions of the LaTeX package powerdot.
- Fix encoding of the Hebrew documentation files to make them
compilable.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION * 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 - The script ext_copy.py can now also copy files in subdirectories.
enabled in mode=debug. (useful for external converters)
- 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.

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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? What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
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