From c71017dcca6293aed1379e773ba0bd274da10960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Heck Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:07:19 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Start prepration for 2.1.2. --- ANNOUNCE | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- NEWS | 18 +++++++++++ configure.ac | 4 +-- 3 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 9aa3e325f4..0f4d509b1e 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Public release of LyX version 2.1.2 =================================== -We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2. This is the first +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2. This is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX -users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). +users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org). We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.1.2. @@ -44,3 +44,85 @@ http://www.lyx.org What's new ========== + +** Updates: +*********** + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Detect some additional postscript and pdf viewers when they are on the + system PATH (AcroRd32, SumatraPDF, gsview and qpdfview). + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Update docs explaining how to activate reverse search in qpdfview. + +- New French translations of the beamer examples. + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- On Cygwin, use getent instead of grepping /etc/passwd for determining + the user's home directory when launching LyX through the gui wrapper. + + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Fix crash when saving certain documents with tables (bug 9049). + +- Fix crash when saving default template (bug 9236). + +- Do not sort advanced listings settings, since their insertion order is + relevant (bug 5203). + +- Fix import of latex documents with scaled fonts. + + +* LYX2LYX + +- Fix warning "Missing \use_indices" when converting from 1.6.x format + or older. + +- Fix several conversion problems of beamer box arguments when the + arguments use multiple ERTs (part of bug 9208, bug 9225, bug 9144). + +- Fix conversion of beamer overlay arguments when the module + "beamer-resenumerate" is used (part of bug 9208). + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Do not forget last words of paragraphs in completion possibilities. + +- Select word on double click even when at boundary (bug 9159). + +- Fix listings inset parameter validation when font size is selected + (bug 8144). + +- Fix listings validator with regard to aboveskip and belowskip (bug 7373). + +- Fix reverse search in insets (figures, tables, branches, etc.) (bug 9151). + +- Fix on-screen display of images whose type is not known to LyX (bug 9146). + +- Fix the -geometry command line argument for Windows. + + +* INTERNALS + +- Improve thread-safety. + +- Fix potential bug spotted by cppcheck. + +- Fix problems arising when converting floating point values to the + corresponding string representation (bugs 9190 and 9193). + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- Fix compatibility issue with 64-bit cygwin. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 440d189eda..b48ac5d048 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,21 @@ +What's new in version 2.1.2? +---------------------------- + +LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. + +The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem +that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, +sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally +happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a +fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when +trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has +also been fixed. + +There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more +improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import +of older beamer documents easier. + + What's new in version 2.1.1? ---------------------------- diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index d7868788b8..b5314d4b8f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ dnl Process with autoconf to generate configure script -*- sh -*- -AC_INIT(LyX,2.1.2dev,[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx]) +AC_INIT(LyX,2.1.2,[lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org],[lyx]) AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER # Use ISO format only. The frontend needs to parse this -AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2014-07-06"]) +AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2014-09-16"]) AC_PREREQ(2.60) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])