diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index f5276aa3be..82d334a119 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,21 +1,23 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.6.8 +Public release of LyX version 1.6.9 =================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.8. This is the 9th +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.9. This is the 10th maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. -LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version -even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been -reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user -interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts. +LyX 1.6.9 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version +even more reliable and stable. We have fixed yet another number of crashes +that have been reported to us and ironed out many small glitches. Also, +some features and additions from the forthcoming 2.x series, such as +support for CVS revision control and a new Swedish localization, have been +backported to LyX 1.6.9. A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. -While our next major release, LyX 2.0, has just reached beta status and -already can be tried out by the curious and brave, LyX 1.6.8 is the -release for everyone who is relying on a solid and polished application. -We thus encourage all users to upgrade to this version. +While our next major release, LyX 2.0, comes closer and already can be +tried out by the curious and brave, LyX 1.6.9 is the release for everyone +who is relying on a rock solid and polished application. We thus encourage +all users 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: @@ -41,39 +43,39 @@ 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 1.6.8 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.6.9 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.8.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.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-1.6.8.tar.gz - http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz - http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.8.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz + http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at: - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.8/ + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.9/ -If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.7), you may +If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may want to apply one of the following patches instead: - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.8.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.8.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.bz2 Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not produced by the patch. -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.8, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.9, 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/ @@ -86,181 +88,6 @@ Enjoy! The LyX team. -What's new in version 1.6.8? +What's new in version 1.6.9? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Add support for pBibTeX (formerly known as jBibTeX), a specific Japanese - BibTeX variant (bug 6808). - -- New environment variable LYX_FORCE_OVERWRITE allows changing default - behavior when exporting from command line. Now LyX overwrites the main - file by default, but not the ancillary files. Set this variable to - "all" for letting LyX behave as in 1.6.6 and previous versions; set it - to "none" for mimicking the 1.6.7 behavior of not overwriting any file. - -- New layout and template file for submissions to journals published by - the American Geophysical Union (AGU). - -- New layout and template file for submissions to journals published by - the Econometric Society (bug 6761). - -- New layout and template file for the document class frletter that is - used to write letters in French (bug 6915). - -- New layout and template file for the document class lettre, another - French letter class. - -- Add support for subtitles in the KOMA classes. - -- Add support for lists and quotes in the g-brief2 letter class - (bug 6857). - -- Add support for the math command \ddddot (part of bug 6872). - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- Improve the detection of LaTeX warnings in the Log dialog. - -- Citations in the outline now display the key (bug 6837). - - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Introducing Serbian (Latin) localization of LyX: A large part of the - user interface has been translated already. - -- New Serbian (Latin) translation of the Splash document. - -- Revised section 4.2 "Footnotes" of the EmbeddedObjects manual. - -- Revised section 5.1 "Installing a new LaTeX package" of the - Customization manual. - -- Describe how to use formulas in program listings in sec. 7 of the - EmbeddedObjects manual. - -- Updated LaTeXConfig file. - -- Updated English and German Linguistics manual. - -- Updated French beamer template fr_beamer-conference-ornate-20min. - -- Updated French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, - Portuguese, Spanish, Slovak and Ukrainian User Interface localizations. - - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION - -- Allow autoconf 2.67. - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Fix a crash when dropping multiple files onto LyX (bug 6944). - -- Fix a crash due to unrecognized \defskip (bug 7014). - -- Assure that Japanese LaTeX (pLaTeX) is in fact only used for Japanese - documents. This fixes major configuration problems with TeXLive 2010. - -- Fix the output of glyph 0x02e0 (MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GAMMA) (bug 6817). - -- Load the amsmath LaTeX-package when the math command \dddot is used to - avoid LaTeX errors (bug 6872). - -- Do not popup "invalid path" warning when using View > Source (bug 6904). - -- Small tweaks to the memoir text class. - -- Allow pathnames with commas for BibTeX files (bug 6914). - -- Set correct anchor for the link to the bibliography in the table - of contents if hyperref is used (bug 6470). - -- Save the path of pasted images as a relative path (part of bug 5561). - -- Don't escape math labels when saving (bug 7019). - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- Do not allow to rename a format's short name if the format is used by a - converter. This prevents a crash (bug 6815). - -- Fix crash when mutating eqnarray-like environments with labeled lines - to display equations (bug 6858). - -- Disable cut and paste inside the Math Delimiters dialog. This was of no - use and could trigger a crash (bug 6942). - -- Fix a crash when editing a macro name under some circumstances (for - example, when the macro is followed by a script inset and another - macro) (bug 6965). - -- Fix an assertion when unindenting empty lines in a listings inset - (bug 6869). - -- Box dialog: only shaded boxes can have multiple paragraphs if there - is no inner box (fixes also bug 6992). - -- Fix mouse wheel scrolling on Mac OS 10.6 (bug 6775). - -- Fix tab-switching keyboard shortcut (bug 5970). - -- Fix parsing of inline math environments nested in (unknown to LyX) - text-mode user macros (bug 1337). - -- When undo returns to a state where the file was saved, make sure to - reset the (changed) status (bug 3733). - -- Don't allow to insert margin notes and floats into tables because this - would lead to LaTeX errors (bug 6844). - -- Don't allow to insert margin notes and footnotes into captions because - this would lead to LaTeX errors. - -- Fix handling of commands containing a straight quote (") in shortcut - editor (bug 6786). - -- Use correct mode and screen fonts for old-style font changing macros - (\bf, \cal, \it, \rm, and \tt) in math (bug 6851). - -- Retain the first non-empty label when mutating eqnarray-like environments - to a display equation (bug 6793). - -- Load files in correct order when passed as arguments via the command - line (bug 6848). - -- Fix parsing of commands sent through the lyxserver, such that they don't - need to be terminated by a newline character (bug 6868). - -- Don't try to blindly execute the latex command if no latex binary is - available (bug 6873). - -- Fix button link assignment in "Select from Template" dialog. - -- Don't mark document as changed when navigating with cell-forward - or cell-backward. - -- Correct check for enable condition of VC repository update. - -- Correct enabled check for LFUN_MATH_NUMBER_TOGGLE. - Avoid implicit conversion of enum to bool. - -- Fix some accelerator conflicts in Document Class dialog (bug 6963). - -- Do not warn any changes will be lost when reverting to the - saved file if the document is clean (bug 6550). - -- Restore the cursor position when showing hidden documents (bug 5878). - -- Make the input completion case sensitive again (bug 6983). diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2cfaee3e01..66da695bd7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +What's new in version 1.6.9? +----------------------------- + +We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us +and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from +the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a +new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9. + + What's new in version 1.6.8? ----------------------------- diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 6f19289eab..2abe1da89f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This file lists known problems in LyX 1.6.8, interface changes that might +This file lists known problems in LyX 1.6.9, interface changes that might affect users of 1.6.x, some known problems in the 1.6.x series and some things you have to take into account when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 1.6.x series. diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index 1bcad2326c..4c32608d34 100644 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -207,4 +207,4 @@ babel). If you relied, on babel being loaded before your own definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at the beginning of your preamble. -http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315 +http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/315 diff --git a/status.16x b/status.16x index c289e134b0..b488396033 100644 --- a/status.16x +++ b/status.16x @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ What's new * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION +- Re-introduce Swedish User Interface localization. + - Updated Basque, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Serbian (Latin), Slovak and Ukrainian User Interface localizations. - -- Re-introduce Swedish User Interface localization. * BUILD/INSTALLATION @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ What's new - Allow using autoconf 2.66 and 2.68. - ** Bug fixes: ************* @@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ What's new settings (bug 7052). - Avoid inserting a blank line before the end of an environment when - exporting to LaTeX a custom inset (bug 7254). + exporting a custom inset to LaTeX (bug 7254). - Correctly check for RTF and DOC viewers. @@ -94,17 +93,20 @@ What's new - Fix crash when inserting quotes with a selection spanning multiple paragraphs (bug 7200). -- Fix crash when clicking on begin of unfinished command in math - when autocomplete is active (bug 7209). +- Fix crash when clicking on the beginning of an unfinished command in + math when autocompletion is active (bug 7209). - Fix assertion when pasting a column in a math matrix (bug 7106). - Remove traces of long removed index settings dialog. This fixes a crash when issueing the non-functional lfuns "dialog-show index" and "dialog-show-new-inset index" (bug 7180). + +- Clear column width field in the tabular dialog when moving in a column + without a fixed width (bug 6976). -- Correctly save the settings of UI components. They could disappear - when starting LyX with a modified default.ui file and changing the +- Correctly save the settings of UI components. They could disappear when + starting LyX with a modified default.ui file and changing the preferences afterwards (bug 7099). - Fix the painting of the workarea for a non-standard DPI and using @@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ What's new - Don't shadow user math macros defined in child documents (bug 7183). -- Make the modules description in the menu "Document -> Settings" fully +- Make the modules description in the menu "Document > Settings" fully translatable (bug 6987). - Fix table line bug when unsetting a multicolumn cell via the table @@ -134,9 +136,6 @@ What's new - Do not allow to put the cursor in an InsetInfo. Instead, a context menu item is added to facilitate copying of the contents (bug 5446). -- Clear column width field in the tabular dialog when moving in a column - without a fixed width (bug 6976). - - Fix the display of the horizontal alignment of table cells (bug 7007). - Numbered items in insets that do not produce any output (e.g. Notes) @@ -146,7 +145,7 @@ What's new cursor is moved (bug 6952). - Correctly toggle the numbering of an equation when issueing the menu - "Insert -> Numbered equation" on a displayed equation (bug 6709). + "Insert > Numbered equation" on a displayed equation (bug 6709). - Fix the painting of non-text insets with a transparent background (such as quotation marks) as well as the description of a caption @@ -170,7 +169,8 @@ What's new - Fix the enabling of LFUN_SPLIT_CELL in the math context menu (bug 4849). -- Recognize the program listings' parameter 'breakatwhitespace' (bug 7077). +- Recognize the program listings' parameter 'breakatwhitespace' + (bug 7077). - Wake up from waiting state after encountering a file parsing error (bug 6950). @@ -181,18 +181,18 @@ What's new - Allow to undo the insertion of math macros (bug 7125). - Add some visual aids to distinguish opened files: full paths in - statusbar for recent files items; absolute paths in tooltips of - tabs; and longer paths in the window title (bug 7182). + statusbar for recent files items, absolute paths in tooltips of tabs, + and longer paths in the window title (bug 7182). -- Fix the response of the update button of the view source window - after reopening a file (bug 5600). +- Fix the response of the update button of the view source window after + reopening a file (bug 5600). - Don't allow to set an alignment for rows in math substack environments (bug 2498). - Allow paragraph breaks and nested environments in framed boxes. -- Trigger LaTeX rerun if requested by the package etaremune. +- Trigger LaTeX rerun if requested by the package "etaremune". - Fix EndFont tag in the svmult.layout (bug 7257).