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 Public release of LyX version 2.1.0
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-We are proud to announce the release candidate of LyX 2.1.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.0.
 
 With this release, LyX celebrates 18 years of existence. The 2.1 series
 has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series.