Public release of LyX version 2.3.8
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We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.8. This is the eighth
and final maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. LyX 2.4.0 will be released
very shortly, so many users may wish to wait for that rather than upgrading
to 2.3.8. Some users, however, may want or need to continue using the 2.3.x
series. We encourage those users to upgrade to this version.

You can download LyX 2.3.8 from https://www.lyx.org/Download/.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based 
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.

LyX 2.3.8 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
more reliable and more stable. Several bugs and crashes have been fixed here,
but the main addition is the ability to import and export files in the new
2.4.x format.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.8, please open a bug report at
https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel 
<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask. 

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation 
that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which 
is at https://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the 
LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an 
active community of people who are ready to help.

We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.8.

The LyX team.
https://www.lyx.org


What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix nested underwave (\uwave) (bug 12922).

- Update lilypond converter settings (bug 12618).


* USER INTERFACE

- Add a few missing autocorrect combinations and allow cycling through arrows
  (bug 12711).

- Reflect in the on-screen representation of math insets the fact that some
  insets, such as \text, \mbox, \fbox and \makebox, inherit the text font
  of the containing inset (bug 12950).


* LYX2LYX

- Allow for import and export to the 2.4.x format.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Adding binary path for Homebrew on MacOS-arm64 (bug 12619).


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix leaking of linespace settings between paragraphs if they have
  different alignment (bug 12638).

- Do not load mathrsfs if unicode-math is required (bug 12734).


* USER INTERFACE

- Avoid crashing on a recursive macro definition (bug 12633).

- Fix several problems where insets did not react on click on
  the Mac (bugs 12279, 12418, 12820).

- Fix issue with on-screen instant preview and the mathpazo package.

- Hide multi-keystroke accelerators in Mac menu (bug 12693).


* INTERNALS

- Fix wrong computation of what is an obviously fake PID number.

- remove a pair of static methods that were unused and hid another
  one.

- Fix crash when missing python3 on MacOS (bug 12523).


* LYX2LYX

- Fixed a bug in reversion to 1.6.


* TEX2LYX

- Fix import of umlauts and ß in math (bug 12739).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Update included boost library to version 1.75.0.

- Fix warning when configuring with Qt 5.15.1x.

- Do not halt compilation because of a too new autoconf or automake version.