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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.4.2.
All comments are welcome.

We try to group things by topic and in decreasing order of importance.
Please feel free to re-arrange if that seems like a good idea.


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

- There was undocumented change how hyperlink insets are exported to
  xHTML format compared to LyX 2.3.x (type "File" is no more exported
  as http(s) link). We added details to the RELEASE-NOTES file.

- Load graphics after geometry, so page size is set properly (bug
  10970).

- Recognize .plt as a GnuPlot extension (bug 11148).

- Restore obvious "G" shortcut for Greyed Out notes.


* MISCELLANEOUS

- Update format of lyxrc.dist templates

- Update templates to use native vertical space method.


* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS



* USER INTERFACE

- Show font info in status line again.

- Make scrolling smoother when using selection.

- Show the temporary directory in About LyX dialog.

- Improve document output pane (bug 12902).

- Speedup interactive use by avoiding expensive math macros bookkeeping
  when possible.

- Make -geometry command-line option work on all platforms.

- Fix macOS bug, where XQuartz application would be launched for no
  reason (bug #13086).

- Fix problem with collapsing of outliner (bug 13098).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Update Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, 
  German, Italian, Polish and Slovak localizations of the user 
  interface.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Avoid bogus warnings when configuring for Qt6.



** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- When exporting to MathML, the argument of the \boxed{} macro is now
  correctly treated as math.

- Properly escape special characters (!, @, |) in nomenclature output.

- Handle linguistic structure trees in ePub and PDF (DocBook) output (bug 12372).

- Improve the way spaces are handled in labels when refstyle is used.

- Re-allow relative paths for local bib files (bug 13097).

- Only \protect labels in \thanks notes (see bug 9404).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix regression which marks document modified in case of external
  modification. Only file deletion will trigger the modification
  flag now (see bug 12819).

- Fix crash when using Save As... with previews enabled (bug 13091).

- Fix crash when attempting to search in selection that contains
  only math.

- Fix crash when copying some math formulas or exporting them to
  DocBook (bug 13069).

- Fix potential crashes when scrolling documents.

- Fix bug where the dialog asking for saving unapplied changes
  on buffer change popped up twice, or sometimes not at all (bug
  12954).

- Improve performance when selecting text on less powerful systems
  (bug 13050).

- Fix performance problems with references with (very) many authors.

- Fix problem that key bindings that include optional modifier keys
  could not be un- or re-bound (bug 12973)

- Enable OK/Apply button in tabular dialog when "Additional Space" combo
  has been set to different value.

- Fix ghost image on Windows with system colors (bug 13084).

- Restore old display of cross-references in the outliner. The change
  led to odd behavior on filtering.

- Display values of cross-references in tooltips for forward references.

- Disable vertical alignment in tables with variable width columns
  (tabularx and xltable), as this is not supported by the packages.
  Also fix the disabling mechanism in the table dialog.

- Fix display of integral limits on Windows (bug 13087).

- Fix crash when deleting tabs in a selection (with S-BackTab) in a
  text-only inset (ERT, Listings...).

- Fix display glitches when applying some operations to a selection.

* INTERNALS

- Fix possible crash in undo code after inserting note inset over a
  multi-paragraph selection.

- Fix a Python script, used to preview math expressions, that used a
  module that is removed in Python 3.13.

- Fix case where debug information may report all numbers as hexadecimal.

- Make sure that lyxclient name is initialized properly.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION



* LYX2LYX



* TEX2LYX

- Fix import of nomenclature entries which contain '%' or '"' characters.


* LYXHTML



* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE



* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix 'make install' target for autotools builds with autoconf >= 2.72.