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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).


* MISCELLANEOUS

- Update format of lyxrc.dist templates


* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS



* USER INTERFACE

- Show font info in status line again.

- Make scrolling smoother when using selection.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Update Czech, French, German, Polish and Slovak localization 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.


* USER INTERFACE

- 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.


* INTERNALS

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


* 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.