Public release of LyX version 2.3.4 =================================== We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.4. This is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. You can download LyX 2.3.4 from http://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 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to Dropbox folders. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.4, please open a bug report at http://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 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 http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org), where you will find an active community of people who are ready to help. We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.4. The LyX team. http://www.lyx.org What's new ========== ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Preserving .lyx file permission when saving on linux systems (Qt5-only). - Properly implement CJKutf8 (which never really worked as intended). * USER INTERFACE - Allow external editing of preamble and ERT (bugs 991, 7404). - Allow nameref in math references (bug 9798). - Fix renaming of citation references after changing bibliography key (bug 6494). - Make tab movement visible (bug 10733). - Add "Reset" and "Reset All Fields" buttons to Text Properties dialog (bug 11415). - Add "Reset to Default" and "Reset All" buttons to Color Preferences (bug 10062). - Insert new graphics inset on the correct cursor position. - Fix regression where spaces are disappearing when editing text (bug 11412). - The function textstyle-update now only changes explicitly stated font attributes (bug 11111). - Fix bad error message (bug 11486). - Improve performance on Windows with lots of math insets or very long math formulas (bug 11546). - Add Shortcut (Command-0) for workarwa zoom reset to mac.bind. - Improve some icons (bug 11476). - Improve line breaking of Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. There are still issues, though (bug 10299). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - The Bulgarian user interface localization has been updated and re-enabled. - Updates to the Arabic, Czech, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian localizations. - Minor rework of the thesis example file in order to clear some confusion about the included bibliography (bug 10748). ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Added support for aastex62 (bug 11397) - Fix problems with non-ASCII characters in path with recent LaTeX versions (bug 11146). - Fix parsing of math-macro optional arguments after save-reopen (bug 11346). - Fix handling of InPreamble styles in insets (bug 11557). - Fix problem with wrongly inserted separator. - Beamer: automatically nest column in columns. - Fix Autonests and IsAutonestedBy layout tags with specific layout names (with space, underbar and enquoted). - Fix SVG to PNG image conversion problem with inkscape on Mac. On-screen display of SVG graphics was broken for e.g. users guide. - Fix paragraph alignment in RTL when using polyglossia (bidi) (bug 11399). - Fix text direction of namerefs in RTL scripts when using polyglossia (bidi) (bug 11518). - Use proper listings font styles with polyglossia (bidi) and RTL (bug 11554). - Fix LaTeX export of query strings in Hyperlinks (bugs 11482, 11511). - Fix breakage caused by commas in the caption of listings (bug 11484). - Fix LaTeX error caused by Control key shortcut inset on the Mac (remainder of bug 10641). - Correctly add the branch name suffix when the stem of the filename contains a dot (bug 11490). - Load required packages to correctly typeset unicode symbols entered in math mode (bug 11526). - Only write btUnits if we have a bibliography (bug 11562). - Fix paragraph break in particular cases (bug 11528). * USER INTERFACE - Rename emergency file when user wants to save it (bug 11464). - Fix reloading of local layout file (bug 11120). - Check for dirty hidden child documents when closing (bug 11405). - Fix selection of unmarked RtL characters with Qt 5.11 (bug 11284). - Fix on-screen display of macros whose name is a single non-letter symbol (part of bug 11158). - Fix problem with collapsing insets after searches. - Do not swallow backspaces in custom viewer/editor paths (bug 9622). - Fix broken space dialog in mathed (bug 7747). - Fix undo in some cases involving nesting (bug 11292). - Fix some display problems in the Text Properties dialog (bug 11385). - Accept/reject changes inside selection only if there are changes (bug 10338). - Fix missing TOC update (and related bugs) when setting default master (bug 11422). - Properly update bibliography information (with bibliography environment) before opening the citation dialog (bug 4899). - Fix problem with undo of document settings (bug 9004). - Fix size of layout combo (bug 6096). - Completion popup context menu now properly responds to Esc key. - Fix document updating issues with split view (bug 11354). - Fix cases where text is offset vertically (bug 10532, 10767). - Display of start/end labels of paragraphs in insets (bug 11425). - Fix crash when using inset-select-all in tabular. - Only allow toggling math limits when it makes sense. - Repair (de)activation of plural, capitalize, etc, for refstyle. - Fix display of gather environment in leqno mode (bug 11324). - Fix handling of labels with change tracking (bug 6563). - Expand environment variables when modifying the PATH prefix. - Fix language of Help documents when LyX UI language is different from OS UI language. - Fix many drawing glitches in the IPA icons. - Fix crash when disabling math preview (bug 11498). - Quote filenames when calling gunzip and avoid a crash when the filename of a compressed file does not end with a proper extension (bug 4269). - Fix behavior of (un)setting all tabular borders (bug 11382). - Place the indentation bars correctly in full-screen mode (bug 11286). - Fix display of formal table bottom line with multirows (bug 11445). - Fix left/right border UI when toggling formal table style (bug 9835). - Fix bold-like characters when selecting bidi text (bug 11198). - Make sure there are markers when editing variable-size delimiters (bug 11516). - Fix pre- and postnote fields in year-only biblatex-natbib citations. - Get rid of spurious empty entry in list of equations when creating new formula (bug 11423). - Handle some cases where the change bar in the margin did not get updated (bug 11396). - Handle some cases where underline across insets did not painted (bug 11402). - Fix minimal height of delimiters inset (bug 11337). * INTERNALS - Fix reconfigure issues on Windows in the presence of an external python installation. * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - The Korean splash.lyx can now be compiled out-of-the-box. - Fix description of change bar module. * LYX2LYX - Speed up some lyx2lyx conversions (bug 11200). - Fix routine that left some old parameters unremoved (bug 11373). * LYXHTML - Take account of 'free spacing' (bug 11432). * ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE - Pay attention to layout modules in Advanced F&R (bug 11138). * BUILD/INSTALLATION - Fix build with boost 1.69 (bug 11349). - Update bundled boost distribution to 1.68. - Fix warnings with clang 7. - Allow automake 1.16.