lyx_mirror/ANNOUNCE

Public release of LyX version 1.6.1
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.1. This is the first
maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and as such, it mainly
focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major problems that slipped
into the application in the wake of the new features.

All users of LyX 1.6.0 are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

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

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

You can download LyX 1.6.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.1.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
	http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
	http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz
        http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.1.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/

If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply
one of the following patches instead
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.1.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.1.bz2

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.6.1?
----------------------------


** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated localization of the user interface for Czech, French, German,
  Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish.

- Updated English, French, German, and Spanish User's Guide, Math,
  and Embedded Objects manual.

- Updated English and German Embedded Objects manual.

- Updated English Customization manual.


* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- New layout file for journal articles published by the American Chemical
  Society.


* USER INTERFACE

- The BibTeX dialog now has a button for rescanning *.bib and *.bst files
  in the TEXMF tree.


** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix a crash and generally improve the behaviour while loading an
  emergency save of a master document from within a child (bug 5514).

- Fix freeze when child document fails to load due to a conversion error
  or similar problem (bug 5539). Note that LyX will not try to reload the
  file. If the problem should with the child be fixed, the master document
  will need to be closed and reopened for the child to be loaded.

- Removed "NoStyle Abstract" from AMS book class, which does have an
  abstract.

- Fix conversion of some more complex index insets from version 1.5.x
  (bug 5579 a.o.).

- Fix reversion of info insets to LyX format 1.5.x. This bug blocked the
  reversion of the User Guide to LyX 1.5.

- Fix reversion of subfloats to version 1.5.x.

- Fix reversion of \slash and \nobreakdash to version 1.5.x.

- Fix possible endless loop while running lyx2lyx.

- Fix redirection to temporary files with spaces in path (RCS support).

- Fix export to latex in the presence of an encoding switch (bug 5489).

- Fix nesting of \begin{CJK} and \end{CJK} with other environments.

- Fix export of straight quotes in Hebrew and Greek context (bug 5571).

- Fix import of CVS data on Windows.

- Perform an additional bibtex cycle if requested, e.g. by biblatex
  (bug 5583).

- Correctly set compressed status (bug 5589).

- Correct the LaTeX output of some letterlike symbols (bug 5456).

- Correct the LaTeX output of ']' inside list items (bug 5610).

- Fix option clash when selecting natbib with the new elsarticle
  class (bug 5617). Note that style changes (e.g. author-year)
  need to be done via class options with this class.


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix crash when undoing a math operation while the outline pane was open
  (bug 5491).

- Fix crash on Mac when dropping a file on its own buffer (bug 5447).

- Fix crash on display of message string with utf8 encoding
  (bug 5389 related).

- Fix crash when trying to access the replacements combo box in the spell
  checker dialog.

- Fix a crash when reloading a buffer on the Mac (bug 5389).

- Fix the registration of mimetypes, which cures a crash when using
  the clipboard and launching other applications on Windows (bug 5472).

- Fix assertion when issuing a translated error message to help-open.

- Fix freeze when selecting after a large amount of text already was
  selected (bug 5504).

- Fix false duplicate warning for labels when just applying without
  changing (bug 5496).

- Scrolling speed increased by a factor of 2.

- Implement undo grouping for command sequences (part of bug 5531).

- Fix wrong size of the view source window (bug 4430).

- Fix the -geometry command line option on Windows (bug 5467).

- Fix problem with display of footnote numbers, etc., in child documents.

- Fix painting update rules after LFUN_UP or LFUN_DOWN in an inset or
  tabular.

- Fix some UI glitches in the table cell settings dialog.

- Prevent the painting of an invisible cursor.

- Fix and improve the selection painting in a tabular (bug 5536).

- Fix error dialog, which didn't display some messages.

- Fix enabling and functioning of buttons of document settings and
  preferences dialogs (bug 5295).

- Enable the button up in the command buffer widget (bug 5567).

- Make the character style and custom inset menus quote the arguments 
  to flex-insert so that CharStyles, etc, with spaces in their names 
  will work properly.

- Detect and remove stale lyxpipes on startup (bug 641).

- Fix Preferences dialog in fullscreen mode (bug 5274).

- Act on keys pressed in fullscreen mode with no buffer open (bug 5507).

- Correctly set the paragraph style combo for obsoleted styles (part of
  bug 2607).

- beamer.layout: remove obsolete counter that triggered and error message
  in the console.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- LyX is now able to find the translated versions of the manuals in
  Help>Specific Manuals.

- LyX man page: Small formatting fix.

- Updated description of math macros (bug 3699).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix configuration for docbook backend and add detection of xlstproc.

- Fix bogus error message when reconfiguring with platex not installed.

- Add missing Galician documentation and example files to the Windows build.

- Add compilation fix for gcc 4.4.

- cmake: add some missing files.

- cmake: improve install rules.

- Fix version number in Mac OS application bundle.

- Add missing tabular icon.