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Public release of LyX version 2.3.4
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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 
<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 http://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 2.3.4.

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



What's new
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** Updates:
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* 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:
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* 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.