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Public release of LyX version 2.3.7
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We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.7. This is the seventh
maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to
upgrade to this version.

You can download LyX 2.3.7 from https://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 2.3.7 is the  result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
more reliable and more stable. Since it has been quite a long time (for
unsurprising reasons) since the last update, this one contains more fixes
than usual. We have fixed a number of crashes.

One important note: Recent versions of Mac OSX do not include a working 
version of Python. LyX needs this for proper functionality. See 
"https://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc2 for information on how to install 
Python, if you need to do so. The most obvious sympton is that, on 
startup, LyX reports that it will have 'minimal functionality'. Another
symptom is that images or previews do not display properly.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.6, please open a bug report at
https://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 https://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 2.3.7.

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


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

- Support \bigtimes from the mathtools package (bug 11223).

- Support 0x019b via tipa (bug 12426).


* USER INTERFACE

- If the bibliography processor requested by a document is not available, do not
  silently fall back to default. Rather than that, warn the user, keep the requested
  processor and only fall back to an alternative at processing stage.

- Backspace at the very start of a cell part of eqnarray or align environments
  does not move the cursor out of the whole equation anymore and is now
  equivalent to hitting the left arrow key (bug 11678).

- Other than directly inserted, now references can also be pasted as insets
  into an equation, instead of simply as text (bug 11539).

- Add support for High DPI screens in Windows and Linux (bug 12060).

- Add Qt platform name in About dialog.

- Add new pref variable \draw_strategy to fix some cases where display
  is blinking (bug 12119).



* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Update the H-P-Statments example document.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix Open Document (tex4ht) output converter.

- Fix output of bibliography environment to make backref work
  (bug 12041).

- Fix tables in title.

- Fix issue causing the coalesce of an empty description list item and an
  immediately following nested itemize environment when loading documents
  created with version 2.1 or earlier (bug 12148).

- Fix export of the optional argument of \sqrt when it contains other
  commands with optional arguments (bug 3294).

- Fix loading subscript package with only LaTeX < 2005/12/01 (bug 12387).

- Fix modernCV.lyx for Texlive 2021 (bug 12311).

- Fix validating a macro definitions (bug 12524).

- Fix crashing due to uncodable character in math macro name (bug 11855).



* USER INTERFACE

- Re-enable input of non-LyX files (e.g., tex, pgf) (bug 12056).

- Fix problem with display of menus on Gnome Wayland (bug 11746).

- Improve error message for VCS file registration when RCS package
  is not installed.

- Make bibliographies work with grandchildren (bug 12033).

- Do not close spellchecker after "Replace All" action (bug 11310).

- Fix width of collapsible insets with sublabels (bug 12046).

- Fix Hebrew characters overflow in insets (bug 12030).

- Fix unwanted scrolling of window when using "copy". (bug 11225).

- Disable direct insertion of multiple spaces in mathed text (bug 1311).

- Fix crash in tabular when an empty paragraph is removed
  automatically (bug 12117).

- Fix crash in tabular when resetting font (bug 12566).

- Fix crash when using Hebrew (bug 12464).

- On screen, show upper case greek letters in \mathbf as bold (bug 3751).

- Fix coloring of text-mode material in math equations (bug 11007).

- Fix crash with undo when the document has errors (bug 12163).

- Fix Thesaurus usage with large text selection (#10528).

- Fix wrap-around of spellchecker (#10383).

- Avoid pointless 'undefined flex inset' errors when changing document
  settings (bug 12163).

- Fix display of emphasize in slanted text (bug 12175).

- Fix copy of multi-cells in table (bug 12196).

- Fix some wrongly initialized internal buffers (bug 12246).

- Fix reverse search on Mac (bug 12063).

- Fix misaligned math frame decoration (bug 11491).

- Fix painting of nested environment overlaping with inset (bug 12243).

- Fix outline filter search for "\" symbol (bug 12359).

- Fix inset cornes painting on HiDPI screens (bug 12336).

- Fix instant preview foreground color in Beamer documents (bug 12563).

- Properly update font info at cursor position after toggling
  (bug 12450).

- Fix broken modifier handling for Qt-5.12 on Mac (bug 12247).

- Limit zoom value to 1000% to avoid crashes (bug 12452).

- Limit graphics scaling in LyX to 1--1000% to avoid crashes (12353).

- Fix potential crash with 32bit ucs4 codepoints (bug 12519).

- Catch warnings from packages that contain a hyphen in their name
  in the Log dialog.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated most localizations.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- compilation with configure now defaults to Qt5, use --disable-qt5 to compile with Qt4.

- Remove use of deprecated Qt methods.

- Update in-tree hunspell library to 1.7.0.

- The WM class of LyX for X Window environment is now the package name, typically
  "lyx" or "lyx[suffix]" (bug 11930).

- Fix warnings with recent compilers (gcc 11, clang+++ >= 10) and compilation with gcc 12.

- Fix warnings with autoconf 2.71.

- Fix framework name case error for QtDBus on Mac (bug 12305)

- Fix directory permission of .app bundle on Mac (bug 12150)

- Fix configuration bug on Windows which prevented LyX from
  installing (bug 12369).

- With autoconf, fix the "distcheck" make target.