Public release of LyX version 1.5.1 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release. 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 1.5.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.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/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.1.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/1.5.1/ If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.bz2 Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since some binary files have been added for this release. If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.1, 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 1.5.1? ---------------------------- ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390). ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set. This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1 earlier than anticipated. - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language (bug 2468). - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some problems remain). - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086). - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094). * USER INTERFACE: - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096). - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse button. - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only). - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672). - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected text in the URL inset (bug 683). - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053). - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076). - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571). - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). * DOCUMENTATION * BUILD/INSTALLATION: - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct. - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor. - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed.
