Public release of LyX version 2.0.4 ===================================
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.4. This is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.0.x series. LyX 2.0.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this version. 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. You can download LyX 2.0.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.4, either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives 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). We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.0.4. The LyX team. http://www.lyx.org What's new in LyX 2.0.4 ======================= Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done, and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5. There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this will continue for 2.0.5. We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address: git://git.lyx.org/lyx Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT for details. What's new ========== ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Add support for \subsubsection and \subsubsection* in beamer layout. - Made some minor improvements to the include_bib.py script. - Case environments provided by theorem modules should now nest properly (bug 7611). - Allow makebeamerinfo script export beamer info (to be used by Impressive) (bug 8018). - Output unicode glyph MICRO SIGN upright in mathed (bug 8153). - Remove wrong support for unicode glyph HYPHENATION POINT (bug 8153). - Add support for unicode glyph LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE. - Export contents of included files rather than just an indication that there was an excluded file (bug 8087). - Added LibreOffice to list of detected ODT viewers/editors. * TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS - Support for the LaTeX-command \sindex (for split indexes). - Better support for XeTeX and LuaTeX documents: automatically set default encoding to utf-8 and select support for non-TeX fonts. * USER INTERFACE - New option to show only the preamble when viewing source (bug 7860). - Graphics insets show filename as a tooltip now. - New command for forward search with SumatraPDF without the need of an external DDE program (requires SumatraPDF version 1.9 or higher). - When a command takes too long to complete, ask the user for what to do instead of automatically stopping it after a timeout interval (bug 8032). - Recognize geany, leafpad and mousepad as viewers (bug #8021). - Improved example and layout file for Seminar slide documents (bug 7624). - Allow dead caron to be used in our key bindings (bug 8198). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Updated Basque, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Nynnorsk, Slovakian, Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localization. - Fixed on-screen display of nested enumerations in Spanish and Galician documents. - Improved template file iop-article.lyx. - EmbeddedObjects manual: - New section how to color every second table row. - New section how rotate table cells by a custom angle. - Cleaned up the Customization manual a bit. - Linguistics manual: document shortcomings (and workarounds) of glosses. ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Fix crash when saving a child document to a new name/directory and attempting to view/export the document afterwards (bug 8161). - Fixed an infinite loop when exporting a file with list or bibliography environments to DocBook (bug 7914). - Fixed reading the bounding box from EPS figures with negative values (bug 8114). - Fix generation of auxiliary files for converters specifying the needaux flag by using the same latex backend used for previewing the document instead of always using the plain latex backend. - When configuring LyX, check for all LaTeX-packages LyX uses to display symbols (bug 8102). - Fix the naming of some temporary files such that they are created in LyX's temporary directory. - Fixed XHTML output of id's for bibitems (bug 8156). - Fix generation of a lyx archive when included files have spaces embedded in their names (bug 8164). - Load bibtopic after hyperref, thus preventing a LaTeX error when back references are used (bug 8005). - Define Standard as default style in SIAM layout (bug 8194). * USER INTERFACE - Fix crash when modifying or pasting an equation label and there are references to that label in math (bug 8095). - Fix crash when clicking away in the same math inset just after hitting '\' (bug 8140). - Fix crash when dissolving a math macro whose first argument is another parameterless macro (bug 8105). - Fix crash when removing all converters in preferences (bug 8178). - Update the current view after dispatching a command through the lyxserver. The missing screen update could cause either a failure in executing the command or could even crash LyX (bugs 6871 and 8119). - Fixed assertion on selection of insets in RTL text (bug 7518). - Fixed an infinite loop when pasting '\\ ' into math (bug 8089). - Fixed an assertion when trying to paste into a table (bug 7956). - Fixed an infinite loop after removing the first paragraph of the document if it had a non-zero depth (bug 7641). - Fixed problem when setting working directory on Windows to root of a disk, e.g., C:\ (bug 7982). - Don't reset the selected format each time we click into a new paragraph in View->Source (bug 7997). - Do not disable View/Update Other Formats button when "Use non-TeX fonts" is active (bug 8069). - Stop screen from jumping around so much on undo and redo (bug 6367). - Do not allow to add a citation in the citation dialog using the <Enter> key if the Add button is disabled. - Allow the <Enter> key to add a new branch in document settings. Only <Ctrl+Enter> and numpad-<Enter> will also close the dialog. - Box settings dialog didn't work if you were actually inside the box (bug 8124). - Mark the document modified when changing type of split index (bug 8182). - Do not lose default output format when toggling "Use Non-TeX Fonts" (bug 8191). - Fix tooltip for "Use Non-TeX Fonts" (bug 7787). - Fix pasting of LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S (bug 8057). - Setting a multirow offset no longer also changes table column alignments (bug 8084). - Do not repeatedly show export errors of a previous export. - Fix the selection of rows below a multirow (bug 8083). - Allow rotations of tables with a defined width (bug 8092). - Fix display of "Block" environment in Beamer presentations (bug 8094). - Changes to BibTeX files not noticed when new BibTeX inset created (bug 8107). - Made it possible to delete local layout in Document>Settings. - Improve thesaurus dialog completion (bug 8138) - Fix erroneous error message when calling "buffer-language" manually. - Fix the random coloring of text when change tracking is on and pixmap caching is enabled (bug 7667). - Fix coloring of insets that come after deleted text insets with change tracking on. - Fix the coloring of Quotation marks with change tracking (bug 7653). - Fixed stray warning when inserting inserting plaintext file (bug 7916). - Fix undo warning when inserting plain text file (bug 7916). - Fix display of special characters like '\#', '{..}' and of auto- completion in math insets with a special font, e.g. mathcal (bug 5167). - Fix the painting of underbar and strikeout which span spaces (bug 953). - Fixed painted of paragraphs with MARGIN_RIGHT_ADDRES_BOX such that the contents can be edited even if it is a long row (bug 8152). - Allow an 'unnamed' document (names like newfile*.lyx) to be saved under the temporary name in a different directory. - Fix cursor bug when using backspace after the spellchecker replaced a word. - Fix "Page break on current row" in tabular dialog (bug 8180). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Enable spell-checking for the languages Esperanto, Farsi, Interlingua, Korean and Latin (bug 8183). - Fixed problem that the example file knitr.lyx could not be opened. - Re-enable the compilation of the modernCV.lyx example file (bug 8064). - Fix on screen display of nested enumerations in Spanish and Galician. * LYXHTML - Fixed assertions on Windows for XHTML output (bug 8078). - Fix reconfiguration on Windows when the user directory is a UNC path (bug 8098). - Index entries in XHTML output no longer sorted case sensitively. - Fixed some problems XHTML output had with empty paragraphs. - Fixed XHTML export of sub- and superscripts. - Don't output extra body tags with included files when generating XHTML. - Do not include deleted text in the title of the XHTML output. * TEX2LYX - Fix import of \date (regression, bug 8104). - Fix missing backslash in import of \def ... \csname ... \endcsname (bug 8116). - Fix crash if TeX-files contain table logic bugs (bug 8204). * BUILD/INSTALLATION - Fix reconfiguration on Windows when the temporary directory used by python contains non-ASCII characters. - Allow configuration with autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.12. - Fixed compilation with clang. - In debugging messages related to LyX actions, make sure that the action and its arguments are correctly reported. - Included the qt gif plugin in the Windows installer. This enables the busy icon in the status bar. - Remove a temporary log file from the user directory after reconfigure. - Windows installer now detects Gnumeric which is needed for the spreadsheet external inset template (bug 7870). - Windows installer now detects Inkscape on installation. - Fixed links in the Windows uninstaller.
