Public release of LyX version 1.6.9 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.9. This is the 10th maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.
LyX 1.6.9 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version even more reliable and stable. We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9. A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. While our next major release, LyX 2.0, comes closer and already can be tried out by the curious and brave, LyX 1.6.9 is the release for everyone who is relying on a rock solid and polished application. We thus encourage all users to upgrade to this version. 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 1.6.9 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.9.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-1.6.9.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.9.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/1.6.9/ If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.8), you may want to apply one of the following patches instead: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.9.bz2 Note that for this release, some binaries have been added that are not produced by the patch. If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.9, you may 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/ 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 1.6.9? ---------------------------- ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - eLyXer is now always run as a script, not as a python module. * USER INTERFACE - CVS support: + Synchronization of whole directories (bug 6255). + Add implementation of checkOut operation. + Utilize read-only checkouts with "cvs edit". + Check for conflicts when doing checkIn/checkOut operation. - Allow Ctrl+Arrow to move between table cells (bug 1839). - Add support for showing on screen italic uppercase Greek letters, either inserted in a \mathit inset or through AMS macros (bug 4606). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Re-introduce Swedish User Interface localization. - Updated Basque, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portugues, Serbian (Latin), Slovak and Ukrainian User Interface localizations. - Updated French translation of the Customization manual, the Embedded Objects manual und the Linguistics manual. - Updated German translation of the User Guide. * BUILD/INSTALLATION - Allow using autoconf 2.66 and 2.68. ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Correctly break URLs at the end of lines in DVI output when hyperref is used (bug 7033). - Escape "]" in subfloat captions to prevent LaTeX failure. - Fix DVI output of the document class "letter (lettre)". - Do not output PDF settings if these are disabled in the document settings (bug 7052). - Avoid inserting a blank line before the end of an environment when exporting a custom inset to LaTeX (bug 7254). - Correctly check for RTF and DOC viewers. - KOMA classes: Support the optional argument of Addpart, Addchap and Addsec. - Letter class: Support Quote, Quotation and Separator. - Don't pass the letterpaper option to the geometry package when using default paper format and margins are explicitly set. * USER INTERFACE - Fix crash when using a computer algebra system from within AMS math environments (bug 7058). - Fix crash when pressing up or down arrow while editing a macro name and an inline completion is suggested (bug 7068). - Fix crash when removing a math macro argument while instant preview is active (bug 7090). - Fix crash when inserting quotes with a selection spanning multiple paragraphs (bug 7200). - Fix crash when clicking on the beginning of an unfinished command in math when autocompletion is active (bug 7209). - Fix assertion when pasting a column in a math matrix (bug 7106). - Remove traces of long removed index settings dialog. This fixes a crash when issueing the non-functional lfuns "dialog-show index" and "dialog-show-new-inset index" (bug 7180). - Clear column width field in the tabular dialog when moving in a column without a fixed width (bug 6976). - Correctly save the settings of UI components. They could disappear when starting LyX with a modified default.ui file and changing the preferences afterwards (bug 7099). - Fix the painting of the workarea for a non-standard DPI and using emulated scaling on Windows Vista and Windows 7 (bug 7187). - Fix insertion of a user math macro through the math-insert lfun when a selection is present (bug 6939). - Don't shadow user math macros defined in child documents (bug 7183). - Make the modules description in the menu "Document > Settings" fully translatable (bug 6987). - Fix table line bug when unsetting a multicolumn cell via the table dialog (bug 7000). - Fix the display of table cell alignment in the context menu (bug 7053). - Don't allow to make tables within floats "long" as this could lead to LaTeX errors (bug 6585). - Don't use absolute paths on internal copy/paste operations on Mac (bug 6538). - Correct the denomination of the languages Norsk and Nynorsk. - Do not allow to put the cursor in an InsetInfo. Instead, a context menu item is added to facilitate copying of the contents (bug 5446). - Fix the display of the horizontal alignment of table cells (bug 7007). - Numbered items in insets that do not produce any output (e.g. Notes) no longer have a number associated with them (bug 6315). - Update the status of the buttons in the Text Style dialog when the cursor is moved (bug 6952). - Correctly toggle the numbering of an equation when issueing the menu "Insert > Numbered equation" on a displayed equation (bug 6709). - Fix the painting of non-text insets with a transparent background (such as quotation marks) as well as the description of a caption (bug 4889). - Fix painting of math-macro templates while moving the cursor or performing a selection with the mouse (bug 7193). - Fix unexpected behavior when inserting big math delimiters around a matrix (bug 7088). - Fix saving of personal dictionary path to preferences (bug 6688). - Fix unexpected behavior of some "insert math" menu/toolbar entries (bug 6709). - In the table dialog, disable the column width and column alignment if there is a LaTeX argument (bug 3517). - Fix aspell spellchecking with Farsi (bug 7171). - Fix the enabling of LFUN_SPLIT_CELL in the math context menu (bug 4849). - Recognize the program listings' parameter 'breakatwhitespace' (bug 7077). - Wake up from waiting state after encountering a file parsing error (bug 6950). - Fix enabling/disabling of Instant Preview widgets in the preferences dialog (bug 7190). - Allow to undo the insertion of math macros (bug 7125). - Add some visual aids to distinguish opened files: full paths in statusbar for recent files items, absolute paths in tooltips of tabs, and longer paths in the window title (bug 7182). - Fix the response of the update button of the view source window after reopening a file (bug 5600). - Don't allow to set an alignment for rows in math substack environments (bug 2498). - Allow paragraph breaks and nested environments in framed boxes. - Trigger LaTeX rerun if requested by the package "etaremune". - Fix EndFont tag in the svmult.layout (bug 7257). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Fix LaTeX errors in modernCV.lyx example file with recent versions of the LaTeX package modernCV (bug 7272).
