Author: spitz Date: Sun May 8 17:58:45 2011 New Revision: 38644 URL: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/38644
Log: * add 1.6.10 announcement. Added: www-user/trunk/announce/1_6_10.txt (contents, props changed) Added: www-user/trunk/announce/1_6_10.txt ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ www-user/trunk/announce/1_6_10.txt Sun May 8 17:58:45 2011 (r38644) @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +Public release of LyX version 1.6.10 +==================================== + +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.10. This is the 11th +and final maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. + +LyX 1.6.10 concludes the successful 1.6 series, which has been our stable +series for the past two and a half years. The most notable new feature of +this version is that it is able to read and import documents of our new +stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit of users who want to +stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want to cooperate with +users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still writes the 1.6 format, +so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's new features. + +Read on below what has been changed and fixed in this version apart from that. +Remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. + +Anyone who intends to stick with the 1.6 series is strongly encouraged 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 1.6.10 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +which yields smaller files): + + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.10.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-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.tar.gz + http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.10.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/1.6.10/ + +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-1.6.10.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.10.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 1.6.10, 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 1.6.10? +---------------------------- + +** Updates: +*********** + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Read files produced by LyX 2.0. + +- Run biber instead of bibtex if requested (bug 7281). + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- New Swedish translation of the Splash and the Shortcuts manual. + +- Updated French translation of the Tutorial and the User Guide. + +- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian,Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, + Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian User Interface Localization. + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Protect the math commands \overset and \underset in fragile context + (bug 7252). + +- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in ERT insets (bug 7310). + +- When exporting, alert about uncodable characters in child docs (bug 7326). + +- Prevent LaTeX error when toggling hyperref (bug 7344). + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Fix corruption of localized messages while changing color preferences, + which could result in a non-functional lyx instance, an assertion and + dataloss (bug 7371). + +- Fix a crash when editing the name of an unknown math macro with an argument + which is immediately followed by another unknown math macro (bug 7316). + +- Fix a crash when loading a document with instant previewed math that + could not succesfully be previewed (bug 7263). + +- Fix a crash when requesting the wrong context menu due to paragraphs that + are automatically removed between the mouse press and release (bug 7209). + +- Fix a crash when moving the cursor up when there is an inset right + above cursor which is not placed at the beginning of the line (bug 7261). + +- Fix a crash when deleting an inset and using -dbg any (bug 7376). + +- Fix assertion when selecting with shift+click immediately after reverse + search, accept/reject all changes, or page down/up operations (bug 7394). + +- Show mnemonics in context menus that are requested by the keyboard + key (only Windows; bug 5414). + +- Fix broken commits in VCS when message contains quotes (bug 7338). + +- Issue a warning when an included file could not be loaded (bug 7343). + +- Fix freezing of LyX at samba shares (bug 5891). + +- Fix deletion of empty last row for \smallmatrix (part of bug 7484). + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- Fix compilation with gcc 4.6 (bug 7285). + +- Fix reconfigure script: allow LaTeX-less install of LyX under Windows. + +- Do not configure LyX to use "sensible-editor" as a text editor/viewer, + since this is not necessarily a GUI editor (bug 7448).
