commit e465a542e0027e4c32bffcf7deb426cdce22ea27
Author: Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jun 21 21:35:21 2025 -0400
2.4.4
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announce/2_4_4.txt | 205 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
farm/cookbook/LyX/news.inc | 19 +++++
misc/rss/lyx_news_feed.xml | 4 +-
3 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/announce/2_4_4.txt b/announce/2_4_4.txt
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+Public release of LyX version 2.4.4
+===================================
+
+We are proud to announce the release LyX 2.4.4, the fourth maintenance
+release in the 2.4.x series. We have fixed a number of bugs, including some
+crashes, and introduced a few new features.
+
+Here are some highlights.
+
+There have been a number of updates to LyX's interface with computer algebra
+systems. See below for details.
+
+LyX now (again) has a function (error-next) and a menu entry (Navigate >
+Next Error) to quickly jump to the next compilation error. This re-introduces
+a feature we lost 20 years ago with LyX 1.4 (bug 2775)! LyX now also has a
+function (errors-show) and a menu entry (Document > Processing Errors) to
+(re)open the dialog that lists compilation errors (a.k.a. "LaTeX Errors")
+after it has been closed, with the next error at/after cursor highlighted.
+
+One important fix concerns the generation of previews. In certain cases,
+LaTeX adds a temporary page at the end, and this confuses our python script
+that generates previews, making it unable to determine the pages to process
+through dvipng. This requires a re-run of LaTeX, which we can easily do. See:
+https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/689978/why-does-temporary-page-error-occur
+A related problem has been solved for dvipng versions >= 1.16. With earlier
+versions, dvipng returns with an error code when some previews contain
+postscript specials, so that LyX will 'fall back' to the legacy method for
+generating all previews instead of only the ones with postscript specials.
+These will be of lower quality, and various messages will be output to the
+terminal. If this bothers you, please upgrade your version of dvipng.
+
+For complete information on what's new and on bugs that have been fixed, see
the list below.
+
+You can download LyX 2.4.4 from https://www.lyx.org/Download.
+
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
+documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which
+you will find at https://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to
+the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). Bugs can be reported
+on our bug tracker (https://www.lyx.org/trac/) or by writing the
+developers' list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org).
+
+The LyX team.
+https://www.lyx.org
+
+
+What's new
+==========
+
+** Updates:
+***********
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- LyX now includes a layout, template and example for the Springer Nature
+ Journal class.
+
+- Support GNOME's paper PDF viewer.
+
+- Implement product for computer algebra systems (bug 13186).
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- LyX includes a new icon set to select from in preferences: Adwaita. This is
+ the default GNOME icon set with flat (symbolic) design, completed with some
+ LyX-specific icons that match the design. We provide a dark and light mode
+ version which will be automatically selected as needed.
+
+- LyX now (again) has a function (error-next) and a menu entry (Navigate >
+ Next Error) to quickly jump to the next compilation error.
+
+- LyX now also has a function (errors-show) and a menu entry (Document >
+ Processing Errors) to (re)open the dialog that lists compilation errors
+ (a.k.a. "LaTeX Errors") after it has been closed, with the next error
+ at/after cursor highlighted.
+
+- The grid display in the MathGrid dialog has been visually improved,
+ particularly in dark mode (bug 13146).
+
+- The document dialog now opens faster on first launch.
+
+- Use Right/Left or Outer/Inner for page margins, as appropriate (bug 12410).
+
+- Changing zoom values should be now consistently maintained across different
+ LyX Windows. It supposedly also fixes a crash when switching between
+ documents in different LyX windows on Mac (bug 13162).
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (traditional and simplified),
+ Czech, French, German, Japanese, Slovak, and Ukranian localizations.
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- Update macOS build script to check for more recent SDKs too.
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Fix crash when attempting to load a corrupted master from a child (bug
+ 13151).
+
+- Fix crash when adding custom LaTeX argument to multicolumn in varwidth table
+ (bug 13158).
+
+- Improve fix for crash when exporting a recursive macro (bug 12633).
+
+- Try to handle differences in how divpng reports certain kinds of errors.
+
+- Fix erroneous whitespace before and after math preview (bug 13127).
+
+- Ask to save unsaved changes before closing document dialog via ESC key or
+ cross button (bug 8145).
+
+- Fix Libertinus Math fonts with AMS symbols (bug 13145).
+
+- Japanese default quote style for direct input (not via IME) is changed to
+ english.
+
+- Improve detection of removed documents. We did not distinguish between
+ rewrite and removal in some cases (bug 12819).
+
+- Fix parsing error with math code when LyX file contains DOS line endings
+ (which might happen when importing via tex2lyx on Windows).
+
+- Include local layout files in LyX archive (bug 13149).
+
+- Fix handling of integrals with external computer algebra systems.
+
+- Fix cmidrule trimming in last column of a formal table (bug 13171).
+
+- Use proper minus sign character in MathML export (bug 13067).
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- Fix tiny previews when initially loading a file (bug 13078).
+
+- Fix preview update missing after some operations (bug 13116).
+
+- Fix crash in batch LyX when ui_style is set (bug 13141).
+
+- Rebuild toolbars on runtime mode switch on Linux.
+
+- Fix an assertion when image previews are loaded.
+
+- Do not require the input of year in bibliography item
+ dialog with Natbib (Numeric).
+
+- Fix display of accented characters in math (bug 13156).
+
+- Fix cell splitting in cell equations.
+
+- Fix (dark/light) mode setting and run-time switch with Qt >= 6.8
+ (bug 13144).
+
+- Fix display of some icons in dialogs in dark mode.
+
+- Fix display of menu buttons in dark mode.
+
+- Fix minor issues with automatic deletion of bibitem insets.
+
+- Correctly check maxima output for syntax errors.
+
+- Extend cooperation with computer algebra systems:
+ - Maxima and Octave can now properly prepend commands in front of
+ expressions, e.g. you can use math-extern maxima factor
+ for factoring the expression in mathed. See LyX Function Manual
+ for details of math-extern function (also see bug 13178).
+ - Matrix output of Octave can be read again (very old bug 13180).
+ - Matrix output of recent Maxima versions is correctly parsed again.
+ - Allow using %-notation with Maxima to specify math constants
+ such as the imaginary unit (%i) or Euler's number (%e).
+ - Improve input to Maxima such that, for example, \pi is always
+ translated as "%pi" and not simply as "pi" in some circumstances.
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Fix preview error in UserGuide.
+
+
+* LYX2LYX
+
+- Fix endless recursion and string detection mismatch in lyx2lyx
+ (bug 13168).
+
+
+* TEX2LYX
+
+- Fix import of enumitem lists with optional argument (bug 13185).
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- Fix compilation with gcc 15.
+
+- Fix compilation against Qt 6.9.
+
+- Fix detection of necessary APIs to print callstacks.
diff --git a/farm/cookbook/LyX/news.inc b/farm/cookbook/LyX/news.inc
index 5611ca70..54725945 100644
--- a/farm/cookbook/LyX/news.inc
+++ b/farm/cookbook/LyX/news.inc
@@ -20,6 +20,25 @@
function news_data() {
+news_item("LyX 2.4.4 released.", "Fourth Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series",
"June 21, 2025",
+"<p>We are proud to announce the fourth maintenance release in the LyX 2.4.x
series.</p>
+<p>Here are some highlights: </p>
+<ul>
+ <li>There have been a number of updates to LyX's interface with compute
algebra systems. </li>
+ <li>LyX now (again) has a function (error-next) and a menu entry (Navigate >
Next Error) to quickly jump to the next compilation error; also, a function
(errors-show) and a menu entry (Document > Processing Errors) to (re)open the
dialog that lists compilation errors after it has been closed. </li>
+ <li>Another important fix concerns the generation of previews. In certain
cases, LaTeX adds a temporary page at the end, and this confuses our python
script that generates previews. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>See
+<a href=\"https://www.lyx.org/announce/2_4_4.txt\";>the announcement</a> for
more information.
+</p>
+
+<p>You can download the
+<a href=\"https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/2.4.x/lyx-2.4.4.tar.gz\";>sources
in tar.gz format</a>
+(also
+<a
href=\"https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/2.4.x/lyx-2.4.4.tar.xz\";>tar.xz</a>).
There are also some
+<a href=\"https://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/bin/2.4.4/\";>binaries</a> available.
</p>");
+
news_item("LyX 2.4.3 released.", "Third Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series",
"January 15, 2025",
"<p>We are proud to announce the third maintenance release in the LyX 2.4.x
series.</p>
diff --git a/misc/rss/lyx_news_feed.xml b/misc/rss/lyx_news_feed.xml
index 5bd60cf5..2cd65a75 100644
--- a/misc/rss/lyx_news_feed.xml
+++ b/misc/rss/lyx_news_feed.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>LyX news
feed</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>The latest news
about LyX, a WYSIWYM document processor</description>
-<lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:58:58
GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
+<lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:34:58
GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
+<item><title>LyX 2.4.4
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Fourth
Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed June 21, 2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LyX 2.4.3
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Third
Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed January 15, 2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LyX 2.4.2
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Second
Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed October 3, 2024</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LyX 2.4.1
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>First
Maintenance Release in 2.4.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed July 5, 2024</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
@@ -8,5 +9,4 @@
<item><title>LyX 2.3.8
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Eighth
Maintenance Release in 2.3.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed May 17, 2024</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LyX 2.3.7
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Seventh
Maintenance Release in 2.3.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed January 7, 2023</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>LyX 2.3.6.1
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Sixth
Maintenance Release in 2.3.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed January 3, 2021</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
-<item><title>LyX 2.3.6
released.</title><link>https://www.lyx.org/News</link><description>Sixth
Maintenance Release in 2.3.x Series</description><guid isPermaLink="false">LyX
news feed December 1, 2020</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00
GMT</pubDate></item>
</channel></rss>
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