FYI there are now also (standard) Windows installers here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.9/
A specific new feature for this installers is that PDF view/update is now fully compatible with Adobe Reader X. We don't know yet if/when the Alternative Installers will be provided, since Uwe is on a longer trip. Enjoy, Jürgen Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 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). 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