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 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
> 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).
>
