Public release of LyX version 1.6.6 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.6. This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.
The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German spelling in parallel). A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. Please note particularly that there's an unresolved bug (#6680) that might crash LyX when using undo with the outliner opened. This bug only manifests itself when LyX is compiled against Qt 4.6, so we encourage you to compile LyX against Qt 4.5, if possible. Also note that LyX 1.6.6 behaves way better with Qt 4.6 than its predecessors. So despite the aforementioned problem, we urge all distributors who use Qt 4.6 to upgrade to this version. All users are 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 1.6.6 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.6.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-1.6.6.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.6.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/1.6.6/ If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.4.2), you may want to apply one of the following patches instead: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.6.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.6.bz2 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.6, 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 1.6.6? ---------------------------- ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - LyX now supports SVG images when either the librsvg library or Inkscape (version 0.47 recommended) is installed (bug 3349). - LaTeX import (tex2lyx) now recognizes the types of quotes dependent on the document language. (When importing e.g. a Spanish document, LyX will use comillas latinas as quotes.) - Add support for Aspell language varieties. This enables proper support of German old and new spelling in parallel when "aspell (library)" is used (bug 4657). - Add support for the enchant spellchecker (bug 6226). LyX needs to be compiled --with-enchant in order to use this feature. * USER INTERFACE - Checking all opened files for external change after updating from SVN repository (part of bug 5211). - Add a Close All menu item to the menu (bug 740). - Toolbar entry for the AMS math symbol \Diamond added. - All importable file types can now be dragged and dropped onto LyX to open them (bug 2948). - Use a standard (rather than a wait) mouse cursor when displaying alerts. - <Enter> in empty enumerations and other environments decreases depth if possible and otherwise resets the layout to standard. - Don't show the empty base of a script inset as an empty brace inset on screen (bug 6581). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - New Greek user interface localization. - New Spanish translations of the beamer and tufte example files and the beamer template file. - New Japanese translation of the Customization and the EmbeddedObjects manual. - New Japanese translation of the Braille, linguistics, multicol and xypic example files. - The dinbrief and g-brief-de layouts were translated to English. - The dinbrief template was revised. - Updated User's Guide and EmbeddedObjects manual. - Updated Math manual: description how to change font size within formulas in sec. 11.4. - Updated Arabic, Basque, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian user interface localizations. - The rpm README file was updated. * BUILD/INSTALLATION - Add support for Cygwin 1.7. - Update Cygwin configuration files. - LyX supports autoconf 2.65 (bug 6524). ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Fix a crash when opening an emergency file which is not a valid LyX file (bug 6491). - Fix a crash when viewing files that contain math macros as PDF (bug 6388). - Fix a crash when a document includes itself (bug 6503). - Fix the parsing of spaces in the preamble of tex files (bug 6474). - Export the image when generating a preview, after an image reload (bug 6356). - Fix the import of tex files with multi-byte characters in the preamble (bug 6365). - Fix encoding problem in bibliography items that broke the compilation of documents (bug 6534). - Fix encoding problem in PDF (i.e. hyperref) settings that broke the compilation of documents. - Issue a warning if a path contains uncodable characters (bug 6301). - Allow using single quotes in filenames (bug 4063). - Do not insert \foreignlanguage in TeX-code (bug 6426). - Allow using Greek symbols also when the package grtimes is installed but actual fonts are not and "Times Roman" glyphs are requested (bug 6469). - Fix premature closing of the CJK environment after TeX-code or URL insets nested in other insets (bug 6510). - Allow using labels with non-ASCII characters in mathed (bug 3325). - Reset the language at the end of the document to the correct language (bug 6387). - Make reverse dvi/pdf search work even when the temporary dir contains spaces (common to all platforms, but particularly important on Windows). - LaTeX import (tex2lyx) now also recognizes the document language Kazakh. - Fixed detection of "Author (Year)" references when not using BibTeX. - Quit LyX when shutting down Windows in order to not interrupt the shutdown sequence (bug 5525). - Fix the elsarticle template file. It is now possible to use custom document class options. - Fix positioning of error dialog in child documents with parent macros (bug 6502). - On Windows, allow loading and saving files whose path and/or name contains characters not encodable in the current code page (bug 5238). - On Windows, allow using unicode characters in the command line arguments for lyx and tex2lyx. - Do not try to move the autosave file if it does not yet exist (bug 6525). - Detect more warnings from LaTeX run (bug 6593). - Reset the language at the beginning of a paragraph when importing a tex file (bug 6377). - Correctly switch latex encoding before fragile environments (bug 6618). - Prevent the creation of empty cache index files at various locations. - Remove autosave only on file close (part of bug 6587). - Fix the LaTeX import of documents with multiline parameters of citep insets (bug 6219). - Translate \textquotedbl to the inch sign when importing tex (bug 6631). - Fix usage of the \underbar macro in math mode (bug 4565). - Fix the import of \limits and \nolimits when it is not followed by a sub or superscript (bug 6633). - Correctly set the parent of a child document after reloading. * USER INTERFACE - Fix a crash when performing word-replace while the cursor has a selection in mathed (bug 6437). - Fix a crash when closing a document with a pending autocompletion popup (bug 6431). - Fix a crash when trying to select a whole empty math inset. This causes the empty inset to disappear and the anchor to be invalid (bug 6448). - Fix a crash when invoking buffer-switch with no open files (bug 6438). - Fix a crash when clicking on an error in the error dialog, while either the active document is changed or the document is closed (bug 6462). - Fix a crash when a pending completion pop-up in math is scrolled out of view (bug 6552). - While in TeX-code, disable non-functional sub- and superscript functions that crashed LyX (bug 6459). - Fix crashes of LyX when interacting with buffer dependent dialogs while no buffers where open (anymore) (bug 6451). - Fix a stdlib assertion when deleting from TeX-code in math (bug 6489). - Fix the use of lyxrc properties in InsetInfos (bug 6664). - Fix the availability info for textclasses in InsetInfos (bug 5543). - Resolve duplicate labels in mathed on pasting (bug 6218). - Allow labels containing an underscore or caret to be referenced in math insets instead of only outside math (bug 2872). - Detect user-specified package dependencies for modules (bug 6361). - Fix bug that LyX allowed to specify the vertical alignment of table columns without a fixed width. - Prevent the error dialog from jumping to the first item when clicking outside the dialog (bug 2179). - Render user-defined macros in instant previews (bug 4360). - Do not warn or save an emergency file when reverting a document. - Fix the painting of text with custom font properties in insets that have a default font (bug 6113). - Fix layout of the Paragraph dialog (particularly within CJK localization). - Fix cursor placement in math when inserting 'active' insets (bug 6382). - Fix on-screen display of author names containing a thin space (such as W.\,H. Auden). - Take into account the current zoom factor, dip, or preview scale factor when an instant preview is generated. - When moving to another cell in a table, the current font is adjusted to the font of that cell. - Display notes and friends in tables in the outliner (bug 6372). - Allow the selection to be extended using shift and mouse (bug 6400). - After selecting a word by double-clicking it, extending the selection by a single mouse-click now also selects only whole words (bug 6400). - Update the status bar after starting LyX and closing the last document. - Do not paint the cursor after resizing if it is invisible (bug 6332). - Refresh the contents of some dialogs when the document is read-only. - Do not clear the default master setting in preferences dialog when cancelling the browse dialog. - Fix the mac bind files for inserting an end-of-sentence character (bug 6416). - Better detection and response on svn conflicts. - Enable full keyboard navigation in the spellchecker dialog (bug 6460). - Fix keyboard accelerator for the "Content" combo box in the BibTeX bibliography dialog. - Fix title of the error dialog (bug 6397). - Update correctly the toolbar after the spellchecker has made a replacement (bug 6217). - Abbreviate long cross-references (bug 6559). - Do not cause a shortcut conflict when only modifying the command of a keyboard shortcut binding (bug 5735). - Fix the numbering of subsections for the memoir layout (bug 6527). - Fix TOC-related crashes on Qt 4.6.x (bug 6522). - Fix strange scrolling bug that could cause the document to jump after mouse clicks (bug 6454). - Fix the painting of the background of previewed displayed math. - Make the auto-completion case-insensitive. - When merging changes, consider similar changes as one. - Allow to apply the preferences after removing a shortcut. - Fix the font specification of a special section in amsart.layout. - Hide the error when pressing ok without changing a shortcut. - Allow to change a shortcut back to a previous value. - Fix the painting of large insets at the top of the document (bug 6141). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Fix compilation of the Math manual. - Fix the character encoding of the Slovak splash.lyx example file. - Fix some LaTeX-warnings in the EmbeddedObjects manual which prevented the PDF export on Mac OS. * BUILD/INSTALLATION - Fix compiler warnings about comparisons with string literals. - Fix code in some places such that to avoid possible runtime problems.
