commit 89ed9ab0c2be8b3d4802cb642a7ad2f52022da8d
Author: Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>
Date: Thu Sep 19 11:00:46 2024 -0400
Prepare for 2.4.2
---
ANNOUNCE | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
NEWS | 35 +++++++++++++
configure.ac | 4 +-
status.24x | 43 ++++++++--------
4 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 74415269ff..967e04a1c3 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ Public release of LyX version 2.4.2
We are proud to announce the release LyX 2.4.2, the second maintenance
release in the 2.4.x series.
-
+This is almost entirely a bug-fixing release, with no significant new
+features. However, some crashes have been fixed, and we have made some
+significant improvements to display speed, which will be especially
+noticeable on older or slower systems.
There has been a change (as of 2.4.0) in how the option to use vertical
space between paragraphs is handled. Previously, LyX simply modified
@@ -35,11 +38,11 @@ then set Paragraph Separation to Vertical Space.
You can download LyX 2.4.2 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).
+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
@@ -54,41 +57,59 @@ What's new
** Updates:
***********
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- There was undocumented change how hyperlink insets are exported to
+ xHTML format compared to LyX 2.3.x (type "File" is no more exported
+ as http(s) link). We added details to the RELEASE-NOTES file.
+
+- Load graphics after geometry, so page size is set properly (bug
+ 10970).
+
+- Recognize .plt as a GnuPlot extension (bug 11148).
+
+- Restore obvious "G" shortcut for Greyed Out notes.
+
+
+* MISCELLANEOUS
+
+- Update format of lyxrc.dist templates
+
+- Update templates to use native vertical space method.
+
+
* USER INTERFACE
-- Add plain single quote to menu (bug 13025).
+- Show font info in status line again.
-- In context menus, more items are now shown on top level.
+- Make scrolling smoother when using selection.
-- Show full inset context-menu when clicking on text part of collapsible
- (bug 10370).
+- Show the temporary directory in About LyX dialog.
-- Allow relative statistics values in statusbar, improve update times for
- some UI and buffer operations.
+- Improve document output pane (bug 12902).
-- The performance of LyX with large insets on slower computers has
- been improved a lot (bug 12297).
+- Speedup interactive use by avoiding expensive math macros bookkeeping
+ when possible.
-- Fix crash with variable column width tables.
+- Make -geometry command-line option work on all platforms.
-- Add bindings for 'paste, join lines'.
+- Fix macOS bug, where XQuartz application would be launched for no
+ reason (bug #13086).
-- middle-button pasting (in Linux) now preserves middle-button pasting
- (as does Edit > Paste since 2.4.0).
+- Fix problem with collapsing of outliner (bug 13098).
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-- Clarify quote-insert LFUN.
-
-- Updates to Chinese (simplified), Czech, French, German, Hebrew,
- Brazilian Portuguese, Slovokian, and Ukranian translations.
+- Update Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, French,
+ German, Italian, Polish and Slovak localizations of the user
+ interface.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-- Fix cmake build with qt6 (macos), which did not include
- "plugins".
+- Avoid bogus warnings when configuring for Qt6.
+
** Bug fixes:
@@ -96,86 +117,84 @@ What's new
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
--Do not check for diverging input encoding if the files use XeTeX/LuaTeX
-
-- The g-brief and g-brief2 letter classes load babel internally. LyX now
- is aware of that.
-
-- Fix some cases where beamer breaks with the new cprotect mechanism.
+- When exporting to MathML, the argument of the \boxed{} macro is now
+ correctly treated as math.
-- Fix case where new cprotect mechanism breaks with caption.
+- Properly escape special characters (!, @, |) in nomenclature output.
-- Update acknowledgments handling in aastex63 layout
- (cf. https://journals.aas.org/aastexguide/#acknowledgments)
+- Handle linguistic structure trees in ePub and PDF (DocBook) output (bug
12372).
-- Make textstyle-update LFUN work properly inside equations.
-
-- Make buffer-reset-export LFUN work properly.
-
-- Remove redundant code from preamble of double column Hebrew
- documents (bug 12919)
+- Improve the way spaces are handled in labels when refstyle is used.
* USER INTERFACE
-- Fix crash when deleting rows or columns from table.
+- Fix regression which marks document modified in case of external
+ modification. Only file deletion will trigger the modification
+ flag now (see bug 12819).
-- Avoid crash when InsetBibitem::updateCommand shows a dialog.
+- Fix crash when using Save As... with previews enabled (bug 13091).
-- Set cursor font after pasting to PassThru (e.g., ERT) inset (bug 12592).
+- Fix crash when attempting to search in selection that contains
+ only math.
-- Do not ask about unapplied changes if dialog has been closed.
+- Fix crash when copying some math formulas or exporting them to
+ DocBook (bug 13069).
-- Fix wrong position of conversion windows of the input method (bugs 11723,
- 13054).
+- Fix potential crashes when scrolling documents.
-- Speed up mouse movement when there is no selection (part of bug
- 13050).
+- Fix bug where the dialog asking for saving unapplied changes
+ on buffer change popped up twice, or sometimes not at all (bug
+ 12954).
-- Fix incorrect scrolling when using outline to jump to a paragraph
- (bug 10425).
+- Improve performance when selecting text on less powerful systems
+ (bug 13050).
-- Fix preview inset with XeTeX, and with RTL languages in general.
+- Fix performance problems with references with (very) many authors.
-- Respect change tracking in dash conversion mechanism (bug 13062).
+- Fix problem that key bindings that include optional modifier keys
+ could not be un- or re-bound (bug 12973)
-- The outliner option "Only output items" now works properly (bug 12981).
+- Enable OK/Apply button in tabular dialog when "Additional Space" combo
+ has been set to different value.
-- Show values of cross-references in tooltips (bug 8856).
+- Fix ghost image on Windows with system colors (bug 13084).
-- Toolbars are now locked by default for new profiles (bug 11796).
+- Restore old display of cross-references in the outliner. The change
+ led to odd behavior on filtering.
-- Allow "longest label" to be empty (bug 11934).
+- Display values of cross-references in tooltips for forward references.
-- Put new citation after selected item rather than at end of list
- (bug 12940).
+- Disable vertical alignment in tables with variable width columns
+ (tabularx and xltable), as this is not supported by the packages.
+ Also fix the disabling mechanism in the table dialog.
-- Fix overflow of appendix red frame in document-bottom grey area.
+- Fix display of integral limits on Windows (bug 13087).
+- Fix crash when deleting tabs in a selection (with S-BackTab) in a
+ text-only inset (ERT, Listings...).
-* INTERNALS
+- Fix display glitches when applying some operations to a selection.
-- Fix case where insets do not have proper information about current buffer
- (bug 12682).
-- Handle deprecated Qt enum value.
-
-- Fix initialization of an internal value.
+* INTERNALS
-- Fix "Unassigned buffer_" error with math references (bug 12947).
+- Fix possible crash in undo code after inserting note inset over a
+ multi-paragraph selection.
-- Re-allow the use of quoted argument to PackageOptions layout tag.
+- Fix a Python script, used to preview math expressions, that used a
+ module that is removed in Python 3.13.
-- Fix crash when passing unknown value to textstyle-update
+- Fix case where debug information may report all numbers as hexadecimal.
+- Make sure that lyxclient name is initialized properly.
-* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE
-- Handle neg-spaces like normal space if searching without format.
+* TEX2LYX
-- No paragraph indentation in search and replace windows (bug 11555).
+- Fix import of nomenclature entries which contain '%' or '"' characters.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-- Cmake build: Handle deprecated cmake versions.
+- Fix 'make install' target for autotools builds with autoconf >= 2.72.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 23739d4e28..37e772d129 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+What's new in version 2.4.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is almost entirely a bug-fixing release, with no significant new
+features. However, some crashes have been fixed, and we have made some
+significant improvements to display speed, which will be especially
+noticeable on older or slower systems.
+
+There has been a change (as of 2.4.0) in how the option to use vertical
+space between paragraphs is handled. Previously, LyX simply modified
+\parskip and \parindent, but this caused various problems (see bug
+#4796). Now, we use the parskip package. As a result, however, and
+to ensure there are no changes to old documents, when LyX files from
+2.3.x and earlier are converted to the new format, if they were set to
+use vertical space between paragraphs, the lyx2lyx conversion routine
+adds
+ % Added by lyx2lyx
+ \setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}
+ \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
+to the preamble and, within LyX itself, resets the text layout to use
+indentation (so we do not issue the new code for vertical spacing). The
+net effect is that PDFs generated with LaTeX (etc) look right, but in
+LyX itself indentation is used.
+
+This will happen with any document created with 2.3.x or older. It can
+also happen with documents created from templates created with 2.3.x
+or older, and even with new documents, if you had previously set them to
+use, by default, vertical space. Templates are just LyX files saved in
+the templates/ folder, and the 'defaults' are simply saved in a
+template file, defaults.lyx. Hence, if you want the new behavior, or
+just want the LyX document to look `right', then you will need to make
+two changes to the document or template: Remove what lyx2lyx added, and
+then set Paragraph Separation to Vertical Space.
+
+
What's new in version 2.4.1?
----------------------------
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fc6a3f6319..9791f5f8c9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
dnl Process with autoconf to generate configure script -*- sh -*-
-AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.2~devel],[lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
+AC_INIT([LyX],[2.4.2],[lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org],[lyx])
AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
# Use ISO format only. The frontend needs to parse this
-AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-07-02"])
+AC_SUBST(LYX_DATE, ["2024-09-19"])
AC_PREREQ([2.65])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/main.cpp)
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
diff --git a/status.24x b/status.24x
index 9e59eb626b..5fd64ebe0c 100644
--- a/status.24x
+++ b/status.24x
@@ -48,12 +48,6 @@ What's new
- Improve document output pane (bug 12902).
-- Fix regression which marks document modified in case of external
- modification. Only file deletion will trigger the modification
- flag now (see bug 12819).
-
-- fix crash when using Save As... with previews enabled (bug 13091).
-
- Speedup interactive use by avoiding expensive math macros bookkeeping
when possible.
@@ -95,36 +89,45 @@ What's new
* USER INTERFACE
-- Fix crash when attempting to search in selection that contains only math.
+- Fix regression which marks document modified in case of external
+ modification. Only file deletion will trigger the modification
+ flag now (see bug 12819).
+
+- Fix crash when using Save As... with previews enabled (bug 13091).
+
+- Fix crash when attempting to search in selection that contains
+ only math.
-- fix crash when copying some math formulas or exporting them to
+- Fix crash when copying some math formulas or exporting them to
DocBook (bug 13069).
- Fix potential crashes when scrolling documents.
-- Fix bug where the dialog asking for saving unapplied changes on buffer change
- popped up twice, or sometimes not at all (bug 12954).
+- Fix bug where the dialog asking for saving unapplied changes
+ on buffer change popped up twice, or sometimes not at all (bug
+ 12954).
-- Improve performance when selecting text on less powerful systems (bug 13050).
+- Improve performance when selecting text on less powerful systems
+ (bug 13050).
- Fix performance problems with references with (very) many authors.
-- Fix problem that key bindings that include optional modifier keys could not
- be un- or re-bound (bug 12973)
+- Fix problem that key bindings that include optional modifier keys
+ could not be un- or re-bound (bug 12973)
-- Enable OK/Apply button in tabular dialog when "Additional Space" combo has
- been set to different value.
+- Enable OK/Apply button in tabular dialog when "Additional Space" combo
+ has been set to different value.
- Fix ghost image on Windows with system colors (bug 13084).
-- Restore old display of cross-references in the outliner. The change led to
- odd behavior on filtering.
+- Restore old display of cross-references in the outliner. The change
+ led to odd behavior on filtering.
- Display values of cross-references in tooltips for forward references.
-- Disable vertical alignment in tables with variable width columns (tabularx
- and xltable), as this is not supported by the packages. Also fix the
- disabling mechanism in the table dialog.
+- Disable vertical alignment in tables with variable width columns
+ (tabularx and xltable), as this is not supported by the packages.
+ Also fix the disabling mechanism in the table dialog.
- Fix display of integral limits on Windows (bug 13087).
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