I've uploaded tarballs here: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.9.tar.bz2
Please test and use these if you want to contribute binaries. I plan to release on Monday, if I get no bad report. Jürgen