To the developers: I understand the severity of the bug concerning compression on Windows, but by the time you took the release off the site, I had already installed lyx 1.5 on one computer (home) and started working, and when I got to work and wanted to install lyx there, the product was not availabe.
Despite the promises, lyx 1.4.5 could not down-convert the lyx file, so I was "stuck". Of course the lyx file is a text file and no real harm could be caused, but nonetheless... Luckily I had saved the lyx 1.5 installer and used it to install the buggy version on the computer at work. A mere warning in my opinion should have sufficed. I am not just complaining. Thanks for a great product. Miki "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.1 > =================================== > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a > few bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced > with the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. > It was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this > area and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated. > > All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1. > > See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release. > > 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 1.5.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, > which yields smaller files): > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2 > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.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/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz > http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.1.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/1.5.1/ > > If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one > of the following patches instead > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.bz2 > > Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since > some binary files have been added for this release. > > If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.1, you may either > e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org), > or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org > > 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 1.5.1? > ---------------------------- > > > ** Updates: > *********** > > * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION > > - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390). > > > ** Bug fixes: > ************* > > * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT > > - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set. > This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1 > earlier than anticipated. > > - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language > (bug 2468). > > - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some > problems remain). > > - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086). > > - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094). > > * USER INTERFACE: > > - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096). > > - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). > > - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse > button. > > - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only). > > - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection > is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672). > > - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected > text in the URL inset (bug 683). > > - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when > updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053). > > - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on > platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076). > > - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571). > > - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). > > > * DOCUMENTATION > > > * BUILD/INSTALLATION: > > - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which > can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct. > > - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument > converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also > checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor. > > - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed. >
