Hello LyXers,
I uploaded the new version 3.21 of the LyXWinInstaller. Like the last version an update installer is
provided. With this you can easily update your LyX 1.5.2 installation to LyX 1.5.3: Log in as
adminstrator on your PC and execute the update installer.
Note: The update installer only works when LyX 1.5.2 was installed also with the
LyXWinInstaller!
The installer can be downloaded from:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=13857
and soon also from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.3
(under the name AltInstaller)
(More infos about the installer can be found here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )
Changelog:
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Version 3.21
- LyX 1.5.3 (http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_5_3.txt)
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 2904)
- updated to ImageMagick 6.3.7-5
- updated to GSview 4.9
- updated to Ghostscript 8.61
- updated to JabRef 2.3.1
- MiKTeX 2.4 is no longer supported
You can update to a more recent version by uninstalling MiKTeX 2.4
and then installing LyX using the "complete" installer variant of
this installer
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The support for MiKTeX 2.4 has been dropped because this version is sine a while also no longer
maintained by the MiKTeX developer.
The complete installer variant of this release comes with the brand new MiKTeX 2.7 that was also
released today. It will only be installed if neither MiKTeX 2.6 nor 2.5 is installed on your system.
As always with brand new major releases, don't update to MiKTeX 2.7 when you are finishing large or
important documents. There is no need for an urgent update.
--- Info only for experienced LaTeX users ---
MiKTeX 2.7 is now fully Vista compatible and comes with XeTeX, a LaTeX engine with full unicode
support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX
LyX 1.5.3 has not yet an export option where XeTeX is used, but you can define one in the file
format section of the preferences.
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happy LyXing and best regards
Uwe
