Great! I would really like to use this version because of more stability. Currently I use Lyx 1.6.3 to write my thesis. Thereby I am very careful and would like to know if it might result in any problem if I change my current version of Lyx?
Thanks in advance, Matthias On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.6.4 > =================================== > > We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.4. This is the fourth > maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release covers, amongst > many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe issues, such as: > > * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to > 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were > scaled to certain sizes in the work area. > * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data. > * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that > helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs. > * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of > older LyX documents (lyx2lyx). > > A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems > are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. > > All users and distributors are urged 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 1.6.4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, > which yields smaller files): > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.bz2 > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.4.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-1.6.4.tar.gz > http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > > ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > > http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.4.tar.gz > > Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, and Windows > installers) should soon be available at > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4/ > > NOTE that no Mac OS X binaries will be provided for this release, due to > a regression on this platform that was detected after 1.6.4 was released. > Expect a minor update that addresses this problem to be released soon. > > If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to > apply > one of the following patches instead > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.gz > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.4.bz2 > > If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.4, 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 1.6.4? > ---------------------------- > > ** Updates: > *********** > > * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT > > - LaTeX import (tex2lyx) was updated and now also supports: > * nomenclature entries > * the LaTeX-package esint > * the alternative LaTeX document language names "portuguese" and > "brazilian" > > - Implement separate chains for Japanese bibliography and index > compilation. This allows for proper support for jbibtex and mendex, > pLaTeX's bibtex and makeindex replacements (bug 5601). > > - Lyx now recognizes dviout as DVI viewer (bug 6103). > > > * USER INTERFACE > > - Support for chemical formulae via the LaTeX package mhchem. For a > description see LyX's Math manual. > > - LyX's warning about different textclasses in master and child now has a > "Do not show this warning again!" checkbox. Checking it will disable the > warning for this specific master/child constellation over sessions > (bug 3218). > > - Tooltips for toolbar buttons now show the main shortcut associated > to the action. > > - Tooltips for footnotes and some other insets now wrap, so they can > actually be seen. > > - New commands inset-begin/end (bound to Ctrl-Alt-Home/End) allow to jump > to begin/end of insets (and outside of the inset if the cursor is > already in place). There are also versions that select text. > > - The LaTeX Log File dialog has a search facility. > > - The notes context menu has a new item for toggling all notes. > > - The math context menu has a new item for numbering a single line in a > formula. > > - The math context menu has now a status flag indicating the type of > equation. > > - Some context menu items haven been stylistically revised. > > - The include inset context menu indicates the selected inclusion type. > > - Add a graphical user interface for the SVN file locking property. > > - Preferences about automatic popup and inline completion are now honoured > when pressing Ctrl-L in math mode. > > - Make it possible to copy from a deleted section (bug 5390). > > - The merge changes dialog has a new button for backwards navigation > (bug 2213). > > - Copy as Reference is now also implemented for equation labels > (bug 5948). > > - Visual support for the integral signs \fint and \fintop in formulas was > added. > > > * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION > > - New Slovakian translation of the Introduction manual. > > - New French translation of the specific manual "How to write Braille > with LyX". > > - Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, > Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and > Spanish localizations of the user interface. > > - Updated EmbeddedObjects manual: New section about subfloats. > > - English Extended manual: Updated section about reverse DVI search. > > - Updated English Additional Features manual. > > - Updated Intro manual for all languages. > > - Updated English, French, German, and Spanish Math manual. > > - Updated German and Spanish User's Guide. > > - Updated German and Japanese Tutorial. > > > * BUILD/INSTALLATION > > - Added a shell script (lyxeditor) for performing reverse DVI/PDF search > and a python script (lyxpak.py) for creating archives of a lyx file and > all its ancillary files (graphics and so on) to development/tools. > > - Take advantage of some bugfixes in Qt 4.5 for internal file handling. > > - Added some cygwin-specific scripts and utility programs that are > compiled and installed when building on cygwin. > > > ** Bug fixes: > ************* > > * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT > > - Prevent data loss when shutting down Windows (part of bug 5525). > > - Fix conversion of documents from LyX 1.5 with multiple URL insets > (bug 6121). > > - Fix conversion documents from LyX 1.4 which have multicolumn cells in > tabulars with expert border settings (bug 6018). > > - Partially resolve bug 5702, "tex2lyx cannot deal with modules". We > now treat the "DefaultModule" tag as if it were an "Input" tag. This > is not a general solution, but does deal with one of the most serious > cases of the bug. > > - Fix language settings after an environment (bug 5096). > > - Fix layout conversion problem with AMS classes (bug 6140). > > - Fix the output of spaces that are at the beginning of a block with > a new textcolor (bug 4473). > > - Fix output of alignment if default aligment is not justified (bug 5995). > > - Fix problem where updates in some child documents were not recognized > and no LaTeX update was performed (bug 6024). > > - The default eLyXer configuration now handles images correctly on view > and export (requires eLyXer >= 0.27). > > - Fix loading of UTF-8 encoded files when a byte order mark (BOM) is > present (bug 6030). > > - Fix reverse DVI/PDF search with child documents (bug 6020). > > - Assure that a longtable caption is in a first header even if the table > does not have one. This assures the caption is not repeated after a > page break and consequently in the list of tables (bug 6057). > > - The file encoding is now properly restored after a LaTeX environment > or command with local scope (bug 5690). > > - Enable the possibility to read documents from a path containing a > $-character (bug 4177). > > - Enable document margin settings and hyperref settings in the > article (beamer) class. > > - Fix bug involving incorrect requests to overwrite external files > (bug 5522). > > - Fix occasional wrong occurrence of theorem style (bug 6036). > > - Fix the on-screen representation of headings in the AMS article and > AMS book classes. > > > * USER INTERFACE > > - Prevent a crash in Qt when scaling images on screen. This could occur > only for certain scaling factors and image sizes (bug 5957). > > - Do not close hidden documents that have unsaved changes without asking > whether the changes should be saved (part of bug 5863). > > - Fix bookmark navigation crash when multiple windows are used > (bug 6000). > > - Disable the "sort" option in the outliner for the Table of Contents > which triggered a crash (bug 5983). Sorting the TOC didn't work anyway. > > - Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with split views (bug 5998). > > - Fix a crash when applying preference changes (bug 6064). > > - Fix a crash when accessing the Navigate menu after an empty inset has > been dissolved (bug 6003). > > - Fix a crash when performing instant preview on an uncodable character > (bug 6116). > > - Fix a crash when navigating in a table with math insets (bug 6158). > > - Fix a crash when closing LyX while a master and its child were open. > > - Fix a crash when documents were hidden, the view was closed, and > the same documents were made visible in another view (bug 6162). > > - Fix communication between lyxclient and server, which leads to a > crash once CTRL+D is used on the client side (bug 6106). > > - Display the filename suffix in the tab header if it is non-standard > (e.g. ".lyx15"). This avoids a crash when loading two files with > identical names but different extensions (bug 5646), and disambiguates > such files in the user interface. > > - Disable Symbols dialog for read-only documents. This prevents a > potential crash. > > - Fall back to default UI file if the specified one cannot be found > (bug 6076). > > - Fix assertion when a nested math hull appears in a math macro > (bug 5996). > > - Fix assertion when pressing down arrow in the command buffer while > the history is empty (bug 6001). > > - Fix assertion when selecting with Shift-button in math editor (bugs > 5046 and 6026). > > - Fix assertion when starting spellchecker in math mode and clicking > "replace" (bug 6013) > > - Fix assertion in mathed when moving the cursor immediately after > pressing Ctrl-L (or '\' with inline completion disabled) in front of > another character (bug 6063). > > - Prevent a window resize when applying the Preferences when the > LyX window is maximized (bug 6034). > > - Fix the upward scrolling when selecting with the mouse (bug 4464). > > - Make Tools>Statistics ignore Note insets and inactive branches > (bug 2566). > > - Take into account file system case sensitivity when checking whether > a path starts with a given prefix. This fixes a bug with reverse PDF > search when using SumatraPDF as a PDF viewer on Cygwin. > > - Fix the maximum number of the files stored in last-opened-files list > (bug 5980). > > - Disable unused functions in the citation dialog (bug 5987). > > - Fix display of BibTeX entries in the info field of the citation > dialog by only converting text mode latex macros to unicode glyphs. > > - Convert LaTeX macros such as \"{u} to proper unicode characters > for the display of authors/editors on the citation inset button. > > - Fix pop-up of ToC and Source code panels after fresh install (part > of bug 5082). > > - Maintain session settings over version changes (also related to > bug 5082). > > - Do not reset toolbar settings after a change of UI files that do not > concern toolbars. > > - Fix math-insert lfun behaviour in the absence of a selection or when > something outside mathed is selected (bug 6033). > > - Fix casing inconsistencies in the English user interface. > > - Fix context menu for insets inside a branch inset (bug 6022). > > - Fix command "tabular-feature align-(left|right|center)" which was > inadvertently disabled for a math matrix (bug 6041). > > - Ensure that pasting into the preamble and the nomenclature dialog's > description widget resets the font formatting (bug 3936). > > - Fix wrong labeling as "child only" branch if branches were unknown. > > - Fix typesetting of chemical equations by adding support for the mhchem > package (bugs 6047, 4043, and 5394). > > - Fix display of unknown math macros that become known after editing their > name. They are now correctly expanded and not left in red (bug 5923). > > - Fix display of macros when clicking away (bug 3706). > > - Fix the inconsistent behaviour of the cursor inside math (bug 2034). > > - Fix the toggling of the outline-button on the toolbar when closing > the outliner with the 'x' (bug 3918). > > - Fix the pasting of multiple cells in a table when a range is selected > (bug 4952). > > - Do not open files during startup that were closed in the previous > session by Close View or Close Window (bug 5458). > > - Remove empty paragraphs and superfluous spaces when leaving an inset > (bug 5435). > > - Fix the scrolling problem that when scrolling with PgUp or PgDn, the > cursor could end up on a row that is only partly visible. This causes > the cursor to end up somewhere else when scrolling back (bug 5944). > > - Fix selection of math insets on some archs. > > - Fix of painter glitches caused by uninitialized variables (bug 6077). > > - Fix uninitialized variable in Dialog code (bug 6081). > > - Fix the enabling of the page height and width fields in the Document > Settings dialog. > > - The width unit of table cells can be set before entering the > value (bug 6070). > > - Re-allow the insertion of glue lengths in the VSpace dialog and the > VSkip widget of the Document dialog (bug 6097). > > - Fix bug where multimedia keys were intercepted by LyX (bug 6043). > > - Disable some menu entries when the document windows does not have > focus on OS X (bug 1720). > > - Add the emf an wmf graphics format as a parameter of LFUN_PASTE. > > - Fix the enabling and disabling of some items in the longtable > section of the tabular dialog. > > - Remove the black box around the work area that is visible with Qt 4.5. > > - Fix middle-button pasting between different tabs (bug 6120). > > > * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION > > - Fix icon image files so that they appear correctly when the > documentation files are converted to DVI (bug 5945). > > - Fix encoding of the Hebrew documentation files to make them > compilable. > > > * BUILD/INSTALLATION > > - Detect multithreaded boost libraries if included boost is not used. > > - Fix small documentation bug in configure.py (bug 5881). > > - LyX now recognizes both elyxer and elyxer.py. > > - SCons: assertions are now always disabled in mode=release and > enabled in mode=debug. > > - Added support for automake 1.11. > > > * WINDOWS INSTALLER > > - All ImageMagick and Ghostscript resources are no longer installed as > separate files but included in the applications. This improves > performance and makes maintenance easier. > > - Updated download location. > > - Fixed compatibility issue with recent NSIS versions. > > > Jürgen >
