Public release of LyX version 1.2.3 =================================== We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.2.3.
LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries). Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface and therefore need an X server. The main LyX site is ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/ with mirrors at ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/ ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/ ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/ You can download LyX 1.2.3 here : ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.3 If you already have LyX 1.2.2 sources, you may want to apply the following patch instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.3.gz If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.3, you may either e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you can't find an answer there. Enjoy! The LyX team. What's new ========== ** Updates - updated italian User Guide - updated french localization ** Bug fixes - fix bug where the configure script would try to delete the /dev/null device when there has been an error in configuration step - fix bug where autosaving would leave a lot of zombie processes after a long time - fix problem where it was not possible to force some values to 0 in custom margins - fix bug where horizontal alignment would be reset automatically to "left" in the tabular dialog - fix functions word-find-forward and word-find-backward, the meanings of which were inverted - when the lyx binary was invoked through a symbolic link, LyX would print annoying messages on the console; they are now output only when debugging. - fix an installation issue with solaris
