LyX versions

Write and process documents with mathematical content.
2.3
Feb 29, 2020
Editorial review
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2.2
Dec 29, 2014
Review
2.1
Aug 25, 2013
Review
2.0
Mar 23, 2011
Review

What's new

v2.3 [Sep 18, 2017]
This is an emergency release that fixes four bugs in 2.3.4. Only the first two really warrant an emergency release, but while we're at it...
The first, bug #11728, caused a five-second delay when attempting to save files on Windows. This was a side effect of the fix for #10091 and reminds us why it would be good to have more testing on Windows.
The second bug is discussed in this thread and concerns a crash related to the math toolbar. This was due to an uninitialize buffer_ member revealed by the fix for #11586.
The third, bug #11724, affects Beamer presentations and causes bad output when page geometry is set in certain ways. LyX should and now does ignore such settings.
The last, bug #11579, is an old one, but a serious one, that prevents the use of CJKUtf8 in ERT. It's a straightforward fix for a bug that is pretty serious for people who encounter it.
You can download the sources in tar.gz format (also tar.xz). There are also some binaries available.

v2.0 [Mar 23, 2011]
- Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In particular, we have fixed several crashes.
- The main outstanding problem is the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done, and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
- There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this will continue for 2.0.5.

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