[lyx-announce] LyX 2.5-alpha1 Release

The LyX teams is pleased to announce the release of a PREVIEW VERSION of 
LyX 2.5 for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY. Tarballs and binaries for Windows and 
OSX can be found here:

http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.5/

See here:

https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX25

for some information on new features in LyX 2.5. Please join me in 
thanking all those whose work has made those possible.

If you should find a bug, please report it in one of the following three 
ways:

1. Email me

2. Send an email to [email protected]

3. Report the bug on our bug tracker: https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

You need to have a registered account to do (3). We have had to disable 
account creation due to trac's susceptibility to spam accounts. If you'd 
like an account created, just email me, and I'll set one up for you.

We do not recommend using LyX 2.5-alpha1 for serious production work. 
That said, some of the development team have been using it quite a bit, 
and it appears to be reasonably stable, though it will definitely have 
some bugs, possibly quite major. Our hope is to identify some of these 
now. So what would really help is: Open it up; try doing some of the 
things you usually do; try out some of the new features; let us know if 
there's a problem.

LyX 2.5-alpha1 will import and export files in the format of LyX 2.4, 
but we do not recommend (ever) trying to go back and forth, on a regular 
basis, between different major versions. Data is not likely to be lost 
(it's a bug if any is), but your files may end up with ERT scattered all 
through them.

Richard Kimberly Heck
Release Manager for LyX 2.5


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