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 users' mailing list (lyx-users@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/, and e-mail the LyX users' 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