Hello,

The long overdue second update to LyX 1.1.6 has finally been released.
It fixes a lot of annoying or severe bugs, but also features
documentation updates, as well as DocBook support improvements.

Note that this version does not fix all the tabular problems
experienced by LyX 1.1.6 users. Many of these problems have been fixed
in our development tree, but require changes too important to be part
of a fix release.

You can get it at:

    ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz

The patch is available at

    ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.1.6fix2.gz

RPMs for Redhat Linux are at 

    ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix2/lyx-1.1.6fix2-1.i386.rpm

Don't let the size of this patch alarm you. It is 90% translation
updates (both documentation and localization of menus), so the changes
to the code are small and safe.

As always, if you have a problem, remember that the answer is "42". If
this does not help, feel free to contact the mailing-list
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org. And, more than ever,

\begin{largefriendlyletters}
  Dont Panic!
\end{largefriendlyletters}

JMarc

What's new
==========

** Updates

- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.

- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
  to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
  install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)

- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
  documentation update.

- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support


** Bugfixes

- fix selection problems in tabular cells

- fix crash in tabular after inserting a column/cell

- lower a bit the memory consumption of large tabulars

- fix bug with cursor when inserting Greek characters

- fix a bug where bibtex was not always run when needed

- fix a babel error after changing the language of the document

- Fix (local) language changing in latex files.

- Added options for disabling babel and passing language options only
  to babel (not supported in preferences)

- fix crash after running Edit->Reconfigure

- fix printing when no spool command has been specified

- fix problem with wrong latex output for borders in multicolumns

- in LaTeX output, only add {} before a quote if it is needed to avoid
  a bogus ?` or !` ligature.

- when the cursor is before a space and you break the paragraph into two by
  pressing enter, delete the space instead keeping it as the last char
  of the paragraph. 

- fix font bug when joining to paragraph with backspace

- fix figure previewing when the suffix has been removed from the
  filename

- fix reading of log file when not using a temporary directory

- fix permission of temporary files to be readable only by user

- when the "toggle all these" checkbox was on in the character popup,
  it applied incorrectly to the size setting. This is fixed now

- do not save files when running with no gui

- fix display of character shortcuts in minibuffer

- fix problem with the PACS, keywords and preprint layouts in revtex4

- fix compilation on HP-UX 10.20

- fix compilation problem with gcc 2.95.3 and --with-included-string

- add support for gcc 3.0 pre-releases

- update sigc++ distribution; disable threads support by default in sigc++

- fix some Makefile problems in po directory when using non-GNU tools

- fix permissions of lib/configure and lib/configure.cmd at install
  time

- fix problem with reLyX and RPM relocation