This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements
in the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages
and scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a
character count option).
toolkit.
LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the release of
the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the result. The changes
are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but initial unicode support is
the flagship among the new features.
As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly visible
has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and some of the new
features are the direct results of this work.
