LyX 2.4.0

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 7/23/24 12:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said on Sun, 21 Jul 2024 01:08:23 +0200
>
>> Le 16/07/2024 à 00:13, Hung-Tzu Chang a écrit :
>>> Here are the files. The file named "scroll-problem" means problem
>>> with scrolling/frozen citation window/frozen menu bar, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Dear Hung-Tzu,
>>
>> Thanks for the files. I can confirm that I observe hangs when
>> scrolling with LyX 2.4.1 and that the performance is much much better
>> with current 2.4.2~devel.
> What's the latest "stable" version of LyX? I just discovered my LyX is
> 2.3.6.1 from 12/29/2020. What am I missing with my version? It seems OK
> to me, and it's what my distro gives me.

LyX 2.4.0 was released in early June (and 2.4.1 in early July). It has 
boatloads of new features:

     https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24

It can be downloaded from lyx.org.

Since you are on Linux, it is easy to compile yourself, and even to 
install it in parallel to 2.3.6.1. (By default, the self-compiled 
version installs to /usr/local/, and this can be configured. You can 
also use e.g. --program-suffix=2.4 to have the binary be "lyx-2.4", and 
not just "lyx".) Just use a separate user directory with 2.4 (use the 
-userdir option when launching). 2.4.x can read older files, and export 
to 2.3.x format, but we do not recommend trying to move back and forth 
with a single file. The kind of 'round trip' does not always work well 
(depending upon how many of the new features you have used).

If you decide to switch to 2.4.x, then of course you don't have to worry 
about the separate user directory, etc.

Riki