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** Description changed:

  According to the SRU policy,
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#New_upstream_microreleases,
  a microrelease could be candidate for an SRU as long as it is a bug-fix
  release.
  
  Upstream developers do provide maintenance releases for lyx as 2.0.x.
  
  Announcement of 2.0.8.1 http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_0_8_1.txt:
  
  We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.8.1. This release
  differs from the 2.0.8 release only by incorporating some improvements
  to the lyx2lyx conversion and reversion scripts. There are no changes
  to the main code.
  
- LyX 2.0.8 was the eighth and final maintenance release in the 2.0.x 
- series, the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version even 
- more reliable and stable. We fixed a number of bugs and made a number 
+ LyX 2.0.8 was the eighth and final maintenance release in the 2.0.x
+ series, the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version even
+ more reliable and stable. We fixed a number of bugs and made a number
  of improvements since 2.0.7.
  
  The main "feature" of LyX 2.0.8 is the ability to read and write LyX
  files in the 2.1.x format. Users who do not wish to upgrade to 2.1.0,
  which is being released simultaneously, are encouraged to upgrade to
  2.0.8.
  
- What's new in LyX 2.0.8
- =======================
- 
- ** Updates:
- ***********
- 
- * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- 
- - Updated Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), French,
-   Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian user
-   interface localization.
- 
- ** Bug fixes:
- *************
- 
- * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- 
- - Do not crash when loading documents with empty (invalid) math environments
-   (part of bug 8359).
- - Rerun makeindex if all nomencl entries have been removed (bug 8905).
- - Correct language code of traditional Chinese (bug 8970).
- - Support (black) card suites in text mode (bug 8971).
- - Use universal newlines when reading CSVs.
- - Fix bug where depth of pasted text was incorrectly set (bug 8891).
- - Fix clash between \protect and \ensuremath (bug 8889).
- - Fix problem with export of LyX archive when bibtotoc is used (bug 9044).
- - Fix LaTeX error with alphabetic delimiters in inline Listings (part of bug
-   8985).
- 
- * USER INTERFACE
- 
- - Fix outliner-related crash when master and child are open in different
-   windows (bug 8948).
- - Fix outliner-related crash involving captions in long tables (bug 8997).
- - Fix hang when using BibTeX files with really long author lists (bug 8944).
- - Fix crash with changetracking in bibliography environment (bug
-   8646).
- - Fix crash when navigating to next change (bug 8684).
- - Fix crash when entering math in change-tracking mode while merge changes
-   dialog is open (bug 7685).
- - Fix crash when optional argument inside a math macro was deleted
-   (bug 8329).
- - Fix crash when CheckTeX hits mathed (bug 8798).
- - Fix crash when performing "Change Case" operation on a selection with font
-   changes (bug 7943).
- - Fix crash when performing selection in math insets (bug 9076).
- - Fix hang when selecting text (bug 8837).
- - Fix assertion when entering a path into the import dialog (bug 7437).
- - Fix math-ams-matrix function that could corrupt documents if not used properly
-   (part of bug 8359).
- - Fix problem that led to assertion in some cases when space was at beginning of
-   line (bugs 8838 and 8947).
- - Correctly compare documents with different author sets (bug 8769).
- - Fix drawing of table lines of multicolumns (bug 8082).
- - Correct language for textual references in multi-language documents (bug 8613).
- - Handle undo in `branch-add' function.
- - Avoid multiple undo steps when changing document settings (bug 8998).
- - Prevent recurrent pop-up of "missing module requirements" warning (bug 8864).
- - Do not close shortcut box if we receive bad input (bug 8703).
- - Fix problem with numbering of some child documents when instant preview
-   is active (bug 8673).
- - Fix instant preview when document contains math macro with optional
-   arguments (bug 8445).
- - Made change-next work properly in tables (bug 6055).
- - Fix "Select Section" function in the Outliner (bug 8936).
- - Fix select-by-doubleclick in mathed (bug 8829).
- 
- * INTERNALS
- 
- - Fix a problem when PATH changes and python command is relative (bug
- 8950).
- 
- * LYXHTML
- 
- - Fix mathml output of display style scripts (bug 8784).
- 
- * TEX2LYX
- 
- - Don't automatically turn on PDF bookmarks when importing TeX files
- (bug 8723).
- 
- * BUILD/INSTALLATION
- 
- - Improve detection of Qt via pkg-config, especially on Mac OS.
- - Fix bad compare of pointer vs. character (part of bug 8985).
- - Fix a couple of compilation warnings.
- 
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Announcement of 2.0.7 http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_0_7.txt:
  
  LyX 2.0.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
  even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
- a number of improvements. These are detailed below. 
+ a number of improvements.
  
  The most important bug was #8854, which could lead to file corruption
  in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
- files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this 
+ files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
  version.
- 
- ** Updates:
- ***********
- 
- * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- 
- - Updated Interlingua, Japanese, Nynorsk, Swedish and Ukrainian user interface
-   localizations.
- - Revised French Intro and User Guide.
- 
- ** Bug fixes:
- *************
- 
- * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- 
- - Fix garbage in document export (and maybe other places) by making encoding
-   conversions thread-safe (bug 8854).
- - Fix output of ulem commands (underline etc.) which was broken as of
-   LyX 2.0.6 (bug 8733).
- - Fix problem with unbalanced braces in XeTeX output (bug 8765).
- - Fix problems with unbalanced braces with a secondary CJK language
-   (bug 8215).
- - Fix state of certain language packages (polyglossia, japanese) in
-   child documents (bug 8770).
- - Fix compilation of documents containing chemical equations and math
-   integrals (bug 8731).
- - Fix compilation with nested ("sub") custom floats.
- - Fix import of CSV-files.
- - Added h5 and h6 as HTML tags for Paragraph and Subparagraph.
- - Include alt tag when exporting math as images (bug 8746).
- 
- * USER INTERFACE
- 
- - Fix crash when saving document with module that is not present (bug
-   8523).
- - Fix crash when changing alignment of several cells in tabular (bug 8859).
- - Disable invalid actions in empty outliner that could trigger a crash
-   (bug 8885).
- - Fix warning when setting layout box when Plain Layout is used (bug 8727).
- - Fix bug where searching for next change may leave an empty paragraph
-   where cursor was (bug 3199).
- - Fix activation of branches from command line (bug 8627).
- - Fix display of appendix counters in some classes (bug 8666).
- - Fix toggling of "misc" font options (bug 8764).
- - Handle undo correctly when a branch is (de)activated.
- - Update a bibliography entry's label when it is emptied.
- - Insets in a bibliography entry are shown as text in the citation dialog.
- - Correctly detect python scripts required by the preview mechanism.
- - Fix display of file names with ampersands in the tab header (bug 8757).
- - The koma-script book class numbers equations by chapter.
- - Fix shortcut conflict in the citation dialog (bug 8878).
- - Fix wrong display of style "Description" in "article (paper)" class
-   (bug 8869).
- 
- * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- 
- - Make the aa.lyx template file and the aa_sample.lyx example file compilable.
- - Make the AEA.lyx template file compilable.
- - Make the landslide example file compilable.
- - Fix problem that the Chinese Tutorial could not be viewed as PDF on
-   some systems.
- 
- * LYXHTML
- 
- - Fix problem with size of superscripts and such inside footnotes (bug 8610).
- - Add missing space before the edition in the bibliography (part of bug 8488).
- - Fix random character inserted as year modifier in author-year citations.
- 
- * BUILD/INSTALLATION
- 
- - Add support for automake 1.13.
- - Fix compilation with clang LLVM compiler.
- - Fix Qt tools search when a Qt directory has been specified.

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Title:
  SRU bug-fix microrelease 2.0.8.1 in Trusty

Status in lyx package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  According to the SRU policy,
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#New_upstream_microreleases,
  a microrelease could be candidate for an SRU as long as it is a bug-
  fix release.

  Upstream developers do provide maintenance releases for lyx as 2.0.x.

  Announcement of 2.0.8.1 http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_0_8_1.txt:

  We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.8.1. This release
  differs from the 2.0.8 release only by incorporating some improvements
  to the lyx2lyx conversion and reversion scripts. There are no changes
  to the main code.

  LyX 2.0.8 was the eighth and final maintenance release in the 2.0.x
  series, the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version even
  more reliable and stable. We fixed a number of bugs and made a number
  of improvements since 2.0.7.

  The main "feature" of LyX 2.0.8 is the ability to read and write LyX
  files in the 2.1.x format. Users who do not wish to upgrade to 2.1.0,
  which is being released simultaneously, are encouraged to upgrade to
  2.0.8.

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Announcement of 2.0.7 http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_0_7.txt:

  LyX 2.0.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
  even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
  a number of improvements.

  The most important bug was #8854, which could lead to file corruption
  in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
  files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
  version.

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