The maintenance release 1.6.3 of LyX has been published yesterday. Highlights of this release:

• tex2lyx has been improved and is now able to read files in all LaTeX supported encodings,
• performance problems have been resolved,
• LyX shows new features provided by Qt 4.5,
• the user interface has been improved,
• bugfixes were made.

The LyX team encourages all users to upgrade to this version.

For more information and download visit:

• the LyX Homepage,
• the announcement containing a detailed list of changes,
• the download area.