The new version TexmakerX 1.9.2 has been released today. This version brings several new features and fixes some bugs. TexmakerX is a fork of the LaTeX editor Texmaker. It has adopted changes of the original Texmaker 1.9.2 and provides further features like preview for marked text, a random text generator, a synonym dictionary, improved usability, new templates and symbols and more.

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The first alpha version of the upcoming Version 2.0 of the LaTeX editor TeXnicCenter has been released today. It is a development version, not stable, just released for testing, but it shows that the development is in progress and it gives an impression of the new version.

Some of the new features are:

• a new editor component based on Scintilla providing zoom, proportional fonts and code folding,
• Unicode support to enable writing in Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, …
• improved modern user interface, the tool windows could be rearranged,
• improved BibTeX support regarding error parsing, search in literature tool window.

TXC 2.0 has been developed with Visual Studio 2008, not with the free version because access to the MFC is needed. Help in development is welcome, if you’re interested contact the maintainer Tino Weinkauf.

For more information and download visit

• the announcement of Tino containing further information about known issues,
• the download page,
• the TeXnicCenter homepage,
• the review of TXC 2.0 alpha by Thorsten on LaTeX-Community.org.

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Version 0.53 of LEd, a freeware LaTeX-Editor for Windows systems, has been released. New features are dvi viewer support for both MiKTeX 2.8 and TeX Live 2008, a Dutch (Belgium) dictionary, the Italian translations have been updated as well as English and Polish dictionaries, the performance has been improved and some small bugs have been fixed.

For further information visit

• the original announcement,
• the download area,
• the LEd homepage,
• LEd’s future plans.

[update 2009–10–09] A bugfix (build 6501) has been released, build 6500 could occasionally incorrectly reload files, see announcement.

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Version 3.31 Beta of the TeX/LaTeX-IDE WinShell has been released by Ingo H. de Boer today. This editor runs on Windows systems and provides project management, syntax highlighting, spell checking, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and configuration options.

Fixes and improvements to version 3.30 are:

• Update to Scintilla 2.01,
• Improved BibTeX front-end: disable/enable,
• Improved BibTeX Project Window: toggle author/label view, show all entries,
• Autocompletion for LaTeX commands and BibTeX labels.

You can download it here or visit the WinShell Homepage for more information.

The latest stable version is 3.30.

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The version 2.8 of the Windows LaTeX Distribution MiKTeX has been released on September 1, 2009. Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008 are supported. It’s coming with a portable edition that makes it possible to run MiKTeX for instance from USB sticks. MiKTeX now includes the integrated development environment TeXworks.

For more information visit

• the MiKTeX homepage,
• the 2.8 status page,
• the release notes,
• the download/setup area.

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The second beta version of the LaTeX editor Kile has been released on August 23rd. It’s intended for testing but it’s not recommended for production.

It brings some fixes to 2.1beta1:

• utf8 related default encoding settings fixed,
• the ALT+p shortcut has been made unique,
• for unchanged documents section jumping is faster now,
• %M support in user tags fixed,
• biblatex file suffixes have been added

and some more, including KDE related improvements.

Among the new features are the support for Evince as viewer and a nicer “Open File” widget.

The version 2.1beta1 already contains many new features compared to 2.0. The source code archive, available in the download area, contains a ChangeLog file listing the fixes and features of current and older versions. The latest available stable version for KDE3 is 2.0.3.

For more information and download visit:

• the Kile Homepage,
• the latest news
• the download area.

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The maintenance release 1.6.4 of LyX has been published on August 24th. Beside minor improvements it fixes some problems by

• a workaround to avoid crashes with recent Qt versions,
• fixes to bugs that could result in data loss,
• stability improvements,
• fixes to the LaTeX importer tex2lyx and the conversion program lyx2lyx.

The LyX team strongly recommends 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.

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The version 1.9.2 of the free LaTeX editor Texmaker has been released today. Changes are:

• a new panel “favorite symbols”,
• previous sessions can be restored,
• words can be selected by SHIFT+LeftArrow and SHIFT+RightArrow again,
• a bugfix for Mac OS X concerning opening of a file by double-clicking on it in the Finder,
• the unstable bidirectional support has been removed.

The complete changelog can be found here.

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.

The version 1.9 of the free LaTeX IDE Texmaker has been released today and comes with the following changes:

• inline spell checking,
• bi-directional support,
• a new modern interface,
• asymptote support,
• the interface language can be changed via the “Options” menu,
• new translations
• and a bugfix in the latex log parser.

The new version requires Qt >= 4.5.1. For more information have a look into the changelog file.

For download and documentation visit the Texmaker homepage.