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About the new features in LyX 2.6.
What is new in LyX 2.6?
The LyX Team
October 2025
1. Preface
Work on LyX 2.6 started on October 6 2025, in parallel to the final preparations of LyX 2.5.0.
In what follows, we will introduce the new features we consider most important ourselves.
2. Cross-referencing improvements
- LyX can now natively support formatted references which are not natively supported by a cross reference package. For instance, we now support linguistic examples and tableaux.
- LyX can now generate localizations of formatted cross-reference string (such as "section 1") for languages not supported by a cross-reference package.
- Cross-references in math now have feature parity with those in text.
3. More cowbellspecial chars
Until now, LyX only provided a hardcoded list of special characters (such as ellipsis), formatting commands (such as ligature break) and logos (such as the LyX logo).
LyX 2.6 introduces a new structured format (similar to Layout) for these special characters and moves their definition out of source into the layout files (the received special characters can now be found in the new file stdspecialchars.inc).
This means that layouts and modules can modify these char styles and add additional ones.
4. Miscellaneous
- LyX now natively supports \columnbreak in multicol module and \framebreak in beamer (via Insert→Formatting)
5. Categories
