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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.5 released @emph{April 20, 2014}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.5. This
15 release includes a number of enhancements, and contains
16 some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
17 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
18 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
23 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
25 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
26 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
27 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
28 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
30 This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
31 updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
37 @subsubheading LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
39 We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar
40 Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
41 and Janek Warchoł [1], will receive the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
42 2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]! The ceremony will
43 take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse [3].
45 We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of
46 typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted
47 to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free
48 license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this
49 initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [4] or by
50 pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign [5]!
52 [1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
53 [2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
54 [3] @uref{https://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/events/awards/best_edition.html}@*
55 [4] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
56 [5] @uref{http://igg.me/at/free-fried}
62 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
64 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
65 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
66 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
67 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
69 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
74 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
75 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
76 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
79 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
81 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
83 instead of the previous
85 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
89 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
91 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
95 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
99 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
102 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
105 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
106 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
107 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
109 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
112 @item Main Developers:
113 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
114 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
115 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
116 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
117 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
118 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
120 @item Core Contributors:
121 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
122 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
123 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
124 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
126 @item Documentation Writers:
127 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
128 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
129 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
132 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
136 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
137 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
140 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
141 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
144 and numerous other contributors.
149 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
151 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
152 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
157 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
159 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
160 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
161 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
166 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
168 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
169 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
170 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
171 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
172 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
173 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
176 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
177 whose work on LilyPond is
178 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
179 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
180 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
181 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
182 using LilyPond internally.
184 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
185 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
190 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
192 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
193 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
194 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
198 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
200 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
201 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
202 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
203 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
205 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
206 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
210 Support for kievan square notation
212 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
214 Music functions have become quite more versatile
217 A full list of new features is given in:
220 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
223 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
225 Main development team:
227 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
228 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
229 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
230 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
231 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
234 Programming contributors:
236 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
237 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
238 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
239 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
241 Documentation contributors:
243 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
247 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
252 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
254 Translation contributors:
256 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada