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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.7 released! @emph{November 17, 2012}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.7. This
15 release contains the usual number of bugfixes and 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 2.16 version.
23 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
25 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
26 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
27 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
28 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
29 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
30 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
33 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
34 whose work on LilyPond is
35 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
36 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
37 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
38 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
39 using LilyPond internally.
41 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
42 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
47 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
49 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
50 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
51 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
55 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
57 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
58 release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
59 some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
60 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
61 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
66 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
68 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
69 release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
70 some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
71 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
72 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
77 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.4 released! @emph{October 6, 2012}
79 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This
80 release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
81 recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
82 and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
87 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
89 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
90 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
91 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
92 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
94 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
95 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
99 Support for kievan square notation
101 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
103 Music functions have become quite more versatile
106 A full list of new features is given in:
109 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
112 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
114 Main development team:
116 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
117 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
118 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
119 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
120 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
123 Programming contributors:
125 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
126 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
127 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
128 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
130 Documentation contributors:
132 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
136 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
141 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
143 Translation contributors:
145 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada