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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.16 released @emph{February 28, 2015}
14 At long last, we are very happy to announce the release of LilyPond
15 2.19.16. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
16 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
18 require a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.18
21 We would like to acknowledge and thank Masamichi Hosoda for making this
22 release possible with his work on updating GUB, the build tool.
27 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
29 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
30 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
31 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
32 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
34 This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
35 updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
41 @subsubheading LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
43 We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar
44 Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
45 and Janek Warchoł [1], will receive the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
46 2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]! The ceremony will
47 take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse [3].
49 We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of
50 typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted
51 to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free
52 license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this
53 initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [4] or by
54 pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign [5]!
56 [1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
57 [2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
58 [3] @uref{https://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/events/awards/best_edition.html}@*
59 [4] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
60 [5] @uref{http://igg.me/at/free-fried}
66 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
68 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
69 LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the
70 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
71 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
73 Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
78 Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
79 than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
80 the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
83 Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
85 \override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
87 instead of the previous
89 \override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
93 Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
95 \tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
99 \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
103 A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
106 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
109 Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
110 financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
111 focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
113 LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
116 @item Main Developers:
117 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian
118 Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner
119 Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen
120 Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil
121 Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin
122 Villenave, Janek Warchoł
124 @item Core Contributors:
125 Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
126 James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
127 OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
128 Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
130 @item Documentation Writers:
131 Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
132 Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
133 Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
136 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
140 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
141 Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
144 Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
145 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
148 and numerous other contributors.
153 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
155 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
156 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
161 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
163 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
164 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
165 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
170 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
172 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
173 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
174 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
175 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
176 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
177 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
180 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
181 whose work on LilyPond is
182 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
183 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
184 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
185 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
186 using LilyPond internally.
188 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
189 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
194 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
196 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
197 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
198 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
202 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
204 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
205 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
206 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
207 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
209 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
210 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
214 Support for kievan square notation
216 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
218 Music functions have become quite more versatile
221 A full list of new features is given in:
224 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
227 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
229 Main development team:
231 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
232 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
233 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
234 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
235 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
238 Programming contributors:
240 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
241 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
242 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
243 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
245 Documentation contributors:
247 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
251 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
256 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
258 Translation contributors:
260 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada