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12 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
14 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
15 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
16 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
17 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
19 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
20 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
24 Support for kievan square notation
26 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
28 Music functions have become quite more versatile
31 A full list of new features is given in:
34 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
37 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
39 Main development team:
41 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
42 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
43 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
44 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
45 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
48 Programming contributors:
50 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
51 Marc Hohl, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
52 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
53 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
55 Documentation contributors:
57 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
61 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
66 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
68 Translation contributors:
70 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
76 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.15.95 released! @emph{August 11, 2012}
78 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95.
79 With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the
80 upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes.
82 All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best
83 quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any
84 problems, please send us @ref{Bug reports}.
86 New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the @qq{Changes} manual
87 on the website section about @ref{Development}.
93 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.42 released! @emph{August 02, 2012}
95 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This
96 release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
98 It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use
99 this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
100 note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
107 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #27. @emph{August 2, 2012}
109 The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with some interesting insights on
110 new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid
111 developer David Kastrup (thanks to your
112 @uref{http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html, continuing donations}). Also
113 to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond
114 companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids.
117 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-27, read
118 LilyPond Report 27} now; comments and contributions are