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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.20 released! @emph{June 9, 2013}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.20. 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 LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
25 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. It's currently hosted on
26 Wordpress - follow @uref{http://lilypondblog.wordpress.com/, this link} to read
32 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
34 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
35 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
36 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
41 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
43 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
44 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
45 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
46 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
47 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
48 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
51 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
52 whose work on LilyPond is
53 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
54 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
55 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
56 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
57 using LilyPond internally.
59 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
60 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
65 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
67 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
68 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
69 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
73 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
75 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
76 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
77 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
78 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
80 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
81 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
85 Support for kievan square notation
87 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
89 Music functions have become quite more versatile
92 A full list of new features is given in:
95 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
98 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
100 Main development team:
102 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
103 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
104 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
105 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
106 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
109 Programming contributors:
111 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
112 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
113 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
114 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
116 Documentation contributors:
118 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
122 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
127 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
129 Translation contributors:
131 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada