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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
15 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
16 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
20 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
22 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
23 release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
24 some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
25 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
26 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
31 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
33 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
34 release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
35 some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
36 some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
37 a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
42 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.4 released! @emph{October 6, 2012}
44 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. This
45 release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
46 recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
47 and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
52 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
54 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
55 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
56 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
57 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
59 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
60 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
64 Support for kievan square notation
66 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
68 Music functions have become quite more versatile
71 A full list of new features is given in:
74 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
77 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
79 Main development team:
81 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
82 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
83 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
84 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
85 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
88 Programming contributors:
90 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
91 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
92 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
93 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
95 Documentation contributors:
97 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
101 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
106 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
108 Translation contributors:
110 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada