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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.97 released! @emph{December 8, 2013}
14 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.97 as
15 a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18. The
16 developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
17 documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
18 overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
19 latest version, see @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly, Updating files with convert-ly}.
20 Please test this release and report back any problems, see
21 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
26 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
28 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
29 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
34 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
36 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
37 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
38 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
43 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
45 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
46 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
47 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
48 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
49 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
50 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
53 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
54 whose work on LilyPond is
55 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
56 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
57 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
58 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
59 using LilyPond internally.
61 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
62 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
67 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
69 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
70 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
71 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
75 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
77 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
78 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
79 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
80 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
82 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
83 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
87 Support for kievan square notation
89 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
91 Music functions have become quite more versatile
94 A full list of new features is given in:
97 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
100 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
102 Main development team:
104 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
105 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
106 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
107 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
108 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
111 Programming contributors:
113 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
114 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
115 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
116 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
118 Documentation contributors:
120 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
124 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
129 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
131 Translation contributors:
133 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada