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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.95 released! @emph{November 3, 2013}
14 We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.95 as
15 beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18. The
16 developers are still busy finding solutions for some last-minute
17 problems, but the release is supposed to be feature-complete, the
18 documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
19 overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
21 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly.html,
22 Updating files with convert-ly}.
23 Please test this release and report back any problems, see
24 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
29 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
31 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
32 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
37 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
39 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
40 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
41 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
46 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
48 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
49 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
50 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
51 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
52 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
53 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
56 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
57 whose work on LilyPond is
58 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
59 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
60 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
61 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
62 using LilyPond internally.
64 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
65 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
70 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
72 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
73 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
74 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
78 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
80 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
81 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
82 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
83 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
85 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
86 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
90 Support for kievan square notation
92 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
94 Music functions have become quite more versatile
97 A full list of new features is given in:
100 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
103 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
105 Main development team:
107 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
108 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
109 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
110 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
111 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
114 Programming contributors:
116 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
117 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
118 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
119 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
121 Documentation contributors:
123 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
127 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
132 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
134 Translation contributors:
136 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada