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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
20 latest version, see @rprogram{Updating files with convert-ly}.
21 Please test this release and report back any problems, see
27 @subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
29 Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
30 @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
35 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
37 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
38 to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
39 only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
44 @subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
46 The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
47 issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
48 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
49 meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
50 August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
51 triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
54 There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
55 whose work on LilyPond is
56 @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
57 solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
58 and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
59 @uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
60 using LilyPond internally.
62 Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
63 LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
68 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
70 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
71 updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
72 recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
76 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
78 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
79 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
80 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
81 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
83 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
84 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
88 Support for kievan square notation
90 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
92 Music functions have become quite more versatile
95 A full list of new features is given in:
98 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
101 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
103 Main development team:
105 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
106 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
107 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
108 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
109 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
112 Programming contributors:
114 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
115 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
116 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
117 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
119 Documentation contributors:
121 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
125 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
130 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
132 Translation contributors:
134 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada