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12 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.1 released! @emph{August 28, 2012}
14 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.1. This
15 release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
16 recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
17 and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
23 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.0 released! @emph{August 26, 2012}
25 We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.0. This
26 release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly
27 recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
28 and instead use the stable 2.16 version.
34 @subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
36 We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
37 LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
38 highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
39 traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
41 Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
42 main stable version. A few major improvements are:
46 Support for kievan square notation
48 User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
50 Music functions have become quite more versatile
53 A full list of new features is given in:
56 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
59 Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
61 Main development team:
63 Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
64 Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
65 John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
66 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
67 Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
70 Programming contributors:
72 Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
73 Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
74 Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
75 Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
77 Documentation contributors:
79 James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
83 Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
88 Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
90 Translation contributors:
92 Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada