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@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.1 released!  @emph{August 28, 2012}

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.1.  This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.  It is strongly
recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

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@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.0 released!  @emph{August 26, 2012}

We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.0.  This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.  It is strongly
recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use this release,
and instead use the stable 2.16 version.

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@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released!  @emph{August 24, 2012}

We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible.  It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
main stable version. A few major improvements are: 

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Support for kievan square notation
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User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
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Music functions have become quite more versatile 
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A full list of new features is given in:

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@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
@end example

Happy music typesetting!  LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...

Main development team:

Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin,
Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg,
John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys,
Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock,
Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave,
Jan Warchoł

Programming contributors:

Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker,
Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt,
Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren,
Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol

Documentation contributors:

James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil

Bug squad:

Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
James Lowe

Support:

Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes

Translation contributors:

Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada 

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