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-@c This file is part of lilypond-web.texi and community.itexi
+@c This file is part of community.itexi
@c when you add a new item, consider moving the lowest item(s)
@c into news.itexi.
@c keep two blank lines between news entries
-@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
+@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG on Release Work
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.19 released! @emph{May 26, 2013}
+@subheading LilyPond 2.19.51 released @emph{November 20, 2016}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.19. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
-some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
-some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
-a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
+2.19.51. This release includes a number of enhancements, and contains some
+work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
+some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you
+require a stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the 2.18
+version.
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
+@subheading LilyPond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.2. This release is mainly
-to correct a problem with lilypond-book running on Windows. We recommend that
-only people requiring this functionality upgrade to this version.
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.2.
+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.
-@newsEnd
+This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
+updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
-
-The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
-issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop,
-meeting of LilyPond developers and users} in Waltrop, Germany last
-August. Of course, there are also some musings on LilyPond
-triggered by the release of 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 occuring from that
-venue.
-
-There are also two monthly financial reports from David Kastrup
-whose work on LilyPond is
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24#an_urgent_request_for_funding,
-solely paid for} by financial contributions from other developer
-and users (thank you!), and a report about experiences from
-@uref{http://scorio.com, a web-based music typesetting service}
-using LilyPond internally.
-
-Come @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
-LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
-encouraged!
@newsEnd
+
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
+@subheading Two LilyPond projects in Google Summer of Code 2016 @emph{April 23, 2016}
+
+We are happy to see two students, Nathan Chou and Jeffery Shivers, working on
+LilyPond as participants in the Google Summer of Code this year. We hope they
+produce great results and stay in the developer community afterwards.
+
+Nathan will tackle an annoying limitation, namely the unability of spanners
+to cross voices. His work will make a class of ugly workarounds obsolete.
+Jeffery will bring the ScholarLY package[1] to production quality and add a
+LaTeX package to it, making it possible to create beautiful critical reports
+from data encoded directly in the LilyPond score.
+
+[1] @uref{https://github.com/openlilylib/scholarly}@*
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
-updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
-recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
@newsEnd
+
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
+@subheading LilyPond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
-We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
-LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
+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:
+Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
+be most visible:
-@itemize
+@itemize @bullet
@item
-Support for kievan square notation
+Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
+than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box. This greatly reduces
+the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
+
@item
-User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
+Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
+@example
+\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
+@end example
+instead of the previous
+@example
+\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
+@end example
+
@item
-Music functions have become quite more versatile
+Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
+@example
+\tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c c c c @}
+@end example
+instead of
+@example
+\times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @} \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
+@end example
@end itemize
-A full list of new features is given in:
+A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
@example
-@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
@end example
-Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
-
-Main development team:
+Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
+financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
+focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
-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
+LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
-Programming contributors:
+@table @asis
+@item Main Developers:
+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, Janek Warchoł
-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
+@item Core Contributors:
+Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
+James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
+OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
+Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
-Documentation contributors:
+@item Documentation Writers:
+Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
+Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
+Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
-James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
+@item Bug Squad:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
+Palmer
-Bug squad:
+@item Support Team:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
+Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
-Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
-James Lowe
+@item Translators:
+Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
-Support:
-
-Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
-
-Translation contributors:
-
-Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
+@end table
+and numerous other contributors.
@newsEnd
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