@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
+
+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 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}