@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
-
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate 4 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.36 released! @emph{April 6, 2012}
+@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:
+
+@itemize
+@item
+Support for kievan square notation
+@item
+User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
+@item
+Music functions have become quite more versatile
+@end itemize
+
+A full list of new features is given in:
+
+@example
+@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, 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,
+Mark Hohl, 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:
-LilyPond 2.15.36 is out; this is the fourth release candidate of
-the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to
-experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are
-listed in the @qq{Changes} manual on the website section about
-@ref{Development}.
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
+James Lowe
-There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no
-Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be
-on 20 April 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
-@ref{Bug reports}.
+Support:
+
+Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
+
+Translation contributors:
+
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #25. @emph{Apr 1st, 2012}
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.15.95 released! @emph{August 11, 2012}
-The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with a rather unusual
-issue featuring our young Polish contributor Janek Warchoł!
-Also included in this issue are quite a few unexpected items,
-including (but not limited to)… a cooking recipe!
+We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95.
+With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the
+upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes.
-Come
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-25, read
-LilyPond Report 25} now; comments and contributions are
-warmly encouraged!
+All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best
+quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any
+problems, please send us @ref{Bug reports}.
+
+New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the @qq{Changes} manual
+on the website section about @ref{Development}.
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.35 released! @emph{Mar 28, 2012}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.42 released! @emph{August 02, 2012}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.35. This
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This
release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.34 released! @emph{Mar 19, 2012}
+@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #27. @emph{August 2, 2012}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.34. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with some interesting insights on
+new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid
+developer David Kastrup (thanks to your
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html, continuing donations}). Also
+to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond
+companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids.
-It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use
-this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
-note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release
-candidate.
+Come
+@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-27, read
+LilyPond Report 27} now; comments and contributions are
+warmly encouraged!
@newsEnd
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