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@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.9 released! @emph{August 30, 2011}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.0 released! @emph{August 26, 2012}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.9. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes, and also adds
-support for MacOS X 10.7.
-
-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 outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the
-next release candidate.
+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.
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate 1 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.8 released! @emph{Aug 01, 2011}
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
-LilyPond 2.15.8 is out; this is the first 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}.
+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.
-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 08 Aug 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
-@ref{Bug reports}.
+Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
+main stable version. A few major improvements are:
-@newsEnd
+@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:
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.7 released! @emph{July 29, 2011}
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.7. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
-It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use
-this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
+Main development team:
-@newsEnd
+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:
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.6 released! @emph{July 26, 2011}
+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
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.6. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+Documentation contributors:
-It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use
-this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version.
+James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
-@newsEnd
+Bug squad:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
+James Lowe
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.14.2 released! @emph{July 25, 2011}
+Support:
+
+Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
+
+Translation contributors:
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.14.2. This
-fixes a few minor bugs in the stable version, and should cause no
-problems. We recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
@newsEnd