@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
+@newsItem
+@subheading LilyPond 2.19.36 released @emph{January 31, 2016}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond
+2.19.36. 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 2.15.42 released! @emph{August 02, 2012}
+@subheading Lilypond 2.18.2 released! @emph{March 23, 2014}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+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.
-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.
+This version provides a number of updates to 2.18.0, including
+updated manuals. We recommend all users to upgrade to this version.
@newsEnd
-
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate withdrawn @emph{July 11, 2012}
+@subheading LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
+
+We are thrilled that the edition of the songs of Oskar
+Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
+and Janek Warchoł [1], received the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
+2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]. The ceremony
+took place at the Frankfurt Musikmesse.
+
+We congratulate Janek and Urs for gaining such public recognition of
+typographical and editorial excellence of their work. We are also delighted
+to inform you that they intend to make their work available under a Free
+license as soon as the publisher expenses are covered. Please support this
+initiative by buying the printed volume through the publisher [3].
-We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.41
-is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please
-continue testing it -- we would like to discover (and fix!) any
-more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
-problems, please send us @ref{Bug reports}.
+[1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
+[2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
+[3] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate 8 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.41 released! @emph{July 4, 2012}
+@subheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released! @emph{December 29, 2013}
+
+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.
+
+Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
+be most visible:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+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
+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
+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 noteworthy new features is given in:
+
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
+
+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.
+
+LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
+
+@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
+
+@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
+
+@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
+
+@item Bug Squad:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
+Palmer
+
+@item Support Team:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
+Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
+
+@item Translators:
+Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
+
+@end table
+and numerous other contributors.
-LilyPond 2.15.41 is out; this is the eighth 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}.
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
-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 18 July 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
-@ref{Bug reports}.
+Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
+@uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
@newsEnd
-
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.40 released! @emph{June 05, 2012}
+@subheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.40. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+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.
-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.
+@newsEnd
+@newsItem
+@subheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
+
+The @uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
+issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
+@uref{http://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/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://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/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://web.archive.org/web/20110325004849/http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
+LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
+encouraged!
@newsEnd
+@newsItem
+@subheading 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 Release candidate withdrawn @emph{June 01, 2012}
+@subheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
-We have discovered a regression since 2.14.2, so lilypond 2.15.39
-is no longer a candidate for the 2.16.0 release. However, please
-continue testing it -- we would like to discover (and fix!) any
-more regressions as soon as possible. If you discover any
-problems, please send us @ref{Bug reports}.
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
+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
+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
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate 7 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.39 released! @emph{May 22, 2012}
+A full list of new features is given in:
-LilyPond 2.15.39 is out; this is the seventh 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}.
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
-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 05 June 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
-@ref{Bug reports}.
+Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
-@newsEnd
+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
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #26. @emph{May 22, 2012}
+Programming contributors:
-The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with a new editor on board -
-Pavel Roskin, who tells us about his adventures in strange lands
-of compiler bugs! There is also a detailed report about current
-development status, and an analysis of example LilyPond output -
-see for yourself how close (or how far?) are we from matching
-the quality of hand-engraved scores.
+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
-Come
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-26, read
-LilyPond Report 26} now; comments and contributions are
-warmly encouraged!
+Documentation contributors:
-@newsEnd
+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
+
+@newsEnd
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