@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
@newsItem
-@subsubheading Release candidate 1 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.8 released! @emph{Aug 01, 2011}
+@subsubheading Release candidate 2 cancelled @emph{Sep 23, 2011}
-LilyPond 2.15.8 is out; this is the first release candidate of
+The release countdown is cancelled due to the discovery of a
+Critical regression.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading Release candidate 2 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.12 released! @emph{Sep 20, 2011}
+
+LilyPond 2.15.12 is out; this is the second 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
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
+on 27 Sep 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us
@ref{Bug reports}.
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.7 released! @emph{July 29, 2011}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.11 released! @emph{September 11, 2011}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.7. This
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.11. 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 2.14 version.
-
-@newsEnd
-
-
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.6 released! @emph{July 26, 2011}
-
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.6. 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 2.14 version.
-
-@newsEnd
-
-
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.14.2 released! @emph{July 25, 2011}
-
-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.
+this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please
+note that due to the possibility of a few Critical bugs, this is
+not the next release candidate.
@newsEnd