@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.13 released! @emph{February 23, 2013}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.18.1 @emph{February 2, 2014}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.13. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
+We have released updated manuals for LilyPond's stable version, 2.18.
+The manuals are now for 2.18.1 and have a number of updates and improvements
+over 2.18.0. There will be a further release of 2.18 in the future (2.18.2),
+and this will include the updates to the manuals as well as some minor
+enhancements to the LilyPond core functionality.
+
+To summarise the current situation: stable LilyPond application: 2.18.0;
+stable LilyPond manuals: 2.18.1; development for both: 2.19.2.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.2 released @emph{February 2, 2014}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.2. 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 2.16 version.
+a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.18 version.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading 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.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond blog. @emph{June 2, 2013}
+
+Janek Warchoł has created a LilyPond blog. You can find it at
+@uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
@newsEnd
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