@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.96 released! @emph{November 24, 2013}
+@subsubheading LilyPond production named BEST EDITION 2014 @emph{March 11, 2014}
-We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.96 as
-a further beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18. The
-developers believe the release to be feature-complete, the
-documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
-overlooked. For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
-latest version, see @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly, Updating files with convert-ly}.
-Please test this release and report back any problems, see
-@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
+We are thrilled to announce that the new edition of the songs of Oskar
+Fried (1871-1941), published recently by our fellow contributors Urs Liska
+and Janek Warchoł [1], will receive the "Musikeditionspreis BEST EDITION
+2014" of the German Music Publishers' Association [2]! The ceremony will
+take place in a few days at the Frankfurt Musikmesse [3].
+
+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 [4] or by
+pledging a contribution at the Indiegogo campaign [5]!
+
+[1] @uref{http://lilypondblog.org/category/fried-songs}@*
+[2] @uref{http://www.best-edition.de}@*
+[3] @uref{https://musik.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/besucher/events/awards/best_edition.html}@*
+[4] @uref{http://www.sound-rel.de}@*
+[5] @uref{http://igg.me/at/free-fried}
@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.29 released! @emph{October 20, 2013}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.19.3 released @emph{March 2, 2014}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.29. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.19.3. 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 2.18.1 @emph{February 16, 2014}
+
+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 2.18.0 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}
@uref{http://lilypondblog.org/, lilypondblog.org}!
@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.2 released! @emph{January 4, 2013}
+
+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.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #28. @emph{November 12, 2012}
+
+The @uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, October
+issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report}} focuses on the
+@uref{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://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://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28, read
+LilyPond Report 28} now; comments and contributions are warmly
+encouraged!
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading 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 Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
+
+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.
+
+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, 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:
+
+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
+
+Documentation contributors:
+
+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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