@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
+@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 The LilyPond Report #24. @emph{Mar 5, 2012}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
-A new issue of the @emph{LilyPond Report} is now
-available for reading; topics include a request for funding,
-an article about exciting new features in LilyPond grammar,
-and an overview of LilyPond-based web applications.
+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
-Come
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-24, read
-LilyPond Report 24} now; comments and contributions are
-warmly encouraged!
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
-@newsEnd
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
+release contains the usual number of bugfixes and 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.
+@newsEnd
@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.32 released! @emph{Mar 03, 2012}
-
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.32. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
-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.
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
+release contains the usual number of bugfixes and 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.
@newsEnd
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.4 released! @emph{October 6, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. 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 LilyPond 2.15.31 released! @emph{Feb 29, 2012}
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.31. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+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.
-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.
+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 Release candidate 3 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.30 released! @emph{Feb 17, 2012}
+@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...
-LilyPond 2.15.30 is out; this is the third 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}.
+Main development team:
-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 02 March 2012. If you discover any problems, please send us
-@ref{Bug reports}.
+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
+
+
+