@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 #25. @emph{Apr 1st, 2012}
+@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
-The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with a rather unusual
-issue featuring our young Polish contributor Janek Warchoł!
-Also included in this issue are quite a few unexpected items,
-including (but not limited to)… a cooking recipe!
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
-Come
-@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-25, read
-LilyPond Report 25} now; comments and contributions are
-warmly encouraged!
+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 2.15.35 released! @emph{Mar 28, 2012}
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.35. 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. 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 2.15.34 released! @emph{Mar 19, 2012}
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
+
+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.
+
+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:
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.34. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
-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.
+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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