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-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+New features in 1.5
 
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in 
+* Tablature support.
 
- - Improved speed, with comparable memory footprint
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* More extensibility.
 
-* Piano pedal support
+* Figured bass support.
 
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Improved grace notes.
 
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
 
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
 
-* Many bugfixes.
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
+ambituses, more shapes.
 
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
 
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]
+* Some music entry optimizations.
+
+* Font completely revised and improved.
+
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
+
+* Manual thoroughly revised manual.
+
+* Many bugfixes