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-New features in 1.4
+New features in 1.5
 
+* Tablature support.
 
-DESIGN
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
 
+* More extensibility.
 
-cocentric
+* Figured bass support.
 
-* More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
-implementation.  LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
- - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
+* Improved grace notes.
 
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
-  mechanism.
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
 
- - Access to internal music representation
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
+ambituses, more shapes.
 
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
 
-* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
+* Some music entry optimizations.
 
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Font completely revised and improved.
 
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
-  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
-  indications as appropriate.
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
 
+* Manual thoroughly revised manual.
 
-ERGONOMICS
-
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-
-* Rewritten Emacs mode
-
-* Cleaned up syntax details 
-
-* Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
-
-* All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
-generated automatically.
-
-* Windows point-and-click installer 
-
-
-NOTATION FEATURES
-
-* Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
-shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
-
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  and stanza numbering.
-
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Easy-play note heads
-
-* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output 
-
-* Improved standalone postscript layout.
-
-
-IMPORT/EXPORT
-
-* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
-
-* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
-
-
-MISCELLANEOUS
-
-* Mutopia ports collection: easily accessible music archive.
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
-
-* Many many many bugfixes.
-
+* Many bugfixes