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-New features in 1.4
+New features in 1.5
 
-* Finale (.etf), PMX (.pmx) and musedata import tools.
+* Tablature support.
 
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
 
-* Comprehensive documentation, including tutorial.
+* More extensibility.
 
-* Self-documenting: generated internal documentation.
+* Figured bass support.
 
-* Includes an extensive glossary of musical terms.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Improved grace notes.
 
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in:
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting.
 
- - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
 
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
-  mechanism.
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
+ambituses, more shapes.
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
 
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+* Some music entry optimizations.
 
-* Medieval notation features: clefs, custodes
+* Font completely revised and improved.
 
-* Piano pedal support, Arpeggios, Glissandi
+* Completely rewritten midi input support.
 
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Manual thoroughly revised manual.
 
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  and stanza numbering.
-
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
-  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
-  indications as appropriate.
-
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
-
-* Easy-play notation
-
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
-
-* Mutopia ports collection: easy accessible music archive.
-
-* AsciiScript: ASCII-art output 
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
-
-* Many bugfixes.
-
-
-Removed features
-
-* margin shape
+* Many bugfixes