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-WHAT'S NEW SINCE 1.2.0
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
 
-* Much faster spacing engine. 
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
 
-* Features: automatic staff switching
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
-* Documentation now all is in texinfo.
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
 
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
+
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this means
+that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
+
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
+
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus
+(pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc.
+
+* More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios,
+arpeggio brackets.
+
+* Easier music polyphonic music entry.
+
+* More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes
+
+* The manual has been thoroughly revised.
+
+* Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources
+can be downloaded through anonymous CVS.
+
+* Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution,
+which comes with a user-friendly installer.