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 New features in 1.5
 
+* Development hosted at savannah.gnu.org
+
 * Tablature support.
 
 * Many speedups, many slowdowns.
@@ -9,18 +11,24 @@ New features in 1.5
 
 * Figured bass support.
 
-* Improved beam formatting.
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
-* Improved grace notes.
+* Completely rewritten grace note support.
 
 * Improved accidental handling and formatting.
 
-* Better spacing.  Includes subtle details like optical stem spacing.
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. It includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
+
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures,
+more shapes.
 
-* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses,
-ambituses, more shapes.
+* Support for automatically determining and engraving ambitus (pitch
+range) of voices.
 
-* Bracket piano pedals.
+* Piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio
+brackets.
 
 * Some music entry optimizations.
 
@@ -28,4 +36,7 @@ ambituses, more shapes.
 
 * Completely rewritten midi input support.
 
-* Many bugfixes
+* Manual thoroughly revised.
+
+* Many bugfixes.
+