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+New features in 1.7 since 1.6
 
-* Improved design and implementation: Complete rewrite of the
-internals: LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Deeper integration of the input language and Scheme. You can now use
+LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of
+LilyPond identifiers.
 
- - More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in 
+* Music types cleaned up and Schemified.  
 
- - Improved speed, with comparable memory footprint
+New features in 1.6 since 1.4
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Support for figured bass and tablature.
 
-* Piano pedal support
+* Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output
+now.
 
-* MIDI: dynamics, tempo changes
+* Completely revised and improved music font.
 
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
+* Completely rewritten MIDI import support.
 
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
+* Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this
+means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes.
 
-* Included extensive glossary
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing
+cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a
+chord are handled much better.
 
-* Many bugfixes.
+* Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle
+details like optical stem spacing.
 
-* Finished ouverture Coriolan as full orchestral score example.
+* 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.
 
-* AsciiScript [check if broken, decide wether to keep]