X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fweb%2Fnews-front.itexi;h=837c7be702c196a0a9f490a6aed77b3c27a8884a;hb=0adac1f74196dcc12e5a04ab7ffe466de61ce09c;hp=70be8bca35429c82a1aaa3da915844b6882e3f49;hpb=90347a6c1b9ed5db1ee9d89ea32317221d113758;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi index 70be8bca35..e37cf8c74b 100644 --- a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi +++ b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi @@ -2,86 +2,97 @@ @c This file is part of lilypond-web.texi and community.itexi @c when you add a new item, consider moving the lowest item(s) -@c into news-old.itexi. +@c into news.itexi. @c keep two blank lines between news entries @c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2 @newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.18 released! @emph{Nov 12, 2011} +@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012} -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.18. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. +We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0. +LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the +highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of +traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release -candidate. +Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous +main stable version. A few major improvements are: -@newsEnd +@itemize +@item +Support for kievan square notation +@item +User and programming interfaces have greatly improved +@item +Music functions have become quite more versatile +@end itemize +A full list of new features is given in: -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.17 released! @emph{Nov 10, 2011} +@example +@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html} +@end example -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.17. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. +Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by... -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release -candidate. +Main development team: -@newsEnd +Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Colin Hall, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, +Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, +John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, +Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, +Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, +Jan Warchoł +Programming contributors: -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.16 released! @emph{October 28, 2011} +Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker, +Marc Hohl, David Nalesnik, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt, +Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren, +Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.16. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. +Documentation contributors: -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release -candidate. +James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil -@newsEnd +Bug squad: +Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer, +James Lowe -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.15 released! @emph{October 24, 2011} +Support: -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.15. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. +Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release -candidate. +Translation contributors: + +Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada @newsEnd @newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.14 released! @emph{October 7, 2011} +@subsubheading Lilypond 2.15.95 released! @emph{August 11, 2012} -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.14. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. +We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95. +With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the +upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes. -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release -candidate. +All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best +quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any +problems, please send us @ref{Bug reports}. + +New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the @qq{Changes} manual +on the website section about @ref{Development}. @newsEnd @newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.13 released! @emph{September 27, 2011} +@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.42 released! @emph{August 02, 2012} -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.13. This +We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes. It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use @@ -93,43 +104,18 @@ candidate. @newsItem -@subsubheading Release candidate 2 cancelled @emph{Sep 23, 2011} - -The release countdown is cancelled due to the discovery of a -Critical regression. - -@newsEnd - - -@newsItem -@subsubheading Release candidate 2 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.12 released! @emph{Sep 20, 2011} +@subsubheading The LilyPond Report #27. @emph{August 2, 2012} -LilyPond 2.15.12 is out; this is the second release candidate of -the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to -experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are -listed in the @qq{Changes} manual on the website section about -@ref{Development}. +The @emph{LilyPond Report} is back, with some interesting insights on +new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid +developer David Kastrup (thanks to your +@uref{http://lilypond.org/sponsoring.html, continuing donations}). Also +to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond +companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids. -There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no -Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be -on 27 Sep 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us -@ref{Bug reports}. +Come +@uref{http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-27, read +LilyPond Report 27} now; comments and contributions are +warmly encouraged! @newsEnd - - -@newsItem -@subsubheading LilyPond 2.15.11 released! @emph{September 11, 2011} - -We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.11. This -release contains the usual number of bugfixes. - -It is strongly recommended that normal users do @strong{not} use -this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please -note that due to the possibility of a few Critical bugs, this is -not the next release candidate. - -@newsEnd - - -