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-New features in 1.4
+New features in 1.5
 
+* Simple tablature
 
-DESIGN
+* Many speedups, many slowdowns.
 
+* More extensibility
 
-* More pervasive GUILE integration resulting in improved design and
-implementation.  LilyPond is smaller, cleaner, more flexible, etc.
+* Figured bass support
 
- - Improved speed with comparable memory footprint
+* Improved beam formatting.
 
- - More tweakability using less memory with the new `property push'
-  mechanism.
+* Improved grace notes.
 
- - Improved robustness: Lily almost never crashes.
+* Improved accidental handling and formatting
 
- - Access to internal music representation
+* Better spacing. Includes subtle details like optical stem spacing.
 
-* New font selection scheme similar to Latex-NFSS.
+* More ancient notation support: mensural ligatures, porrectuses, more
+shapes.
 
-* Flexible formatting mechanism for musical texts.
+* Bracket piano pedals.
 
-* Chordnames are now configurable in every respect
-
-* Part combining for orchestral scores and hymns: two voices are
-  combined into a staff automatically, including Solo/a2
-  indications as appropriate.
-
-
-ERGONOMICS
-
-* Point and click functionality using emacs and Xdvi.
-
-* Rewritten Emacs mode
-
-* Cleaned up syntax details 
-
-* Comprehensive documentation, including a rewritten tutorial.
-
-* All properties have doc strings, and internal documentation is
-generated automatically.
-
-* Windows point-and-click installer 
-
-
-NOTATION FEATURES
-
-* Piano pedals, Arpeggios, Glissandi, many more note head
-shapes, Medieval clefs, custodes.
-
-* Better lyrics placement: Automatical phrasing, melisma alignment,
-  and stanza numbering.
-
-* Typography: More elegant slurs, aligned dynamics, text crescendos,
-
-* Easy-play note heads
-
-
-MIDI
-
-* dynamics, tempo changes in the MIDI output
-
-
-MISC
-
-* Finale (.etf), PMX, Musedata and Mup import tools.
-
-* Mutopia ports collection: easy accessible music archive.
-
-* ASCIIScript: ASCII-art output 
-
-* Improved standalone postscript layout.
-
-* Translations into Japanese, French and Russian
-
-* Many many many bugfixes.
+* Some entry optimizations.
 
+* Font completely revised and improved.