@c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.8 released! @emph{December 1, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.8. This
+release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
+some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
+some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
+a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
+
+@newsEnd
+
@newsItem
@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.7 released! @emph{November 17, 2012}
recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
@newsEnd
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
-
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
-some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
-some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
-a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
-
-@newsEnd
-
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
-
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
-release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
-some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
-some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
-a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
-
-@newsEnd
-
-@newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.4 released! @emph{October 6, 2012}
-
-We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. 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 2.16 version.
-
-@newsEnd
-
@newsItem
@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
-We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.1.
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.
* don't duplicate entries from news-front.itexi
@end ignore
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.16.1 released! @emph{November 9, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.16.1. This has a number of
+updates to the previous stable version, and should cause no problems. We
+recommend that everybody upgrade to this version.
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.6 released! @emph{November 3, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.6. This
+release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
+some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
+some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
+a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.5 released! @emph{October 20, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.5. This
+release contains the usual number of bugfixes and enhancements, and contains
+some work in progress. You will have access to the very latest features, but
+some may be incomplete, and you may encounter bugs and crashes. If you require
+a stable version of Lilypond, we recommend using the 2.16 version.
+
+@newsEnd
+
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.4 released! @emph{October 6, 2012}
+
+We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.17.4. 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 2.16 version.
+
+@newsEnd
+
@newsItem
@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.3 released! @emph{September 23, 2012}
@newsEnd
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.16.0 released! @emph{August 24, 2012}
+
+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.
+
+Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous
+main stable version. A few major improvements are:
+
+@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:
+
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
+
+Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
+
+Main development team:
+
+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:
+
+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
+
+Documentation contributors:
+
+James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
+
+Bug squad:
+
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer,
+James Lowe
+
+Support:
+
+Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
+
+Translation contributors:
+
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
+
+@newsEnd
+
@newsItem
@subsubheading Lilypond 2.15.95 released! @emph{August 11, 2012}