From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 18:46:01 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue 3747: 2.18 release news
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Issue 3747: 2.18 release news
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diff --git a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
index 0d8b05774d..578311f78a 100644
--- a/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/web/news-front.itexi
@@ -9,16 +9,89 @@
 @c used for news about the upcoming release; see CG 10.2
 
 @newsItem
-@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.97 released!  @emph{December 8, 2013}
-
-We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.97 as
-a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18.  The
-developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
-documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
-overlooked.  For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
-latest version, see @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly, Updating files with convert-ly}.
-Please test this release and report back any problems, see
-@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
+@subsubheading Lilypond 2.18.0 released!  @emph{December 28, 2013}
+
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.18.0.
+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.
+
+Among the numerous improvements and changes, the following might
+be most visible:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Many items are now positioned using their actual outline rather
+than a@tie{}rectangular bounding box.  This greatly reduces
+the occurrence of unsightly large gaps.
+
+@item
+Sets and overrides can now use the syntax
+@example
+\override Voice.TextSpanner.bound-details.left.text = "rit."
+@end example
+instead of the previous
+@example
+\override Voice.TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) = "rit."
+@end example
+
+@item
+Triplets with a given group length can now be written as
+@example
+\tuplet 3/2 4 @{ c8 c c  c c c @}
+@end example
+instead of
+@example
+\times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}  \times 2/3 @{ c8 c c @}
+@end example
+@end itemize
+
+A full list of noteworthy new features is given in:
+
+@example
+@uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/changes/index.html}
+@end example
+
+Great thanks go to the large number of LilyPond enthusiasts whose
+financial backing enabled one core developer, David Kastrup, to
+focus exclusively on LilyPond during the entire development cycle.
+
+LilyPond 2.18 has been brought to you by
+
+@table @asis
+@item Main Developers:
+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, Janek Warchoł
+
+@item Core Contributors:
+Aleksandr Andreev, Frédéric Bron, Torsten Hämmerle, Marc Hohl,
+James Lowe, Andrew Main, Thomas Morley, David Nalesnik, Keith
+OHara, Benkő Pál, Anders Pilegaard, Julien Rioux, Johannes Rohrer,
+Adam Spiers, Heikki Tauriainen
+
+@item Documentation Writers:
+Frédéric Bron, Federico Bruni, Colin Campbell, Urs Liska, James
+Lowe, Thomas Morley, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Guy Stalnaker,
+Martin Tarenskeen, Arnold Theresius, Rodolfo Zitellini
+
+@item Bug Squad:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph
+Palmer
+
+@item Support Team:
+Colin Campbell, Eluze, Marc Hohl, Marek Klein, Kieren MacMillan,
+Urs Liska, Ralph Palmer
+
+@item Translators:
+Federico Bruni, Luca Rossetto Casel, Felipe Castro, Pavel Fric,
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
+
+@end table
+and numerous other contributors.
 
 @newsEnd
 
diff --git a/Documentation/web/news.itexi b/Documentation/web/news.itexi
index c0a4e9f0d5..ea3ba36ad9 100644
--- a/Documentation/web/news.itexi
+++ b/Documentation/web/news.itexi
@@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ NOTE:
   * don't duplicate entries from news-front.itexi
 @end ignore
 
+@newsItem
+@subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.97 released!  @emph{December 8, 2013}
+
+We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond@tie{}2.17.97 as
+a potential final beta release for the upcoming stable release@tie{}2.18.  The
+developers believe this to be feature-complete, the
+documentation to be accurate, and no important issues to be
+overlooked.  For upgrading the syntax of your input files to the
+latest version, see @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/usage/updating-files-with-convert_002dly, Updating files with convert-ly}.
+Please test this release and report back any problems, see
+@uref{http://www.lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html, Bug reports}.
+
+@newsEnd
+
 @newsItem
 @subsubheading LilyPond 2.17.96 released!  @emph{November 24, 2013}