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+<title>LilyPond 2.12 &ldquo;Rune&rdquo; available</title>
+
+<h1>LilyPond version 2.12 available &mdash; 12 year anniversary
+release</h1>
+
+December, 2008.
+
+<p>We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.12 &ldquo;Rune&rdquo;.
+</p>
+
+<p>Our joy is tinged with sadness, as long-time LilyPond contributor
+and friend Rune Zedeler passed away on the 2nd of July, 2008. This
+release is dedicated to him.
+</p>
+
+<p>Rune was a computer programmer, a musician and a valued contributor
+to LilyPond.  He had been enthusiastically involved in the project
+for the past six years, and he will be sorely missed in our community.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Major updates</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Collision detection has been vastly improved.  Outside-staff objects
+ now avoid each other automatically, so far fewer manual tweaks are
+ required to obtain a pleasing layout.</li>
+
+<li>The documentation has been almost entirely rewritten during the
+ year-long "Grand Documentation Project", and the online documentation
+ is both much better-looking and far easier to browse.  The program
+ is now available in 6 languages, and the documentation is partially
+ available in French, Spanish and German.  It has never been easier to
+ get started with 'Pond!</li>
+
+<li>Almost 30 new features, among others transposable fret diagrams,
+ microtonal accidentals, and a much improved <tt>musicxml2ly</tt>, have been
+ implemented and nearly 200 bugs have been fixed.  For a complete
+ overview surf to <tt><a
+ href="http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html">http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html</a></tt>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+<br>
+
+<p>Happy music typesetting!</p>
+
+<h2>LilyPond was brought to you by...</h2>
+
+<h3>Development team</h3>
+
+<p>Han-Wen Nienhuys  &ndash; Core development<br>
+Jan Nieuwenhuizen  &ndash; Core development<br>
+Joe Neeman         &ndash; Core development<br>
+Graham Percival    &ndash; Documentation Editor and Bug Meister<br>
+Valentin Villenave &ndash; LSR Editor and Bug Meister<br>
+Mats Bengtsson     &ndash; Support Guru<br>
+John Mandereau     &ndash; Translation Meister</p>
+
+<h3>Contributors</h3>
+
+<p>Rune Zedeler,
+Maximilian Albert,
+Milan Zamazal,
+Reinhold Kainhofer (<tt>musicxml2ly</tt> development),
+Erlend Aasland,
+Stan Sanderson (Regression Checker),
+Neil Puttock.</p>
+
+<h3>Grand Documentation Project</h3>
+
+<p>Trevor Daniels     &ndash; Assistant Documentation Editor<br>
+Andrew Hawryluk, Carl Sorensen, Eyolf Østrem, Francisco Vila,
+Jay Hamilton, Jonathan Kulp, Joseph Harfouch, Patrick McCarty,
+Ralph Palmer, Till Rettig  &ndash; Notation Reference work<br>
+Kurt Kroon         &ndash; Glossary Updates, Notation Reference work<br>
+Alard de Boer      &ndash; Formatting<br>
+Michael Rasmussen  &ndash; Formatting<br>
+Trevor Bača        &ndash; Inspirational Headwords<br>
+Reinhold Kainhofer &ndash; Technical Aid<br>
+Neil Puttock       &ndash; Snippet Editor, Technical Aid.</p>
+
+<h3>Translators</h3>
+
+<p>Clytie Siddall, Damien Heurtebise, Francisco Vila, Heikki Junes,
+Jean-Charles Malahieude, John Mandereau, Nicolas Klutchnikoff, Till
+Rettig, Valentin Villenave.</p>
+
+<h3>Sponsors</h3>
+
+<p>Mike Amundsen, Trevor Bača.</p>
+
+<h3>Bug hunters and suggestions</h3>
+
+<p>Adam James Wilson, Alard de Boer, Alex Rolex, Andy Haupt, Arvid
+Grøtting, Bertalan Fodor, Benjamin Drung, Cameron Horsburgh, Carl
+Sorensen, Christian Hitz, Christian Herzberg, David Bobroff, David
+Griffel, Daniel Hulme, Daniel Johnson, Dominic Neumann, Eduardo
+Vieira, Frédéric Chiasson, Georg Dummer, Georg Romstorfer, Gilles
+Thibault, Hernán J. González, Hu Haipeng, Jay Anderson, James
+Kilfinger, Jean-Marie Mouchel, Jean-Yves Baudais, Jesús Guillermo
+Andrade, Jonathan Henkelman, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kevin Dalley, Laura
+Conrad, Luc Wehli, Maarten Hijzelendoorn, Marc Lanoiselée, Mark
+Polesky, Matthijs Frankeno, Martijn Vromans, Marnen Laibow-Koser,
+Maximilian Albert, Mirosław Doroszewski, Mike Coleman, Neil Puttock,
+Nicolas Mayencourt, Nicolas Sceaux, Orm Finnendahl, Peter Budny,
+Phillip Kirlin, Pierre-Emmanuel Brame, Ralph Palmer, Renaud Flavigny,
+Rick Hansen, Risto Vääräniemi, Robin Bannister, Roland Goretzki, Rune
+Zedeler, Ruud van Silfhout, Sean Reed, Steven Weber, Tomas Sauer,
+Thomas Scharkowski, Trevor Bača, Vivian Barty-Taylor, Werner Lemberg,
+Wilbert Berendsen, William Oram, Yota Moteuchi, Zack Charter, and
+Zoltan Selyem.</p>