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+<title>LilyPond version 2.4 released</title>
+<pre>
+
+
+Dear music enthusiasts,
+
+
+LilyPond version 2.4 was released today!
+
+
+LilyPond is a program for making beautiful music notation.  It is
+open source/free software, and is available for all popular operating
+systems. It runs on most Unix flavors --including Linux and MacOS X--
+and MS Windows. Use it for your music too!
+
+With this release, LilyPond does not rely anymore on TeX to do titling
+and page layout, but distributes page breaks optimally to produce
+evenly spaced pages, while respecting user specified turning points.
+
+The slur formatting code has been completely rewritten, and now yields
+classical engraving quality results for most cases.
+
+In addition, version 2.4 adds fret diagrams, a safe execution mode for
+webserver use, a further simplified input format, better typography
+for ledger lines, many bugfixes and a fully revised and updated
+manual.
+
+Go and grab it at
+
+  http://lilypond.org
+
+
+
+A big thank-you goes out to our contributors:
+
+Carl Sorensen
+David Svoboda
+Guy Gascoigne-Piggford
+Heikki Junes
+Hendrik Maryns
+Kristof Bastiaensen
+Lisa Opus Goldstein
+Mats Bengtsson
+Michael Welsh Duggan
+Peter Lutek
+Werner Lemberg
+
+
+Also thanks to our bug-hunters:
+
+Antti Kaihola, Bertalan Fodor, Brian Clements, Christian Hitz,
+Christoph Ludwig, Christophe Papazian, Daniel Berjón Díez, Dave
+Phillips, David Bobroff, David Brandon, Doug Asherman, Ed Jackson,
+Heinz Stolba, Jefferson dos Santos Felix, Karl Hammar, Marco Gusy,
+Martin Norbäck, Matthias Neeracher, Maurizio Tomasi, Michael
+Kiermaier, Pascal Legris, Peter Rosenbeck, Russ Ross, Stephen Pollei,
+Thomas Scharlowski, Will Oram, Yuval Harel,
+
+
+Happy music printing,
+
+
+
+The LilyPond development team,
+
+Han-Wen Nienhuys & Jan Nieuwenhuizen
+Core development
+
+Graham Percival
+Documentation Editor
+
+Erik Sandberg
+Bugmeister
+
+Pedro Kroeger
+Build meister
+
+</pre>