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LilyPond 2.11.62 – Release Candidate -
October 11, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.62 is available. This is is one of the last releases
before 2.12, so testing it is encouraged. In addition to a bugfix
in
\tempo command, this release has lot of updates
to Spanish and German documentation translations, and the
stylesheet for HTML documentation has been improved.
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.61 available -
October 1, 2008
-
LilyPond 2.11.61 has been released. It has updates to
documentation translations, and a new automatic accidentals style
(teaching) has been added.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.60 available -
September 25, 2008
-
LilyPond 2.11.60 has been released. A new style of double repeat
bar line has been added, and
printallheaders variable in
score block has been renamed to print-all-headers.
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.59 available -
September 20, 2008
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Release 2.11.59 is out. LilyPond now uses 64 bit integers for
rational numbers, which allows typesetting more complex polymetric
music. This release also has updates to German and Spanish
translations of the documentation.
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.58 available -
September 13, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.58 is a beta release, which means the next stable
release is expected in a few weeks. This release is also special,
as it includes code which supports more flexible automatic
accidentals rules, written several months ago by Rune Zedeler,
deceased since then. All the development team express their
condolences to his family and his friends. Besides this,
automatic beaming has been improved by Carl Sorensen, support
for creating stem flags in a new style has been contributed by
Reinhold Kainhofer, and a few bugs have been fixed.
Bugfixes,
Changes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.57 available -
August 27, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.57 is out. This release adds support for harp pedal
diagrams, contributed by Reinhold Kainhofer, and some changes in
markup command names have been made.
Changes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.56 available -
August 17, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.56 is out. This release features transposable fret
diagrams, contributed by Carl Sorensen. Translations status pages
are now available from the documentation start page. Two
predefined commands
\pointAndClickOn,
\pointAndClickOff have also been added.
Changes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.55 available -
August 6, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.55 is out. This release fixes several bugs, and for octavation brackets
set-octavation has been replaced by a more user-friendly command, \ottava.
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.54 available -
July 30, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.54 is out. This release fixes a bug in tie formatting
following a line break, and changes the behavior of
short-indent
so that short instrument names are no longer indented in the margin.
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.53 available -
July 23, 2008
-
LilyPond 2.11.53 is out. This release fixes a lot of bugs.
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.52 available -
July 14, 2008
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Release 2.11.52 fixes wrong offset of a bar number when it follows
a breath mark, and syntax changes made in recent development
releases are now fully listed on the News page.
News page,
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.51 available -
July 8, 2008
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Release 2.11.51 has a couple of bugfixes, and a lot of changes in
predefined command names. Fret diagrams formatting has been
improved by Carl Sorensen, it is now controlled
by
fret-diagram-details property.
Bugfixes,
Download.
-
LilyPond 2.11.50 available -
July 2, 2008
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Release 2.11.50 adds support for metronome marks with text, and
backslashed numbers for figured bass, contributed by
Reinhold Kainhofer.
Bugfixes,
Download.
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The LilyPond Report #13 -
June 23, 2008
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This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
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The LilyPond Report #12 -
June 16, 2008
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This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
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LilyPond 2.11.49 released -
June 12, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.49 is out. It fixes a number of bugs, including bugs in beams formatting.
Bugfixes,
Download.
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LilyPond 2.11.48 released -
June 9, 2008
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LilyPond 2.11.48 is out. This release fixes a few bugs, and
\compressMusic has been renamed
to \scaleDurations.
Bugfixes,
Download.
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The LilyPond Report #11 -
June 9, 2008
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This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
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The LilyPond Report #10 -
June 2, 2008
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Welcome to this special tenth issue of the LilyPond Report, entirely dedicated to Algorithmic Composition systems.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
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LilyPond 2.11.47 released -
May 28, 2008
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LilyPond now allows all text context properties to be markups,
except in
\lyricmode. This release also fixes
regression tests maintenance for developers.
Bugfixes,
Download.
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LilyPond 2.11.46 available -
May 22, 2008
-
Release 2.11.46 fixes a lot of bugs and includes a rewrite of
dynamics engravers. Support for slur-shaped arpeggios has been added.
Changes,
Bugfixes,
Download.
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RSS feed - May 21, 2008
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A RSS feed is now available on lilypond.org. It contains all
news announced on the web site start page: releases, LilyPond
report, new translations of the site and publications.
Feed
URL.
The mailing list info-lilypond
is still used to announce releases and special events.
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The LilyPond Report #9 -
May 05, 2008
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Welcome to this ninth issue of the LilyPond Report!
This short, informal, weekly opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community.
Follow this link to read the full issue...
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LilyPond 2.11.45 available -
April 26, 2008
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Release 2.11.45 fixes a couple of bugs in the formatting
engine.
lilypond-book has been improved, with better
performance, a bugfix about included files, and more flexibility
for preprocessing documents with LaTeX variants. Support for
enclosing text in a rounded box has been contributed by Valentin
Villenave.
Changes,
Bugfixes,
Download.
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LilyPond 2.11.44 available -
April 14, 2008
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Release 2.11.44 is available. Support for figured bass and chord
names has been added to the MusicXML
converter. Bugfixes,
Download.
- lilypond.org日本語訳 (lilypond.org Japanese translation) -
2008年4月8日
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Lilypond.orgのいくつかのページの日本語訳が出来ました。
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LilyPond 2.11.43 available -
March 31, 2008
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Release 2.11.43 has been available since March 27. It fixes a
couple of formatting bugs, and the font cache problem with
MS-Windows binaries which caused excessive slowness has been
fixed. Bugfixes,
Download.
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LilyPond 2.11.42 available -
March 9, 2008
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Release 2.11.42 is out. It fixes some formatting and spacing bugs. (Bugfixes,
Download)
-
Comparison of music engraving with Finale and LilyPond -
February 25, 2008
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In three articles, Andrew Hawryluk compares Finale and LilyPond in
general terms, and evaluates in detail engraving capabilities of
both pieces of software. The second article is an instructive
analysis of Rachmaninoff's Piano Prelude 6 engraving, including
comparisons with a reference hand-engraved edition.
Read
the articles.
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LilyPond 2.11.41 available -
February 25, 2008
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Release 2.11.41 is available. It has a few bugfixes, updated
program messages in French, German, Spanish and Vietnamese, and
updates to the MusicXML converter. (Bugfixes,
Download)
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LilyPond 2.11.37 available -
January 3, 2008
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Release 2.11.37 is available. It has a few bugfixes, and
documentation changes. (Download)
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LilyPond 2.11.36 available -
December 13, 2007
-
Release 2.11.36 is now available. It has many bugfixes, updates
for MusicXML import, and it includes major documentation changes from
Grand Documentation Project. (Bugfixes, Download)
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LilyPond 2.11.33 and 2.10.33 available -
September 20, 2007
-
Release 2.11.33 is now available.
(Bugfixes
2.10, Bugfixes
2.11, Download)
-
LilyPond 2.11.32 available -
September 2, 2007
-
Release 2.11.32 is now available.
(Bugfixes, Download)
-
LilyPond 2.11.31 available -
August 31, 2007
-
Release 2.11.31 is now available. It has more bugfixes, updates
for MusicXML import and lots of updates for the translations.
(Bugfixes, Download)
-
LilyPond 2.11.30 available -
August 20, 2007
-
Release 2.11.30 is now available. It has various bugfixes among
others in the new spacing code, MusicXML import and lots of updates
for the translations. (Bugfixes, Download)
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LilyPond 2.10.29 and 2.11.29 available -
August 11, 2007
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Release 2.11.29 is now available. 2.10.29 has a few small fixes.
2.11.29 has several bugfixes, among others in the new spacing code,
and lots of updates for the translations.
(Bugfixes
2.10, Bugfixes
2.11, Download)
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LilyPond 2.11.28 for FreeBSD x86_64 -
August 10, 2007
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Release 2.11.28 is now available as a binary installer for
FreeBSD x86_64. Download
the installer and
do sh lilypond-2.11.28-1.freebsd-64.sh in a command window.
- LilyPond 2.11.28 available - July 25,
2007
- Release 2.11.28 has several updates to the manual and its
translations, an plethora of bugfixes and a complete cleanup of the
spacing engine code.
(Bugfixes
2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.26 available - June 8,
2007
- Release 2.11.26 supports page markers, eg. for use in
tables-of-contents. In addition, it fixes a number of bugs. Enjoy!
(Bugfixes
2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.25 and 2.11.25 available - May 20,
2007
- Release 2.11.25 has support for toplevel page breaking commands,
and page breaking as a whole has been sped up significantly. Enjoy!
(Bugfixes
2.11, Bugfixes
2.10, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.23 and 2.11.23 available - May 1, 2007
- This has lots of bugfixes. (Bugfixes
2.11, Bugfixes
2.10, Download)
- Traducción de la documentación al español -
10 de abril de 2007
- Se han traducido la página web, el manual de aprendizaje
completo y la referencia de la notación básica, y
están disponibles en línea en la versión
2.11. Estas traducciones están incluidas
también en los paquetes para
descargar.
- Übersetzung der Dokumentation - 10. April
2007
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Die Kapitel 1-5 (der Abschnitt für Anfänger) des
LilyPond-Benutzerhandbuchs
sind auf deutsch übersetzt — sie sind erhältlich für
die Version
2.11 online und integriert in das Installationspaket.
- LilyPond 2.11.22 available - April 10, 2007
- This release has updates of the dot collision code. (Bugfixes
,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.21 available - March 24,
2007
-
This release has some documentation updates.
(Bugfixes
,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- Traduction de la documentation en français - 25 février
2007
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Les chapitres 1 à 4 et 6 du manuel de l'utilisateur sont
désormais traduits, et disponibles en ligne — version
2.10, version
2.11. Les traductions sont également incluses dans la documentation téléchargeable.
- LilyPond 2.10.20 and 2.11.20 available - February 25,
2007
-
This release fixes many bugs.
(Bugfixes
2.11,
Bugfixes
2.10,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.19 and 2.11.19 available - February 18,
2007
-
This release fixes many bugs.
(Bugfixes
2.11,
Bugfixes
2.10,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.18 available - February 12,
2007
- This release fixes still more bugs, and included
singing support through festival contributed by Milan Zamazal. (Bugfixes
2.11, Changes
2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.17 available - February 9,
2007
-
This release fixes still more bugs.
(Bugfixes
2.11,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.16 and 2.11.16 available - February 4,
2007
-
This release fixes many bugs.
(Bugfixes
2.11,
Bugfixes
2.10,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.15 and 2.11.15 available - February 1,
2007
- This release will stretch piano staves on a
system-by-system basis and add a few glyphs: a black harmonic note
head and the slashed mirrored flat. (Bugfixes
2.11,
Bugfixes
2.10,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.14 and 2.11.14 available - January 26, 2007
-
This release has a rewrite of the line-spanner code, responsible for
among other glissandi and text-crescendos, making them more flexible.
(Bugfixes,
Changes 2.11, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.13 and 2.11.13 available - January 17, 2007
-
This release fixes a few minor but irritating bugs. In addition, the
2.11 release has updates of the tutorial.
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.12 available - January 17, 2007
-
This release fixes lots of bugs. In particular, the tie formatting has
been further improved, and memory usage has been improved enormously.
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.12 available - January 17, 2007
- This release mirrors 2.11.12. Notably, it has the same memory
usage improvements. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.11 available - January 12, 2007
-
This release mostly has the same fixes as 2.11.11. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.11 available - January 11, 2007
-
This release has further fixes for popular bugs. Timing of the MIDI
output won't get confused by tuplets and grace notes anymore. Some fat
has also been trimmed of the skyline code performance. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.10 available - January 8, 2007
-
LilyPond 2.11.10 has further review of the test-suite, performance and
code coverage. This brought to light several problems that were
fixed. Notably, 2.11.10 fixes lots of regressions in optical
correction spacing and MIDI dynamics. Also, this version is 20 to 50
% faster than previous 2.11 releases. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.10 available - January 8, 2007
-
This release fixes several popular bugs, among others: MIDI files
that go silent after (de)crescendi, and tuplets problems with quoting
and part-combining (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.9 and 2.10.9 available - January 3, 2007
-
This release has a couple of bugfixes, and —in 2.11.9&mdash
further improvements in the regression test suite (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.8 and 2.10.8 available - January 3, 2007
-
New! Improved! With even more bugfixes! (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- lilypond.org auf deutsch - 31. Dezember 2006
-
Die LilyPond-Webseiten sind jetzt auch auf deutsch übersetzt!
- lilypond.org en español - December 29, 2006
-
¡Ya está disponible la versión en español del sitio web de LilyPond!
- LilyPond 2.11.7 and 2.10.7 available - January 1, 2007
-
New! Improved! With even more bugfixes! (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.6 available - December 30, 2006
-
This release supports arbitrary fractional alterations, allowing
music with different microtonal conventions to be typeset.
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.6 available - December 30, 2006
-
New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.5 available - December 24, 2006
-
These releases complete the translation infrastructure for
Documentation.
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.5 available - December 24, 2006
-
New! Improved! With even more bugfixes!
(Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.4 available - December 21, 2006
-
The vertical spacing improvements that were introduced in 2.11.0 now work
within a system as well as between systems. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.3 available - December 19, 2006
-
This release has graphical
test results and several website build improvements. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.3 available - December 19, 2006
-
This release fixes several bugs.
(Bugfixes,
Download)
- LinuxPPC binaries available! - December 19, 2006
-
From now on, our GUB binary builds include support for Linux/PPC. (Download)
- Traduction du tutoriel en français -
December 13, 2006
-
Fruit du travail d'une équipe de traducteurs, le tutoriel en
français est maintenant disponible en ligne. Version
2.10, Version
2.11.
- LilyPond 2.11.2 available - December 12, 2006
-
This release supports glissandi and harmonics in tablature. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.2 available - December 12, 2006
-
A new stable release of LilyPond is available. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.1 available - December 4, 2006
-
This release has improved support for horizontal spacing. (Bugfixes,
Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.1 available - December 3, 2006
-
A new stable release of LilyPond is available. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.11.0 available - November 27, 2006
-
This release has improved support for vertical spacing. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.10.0 available - November 11, 2006
-
A new stable release of LilyPond is available. (Announcement, Changes, Download)
- GIT repository online - November 11, 2006
-
LilyPond development has moved over its source code to GIT, the fast version control
system. Check out our repository at gnu.org.
- LilyPond 2.9.29 available - November 5, 2006
-
This release has many more bugfixes. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.28 available - November 3, 2006
-
This release has many more bugfixes. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.27 available - October 28, 2006
-
This release has a new FretBoards context, and some further
bugfixes. (Changes, Bugfixes,
Download)
- Music streams thesis available - October 21, 2006
-
The last months, Erik Sandberg has been overhauling the internals of
Lily. This change introduces a new intermediate format, Music Streams,
which will make it easier get music data out of LilyPond. A copy of
the thesis is now available from lilypond.org (download PDF 750k)
- LilyPond 2.9.26 available - October 20, 2006
-
This release has further bugfixes. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.25 available - October 18, 2006
-
This release has more bugfixes; from now on, binaries are also
available for x86/64. (Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.24 available - October 15, 2006
-
This release has support for right hand guitar fingerings, and offers
some bugfixes. (Changes,
Bugfixes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.23 available - October 12, 2006
-
This release cuts fragments of EPS directly from your finished score,
and makes it easier to insert ties into lyrics. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.22 available - October 9, 2006
-
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.21 available - October 4, 2006
-
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.20 available - October 3, 2006
-
Test this release candidate for LilyPond 2.10! (Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.17 available - September 2, 2006
-
This release fixes many bugs. Among others, MacOS X QuickTime now
honors tempo changes are in the MIDI output. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.16 available - August 25, 2006
-
In this release, chords may be partially tied and lyric extenders have
tunable padding. Moreover, many bugs were fixed
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.15 available - August 20, 2006
-
This releases fixes many bugs in the 2.9.14 release. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.8.6 available - August 8, 2006
-
This release contains a few minor bugfixes; the source tarball is also
available. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.14 available - August 4, 2006
-
This release supports instrument name changes, dotted barlines and
better spacing for floating grace notes. In addition, it contains
ongoing work by Erik Sandberg to extend the interpretation phase with
stream support. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.13 available - July 23, 2006
-
This release supports doits and falls, and more tuning options for
grace note spacing and tuplet brackets. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.12 available - July 18, 2006
-
This release supports pdftex for lilypond-book, and uses PdfTeX for
generating manuals, so page numbers and references are now clickable.
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.11 available - July 12, 2006
-
This release wraps improvements of the last two weeks. As a new
feature, it supports tunable tuplet number formatting for nested
tuplets. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.10 available - June 15, 2006
-
This releases fixes a couple of bugs in 2.9.9.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.9 available - June 15, 2006
-
This releases fixes many bugs in 2.9.8 and earlier.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.8 available - June 6, 2006
-
2.9.8 has support for different spacing sections within a single
score, and better infrastructure for automated regression testing.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.8.4 available - June 4, 2006
-
2.8.4 fixes some minor bugs, and includes a backport of the
infrastructure for automated regression testing.
(Download)
- First test results available - June 4, 2006
-
After a week of frantic tweaking, the first automated testing results
are available. You can now see in full
glory what features are broken in the development release
- LilyPond 2.9.7 available - May 30, 2006
- 2.9.7 has improvements in the formatting for figured bass, and
includes a new framework for detecting bugs earlier, which will make
the development releases even better
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.6 available - May 24, 2006
- This
release has new features in beam formatting: beams may now be put on
single stems, and obey the beatGrouping property. MusicXML
converter. (Changes, Download)
- New essay pages! - May 22, 2006
-
The Automated Engraving essay has been updated with material
from the FISL talk, with
pages on modeling
notation and algorithms for
esthetics. Happy reading!
- LilyPond 2.9.5 available - May 17, 2006
-
This release supports object rotation, hairpins with circled tips,
hairpins that run to barlines before notes and improvements in the
MusicXML converter.
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.4 available - May 12, 2006
-
This release has support for feathered beaming, and note head styles in
the markup \note command. In addition, it has a lot of updates
of the manual and a clean up of the spring spacer.
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.8.2 available - May 12, 2006
-
This release has fixes for minor bugs and compilation issues.
(Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.3 is out! - May 7, 2006
-
This new release has lots of updates of the manual, courtesy Graham
and the contributors of the mailing. It handles formatting for ties in
arpegiated chords better (feature sponsored by
Steve Doonan), it has al niente hairpins, courtesy of Erlend Aasland,
and some cleanups of the PostScript output, courtesy David Feuer. (Changes, Download)
- FISL7.0 slides available - April 22, 2006
- The slides for Han-Wen's talk at FISL 7 are now online. (download)
- LilyPond 2.8.1 is out! - April 3, 2006
-
Important bugfixes include CJK font handling and a Darwin/x86 port.
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.9.1 is out! - April 3, 2006
-
It's mostly a bugfix release, and it's almoste the same as 2.8.1. This
release mainly fixes problems with CJK font loading.
(Changes, Download)
- LilyPond on MacOS X/Intel - March 31, 2006
- LilyPond now also runs on Intel based macs, offering a 400%
speedup over the emulated PowerPC binaries. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.8.0 is out! - March 22, 2006
-
Version 2.8 is here! Read the release
announcement. (Changes, Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.39 is out - March 17, 2006
-
This release has even more bug fixes. Please test before 2.8 is
released. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.38 is out - March 12, 2006
-
This is likely to be the last release candidate before we release 2.8,
so report any bugs that you might find. New attractions include:
lilypond postscript files now work with GSView, cut & pasting lily
code from PDF files should now work, and spacing fixes for
multi-measure rests.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.37 is out - March 4, 2006
-
This release has more bug fixes. Please help us by testing it!
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.36 is out - February 24, 2006
-
This is another release candidate for 2.8. It has lots of bug fixes
and polishes to the documentation. It also contains support for
creating ties that are only on their right side connected to note
heads, which is handy for repeats (feature sponsored by Steve Doonan).
The documentation suite can now be downloaded as a separate tarball
from lilypond.org. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.35 is out - February 19, 2006
-
This release has lots of bugs fixes. The plan is to release 2.8 at the
end of this month, so bug reports are very welcome. By
definition a bug is release critical if it wasn't present in version
2.6. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.34 is out - February 16, 2006
-
This release has a bunch of bugfixes, and new features. Newly created
contexts may also be named with \new Voice =
"alto". Thicknesses of tie and slurs may be tuned separately for
the endings and the middle
part. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.33 is out - February 10, 2006
-
Items directly connected with a music input element may be
parenthesized, for example,
c4 -\parenthesize -.
This feature was sponsored by Ramana Kumar. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.32 is out - February 7, 2006
-
This release contains some syntax changes: words inside the \paper and
\layout block are henceforth written with dashes, for instance:
\layout {
ragged-right = ##t
}
Furthermore, in this release, we have dropped some legacy code from
our library. Now, lily uses standard C++ strings and the STL
vector. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.31 is out - February 2, 2006
-
This release fixes a load of bugs, and has some internal
cleanups. Exported C++ members are now named
ly:class-name::function-name in Scheme instead of
Class_name::function_name. We are now using C++ vectors and strings
instead of our own. The Linux/FreeBSD builds now include wrappers for
Python scripts too, so you can run convert-ly and midi2ly.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.30 is out - January 30, 2006
-
This release has a few bug fixes, like the solfa note head shape and
collisions, the \epsfile command, and in getting No. ligature in
normal words. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.29 is out - January 27, 2006
-
This release has the following new features. Alignments of staves may
be tuned per system (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca), individual
systems may be positioned manually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca
and Nicolas Sceaux), a linebreaking configuration can now be saved as
a `.ly' file automatically. This allows vertical alignments to be
stretched to fit pages in a second formatting run (feature sponsored
by Trevor Baca and Nicolas
Sceaux). (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.28 is out - January 22, 2006
-
This release contains numerous small fixes that were already in our
GUB binaries. In addition, it has further polish for formatting of
tied chords. Theses improvements were sponsored by Steve
Doonan. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.27, release 4 - January 13, 2006
-
The fourth release of our Grand Unified Binary for 2.7.27 is
available. This release uses Pango 1.11.1, which has support for
ligatures and kerning. Enjoy! (Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.27, release 3 - January 12, 2006
-
The third release of our Grand Unified Binaries is available. This
release fixes external font-support, the decompression flag for
Linux. Also, we have support for
FreeBSD as well! Jump to the download section to
get them!
- LilyPond 2.7.27 binaries are out - January 7, 2006
-
Starting with 2.7.26, the development team has been working on the
installers. We're proud to announce another version of these: they are
now available for
Linux/x86,
MacOS X and
Windows.
- LilyPond 2.7.27 is out - January 7, 2006
-
This release allows you to switch staff lines on and off individually
(feature sponsored by Andrea
Valle). (Changes,
Download)
- Linux Journal article - January 2006
-
Linux Journal publishes an article on
Make
Stunning Schenker Graphs with GNU LilyPond. It is a
in-depth but hands-on feature article with crisp LilyPond
graphics.
Author Kris Shaffer remarks
“GNU Lilypond generates beautiful graphics that make commercial
alternatives seem second-rate.”
This article is now available on-line.
- New binaries for LilyPond 2.7.26 - January 4,
2006
-
The Development team has been working around the clock to improve
to fix the first wave bugs reported by you. The new results for MacOS
and Windows are up on the installation
page. Let us know how you fare!
- LilyPond 2.7.26 is out - December 31, 2005
-
This release has an improvement in the MusicXML importer (feature
sponsored by Mark vd Borre's Music Academy): now, staves and voices
are also setup, so you can readily run LilyPond on the .ly output.
The important occasion for this release is our new build
environment: we have completely revamped it, which means that binaries
for all platforms (including MacOS, Windows, Linux/x86, but probably
FreeBSD too) will be more quickly available for download.
A happy 2006 from the LilyPond Development Team!
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.25 is out - December 24, 2005
-
This release has various bugfixes. Also, stems on the center line now
have their directions interpolated to minimize the number of direction
changes (feature sponsored by Basil Crow and Mike
Rolish). (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.24 is out - December 20, 2005
-
This release fixes a couple of bugs, but more importantly, slurs now
avoid TupletNumbers, and tuplet numbers may enter the staff (feature
sponsored by Trent Johnston), tuplet brackets and numbers are
implemented as separate grobs, TupletBracket and TupletNumber (rewrite
sponsored by Trent Johnston), string arguments for music functions may
be specified without # marks. This allows syntactical constructs (like
\clef and \bar) to be expressed in generic music
functions. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.23 is out - December 19, 2005
-
This release has the following new features:
- Ties in chords are also formatted using score based
formatting. This reduces the number of collisions for ties in chords
(feature sponsored by Steve Doonan).
- With the \tweak music function, layout objects that are directly
connected to input may be tuned easily (feature sponsored by Sean Reed
and Bertalan Fodor).
- Generic music functions may now also be used on
articulations and chord elements (feature sponsored by Sean Reed and
Bertalan Fodor).
- Better support for MusicXML, more options for spacing Lyrics;
it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for normal
and hyphenated syllables (features sponsored by Mark van den Borre and
Bertalan Fodor.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.22 is out - December 9, 2005
-
This release has better support for MusicXML: it also supports ties,
beams and editorial accidentals. It also has more options for spacing
Lyrics; it is now possible to separately specify minimum distances for
normal and hyphenated syllables. These features were sponsored by Mark
van den Borre and Bertalan
Fodor. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.21 is out - December 5, 2005
- Saint Nicholas brings you ... a MusicXML convertor for LilyPond!
The convertor is basic, but working. Check out the
LilyPond Software Design pages for MusicXML features that can be
sponsored.
- LilyPond 2.7.20 is out - December 2, 2005
-
This release contains the following improvements: Texts set in a
TrueType font are now kerned. Using the TeX no longer requires linking
or dynamically opening the kpathsea library, making the backend more
easily usable on various systems (feature sponsored by Christian Ebert
of Black Trash
Productions). (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.6.5 is out - December 1, 2005
-
This release updates the bugreporting address and reorganizes the
documentation tree. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.19 is out - November 26, 2005
-
This version contains a few bugfixes, and now allows the type of
brackets in system start bracket hierarchies to be specified. Also,
the horizontal alignment of rehearsal marks may be changed: marks can
be put on key signatures, clefs, time signatures,
etc. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.18 is out - November 21, 2005
-
This version features nestable system start delimiters, like bracket,
brace. It also adds "square" line bracket (feature sponsored by Trevor
Baca). It also has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will
make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature
sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug
fixes. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.17 is out - November 17, 2005
-
This version has refactored routines for tie formatting. This will
make it easier to get better tie formatting for chords (feature
sponsored by Steve Doonan). It also has a few bug
fixes. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.16 is out - November 11, 2005
-
This release fixes a large number of bugs. Please upgrade before
reporting bugs in the 2.7 series. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.15 is out - November 3, 2005
-
This release has another massive cleanup of the backend. Each grob
property may also be a "grob closure". This means that it is possible
to combine functions. Calculation of extent and offset of grob is now
controlled via the `X-extent', `Y-extent', `X-offset' and `Y-offset'
properties. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.14 is out - October 23, 2005
-
This release has more cleanup in the layout-engine. Now,
properties that have Procedure values are thought to be procedures
that compute said property, i.e.
\override Beam #'direction = #(lambda (grob)
(if (> (random 10) 5) UP DOWN))
will set a random direction for beams. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.13 is out - October 18, 2005
-
This release features slashed numerals, plus signs and interruptible
extender lines for figured bass. Merging of Figured bass lines has
been made switchable with the figuredBassCenterContinuations
property. For each grob, a subproperty in `callbacks' property defines
the procedure which computes it. This is major internal cleanup, which
also provides advanced tweakability for power
users. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.6.4 is out - October 11, 2005
-
This release fixes a few minor problems with the stable
series. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.12 is out - October 07, 2005
-
It features more annotations for the page layout engine and some more
sponsored features. Beamlets may stick out of the side of beams
(feature sponsored by Trevor Baca); new support for figured bass with
support for continuation lines and tuning of figures, brackets, and
alignments (feature sponsored by Trent Johnston); vertical alignments
of staves can now be tuned easily for individual systems (feature
sponsored by Nicolas
Sceaux). (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.11 is out - October 02, 2005
-
Vertical spacing for page layout can now be tuned for each system
individually (feature sponsored by Trevor Baca and Nicolas
Sceaux). The slope of a stem-tremolo may be set manually (feature
sponsored by Sven Axelsson). There are a number of cleanups in the
handling and representation of systems, among other features and bug
fixes. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.10 is out - September 13, 2005
-
This version adds proper support for "laissez vibrer ties", just enter
\laissezVibrer after a chord. This feature was sponsored by Henrik
Frisk. It also has a couple of minor
bugfixes. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.9 is out - September 5, 2005
-
This is mainly a bugfix
release. (Changes,
Download)
- Traduction française du site - September 03, 2005
-
Grâce à l'équipe des traducteurs,
de nombreuses pages du site sont maintenant disponibles en français,
notamment l'essai sur
la gravure musicale.
- LilyPond 2.7.8 is out - August 29, 2005
-
This release has support for right-to-left text formatting in markup
commands (sponsored by Aaron Mehl). In addition, it fixes a great
number of bugs, among others, support for writing MIDI files. (Changes,
Download)
- Article in `De Standaard' - August 20, 2005
-
The Belgian newspaper De Standaard investigates what drives
Free Software authors in an article titled Delen van KENNIS
zonder WINSTBEJAG (Non-profit sharing of
knowlegde) using LilyPond as an example. This marks
LilyPond's first appearance in mainstream printed press.
- LilyPond 2.7.7 is out - August 22, 2005
-
This release has a rewriting of tie formatting which was sponsored by
Bertalan Fodor, Jay Hamilton, Kieren MacMillan, Steve Doonan, Trevor
Baca, and Vicente Solsona
Dellá. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.6 is out - August 19, 2005
-
This release adds support for numbered percent repeats, a feature
sponsored by Yoshinobu Ishizaki. It also has bugfixes for clashes
between slurs and symbols, like fingers dynamic
signs. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.5 is out - August 16, 2005
-
Lily 2.7.5 has a large number of bugfixes, among others, in slur
formatting, spacing, rest collisions and tuplet bracket
formatting. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.4 is out - August 7, 2005
-
LilyPond 2.7.4 has support for proportional notation, where the space
for a note is proportional to the time it
takes. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.6.3 is out - August 4, 2005
-
This release fixes a memory corruption bug that was triggered by
\override'ing Beam settings. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.6.2 is out - August 2, 2005
-
This release has a few bugfixes, among them: the autopackage will run
in more platforms, LilyPond will be much quicker for large
lilypond-book documents, and the up and down Fa note heads for shaped
heads have been
swapped. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.3 is out - July 25, 2005
-
LilyPond 2.7.3 has improvements in performance which should result in
faster operations (15 to 20 percent). It also contains the new
"\displayLilyMusic" function.
(Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7.2 is out - July 21, 2005
- LilyPond 2.7.2 has support for suggested accidentals for musica
ficta notation, easy entry for lyric melismata and improvements for
quicker entry of scores. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.6 released - June 27, 2005
- Version 2.6 is the latest stable release of LilyPond.
It now
installs in a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version of Linux (x86).
Get up and running in minutes! Pango text formatting lets you
print Unicode lyrics in your favorite script and font. Create
SVG files, and edit them in Inkscape.
(Announcement, Thank
Yous, Download, Changes)
- LilyPond 2.7.1 is out - July 20, 2005
- LilyPond 2.7.1 has no user-visible changes. However, due to
restructuring “under the hood”, this version will be 10 to
20 % faster. (Download)
- LilyPond 2.6.1 is out - July 11, 2005
- This version fixes a few minor bugs found in
2.6.0, and also works on DOS-based Windows versions. (Changes,
Download)
- LilyPond 2.7 is out - July 9, 2005
- LilyPond 2.7.0 is out. It has support for paragraph text and
pitched trill notation. (Changes,
Download)
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