    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