Re: Is it about time to start preparing 2.26?

Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:26:34 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2026-03-07 at 15:01 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 21:42 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld wrote:
> > Week of March 9-12: run formatting tools, branch stable/2.26
> 
> Ah, there's one thing I forgot: copyright years. I don't want to
> discuss longer-term directions here, but I think lilypond --version
> should print 2026 somewhere.
> 
> I think there are two options:
> 1. Only adapt user-facing strings in lily/main.cc and
> scripts/musicxml2ly.py.
> 2. Run a full make grand-replace, which we haven't in past three years.

Relevant RFC on the mailing list in 2023:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2023-02/threads.html#00037
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