Re: LilyPond 2.26.0 released!

Very good! Excellent! Awesome! Encore (?!)

Ken Wolcott

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 1:28 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user
discussion <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.26.0. LilyPond
> is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality
> sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally
> engraved music to computer printouts.
>
> This version includes improvements and fixes since the branching of the
> previous stable release in October 2022. A list of added features and
> other user-visible changes can be found at
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/. Pre-built
> binaries are linked from https://lilypond.org/download.html and
> available from GitLab:
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.26.0
>
> We dedicate this release to Urs Liska, who passed away in December
> 2024. Urs was an accomplished pianist, a scholar and award-winning
> editor, a prolific advocate of real-world use of LilyPond, a
> contributor to the Frescobaldi project, and one of the initiators of
> OpenLilyLib. In 2020, he co-organized a Music Engraving Conference at
> the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, as well as a LilyPond meeting
> which brought together developers and the wider community. Urs will be
> remembered as a kind contributor whose enthusiasm for beautiful music
> engraving inspired others.
>
> LilyPond 2.26 is brought to you by
>
> Main Developers:
> Colin Campbell, Dan Eble, Jonas Hahnfeld, Phil Holmes, David Kastrup,
> Werner Lemberg, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Francisco Vila
>
> Core Contributors:
> Joram Berger, Martín Rincón Botero, Peter Chubb, Amir Czwink, Jiří Hon,
> Masamichi Hosoda, Nicolas Joyard, Michael Käppler, Mark Knoop, Thomas
> Morley, Lukas-Fabian Moser, Stefan Mueller, Benkő Pál, Mark Polesky,
> Alen Šiljak, Kim Shrier, Saul James Tobin, Christoph Wagner, John
> Wheeler, Éric Würbel, Jason Yip, David Zelinsky, Yiyu Zhou
>
> Documentation Writers:
> Simon Albrecht, Alexander Brock, Federico Bruni, Amir Czwink, Patrice
> Dumas, Derek Erdmann, Luise Flesch, Felix Janda, Thomas Morley, Paolo
> Prete, Furkan Şimşekli, David Zelinsky
>
> Translators:
> Walter Garcia-Fontes, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Begüm Önal, Gon Solo
>
> and numerous other contributors.