LilyPond 2.26.0 released!

Jonas Hahnfeld via Announcements and Requests for Help from the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:26:50 +0200
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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, Mart=C3=ADn Rinc=C3=B3n Botero, Peter Chubb, Amir Czwink, Ji=
=C5=99=C3=AD Hon,
Masamichi Hosoda, Nicolas Joyard, Michael K=C3=A4ppler, Mark Knoop, Thomas
Morley, Lukas-Fabian Moser, Stefan Mueller, Benk=C5=91 P=C3=A1l, Mark Poles=
ky,
Alen =C5=A0iljak, Kim Shrier, Saul James Tobin, Christoph Wagner, John
Wheeler, =C3=89ric W=C3=BCrbel, 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 =C5=9Eim=C5=9Fekli, David Zelinsky

Translators:
Walter Garcia-Fontes, Jean-Charles Malahieude, Beg=C3=BCm =C3=96nal, Gon So=
lo

and numerous other contributors.

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