Hello developers, Thanks a lot for those excellent news!. I’ve switched to 2.23.6/guile 2.2 on MacOS and will report about my experience.
JM > On 8 Feb 2022, at 14:07, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion > <lilypond-u...@gnu.org> wrote: > > We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.6. This is termed > a development release, but these are usually reliable. If you want to > use the current stable version of LilyPond, we recommend using the > 2.22.1 version. > > This release also marks a transition towards Guile 2.2: The binaries > available from http://lilypond.org/development are built using GUB with > Guile 1.8, while the packages available from > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/release%252F2.23.6-1 > were created with the new infrastructure developed over the past > months, making use of Guile 2.2. We encourage testing with your scores > to make sure that future releases of LilyPond will continue to work for > you. If there are problems with the version using Guile 2.2 that cannot > be reproduced with the binaries using Guile 1.8, we would love to hear > about them as early as possible. > > The binaries with Guile 2.2 are different in a number of ways, the two > major changes being: > 1. All binaries are 64-bit only and available for Linux, Windows (via > mingw), and macOS. In particular, this finally means official binaries > that work on macOS >= 10.15, which cannot run 32-bit programs anymore. > 2. There is no installation, simply extract the downloaded tar or zip > (for Windows) archive and run it. The binaries don't include a GUI > anymore, we recommend using third-party editors such as Frescobaldi.