On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:09 AM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 22:39 +0100, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on > LilyPond development wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > after the situation with Debian seems to be resolved (guile-2.2 and > > lilypond-2.24.0 are in unstable and they should get into bookworm), I > > would like to come back to the plan of releasing LilyPond 2.24.1 as a > > bugfix version. > > > > I just backported the last outstanding merge requests that I had marked > > as such and some other chore work; in total we are 34 commits past > > v2.24.0, addressing 12 issues, see the branch for details. If there is > > anything I missed or a critical issue that must be addressed before the > > next release, please let me know. > > > > Otherwise, I plan to build the binaries on Thursday, February 9th, or > > Friday the 10th, with the final release foreseen for Sunday the 12th. > > I didn't hear objections on this, so I plan to go ahead with the > release towards the end of the week. > Sounds great! > > The draft release announcement text is: > --- > We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.24.1. 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 a number of fixes since the release of the > previous stable version in December 2022, and we recommend all users to > update. Scores converted to or written for 2.24.0 will continue to work > with this release. A list of added features and other user-visible > changes for 2.24 can be found at > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/changes/. Among others, > version 2.24.0 switched to Guile 2.2 and features a completely > rewritten infrastructure for creating the official packages, finally > allowing us to offer 64-bit binaries for macOS and Windows. > > These pre-built binaries are linked from > https://lilypond.org/download.html and available from GitLab: > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.24.1 Please note > that there is a known issue on Windows where compiling very large > scores (several hundreds of pages) can result in crashes. We hope to > address this in a future bugfix release. > --- > > I'm leaning towards leaving out the contributors this time - the text > is already quite long because I wanted to mention that scores from > 2.24.0 continue to work and re-iterate on the new binaries. That said, > I'm open to being convinced otherwise. And any other feedback. > I agree with your plans. And your announcement is great. Thanks, Carl
