Re: Plan for LilyPond 2.24.1

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

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.

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.

Cheers
Jonas

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