Re: LilyPond 2.23.6 released

[Jinsong Zhao]

Hello developers,

Thanks a lot for the transition towards Guile 2.2. I've switched to 
2.23.6/guile 2.2 on Windows 10.

The only issue I have currently encountered is when the filename is in 
Chines, for example "中文.ly", then lilypond could not generate PDF 
file. It could generate corrected "中文.midi", and also could generate 
correct ps and svg file, but the filenames are unreadable characters.

The 2.23.6/Guile 1.8 does not have the issue.

Best,
Jinsong

On 2022/2/8 21:07, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion 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.