Re: LilyPond 2.23.8 released

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 25/04/2022 à 23:37, Kevin Cole a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> The problem is that I am using the version of Lilypond supported by 
> the OS package manager. I'm running Pop! OS which is basically an 
> Ubuntu derivative. They JUST today announced their next LTS release 
> (22.04) is ready.
>
> So, the OS maintained version is currently at 2.20 (to be precise, 
> lilypond 2.20.0-1).
>
> If I explicitly use the URL for 2.20:
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.20/Documentation/learning/
>
> and use the search at the bottom  of the green sidebar on the left to 
> search, let's say for "slur", the page that is returned is the Google 
> result page. However, it shows that Google is searching for 
> "site:lilypond.org/doc/v2.19 <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19> slurs" -- 
> i.e. though explicitly searching from 2.20 "tree", it returns a result 
> for 2.19.
>
> I can't cite other examples immediately, but as I recall, it sometimes 
> goes back to 2.18, sometimes forward to 2.21, etc. I never know if the 
> search returned is going to give me documentation for the version I 
> have installed.



There have been problems with the version in the search box
going out of sync with the current LilyPond version, but I
think these days we are careful to update it timely. It won't
help with older versions though.

Jean