Re: LilyPond 2.23.7 released

[Paul Scott]

I just downloaded the Linux version from from Lily web site and got a tar.gz 
version instead of the .sh version I expected.  Is this a change or  a mistake?

Thank you,

Paul
 

> On Mar 26, 2022, at 2:36 PM, Jonas Hahnfeld via LilyPond user discussion 
> <lilypond-user@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.23.7. 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
> 2.22.2 version.
> 
> Starting with this release, LilyPond requires Guile 2.2 and the
> official binaries were created with the new infrastructure developed
> over the past months. Issues reported for the previous release have
> been addressed, in particular regarding performance (by integrating
> compiled bytecode) and on Windows, where it is now possible to extract
> the provided zip archive with the Windows Explorer and use special
> characters in filenames. Please test this release and let us know about
> problems that you encounter.