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 1.0b13 (in development)
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+Beets 1.0b13 consists of a plethora of small but important fixes and
+refinements. A lyrics plugin is now included with beets; new audio properties
+are catalogged; the autotagger is more tolerant of different tagging styles; and
+importing with original file deletion now cleans up after itself more
+thoroughly. Many, many bugs—including several crashers—were fixed. This release
+lays the foundation for more features to come in the next couple of releases.
+
 * The :doc:`/plugins/lyrics`, originally by `Peter Brunner`_, is revamped and
   included with beets, making it easy to fetch **song lyrics**.
-* Items now expose their audio sample rate, number of channels, and bits per
-  sample (bitdepth). See :doc:`/reference/pathformat` for a list of all
-  available audio properties. Thanks to Andrew Dunn.
+* Items now expose their audio **sample rate**, number of **channels**, and
+  **bits per sample** (bitdepth). See :doc:`/reference/pathformat` for a list of
+  all available audio properties. Thanks to Andrew Dunn.
 * The autotagger now tolerates tracks on multi-disc albums that are numbered
   per-disc. For example, if track 24 on a release is the first track on the
   second disc, then it is not penalized for having its track number set to 1