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MuseScore 3.5.1

09 Oct 11:47

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October 09, 2020

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash during voice changing of chord with tied grace note
  • Fixed an issue with curly bracket scaling when using MuseJazz
  • Fixed an issue with scaling of tuplet number
  • Fixed an issue of Staff/Part dialog not becoming dirty after changes if activated via double click
  • Fixed an issue of divider not being removed after undo of deleting a vertical frame
  • Fixed an issue of triple and quadruple dots not being exported correctly
  • Fixed an issue of tremolo customizations lost on second save/reload
  • Fixed various issues with the handling of title frame on MusicXML import
  • Fixed an issue of decrescendo not working on tied notes with subchannels
  • Fixed an issue of changing portaudio preferences not working
  • Fixed an issue with loudness of accents
  • Chord symbol playback settings are now available in Edit Style dialog
  • Fixed an issue of changes to Measure properties not being propagated between score and parts
  • Fixed an issue of Ctrl+Delete command not allowed in note input mode
  • Added preferences to disable chord symbol playback when opening old scores, or creating new ones
  • Fixed an issue with entering notes above/below staff
  • Fixed an assertion failure when adding image to vertical frame
  • Fixed issues with voice and chords with drum input
  • Fixed crashes when using hbox within vbox
  • Fixed a crash when deleting all measures
  • Added the guitar "Solo" templates with default guitar sound
  • Fix invisible elements not getting displayed after turning "Show invisible" on
  • Fixed an issue of 1-line staves showing unexpected vertical offset
  • Fixed an issue of bad selection and corruption on delete
  • Fixed a crash when changing Common time to Cut time in parts
  • Fixed a crash on playback of score with MM rest at the end
  • Updated extra navigation shortcuts to handle MMRests appropriately
  • Updated offsets of Gonville's top & bottom bracket glyphs
  • "Add clef" shortcuts are now allowed to also work in normal mode
  • Fixed an issue of clicking footer text corrupting parts
  • Fixed an issue of continuous view stopping repeats from working in playback
  • Fixed a crash when drag-and-dropping a breath & pause or rest symbol from the score to a custom palette
  • Fixed a crash on flipping beam across system break
  • Fixed an issue of status bar not showing concert pitch of octave transposing instruments
  • Fixed an issue of ambitus not being correctly calculated for (octave) transposing instruments
  • Fixed crashes when pasting fret diagram without chord symbol in score with parts
  • Fixed an issue of instrument change data not being properly saved in linked staves
  • Fixed an issue of flipping “above” breaths/pauses to “below” when pasting a measure with them
  • Now possible to flip breaths/pauses using X
  • Fixed an issue of alpha (transparency) not showing on several symbols and Elements
  • Create Time Signature dialog now doesn't add unnecessary special text whenever the internal value of nominator or denominator is changed
  • Added fractional Time Signatures Support
  • Fixed an issue of unintended loss of denominator in Time Signatures
  • Fixed an issue of exporting to WAV, OGG, FLAC files with path name that contains non-ASCII characters
  • Fixed crashes after updating due to qmlcache
  • Adjusted the size of a settings field for multimeasure rests
  • Fixed an issue of workspace being changed to Basic when changing language settings
  • Fixed a crash when doing file operations after changing translations in preferences
  • Fixed an issue of corruption caused by editing certain tuplets
  • Fixed a crash caused by Start Center if there is no Internet connection
  • Fixed a crash on DPI change in preferences
  • Fixed a crash when inserting a new measure within a melisma
  • Fixed an issue of a pair of acciaccaturas showing two slashes instead of one

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.1.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.5

06 Aug 10:05

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August 06, 2020

New features

  • Option available in Preferences for playback of chord symbols
  • Mid-staff instrument changes now do almost everything automatically
  • Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
  • Hairpins, voltas, and other lines now adapt anchor points when dragged
  • Splash screen displays progress messages while loading MuseScore
  • Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
  • Select Similar Elements: Same Beat
  • New Score Wizard now automatically numbers instruments
  • Property for beam style of tremolo (all strokes attached to stem)
  • Style for hiding brackets which span to a single staff when empty staves are hidden
  • Properties and styles for measure number positioning, including cantered and below staff
  • Property and style for position of multimeasure rest numbers
  • Property for fretboard diagram rotation

Improvements

  • Double-click a header, footer, or instrument name to access the dialog for editing it
  • Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
  • Improved layout of two-note and single-note tremolos, with and without stem
  • Smooth scrolling during playback in Continuous view
  • Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
  • Metric modulation for dotted eighth to quarter
  • Automatic collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
  • Staff property to automatically merge rests between voices
  • Allow selection of multiple similar items with shift+click
  • Allow repeating a note by clicking a notehead then pressing R in normal mode
  • Changes made in Preferences are applied significantly faster
  • Style options to align chord symbols within systems
  • More zoom controls
  • Additional plugin capabilities
  • Altered keyboard and mouse zoom precision and consistency
  • Improved performance of applying preferences
  • Chords playback is on by default (untick the "play" property to disable it)
  • Adding notes to a tuplet now adds them with respect to the tuplet's space
  • MuseScore 3 is now available as a Windows PortableApp
  • Altered Shift+L/R for leading space while in edit mode upon notehead
  • All symbols are now available for the plugins

Fixes

  • JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
  • Loop playback skipped final rests in the last measure
  • MIDI note-off events were not sent in some cases
  • Undoing slur addition to a range only removed one slur
  • Canceling a selection worked incorrectly in some cases
  • macOS package was not notarized in Apple
  • Various fixes for the text editing process
  • Fixed an issue when hiding notes or rests in a voice > 1 causes stems/beams to flip in a bad and unexpected way
  • Fixed an issue when two grace notes disabling vertical chord alignment (Maximum Shift Above)
  • Fixed an issue when "maximum shift above" leading to layout weirdness if measure has rhythm slashes and rests
  • Fixed an issue with inactive "Realize chord symbols" command
  • Fixed an issue when key signature appears in multiple places on the single staff
  • Fixed an issue with missing grid of measures in the "timeline" view
  • Fixed an issue with appearing of empty dialog during the "Save Online"
  • Fixed an crash during the drag & drop of volta in continuous view
  • Brackets were displaced in Continuous View
  • Nested tuplets in linked staves led to corruption
  • Octave selection was inconsistent in note input mode
  • Voices worked incorrectly in the parts dialog in some cases
  • Misclicking when attempting to create a range selection caused the current selection to be lost
  • On-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts was broken in some cases
  • Smooth scrolling worked wrong in Continuous view when dealing with repeats
  • Saving Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) file didn't work
  • Fixed zoom-box 100% selection bug
  • Fixed a bug with ignoring of blank lines at top of text elements
  • Fixed an issue when cut/paste, drag/drop in Piano Roll Editor does not preserve NoteEvent values
  • Fixed a playback of chord symbols attached to fret diagrams
  • Fixed a note entry suggested position with no selection and last selected note in voice > 1
  • Fixed a display of the bold and underlined texts
  • Fixed the "Save Online" on AppImages

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5: https://musescore.org/en/node/308610.

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.0.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.5 Release Candidate

16 Jul 14:23

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Pre-release

July 16, 2020

Improvements

  • Altered keyboard and mouse zoom precision and consistency
  • Improved performance of applying preferences
  • Chords playback is on by default (untick the "play" property to disable it)
  • Adding notes to a tuplet now adds them with respect to the tuplet's space
  • MuseScore 3 is now available as a Windows PortableApp
  • Altered Shift+L/R for leading space while in edit mode upon notehead
  • All symbols are now available for the plugins

Fixes

  • Fixed zoom-box 100% selection bug
  • Fixed a bug with ignoring of blank lines at top of text elements
  • Fixed an issue when cut/paste, drag/drop in Piano Roll Editor does not preserve NoteEvent values
  • Fixed a playback of chord symbols attached to fret diagrams
  • Fixed a note entry suggested position with no selection and last selected note in voice > 1
  • Fixed a display of the bold and underlined texts
  • Fixed the "Save Online" on AppImages

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5rc.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5 Release Candidate: https://musescore.org/en/node/307703.

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.0-RC.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.5 Beta

10 Jun 16:17

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MuseScore 3.5 Beta Pre-release
Pre-release

June 10, 2020

New Features

  • Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
  • Select Similar Elements: Same Beat

Improvements

  • The new algorithm of collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
  • Allow multiple similar items selection with shift+click
  • Allow "repeating a note" by clicking a notehead then pressing "R" in normal mode
  • Applying changes made in Preferences took too long

Fixes

  • Brackets were displaced in Continuous View
  • Nested tuplets in linked staves led to corruption
  • Octave selection was inconsistent in note input mode
  • Voices worked incorrectly in the parts dialog in some cases
  • Misclicking when attempting to create a range selection caused the current selection to be lost
  • On-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts was broken in some cases
  • Smooth scrolling worked wrong in Continuous view when dealing with repeats
  • Saving Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) file didn't work

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5beta.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5 Beta: https://musescore.org/en/node/306547.

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.0-Beta.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.5 Alpha

06 May 15:19

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MuseScore 3.5 Alpha Pre-release
Pre-release

May 6, 2020

New Features

  • Option available in Preferences for playback of chord symbols
  • Mid-staff instrument changes now do almost everything automatically
  • Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
  • Hairpins, voltas, and other lines now adapt anchor points when dragged
  • Much more functional piano roll editor
  • Splash screen displays status messages while loading MuseScore
  • New Score Wizard automatically numbers instruments
  • Property for beam style of tremolo (all strokes attached to stem)
  • Style for hiding brackets which span to a single staff when empty staves are hidden
  • Properties and styles for measure number positioning, including centered and below staff
  • Property and style for position of multimeasure rest numbers
  • Property for fretboard diagram rotation

Improvements

  • Double-click a header, footer, or instrument name to access the dialog for editing it
  • Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
  • Improved layout of two-note and single-note tremolos, with and without stem
  • Smooth scrolling during playback in Continuous view
  • Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
  • Metric modulation for dotted eighth to quarter

Fixes

  • JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
  • Loop playback skipped final rests in the last measure
  • MIDI note-off events were not sent in some cases
  • Undoing slur addition to a range only removed one slur
  • Canceling a selection worked incorrectly in some cases
  • macOS package was not notarized in Apple
  • Various fixes for the text editing process

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5alpha.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5 Alpha (more than 260 issues fixed and improvements made): https://musescore.org/en/node/303876.

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.0-Alpha.zip instead.

[hidden] MuseScore 3.5 Pre-Alpha

04 May 21:42

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Pre-release

May 4, 2020

New

  • Playback of Chord Symbols
  • Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
  • Fretboard diagrams can now be rotated

Improvements

  • Usability of the change instrument feature
  • Usability of interactive editing hairpins, dynamics and lines
  • Layout of tremolos
  • Piano roll editor functionality: copy-paste notes, zoom and more
  • Smooth scrolling in Continuous view
  • Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
  • Double-click instrument names to access the Staff/Part properties dialog
  • Double-click a header or footer to access the dialog for editing it
  • Show the status messages on splash screen while loading MuseScore
  • Usability of the palette search
  • Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
  • Various improvements to the Plugin API

Fixes

  • JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
  • Loop playback was incorrect regarding the last beat of the last measure
  • MIDI note-off events were not sent in some cases
  • Undoing slur addition to a range only removed one slur
  • Canceling a selection worked incorrectly in some cases
  • macOS package was not notarised in Apple
  • Various fixes for the text editing process

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5alpha.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5 Alpha (more than 260 issues fixed and improvements made): https://musescore.org/en/node/303876.

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.5.0-Alpha.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.4.2

07 Feb 12:45

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February 7, 2020

Fixes

  • Telemetry dialog was not accessible for visually impaired people
  • Drum input palette worked incorrectly due to the changes involving single click behaviour
  • MuseScore crashed when pressing numbers/letters in a different voice when inputting tabs
  • Hidden pedal items were no longer displayed
  • "L" letter could not be typed when entering text

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.4.2

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.4.2.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.4.1

25 Jan 13:45

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January 25, 2020

Fixes

  • MuseScore crashed after closing a menu bar pop-up window if no score is opened
  • Audio glitches on note input and playback happened on macOS and other platforms
  • Parts corruption happened on timewise delete of individual beats
  • Crash happened when undoing "Beam middle" setting on a single note
  • Pedal lines alignment applied to the whole system, not individual staff

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.4.1

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.4.1.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.4

24 Jan 12:21

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January 24, 2020

New

  • Apply palette elements with a single click if there is a selection in the score
  • Allow dragging notes horizontally
  • Slurs, hairpins and other elements can be edited after single click
  • Add middle adjustment handle for beams, for moving whole beam vertically

Improvements

  • Double click is not needed to reach edit mode anymore
  • Introduce section break properties, bend properties in the Inspector
  • Allow access to several properties window in the Inspector
  • Name of the newly created custom palette can be specified
  • Accessibility: improve speech for elements with spanners
  • Embed Tremolo Bar editor to the inspector

Fixes

  • "Don't play trill" option silenced the note playback
  • Slurs on small staves were displaced in some cases
  • Barline handles were drawn incorrectly after dragging one
  • Strings in the Part dialogue were ambiguous
  • Y Offset value of fretboards didn't restore after undoing the values being changed from Edit Mode
  • Replacing a note with an accidental left the accidental on the new note
  • Adding Intervals (above/below) didn't take into consideration the accidental toggle state
  • Multiple chord symbols attached to same note didn't copy as part of the range
  • Strings in fret diagrams without "X" or "O" displayed as "?" on Linux
  • MuseScore crashed when changing a triplet's rest's duration
  • Images attached to rests weren't imported from MuseScore 2
  • Tremolo Bar dialog had multiple UX issues
  • AppImage: system printers weren't available in the print dialog

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.4

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.4.0.zip instead.

MuseScore 3.4 Release Candidate

18 Jan 16:16

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Pre-release

January 18, 2020

New

  • Add middle adjustment handle for beams, for moving whole beam vertically
  • Add command-line option for transposing scores

Improvements

  • Embed Tremolo Bar editor to the inspector

Fixes

  • MuseScore crashed when changing the duration of a triplet's rest
  • Images attached to rests weren't imported from MuseScore 2
  • Tremolo Bar dialog had multiple UX issues
  • AppImage: system printers weren't available in the print dialog

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.4rc

Important note!

Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.4.0-RC.zip instead.