Releases: musescore/MuseScore
Releases · musescore/MuseScore
MuseScore 3.5
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.MuseScore 3.4 Beta
December 26, 2019
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 a single click
Improvements
- Double click is not needed to reach edit mode anymore
- Introduce bend properties in the Inspector
- Name of the newly created custom palette can be specified
- Accessibility: improve speech for elements with spanners
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
More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.4beta