MuseScore 4.1.1 Release

This release fixes a number of crashes and introduces some stability improvements.

MuseScore 4.1 Release

New features in MuseScore 4.1

• New engraving and playback support for ornaments, including the ability to set custom alterations for trills, turns and mordents
• A major improvement to the app's performance, allowing larger scores to play back up to 60% more efficiently
• A dedicated new default reverb, which can be adjusted for each instrument track as well as globally across the entire mix
• New auxiliary sends in the mixer, allowing instrument tracks to be routed to dedicated auxiliary channel strips for applying audio effects
• New engraving and playback support for capos on guitar staves
• New feature for displaying harp pedal diagrams
• Dynamics and expression text now automatically combine, plus new controls for scaling and positioning dynamics
• New live Braille module, including a panel that displays selected measures as Braille music notation (enabling more efficient score reading on Braille displays)
• Upload audio directly to audio.com, allowing you to build a portfolio of your audio content to share with the world 
• View and open your online scores from musescore.com directly from the desktop app 

Other updates

• Save to cloud: option to make a score "unlisted"
• Publish to musescore.com: option to either replace the existing published score, or publish the score as a new file
• New loading screen when opening multiple instances of the app on macOS 
• Fixed syllable-based pasting of lyrics
• A more reliable VST scanning process
• Around 100 engraving fixes and improvements (Read this article on musescore.org for a complete list)
• Numerous bug fixes

MuseScore 4.1 Release Candidate

See dedicated project with changelog

MuseScore 4.0.2 Release

This patch release contains fixes for numerous issues, and also includes some significant usability and engraving improvements.

Score corruption fixes

• Multiple issues causing score corruption have been fixed
• Part scores are now scanned for corruptions
• There is now a more comprehensive system for alerting you when there are corruptions identified on your score (including a mechanism to help you avoid saving those corruptions)

Usability improvements

• The Properties panel has been improved so it's possible to edit the visibility, colour and play settings of individual notes within chords
• Toggling visibility of notes within chords now produces more predictable results
• Images in frames can now be deleted
• Parts can now be reset to their original layout
• The UI is now easier to interact with when the user is holding the mouse unsteadily
• The audio export process can now be cancelled
• There's a new feature to save relevant diagnostic files (making it easier to get support from MuseScore developers)

Performance enhancements

• Major improvements to how MuseScore handles with WASAPI (Benefits Windows users)

Bugs squashed and regressions repaired

• Various crashes have been fixed (including numerous VST-related crashes)
• Zoom controls in the status bar are easier to use and more intuitive
• Various problems with the visual behaviour of the app on second monitors are now resolved
• Text line spacing option has been reinstated in Properties
• Some playback problems have been resolved, including when entering tablature notation, and when changing the tempo using the tempo slider
• Multiple other minor bug fixes

A ton of engraving fixes and improvements

• Multiple fixes to system-line objects
• Several errors arising from setting notes to cue size are resolved
• Fixes to the behaviour of system objects
• Various fixes to the behaviour of stems
• Voices now align correctly in 'full' tab staves
• Sticking in percussion music no longer breaks slurs
• Slurs now show correctly in parts when only some voices are displayed
• Cross-page glissando lines have been finessed
• Various collisions have been resolved (clefs and key signatures, accidentals and cross-staff beams)

Please see the 4.0.2 project for the complete list of issues addressed in this release

MuseScore 4.0.1 Release

Highlights

• Fixed a crash on startup with specific VST instruments present
• Fixed a crash on deleting particular staves
• Fixed a hang on startup involving WASAPI
• Fixed corruption on adding or removing beats or measures in certain cases
• Fixed shortcuts using numeric keypad
• Fixed issues involving system elements and parts
• Fixed issues with playback start position
• Fixed chord symbol playback on transposing staves

For the full list of changes, please see dedicated project.

MuseScore 4.0 Release

See all the task and issues resolved for this release

Please note, that in order to get MuseSounds and MuseFX you'll need to download MuseHub separately, which is also a recommended tool for installation of the MuseScore 4.0.

MuseScore 4.0 Release Candidate 1

See dedicated project with changelog

MuseScore 4.0 Beta

See dedicated project with changelog

MuseScore 4.0 Alpha 2

See dedicated project with changelog

MuseScore 3.6.2 Stable

February 08, 2021

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with gap between staff and final barline with courtesy clef
• Fixed an issue when removing spanners from measures outside of the rewrite range
• Fixed an accessibility issue with the score migration dialog
• Fixed a crash related to QtWebEngineProcess after update
• Fixed an issue with timeline showing part name rather than instrument name
• Fixed an issue with focus of dockable windows when visibility is toggled
• Fixed an issue where custom gliss text reverts to default "gliss"
• Added missing Flügelhorns to instrument ordering definitions
• Fixed an issue where beams cannot be connected over quarter rests
• Fixed an issue where staff spacers do not work on last system of page
• Fixed an issue with broken swapping of notes/chords with Shift + Left/Right
• Fixed an issue with incomplete import from ScoreScan XML file
• Fixed an issue with unsaved default settings to pre-3.6 score after 'reset styles to default'
• Fixed an issue with Banjo fifth string fret numbers
• Fixed an issue where invisible breath marks impact layout
• Fixed a crash during the opening of a score with a missing section break
• Applying tremolo is now a toggle operation
• Fixed an issue where the Mixer panel is not fully shown when opened
• Fixed an issue where an empty rehearsal mark is not deleted after entering a system break
• Fixed an issue where multi-measure rest numbers can collide with other elements
• Fixed an issue where deleting a breath/caesura leads to the wrong note being selected
• Fixed an issue when parts inherit non-default style from score
• Fixed a crash when changing time signature at the beginning of a corrupted measure
• Fixed an issue with unreadable chord symbols
• Updated the close icon for Import Midi Panel (and Find/GoTo)
• Fixed an issue with auto-sizing of vertical frames when dragging the height handle