Releases: musescore/MuseScore
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
Important note!
Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.4.0-Beta.zip instead.Musescore 3.3.4
December 4, 2019
Fixes
- Palette names were scrambled and nearly impossible to read (Windows 7)
- Scale of palette was incorrect for high and low DPI displays
- Courtesy accidentals disappeared after an octave change using Ctrl(Cmd)+Up/Down
- Crash reports could not be sent
More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.3.4
Important note!
Revision number (in mscore/revision.h) is incorrect in the assets automatically generated by GitHub. Use MuseScore-3.3.4.zip instead.Musescore 3.3.3
November 26, 2019
Improvements
- Tie button behaves as a toggle now
- Enable changing notes duration if selecting note stem, hook or a range
- Visual improvements for palettes
- Mark notes that are out of instrument range with red or yellow color even when they are selected
- Save Online is now fully synchronised with the musescore.com upload page
Fixes
- Export Pdf on Mac with Muse Jazz Text was garbled and unreadable if no printers were setup on a machine
- Entering notes with mouse failed in Italian TAB
- Scoreview jumped back to start of score during note input on (auto)save
- Sticking could not be copy-pasted
- Extensions could not be installed on macOS Catalina
More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.3.3