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MuseScore 0.9.6.3 bug fix release is available for download. Installation packages are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Linux users have to wait for their distribution maintainers to make a package.

If you installed the release candidate, please uninstall it and upgrade to this version.

During the past month, MuseScore development team has fixed more than 12 bugs on the MuseScore 0.9.6 code, in particular: #6775: Seg. fault by double clicking any element twice.

You can

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Next Thursday, 23 September, I will be giving a presentation/demonstration on/of MuseScore at the College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference in Minneapolis, MN. I would love to hear a little bit from the community, especially those of you involved in education, on how you have used MuseScore. I welcome positive and negative feedback both. I'm especially interested in those of you who have been using MuseScore in a classroom or other educational setting.

MuseScore 0.9.6.2 bug fix release is available for download. Installation packages are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Linux users have to wait for their distribution maintainers to make a package.

During the past month, MuseScore development team has fixed more than 10 bugs on the MuseScore 0.9.6 code. Lots of time has been spent on a critical bug specific to Windows XP and a bug targetting MacOSX on PPC. Special thanks to all the testers, in

I've launched a writing project aimed at raising interest and awareness of open source programs with applications in Music Education. Currently, it's found a home on Examiner.com. The first 3 articles cover the latest stable release of MuseScore.

1. A short review
2. Part one of a project tutorial
3. Tutorial part two

If anyone is interested, they can also follow on Facebook and on Twitter.

Thank you to the site admins here and on MuseScore's Facebook page for expressing their

This is a call for the very first MuseScore User Group (MUG) in London. Werner, Lasconic and myself are coming to London for the Music Hack Day which takes place during the weekend of September 4 & 5th. We are in town few days before, so why not have a gathering for MuseScore users, for both starters and experts?

The MUG format is still open. It can be a MuseScore workshop similar to the one we had in Bordeaux earlier

MuseScore 0.9.6.1 bug fix release is available for download. Installation packages are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Linux users have to wait for their distribution maintainers to make a package.

During the past month, MuseScore development team has fixed 40 bugs on the MuseScore 0.9.6 code. You can find a list of bug fixes in the release notes. This release also comes with 3 new languages under translation: Hebrew, Slovenian and Basque.

Again a new download record: more than 40.000 downloads in one month. In total, MuseScore passed 520.000 downloads. Up to the million mark!

As you can see in the image, a maximum of 2500 downloads was reached on the 9th of June. That is due to the release of 0.9.6. Quickly, it went back to it's previous level of ~1400 downloads per day.

For the next release, we expect another step in the growth of MuseScore with the implementation of

We are proud to annouce the release of MuseScore 0.9.6, our best and most stable release up to date!
Downloads are available for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu and a Linux tarball.

This release comes with many new features, a lot of fixed bugs, new and updated translations, an improved plugin framework and many more improvements. Read more about new features in MuseScore 0.9.6 in your own language: English, Български, Ελληνικά, Français, Galego, Ialiano

MuseScore 0.9.6 Release Candidate 1 is available for download. Packages are available for Windows and MacOS. As soon as there are Linux packages available, we will leave a comment to this post. As always, backup your work and uninstall your current MuseScore installation before installing RC1.

It has been little more than two months, since the release of MuseScore 0.9.6 beta 2. Seems like a lot of time, but that doesn't mean there wasn't any activity. On

MuseScore 0.9.6 beta 2 for Windows and Mac is available for download at http://prereleases.musescore.org/
Please note that it is advised to uninstall MuseScore first before you install 0.9.6 beta 2.

What has changed

• Many bug fixes
• New F keys for Mac OS
• The installation path has changed from "C:\Program Files\MuseScore 0.9" to "C:\Program Files\MuseScore".
• The Windows installation file is 25% smaller in size due to a changed compression setting
• The available handbooks in pdf have been updated. There are a