Release notes for MuseScore 3.5 Release Candidate (July 16, 2020)
Build number | Date | Announcement |
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macOS 10.10+: 3.5.0.28145, Windows 7+ (32 and 64-bit): 3.5.0.12799, Linux AppImage: 3.5.0 (revision: fb3c202c) | 2020-07-16 | https://musescore.org/en/3.5rc |
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
List of other issues resolved
Here is a complete list of all the other issues resolved and improvements made in this update:
Playback
- #305069: Chord symbols attached to fret diagrams don't play back
- #306524: Control playback speed with the keyboard
Layout and automatic placement
- Optimized chord symbol/fretboard alignment algorithm
- #4867: Rests in measures should be grouped according to time signature
- #306821: Huge spaces between music staves and tablature with offset rests in voice >1
- #306438: Wrong default position of Chord Symbols attached to fret diagrams
- #306750: Chord symbol alignment incorrectly forces alignment between above & below chords and across staves
- #306751: Chord symbol alignment changes default position without reason
- #306371: Note Entry - wrong position with no selection and last selected note in voice >1
- #307047: An issue of deciding stem lengths with tremolos
- #294768: Tremolos for small chords remain big in 3.x
- Slightly alter the position of one-note tremolo strokes to make them look better
- Setting a decent default (3.0sp) for the chord symbol alignment algorithm.
Linked staves and parts
- #304880: Wrong stem length in generated parts
Images
- #292606: Image attached to a measure doesn't show
- #307741: images attached to measures don't propagate between score and existing parts
Usability
- #306560: Toolbar zoom box does nothing
- #306598: Canvas: impossible to choose a custom zoom default, difficult to override in toolbar
- #306612: Cannot insert horizontal frame from another frame using palette
- #276671: Note input mode is incorrecrly switched for tabulatures and drumsets
- #306509: Improvements to zoom functionality
- #299214: Reimplement Shift+L/R for leading space while in edit mode upon notehead
- #305871: Add ability to change note to tuplet to right click menu in Piano Roll Editor
- #305876: Make dragging note in PRE visible for tools other than Select
- #306807: Go to empty trailing measure bug
Piano Roll Editor
- #305694: Cut/paste, drag/drop in Piano Roll Editor does not preserve NoteEvent value
Text
- #307075: [Windows, Linux] Bold and underlined text is not displayed properly
- #306633: Status bar text does not update after editing text
- #307721: Blank lines ignored at top of text elements
Visual interface
- #306480: Inconsistent status bar keywords
- #306502: Toolbar item states are incorrect after applying preferences
- #306512: Improvements to the splash screen
- #306832: Time signature properties are just showing a black box
Corruptions and/or loss of data, crashes
- #306816: Crash when select Realize Chord Symbols by right clicking chord symbol with Fretboard Diagram
- #305293: Crash on load if percussion staff with no drumset uses custom notehead
- #306964: Crash when changing the numerical value of Fretboard Diagram “Maximum shift above” and then delete chord symbol
- #306517: Crash with fotomode (when switching out of it)
- #306917: Crash on tie in score with parts
- #302573: Crash undoing add instruments
Plugins
- #306878: Plugins with dialogs open their dialog in the background (behind the main MuseScore window)
- #306551: Make all symbols accessible to plugins
MusicXML, Capella, MIDI, audio files, svg export/import
- #306317: Multi-page scores yield invalid MusicXML
- #305313: MuseScore generates unparseable MusicXML for ampersands in chord names
- #306725: [MusicXML] - articulations soft accent, stress and unstress not imported or exported
Performance
- #293203: Apply/OK of Preferences is very slow
Accessibility
- #113551: Missing screenreader output to state whether you are in Note Input mode or not
- #306726: [Accessibility] - Note input in MuseScore 3.5 beta not read
- #306222: Screen Readers: No speech for add/remove element shortcut
- #47326: Text on scores not read by screen readers while editing it
- Screen readers: Say accessible info and message together
Miscellaneous
- #307005: Chord playback default not consistent
- #307593: Prevent duplicated icon on Ubuntu
- #281616: MuseScore 3 is not available as a PortableApp on Windows
- #306333: Various type of edits change the measure count
- #306603: Measure number vertical offset interpreted incorrectly
- #306234:
smoothPan
ignores repeats - #154816: Shortcuts may produce wrong notes in repitch mode on percussion staves
- #298820: Can't minimize Musescore or change virtual desktop on Linux with Gnome-based desktop environments
- #286144: No or wrong text styles assigned to subtitle, composer, lyricist, name of the part in parts of scores imported from MuseScore 2
- #306936: Rhythm mode: duration command should use pitch of previous note where possible
- #306687: Rhythm input cancels triple/quadruple dots
- #306560: Adding notes to a tuplet now adds them with respect to the tuplet's space.
- Use "Merge matching rests" in the closed score SATB and barbershop templates
Developers' area
- Fix version concatenating to the MuseScore*.zip source code archive
- AppImage: Bundle libssl1.0.0 (OpenSSL) to fix Save Online
- GitHub Actions: Don't use cached Recipe for AppImage
- fix translation of barline names in barlines inspector