Developers' handbook

Getting started

• Your first code contribution
• How to write a good bug report: step-by-step instructions
• How to use a debug version of MuseScore
• Command line options
• Translating MuseScore
• Follow us on Development Blog

Compilation

Compile instructions (All Platforms)

• Compile instructions - Windows (Git)
  • Compile instructions (Visual Studio)
  • Compile instructions (MinGW) (deprecated)
    • Qt Creator 4.x compile instructions
  • Compile instructions (Windows - MSVC with Qt Creator)
• Compile instructions - macOS (Git)
  • Compile instructions (macOS) - Git
• Compile instructions - Linux/BSD - (Git)
  • Compile instructions (Linux and BSD) - Git
  • Compile instructions (Ubuntu) - Git
  • Compile instructions (Fedora) - Git
    • Compile instructions (Fedora 20) - Git
  • Compile instructions (openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed) - Git
  • Compiling with crash reporter support

IDE Configuration

Finding your way around

• Testing
• Automated tests
• Exploring code and data structures
• Finding crashes
• Git workflow
• MuseScore coding rules

Packaging for different Operating Systems

• Packaging for Linux and BSD systems (maintainer wishlist)

UX Design

• Proposing a change to design
• Design reviews and responses

References

• Design and implementation
  • MuseScore internal score representation
• Distribution maintainers
• Milestones
• Version information
• Scrapbook of feature changes and additions (outdated)
• Design
  • Branding
  • Design principles
  • Icon set
  • Palette design
  • Relevant art
  • Sandbox
  • Theme
  • Text style guide
  • Website
    • Homepage
  • Workflow
• Development infrastructure
• Instruments.xml documentation
• MuseScore roadmap
  • Remarks for MuseScore3, bugs, issues
• Release history
• User handbook generation
• Release check list
• Developer group chats

Plugin development

• Available plugins
• Plugin development handbook (1.x)
• Plugins for 3.x

Release notes

• Release notes for MuseScore 3.6.2 (February 8, 2021)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.6.1 (January 27, 2021)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.6.0 (January 14, 2021)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.5.2 (October 16, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.5.1 (October 9, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.5.0 (August 6, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.4.2 (February 7, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.4.1 (January 25, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.4.0 (January 24, 2020)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.3.4 (December 4, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.3.3 (November 26, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.3.2 (November 14, 2019)
• (Release notes for MuseScore 3.3.1 (November 13, 2019))
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.3.0 (October 31, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.2.3 (July 8, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.2.2 (June 30, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.2.1 (June 28, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.2.0 (June 25, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.1.0 (May 28, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.5 (March 12, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.4 (February 28, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.3 (February 26, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.2 (January 29, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.1 (January 15, 2019)
• Release notes for MuseScore 3.0.0 (December 24, 2018)
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.3.2
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.3.1
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.3
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.2.1
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.2
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.1
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.0.3
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.0.2
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.0.1
• Release notes for MuseScore 2.0
• Release notes for MuseScore 1.3
• Release notes for MuseScore 1.2
• Release notes for MuseScore 1.1
• Release notes for MuseScore 1.0
• Release notes for MuseScore 0.9.6.3
• Release notes for MuseScore 0.9.6.2
• Release notes for MuseScore 0.9.6.1
• New features in MuseScore 0.9.6
• New features in MuseScore 0.9.5
• New features in MuseScore 0.9.4
• MuseScore 0.9.3 released

Events

• Music Hack Day

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