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We have long had the goal of making MuseScore as accessible for visually impaired users as we can. There are many aspects to what this means, and slowly but surely, we've been progressing toward that.

I would like to start a discussion here about our priorities and strategies. We will of course continue to use the issue tracker for specific bugs or individual feature requests, but let's talk here about the big picture.

For MuseScore 2, we made a big

We are pleased to announce MuseScore 3.2.3. We focused on fixing regressions introduced by significant changes in MuseScore 3.2 as well as introducing the package working on macOS 10.10 and higher.

Download MuseScore 3.2.3 Release

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.10 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

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Highlights

For a complete list of changes, please see the release notes.

Fixes

• Articulations didn't play properly in MDL instruments
• Tuplets layout was broken in some cases
• Fingering jumped unpredictably in

We are pleased to announce a patch release of MuseScore 3.2 series!

Download Musescore 3.2.2 Release

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

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Highlights

For a complete list of changes, please see the release notes.

Fixes

• Significant performance drop on macOS 10.14+ machines
• The Menu Bar entries under Plug-Ins were empty

Important notes

Musescore 3.2.2 is unavailable for macOS 10.10/10.11 builds due to the known not yet fixed issues.

Further reading

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We are pleased to announce a patch release of MuseScore 3.2 series!

Download Musescore 3.2.1 Release

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• macOS 10.10 and 10.11
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

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Highlights

For a complete list of changes, please see the release notes.

New

• Official builds for macOS 10.10 and 10.11 are now available
• More APIs for plugins

Fixes

• Sticking was lost on reloading scores
• The position data of articulations (above, below) was lost after saving
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Today we are pleased to announce Musescore 3.2. In addition to dozens of bug fixes, it introduces some new features and improvements related to user interface.

Download Musescore 3.2 Release

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)
• Unofficial build for macOS 10.10 and 10.11

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Highlights

This update fixes dozens of issues as well as adding a few improvements.
For a complete list of changes, please see the release notes.

New

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Today we are pleased to announce a significant update, MuseScore 3.1. In addition to hundreds of bug fixes, it introduces some new features (including single-note dynamics) and significant improvements related to playback, automatic placement and layout, fretboard diagrams, and performance.

Download MuseScore 3.1 Release

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

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Single-note Dynamics

MuseScore will now play crescendos and diminuendos on single notes; fortepianos and other dynamics that change volume after the beginning of

Today we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate of a significant update, MuseScore 3.1.
This release includes the changes announced in the MuseScore 3.1 Beta release, and it also introduces a few significant improvements related to automatic layout, performance, and fretboard diagrams.

This is a pre-release version of MuseScore 3.1. The final version will be available by the end of the month.

Download MuseScore 3.1 Release Candidate

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

Hello everyone,

We are nearing the release of MuseScore 3.1. Thanks to the recent improvements by Marc (@MarcSabatella), James (@TheOtherJThistle) and many other contributors (we will acknowledge them later) MuseScore 3.1 has become the most stable and full-featured version of MuseScore ever.

Timeline

May, 22

We are going to prepare the Release Candidate on May 22. If you know about any regressions in MuseScore 3.1 Beta compared to MuseScore 3.0.5, please let us know so we can quickly prepare a

Today we are pleased to announce the Beta release of a significant update, MuseScore 3.1.

Download MuseScore 3.1 Beta Release

MuseScore 3.1 Beta can be installed along with the stable release.

Both versions will share the same data directory Documents/MuseScore3. Files created in MuseScore 3.1 are fully compatible with MuseScore 3.0.5.

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• macOS 10.12 or higher

• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)

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Highlights

There are a few major features which are requested all the time, e.g. the first

Today we are pleased to release MuseScore 3.0.5.

The focus of this release was performance and stability. We reached an incredible boost in optimization so MuseScore 3 is now faster than MuseScore 2, but is still powerful with the smart layout feature. The crash reporter facility introduced in MuseScore 3.0.3 lets us concentrate on fixing the most frequent crashes. MuseScore 3.0.5 introduces the patch for the crash on startup on macOS, which was reported dozens of times.

Download MuseScore 3.0.5