Version history for MuseScore (32-bit)

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Changes for v2.2.1 - v2.3.1

• New features
• #273032: Implement extensions to provide an easy way to install soundfont, templates and instruments.xml
• #256021: Add buzz roll tremolo stem
• #271198: Add a more flexible way to choose noteheads in drumset for percussion instrument
• #271723: Implement filters in Zerberus
• #272276: Add ability to have a different MIDI pitch for drum instrument based on articulation or tremolo
• Implemented flams and crush notation for unpitched percussion
• Playback
• Fix #270996: No sound on upgrade to 2.2 if default soundfont was saved as default
• Fix #271717: Match the default tempo in New Score Wizard
• Fix #272377: 'Follow text' is not applied to tempo text
• Zerberus
• Fix #222031: remove ties and spanners when removing induvidual notes within a chord
• Fix #271718: clicking noise fix
• Fix #271719: sound accumulation on noteOff
• Fix #271722: long release samples do not play in their entirety
• Fix #272687: Unable to select an SFZ playback for a drum instrument
• Fix #273150: incorrect off_by processing
• Fix #273241: incorrect loading sample when use comment line
• User interface
• #273511: Order notes in Drum Input Palette like in instruments.xml
• #269952: Allow new templates to be seen without restart
• Follow macOS platform conventions for window title and dirty state
• Use setWindowModified to display * in window title
• Fix #8808: Add option to limit scroll area of the navigator and the score view
• Fix #117236: Honor 'pan score' button during edits
• Fix #153691: Drumtools palette not closing when switching between files
• Fix #268016: No message on second keyboard shortcut already in use
• Fix #271074: Image capture with transparent background empty when pasting into other programs on Windows (reverted Fix #209596: Screencapture + Copy + Transparency issue)
• Fix #271935: Wrong voice button is highlighted after unsuccessful voice change
• Fix #273672: Right align "Double augmentation dot" in preferences dialog
• Fix #272153: Notes for transposing instrument are shown in concert pitch on piano control
• Crashes and corruptions fixed
• Fix #76751: MuseScore crashes when opening plugin manager after adding new plugin
• Fix #270850: Changes to a score cause all fermatas over a barline to be discarded
• Fix #271039: crash when closing score after changing tempo in play panel
• Fix #271161: crashes on certain tuplets due to failure to sanitize
• Fix #271299: Errors with multiple clefs
• Fix #271325: Adjusting a note outside the range of a piano causes a crash when the piano keyboard is visible.
• Fix #272172: Remove tuplets after inserting measures causes corruption/crash
• Fix crash in MusicXML import when drumset instrument has no midi-unpitched
• Score layout
• Fix #253926: Key signature not displaying correctly on clef change at the start of a score
• Fix #267602: Measure shifts back and forth with each layout
• Fix #269404: Line/Ottava Text properties do not apply user-defined vertical offsetting properly
• Fix #271187: Bad canvas position when operating near right margin with vertical stacking
• Fix #271450: Double-click to set breaks on frames
• Fix #271529: Incorrect stem position for some noteheads in layout
• Fix #272023: Downstem mirrored notes lose accidental
• Fix #272066: Canvas improperly positioned when setting zoom level
• Fix #272390: Measure numbering by interval should take 1st measure number into account
• Fix #272691: No naturals in key sig after mmrest
• Fix #273555: Checking "Show first" with an interval of 1 for measure numbers only shows measure number 1
• Fix #273305: Courtesy clef hide/show issue
• Instruments
• Reworked instruments.xml
• Fix #271103: Add 7-string guitar and Cavaquinho (4-strings guitar)
• Add missing 5-string staff type, append 7- and 8-string tablature types
• Don't show presets for more strings than the instrument is set up for, esp. counting only fretted strings, i.e. non-open strings
• Import/Export
• Fix #271707: MusicXML export: crash when exporting hairpins
• Fix #271840: MusicXML import: no barlines when using property
• Fix #272062: Opening of some MusicXML files caused MuseScore to crash
• Miscellaneous
• Fix #270496: Add missing elements to incomplete tuplets when reading from a file
• Fix #272042: Saved preferences override command line options
• Debian fix: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898757. Fix crash when starting with piano open.
• Allow path to be relative to stored album file
• Fix #273660 : MIDI Keyboard Not Responded when Pressed Before Opening a Score

Changes for v2.0.3 - v2.1

• New note input modes allow you to play music on a MIDI keyboard in real time and have MuseScore transcribe both pitches and rhythms, either using the built-in metronome or your foot pedal to keep the tempo
• New input mode to allow entry of rhythm first, pitches later
• New command to rewrite rhythms to show beat divisions according to time signature rules
• New and improved commands to change duration of existing notes while in note input mode, including adding and removing augmentation dots
• Synthesizer improvements, including updates to the default SoundFont and better support for SFZ format
• Ability to upload audio to MuseScore.com along with your score, so others can hear your score with your chosen SoundFont or SFZ
• Improved historical tablature support, including lute bass strings
• When changing instruments mid-score (e.g., from flute to clarinet), the transposition is now handled correctly
• Improved selection controls, including the ability to select notes of the same pitch, duration, or notehead, and the ability to select or deselect all element types in the Selection Filter
• New command to swap selection with clipboard (simultaneously paste to and copy from the selected range)
• More controls: ability to reorder score tabs, customize pause length of breaths and caesuras, add/remove brackets on accidentals, set MP3 bitrate, add page breaks when creating albums, include fingering in tablature staves
• New and improved templates and instruments, including various marching bands and percussion ensembles, a general percussion staff, more standard clefs for basses, additional ethnic instruments
• UI improvements in Staff Properties, New Score Wizard, Edit Drumset, and other windows
• There are many more improvements than that, including some under the hood

Changes for v2.0 RC 1 - v2.0.0

• User interface
• Continuous view - scroll horizontally through your score with no line or page breaks
• Start Center - start-up window which lets you easily pick up your work in progress or create new scores—and includes old MuseScore Connect, which puts a MuseScore composer in the spotlight and links to the MuseScore music sharing website and social media
• Inspector panel - easily alter parameters (e.g., positioning) of any element
• Piano keyboard - on-screen piano keyboard for note entry
• Customizable palettes and workspaces Basic and Advanced workspaces included by default, or define your own
• Usability
• Selection filter - choose which types of elements to select for copy and paste operations
• Re-pitch mode - replace pitches without changing rhythms
• Image capture mode - save rectangular selections as graphics
• Explode/Implode - separate chords onto multiple staves, or combine multiple staves into chords
• More precise manual adjustments - nudge nearly any element any direction with keyboard or Inspector
• Musical notation
• Tablature support - variety of tab notation styles for guitar, bass, lute, and more
• Fret diagrams - easily create diagrams and set up your own palette of commonly used chords
• Dynamic text styles - changes automatically apply to all elements with that style
• New fonts - three musical fonts to choose from, with matching text fonts
• Flexible chord symbols - enter chord symbols using any common spellings, including support for German and solfege note naming and lower case minor chords
• Slash notation - fill selection with beat slashes, or convert notated rhythms to slashes on, above, or below staff
• Layout improvements - automatic correct positioning and spacing for multi-voice chords and rests, dots, accidentals, ties, articulations, hairpins, pedal markings, voltas, etc.
• More supported notations - pedal change markings, grace notes after (trill endings), falls/doits/scoops/plops/bends, bagpipe embellishments, figured bass, ambitus, early music notations, more flexible time signatures, and a huge set of additional music symbols from Steinberg's new open source Bravura music font
• Import/Export
• Guitar Pro import - supports GP3, GP4, GP5, and GPX formats
• Import PDF - addition of an OMR service to import PDF files
• MusicXML import/export improvements - greater compatibility with other applications, ability to control degree of layout to be preserved
• MIDI import improvements - automatic simplification of rhythms, handling of multiple voices
• MP3 export - in addition to other audio formats WAV, FLAC and OGG
• Save online - improved integration with musescore.com for online publishing
• Playback
• New SoundFont - MuseScore's own more realistic Fluid R3
• Mid-score instrument changes - play a different instrument on the same staff
• Flexible swing style - swing eighth note or sixteenth note, set swing ratio
• Improved JACK support - for interoperability with other MIDI and audio programs
• Playback of more score markings - crescendo, decrescendo, smart tempo text interpretation, tremolo, mordents, improved repeats and voltas, etc.
• Score management
• Linked parts - changes in score automatically reflect in parts and vice versa
• Albums - combine several scores, e.g. multiple movements, into albums
• Styles - define and apply custom score styles, select default styles for scores and for parts
• Split and join measures - divide measure into shorter ones or combine measures into longer one
• Accessibility
• Keyboard shortcuts - expanded availability of actions and many more shortcuts by default
• Documentation - extended handbook, available in print-friendly HTML and as PDF download
• Translations - into more than 50 languages, which can receive updates via the web
• Screen reader - support for NVDA screen reader (Windows-only) to read the music verbally
• Contextual help - new online help (F1) system aggregating online help resources

Changes for v2.0 Beta 2 - v2.0 RC 1

• In addition to the bug fixes and updated translations, this release candidate comes with one important new feature - upload to musescore.com is now supported. So you can now share you scores online, just as was possible with MuseScore 1.3. In addition, when uploading a new version of a score you had uploaded previously, MuseScore will now ask if you want to update your existing online score or upload it as a new score. Support for MuseScore 2.0 scores in the mobile apps (Android, iOS) is still in the works.

Changes for v1.3 - v2.0 Beta 1

• Linked parts - changes in score automatically reflect in parts and vice versa
• Continuous view - scroll horizontally through your score with no line or page breaks
• Tablature - variety of tab notation styles for guitar, bass, lute, and more
• Fret diagrams - easily create diagrams and set up your own palette of commonly used chords
• Flexible chord symbols - enter chord symbols using any common spellings, including support for German and solfege note naming and lower case minor chords
• Dynamic text styles - changes automatically apply to all elements with that style
• More supported notations - support for Steinberg's new open source Bravura music font, more flexible time signatures, pedal change markings, grace notes after (trill endings), falls/doits/scoops/plops/bends, bagpipe embellishments, figured bass, ambitus, early music notations, and a huge set of additional music symbols from Bravura
• Layout improvements - automatic correct positioning and spacing for multi-voice chords and rests, dots, accidentals, ties, articulations, hairpins, pedal markings, voltas, etc.
• Score management facilities - create scores of multiple movements, combine scores into albums, define and apply custom score styles, select default styles for scores and for parts
• Playback improvements - new and more realistic soundfont, mid-score instrument changes, playback of more score markings, flexible swing style, improved JACK support for interoperability with other MIDI and audio programs
• MIDI import improvements - automatic simplification of rhythms, handling of multiple voices
• MusicXML import/export improvements - greater compatibility with other applications, ability to control degree of layout preserved
• Guitar Pro import - supports GP3, GP4, GP5, and GPX formats
• Usability improvements - repitch mode, on-screen piano keyboard for note entry, element inspector window, more precise manual adjustments, easier selection of instruments, simpler and more powerful page layout, copy/paste improvements, split and join measures, screenshot mode for creating graphical excerpts, customizable palettes and workspaces, expanded availability of keyboard shortcuts
• And lots more!

Changes for v1.2 - v1.3

• Bug fixes
• Playback
• Fix #19148: Distortion in sound playback after several measures of play due to reverb
• Improve the stability of the sequencer and user interface interaction
• Crashes
• Fix crash loading of files with invalid tuplet
• Fix crash when exporting parts wih voltas
• Fix possible crash during MusicXML import
• Fix crash when changing voices without valid input state
• User Interface
• Fix #16692: Save and Save As dialogue boxes fail to open when Title contains colon
• Fix last element in file format combo box in the File -> Open Dialog is empty on Mac OS X
• Fix Two percussion clefs in palette
• Fix #16301: Verbose program listing in Add/Remove Programs
• Change default shortcut for voices to Ctrl + Alt + Voice number (Previous shortcuts were not working on Mac)
• Fix small icons on Windows and Mac
• Add 1024x1024 icons on Mac OSX for retina display
• Fix: Fermata applied to rest isn’t positioned where it was placed until score is saved and re-opened
• Better looking new score wizard on Mac OS X
• Fix: Two invisible boxes in 'Lines'
• Updates
• Installer
• Windows binaries are now signed with an Authenticode certificate
• Windows installer is also available in MSI format to ease the deployment of MuseScore through Group Policy
• Both Windows installers are signed with an Authenticode certificate
• Plugins
• Updated musescore.com “Save online” plugin, cosmetic changes
• Updated ABC import plugin, support for larger files
• MuseScore 1.3 is packaged with Qt 4.8.4 on Windows and Mac OS X.

Changes for v1.1 - v1.2

• MuseScore 1.2 includes nearly 100 bug fixes, mainly in MusicXML import and export, notation, user interface, playback, styling and parts. With the much improved MusicXML support, you can now reliably import your sheet music collection from Sibelius or Finale into MuseScore.
• A lot of effort went again into localizing MuseScore 1.2. The MuseJazz font has been extended tremendously for international alphabets. There are new translations for Estonian and Belarusian, and updates for the other 43 translations.
• We also said goodbye to Moussorgsky?s Picture of an Exhibition, which has served us well as the MuseScore demo score for many years now. We found a worthy replacement in Marc Sabatella?s Reunion, which was composed specifically for MuseScore.
• Last but not least, MuseScore Connect ? which was introduced in version 1.1 ? has been completely rebuilt. You can now search for sheet music shared by the community on musescore.com as well as search through your own collection and open scores directly into MuseScore. But this is just the start. From now on, MuseScore Connect will improve independently from the MuseScore releases.

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