MuseScore Studio 4.5.2 patch now available

Hi everyone,

We're pleased to bring you a small update to MuseScore Studio: version 4.5.2.

This update brings stability improvements, bug fixes, and some minor feature improvements. It also introduces playback support for partial ties at repeats and jumps.

You can get the update right away via MuseHub or MuseScore.org, or via in-app notification that we'll push out to existing users of MuseScore Studio in the coming days.

Playback

• Support for partial ties at repeats and jumps (#26178)
• Support for arpeggios with swing rhythm (#22495)
• Fixed regressions in tie and portamento playback in repeated sections (#27472, #27661, #27287)
• Fixed regression where clicking the same measure would not return playback to the start of that measure (#27362)
• Fixed regression where jumps would be taken multiple times when system markings are enabled on multiple staves (#27647)

Engraving

• Improved slur layout across large time signatures (#27631)
• Chord symbols no longer collide with each other horizontally or vertically (#27229, #27139)
• Beat anchor visualizations (blue stripes) are no longer shown in printed or exported scores (#27454)
• Voltas and rehearsal marks only anchor to barlines, not to beat positions within a measure (#27471)
• Large time signatures added in the score no longer appear large in the parts (unless the large style is also enabled in the parts) (#27277)
• Length of 4-measure repeat extender lines is now calculated correctly (#27305)
• Time signatures changes at repeats are indicated after the barline when opening pre-4.5 scores (#27382)
• Irregular measures (excluded from the measure count) are recognized as such when opening MuseScore 1 scores (PR #27746)
• Visibility property of courtesy time and key signatures is preserved on saving and loading scores (#27381)
• Fixed creation of partial ties across repeats and jumps, and improved performance (#27303, PR #27356)
• Incoming partial slurs can now be created from clefs, time or key signatures to the first note of a system (#27325)
• Fixed regression creating incoming partial slurs from an end-repeat barline to a subsequent note (#27325)
• Fixed regression where empty lines added to header or footer text in Format > Style were not rendered on the page (#27519)
• Fixed regression where brass/woodwind falls collided with augmentation dots (#26086)
• Fixed regression where string data was missing for the Bass Viol (tablature) instrument (PR #27380)

Guitar

• Fixed regression where fretboard diagrams were undesirably modified to reflect changes made to chord symbol attached to the same note (#27284)
• Fixed regression where fret conflicts in were highlighted red in printed/exported tablature rather than in MuseScore Studio (#27605)
• Fixed regression where staff lines were not masked by fret numbers in the tablature staff settings dialog and continuous view (#27405, #27442)
• Fixed regression in the ability to extend barlines between linked and unlinked staves (#27455)

Percussion

• When entering notes with the mouse, the percussion note popup now only appears when Shift is held, not Ctrl or other modifiers (PR #27778)
• The Percussion panel no longer allows navigation keys or numbers to be used in pad shortcuts (#27355)
• The Percussion panel will start docked rather than undocked after updating from a pre-4.5 version (#27106)

Interaction

• System markings (e.g. tempos, voltas, rehearsal marks) are no longer duplicated when a time signature is changed (#27228, #27400)
• System markings are always added to an instrument's topmost staff when pasted (affects grand/multi-stave instruments) (#27690)
• Turning off multi-measure rests, or making a hidden staff visible, now unlocks systems that contained multi-measure rests (#27242)
• Text elements follow the mouse cursor more closely when dragged across staves and systems (#27101)
• Accidentals are retained when changing the duration of notes after leaving input by duration mode (#27460)
• Fixed regression where hiding a staff's voice in the Layout panel would remove the staff from the Layout panel altogether (#27752)
• Fixed regression where fingerings couldn't be nudged (i.e. moved) with the cursor keys immediately after being entered (#27219)
• Fixed regression where pressing Return on a text marking would create a system break instead of entering text edit mode (#27347)
• Fixed regression where accidentals attached to notes in the same chord could not be re-ordered horizontally (#27374)
• Fixed regression in ability to create ties across a 'gap' (i.e. between non-consecutive notes) (#27445)
• Fixed regression where right click > Select > Similar in range was unable to select spanner elements such as slurs (#27548)
• Fixed regression where right click > Select > More referred to the first element in the range rather than the right-clicked element (#27126)
• Fixed regression where switching from one VSTi to another wouldn't close the first VSTi's window (#27335)
• Fixed regression where resetting all preferences would not reset changes made in the same visit to the Preferences dialog (#27414)
• Fixed regression where the hyphen-minus (-) key didn't work for lyrics entry with non-English keyboards on Windows (issue still present on macOS) (#16314)

UI

• More detailed action descriptions are displayed in the History panel (PR #27236)
• Help > Online handbook now points to the new Handbook hosted in GitBook (#27234)
• Units like 'px' (pixels), 'mm' (millimetres) and 'in' (inches) have been made translatable (#27418)
• The ampersand ('&') character has been made translatable in the Layout panel (PR #27756)
• 'Swing' and 'Straight' markings have been made bold in the Tempo palette (#27188)
• Fixed regression where range selection rectangle was drawn in the wrong place when hidden staves are present (#27394)
• Fixed regression where undoing hiding of an instrument would not reopen the 'eye' visibility icon in the Layout panel (#27791)
• Small UI tweaks in various dialogs: Transpose (#26896, #26170), Preferences (#27388, #27365), Page Settings (PR #27373)

Accessibility

• Fixed regression where screen readers wouldn't announce the name and first item of a menu (e.g. "File, New") as it was opened (#27079)
• Fixed regression in keyboard control over the anacrusis / pickup measure dropdown in the New Score dialog (#27278)
• Fixed regression in 6-key braille input where it was not possible to type interval signs to create chords (#27581)

Stability

• Fixed crash on dragging the first measure of a score and dropping it back in its original position (#27575)
• Fixed crash when splitting a measure near a lyrics line and the end of a system (#26369)
• Fixed crash after replacing two single-measure repeats with one two-measure repeat (#27731)
• Fixed crashes after clearing (i.e. deleting the contents of) a measure with partial ties and attempting to undo (e.g. with Ctrl+Z) (#27618)
• Fixed crashes when closing a score after dragging or deleting a measure with partial ties (#27714, #27406, #27407)
• Fixed crash when closing a score after unchecking all options in the partial tie popup (#27738)
• Fixed crash when exchanging partially-tied notes between voices within a repeated section (#27252)
• Fixed crash after deleting a start-repeat barline with a partial tie and attempting to undo (e.g. with Ctrl+Z) (#27723)
• Fixed crash after creating a partial tie in the score and then selecting it in the parts (#27710)
• Fixed crash after making a partially-tied note invisible and attempting to undo (e.g. with Ctrl+Z) (#27718)
• Fixed crash when adding instrument change text from the More popup in the palettes (#27233)
• Fixed crash adding tie to a selected range that contains two non-consecutive notes of the same pitch (#27654)
• Fixed crash after entering an ornament with interval below (e.g. mordent) and changing style to Always show cue note (#27749)
• Fixed crash when opening the Layout panel while an empty system text element is present (and disabled creation of such elements) (#27448)
• Fixed crash when pasting in continuous view after copying and exchanging notes between voices in normal view (#27433)
• Fixed crash when accessing the Mixer's three-dots menu > View > Restore the default layout on macOS (#26976)
• Fixed crash on pasting multi-voice passage in continuous view (#27433)
• Fixed crash when dragging a note-anchored line (found in the Lines palette; once entered, it's no longer possible to drag these lines) (#27663)
• Fixed crash and disappearing clef triggered when hidden staves are present in the Layout panel (#27443)
• Fixed freeze when opening MuseScore 3 files with invalid notes on TAB staves (#27736)
• Fixed regression in performance when pasting spanner elements (e.g. lines, hairpins, slurs, etc.) (#27399)

For more information, see the 4.5.2 GitHub Project. And don't forget to check out the 4.5 release video!