Release notes for MuseScore 3.5 Beta (June 10, 2020)
| Build number | Date | Announcement |
|---|---|---|
| macOS 10.10+: 3.5.0.27580, Windows 7+ (32 and 64-bit): 3.5.0.12237, Linux AppImage: 3.5.0 (revision: b5add95) | 2020-06-10 | https://musescore.org/en/3.5beta |
New features
- Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
- Select Similar Elements: Same Beat
Improvements
- Automatic collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
- Staff property to automatically merge rests between voices
- Allow selection of multiple similar items with shift+click
- Allow "repeating a note" by clicking a notehead then pressing "R" in normal mode
- Changes made in Preferences are applied significantly faster
- Style options to align chord symbols within systems
- More zoom controls
- Additional plugin capabilities
Fixes
- Brackets were displaced in Continuous View
- Nested tuplets in linked staves led to corruption
- Octave selection was inconsistent in note input mode
- Voices worked incorrectly in the parts dialog in some cases
- Misclicking when attempting to create a range selection caused the current selection to be lost
- On-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts was broken in some cases
- Smooth scrolling worked wrong in Continuous view when dealing with repeats
- Saving Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) file didn't work
List of other issues resolved
Here is a complete list of all the other issues resolved and improvements made in this update:
Playback
- #305745: Chord symbol playback: add9 chords not playing back or being realized correctly
- #305069: Chord symbols attached to fret diagrams don't play back
Layout and automatic placement
- #278538: Implement collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
- #290968: Multi-measure rest numbers disappear during scrolling
- #304292: Invisible beams influence lyrics distance from staff
- #304843: Brackets displaced in Continuous View
- #304353: Melisma Collides With Next Words/Syllables in Lyrics
- #305487: Invisible accidentals take space
- #85876: Breath marks to non-voice 1 notes are placed wrongly
- #304057: Chord Symbol offset keeps resetting to zero
- #305007: Stems too long for chords with single-note tremolo
Linked staves and parts
- #305717: Chord symbols attached to fret diagrams don't link to parts
- #305750: Nested tuplets in linked staves lead to corruption
- #279773: Articulations are duplicated on adding linked staves, crash is possible
- #283964: Linked parts for single voices don't work
Notation related commands
- #138266: Add staff property to 'collapse' rests in multi-voice context into just one
- #292393: Pasting tremolo between dotted notes leads to wrong rhythm
- #97376: Split Measure breaks slurs and ties
- #305265: Bracket added from palette only spans one staff regardless of selection
- #305814: Adding Intervals via "alt + number" command.
- #281759: Chord Symbols: allow option to ensure uniform vertical alignment
- #291522: Double-click on drum palette produces wrong note when transposing instrument at top of score and concert pitch off
- #305428: TextLine doesn't cause a multi-measure break
- #305941: Changing octaves for ambiti doesn't work correctly
- #277796: Inconsistent octave selection in note input mode
- #305477: Erratic behavior of lines in Edit mode
- #306092: Adding bracket when nothing selected sets its span to 0
- #285135: "Line thickness" parameter of ambitus is not working properly
- #305135: Chord symbols won't go back to original position after reverting changes
Usability
- #305724: Disable save prompt for empty scores
- #281666: Parts Dialog Problem with Voices
- #305739: Realize chord symbols dialog won't open, even though the option is displayed in the menu
- #305741: Reset Positions dialog opens before score is visible, for imported 2.x scores.
- #299191: Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
- #299829: Go to first empty trailing measure et al.
- #295235: Select Similar Elements: Same Beat
- #68431: Save zoom level with scores, keyboard shortcut for "Zoom to Page Width", ability to set default zoom to "Page Width"
- #295257: Shortcut: Page-width with toggling between it and previous zoom level.
- #279926: Allow multiple similar items selection with shift+click
- #304051: "Repeat a note" by clicking a notehead then pressing "R" in normal mode
- #297423: Producing a discontinuous selection is difficult
- #297446: Mis-clicking when attempting to create a range selection causes the current selection to be lost
- #295020: Suggestion: Transpose "Current Range Selection" Up/Down
- #306509: Improvements to zoom functionality
- #306512: Improvements to the splash screen
- #306524: Control playback speed with the keyboard
- #306502: Toolbar item states are incorrect after applying preferences
Piano Roll Editor
- #304906: Update Piano Levels Filter to shift to the new Fraction based note measurement system
- #305315: Piano Roll Editor: string missing from translations
- #304876: Piano roll editor: The "Stripe Pattern" options are not translatable.
- #304947: Fix chord names in stripe pattern dialog in Piano Roll Editor
- #304979: Change of voice menu command not undoable in Piano Roll Editor
Text
- #281601: Musescore 3 FreeSans bold text rendering is bad
- #284218: Broken on-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts
Visual interface
- #304834: Settings field for multimeasure rests is too small
- #304959: Key signatures cropped in New Score Wizard
- #306096: Anchors appear on wrong page when moving elements items on page > 1
- #306234: Added teleportation to smooth scrolling, for dealing with repeats + improved comments and default value
Corruptions and/or loss of data, crashes
- #303619: MuseScore crashing when entering font name
- #305253: Crash on adding text on a text frame (MS 3.5 Alpha, debug build)
- #303799: Crash when starting MuseScore after compare score.
- #305869: MuseScore crashes when playing MusicXML file with chord symbols
- #270043: Corruption on deleting initial rest in voice 2 tuplet
- #301834: Crash when changing local time signature to another one with same duration
- #305962: Staff type change in first measure causes a crash
- #304957: Crash on attempting to drag header or footer
- #305078: Crash on attempting to playback or rewind score.
- #305106: Crash when applying preferences with no scores open
- #305134: MS 3.5 alpha crash on chord symbols playback
Plugins
- Plugin API: add access to Staff objects
- Plugin API: correct handling of spatium units for more property types
- Plugin API: add basic API for access to Instruments and Channels
- Plugin API: add an ability to append parts to a score
- Plugin API: add tuplets support
- Plugin API: add Cursor.addRest() method
- Plugin API: add basic access to score style settings
- Document initial version for notehead scheme properties in plugins API
- #293017: QML api: "Select an element" needed so plugins can search
- #305017: PluginAPI: cursor.addNote(<note>, true) fails to add a note
- #305018: Crash when a plugin uses a cursor without calling rewind
MusicXML, Capella, MIDI, audio files, svg export/import
- #305169: [MusicXML Export] add tuplet-actual and tuples-normal for nested tuplets
- #305704: Can't export mp3 on OS X 10.15 using MuseScore 3.5.0
- #289952: "gliss." text is misplaced on exporting score as image
- #299761: [MusicXML Export] - Measure rest should be reflected
- #305407: [MusicXML Export] - Add Let_Ring and Palm_Mute
Instruments
- More comments in instruments.xml and better sound for lutes with courses
- #305701: About default Treble Clef for Greek Bouzouki
- #305123: New Instrument: Concert Cimbalom
Performance
- #303983: MuseScore takes very long on opening some 2.X scores
- Improved preferences window performance on applying changes
Miscellaneous
- Fix man-page to mention changed default DPI setting for PNGs export
- Change default pdf dpi export to rendering value
- #305130: Misleading shortcut descriptions
- #305676: Repeat barline tooltips in Repeats & Jumps palette are not getting translated
- #280244: User fonts not visible to MuseScore 3 (Windows 10)
- #306370: Status bar should display playback pitch of selected note
- #305359: Allow old B-agpipe M-usic W-riter format .bmw (in addition to the newer .bww)
- #305589: Attempting to Save Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) produces misleading error message
- #305656: Two piano instruments shown for a single piano part after save/load
- #304918: Channel lists contain bad values after an instrument change