Release notes for MuseScore 3 Release Candidate (December 22, 2018)
| Build number | Date | Announcement |
|---|---|---|
| MacOS 10.12+: 3.0.0.20100, Windows: 3.0.0.4747, AppImage: 3.0.0 (revision: 96c1f7b) | 22.12.2018 | https://musescore.org/en/3.0rc |
Highlights
Improvements
- Ability to rename custom text styles
- More intelligent layout of articulations, slurs, and hairpins
- Improved rendering of various UI elements
- New tours
- New demo scores
Fixes
- Over a dozen crashes fixed
- Bugs involving clefs
- Bugs involving key and time signatures
- Bugs involving automatic placement
- Bugs involving tremolo
- Restored ability to move text elements with cursor keys
List of issues resolved
Here is a complete list of the issues resolved in this update:
Crashes
- #279829: Crash caused by incorrect mapping of voices between parts and master score
- #279509: Removing a staff from the score in the instrument menu (Key-i) crashes
- #279761: Time signature crash
- #280215: Remove brackets leads to crash
- #279570: Crash when removing added time signature if subsequent tie and rest in next measure
- #280186: Reducing font size to 0 in Inspector causes crash
- #279988: Crashing marking instruments invisible with hide empty staves enabled
- #279693: Adding a tuplet to a non-top staff Part in Score+Parts causes crash
- #280095: Crash on part generation in the presence of tremolos
- #280012: Crash opening vtest/tremolo-1.mscx
- #276976: Crash on clicking on some measures in a corrupted score
- #140296: Crash on Linux on export to PDF when selecting an existing and sufficiently complicated file on trying to preview it
- #279805: Changing instrument in the mixer crashes the application
- #280347: changing a (staff/part/system) bracket's column (via Inspector) causes crash
- #280345: Crash on undoing removal of time signature
- Fixed the crash on creating new workspace with GUI Preferences
- #279229: Piano roll editor: adjustment issues, including crash
- #280364: Launch Timewise Input Mode causes crash
Corruptions and loss of data
- #279096: Key signature added in measure that was previous at start of system does not appear
- #279609: Inserting measure before measure previously at start of system displays spurious key signature
- #279962: Ottava 8vb displays as 8va on save/reload
- #279897: Setting “Custom Tablature” in Instruments windows results in standard staff
- #276295: Save selection defaults to 4/4 time signature, but no display
- #280370: Bad key signature insert on switch to concert pitch after inserting measures
- #279676: Clefs after mmrests do not appear at first, are laid incorrectly after reload, are not linked to underlying measures, and can't be deleted
- #279183: Adding time signature to measure with clef changes produces notes on wrong lines
- #280092: Insert measure leaves clefs
- #280435: Text moved by cursor still considered "styled" and thus not saved
Layout and automatic placement
- #280055: Autoplaced chord symbol does not reset when adjustment no longer needed
- #278490: Lines placed above the top staff when single note selected
- #280140: First notes in bars are too close to start repeat, key signature
- #280160: Disabling autoplace for image does not remove it from autoplacement
- #280208: Hairpin should not cross barline by default
- #280094: Time signature does not always update in score
- #279880: Slurs do not move outside articulations if there is room to thread them through (most important tweaks)
- #278975: Key signature continues to be applied after section break
- #279832: Subtitle wrongly positioned in imported 2.x scores
- #164786: crescendo/diminuendo lines take vertical height from hairpin settings rather than dynamics text settings
- #118636: Tablature beam not drawing correctly in Full or Common Tablature staff
- #280220: Slurs not allowed to cross barlines, leading to placement far from notes
- #279952: Horizontal placement issue with the new L H Guitar Fingering
- #280214: Text style settings ignored when generating parts - all offsets at 0
- #280223: Flags don't place properly with slash notation
- #279110: Staff spacer fixed down malfunction with invisible staves
- #279543: Repeat barlines in palette and when using Bravura in score too have their dots too low
- #280033: Timeline: Repeat Measure bar displays as empty bar
- #278964: Tremolo copy & paste results in wrong note types
- #280366: Volta laid out incorrectly in measure with disabled header segments
- #280414: "Short" and "tick" barlines in palette result in incorrect span
Commands
- #276153: Select>more... by subtype does not work to select by text style
- #276461: Custom text styles in previous versions of MS changed to User-1, User-2, etc
- #279563: [MacOS X] Export Pdf with Muse Jazz Text all garbled and unreadable
- #278132: Settings of fretboard diagrams are lost in palettes (style issue)
- #273302: Fermata loses assignment to voice and direction
- #278128: moving elements with cursor keys
UI
- #280049: Bad English in Mixer
- #280162: Improve language and formatting of Style Tuplets dialog
- #280149: Default height of Style dialog box truncates Dividers info
- #280238: Reorder sections of Style dialog
- #280048: Applying changed preferences restores default UI
- #280111: Selection in Piano Roll Editor not respecting modifier keys
- #278236: Master Effects: Changes to "Effect A" or "Effect B" do not activate the "Load Default" button
- #279495: "Draw antialiased" is unchecked in some cases which leads to sharped curves rendering
- #279887: "Waves" of glissando symbol are badly defined
- #280274: Start window and template chooser do not react to scrolling with mouse wheel or trackpad (Mac)
- #279791: Mixer displays Zerberus patch names even though Fluid is being used
- #280330: Heading in Stem inspector should be bold, left aligned and collapsable
- #280210: Menu entry and dialog box title bar out of sync with each other
- Fixed low quality splash screen on high DPI displays
- Fixed non native Startup and New Score Wizards appearance
- Fixed non native buttons positions in the tours widgets
- Removed "Don't break" from the palettes