Release notes for MuseScore 3.4 Beta (December 26, 2019)
Build number | Date | Announcement |
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macOS 10.10+: 3.4.0.24698, Windows 7+ (32 and 64-bit): 3.4.0.9337, AppImage: 3.4.0. (revision: 684f74e6) | 2019-12-26 | https://musescore.org/en/3.4beta |
New
- Apply palette elements with a single click if there is a selection in the score
- Allow dragging notes horizontally
- Slurs, hairpins and other elements can be edited after single click
Improvements
- Double click is not needed to reach edit mode anymore
- Introduce section break properties, bend properties in the Inspector
- Allow access to several properties window in the Inspector
- Name of the newly created custom palette can be specified
- Accessibility: improve speech for elements with spanners
Fixes
- "Don't play trill" option silenced the note playback
- Slurs on small staves were displaced in some cases
- Barline handles were drawn incorrectly after dragging one
- Strings in the Part dialogue were ambiguous
- Y Offset value of fretboards didn't restore after undoing the values being changed from Edit Mode
- Replacing a note with an accidental left the accidental on the new note
- Adding Intervals (above/below) didn't take into consideration the accidental toggle state
- Multiple chord symbols attached to same note didn't copy as part of the range
- Strings in fret diagrams without "X" or "O" displayed as "?" on Linux
Complete list of issues resolved and improvements implemented
Here is a complete list of the issues resolved and improvements implemented in this update:
Playback
- #298188: 3.3.4: "Don't play trill" silences note -- very bad new bug.
Layout and automatic placement
- #282893: Figured bass duration line exceedingly thin, almost invisible, and too long
- #288576: Strange results when changing 4/4 measues with halfnotes tremolos between notes to 3/4
- #298564: Position shift of slur on small staff when reload score
- #295892: Missing barline with a horizontal frame followed by start repeat
- #293984: Natural accidental doesn't automatically come up for natural notes after a natural-sharp/natural-flat one
- #296426: Text attached to mmrest preceded by another mmrest ending with custom barlines loses custom position on reload
- #297454: Corruption in local time signature
UI/UX
- Apply palette elements with single click
- Add boundaries for the left-side note dragging
- Add visual representation of the 'hit' state when clicking palette cells
- Allowed to drag note in both directions at normal mode accordingly to angle
- Allowed the user to adjust the left angle of a beam
- Enable moving grips with arrow (or Shift+arrow) keys in normal mode
- Basic implementation of single-click access to editing elements with grips
- Move Section Break Properties into Inspector
- Move Bend Properties into Inspector
- Make the appearance of Layout Break Inspector consistent with other inspectors
- Add "Properties" button to several inspectors
- Update basic MuseScore colours to meet the accessibility requirements
- Ask user for a name of the newly created custom palette
- #297894: Palette Names as Search Results in Palette Search
- #280393: Hairpin: when in Edit mode, pressing the SHIFT button causes handles to drop down
- #297425: Dragging multiple selected elements
- #298196: [Reg. 3.3.2 -> 3.3.3] Bar line edit mode is drawn incorrectly after dragging a handle
- #291177: Improve "Generate" (formerly "New All") and other Parts dialog box buttons
- #291569: Navigator remains in page view after switching to continuous view
- #291957: Program window height changes according to components displayed: can cause mixer, piano to disappear off screen
Commands/Properties
- Y Offset value of fretboards didn't restore after undoing the values being changed from Edit Mode
- Drag only elements of the same type in range selection
- #298115: Replacing a note with an accidental leaves accidental on new note
- #283653: Increase maximum value for frame radius in Inspector for text elements
- #298121: Adding Intervals (above/below) should take into consideration the accidental toggle state
- #297738: "Generate key signatures" in staff type change does not work
- #296329: Instrument change should be able to apply to multimeasure rest
- #279179: Natural-sharp/natural-flat not recognized as same accidental as sharp/flat
- #296345: Text Style dlg box: offset suffix is always "sp" also for "mm" values
- #297883: Multiple chord symbols attached to same note do not copy as part of range
- #281253: Staff spacer down doesn't work at page bottom
- #52151: "Auto" beam setting for Rests should not beam (if no stemlets)
- #281957: Regression: display of beam properties for a selected note
- #296044: Capture tool images are different in size compared to original
- #298362: Pressing number after mouse click works for a different line in "Italian" styled tablature staff
- #270589: "Bend type" does not remember previous user selection
Corruptions and/or loss of data, crashes
- Fix a crash on removing HBox from a score
- #298910: Updating translations without a score open leads to crash
- #298490: Musescore crashes when trying to open a specifc score
- #298471: Fret diagram: strings with no X or O display as ? on Linux
- #297454: Corruption in local time signature
Accessibility
- Improve speech for chordrests with spanners
- #293301: Add accessibility command to force full read of current location
Plugins
- Update and add 1.x plugin documentation pages to Doxygen-based docs
MusicXML Export/Import
- #298552: [MusicXML] use offset for non-spanning directions
Miscellaneous
- Make extension file size suffixes translatable
- Update appdata with latest releases
- Correct whitespace representation in script tests to follow XML convention
- Adjust Horns names
- Add B-flat Trumpet to Orchestra genre, delete Piccolo Trumpet in B-flat from Orchestra and Concert Band genres
- Disable "Generate key signatures" button for staff type change applied to tablature staff
- #292912: File dialogs bookmarks are not saved and mess other applications bookmarks
- #297549: Error in Select>More... menu
- #295895: Language list in Resource Manager sorted by size is sorted in the style of string rather than that of number
- #283240: Style menu: remember last selected dialog?
- #297329: Add a Straight (tempo) text to the master palette
- #293363: Enter should emplace ornament/element from Master Palette