Happy new year everyone! Sometimes, the best things come to those that wait. While we apologize to have kept you waiting this long, it's certainly paid off, and we want to thank you for waiting for 1.3.4!

This is a minor release that is focused primarily on refinements and a few backported changes from 1.4. The most notable changes of this release include the integration of patches from MacPorts, courtesy of @ryandesign, which improves macOS support, a bunch of bug fixes, and updated credits in the About Dialog. Speaking of improved macOS support, if you want to try Tenacity on macOS, you should try out the MacPorts package as that is currently the best way to use Tenacity on macOS while we figure out how to get CI working again.

Fun fact: this release was supposed to be made a lot sooner, but unfortunately, scheduling conflicts came and went, plus the amount of issues that needed fixing took a little while to investigate and fix with our current resources. We hope that the large number of bug fixes helps improve the overall experience and was worth the wait.

The full changelog for this release is below.

Changelog

Increased default maximum spectrogram frequency to 20 kHz.
Tenacity now warns you if you save to a FAT32 drive on FreeBSD.
Enabled drag-and-drop project importing.
Fix sync-lock drawing.
Update about dialog to add new contributors plus Matroska info (#226).
Updated manual packaging (#406).
Added FFmpeg 7 support (#484; an accidental backport believe it or not but why not ;)
Windows: Fixed some flickering issues.
Windows: Fixed issues when building Tenacity for ARM.
Windows: Fixed issues with garbled text in the installer (#486, #509).
Windows: Fixed OGG imports causing crashes (#311, #511)
Windows: Changed EXE description to reduce confusion in Task Manager (#510).
macOS: Applied patches from @ryandesign to improve macOS support.
Haiku: Applied patches from @davidkalory to improve Haiku support.
Linux: remove unused launcher script (#358, #513).
Some error help buttons and preferences no longer point to broken links (#519).
Removed some overhead on initialization (#526).

For packagers and other advanced users

Updated vcpkg to 2024.12.16 (our fork).
Enable SBSMS timestretching by default in vcpkg builds.
musl libc builds should now be less susceptible to breakage, although you will see new output if ran from the terminal.
Build times should be much faster with vcpkg (#483) and slightly faster without it (#405).
Due to its use of VLAs and a recent update, lilv is no longer built on Windows. LV2 isn't supported on Windows currently either, but will be once vcpkg has suil.
Tenacity can now be built against a more minimal wxWidgets configuration. It only requires the base, core, html, and net wxWidgets libraries now (#525). To see this in action, view our Flatpak maniefst.

FFmpeg

Following through what we said in the previous release, we are providing FFmpeg 6.1.2 for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit. Note that this release, if not the next one, will likely be the last to ship 32-bit FFmpeg for Windows. Previous versions of FFmpeg will still be usable going forward until Tenacity drops support for those versions of FFmpeg.

Flatpak Users

Note that these updates came before this release and were available before this release. If you haven't updated your Tenacity Flatpak yet, do it now to get these features.

Enabled native Matroska importing and exporting (https://github.com/flathub/org.tenacityaudio.Tenacity/pull/31).
Slimmed down Flatpak builds a little bit (https://github.com/flathub/org.tenacityaudio.Tenacity/pull/21)
Updated dependencies (wxWidgets, suil, etc.).

How to Verify your Downloads

Using `gpg` and Our (New) Release Signing Key

IMPORTANT: Our release signing key has changed. The new fingerprint is 59E790FEC63109BF22BD35ABEA9D8C8A6F75CB28. If you are using gpg, you can import it like so:

$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59E790FEC63109BF22BD35ABEA9D8C8A6F75CB28

Then you can verify your download like so:

$ gpg --verify /path/to/download-signature.asc /path/to/download

For example, to verify the AppImage using gpg:

# Receive the key first if you haven't done so
$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59E790FEC63109BF22BD35ABEA9D8C8A6F75CB28

# Then verify the release like so
$ gpg --verify tenacity-linux-v1.3.4.AppImage.asc tenacity-linux-v1.3.4.AppImage
gpg: Signature made Tue 31 Dec 2024 08:45:52 PM PST
gpg:                using EDDSA key 59E790FEC63109BF22BD35ABEA9D8C8A6F75CB28
gpg: Good signature from "Tenacity Release Signing <avery98@pm.me>" [ultimate]

If it says there's a bad signature, your download may have been tampered with. Try checking against the SHA256 hash (down below) for additional verification. If the hash doesn't match, try redownloading your download. If it does match, please open an issue so we can correct the signature.

Using the SHA256 Hash

Using any SHA 256 hashing utility of our choice, you can get the SHA 256 hash of your download and compare it to the appropriate hash in the list below:

tenacity-linux-v1.3.4.AppImage: a319018969bda4864cb737e0bd94a19b3ff9affa104c5099e349bc1442766ea4
tenacity-win-1.3.4-x64.exe: 1d85cc706752b9d0f39e72d1a84412addd2242ffad7580ebed488cd9cf758b72
tenacity-win-1.3.4-x86.exe: 5aa6e535545618589a6138921efe30e8826b49cd13da02ff055d7e92c09c98a5
tenacity-ffmpeg-6.1.2-win-x64.zip: 814bf89a093a87ebbd6c368b30bed0519050bf28885aaa765bd2cab384997299
tenacity-ffmpeg-6.1.2-win-x86.zip: bb9537ca11038eb5da2eea308df77b1ce6283f8d0a3bd231934d0ff9edbab449

Release Advisories

We're adding this section to document important issues that you may encounter. We have a few advisories below:

Launching the AppImage Results In `symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libjack.so.0: undefined symbol: pw_thread_fill_attr`

You might see this error on Arch Linux, Manjaro, or any other Arch-based system. Tenacity's bundled version of JACK, used only if a system version of JACK isn't found, might not work on every distro. To work around this, install your systems regular JACK dependencies. For example, on Arch Linux and Manjaro, install the jack2 package.

All plugins are disabled, and enabling them doesn't work

As a workaround, delete pluginregistry.cfg and pluginsettings.cfg from your configuration directory (~/.var/app/org.tenacityaudio.Tenacity/config on Linux under Flatpak, C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Tenacity under Windows). You will need to re-enable any plugins you had enabled previously if Tenacity doesn't automatically do so.

Your latency setting reads as samples instead of milliseconds in preferences

Change the unit back to milliseconds. Alternatively, you can use the new default of 512 samples. See the changelog for more details. If you only use the default settings, it is generally recommended that you reset you preferences.

On Linux, JACK isn't available using the Flatpak but the appropriate packages are installed

JACK is supported via Pipewire through the Flatpak. If your distro uses PulseAudio, consider setting up Pipewire if you can. Please consult your distro's documentation on how to setup Pipewire. Alternatively, you can use the AppImages, but those are provided as-is.

If your distro already has Pipewire setup by default but you still don't see the JACK option, try installing your distro's Pipewire JACK support package.

On Linux Mint, the Flatpak doesn't start

Follow the instructions here: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/3332. The instructions refer to Audacity but they also apply to Tenacity.

Some help buttons point to nonexistent documentation

We haven't been able to update all help buttons because we are still developing the manual. Whenever we update the manual to cover new content, we will update these broken links. If interested, you can help us develop the manual here: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity-manual.

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