Prominent features
- Clip Handles (replacing the Time Shift Tool)
- Smart Clips (non-destructive resizing of clips)
- Playback Looping
Smaller changes
- Context menus have been added in more places.
- In the preferences, Tracks > Track behaviors > Editing a clip can move other clips is now disabled by default
- The spectrogram defaults have been changed: scale type to Mel (was Linear), top of scale to 20000 Hz (was 8000 Hz), window size to 2048 (was 1024), and zero padding to 2 (was 1).
- The main volume controls no longer change the system volume.
- Raw Import now will remember the previously used settings. Automatic detection of the format now is a button.
- A journaling feature has been added for QA purposes.
- Generate > Tone now supports triangle waves.
- There now exist "What's new" screens for the update and welcome dialogs.
Libraries
- FFMPEG now supports avformat 55, 57 and 58.
- PortAudio has been updated to version 19.7 and devendored (so it can be built against 19.6).
- Several libraries (expat, libsndfile, ...) have been devendored. The CMakeLists.txt lists which versions we build against.