May 6, 2020
New Features
- Option available in Preferences for playback of chord symbols
- Mid-staff instrument changes now do almost everything automatically
- Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
- Hairpins, voltas, and other lines now adapt anchor points when dragged
- Much more functional piano roll editor
- Splash screen displays status messages while loading MuseScore
- New Score Wizard automatically numbers instruments
- Property for beam style of tremolo (all strokes attached to stem)
- Style for hiding brackets which span to a single staff when empty staves are hidden
- Properties and styles for measure number positioning, including centered and below staff
- Property and style for position of multimeasure rest numbers
- Property for fretboard diagram rotation
Improvements
- Double-click a header, footer, or instrument name to access the dialog for editing it
- Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
- Improved layout of two-note and single-note tremolos, with and without stem
- Smooth scrolling during playback in Continuous view
- Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
- Metric modulation for dotted eighth to quarter
Fixes
- JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
- Loop playback skipped final rests in the last measure
- MIDI note-off events were not sent in some cases
- Undoing slur addition to a range only removed one slur
- Canceling a selection worked incorrectly in some cases
- macOS package was not notarized in Apple
- Various fixes for the text editing process
More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5alpha.
Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5 Alpha (more than 260 issues fixed and improvements made): https://musescore.org/en/node/303876.