Today marks the release of Saucedacity 1.1. However, on this same day, there was an attack on the Twin Towers in the United States. Many people died in that attack, leading to a string of events from the attacks themselves to many others, some of which have recent effects as of today.

There are various coincidences with the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the Saucedacity 1.1 release today. One coincidence is the release date itself. The second coincidence is the 1.1 version number, which came naturally (I didn't predict Saucedacity 1.1 being released on 9/11). However, I wouldn't call them complete coincidences. While I did not expect Saucedacity 1.1 to be released officially on 9/11, I would like to bring something special to the table. I would like to dedicate this release of Saucedacity to those who died on 9/11, those who died from illnesses caused by 9/11, the survivors of 9/11, the first responders of 9/11, basically everyone that was involved. There's just too much to list here, but for those involved, I dedicate this release to you for everything. You've been through so much, regardless of who you are or your actual role, in so many different ways.

With that said, lets get to the changelog of this release! Nothing too special, but here's what we have anyways:

New

• A new compile-time option has been introduced, -Dsaucedacity_enabled_legacy. This disables some legacy options for now, namely LADSPA plugin support (in addition to dealing with extremely old Audacity project formats). Right now, this is enabled by default, but will be disabled in other releases.
• Saucedacity now recognizes if its preferences were written by Saucedacity or Audacity (IsSaucedacity in the preferences). This means nothing but is more or less for future proofing. You will be notified if these preferences were not made by Saucedacity, although clicking 'OK' will only mean setting the IsSaucedacity preference to 1, being true.

Changes

• The welcome dialog now only shows up on first run (unless Saucedacity's preferences are reset or deleted).
• More branding changes, including a new splash screen logo and some interim branding.
• We're now based on Audacity 3.0.4, incorporating Audacity's latest changes (minus the error reporting and update checking).
• The Linux binaries were built on Ubuntu 18.04 rather than Pop!_OS 21.04. This comes from #16, largely in order to increase binary compatibility among different Linux distros.

Anyways, that's it for this release. Hope you like this release!

To all the 9/11 victims, survivors, families, and anyone else involved, this release is for you. I hope to bring something to your hearts, but this won't compensate for the damage caused by 9/11, be it physical, emotional, both, or in any other way. Nevertheless, I shall pay all my respects to you. For first responders, we thank you for your service. For victims and their families, I pay my respects to you.

- The Saucedacity Team, with love and support all the way.