May 4, 2020

New

• Playback of Chord Symbols
• Support for Orca (Linux) screenreader
• Fretboard diagrams can now be rotated

Improvements

• Usability of the change instrument feature
• Usability of interactive editing hairpins, dynamics and lines
• Layout of tremolos
• Piano roll editor functionality: copy-paste notes, zoom and more
• Smooth scrolling in Continuous view
• Various improvements to simplify searching and loading backup files
• Double-click instrument names to access the Staff/Part properties dialog
• Double-click a header or footer to access the dialog for editing it
• Show the status messages on splash screen while loading MuseScore
• Usability of the palette search
• Score tabs can now be closed using mouse middle button
• Various improvements to the Plugin API

Fixes

• JACK audio/MIDI worked incorrectly on some platforms
• Loop playback was incorrect regarding the last beat of 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 notarised 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.

Important note!