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.

Important note!