August 06, 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
• Splash screen displays progress messages while loading MuseScore
• Diatonic pitch up/down (keep degree alterations) shortcuts
• Select Similar Elements: Same Beat
• New Score Wizard now 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 cantered 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
• Automatic collision avoidance between rests and notes/rests in other voices
• Staff property to automatically merge rests between voices
• Allow selection of multiple similar items with shift+click
• Allow repeating a note by clicking a notehead then pressing R in normal mode
• Changes made in Preferences are applied significantly faster
• Style options to align chord symbols within systems
• More zoom controls
• Additional plugin capabilities
• Altered keyboard and mouse zoom precision and consistency
• Improved performance of applying preferences
• Chords playback is on by default (untick the "play" property to disable it)
• Adding notes to a tuplet now adds them with respect to the tuplet's space
• MuseScore 3 is now available as a Windows PortableApp
• Altered Shift+L/R for leading space while in edit mode upon notehead
• All symbols are now available for the plugins

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
• Fixed an issue when hiding notes or rests in a voice > 1 causes stems/beams to flip in a bad and unexpected way
• Fixed an issue when two grace notes disabling vertical chord alignment (Maximum Shift Above)
• Fixed an issue when "maximum shift above" leading to layout weirdness if measure has rhythm slashes and rests
• Fixed an issue with inactive "Realize chord symbols" command
• Fixed an issue when key signature appears in multiple places on the single staff
• Fixed an issue with missing grid of measures in the "timeline" view
• Fixed an issue with appearing of empty dialog during the "Save Online"
• Fixed an crash during the drag & drop of volta in continuous view
• Brackets were displaced in Continuous View
• Nested tuplets in linked staves led to corruption
• Octave selection was inconsistent in note input mode
• Voices worked incorrectly in the parts dialog in some cases
• Misclicking when attempting to create a range selection caused the current selection to be lost
• On-screen rendering of synthetically emboldened fonts was broken in some cases
• Smooth scrolling worked wrong in Continuous view when dealing with repeats
• Saving Online a yet unsaved or uncompressed (mscx) file didn't work
• Fixed zoom-box 100% selection bug
• Fixed a bug with ignoring of blank lines at top of text elements
• Fixed an issue when cut/paste, drag/drop in Piano Roll Editor does not preserve NoteEvent values
• Fixed a playback of chord symbols attached to fret diagrams
• Fixed a note entry suggested position with no selection and last selected note in voice > 1
• Fixed a display of the bold and underlined texts
• Fixed the "Save Online" on AppImages

More information is available in the release announcement https://musescore.org/en/3.5. Check out the full list of changes made in MuseScore 3.5: https://musescore.org/en/node/308610.

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