MuseScore for Mac

Playback

• Realtime note preview now supports duration and velocity control, as well as the sustain pedal, allowing an intuitive playing experience with a connected MIDI keyboard.
• Count-in is back! (Playback toolbar $\rightarrow$ Playback settings cog)
• MuseSounds playback no longer fades-in when pressing play.
• Play count for repeated sections can be controlled in Properties, with options to add appropriate text to score (e.g. "Play N times").
• Fixed regression where instruments were muted after undoing their deletion with Ctrl+Z.

Engraving

• A comprehensive new system allows localised control over showing and hiding empty staves.
• Any SMuFL-compliant music font can now be applied.
• Measure numbers are now treated as system markings and can also be shown below the system, with many new options for customisability in Styles.
• All system markings can now go below the bottom staff.
• Better alignment options for repeat & jump markers, voltas, etc.
• Better alignment of rests in multiple voices.
• Better rhythmic grouping of rests and beams in local time signatures.
• New properties for frames to control padding to notation above & below.
• Harp pedal diagrams can be anchored at arbitrary beat positions (not just on notes and rests).
• Enharmonic spelling: new options added in Tools menu.
• Fixed regression where slurs from grace notes were placed incorrectly and not saved in the MSCX file.
• Fixed issue saving and loading of scaling/spatium size in parts.
• Fixed regression in placement of whole measure rests in secondary voices.
• Adding breath marks no longer hides courtesy clefs in cutaway staves.
• Barlines are no longer masked by invisible text lines.
• Ties are no longer shortened by chord symbols that contain a slash.
• Hairpin ending on final beat of final measure is no longer excluded from parts.
• Collision avoided between dynamics and left barlines.
• Collision avoided between arpeggios and clefs.
• Added 19th century French tenor clef (G clef ottava bassa with C clef).
• Repeat-dot position in these fonts was tweaked for better SMuFL compliance: Gootville, MuseJazz, Emmentaler.

Guitar

• Engraving support for hammer-on, pull-off, and tapping techniques (playback supported in MuseSounds Guitars Vol. 2 and upwards).
• Fretboard diagrams now auto-fill based on their associated chord symbol.
• Fretboard diagram legend can be automatically generated based on chord symbols in score.
• Any text font can now be used for tab numbers.
• Improved engraving and playback support for bends to grace notes after main notes.
• Fret number in fretboard diagram is not repositioned unnecessarily when text is edited.
• Circular markers are no longer added to fretboard diagrams when masked by barrés.
• Fixed spacing of minimum length ties, glissandos, and frets.
• Fixed adding and masking of parentheses around fret number in TAB staves.
• Import TablEdit v3.00+ files $\text{\textemdash}$ thanks to Leon Vinken (PR author) and Matthieu Leschemelle (TablEdit creator).

Chord Symbols

• Chords galore! New individual scaling, offset, and alignment options for extensions and modifiers, plus the ability stack and parenthesise modifiers.
• Ability to create polychords with the pipe "|" character (N.b. playback support is planned for a future release).

New Style Options

• Volta alignment relative to key signatures and barlines.
• Partial slur shape across repeats and breaks.
• Minimum header distance (used when clefs are only shown on first system).
• Show barline before key & time signatures at start repeats.
• Tuplet bracket position.

Text

• New text formatting popup appears when characters are selected in a text element.
• New editing shortcut Ctrl+Delete (Mac: Cmd+Fn+Backspace) to delete entire word after caret.
• Square brackets and multiplication signs are allowed in time signatures.
• New lyrics styles for hyphens/dashes.
• Lyric extender lines no longer extend over rests.
• Fixes to header, footer, page number & copyright styles.
• Fixed overlapping '6' and '9' characters in chord symbols.

Workflow Improvements

• New welcome screen enables quick access to tutorials, free MuseSounds, and other relevant information.
• Selection filter now enables selection of individual notes in chords.
• New mouse shortcut Alt+click to paste the current selection elsewhere.
• Improvements to 'Repeat selection' command when used with 2 or more voices.
• Fixed issue preventing diatonic shifting of enharmonically equivalent notes.
• Slurs entered from the palettes can now be resized.
• Joining/splitting measures no longer corrupts ties at the measure boundary.
• Durations are better accounted for when merging rests.
• Pasting notes near a page break no longer spoils engraving of slurs that span the break.
• Fixed crash on closing score after undo of dragging a measure with partial tie.
• Fixed crash on range selection over multi-measure rest.

Percussion

• The number of drumpad columns in the Percussion Panel can now be modified.
• Added Handbells palette and playback with MuseSounds.
• Added Handchimes instrument.

UI

• Removed delay in showing three-dots (...) context menu icon when switching panel tabs (Palettes, Layout, Properties, etc.).
• Element colors are now inverted in the palettes when score color inversion is enabled via Preferences $\rightarrow$ Appearance.
• Improved appearance of rounded corners on popups and dropdown lists.

Import/Export

• Support for importing TablEdit files (v3.00+ only, see Guitar section above).
• MIDI: Exported lyrics now have a space appended after each word.
• MEI: exported title page receives `func="first"` attribute to show it's the first page.
• MusicXMLImport for string mute element, harp pedal diagrams, colors for more element, various other fixes.
• Export fixes for TAB & percussion clefs.
• Import & export support added for guitar tapping, hammer-on, pull-off, hairpin styles.

Accessibility

• Screen reader announcements for more in-score actions (e.g. adding articulations, changing voices).
• Fixed input and viewing announcements in the Braille panel.

Linux

• VST3 support (please raise an issue on GitHub if a specific Linux VST is not working for you).
• Enabled fractional scaling (previously disabled to avoid an element offset bug $\text{\textemdash}$ possibly in Qt $\text{\textemdash}$ that appears to be fixed now).
• Fixed Linux-only crash on Alt+Left/Alt+Right navigation in continuous mode.
• Distributions released prior to Ubuntu 22.04 can no longer run the AppImage due to an outdated GLIBC version.

Performance

• Significant performance gains when saving and loading large scores.
• Changes in Page settings dialog are more efficient and properly undoable (press Ctrl+Z after closing dialog).

Plugins

• Retrograde: Fixed handling of consecutive ties.
• Plugin API: Now includes all new elements and properties added between MuseScore 4.0 and 4.6 (thanks @XiaoMigros!).

Qt Fixes

• Updating to Qt 6.