MuseScore Studio 4.4.3 update available

Muse Group has released MuseScore Studio 4.4.3, a maintenance update that addresses issues in the areas of stability, score interaction, file saving and reopening, text layout, engraving, playback, MusicXML import, and accessibility. Various issues related to Qt, the cross-platform framework used to develop MuseScore, have also been addressed on Windows.

Here are the fixes in MuseScore Studio 4.4.3, as provided in an announcement on the MuseScore news site.

Windows Qt 6.2.9 update

This release switches from Qt 6.2.4 to Qt 6.2.9 on Windows. This resolves a number of issues:

• Graphical issues of various natures, for example where the main window looked transparent
• Popups appearing on the wrong monitor or not at all
• Problems in certain older dialog windows, such as the Format > Style, directly after changing the accent color
• A crash when opening and closing the Mixer panel very quickly*
• Unexpected score dragging when double-clicking an instrument name to open the Staff/Part properties dialog and then clicking Replace instrument*

Issues marked with * also occur on other platforms than Windows where the Qt update could not be applied; on these other platforms, these issues will be fixed in MuseScore Studio 4.5.

Stability fixes

Crashes were fixed that occurred when

• joining measures
• opening a score with a hidden staff containing grace notes whose beams were modified
• opening some specific scores (details not known)
• using the on-screen piano keyboard or an external MIDI device with percussion instruments
• hiding staves containing Voltas or similar objects under certain circumstances
• dragging slurs
• adding title text to certain scores
• deleting staves and then selecting a tie
• opening the Measure properties dialog using a custom keyboard shortcut
• when opening part scores in some files

Score interaction fixes

• Entering notes in voice 2, 3, or 4, at a rhythmic position that overlaps with an existing note in the same voice, no longer corrupts the score
• Problems with dragging/resizing images, frames, and tuplet numbers were fixed
• Lyrics text styles are now also applied when moving to the next syllable
• Slurs can be extended to the next system again using Shift+Right arrow
• Staff/system text can now be dragged from the Palettes onto multi-measure rests again

File saving/reopening fixes

• On small staves, modified stem lengths are now correctly preserved again
• Hairpin height is now preserved again when closing and reopening a file

Text layout fixes

• For lyrics, the placement of dashes between syllables has been changed back to match the behaviour of MuseScore Studio 4.3.2 and older
• The vertical placement of lyrics above the staff has been fixed
• Extender lines no longer unexpectedly extend to the end of the score
• The sizing of Segno and Coda symbols has been reverted, so that they now follow the font size again
• When using the MuseJazz style, Segno and Coda symbols no longer have a frame around them

Other engraving fixes

• Enabling pitch name note heads via Staff/Part properties > Advanced staff properties no longer causes augmentation dots to disappear
• Dynamics centred between staves no longer interfere with harp pedal diagrams
• Vertical alignment of tempo markings and gradual tempo changes now also works when multi-measure rests are enabled
• The minimum tie length setting is now respected at the beginning of a system also if it starts with a forward repeat
• When using the experimental “Display note values across measure boundaries” option, no more spurious stems are rendered for whole notes
• The “Show first” setting in Style > Bar numbers” is now respected again after section breaks

Playback fixes & improvements

• The niente dynamic now works as expected
• Hairpins in combination with compound dynamics (e.g., fp) now produce better playback
• Audio devices with more than two channels are now supported on Windows too; the first two channels will be used, i.e. stereo audio is produced
• Fermata durations are calculated correctly again
• Newly added parts are now muted as expected in existing part scores
• The playback cursor no longer disappears when switching between the Score and Publish tabs during playback

MusicXML import fixes

• MuseScore Studio failed to parse XML files containing comments in certain locations; this has been resolved
• Accidentals in chord symbols are now imported correctly from MusicXML files created by Cubase
• Various issues around ottava markings have been fixed
• The import of ties under certain circumstances has been fixed

Accessibility improvements

• Screen readers now announce the group name when navigating between menus on Windows and Linux
• Orca properly announces pressed shortcuts in the Preferences > Shortcuts > Define shortcut dialog on Linux

Miscellaneous fixes

• The Linux AppImage now contains libopengl.so.0 as a fallback library, which should enable it to run on systems where this library is not installed by default
• MEI export of invisible rests has been fixed
• In some templates, the instrument numbers were fixed
• Some issues with (custom) keyboard shortcuts on macOS were fixed

The announcement said that 4.4.3 is the last planned update of MuseScore Studio in the 4.4 series, and that the next release will be MuseScore Studio 4.5.

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