5.8.1

This release is a bugfix on 5.8.0

What's Changed

User Interface

• Improved key editor to build key signature from its members
• Improved staff editor that inserts intermediate defining points where needed by staff extension
• Improved ending editor that can resize the ending legs.

Engine

• Support for key signature changes
• Support for strings techniques of up bow and down bow
• Multi-measure rests can survive the lack of a recognized measure count

Project

• Use of 'macos-15-intel' instead of 'macos-13' runner to build the installer for macOS Intel
• Flatpak to catch up with OS installers
• Revamped the book/sheet annotations meant for training an external model

Java

• Upgrade to Java 25 and Gradle 9.1

Contributions

• Flathub PR for 5.7.1 by @mwilck in #851
• Update MacOS installation instructions for Audiveris by @github-s in #861

New Contributors

• @github-s made their first contribution in #861

Full Changelog: 5.8.0...refs/heads/master

5.8.0

What's Changed

User Interface

• Improved key editor to build key signature from its members
• Improved staff editor that inserts intermediate defining points where needed by staff extension
• Improved ending editor that can resize the ending legs.

Engine

• Support for key signature changes
• Support for strings techniques of up bow and down bow
• Multi-measure rests can survive the lack of a recognized measure count

Project

• Use of 'macos-15-intel' instead of 'macos-13' runner to build the installer for macOS Intel
• Flatpak to catch up with OS installers
• Revamped the book/sheet annotations meant for training an external model

Java

• Upgrade to Java 25 and Gradle 9.1

Contributions

• Flathub PR for 5.7.1 by @mwilck in #851
• Update MacOS installation instructions for Audiveris by @github-s in #861

New Contributors

• @github-s made their first contribution in #861

Full Changelog: 5.7.1-bis...refs/heads/master

5.7.1-bis built on macos-15-intel

This is a draft release, meant for test on macOS Intel.

It is the same functional content as version 5.7.1, but built on the 'macos-15-intel' runner instead of 'macos-13' for macOS Intel architecture.

Full Changelog: 5.7.1...refs/heads/master

5.7.1 Sizable dialogs

What's changed

User Interface

• The Preferences and Constants dialogs now scale correctly with font size changing
• Ability to print out the detailed steps durations for a sheet

Engine

• Improved computation of voices distances, resulting in better voices assignment
• Bug fix on assignment of chords to measures

Full Changelog: 5.7.0...refs/heads/master

5.7.0 Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters

What's changed

User Interface

• Support for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters

Engine

• Correct handling of void regions in small note head templates
• Check if the chord kind is null by @btuin in #819

Project

• Additional Windows installer provided with console, useful for launch messages
• All installers now come with a max heap set at 8GB by @aminya in #836

Documentation

• The developer-oriented schema documentation is now included as an asset in each release

Java

• Upgrade to Java 24 and Gradle 9.

New Contributors

• @btuin made their first contribution in #819
• @aminya made their first contribution in #836

Full Changelog: 5.6.2...refs/heads/master

5.6.2 Windows console

What's changed

Installers

There are now two Windows installers.

• The standard one which directly launches the Audiveris GUI.
• A new one, with the "Console" option which launches a terminal window together with the Audiveris GUI,
  which can be useful to display initial error messages.

Technical documentation

For the developer, the technical documentation is now organized around the project-structure.md and the various README.md files located in the Gradle subprojects.

Bugs

A few minor bugs were fixed.

Full Changelog: win-console...refs/heads/master

5.6.1 Free of old Apple EAWT

What's Changed

Use of the old Apple EAWT package has been removed.
It helped the integration of Java applications with macOS native application environment.
Audiveris user interface is now managed the same way for all OSes.

Full Changelog: 5.6.0-bis...refs/heads/master

5.6.0 Word attributes and MIDI programs (bis)

What's Changed

Functionally, this is the 5.6.0 content:

• The selection of a global text font has been replaced by a precise handling of each word attributes. These attributes, whether provided by OCR or manually specified, are now used to select the proper text font family and style for the word at hand.
• Via the logical parts editor, the user can now specify the related MIDI instrument for any logical part.

In terms of project organization, this release publishes two different Linux installers:

• ubuntu24.04, built on latest ubuntu (24.04)
• ubuntu22.04, built on previous ubuntu (22.04), to fix the issue #805 related to libasound2t64

5.6.0 Word attributes and MIDI programs

What's Changed

• The selection of a global text font has been replaced by a precise handling of each word attributes. These attributes, whether provided by OCR or manually specified, are now used to select the proper text font family and style for the word at hand.
• Via the logical parts editor, the user can now specify the related MIDI instrument for any logical part.

Full Changelog: 5.5.3...5.6.0

5.5.3 Installers

In this release, the installers are named according to:

• The Audiveris version
• The name of the operating system
• The machine architecture

Notice that there are two installers for macOS: one for the arm64 architecture and one for the x86_64 architecture.

What's Changed

• packaging: Add macOS x86 (legacy Intel) architecture support (see #806) by @jnd-au in #807
• packaging: Downgrade GitHub Actions runner to macos-13 (see #807) by @jnd-au in #808

Full Changelog: 5.5.1...refs/heads/master