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====== ROSEGARDEN 10.10, codename "Betty Prior" RELEASED ======

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 10.10 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.  

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

This is a substantial bug-fix release, with fixes in almost every area of the application.

==== Betty Prior ====

Rosa 'Betty Prior' was introduced by D. Prior & Sons (England) in 1935.  It is an extremely tough, single, pink floribunda that has the distinction of being the longest living survivor in Michael's personal rose garden.

===== Changes Since 10.04 =====

This list is not comprehensive, and in particular it misses several things Ted Felix accomplished for this release.

* Several fixes to behaviour of track program/bank change sends in save/load and in interaction with percussion check-box (Julie Swango)

* Permit shift-click on a track header to toggle selection of segments on that track without effecting other selected segments (Yves Guillemot)

* Improve key highlights in matrix view so as to reflect current segment properly (Julie)

* Add support for basic LADISH level 1 (Felipe Lopes)

* Substantial fixes to audio file handling code to fix a number of problems with the wrong audio clip being played (Julie)

* Fix crash in some cases when opening file dialog if not using default Thorn style (Chris Cannam and D. Michael McIntyre)

* Fix incorrect behaviour of frequency-range parameters in LADSPA and DSSI plugin editors (Chris)

* Fixes to missing-audio-file location logic (Chris)

* Shorten the factory autoload, removing the duplicate sets of tracks at the bottom so that all tracks initially are visible (Michael)

* Fix MIDI recording from devices in which note-on and note-off are not always cleanly paired (Julie)

* Fixes to positioning of playback pointer in matrix (Julie)

* Several substantial fixes to step-recording in matrix and notation (Julie)

* Several fixes to Lilypond export (Julie)

* Numerous fixes to segment editor corner cases that previously could introduce zero-length segments (Ted Felix)

* Several fixes to corner cases that previously could introduce zero-length events or ranges (Ted)

* Fixes to unpredictable behaviour in certain operations involving copying segments (Ted)

* Numerous fixes to behaviour of editing operations in cases where segments overlap with the end of the composition (Julie and
  Ted)

* Make behaviour of Paste Range more predictable (Ted)

* Improvements to chord database and several fixes to fretboard editor
  (Ted)

* Fixes to avoid zero-duration note events in files (Michael and Julie)

* Fixes to toolbar visibility in editing views (Julie)

* Fixes to regressions in action availability (Ian Gardner)

* Fixes to updates in notation view (Yves and Julie), event list editor (Julie), matrix editor (Julie) and rulers (Julie and Alvar Udras)

* Restore progress dialogs (Julie)