IMPORTANT: THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED YET

This page is only a working area for making notes about what is being done for the 09.10 release, so that we don't forget anything when the code is finally ready to be released – which will not be for some time yet.

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 09.x of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

With this release, Rosegarden has become a modern Qt4 application that no longer uses the KDE libraries, which we hope will facilitate future maintenance. The primary focus of this release has been the effort to port from Qt3 and KDE3 to Qt4, which was a very difficult, time-consuming job that involved a great deal of rewriting. There should be as little difference as possible between this version and 1.7.3, and this is one release where no news is good news. We will be able to take full advantage of Qt4 in future releases to offer a number of planned improvements.

We'd like to give special thanks to the following members and contributors, some old, some new, for their outstanding work on the long and difficult port. These brave few are the authors of a new chapter in our history.

• Chris Cannam
• Michael McIntyre
• Julie Swango
• Emanuel Rumpf
• Yves Guillemot
• Chris “CJ” Fryer
• Heikki Junes
• Shelagh Manton

• Luis Garrido
• David Willis

• Ported to Qt4
• Removed all ties to KDE for a lower dependency footprint
• Stunning new look that is equally at home on KDE, GNOME, or any other Linux desktop
• Comprehensive new internationalization effort that covers a very large number of dynamic strings that could not be translated before, including the program names for the default General MIDI device, the device name itself, the segment and control knob colors, and the comprehensive database of information about the capabilities and transposing characteristics of hundreds of real-world instruments. This effort brought in more than 1,000 new strings that could never be translated before!
• Most application resources are now bundled inside the application itself, reducing its installation footprint, and allowing you to run different versions (eg. a stable production version and a release candidate) in parallel without data file version conflicts
• You can finally run more than one copy of Rosegarden at the same time!
• Completely new icons for the notation editor, and anywhere else we could benefit from true antialiasing as opposed to simple transparency
• All new MIDI device manager
• New “Save As Template” option saves files with a special new .rgt extension, which discourages you from overwriting your template for a string quartet with your newest composition for string quartet. (As time goes on, we will be putting together a collection of useful templates in much the same way as we have been accumulating MIDI device library files over the years.)

(this is minor stuff)

• Improved flashing metronome mode and more realistic looking LEDs for the transport
• Markers now have a “Comment” instead of a “Description” to make it more clear which bit of text is going to show up on the marker ruler, and be exported to LilyPond
• The simple event editor now handles notation-quantized notes more intelligently
• Improved controller manager dialog now opens the editor automatically after creating a new controller

• Exporting project files to paths that have spaces no longer fails
• Faders can now be moved in both directions with the mouse scroll wheel
• Corrected LilyPond export of double octave clefs
• Corrected rendering problem when moving expanded-height tracks

• Controller editor dialog now keeps track of the color index properly
• Newly created knobs of color “default” now display the correct color, rather than black

• Heikki Junes
• D. Michael McIntyre
• Thorsten Alteholz

• N/A

• Greg Lyons
• Georg Balzer
• Theo Smit
• ADR