MuseScore

What's new in this version:

New Features:
- New demo score: Reunion by Marc Sabatella
- MuseJazz now includes diacritical characters (Thanks to Marc Sabatella and Jorg K)
- Jazz Combo and Band templates by Marc Sabatella
- Save absolute position of element in addition to "offset" for better upward compatibility with 2.0 version
- UK Brass Band & Salvation Army Brass band templates
- New drumset file for French drum notation
- Ability to move lyrics with left and right arrows
- Internationalization of the MuseScore.com plugin ("Save Online") and translation to French, German and Spanish

Supported platforms:
- On Mac, MuseScore 1.2 is released in binary form only for Mac OS X 10.6+ running an Intel processor.

Bug fixes:

Playback:
- playback swing of quarter notes on counter beat
- default reverb/chorus to minimum
- In playback, note(s) do not stop when they should (repeat & note offtime)

Style:
- Style Page Nums "show first" not checked, 1st page > 1: 1st page number still shown (mi)
- fix default style of Frame Text
- fix german chordnames (H / Bb)

Parts:
- Extract voltas correctly
- save a newly created part doesn't remove the asterisk
- Creating part causes crash (key sig corruption)
- Exported parts close on command without a warning

User Interface:
- remove subbeam button
- add Frame Text to Vertical Frame
- use English note name in Edit Drumset dialog
- change default drumset folder to "templates" dir
- fix slur properties dialog title
- translation of "staff properties" on instrument name
- add perfect octave up and down
- Create new score and quit/reopen presents incorrect dialog
- Disallow copy of part of tuplets
- Inserting measures corrupts score with tuplets
- pasting after copy/cut creates note with wrong duration
- Crash on copying tuplets
- Add 'Can't open" dialog for unknown filetype
- Add MuseScore.org link in dialog for more recent file
- Background Wallpaper Distortion
- Zoom during playback using shortcuts
- Score tabs disappear
- Changing time signature should change autobeam properties
- Crash when running transpose with title selected
- fix translation of context menu on keysig
- Paste and undo causes crash
- Note Names without score causes crash
- Remove Notes without score causes crash
- Break Every X Measures without score causes crash
- Undo Insert Measure after changing clef causes crash

Notation:
- Measure rest should be shown as breve if measure >= 4/2
- Wrong bracket in nested tuplet
- Transparent and truly vectorial embedded SVG
- Articulations / ornaments in small staves are not small
- Measures long 2/1 or more not cleared to measure rest
- add two more chord names: sus#4 & Maj7b13
- no more crash on undo, dynamic created
- Measure insert corrupts key changes
- Staff with one line and repeat bars are not aligned
- regression : Natural after a tie across barline
- Accidental after a tied note
- Enharmonics not preserved when toggling concert pitch in part > 1 octave
- shaped noteheads aren't shared
- Ledger lines are still visible for invisible notes
- Pedal marking created in 1.0 are displayed incorrectly in MuseScore 1.1
- Non-removable courtesy clef appears after insert measure before first one
- disallow copy of partial tuplets

Import/Export:
- export MIDI with relative tempo set in Play Panel
- fix pedal ending in MIDI export
- bww import: missing bagpipe doublings
- fix crash on MIDI import for some files
- crash on Capella import for some files
- basic Triplet support for Capella import

Packaging and updates:
- add "Create desktop shortcut" option in Windows installer
- reduce auto update check period

MusicXML import and export:
- reworked MusicXML voice mapper
- add dynamic and note velocity support in MusicXML export/import
- Export duplicate chordnames
- Empty measures are not imported
- Crash opening MusicXML from Finale
- Sub-optimal handling of different duration measures on import
- Chordnames are not exported for grand staff
- Key Signature for 2 Staves
- fix crash reading MusicXML file with different key signatures on the first and second staffs
- add MusicXML testfile for issue #12382 ("Key Signature for 2 Staves")
- Wrong import of right barline
- add testfile for #13860: Support lyrics exported by Sibelius 7
- Errors in Import and Crash after closing
- Slurs is not well placed with grace note
- Import can produce empty voice 1: set (automativally) generated rests to invisible
- Wrong placed slurs after importing a MusicXML file
- Import can produce empty voice 1
- fix "variable set but not used" warnings in importxml.cpp
- Don't set "Break multi measure rest" when importing from MusicXML
- support lyrics exported by Sibelius 7
- updated MusicXML testfiles: added sound dynamics="..."
- Problem importing triplets from XML if tuplet element is missing
- Problem importing tuplets from XML in a multi-voice context
- Import of tuplets containing chords is incorrect
- import error: 41g-PartNoId.xml causes crash
- import error: 41h-TooManyParts.xml causes crash
- import error: 46a-Barlines.xml: unexpected multi-measure rests
- import error: 45e-Repeats-Nested-Alternatives.xml: repeat start missing
- import error: 32a-Notations.xml: missing notations
- Export notations imported by issue #14827
- import error: 01f-Pitches-ParenthesizedMicrotoneAccidentals.xml imports without microtone accidentals
- import error: 01e-Pitches-ParenthesizedAccidentals.xml imports without double flat in parentheses
- import error: 41d-StaffGroups-Nested.xml: part-group symbol=line not supported
- Bad pitch and alter exported for cross staff note
- Voltas lost when importing MusicXML
- Key signature is not exported from a mscz saved with 1.1
- Export of trill line fails
- import error: 31a-Directions.xml missing dashes and bracket
- Export/import of uneven tuplets (16th, eighth, eighth, 16th)
- Handle tuplet property "number"
- support parentheses attribute for accidentals (preferred as of MusicXML 1.1)
- import export volume and pan for each instrument
- minimal support of page relative text on first page in import and export
- import errors 23a-Tuplets.xml
- import errors 02a-Rests-Durations.xml
- Notes are interpreted as rests, wrong lengths, strange results
- don't import tempo 0 as tempo text

Miscellaneous:
- Transposition when creating a score from a template
- fix: Offset for offtime not saved
- changes to tuplet handling to allow reading of corrupted files

Plugin Framework:
- add score.close() to plugin framework
- add score.version and score.fileVersion
- add ability to test for no current score