MuseScore

What's new in this version:

Engraving features:
- Arrowheads on text lines can be found in the Lines palette, as well as via new Properties options for existing text line objects.
- Chord brackets can be added from the Lines and Keyboards palettes for showing left/right-hand distribution in keyboard music, barré positions in guitar music, as well as bracketing sections of music.
- Chords can now be parenthesised using the existing parenthesis controls in Properties
- Lyric extension and dashed lines can now be selected for refined positioning
- Curly quotation marks are now used automatically. Use undo after input to revert to straight quotation marks.
- System dividers include new scale and position options in Styles. They can also be selected and edited in the score.
- Text formatting properties have been exposed for all text lines, allowing individual text formatting for staff and system text lines, volta brackets, gradual tempo changes, etc.
- Text justification and alignment have been separated into distinct properties, providing more flexibility for positioning columns of text.
- Options and properties for scaling musical symbols within text have been improved.

Guitar features:
- Major new system for displaying guitar dives, both on and above the tablature stave, as well as on the standard stave. Includes playback support
- New capo transposition modes let you view sounding vs. played pitches on the standard stave. There's also a non-transposing option on the tablature stave for when the capo is used to simplify the fingering
- Fretboard diagrams and chord symbols are now included in score transposition

Workflow improvements:
- Double-click a single note in a chord to select the entire chord. Use shortcut 'R' to copy/paste it to the next beat. 
- Search field in mixer facilitates quick location of sounds and effects
- Initial letter navigation in some long dropdown menus
- New controls for enharmonic spelling in the Tools menu
- Note input via MIDI keyboard: choose an accidental in the note input toolbar to spell inputed notes/chords with that accidental
- 'Q' and 'W' now halve/double the durations of a selected note or range of notes
- 'Find/Go to' can now be used to select a range of measures  
- New option in Preferences > Appearance to set invert score mode automatically when app is in dark mode  

Playback enhancements:
- Refactored audio engine for improved performance and reduced lag on all operating systems
- ASIO support on Windows, plus the option for lower latency with a new 256 sample buffer size 
- New 'Tuning and Temperaments' plugin, replacing the three previous plugins
- Improved playback of MS Basic SoundFont, thanks to the re-addition of a low pass filter
- New 16- and 24-bit .WAV export options
- Ability to start playback from the last selected note (using Shift+Spacebar)

Video:
- The's now the option to export an MP4 video of the scrolling score view (including audio playback). Go to Publish > Export
- MIDI machine control can allow compatible VST plugins to control the in-score playhead position 

Online sounds:
- Refinements have been made to determine rendering chunks in order to improve efficiency of online audio processing  

Notable fixes and technical updates:
- Fixed numerous crashes on app startup
- Fixed numerous issues with multiple-monitor setups
- Qt updated to version 6.10.2