September 29th, 2018: Audacity 2.3.0 Released
Audacity 2.3.0 replaces all previous versions for Windows and macOS.
(The current release for Linux is Audacity 2.2.2. Additional information on the Linux download page.)
- Many new features, and over 90 bugs fixed (since 2.2.2).
- New feature – “Punch and Roll Recording”
- Pinned-play-head can now be repositioned by dragging
- Play-at-speed now can be adjusted whilst playing.
- Toolbars controlling volume and speed can now be resized for greater precision
- Macros (formerly ‘Chains’) substantially extended
- New Macro palette
- Macros can be bound to keyboard keys
- New commands
- New ‘Tools’ menu
- New ‘Scriptables’ commands
- Nyquist gains AUD-DO command
- Nyquist effects are now translatable and translated
- More dialogs have help buttons now
- Increased legibility of trackname display
- Half-wave option for collapsed tracks
- Sliding Stretch
- Dialog (option) for entering labels
- Windows: Queen Mary 1.7.1 Vamp plug-ins crash Audacity on opening Plug-in Manager – bug #1244
- Inconsistent behavior when recording with a selection defined – bug #1839
- Ctrl + M does not open label for editing – bug #1852
- Vertical Zoom in by clicking in the vertical Scale, or context menu, in waveform views is inconsistent – bug #1810
- Deletion of all tracks cannot be undone – bug #1845
- Timer Record with a selection present can get a truncated recording with data loss – bug #1851
- Duplicate shortcuts can be created – bug #1786
- Labels longer than 260 characters are now supported – bug #1905
- Using Spectrogram Settings in TCP or using Preferences causes Audacity to reset Project Rate to default rate in Quality Preferences – bug #1977
- Cut Preview should play all selected/sync-locked tracks, respecting Mute/Solo during preview – bug #231