This is a PRE-RELEASE built on the development branch.

It is meant to check if Audiveris can now support CJK characters in the run.properties file,
and thus correctly handle the history of file names that contain chinese/japanese/korean characters.

Full Changelog: win-console...refs/heads/development

What's changed

Installers

There are now two Windows installers.

• The standard one which directly launches the Audiveris GUI.
• A new one, with the "Console" option which launches a terminal window together with the Audiveris GUI,
  which can be useful to display initial error messages.

Technical documentation

For the developer, the technical documentation is now organized around the project-structure.md and the various README.md files located in the Gradle subprojects.

Bugs

A few minor bugs were fixed.

Full Changelog: win-console...refs/heads/master

What's Changed

Use of the old Apple EAWT package has been removed.
It helped the integration of Java applications with macOS native application environment.
Audiveris user interface is now managed the same way for all OSes.

Full Changelog: 5.6.0-bis...refs/heads/master

What's Changed

Functionally, this is the 5.6.0 content:

• The selection of a global text font has been replaced by a precise handling of each word attributes. These attributes, whether provided by OCR or manually specified, are now used to select the proper text font family and style for the word at hand.
• Via the logical parts editor, the user can now specify the related MIDI instrument for any logical part.

In terms of project organization, this release publishes two different Linux installers:

• ubuntu24.04, built on latest ubuntu (24.04)
• ubuntu22.04, built on previous ubuntu (22.04), to fix the issue #805 related to libasound2t64

What's Changed

• The selection of a global text font has been replaced by a precise handling of each word attributes. These attributes, whether provided by OCR or manually specified, are now used to select the proper text font family and style for the word at hand.
• Via the logical parts editor, the user can now specify the related MIDI instrument for any logical part.

Full Changelog: 5.5.3...5.6.0

In this release, the installers are named according to:

• The Audiveris version
• The name of the operating system
• The machine architecture

Notice that there are two installers for macOS: one for the arm64 architecture and one for the x86_64 architecture.

What's Changed

• packaging: Add macOS x86 (legacy Intel) architecture support (see #806) by @jnd-au in #807
• packaging: Downgrade GitHub Actions runner to macos-13 (see #807) by @jnd-au in #808

Full Changelog: 5.5.1...refs/heads/master

Main Feature

The building and publication of 3 new installers with JRE included, for Windows, Linux and macOS, represents a breaking feature, initiated by @fbmrqs.

In the downloadable assets below, you can find the installers for:

Since these installers are not signed with any Microsoft or Apple developer certificate, please read the handbook section on Installing binaries, to be informed about the warnings you may get the very first time the application is launched.

Todo

• The Linux/flatpak installer is still to join this release

What's Changed

• Growing use of GitHub workflows to simplify and automate the production of release assets.
• Flatpak integration with GitHub workflow by @mwilck in #705
• Binarization adjustment board by @mgporter in #716
• Fixes to binarization adjust board by @mgporter in #717
• BinarizationAdjustBoard fixes by @mgporter in #719
• [fix] Dock icon on Mac OS X Sequoia du jour by @domq in #772
• Support JBIG2 PDF image compression (fix #782) by @jnd-au in #783
• Support JPEG2000 PDF image compression (fix #786) by @jnd-au in #787

New Contributors

• @fbmrqs via the issue #797 on macOS build
• @mgporter made their first contribution in #716
• @domq made their first contribution in #772
• @jnd-au made their first contribution in #783

Full Changelog: v5.4...5.5.1

• Installing OCR languages on demand
• Protection about old Java environments
• Linux installer via Flatpak/Flathub
• Support for metronome mark
• Interactive binarization of gray input image
• Jumbo mode to highlight augmentation dots
• New Preferences dialog
• Handbook restructured

This is only a pre-release, based on development branch

This release had to be quickly published to fix a bug on small void head templates in 5.3.0 release.
Setting the "Small Heads" processing switch led to lots of false positives during HEADS step, due to corrupted templates built for small void heads.

This release also contains a PDF version of Audiveris handbook.