v2025.6.0

⭐ Features

• Support #INSTRUMENTAL tag, toggle with K #850
• Add piano mode to Editor #820

Other Changes

• Improved logging #998
• Refactoring #999
• Temporary allow NumPad / as alternative for regular / in the Editor #1001
• Improve splitting of notes in the Editor #1002

v2025.4.0

⭐ Features

• ReplayGain (it's in Options/Sound, see the wiki page) #936

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix multi-screen on Windows #996

Other Changes

• Refactor NotesVisible #992
• Fix compilation on Windows #994

v2025.3.0

⭐ Features

• Read multi-valued headers #974

📈 Enhancements

• Add webp support to AppImage #970
• Improve Polish translation #980
• Default to showing only one highscore per player name #982

🪲 Bug Fixes

• High resolution audio on Windows #969
• Fix crash on corrupt files #986
• Fix window flickering/not updating on newer SDL #989
• Fix crash if the txt start/previewstart is earlier than the stream start #988

Other Changes

• Document that most of the release zips need to be extracted #962
• Less logspam from the editor #972
• Remove unused code #973
• Fix log typo #961
• Remove Music Gain feature (it never worked) #975
• Updates to translation script #976
• Update BASS #977
• Support FFmpeg 7.1.1 #985

v2025.2.1

The audio system had big improvements. Formats like MP3 VBR should Just Work now, also in the Editor.

📈 Enhancements

• Improve audio seeking accuracy #954 #955

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Don't crash when, after changing theme, going to Options - Record #957
• Read the colors for players 2 and 4 correctly #959

v2025.2.0

⭐ Features

• Support UltraStar format 1.0.0 #947
• Support the AUDIO header from format 1.1.0 #951

📈 Enhancements

• Support songs that have a single sentence #950

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Improve detection of when an audio file ends #945
• Support video files with embedded artwork #948

Other Changes

• Remove unused libsamplerate #943
• Drop support for FFmpeg 0.x, 1.x, 2.x and 3.x #944
• Internal FFmpeg changes #938
• Update release documentation #949

v2025.1.0

📈 Enhancements

• Use sane defaults if config.ini is entirely deleted #917
• Split tag reading and tag handling logic #922

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Escape key works if categories are used #919
• Lua plugin count has no relation with number of players #929
• Remove never-implemented 8 and 12 player modes #930

Other Changes

• Rename CI artifacts to better differentiate platforms #923
• CI builds daily #932
• Remove zsync #933

v2024.10.0

📈 Enhancements

• Most Windows DLLs are now in a separate repository + DLL updates #889 #897 #893 #905
• Selecting notes in the editor no longer counts as having modified the song #908
• Support FFmpeg 7.1 #914

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix PulseAudio support in AppImage #888
• Editor can now handle sentences with 0 length #898
• Better recognize alphanumeric characters #890
• Draw tone indicator at the correct height in editor #906
• Fix typo in Polish translation #907
• Maximum line bonus is now 1000 #910
• Windows version loads folders and filenames with special accents work again #904
• Player names can be set in Party - Tournament again #909

Other Changes

• Various refactorings #883 #892
• Do not trigger CI twice for branches in the USDX repo that also have a PR #891
• Fix CI download timeout #896
• Update AppImage dependencies #899
• CI Mac builds are independent #913

v2024.8.0

⭐ Features

• Lua plugins have a new global current_filename which returns the absolute path to the plugin #855

📈 Enhancements

• Selecting a random song will not select the same song repeatedly #851 #874
• Editor selected note color is the inverse of P1 #870
• Lua require now returns the last module table #854

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Multichannel audio files play at the correct speed #867
• Invalid #RESOLUTION is ignored #868
• Fix CI #866 #882

Other Changes

• Remove Sort functionality from song menu #869
• Automatically detect trailing whitespace in PR's #876
• Change build status badge to Github Actions #863
• Updates for FlatHub releases #857
• Remove old AppVeyor and Travis CI files and workarounds #877
• Document --enable-debug #875

🕐 Upcoming breaking change

Support for 8 or 12 players in regular mode is slated to be removed in a future release.

v2024.5.1

NB: 2024.5.0 was never released due to a build issue.

⭐ Features

• Allow rap notes to be interpreted as freestyle with T #828

📈 Enhancements

• Improve song scanning performance #819
• Add more levels for microphone threshold and preview volume #823
• Use the cover of the first song of the artist as cover for the "Artist2" tab #829

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Medley mode should use players' configured difficulty level #833

🚨 Breaking changes

• Support for P3=P1+P2 has been removed #824

Other Changes

• Improve human readability of git diff hunks #822
• Support FFmpeg 7.0 #827
• Text fixes #830
• Switch CI builds to Github Actions #835 #841 #842 #840 #846 #847 #848

🕐 Upcoming breaking change

Support for 8 or 12 players in regular mode is slated to be removed in a future release.

v2024.3.0

📈 Enhancements

• Searches and searchable fields are transliterated to ASCII #795

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Allow new playlists to be named again #810

🚨 Breaking changes

• Support for songs in XML format has been removed #816

Other Changes

• Documentation update for flatpak users #802
• Various refactorings #800 #814

🕐 Upcoming breaking change

Support for P3=P1+P2 behaviour in duet text files is slated to be removed in a future release.