Audacity

What is new in this release:

• Equalization effect now split into two effects, Filter Curve and Graphic EQ.
• Presets (using manage button) now active/working.
• Can now have two points at same frequency for steep steps.
• 'What you hear is what you get' for exports.
• Leading silence (blank space) not skipped over in exports.
• Quality setting on AAC/M4A exports.
• Removed Nyquist Workbench (use built-in nyquist features).
• Removed Vocal Remover (use Vocal Reduction).
• Removed On-Demand aliased files (copy files instead).
• Removed 'Normalize on Load' (Normalize as needed on export, instead).
• Over 150 bugs fixed since v.2.3.2

What is new in version 2.3.0:

• Easier zooming in and out with mousewheel, new Zoom Toggle command, and context menu for vertical rulers (thanks to James Crook)
• Easy access to change keyboard bindings of menu commands by holding Shift key
• Detection of dropout errors while recording with overburdened CPU
• Improved contrasts in Light and Dark themes
• Half-wave display option
• Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.1 are now fixed

What is new in version 2.2.2:

• Easier zooming in and out with mousewheel, new Zoom Toggle command, and context menu for vertical rulers (thanks to James Crook)
• Easy access to change keyboard bindings of menu commands by holding Shift key
• Detection of dropout errors while recording with overburdened CPU
• Improved contrasts in Light and Dark themes
• Half-wave display option
• Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.1 are now fixed

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Waveform colorways let you optionally change the color of the waveforms displayed in your project (thanks to James Crook)
• Updated message translations for nineteen languages
  Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.0 are now fixed
• See updated Manual and Release Notes for details.

What is new in version 2.2.0:

• Four supplied user interface themes, and customizability of themes for advanced users (thanks to James Crook and the Dark Audacity project)
• Playback of MIDI files (fully automatic on Windows; requires cooperating software synthesizer programs on macOs or Linux; special thanks to Audacity co-founder Roger Dannenberg and new contributor “pokechu22”)
• Better organized menus
• Help link buttons in many dialogs lead to the relevant manual pages
• 198 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.3 fixed, most importantly:
• Improved recovery from full file system errors; in case of recording, Audacity 2.2.0 will preserve as much of the recorded data as possible
• Thorough update of the manual with new images, more hover texts, and more cross-references.
• Complete support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and 10.13 (High Sierra)

What is new in version 2.1.3:

• Audacity 2.1.3 now properly supports Windows 10 (thanks to an upgrade of the PortAudio library) and on MacOS has some previously missing support for Magic Mouse/Trackpad (thanks to Paul Licameli).
• New Distortion effect, Rhythm Track (was called Click Track) and Sample Data Import (thanks to Steve Daulton). Also effects are no longer grayed-out when in pause.
• New scrub ruler and ‘pinned’ option so the waveform moves and the recording/playing head stays still. (Paul)
• New features in Timer Record (Mark Young & Steve)
• On Mac, audacity.app is now added to /Applications/ directly rather than adding a folder there.
• 64 bugs/annoyances in 2.1.2 fixed of which 15 were long-standing issues. Also lots done (Paul again) to systematically deal with memory leaks.
• Audacity 2.1.3 is the last version that will officially support Windows XP.

What is new in version 2.1.2:

• New option ‘Spectral Reassignment’. This algorithm deduces a ‘finer’ spectrogram for vocal work.
• Improvements to Pitch (EAC) – cleaner (sharper) display.
• Spectrogram Settings are now available per-track.

What is new in version 2.1.1:

• The most visible new feature is scrubbing and seeking , including backwards play. Updates to Quick-Play also help with finding a precise position in the audio.
• You can now install plug-ins without restarting Audacity or add and remove any effect or generator from the menus.
• Over 50 bugs have been addressed with this release. Edits are now processed much faster in longer projects of a few hours duration.
• Effects now have presets. A new Limiter replaces the Hard Limiter effect. There's a new version of Vocal Removal, a cross-fade effect for combining clips on the same track and 'classic filters' available as an opt-in effect.

What is new in version 2.1.0:

• Redesigned Meter Toolbars: The default shows separate Record and Playback Meters, half-height so they can be wider while docked, in gradient style.
• A frequency selection can now be made (and spectral edit effects applied to those frequencies) when in a spectrogram view. You can also create or adjust frequency selections in a new "Spectral Selection Toolbar" (available at View > Toolbars).
• Transcription Toolbar (Play-at-speed) can now loop play and cut-preview.
• Timer Record now saves recordings automatically into an existing project.
• New Armenian translation.

What is new in version 2.0.6:

Improvements:

• Better user interface for Keyboard Preferences.
• Streamlining of several Menus.
• LV2 now supported on all platforms, and improved VST settings interface.
• Translations updated, including adding Tamil language.
• Other improvements, including to import/export and ease of installation on Mac OS X.

Bug Fixes:

• User interface bug fixes to Region Restore, dragging selections, and many others.
• Effects bug fixes to add missing effects to Chains, fix accuracy of Analyze > Contrast, fix accuracy of Noise Removal attack and decay, and improve speed of Nyquist effects on OS X and Linux.
• Other bug fixes to Timeline after Loop Play, Transcription Toolbar, and Linux build issues.