> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://support.audacityteam.org/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://support.audacityteam.org/au3/additional-resources/changelog/older-versions/audacity-3.0.0.md). # Audacity 3.0 **Audacity 3.0.0 was released on 17th Mar 2021.** ### Checksums ``` audacity-win-3.0.0.exe (application/x-msdownload) - 29378296 bytes SHA-256 6a0cfed327b00cf8fefef4bd5c8ba85b5364f3e56345772410572f2d821ca14d audacity-macos-3.0.0.dmg (n/a) - 41328807 bytes SHA-256 f769a9e8c0f2352171933339681616ddab43ca6d7b688918e5af8bd1382a0fad audacity-minsrc-3.0.0.tar.xz (n/a) - 13308836 bytes SHA-256 d3bb1358b930ea4ef935ed83cc5a0f47006565762c5667c2fb376c6535876a6a audacity-win-3.0.0.zip (application/x-zip-compressed) - 12507745 bytes SHA-256 63c23df0731d02327ca964f01e0bd2ff533fa189ef18402e29c3e3992038217d audacity-manual-3.0.0.zip (application/x-zip-compressed) - 23118171 bytes SHA-256 9e3ab6ae3455db8be98e26cc09d90a89901e37b8eca671949f9959bbc1c7c2e8 ``` ### Changes and improvements since previous version Audacity 3.0.0 replaces all previous versions. * Over 150 bugs fixed since 2.4.2 Full details of new features in the visual guide to [New features in Audacity 3.0.0](/au3/additional-resources/changelog/older-versions/audacity-3.0.0/new-features-in-audacity-3.0.0.md) ### Supported Platforms **Windows** * Audacity 3.0.0 requires the CPU to support the [SSE2 ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2)instruction set which should be available on any Intel hardware produced after 2001 and any AMD hardware produced after 2003. * To check what SSE levels your CPU supports, you can install [CPU-Z](http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html). * If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the [Legacy Windows](https://www.audacityteam.org/download/legacy-windows/) page on the Audacity Website. * 3.0.0 does not support Windows XP. * You may try 2.2.2 on XP, but it is unsupported. **macOS / Mac OS X** * Audacity 3.0.0 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS. * There are legacy versions for older OS X at . **Linux** * Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux. * Audacity may compile on Gentoo, Debian, Mint. * Audacity does not currently compile on SuSE Linux. ### Interactive Buglist Page *We probably track more bugs than you are interested in...* On the dynamic buglist page you can select to view: * Complete list of bugs in 2.4.2 that we have fixed for 3.0.0 * Known bugs on the OS you use Mac, Windows or Linux. * Known bugs to do with accessibility or localization. * Workarounds for some bugs. * Serious bugs and less serious bugs. You can choose various combinations of these. However, there are probably too many minor bugs and too much detail on that [dynamic buglist page](https://github.com/audacity/audacity-support/blob/main/additional-resources/changelog/older-versions/audacity-3.0.0/broken-reference/README.md) for most users. We **do** use this detail in our own QA work. ### Highlighted Issues * Below are listed what we believe are the most common and important issues with 3.0.0 for most users. **Accessibility** * Less of Audacity is properly accessible to visually impaired users than we would like. Currently the best supported platform for accessibility is Windows. We lost a lot of custom accessibility programming when we had to move to a more recent version of the wxWidgets library. **Internationalization** * Audacity is only partially translated in many languages. We also have some issues, for example, with Right-To-Left Languages. **Selected Bugzilla-Tracked Bugs**
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2672P3RESOLVEDPlug-ins listed in reverse alphabetic order in Plug-ins Manager
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