This page is an overview of prominent new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.4.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.4.0 can be found in Audacity 2.4.1.

No new features

There were no new features in 2.4.1 - this was an emergency bug-fix release for a critical P1 bug.

Bug Fixes

Key P1 bugs fixed

• P1 - Lost/corrupted audio data after pasting into empty project

Links

- detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

Audacity 2.4.1 was released on 20th May 2020.

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Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 2.4.1 replaces all previous versions. It contains a rapid fix for a serious bug in the briefly issued Audacity 2.4.0 release.

• Over 100 bugs fixed since 2.3.3

Full details of new features in the visual guide to

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 2.4.1 requires the CPU to support the 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 .

  • If your hardware only supports SSE, you may download Audacity 2.0.6 see the page on the Audacity Website.

macOS / Mac OS X

• Audacity 2.4.1 is for Intel Macs running OS X 10.7 and later and macOS including Catalina.

  • There are legacy versions for older OS X at .

Linux

• Linux support is tested on Ubuntu Linux. Use the CMake build. The Automake build is no longer reliable.

  • 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 2.3.3 that we have fixed for 2.4.1

• Known bugs on the OS you use Mac, Windows or Linux.

• Known bugs to do with accessibility or localization.

• Workarounds for some 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 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 2.4.1 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

• Click on the bug numbers to see work done on these bugs.