This page is an overview of the key new functionality that has been introduced in Audacity 2.3.1

• Details of all the major changes since 2.3.0 can be found in Audacity 2.3.1.

64-bit Mac build

The 2.3.1 release of Audacity for macOS is now a 64-bit build and will only run on modern 64-bit Macs, running OSX 10.7 or later.

Scrub Ruler

The Scrub Ruler is now turned "off" by default and is not displayed. The reason we did this was because we found too many users were accidentally clicking in the Scrub Ruler and then finding themselves stuck in Scrubbing mode.

This will only affect you if you opt to reset your preferences settings as part of the 2.3.1 installation, manually reset your preferences or install Audacity for the first time.

If you want/need to turn it back on again use either the and check the Scrub Ruler to be "on". Or right click in the Timeline and select Enable Scrub Ruler.

Advanced Vertical Zooming

We have added a new command to the menu View > Zoom menu for turning Advanced Vertical Zooming "on" or "off".

Advanced Vertical Zooming enables you to use left-click gestures in the Vertical Scale to control zooming (this is in addition to the Simple mode vertical zooming commands available from the right-click context menu in the Vertical Scale).

Micro Fades

Micro fades (introduced in 2.3.0) can reduce the click when playback starts and stops. We've now made this an opt-in feature rather than provide it all the time, this can be set in Playback Preferences.

Regular Interval Labels improvements

We have made some improvements to Regular Interval Labels, accessed by Tools > Regular Interval Labels.

In particular we have made it possible to create range labels and not just point labels with this Tool. You can do this by specifying the label length in the new input field Length of label region (seconds)

Bug Fixes

• Linux: Audacity 2.3.0 was available only for Mac and Windows, and Linux used 2.2.1. Audacity 2.3.1 is available for Linux.

• Windows and Linux: Intermittent truncation of the end of a recording - see

• Can't adjust Time Track envelope when Logarithmic scale selected - see

Links

- detailed release notes for this release of Audacity

Audacity 2.3.1 will be released on 8th March 2019.

Size and Checksums

Changes and improvements since previous version

Audacity 2.3.1 replaces all previous versions.

• Audacity now supports 64-bit Mac.

• Over 20 bugs fixed since 2.3.0, including:

  • A crashing bug on Linux that made Audacity 2.3.0. unsuitable for Linux.

Full details of new features in the visual guide to

Supported Platforms

Windows

• Audacity 2.3.1 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 2.3.1 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 2.3.0 that we have fixed for 2.3.1

• 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 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 2.3.1 for most users.

Accessibility

• Far 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.