Audacity

Audacity 4.0.1 release notes

Many of these fixes come from community contributors. Thank you all!

Features

• Export multiple: export each track, or each labelled region, to its own file (#11136)
• Portable Windows version that runs without installation (#11932)
• Restored missing Audacity 3 keyboard shortcuts (#12062)
• "Open in file manager" on the Cloud projects tab (#11801)
• Clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen (#11247, by @danielmolinas)
• Liquid Glass app icon on macOS (#11923, by @JoshBashed)

Accessibility

• The timeline and the track vertical rulers are now part of keyboard navigation (#11367, #11368)
• Opening the Effects panel focuses the "Add effect" button (#11416)
• Toast notifications are announced by screen readers and reachable by keyboard (#11645)

Bug fixes

• Fixed project corruption after a failed save (#12296)
• Fixed clips being messed up when converting .aup3 projects (#12209)
• Fixed opening projects and files with non-ASCII characters in their name or folder (#11973, #11976, #12004, #12057, by @jonata)
• Fixed other non-ASCII text issues: presets with Unicode names, starting a new project, and the input device always being the system default on Windows (#8267, #11468, #12107)
• Fixed Audacity failing to launch with Windows Smart App Control enabled (#12167)
• Fixed the AppImage failing to install or start on some Linux distributions (#10135, #12093, by @kfl; #11915)
• Fixed crash when opening the Effect menu in German (#12025)
• Fixed "Audacity quit unexpectedly" dialogs popping up during plugin validation (#11427)
• Fixed VST3 setting changes being reverted on playback start (#11892)
• Fixed typing values into effect controls (#11643, #11668)
• Dragging clips and labels across tracks is faster and no longer crashes, and dragging a duplicated clip onto its original no longer makes it disappear (#12097, #12081 by @jonata)
• Realtime effect windows stay open on edits and undo/redo, and undo/redo is faster with many effects (#12187)
• Fixed clips flickering when selecting after applying an effect (#11145)
• Fixed the playhead drifting from bars and beats above 120 BPM (#11925)
• The view no longer jumps on pause or double-click, and selecting a track by its header no longer moves the playhead (#11148, #12013, #11972 by @jonata)
• Fixed new labels being placed at the wrong position, and the first label's name not being editable right away (#11682 by @RiccardoCampo, #10083)
• No more "-9996 Invalid device" error dialog when input monitoring can't open the device (#12070, by @jonata)
• Fixed exported file names being truncated (#11966)
• Fixed opening files dropped on the macOS Dock icon (#11961)
• Fixed upper-case extensions such as .WAV not being recognized on Linux (#12007)
• Fixed shortcuts not being saved (#11903)
• Fixed tooltips on the gain, volume and graphic EQ sliders (#10410, #11841)
• Fixed the meter dB range not being translated (#11940 by @jonata)
• Cloud: fixed resuming uploads after a lost connection, mono audio imported as stereo, and broken project audio previews (#11609, #12155, #11568)
• Cloud: no more redundant sync dialog on save, error when overwriting a local copy, or half-initialized window after a failed open (#11373, #11460, #11374)