====== ROSEGARDEN 17.12, codename "Ultimate Pleasure" RELEASED ======

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 17.12 of Rosegarden, a MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation along with basic support for digital audio.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

17.12 brings us numerous bug fixes by Yves Guillemot and Ted Felix.  Ted has also continued his work on cleaning up the source base with a rewrite of the Audio Mixer window and simplified handling of the volume, pan, etc... control change knobs and faders.

===== Bug Fixes for 17.12.1 =====

  * Fix volume slider having no effect on softsynths.  (Bug [[https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/bugs/1557/|#1557]], [[https://sourceforge.net/p/rosegarden/code/15123/|r15123]])

===== Bug Fixes =====

  * Fix progress dialog lockups in KDE (bug #1546, r15031-r15034)
  * Fix disappearing lyrics in lyrics editor (bug #1547, r15035-r15036)
  * Fix bug #1548: Last syllable of lyrics is not copied between two linked segments.  (r15037)
  * Fix bug #1550: Crash with lyric editor and linked segments (r15038)
  * Fix bug #1551: No sound from an audio file when pressing rewind then play.  (r15039)
  * Fix bug #1549: Matrix Editor: Velocity ruler not updated correctly when changing velocity using the velocity tool (r15041-r15046)
  * Fix alias change not updating label on the audio instrument parameters.  (r15058)
  * Fix miscellaneous cosmetic issues related to the ThornStyle upgrade. (r15076-r15081)
  * Fix time mode toolbar buttons on the Event List and other windows.  (r15083)
  * Fix incorrect window titles on the preferences and document properties windows.  (r15084)
  * Fix garbage property names in Event Edit window.  (r15085)
  * Display velocities modified from the velocity ruler in the status bar for the notation editor.  (r15088)
  * Fix bug #1552: Rosegarden fails to build with cmake-3.9.0. (r15089)
  * Fix crash when launching plugin dialog introduced by r14648.  (r15091)
  * Fix external controller audio volume/pan bug (r15107)
  * Fix crash in rulers when pressing mouse buttons (r15116)
  * Export to LilyPond as a repeat sequence several consecutive linked segments is now possible (bug #1470, r15119)
  * Fix duplicate connection in initial autoload (r15122)
  * Fix crash when exporting to LilyPond. (bug #1553, r15135)
  * Fix lilypond options dialog too big. (r15140)

===== New Features =====

  * Add "Use track name for new segments" preference.  (r15090)

=====Other people who contributed to Rosegarden development:=====

  * Stuart Prescott
  * Lorenzo Sutton

=====People who contributed device files to the Rosegarden Library=====

  * Karl Marksteiner
  * Lucas