Version 1.5.0 of Rosegarden is now available (in source code form, as usual).

This release contains a number of new features, most notably audio segment time-stretching support, and a many usability improvements particularly in the matrix view. This is also an interesting release from a developer perspective, because the source code has been completely reorganised into a new directory structure with a far more consistent file naming and organisation scheme.

Changes:

• Add time-stretching for audio segments (ctrl-drag the edge of the segment).
• Add import and sample-rate conversion helper for arbitrary audio file types.
• Add helpful context help to status bar in track and matrix editors.
• Various improvements to the usability and friendliness of the matrix editor: do a better job of remembering settings, make the snap-to-grid behaviour more intuitive and pleasing, make better use of cursor changes, add quick-copy by dragging with Ctrl pressed, fix several bugs.
• Add tempo tapping to tempo dialog.
• Further fixes and enhancements to Lilypond export.
• New Invert, Retrograde, Retrograde Invert editing functions.
• Make transport window remember its previous location.
• More helpful warning dialogs on startup if something fails to start properly.
• Change build system from scons to cmake.
• Reorganised code into a new directory structure with a far more consistent file naming and organisation scheme.