The Rosegarden team has announced the release of version 1.7.1 of Rosegarden, the audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. This is a maintenance release that addresses several problems reported with 1.7.0.

New Features:

• Improve resilience of frame - realtime - frame round-trip conversions.
• Make it possible to use synth plugins for the metronome.
• Use the name of the segment in the clipboard as the default label when adding a new triggered segment via the triggered segments manager.
• It is now possible to configure Rosegarden so that it no longer appends strings like "(copied)" and "(split)" to segments when manipulating them.
• Indonesian translation.

New Documentation:

• Shelagh Manton has been hard at work tweaking the Rosegarden Handbook.

Significant Bug Fixes:

• Fix crash when cutting a range.
• Export either fractional or common time signatures to match the notation editor, with some minor constraints imposed by LilyPond.
• Implement ottava brackets in LilyPond export.
• Export pedal marks as \sustainDown and \sustainUp in LilyPond.
• Distinguish between 8va/8vb and 15ma/15mb a la LilyPond.