JUCE 8.0.11 Now Available

A new minor version of JUCE is out now. Here are the highlights.

New MIDI 2.0 UMP Demo

JUCE now supports communication with MIDI 2.0 devices via UMP. Universal MIDI Packet is the new backwards-compatible MIDI 2.0 data format.

The JUCE team has added a new demo that lets you inspect MIDI 2.0 endpoints and inspect incoming and outgoing messages.

JUCE 8.0.11

• Platform Updates:
  • Added a VS2026 exporter to the Projucer.
  • Compatibility with the latest versions of macOS 26 and iOS 26 was improved. For example, setting the sample rate on iOS 26 is now fixed.
• Dependency Updates:
  • The VST3 SDK was updated to 3.8.0 and is now MIT licensed, which is great for the whole community.
  • The AAX SDK was updated to 2.9.0.
  • Windows ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) library is now open source (GPLv3) and JUCE now bundles the headers. Enabling JUCE_ASIO will now default to the bundled ASIO sources.
  • SheenBidi, the dependency that provides JUCE with right-to-left and bi-directional text positioning, was updated to 2.9.0.
• GUI Performance Improvements:
  • Improved text rendering performance by adding a font and glyph cache.
• Refactoring:
  • The team saw an opportunity to extract GUI functionality out of juce_audio_processor and took it. The result is cleaner code with better separation of GUI and audio concerns. For example, you can now use (and test) the plain AudioProcessor classes with zero UI dependencies.
• Little things:
  • AffineTransform horizontalFlip was added.