TuxGuitar Version 1.6 available

[Helmar Gerloni]

Julian seems to be no longer active in this repository and did not respond to our request a few months ago.

Since the new repository https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar has made a lot of progress and the code is now in a quite consistent state, we decided to release a new "official" version of TuxGuitar: 1.6.0.

The changes since version 1.5.6 are:

• Add click & drag selection
• Copy/paste and repeat selection
• Apply actions and effects to selection
• Fix percussion channel issues in GP importer
• Improve MIDI import/export
• Enhance bend display
• Adjust playback tempo in 1% steps
• Improve horizontal scrolling during playback
• Add named tuning presets
• Add new skins
• Update documentation
• Improve translations, add Android translations
• Add basic support for hardware keyboards on Android
• Simplify and document build process
• Remove all 32 bit builds
• Remove QT4 and QT5 builds for Linux
• Add 64 bit builds for Windows
• Provide RPM packages for Linux
• Improve command line handling
• Many small improvements and cleanups

Ready-to-use installation packages for Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD and Android can be found at

https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar/releases/

Currently the first beta version 1.6.0beta1 is available. If you have found a bug or have suggestions, please leave a comment on Github.

A big thanks goes out to everyone who has provided patches and feedback over the last few months!

[x0rn]

Helge,

First thanks for stewarding this.

Second, to be clear: does this mean development will be happening at github.com/helge17/tuxguitar going forward?

[Helmar Gerloni]

Since the repository here on SourceForge seems to be orphaned, we try to continue developing TuxGuitar on this Github repository, yes.

[x0rn]

Awesome - I want to contribute.

I will see you over in the Github repo :)

[Helmar Gerloni]

Version 1.6.0 is now available at

https://github.com/helge17/tuxguitar/releases/