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# Changelog
- URL: https://0x57.cc/xylabs-changelog/
- Published: 2026-10-25T22:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T22:41:22.000Z
- Description: Changelog for all XYLabs programs
- Author: xy057
- Tags: XYLabs

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## Curator

### 0.6.1 - 2026/10/25

- New: Engraving menu update.
  - “Hide Preview” and floating menu on every engraving page.
- New: You can type a value into every setting slider.
- New(Extension): Spacers, in Attach Image > Spacers.
  - Support horizontal and vertical spacers.
- New(Extension): Captions 1.1.
  - Use *italic* and **bold** in caption text.
  - Import and export captions as SRT or WebVTT.
- New: Rehearsal marks in the bar numbers row.
  - You can turn this off in Project Settings > Flags.
- New: Playback line color, in Project Settings > Instruments.
- New: Import and export project settings as a .ccf file.
  - The buttons are at the bottom of the Project Settings sidebar.
- New: The About page shows the website, and links to the Changelog, Source code and License.
- Change: Lyrics placed above the staff now appear above it.
- Change: Verse numbers that aren’t whole numbers now each get their own line, in order.
- Change: Rehearsal marks engraving.
- Change: Repeated markings left by some exporters (e.g. “pizz. pizz.”, “mf mf”) are removed.
- Change: Bar numbers moved from Engraving to Animation.
- Change: Project Settings… and Settings… are now in the Edit menu.
- Change: Minor UI tweaking.
- Change: If the default music font isn’t installed, it is kept by name and Bravura stands in until you install it.
- Deprecated: The “Top” position for captions is removed.
  - Captions now always appear under the staves.
- Fix: Erasing across several captions no longer gives the remaining captions the wrong text.
- Fix: Dragging a cropped image past its edge no longer breaks the preview.
- Fix: Holding ⌘, no longer opens several Settings windows.
- Fix: The Text font menu now lines up with the Music font menu.

### 0.6.0 - 2026/10/24

- New: Bar numbers and Tempo marks display.
  - Turn it on in Project Settings > Engraving. On for new projects; older projects open without them.
- New: Colored instrument names.
  - Turn on "Color names" in the new Project Settings > Instruments page. Off for new projects.
  - Add, rename, recolor and remove your own groups, and put any instrument in any group.
- New: Animation settings in Project Settings > Advanced.
  - Every score animation can now be adjusted: staves, scrolling, the ending, captions and bar numbers.
- New: Reset to Default, next to Save as Default.
- New: Custom accent color, plus three new swatches: Cyan, Green and Sand.
- New: UI Text and density size in Settings > Appearance: Small, Medium or Large.
- New: Reduce UI motion in Settings > Appearance.
- New: Remove a recording from Project Settings > Project Info.
- Change: Recordings are always embedded in the project file.
  - Projects with a linked recording still open, and embed it on the next save.
- Change: Updated dependencies.
- Change (macOS): Program will no longer quit if the last window closes.
- Fix: Changing the score size right after opening a project now redraws the frozen zone at the new size.

### 0.5.4 - 2026/10/21

- New: Bracket groups.
  - Turn it on in Project Settings > Sections. Off for new projects.
- New: Overflow warning.
  - The bar ruler turns red where notation runs off the video's frame.
  - Export lists those bars and asks you to tick "Export anyway".
- Change: Project Settings button is now on the timeline toolbar.
- Change: Settings are now saved per project. Engraving, Fonts, Animation, Recording and Flags moved from Settings to Project Settings.
  - Use "Save as Default" next to a page's title to apply it to new projects.
- Change: Extensions are now set per project, in Project Settings > Extensions.
  - Older projects keep the extensions they had on.
  - Opening a project only asks about extensions it hasn't chosen yet.
- Change: Project Settings opens on Project Info. Replace Score and Add Recording are there.
- Change: Condensing has moved its own page to Project Settings.
- Deprecated: The Score menu and the Condensing toolbar button are removed. Use Project Settings instead.
- Fix: Dragging regions, anchors and the score size slider is smoother in long scores.
- Fix: Hovering a recent project on the home page no longer flashes grey.
- Fix: The tap anchors button no longer flashes grey as it fades.
- Fix: Carbon's segmented buttons no longer dim on hover in light mode or flash in dark mode.

### 0.5.3 - 2026/10/19

- Fix: The frozen zone now follows the chosen music font.
- Fix: Time signatures in handwritten fonts (e.g. Petaluma) no longer overlap in the frozen zone.
- Fix: Staff lines keep the same weight as they fade into the frozen zone. Dark mode no longer shows lines artifact.
- Fix: Staff lines in the music now match the frozen zone's line weight.

### 0.5.2 - 2026/10/18

- Change: Updated audio playback engine.
- Change: Classic theme is removed.
  - There is a new rectangular theme "Carbon" available if you don't like round shapes.
- Change: Replace Score keeps the MIDI tempo map's warps.
  - Warps with no place in the new score are left out.
- Change: Loading a MIDI tempo map shows where its warps came from.
- Change: Refined some animations.
- ?: Settings > About.
- Fix: Condensed pairs no longer drop the second player's dynamics and directions in chord and a2 bars.
- Fix: Drawing the MIDI tempo map with ⌥ now reaches the beat you drag to.
- Fix: A MIDI tempo change dragged past its neighbor stops next to it.
- Fix: Adding a recording while the project is saving no longer breaks the saved file.
- Fix: Turning off Attach Image while dragging an image no longer breaks Undo.
- Fix: Clicking the last barline in the Instruments and Captions lanes now selects the last beat.
- Fix: Font pickers no longer stay empty when a SMuFL font folder can't be read.

### 0.5.1 - 2026/10/14

- New: Redesign of export screen
  - New trimmer and preview menu.
  - Export a video as MP4, MOV, WebM (VP9) or PNG sequence.
  - Transparent background for MOV, WebM and PNG exports.
  - Extended frame selection.
- New: Ability to edit MIDI tempo map .
- New: Warps (repeats) now work with MIDI tempo map.
- Change: Dynamics typed as text are engraved as real dynamics.
  - On by default. You could turn it off in Settings > Flags
- Fix: Turning the background transparent no longer drops a frame.
- Fix: A score with two dynamics in one marking (“f – p”) opens again.
- Fix: Undo in the middle of a tempo drag ends the drag cleanly.
- Fix: Tempo maps with thousands of changes edit will perform faster.
- Fix: A MIDI warp that doesn’t fit the score no longer hides the warps around it.

### 0.5.0 - 2026/10/12

- New(experimental): Refined UI and wording.
  - You could revert to the Old UI under Settings > Appearance > Style.
- New: Improved engraving option.
- New: Font can now not embedded in the project file.
- Change: Updated dependency.
- Change: The home page shows the app icon instead of a generic music symbol.
- Fix: Resizing the window is much smoother.
- Fix: Improved rendering speed.
- Fix: A dragged anchor will no longer stays under the pointer while the view scrolls.
- Fix: A project still opening when its window closes now stops cleanly.
- Fix: Projects no longer appear half-open to the rest of the app while they load.
- Fix: The Engraving preview follows projects opening and closing.
- Fix: The Captions font select now has the same size and style as other dialog fields in Refined.

### 0.4.0 - 2026/10/07

- New: Captions.
  - This feature must be enabled in Settings > Extension.
- New: Ability to swap between different MusicXML files.
- New: Export A-B region in the piece, select region by bar.
- New: Updated export modal.
  - The export now defaults to 1080p@30fps.
- New: Metronome for quickly aligning.
- New: Ability to jump to a specific bar directly.
- New: Ability to cut and copy regions.
- New: Lane menu can rename each player separately.
- New(extension): An asset explorer for unused images.
  - Please note that unused images will **NOT** be saved in the project file.
- Change: Slightly tweaked menu bar entries.
- Change: Combined project-wide settings into a single window, open using ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + ,.
- Change: An Edit menu for common controls.
- Change: A new about page.
- Change: A right-click on the ruler no longer moves the playhead.
- Fix: Fixed a bug where certain action will disable all shortcuts.
- Fix: No longer missing cancelling naturals at a key change to C.
  - If you intended to use the C signature as "atonal" signature, please ensure that <cancel> tag is present.
- Fix: Border transition animation when switching from light mode to dark mode.
  - The animation is lot smoother now!
- Fix: Cancelled lane clicks will draw nothing.
- Fix: Various UI tweaking and performance enhancement.
- Fix(Security): A linked recording on a network share is never opened.
- Fix(Security): A project can only point to audio or video files, not other files.
- Fix(Security): FFmpeg now reads only audio and video formats.
- Fix(Security): What a project or `.mxl` file unpacks is size-limited.
- Deprecated: The text edit function is now deprecated and unreachable due to lack of purpose.
  - Project saved previously with edited text will still load correctly.

### 0.3.0 - 2026/10/04

- **New (experimental): Windows support.**
  - The updater for Windows might not be working right now.
- New (experimental): Attach images on the score.
  - Currently support JPG, PNG and SVG.
  - Please enable this feature in the "Extension" section of settings.
- New: Customize score and text font.
- New:Drag-and-drop now supports images, projects, and MIDI in the corresponding location.
- Change: Change the end behavior so the final barline doesn’t fade out.
- Change: Faster video export.
- Fix: Score export will no longer break if cancel is pressed.
- Fix: A tempo of 0, NaN or infinity will play at the default tempo.
- Fix: Re-engraving will less likely to crash.

### 0.2.2 - 2026/10/02

- *New (experimental): Import speed map from MIDI.*
- Change: Slightly redesign the welcome screen.
- Fix: The program will no longer ignore the transition to the key signature for C/Am.
- Fix: Multi-staff instruments will now show their brackets.
- Fix: Multi-staff instruments will have connected bar lines.
- Fix: Cross-staff notes are supported.
  - Please note that instruments with sophisticated engraving might not display properly; a workaround will be available in the near future.

### 0.2.1 - 2026/10/01

- New: A slider to switch between the new scrolling animation (snap to note) and the pre-0.2.0 one (snap to bar).
- Change: Modified some mouse-over tips.

### 0.2.0 - 2026/09/30

- New: App Icon.
- New: Individual-controllable animation time.
  - Change: Updated project file version.
- Change: Key signature spacing is now respecting local options.
- Change: Scrolling speed is now considering note spacing, enhancing the accuracy.
- Change: Several tweaking on setting pages.
- Fix: ⌘Z or ⇧⌘Z on the start screen will no longer crash the program.
- Fix: Replacing the recording with an unreadable file will not unload the current recording.
- Fix: Importing a score after opening a project no longer kept that project's unpacked recording in the scratch folder.
- Fix: Pressing Apply in a region's dialog no longer re-read its start and end from the rounded text it shows.
- Fix: Anchor start time cannot be set to infinity.

### 0.1.2 - 2026/09/28

- New: Export and preview ratio can be freely adjusted, located at the top-right corner of the top bar.
- New: Instruments can be reordered by hold-clicking the instrument label.
- New: Instruments could be batch-selected and reordered.
- Change: Update project file version as the order is now saved into the project.
- Fix: Initial window size is too small.
- Fix: Empty lanes can now be selected.

### 0.1.1 - 2026/09/27

- Change: The score preview can render in 16:9 with a toggle "Show video's frame"
  - We are hoping to expand this behavior by allowing custom ratios in the future.
- Change: the program is no longer referred to as "curated-score"

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## Secant

### 0.2.1 - 2026/10/21

- Fix a crash.

### 0.2.0 - 2026/10/14

- Support export Cubase expression map.

### 0.1.0 - 2026/10/13

- First public release.