Audacity on Mac is notarized and runs on Catalina. We have now caught up with Apple’s ‘notarization system’. We’ve put a lot of time and work into it. We’re pleased to announce release of Audacity 2.4.0 which replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux. With that information we were able to find the root cause, make a fix and release 2.4.1. Thanks to Jack L from FreeBSD for alerting us to the problem and giving us steps to reproduce it. The bug happens when you have two projects open at the same time and paste audio from one project into the other.

We temporarily re-instated the 2.3.3 release for downloads whilst we investigated a serious bug that affects 2.4.0 on Windows Mac and Linux. Tagged release Happy 20th Birthday, Audacity! When you click on it, it resets most of the configuration back to defaults. In the Tools menu there is now a ‘Reset Configuration’ menu item. The exact number of bugs fixed depends on how you count, but anyway, it’s a worthwhile number of fixes. We’ve in the past had a lot of reports of problems on Linux that turned out in the end to be because some distributions were using system wxWidgets (3.0.0) with Audacity. If you’re using Audacity 2.4.2 on Linux, do use the right wxWidgets library. We wanted to do this as a release in its own right, before we start on a longer and more complex release.

The main change since 2.4.1 is that we have upgraded the wxWidgets library that Audacity uses from 3.1.1 (with patches by us) to 3.1.3 (with patches by us). We’re pleased to announce release of Audacity 2.4.2 which replaces all previous versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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