Audacity Versions
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This page provides a comprehensive overview of all the Audacity versions. Links to relevant Release Notes are mostly available, plus an archive of the recent "What's New" pages (only available from Audacity 2.1.3 onwards).
Contents
- Audacity Releases
- Support and Compatibility
- Audacity alpha and Release Candidate testing
- Archive of "New Features" documents
Audacity Releases
Click the version number to see the Release Notes for that version - but note that some of the earlier ones are missing,
| Version | Date | Notes and key changes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1.2 | 16 Nov 2021 | Hotfix release, fixing some crashes. | |
| 3.1.1 | 11 Nov 2021 | Hotfix release, fixing FFMPEG imports and some crashes. | |
| 3.1.0 | 28 Oct 2021 | A release focussed on usability improvements, adding clip handle bars, smart clips and reworking the looping feature. | |
| 3.0.5 | 29 Sep 2021 | Hotfix release, possibly project-corrupting bug fixed. | |
| 3.0.4 | 24 Aug 2021 | Hotfix release, possibly project-corrupting bug fixed. | |
| 3.0.3 | 26 Jul 2021 | Bug fixes and an improved default spectrogram appearance. An official binary is now provided for Linux in the form of an AppImage. Optional update checking and error/crash reporting. | |
| 3.0.2 | 19 Apr 2021 | Bug fixes and new macro output preference. | |
| 3.0.1 | 8 Apr 2021 | 3.0.1 had extra diagnostics to track down bugs, which it did, and was released only to developers. | |
| 3.0.0 | 17 Mar 2021 | Now using aup3 unitary project file format. Over 160 bugs fixed. | |
| 2.4.2 | 26 Jun 2020 | Updated library to wx3.1.3. Over 30 bugs fixed. New 'configuration reset' menu item. | |
| 2.4.1 | 21 May 2020 | One serious data-loss P1 bug fixed. No new features | |
| 2.4.0 | 15 May 2020 | Added Catalina support. Added TimeToolbar. Added Track Multi-view. Loudness, Noise Gate and Spectral Delete effects. Over 100 bugs fixed. (release withdrawn) | |
| 2.3.3 | 22 Nov 2019 | Equalization effect split into two. Quality setting on ACC/M4A exports. Major refactoring. Over 150 bugs fixed. | |
| 2.3.2 | 13 May 2019 | LAME built in. mod-script-pipe distributed with Audacity. 'Select' button in the track control panel. About 20 bugs fixed. | |
| 2.3.1 | 08 March 2019 | Switch to 64-bit on macOS. Upgrade for Regular-Interval-Labels. About 25 bugs fixed. | |
| 2.3.0 | 29 September 2018 | Upgrade to Macros, Play-at-Speed, Toolbars. Added Punch-and-Roll. Many bugs fixed. | |
| 2.2.2 | 20 February 2018 | Dropout detection added, zooming improved, maintenance release for bug fixing | |
| 2.2.1 | 06 December 2017 | Waveform colorways added, "File>Save Other" reverted to "File>Export", maintenance release for bug fixing | |
| 2.2.0 | 02 November 2017 | Changes from DarkAudacity ported to Audacity, giving us themes. MIDI Playback added. Context help icon added to preferences and dialogs. | |
| 2.1.3 | 17 March 2017 | Pinned playhead, Scrubbing & Seeking, Improvements to Timer Record with termination actions | |
| 2.1.2 | 20 January 2016 | Spectrogram improvements, including Spectral Reassignment. First Version to use wxWidgets 3.0 | |
| 2.1.1-screen-reader | 15 July 2015 | For a long time this was the best Mac build for VI users / VoiceOver, with older versions of macOS (pre-Mojave). Uses wxWidgets 2.8.12, and not 3.0. We've deprecated it now as it does not run on 64 bit. | |
| 2.1.1 | 15 July 2015 | Improvements to effects. Faster editing. Scrubbing and Seeking, including backwards play. | |
| 2.1.0 | 29 March 2015 | Real-Time preview of effects. Frequency selection including spectral selection toolbar. | |
| 2.0.6 | 29 September 2014 | Redesigned key-binding preferences. Transport Menu now includes "Play/Stop" and "Play/Stop and Set Cursor" | |
| 2.0.5 | 21 October 2013 | Tracks menu added. | |
| 2.0.4 | 6 September 2013 | Align End to End, new Reverb effect | |
| 2.0.3 | 21 January 2013 | Improvements to Time Tracks. New effects: Studio Fade Out, Adjustable Fade. | |
| 2.0.2 | 24 August 2012 | Improvements to toolbars. Improvements and some bug fixes to Nyquist effects. | |
| 2.0.1 | 29 June 2012 | Improvements to shortcuts. Nyquist Effect plug-ins can now be added to Chains. CleanSpeech Mode removed. | |
| 2.0.0 | 13 March 2012 | First stable version after a very long time in beta. Device Toolbar to manage inputs and outputs. Timer Record. Mixer Board view with per-track VU meters. | |
| 1.3.14 | 11 December 2011 | Normalize: Faster processing and improved interface. Mix and Render preserves clip length. CleanSpeech Mode removed. Support for Audio Unit plug-ins on Mac. | |
| 1.3.13 | 11 April 2011 | Improved Automatic Crash Recovery. New "Sync-Lock Tracks" feature. Equalization: New "Manage Curves" dialog. New Transport > Rescan Audio Devices menu item. | |
| 1.3.12 | 1 April 2010 | Import lists of files (LOF) containing relative paths. Export Multiple: new option to use a numerical prefix before existing label or track names. | |
| 1.3.11 | 18 January 2010 | New Sound Finder plug-in to label regions of audio between silences. | |
| 1.3.10 | 1 December 2009 | Contains work by Google Summer of Code 2009. Input volume slider disabled if it doesn't have proper control of system slider. | |
| 1.3.9 | 1 September 2009 | Compressor: new option to compress based on peaks, improved attack and decay time support. Improved design for Mixer Board. | |
| 1.3.8 | 17 July 2009 | VST Effects now display GUI by default. Faster Equalization and Noise Removal; improved Truncate Silence and Click Track. | |
| 1.3.7 | 28 January 2009 | High-quality "Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift" effect. Audio Contrast Analyzer for testing audio for WCAG2 accessibility compliance. | |
| 1.3.6 | 24 October 2008 | Contains work by Google Summer of Code 2008. FFmpeg support. On-demand loading of uncompressed files. | |
| 1.3.5 | 8 May 2008 | New feature to record onto the end of an existing track. New keyboard shortcuts and improved menu navigation. | |
| 1.3.4 | 13 November 2007 | Support for VAMP analysis plug-ins. New command "Mix and Render to New Track". Improvements to many effects. | |
| 1.3.3 | 18 May 2007 | Improvements to many effects. New Auto Duck effect. New DTMF Tone generator. Major speed improvement in Spectrogram rendering. | |
| 1.3.2 | 30 October 2006 | Timer recording. Auto-save and automatic crash recovery. Improved batch processing. | |
| 1.3.1 | 26 September 2006 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.3.0 | 28 November 2005 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.2.6 | 13 November 2006 | Fixed memory leaks on Windows. Corrected font size problems. FLAC import now works correctly. | |
| 1.2.5 | 30 October 2006 | An official Intel Mac version. Clearer indication of remaining free disk space. Several new and updated translations. | |
| 1.2.4 | 28 November 2005 | File menu now includes a list of recent files. Dragging sound files into Audacity now works on Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows. | |
| 1.2.3 | 19 November 2004 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.2.2 | 26 August 2004 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.2.1 | 9 May 2004 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.2.0 | 3 March 2004 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.1.3 | 21 March 2003 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.1.1 | 21 November 2002 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.1 | 11 June 2002 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 1.0 | 11 June 2002 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.98 | 25 March 2002 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.97 | 10 October 2001 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.96 | 29 July 2001 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.95 | 26 April 2001 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.94 | 10 February 2001 | Release Notes not available. | |
| 0.93 | 4 December 2000 | Recording Added | |
| 0.91 | 4 October 2000 | First Version Available For Download | |
| 0.8 | 28 May 2000 | Test version | |
| Current Version Supported Version Old Version | |||
Support and Compatibility
Support
The following operating systems are fully supported platforms for current Audacity.
We will provide full support for these, including bug logging and bug fixing:
- Windows
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- macOS
- macOS 11 Big Sur
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Linux
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 21.10
Compatibility
The following table shows the latest version of Audacity that should operate correctly on any given Windows or macOS operating system.
Unless they are listed above these are not supported. We will not accept bug reports or fix bugs against any issues raised by running older versions of Audacity on End-Of-Life operating systems that are no longer supported by Microsoft or Apple.
You may ask for help with these on the Audacity Forum and we will do our best to help you if we can.
| system (OS) | OS version | Audacity version |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | 8, 10 and 11 | latest |
| Vista, 7 | latest | |
| XP with SSE2 CPU | 2.1.3 | |
| 2000 | 2.0.6 | |
| 98 and ME | 2.0.0 | |
| macOS | 10.7 to 11 | latest |
| 10.6 (Universal) | 2.2.2 | |
| 10.5 (Universal) | 2.1.1 | |
| 10.4 (Universal) | 2.0.6 | |
| Mac OS X | 10.0 | 1.2.6a |
| Classic Mac OS | Mac OS 9 | 1.0.0 |
Operating System Help
Audacity alpha and Release Candidate testing
If pre-releases are available, they'll be provided at https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases
Archive of "New Features" documents
Released Versions
- New features in Audacity 3.0.4 - hotfix
- New features in Audacity 3.0.3
- New features in Audacity 3.0.2
- 3.0.1 was never released
- New features in Audacity 3.0.0
- New features in Audacity 2.4.2
- New features in Audacity 2.4.1
- New features in Audacity 2.4.0
- New features in Audacity 2.3.3
- New features in Audacity 2.3.2
- New features in Audacity 2.3.1
- New features in Audacity 2.3.0
- New features in Audacity 2.2.2
- New features in Audacity 2.2.1
- New features in Audacity 2.2.0
- New features in Audacity 2.1.3
Older Releases
The following page has a history of Audacity changes from 1.1 through 1.3.2
