Audacity 4.0.1 Released
The Update Includes Stability Fixes, Portable Windows Build and Restored Shortcuts.
Audacity 4.0.1 (build 4.0.1.262721353) arrived, only three weeks after the major Qt6-based rewrite that shipped as Audacity 4.0. The free, open-source audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS and Linux gets a release that mostly addresses early teething problems, while also adding a few long-requested features.
Audacity offers multi-track recording and mixing with gain and pan, destructive and non-destructive editing, and built-in effects such as EQ, compression and reverb. It handles WAV, AIFF, FLAC and OGG, supports VST, LV2, LADSPA and Nyquist plugins, and needs the separate LAME encoder for MP3 export. The installer is about 47.5 MB.
What's new in 4.0.1
New features
- Export multiple: export each track, or each labeled region, as its own file in one step.
- Portable Windows build: a version that runs without installation.
- Audacity 3 keyboard shortcuts restored, easing the move for long-time users.
- File manager integration for Cloud projects.
Accessibility
- Timeline and track rulers can now be navigated with the keyboard.
- Toast notifications work with screen readers.
Bug fixes and performance
- Fixes project corruption after failed saves.
- Fixes problems with non-ASCII filenames and VST3 plugin settings reverting.
- Fixes crashes tied to the German language and some Linux distributions, and broken .aup3 conversions.
- Faster clip dragging and smoother undo/redo when several effects are used.
- Cloud fixes: upload resumption, stereo import errors and project previews.
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