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Paul Davis has announced the release of a hotfix release of Ardour, addresses two significant issues:

1. A critical bug that disrupts workflow by causing the software to crash frequently when musical time is set as the default time domain, particularly during operations such as timestretching or pitch-shifting.
2. An issue has been identified where meters not expressed in quarter notes (e.g., 6/8 or 5/8) lead to a crash when attempting to add BBT markers.

Users of version 8.10 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 8.11 promptly to mitigate these issues.



Ardour 8.11 released

Ardour 8.11 is a hotfix release that contains a fix for a critical workflow-blocking bug. All users of 8.10 and all Linux distributions should upgrade to 8.11 as soon as possible.

The bug occurs whenever the user is working on a session using musical time as the default time domain (Session > Properties > Misc). If they carry out any operation that causes Ardour to write a modified copy of existing audio data to a new file (such as timestretching, pitch-shifting or reversing), there is a very high probability that they will be unable to reopen to the session in the future. Such sessions can be recovered manually with a text editor, but this is not an acceptable pattern for our users.

8.11 includes a fix for one other crashing bug. This bug only affected people using meters not denominated in quarter notes (crotchets) (e.g. 6/8 or 5/8). Adding BBT markers in such sessions would cause a crash soon after.

Ardour 8.11 released