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v5.20 - May 17 2016
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Download the updated manual here.
Some details on the changes documented in the manual are in post #18 of this thread.

+ API: improve MIDI_Sort function [t=174909]
+ Accessibility: improve fader/knob descriptions for VoiceOver and MSAA
+ Accessibility: improve project tabs/docker tabs/various other tabs with VoiceOver
+ Actions: fix certain keys in actions window filter box on OSX [t=175928]
+ Actions: action to set item ends to start of next item only affects selected items [t=93064]
+ Automation: add trim volume envelope, actions to apply to/from trim to volume envelopes
+ Automation: fix inaccuracies reading mute envelopes when stopped [p=1669017]
+ Automation: improve actions to write all envelopes [t=175501]
+ Automation: improve rounding behavior when at the end of square envelope segments [t=169452]
+ CoreAudio: try to normalize samplerates when opening multiple devices
+ CoreAudio: only open one device when using a single default device
+ FX: change default FX resize to down as well as up
+ FX: reduce memory use for plug-ins with large state data
+ JSFX: make @serialize faster and use less memory
+ JSFX: add WigWare Multi-Channel VU Meter
+ JSFX: add midi_delay
+ JSFX: eliminate more constant conditional expressions, improve code generation
+ JSFX: fix match() matching %s at end of string [t=176046]
+ JSFX: send meta-events (beginning with FF) unwrapped via midisend_buf/str (do not treat as sysex)
+ Markers/regions: always encode color as RGB in .csv export [t=176781]
+ Markers/regions: fix cross-platform color translation issue
+ MIDI editor: add mouse modifier to select all later notes of same pitch
+ MIDI editor: add mouse modifier to select all notes in measure (shift+alt+click by default)
+ MIDI editor: add undo points when using velocity edit actions [t=175752]
+ MIDI editor: prevent note edit preview while recording [t=174161]
+ MIDI editor: allow separate selection link to visibility and editability in track list
+ Media items: add undo point when renaming source media
+ Media items: improve handling of zero-length items [t=102921]
+ Media items: fix heavily-looped, resampled items [t=70178]
+ Media items: fix very-zoomed-out peak display on very short looped items
+ Media items: improve stretch marker behavior with pitch shifting and 0ms stretch marker fade time
+ Media items: fix potential for incorrect take FX chasing/small seeks
+ Media items: vary take lane size in order to use all available space [t=93071]
+ Metronome: fix count-in rounding issue [t=173878]
+ Metronome: improve behavior when moving click sources across time signature changes [t=175402]
+ Mixer: fix potential hang when using theme that sets mcp_min_height=0 [t=175196]
+ Mixer: improve action behavior with docked but invisible master mixer
+ Mouse modifiers: change "paint notes or chords" to "paint notes and chords"
+ Notation editor: add MIDI notation editor!
+ Notation editor: handle most mouse and keyboard insert/edit behaviors identically to existing MIDI editor
+ Notation editor: save notation data with project MIDI; notation-specific import/export will come later
+ Notation editor: support single track or continuous scrolling multiple track view
+ Notation editor: support grid spacing (default) or proportional musical note spacing
+ Notation editor: support customizable display quantization
+ Notation editor: support optional automatic triplet detection
+ Notation editor: support inserting and editing arbitrary manual tuplets
+ Notation editor: support some articulation, ornaments, dynamics, pedal, octave notation
+ Notation editor: support lyrics, phrases/slurs
+ Notation editor: support automatic or custom beaming
+ Notation editor: support key signatures, clef changes, transposing instruments
+ Notation editor: support up to 3 voices, option to automatically voice overlapping notes
+ Notation editor: support non-standard accidentals (E sharp, G double-flat, etc)
+ Notation editor: support coloring selected notes or note heads by pitch, media source, velocity, voice
+ Notation editor: support custom note head glyphs per-note or per-pitch
+ Notation editor: optionally bracket tracks by project folder
+ Preferences: fix auto-mute UI disabling [t=175117]
+ Project bay: improve handling of folders when full source media path changes
+ Project bay: preserve source media folders when media is removed and re-added to project
+ Project bay: update source media folders when renaming via media item properties
+ ReaInsert: fix MIDI monitoring latency when stopped
+ ReaPlugs: reduce undo state memory use
+ ReaScript: fix EEL match() matching %s at end of string [t=176046]
+ ReaScript: fix potential memory leak [t=176582]
+ ReaVerb: fix potential crash when switching presets [t=175247]
+ Render: allow render blocksize as low as 4 samples
+ Save as: prompt when overwriting a file saved to a subdirectory [t=174851]
+ Theme: add new master track layouts [p=1671397]
+ Transport: update play button state after various actions which stop playback [t=64343]
+ Undo: fix incorrect history update when using save-as to an existing project [p=1664941]
+ Undo: warn when inconsistencies or errors occur loading undo history
+ VST: add global option, per plug-in compatibility options for ignoring/processing automation notifications
+ VST: show shell plug-in scanning details when performing manual rescan
+ Video: add extensions to allow VST plug-ins access to video
+ Video: support writing multichannel audio to video files using OS X AVAsset encoder
+ Wave: avoid potential wave file reader crash [t=102921]
+ Wave: fix junk being written to unused fields in certain cue chunks