REAPER 5.96

What's new in this version:

MIDI editor:
- avoid hit testing against notes that begin before the active area of item and end exactly at the active are of item
- do not draw notes that begin before the active area of item and end exactly on the start of item
- handle notes that begin before start offset when duplicating notes octave down
- fix incorrect undo behavior when navigating notes via action and previews disabled
- fix issues with paste/duplicate notes and non-1.0 take rates, notes that start at negative project times
- fix multi-context selection undo with various actions and mouse behaviors
- fix undo for secondary contexts when using [un]select all actions
- optimize multi-context undo system
- preserve grid-enabled setting when switching contexts
- avoid inline editor flicker when resizing content and left edge

Notation:
- allow editing both start/end of immediately adjacent items
- fix chasing of clef to start of media item
- fix create tuplet action when not launched via context menu
- fix marquee undo for multiple contexts
- improve multi-context selection undo behavior when unselecting via select phrase, pedal event, lyric, notation, tuplet, etc
- set armed cursor when using armed toolbar action
- fix various bugs in tick/QN to measure calculation
- update select all notes in staff action description to be more accurate

OSC:
- fix FX parameter change notifications for last track in bank
- send FX parameter state for new plug-ins/loaded project
- send an integer value of -1 to fx/@/param in order to end touch state
- setting FX parameters always sets touch state, even if value did not change
- support receiving large (32KB) OSC bundles

Automation items:
- fix possible project corruption when moving tracks to subproject
- improve selection tracking in undo state

FX:
- paste after currently selected item in chain rather than at end of list
- improve behavior when dragging FX to its existing position

MIDI:
- fix glitches when editing the left edges of looped MIDI items
- fix negative start offset peak drawing issue around tempo changes
- fix peak drawing bug with non-1.0 takerate, looping, tempo changes

MusicXML:
- support .mxl (zip-compressed MusicXML)
- fix encoding-date month field

Preferences:
- fix apply button behavior in project backup settings
- fix re-enabling of missing MIDI device warnings

Undo:
- avoid repeatedly trying to reload track/item images after initial failure
- avoid unnecessary reload of track panel images
- fix loss of item background images

Video:
- add spherical source mode to 360 panner preset
- allowing bypassing DirectShow video output on Windows (slow, but more compatible)

VST3:
- always apply any latent VST3 parameter changes before saving state
- fix popup menu position

Actions:
- add meta-action to toggle following action armed (rather than always arm)

Command line:
- resolve relative pathnames passed on the command line

Item notes:
- copy notes/images to new item when using pencil-drawing of new items

Localization:
- fix elastique display on Cyrillic character sets

macOS:
- remove scrollbar drawing glitches

Performance:
- avoid loading multiple copies of track icon/media item background/info images

Recording:
- fix recorded offset of tracks armed during pre-roll

API:
- fix InsertAutomationItem() undo bug, support creating AI pools with index, trim behind according to preference
- [Take|Track]FX_SetParamNormalized() always sets touch state, even if value did not change
- add GetAudioDeviceInfo()
- fix [Take|Track]FX_EndParamEdit() when called immediately following parameter set