Audacity 4.0 shipped on GitHub two days after a 3.7.9 patch and hit 1,110 points on Hacker News
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The Audacity-4.0.0 tag was published 2026-09-03T10:19Z, following Audacity-3.7.9 on 09-01 and four 4.0.0 betas going back to June. The repo is at 18,136 stars with 1,718 open issues and was pushed again this morning. Shipping a maintenance release on the old line 48 hours before the major is an unusual cutover, and the 1,718-issue backlog is the number to watch as 4.0 users file against a rewritten UI.