Reaper is now upgraded to 5.15 for those who are interested. www.Reaper.fm 

It finally landed! There were new betas almost daily, and then, what, 3 or 4 release candidates?
 
After riding that whirlwind from v5.12 (out all of 3 weeks), I'm finding the Bakers monthly releases to be "not too heavy; not too light; just right!"
 
 
What's new/fixed
 
 
Automation

• automatically use absolute mouse editing for stepped pitch, fx param enum and toggle envelopes
• improve sample accurate automation, fix parameter modulation issues with sample accurate plug-ins
• improved automation recording behavior for toggle/enum parameters
• improved automation recording for bypass envelopes in latch/write modes
• improved automation recording for mute envelopes in latch/write modes
• support enum/toggle FX parameter envelopes
• improve accuracy of VCA envelope combination

 
MIDI

• fix label for unnamed 14-bit CCs in list editor .
• fix switch from Grid to custom quantize settings in MIDI editor quantize window
• fix MIDI editor toolbar feedback for set grid preserving type actions
• fix timing of time selection consolidate project MIDI exports
• configurable CC reset values for all CCs, default expression to 127
• improve timing when extending left edge of unlooped MIDI items .

 
VST

• fix VST3 factory preset compatibility with Waves
• improve automation behavior with VST3 plug-ins that do not properly support sample accurate automation
• fix excess automation notifications from some plug-ins .
• fix preset combo box display issues on Windows
• improve enum/toggle parameter detection
• improve plug-in scanning compatibility broken in 5.0pre8

 
Control surfaces

• support HUI/DM2000 MCP/TCP views via fader button
• support HUI/DM2000 flip mode via pan button
• support HUI/DM2000 pan knob press to reset pan
• use a global bank offset for all HUI interfaces

 
Solo

• do not enable hardware outputs when an unsoloed track sends to a solo-in-placed track .
• do not input monitor MIDI on tracks that are unsoloed-in-place
• fix various possible glitches when using solo and routing
• send noteoffs for track media when unsoloed-in-place

 
JSFX

• add parameter "Other events (CC, etc) pass through" to midi_note_filter .
• remove zipper noises when adjusting volume_pan_sample_accurate_auto manually

 
Media explorer

• fix reset of last path in certain instances
• sanity check timestamps to avoid localtime() errors

 
OSX

• allow override of optimized drawing setting in Preferences/General/Advanced
• improved OSX drawing performance/behavior on 10.5-10.9
• fixed 64-bit listview exceptions

 
Pan

• fix support for pan laws with newer pan modes on master track
• optimized pan law calculations
• properly show non-customized pan law for master track

 
Peaks

• fix realtime peaks display error with short sources
• fixed instances where peaks building could be interrupted by editing
• support new extended-range peaks format for FP WAV/WavPack files

 
Projects

• add option for default path for save/load new project
• do not treat lone CR as line endings in project files .
• improve filename resolving when loading projects saved on a different platform

 
Render

• do not adjust time selection when saving project along with normal renders
• store render tail length/configuration per-project, support render queue

 
Ripple editing

• add right click menu to ripple toolbar button
• add option to allow ripple-all to affect tempo map

 
Tooltips

• arrange-view tooltips can now cross track boundaries
• show relative move amounts for item, envelope, and stretch marker edits

 
Elastique

• updated to v3.1.4 (performance and memory use improvements)

 
FX

• preference option to allow filtering all browser views, filter Waves AU on OS X by default

 
Marker/region

• fix auto-insertion of duplicate marker/region numbers

 
Search

• support ( and ) for more power, e.g. '( Spectrum OR Scope ) NOT ( VST: OR AU: )'

 
Stretch markers

• allow setting rate mouse modifier to "no action"

 
Video

• fix docked fullscreen issue on OSX 10.11

 
WavPack

• add 32-bit FP mode with -144, -120, or -96dB floor for better compression ratios

 
API

• add CountSelectedTracks2, GetSelectedTrack2 (to include the master track)
• add CreateTrackSend, RemoveTrackSend, GetTrackSendInfo_Value, SetTrackSendInfo_Value
• add ExecProcess
• add GetSetProjectNotes
• add TrackFX_GetUserPresetFilename
• enable GetSetMediaTrackInfo and related function support for P_ICON