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NVDA 2024.4 Beta 2 is now available. Changes from Beta 1:

- The stability of NVDA’s Poedit support has been improved with the side effect that the minimum required version of Poedit is now version 3.5.

- NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up & down through large files in VS Code.

- NVDA no longer freezes while checking for add-on updates.

- Updates to translations.

Please go to nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b… for the full what's new & to download.

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in reply to NV Access

I'm a little confused. The what's new document for the .4 beta already has the second item in the first beta. Were their further optimizations made? Specifically, the entry reads:

- NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up and down through large files in VS Code. (#17039)

in reply to Timothy Wynn

@twynn Hi Timothy, sorry for the delay - yes you are correct, it was a misprint on our part - as you noticed, that had alread gone in Beta 1 :)