i remember there was some controversy a couple of years ago and solus stuck with an old version i tihnk. whats it like now? i havent been following events.
i used tenacity on eos(arch) - which is now in the proper repos (not aur) and it worked fine, are there any plans of switching to tenacity here in solus land?
No.
https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/1920#issuecomment-2004533392
Back when Audacity was newly acquired by Muse Group in 2021 the new owners made a few bad stumbles in draft proposals. opt-in telemetry and occasionally needing to send data collected and stored on servers in the European Economic Area to their offices in Russia and the US. They walked these back.
Audacity was actually up to date until 2 weeks ago when they released 3.5 and 3.5.1 shortly after. These updates are not being held back.
There was omgubuntu post recently about Audacity, they added cloud-saving feature 
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/audacity-3-5-released-with-cloud-saves-beat-detection-more
