New upstream version available. Current in Fedora 27, rawhide and EPEL: 1.1.6-12 Project repository and releases have been moved from SourceForge to GitHub. Since 1.1.7 it supports "SF3" SoundFont format, which is basically SF2 with Vorbis compression to save space. MuseScore was already supporting this format, this means packages such Fluid R3 SoundFont might be distributed as SF3 and shared with MuseScore which currently provides a SF3 copy of the same SoundFont to save a significant amount of space.
fluidsynth-1.1.9-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3180656648
fluidsynth-1.1.9-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3180656648
fluidsynth-1.1.9-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.