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PulseAudio 13.0
Changes at a glance:
* Added support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
* Improved initial card profile selection for ALSA cards
* Bluetooth card profile choices aren't persistent any more by default
* Added support for SteelSeries Arctis 5 USB headset
* New "max_latency_msec" module argument for module-loopback
* New "stream_name" module argument for module-rtp-send
* Fixed S/PDIF for CMEDIA USB2.0 High-Speed True HD Audio
* Use source sample spec and channel map by default in module-loopback
* New "avoid_resampling" module argument for module-udev-detect and module-alsa-card
* "avoid_resampling" also tries to avoid format conversion if the ALSA device supports it
* New function to enable realtime scheduling for client threads
* Removed BlueZ 4 support
* Dropped intltool
* Introduction of the Meson build system
* Const-ification of parameters across headers
* Minor bug-fixes, bindings updates and several translation updates
Detailed change log:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/13.0/
Contributors
Alan Coopersmith
Alexander E. Patrakov
Alexander Potashev
Andika Triwidada
Arnaud Rebillout
Arun Raghavan
Bert Hekman
Carlos Garnacho
Danny O'Brien
David Emett
David Heidelberg
David Hewitt
Diego Viola
Felipe Sateler
Fran Diéguez
Friedel Wolff
Frédéric Danis
Georg Chini
Hans de Goede
Hongxu Jia
Hui Wang
Ing. Jaroslav Safka
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Javier Jardón
Jean-Philippe Guillemin
Jordi Mas
Josef Andersson
Joseph Herlant
João Paulo Rechi Vita
Kaleb Ercanbrack
Lucas Stach
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Lyndon Brown
Marek Cernocky
Mark Filion
Milo Casagrande
Moo
Mr. M
Nate Brown
Nazar Mokrynskyi
Nicolas Fella
Olaf Hering
Pali Rohár
Pierre-Louis Bossart
Piotr Drąg
RODRIGUEZ Christophe
Rafael Fontenelle
Raman Shyshniou
Russell Treleaven
S Page
Sangchul Lee
Sascha Silbe
Stefan Huber
Takashi Iwai
Takashi Sakamoto
Tanu Kaskinen
Thomas Hutschenreuther
Tomaz Solc
Topi Miettinen
Wellington Wallace
Will Stott
Yclept Nemo
Yuri Chornoivan
Zakhary Husak
jorisc90
muzena
scootergrisen
shdown
PulseAudio 12.2
The previous release tarball contained a broken configure script, this release
fixes the tarball. There are no changes in the source, except for this NEWS
file update.
Contributors
Tanu Kaskinen
PulseAudio 12.1
A bug fix release.
* Fixed crash when switching to A2DP bluetooth profile
* Fixed plugin search path in module-ladspa-sink
* Fixed file permissions for the pipes created by module-pipe-sink and
module-pipe-source
Contributors
Mr. M
Tanu Kaskinen
PulseAudio 12.0
Changes at a glance:
* Better latency reporting (and hence better A/V sync) with the A2DP bluetooth
profile
* Much more accurate latency reporting for AirPlay devices
* module-switch-on-connect now ignores virtual devices
* When using passthrough for compressed audio, set the "non-audio" bit
* Prioritize HDMI output over S/PDIF output
* HSP support for more bluetooth headsets
* Choose the A2DP bluetooth profile by default instead of HSP
* New "sink_input_properties" module argument for module-ladspa-sink
* New "use_system_clock_for_timing" module argument for module-pipe-sink
* module-pipe-sink can now use an existing pipe
* Fixed a crash or high CPU use problem with Intel HDMI LPE
* Steelseries Arctis 7 USB headset stereo output support
* Dell Thunderbolt Dock TB16 speaker jack support
* Fixed digital input support for some USB sound cards
* Fixed Native Instruments Traktor Audio 6 detection
* Ability to disable input or output on macOS
* New "dereverb" option for the Speex echo canceller
* New module: module-always-source
* State files not any more readable by all users in the system mode
* module-augment-properties now uses XDG_DATA_DIRS to find .desktop files
* Updates for the Vala bindings
* The GConf dependency can now be avoided
* qpaeq license changed from AGPL to LGPL
* qpaeq ported to Qt 5
* Compatibility with glibc 2.27
* The esdcompat tool isn't any more installed if esound support is disabled
Detailed change log:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/12.0/
Contributors
Andika Triwidada
Andrius Štikonas
Arun Raghavan
Cheng-Chia Tseng
Colin Leroy
Constantine Kharlamov
Daniel Rusek
David Henningsson
David Hewitt
Felipe Sateler
Georg Chini
Guenter Milde
Hui Wang
Ian Ray
Iceyer
jnqnfe
Johan Heikkilä
Josef Andersson
Jungsup Lee
Khem Raj
KimJeongYeon
Kristian Klausen
Laurent Bigonville
Mihai Moldovan
Mr. M
Peter Meerwald-Stadler
Pierre-Louis Bossart
Piotr Drąg
Roliga
Russell Treleaven
Salvador Fandino
Samo Pogačnik
Sangchul Lee
Sebastian Dröge
Sylvain Baubeau
Tanu Kaskinen
Vivek Dasmohapatra
wellington wallace
Yuri Chornoivan
PulseAudio 11.1
A bug fix release.
* Fix a crash in filter modules related to flat volumes and volume sharing
* Fix a crash when the bluetooth adapter reports weird MTU size
* Disable bluetooth MTU autodetection by default
* Add mixer handling back for hardware that doesn't have any alsa-lib
configuration
* Prioritize USB devices over built-in sound cards (11.0 was supposed to have
this feature, but the implementation turned out to be incomplete)
Contributors
Arun Raghavan
Tanu Kaskinen
PulseAudio 11.0
Changes at a glance:
* Support for newer AirPlay hardware
* USB and bluetooth devices preferred over internal sound cards
* Bluetooth HSP headset role implemented
* Bluetooth HFP audio gateway role implemented (requires oFono)
* Bluetooth HSP audio gateway and HFP hands-free unit roles can be enabled
simultaneously
* Upmixing can now be disabled without bad side effects
* Avoid having unavailable sinks or sources as the default
* Option to avoid resampling more often
* Option to automatically switch bluetooth profile to HSP more often
* Better latency control in module-loopback
* Changed module argument names in module-ladspa-sink and
module-virtual-surround-sink
* Fixed input device handling in module-waveout
* Improved bluetooth MTU configuration
* GNU Hurd support
* Applications can request LADSPA or virtual surround filtering for their
streams
* Support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems in padsp
Detailed change log:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/11.0/
Contributors
Arun Raghavan
ced2c
Christian Kellner
Colin Leroy
Corentin Noël
David Mandelberg
David Michael
Denis Shulyaka
Felipe Sateler
Georg Chini
Grzegorz Kolodziejczyk
Hajime Fujita
Hui Wang
Imre Vadász
Jungsup Lee
Karl Ove Hufthammer
KimJeongYeon
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Martin Blanchard
Matthias Wabersich
Mihai Moldovan
Milo Casagrande
Moo
Moritz Bruder
Muhammet Kara
muzena
Pali Rohár
Paul Seyfert
Peter Meerwald-Stadler
Philip Chimento
Piotr Drąg
Rafael Fontenelle
Renjith Thomas
Stephen Paul Weber
Takashi Sakamoto
Tanu Kaskinen
Ted Ying
Vadim Troshchinskiy
Wim Taymans
Yuri Chornoivan
PulseAudio 10.0
Changes at a glance:
* Automatically switch Bluetooth profile when using VoIP applications
* New module for prioritizing passthrough streams (module-allow-passthrough)
* Fix hotplugging support for USB surround sound cards
* Separate volumes for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP profiles
* memfd-based shared memory mechanism enabled by default
* Removed module-xenpv-sink
* Dropped dependency to json-c
* When using systemd to start PulseAudio, pulseaudio.socket is always started
first
* Compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.0
* Clarified qpaeq license
Detailed change log:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/10.0/
Contributors
Ahmed S. Darwish
Aidan Gauland
Alexander E. Patrakov
Anton Lundin
Arun Raghavan
Balázs Úr
Chris Billington
Cédric Valmary
Deepak Srivastava
Dušan Kazik
Felipe Sateler
Fran Dieguez
Georg Chini
Guillaume Desmottes
Jan Alexander Steffens
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Juha Kuikka
Juho Hämäläinen
KimJeongYeon
Marcin Lewandowski
Mario Blättermann
Moo
Nils Schneider
Pali Rohár
Peter Meerwald-Stadler
Philip Withnall
Pierre Ossman
Piotr Drąg
Rikard Söderström
Romain Naour
Sylvain Baubeau
Tanu Kaskinen
Ulrich Eckhardt
Viktar Vaŭčkievič
PulseAudio 9.0
Changes at a glance:
* Automatic routing improvements
* Beamforming and various other new features in the WebRTC echo canceller
* Various improvements in module-role-cork and module-role-ducking
* LFE remixing disabled by default
* memfd-backed shared memory transport
* Support for sample rates up to 384 kHz
* webrtc-audio-processing dependency minimum version bumped to 0.2
* Changed the C standard from C99 to C11.
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/9.0
Contributors
Ahmed S. Darwish
Alexander E. Patrakov
Arun Raghavan
Barun Kumar Singh
David Henningsson
Deepak Srivastava
Gabor Kelemen
Georg Chini
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
Jonathan Perkin
Juho Hämäläinen
Jungsup Lee
Kamil Rytarowski
Marcin Lewandowski
Milo Casagrande
Muhammet Kara
Nazar Mokrynskyi
Peter Meerwald
Piotr Drąg
Sachin Kumar Chauhan
Sangchul Lee
Tanu Kaskinen
YunQiang Su
PulseAudio 8.0
Changes at a glance:
* Automatic routing more likely to change profile
* OS X and NetBSD support improvements
* Systemd journal logging for clients
* New LFE balance programming interface
* Module-dbus-protocol improvements
* More flexible configuration file handling
* pulsecore-8.0.so moved to a private directory
* New script for measuring memory consumption
* Various bug fixes and small improvements
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/8.0
Contributors
Ahmed S. Darwish
Alexander E. Patrakov
Andrey Semashev
Arun Raghavan
David Henningsson
Deepak Srivastava
Felipe Sateler
Georg Chini
Jason Gerecke
John Horan
Juho Hämäläinen
Julien Isorce
Kamil Rytarowski
KimJeongYeon
Kiran Krishnappa
Lev Melnikovsky
Manish Sogi
Mihai Moldovan
Mingye Wang
Nazar Mokrynskyi
Peter Mattern
Peter Meerwald
Pierre Ossman
Ross Burton
Shawn Walker
Takashi Iwai
Tanu Kaskinen
Thomas Petazzoni
Yuri Chornoivan
Zbigniew Kempczyński
jungsup lee
PulseAudio 7.0
Changes at a glance:
* LFE channel synthesis with low-pass filtering
* New libsoxr based resamplers
* Socket activation support for TCP
* The "srbchannel" IPC mechanism enabled by default
* More flexible jack detection support when using UCM
* Exiting due to SIGTERM isn't considered a failure
* Better support for Creative SoundBlaster Omni Surround 5.1
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/7.0
Contributors:
Ahmed S. Darwish
Alexander E. Patrakov
Andrey Semashev
Andrey Zholos
Arun Raghavan
Cédric Valmary
David Henningsson
David Herrmann
Deepak Srivastava
Dušan Kazik
Felipe Sateler
Hui Wang
Jaska Uimonen
Juho Hämäläinen
Manish Sogi
Michael Cree
Milo Casagrande
Muhammet Kara
Nazar Mokrynskyi
Paul Menzel
Peter Meerwald
Pierre Ossman
Piotr Drąg
René J. V. Bertin
Sagar Nageshmurthy
Shawn Walker
Sukesh Adiga
Takashi Sakamoto
Tanu Kaskinen
Ville Skyttä
Wim Taymans
Yuri Chornoivan
Zavadovsky Yan
PulseAudio 6.0
Changes at a glance:
* Bluez 5 HSP (headset profile) support, both with and without oFono
* SystemD socket activation support
* Better support for multichannel and 2.1 profiles
* Protocol optimisations
* Remap optimisations
* Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation and i18n updates
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/6.0
Contributors:
Alexander Couzens
Alexander E. Patrakov
Alexander Kurtz
Alexander Potashev
Andrey Semashev
Arun Raghavan
Bradley Broom
Cheng-Chia Tseng
Colin Guthrie
David Henningsson
Dimitris Spingos
Dušan Kazik
Evan Nemerson
Felipe Sateler
Georg Chini
Hemanth Meenakshisundaram
Hui Wang
James Bunton
Jason Newton
Javier Jardón
Joe Marcus Clarke
Josef Andersson
João Paulo Rechi Vita
Juho Hämäläinen
kozdincer
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Lukas Peleska
Lukasz Marek
Mauro Guerrera
Michał Górny
Niels Ole Salscheider
Pali Rohár
Parin Porecha
Pete Beardmore
Peter Meerwald
Peter Ujfalusi
Pierre Ossman
Piotr Drąg
poljar (Damir Jelić)
Rafael Ferreira
Rex Dieter
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
Sajeesh Sidharthan
Sjoerd Simons
Tanu Kaskinen
Wim Taymans
Yuri Chornoivan
PulseAudio 5.0
Changes at a glance:
* BlueZ 5 support (A2DP only)
* Reimplementation of the tunnel modules
* Native log target support for systemd-journal
* Resampler refactoring
* --monitor-stream option for parecord and parec
* "latency_msec" argument for module-rtp-recv
* "inhibit_auto_suspend" argument for module-rtp-send
* "auto" argument for module-tunnel-sink and module-tunnel-source
* Removed module-bluetooth-proximity
* Jack detection for line out
* Laptop internal surround speaker volume support
* Improved float->s16 and s16->float sample conversion for ARM NEON
* "Available" flag for card profiles
* Removed module-dbus-protocol from the default configuration
* Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation and i18n updates
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0
Contributors:
Alexander Couzens
Alexander E. Patrakov
Alexander Potashev
Anton Lundin
Arun Raghavan
Ben Brewer
Cheng-Chia Tseng
Colin Guthrie
Damir Jelić
Daniel Albers
David Henningsson
Dominique Leuenberger
Héctor Martín
Ismo Puustinen
Jan Alexander Steffens
Javier Jardón
João Paulo Rechi Vita
Juho Hämäläinen
Kenneth Perry
Kerrick Staley
Kiran Krishnappa
Koop Mast
Lars-Peter Clausen
Laurentiu Nicola
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Magnus Ekhall
Mikel Astiz
Mitchell Fang
Nikolay Amiantov
Parin Porecha
Peter Meerwald
Pierre Ossman
Piotr Drąg
Rafael Ferreira
Ryan Lortie
Scott Reeves
Shuai Fan
Stefan Sperling
Tanu Kaskinen
Wim Taymans
Yuri Chornoivan
victory
PulseAudio 4.0
Changes at a glance:
* Better handling of low latency requests
* Optimisations while mixing (generic, ARM NEON)
* Default resampler is now speex-float-1 (lower CPU usage)
* Major Bluetooth refactoring for better reliability and easier maintenance
* Fixes for graceful hand-off to/from JACK
* New module to apply ducking based on stream roles
* Echo canceller infrastructure fixes
* Bash and zsh completion for command line tools
* Solaris and OS X fixes
* Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation and i18n updates
Detailed change log:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/4.0
Contributors:
Akihiro Tsukada
Albert Zeyer
Arun Raghavan
Christoph Gysin
David Henningsson
Flavio Ceolin
Jarkko Suontausta
Javier Jardón
João Paulo Rechi Vita
Jyri Sarha
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Maarten Lankhorst
Marc-Antoine Perennou
Martin Pitt
Matěj Laitl
Mikel Astiz
Paul Meng
Peter Meerwald
Peter Nelson
Piotr Drąg
poljar (Damir Jelić)
Robin H. Johnson
Stefan Huber
Ștefan Săftescu
Tanu Kaskinen
Vadim Troshchinskiy
Wang Xingchao
Yuri Chornoivan
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Change logs for previous versions can be seen at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes