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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-27 16:03:18 +0000
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Adding upstream version 14.2.upstream/14.2upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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+### v8, implemented by >= 0.8
+
+First version supported.
+
+### v9, implemented by >= 0.9.0
+
+Reply for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM,
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM now returns buffer_attrs that are used:
+
+Four new fields in reply of PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ maxlength
+ tlength
+ prebuf
+ minreq
+
+Two new fields in reply of PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM:
+
+ maxlength
+ fragsize
+
+### v10, implemented by >= 0.9.5
+
+New opcodes:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_MOVE_SINK_INPUT
+ PA_COMMAND_MOVE_SOURCE_OUTPUT
+
+SHM data transfer support
+
+### v11, implemented by >= 0.9.7
+
+Reply to PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INPUT_INFO, PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INPUT_INFO_LIST gets new field at the end:
+
+ mute
+
+New opcodes:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_SINK_INPUT_MUTE
+ PA_COMMAND_SUSPEND_SINK
+ PA_COMMAND_SUSPEND_SOURCE
+
+### v12, implemented by >= 0.9.8
+
+S32LE, S32BE is now known as sample spec.
+
+Gained six new bool fields for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM, PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM request at the end:
+
+ no_remap_channels
+ no_remix_channels
+ fix_format
+ fix_rate
+ fix_channels
+ no_move
+ variable_rate
+
+Reply to these opcodes now includes:
+
+ sample_spec
+ channel_map
+ device_index
+ device_name
+ suspended
+
+New opcodes for changing buffer attrs:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_PLAYBACK_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_RECORD_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR
+
+New opcodes for changing sampling rate:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_UPDATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM_SAMPLE_RATE
+ PA_COMMAND_UPDATE_RECORD_STREAM_SAMPLE_RATE
+
+New opcodes for notifications:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_PLAYBACK_STREAM_SUSPENDED
+ PA_COMMAND_CAPTURE_STREAM_SUSPENDED
+ PA_COMMAND_PLAYBACK_STREAM_MOVED
+ PA_COMMAND_CAPTURE_STREAM_MOVED
+
+### v13, implemented by >= 0.9.11
+
+New fields for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM, PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM request at the end:
+
+ peak_detect (bool)
+ adjust_latency (bool)
+
+Replace field "name" for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM, PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM at the end:
+
+ proplist
+
+Replace field "name" for PA_COMMAND_SET_CLIENT_NAME request at the end:
+
+ proplist
+
+On response of PA_COMMAND_SET_CLIENT_NAME:
+
+ client_index
+
+New proplist field for sink, source, sink input, source output introspection opcodes and at the end:
+
+ proplist
+
+New opcodes for proplist modifications
+
+ PA_COMMAND_UPDATE_RECORD_STREAM_PROPLIST
+ PA_COMMAND_UPDATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM_PROPLIST
+ PA_COMMAND_UPDATE_CLIENT_PROPLIST
+ PA_COMMAND_REMOVE_RECORD_STREAM_PROPLIST
+ PA_COMMAND_REMOVE_PLAYBACK_STREAM_PROPLIST
+ PA_COMMAND_REMOVE_CLIENT_PROPLIST
+
+New field for PA_COMMAND_PLAY_SAMPLE:
+
+ proplist
+
+New field for PA_COMMAND_PLAY_SAMPLE response:
+
+ idx
+
+New field for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM at the end:
+
+ start_muted
+
+Buffer attributes for PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM and
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM may now be 0 for default values.
+
+New field for PA_COMMAND_SET_PLAYBACK_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR,
+PA_COMMAND_SET_RECORD_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR at the end:
+
+ adjust_latency (bool)
+
+new message:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_STARTED
+
+### v14, implemented by >= 0.9.12
+
+new message:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_EXTENSION
+
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ bool volume_set at the end
+
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM, PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ bool early_requests at the end
+
+New field for PA_COMMAND_SET_PLAYBACK_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR,
+PA_COMMAND_SET_RECORD_STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR at the end:
+
+ early_requests (bool)
+
+### v15, implemented by >= 0.9.15
+
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM
+
+ bool muted at the end
+
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM, PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM:
+
+ bool dont_inhibit_auto_suspend at the end
+
+PA_COMMAND_GET_MODULE_INFO_LIST
+
+ remove bool auto_unload
+ add proplist at the end
+
+new messages:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO
+ PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO_LIST
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_CARD_PROFILE
+
+ PA_COMMAND_CLIENT_EVENT
+ PA_COMMAND_PLAYBACK_STREAM_EVENT
+ PA_COMMAND_RECORD_STREAM_EVENT
+
+ PA_COMMAND_PLAYBACK_BUFFER_ATTR_CHANGED
+ PA_COMMAND_RECORD_BUFFER_ATTR_CHANGED
+
+### v16, implemented by >= 0.9.15
+
+new messages:
+
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_SINK_PORT
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_SOURCE_PORT
+
+## v17, implemented by >= 0.9.20
+
+new flag at end of CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ bool relative_volume
+
+## v18, implemented by >= 0.9.22
+
+new flag at end of CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ bool passthrough
+
+## v19, implemented by >= 0.9.22
+
+New flag at the end of sink input and source output introspection data:
+
+ bool corked
+
+## v20, implemented by >= 1.0
+
+Two new flags at the end of sink input introspection data:
+
+ bool has_volume
+ bool volume_writable
+
+## v21, implemented by >= 1.0
+
+Changes for format negotiation in the extended API.
+
+New fields PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ uint8_t n_formats
+ format_info format1
+ ...
+ format_info formatn
+
+One new field in reply from PA_COMMAND_CREATE_PLAYBACK_STREAM:
+
+ format_info format
+
+New fields in reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INFO (and thus
+PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INFO_LIST)
+
+ uint8_t n_formats
+ format_info format1
+ ...
+ format_info formatn
+
+One new field in reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INPUT_INFO (and thus
+PA_COMMAND_GET_SINK_INPUT_INFO_LIST)
+
+ format_info format
+
+## v22, implemented by >= 1.0
+
+New fields PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM:
+
+ uint8_t n_formats
+ format_info format1
+ ...
+ format_info formatn
+ volume
+ bool muted
+ bool volume_set
+ bool muted_set
+ bool relative_volume
+ bool passthrough
+
+One new field in reply from PA_COMMAND_CREATE_RECORD_STREAM:
+
+ format_info format
+
+New fields in reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_SOURCE_INFO (and thus
+PA_COMMAND_GET_SOURCE_INFO_LIST)
+
+ uint8_t n_formats
+ format_info format1
+ ...
+ format_info formatn
+
+Five new fields in reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_SOURCE_OUTPUT_INFO (and thus
+PA_COMMAND_GET_SOURCE_OUTPUT_INFO_LIST)
+
+ volume
+ bool mute
+ bool has_volume
+ bool volume_writable
+ format_info format
+
+## v23, implemented by >= 1.0
+
+New field in PA_COMMAND_UNDERFLOW:
+
+ int64_t index
+
+## v24, implemented by >= 2.0
+
+New field in all commands that send/receive port introspection data
+(PA_COMMAND_GET_(SOURCE|SINK)_INFO,
+PA_COMMAND_GET_(SOURCE|SINK)_INFO_LIST):
+
+ uint32_t available
+
+The field is added once for every port.
+
+## v25, implemented by >= 2.0
+
+When port availability changes, send a subscription event for the
+owning card.
+
+## v26, implemented by >= 2.0
+
+In reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO (and thus
+PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO_LIST), the following is added:
+
+ uint32_t n_ports
+
+...followed by n_ports extended port entries, which look like this:
+
+ string name
+ string description
+ uint32_t priority
+ uint32_t available
+ uint8_t direction
+ proplist
+ uint32_t n_profiles
+ string profile_name_1
+ ...
+ string profile_name_n
+
+Profile names must match earlier sent profile names for the same card.
+
+## v27, implemented by >= 3.0
+
+New opcodes:
+ PA_COMMAND_SET_PORT_LATENCY_OFFSET
+
+New field in the card commands that send/receive port introspection data
+PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO(_LIST)):
+
+ int64_t latency_offset
+
+The field is added once for every port.
+
+## v28, implemented by >= 4.0
+
+New value for encoding format type in format_info
+PA_COMMAND_CREATE_(PLAYBACK|RECORDING)_STREAM and its reply,
+In reply from PA_COMMAND_GET_(SOURCE|SOURCE_OUTPUT|SINK|SINK_INPUT)_INFO[_LIST],
+SUBCOMMAND_SAVE_FORMATS, in reply from SUBCOMMAND_READ_FORMATS[_ALL]
+
+ (uint8_t ) PA_ENCODING_MPEG2_AAC_IEC61937 := 6
+
+## v29, implemented by >= 5.0
+#
+New field in all commands that send/receive profile introspection data
+(PA_COMMAND_GET_CARD_INFO)
+
+ uint32 available
+
+The field is added once for every profile.
+
+## v30, implemented by >= 6.0
+#
+A new protocol mechanism supported: Two ringbuffers in shared memory.
+Pulseaudio fdsem (wrappers around event file descriptors) are used for
+signalling new data.
+The protocol has a new SHM flag telling whether a SHM memblock is writable
+by both sides.
+
+PA_COMMAND_ENABLE_SRBCHANNEL
+First sent from server to client, tells the client to start listening on
+the additional SHM ringbuffer channel.
+This command also has ancillary data (two eventfds attached to it).
+Must be directly followed by a memblock which is the ringbuffer memory.
+When memblock is received by the client, it acks by sending
+PA_COMMAND_ENABLE_SRBCHANNEL back (without ancillary or memblock data).
+
+PA_COMMAND_DISABLE_SRBCHANNEL
+Tells the client to stop listening on the additional SHM ringbuffer channel.
+Acked by client by sending PA_COMMAND_DISABLE_SRBCHANNEL back.
+
+## v31, implemented by >= 9.0
+
+Memfd shared-memory support is now added to PulseAudio as an opt-in feature.
+Add 'enable-memfd=yes' to daemon's configuration to use memfds, instead of
+POSIX shm, by default.
+
+Memfd is a simple memory sharing mechanism, added by the systemd/kdbus
+developers, to share pages between processes in an anonymous, no global
+registry needed, no mount-point required, relatively secure, manner.
+
+PulseAudio memfd support builds the necessary (but not yet sufficient)
+groundwork for a better integration with per-app containers (e.g. xdg-app)
+
+For further details on memfds in general, please check:
+
+ https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/memfd_create2/
+ Archived at: http://www.webcitation.org/6gnHTy9Kr
+
+Moreover, for both client and server, the second most-significant bit of
+the version tag is now used to flag memfd SHM support. On the way forward,
+the two most-significant _bytes_ of the version tag are now also reserved
+for flags.
+
+PA_COMMAND_REGISTER_MEMFD_SHMID
+New command that can be sent both ways, from client to server and vice versa.
+This is needed to transfer a memfd pool's blocks without passing its fd every
+time, thus minimizing overhead and avoiding fd leaks.
+
+The registration command above sends a packet with the pool's memfd fd as
+ancillary data. Such packet has an ID that uniquely identifies the pool's
+memfd memory area. Upon arrival, the other end (client or server) creates a
+permanent ID<->memfd mapping.
+
+By doing so, there's need to reference the pool's memfd file descriptor any
+further -- just its ID. Thus both endpoints can then quickly and safely
+close their memfd file descriptors.
+
+## v32, implemented by >= 10.0
+
+Enable memfd transport by default.
+
+This protocol bump was only created to mark 9.0 clients. Although they
+support memfd transport, such older clients has an iochannel bug that would
+break memfd audio if they're run in 32-bit mode over a 64-bit kernel. Thus
+influence these buggy libraries to use POSIX shared memory, by signalling
+memfd support only to 10.0+ clients.
+
+Check commit 451d1d676237c81 for further details.
+
+## v33, implemented by >= 13.0
+
+Added two values to the pa_encoding_t enum:
+
+ PA_ENCODING_TRUEHD_IEC61937 := 7
+ PA_ENCODING_DTSHD_IEC61937 := 8
+
+## v34, implemented by >= 14.0
+
+New fields in the port introspection data (duplicated for all port types:
+sink, source and card ports):
+
+ string availability_group
+ uint32 type
+
+#### If you just changed the protocol, read this
+## module-tunnel depends on the sink/source/sink-input/source-input protocol
+## internals, so if you changed these, you might have broken module-tunnel.
+## Don't forget to test module-tunnel-{source,sink} when pushing protocol
+## changes.