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@@ -0,0 +1,854 @@ +PulseAudio 14.2 + +A bug fix release. + + * Fix port switching when unplugging headphones + +Contributors + + Tanu Kaskinen + + +PulseAudio 14.1 + +A bug fix release. + + * Support upto 8 mixer channels on ALSA devices + * Handle ALSA jacks with the same name but different index values + * Switch to plugged-in headset when mic availability is unknown + * Fix a potential segfault in the Bluetooth oFono HFP backend + * Fix a problem with module-ladspa-sink when avoid-resampling=true + * Fix database names containing canonical host for meson builds + +Contributors + + Arun Raghavan + Hui Wang + Igor V. Kovalenko + Jaroslav Kysela + Kai-Heng Feng + Patrick Gaskin + Tanu Kaskinen + morrishoresh + + +PulseAudio 14.0 + +Changes at a glance: + + * Notes for end users + * Significant routing changes to default sinks/sources + * Changing the default sink moves streams from the old default sink to the new + * Moving a stream to the default sink removes the "manually routed" status of the stream + * If a sink changes status to available, streams that prefer that sink move there automatically + * The same changes have been applied to the source stream routing + * Workaround for GNOME Sound Settings' stream routing behaviour + * module-rescue-streams is deprecated, functionality moved to the core + * New rescue-streams option in daemon.conf + * Automatic switching to HDMI is now disabled by default + * Better support for some USB gaming headsets + * Flat volumes are now disabled by default + * The RAOP sink can be configured to automatically reconnect on connection failures + * Separate sink_channels and source_channels for module-jackdbus-detect + * Improved support for ALSA UCM + * Support for ALSA mixer controls with non-zero index + * It's now possible to set intended roles for devices in the ALSA profile configuration + * Ports now have a type associated with them + * Mappings have a new "description-key" option in the ALSA profile configuration + * New xauthority argument for X11 modules + * module-null-sink's compressed format support can now be configured at run-time + * The enable-lfe-remixing option in daemon.conf was split into remixing-produce-lfe and remixing-consume-lfe + * New channel_map argument for module-raop-sink + * Notes for application developers + * pa_mainloop_prepare interprets the timeout argument as microseconds again + * New availability_group and type fields in the port info structs + * New macros: PA_LIKELY(), PA_UNLIKELY(), PA_CLAMP() and PA_CLAMP_UNLIKELY() + * Notes for packagers + * New GStreamer-based RTP implementation + * qpaeq switched from Python 2 to Python 3 + * Compile-time option to forget pre-14.0 stream routing + * The install path of the ALSA configuration files is now configurable + * GNU gettext minimum version requirement bumped from 0.19.3 to 0.19.8 + * Heads-up: dropping autotools build system + * Heads-up: dropping EsounD support is considered, tell us if you still need it + * Heads-up: dropping GConf support + +Detailed change log: + + https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/ + +Contributors + + Alexander E. Patrakov + Arun Raghavan + Balázs Meskó + Baurzhan Muftakhidinov + Ben Buchwald + Daniil Kovalev + Dave Chiluk + David Heidelberg + Dusan Kazik + Eero Nurkkala + Emanuil Novachev + Emilio Herrera + Felipe Sateler + Felix Yan + Geert Warrink + Georg Chini + Göran Uddeborg + Hugo Osvaldo Barrera + Hui Wang + Igor V. Kovalenko + Jan Alexander Steffens + Jarno Suni + Jaroslav Kysela + Jaska Uimonen + Jean-Baptiste Holcroft + Josh + Juliano de Souza Camargo + Kai-Heng Feng + Karl Ove Hufthammer + Khem Raj + Krzysztof Stasiowski + Laurent Bigonville + Libin Yang + Marc Ranolfi + Michael Pivonka + Milo Casagrande + Milo Ivir + Nick Moriarty + Oğuz Ersen + Pali Rohár + Peter Levine + Peter Meerwald + Philip Withnall + Piotr Drąg + RODRIGUEZ Christophe + Rafael Fontenelle + Ralph Seichter + Rasmus Thomsen + Rickie Schroeder + Rosen Penev + Ryszard Knop + Sanchayan Maity + Sebastian Dröge + Sebastien + StefanBruens + Taahir Ahmed + Tanu Kaskinen + Timo Gurr + Tom Yan + Tomasz Kontusz + Vasilis Tsiligiannis + Wim Taymans + Yi-Jyun Pan + Yuri Chornoivan + itsthem + muzena + roshal + zhaochengyi + + +PulseAudio 13.0 + +Changes at a glance: + + * Added support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio + * Improved 5.1 surround channel routing + * Improved initial card profile selection for ALSA cards + * Automatically switch away from unavailable card profiles + * Bluetooth card profile choices aren't persistent any more by default + * Added support for some SteelSeries Arctis 5 USB headsets + * Removed KDE specific routing configuration + * New information collection script for bug reports: pa-info + * New "max_latency_msec" module argument for module-loopback + * New "fast_adjust_threshold_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 + * module-role-cork and module-role-ducking can now use recording streams as triggers + * 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 + * Added support for non-PCM formats in module-null-sink + * More efficient channel remapping in some cases for 32-bit streams + * Removed the "latency_time" option from module-null-source + * New function to enable realtime scheduling for client threads + * New convenience functions for getting parameters from pa_format_info + * New function for pa_threaded_mainloop to run a callback in the mainloop thread without the mainloop lock being held + * Const-ification of parameters across headers + * Removed BlueZ 4 support + * Dropped intltool + * Introduction of the Meson build system + * New build option for improving build reproducibility + * 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 + +---- + +Change logs for previous versions can be seen at: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes |