PipeWire 0.3.83 (2023-10-19)
This is the third 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
Highlights
- A quantum change regression was fixed.
- Use a 2 socket server now for the manager and the applications
with (when wireplumber is updated) different permissions.
- Reduce memory usage a little in audioconvert and use fewer buffers.
- Some JACK deadlocks were fixed.
- More bugfixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Fix quantum change regression. (#3574)
- Use a 2 socket server by default. One for the session-manager and one
for applications.
- Fix a potential use-after-free in node and device cleanup. (#3588)
modules
- Some hardcoded buffer size limits were removed.
- Fix ASYNC flag on combined-streams.
- Add support for on-demand combined-streams using metadata.
SPA
- alsa-udev will now ignore PCMs with the ACP_IGNORE udev environment
variable. (#3570)
- The audioadapter now uses at least 2 buffers when the follower is
async.
- The number of buffers used by plugins was tweaked a little. Most
plugins now only ask 1 buffer.
- Memory usage in audioconvert was reduced.
- Fix some unaligned reads and writes and undefined left shifts reported
by ASAN. (#3572)
- Rework vulkan dependency checking.
- Don't try to link ALSA devices when prepare fails. This fixes some
crashes.
- Fix a stall when the allowed codecs are changed in ALSA.
- Improve ALSA rate control for sources to avoid xruns. (#3584)
- Try to fix IEC958 TrueHD and DTS playback. (#2284)
Bluetooth
- Improve fallback SCO mtu when the kernel doesn't tell us.
JACK
- The fixed buffer size limit was removed.
- Add an option to make input buffers writable (default true).
- A potential deadlock was fixed when applications lock the process
function. (#3585)
- Use a separate thread to dispatch notifications to avoid deadlocks.
(#3585)
- Potentially fix silent export in ardour in some cases. (#3514)
DISTROS:
The following patches should be applied on top of this release: