Highlights:
- Refactored the role-based linking policy (previously known also as
"endpoints" or "virtual items" policy) to blend in with the standard desktop
policy. It is now possible use role-based sinks alongside standard desktop
audio operations and they will only be used for streams that have a
"media.role" defined. It is also possible to force streams to have a
media.role, using a setting. Other features include: blending with smart
filters in the graph and allowing hardware DSP nodes to be also used easily
instead of requiring software loopbacks for all roles. (#610, !649)
Improvements:
- Filters that are not declared as smart will now behave again as normal
application streams, instead of being treated sometimes differently (!657)
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that would cause WirePlumber to crash at startup if an
empty configuration file was present in one of the search paths (#671)
- Fixed Bluetooth profile auto-switching when a filter is permanently linked
to the Bluetooth source (!650)
- Fixed an issue in the software-dsp script that would cause DSP filters to
stay around and cause issues after their device node was destroyed (!651)
- Fixed an issue in the autoswitch-bluetooth-profile script that could cause
an infinite loop of switching between profiles (!652, #617)
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause WirePlumber to crash when dealing with
a device object that didn't have the "device.name" property set (#674)