diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c6dfac7c8..95eab76c9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,82 @@ +PipeWire 0.3.7 + +This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible +with previous 0.3.x releases. + +- Improved PulseAudio compatibility. The alsa card profile + code was reused from PulseAudio. Devices now support + all profiles, ports, jack detection, UCM and hardware + mixers that PulseAudio implements. There should not + be (almost) any difference between PipeWire and PulseAudio + in how it presents and manages devices. + Other missing API pieces such as the default sink/source + and move_stream are implemented now. At this point + it should be possible to replace PulseAudio with the + compatibility layer for those who want to try. + +- Many fixes and improvements to the GStreamer elements. + pipewiresrc now has the ability to periodically resend + the last frame. This makes it possible for use-cases like + screensharing to only update the screen on changes while + still keeping the client side encoder busy. PipeWire + elements can now also share a connection between them. + +- Improvements to the bluetooth nodes. Dynamically adding + and removing devices should work much smoother now. Many + fixes and improvements to a2dp and sco nodes. + +- Reduced memory usage by using less pre-allocated memory + where possible. JACK clients are especially using less + memory. + +- Support for passive links is added again. These are links + that don't cause the associated driver to become active. + This makes it possible to have blocks of effects+sinks go + to suspend as a group when not in use. + +- Both consumers and producers can now ask to renegotiate + the format. This required some cleanups and improvements + to how links and node states were handled. More work is + needed to implement more use cases. + +- Important fixes to how memory is shared with clients. Memory + was not correctly freed in all cases, which would result + in reuse of the wrong memory. + +- Support for planar formats for audio and video was added. + +- Improved error handling in the session manager. + +- Metadata is now used to manage default audio source and + sink devices. The session manager will try to link streams + to the default device. Changing the default device will + move streams to the new device. PulseAudio and JACK layers + respect the default source/sinks. + +- Metadata is used to tag the desired output device for + a stream and the session manager will move streams when + the metadata changes. The PulseAudio layer uses this to + implement the move_stream feature. + +- Many fixes to the security modules. The session manager now + has a flatpak module that grants permissions to flatpak + apps. The PulseAudio layer now respects the permissions of + objects. Security related properties are made read-only + now. Different access modules can now coexist. + +- The portal module has been split up in 2 parts: + 1) a part living in the daemon that monitors the portal + dbus owner and tags all clients from this PID. This + part has to run in the daemon in order to securely + tag the clients. + 2) a part in the session manager that uses the permission + store to manage the permissions of portal managed + clients. + + +Older versions: + + PipeWire 0.3.6 This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible @@ -15,9 +94,6 @@ with previous 0.3.x releases. buffers. -Older versions: - - PipeWire 0.3.5 This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index abc002eff..bff13f262 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ project('pipewire', ['c' ], - version : '0.3.6', + version : '0.3.7', license : 'MIT', meson_version : '>= 0.49.0', default_options : [ 'warning_level=3',