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# PipeWire 1.5.81 (2025-10-16)
This is the first 1.6 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 1.4.x, 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
In addition to all the changes backported to 1.4.x, this release
also contains some new features:
## Highlights
- The link negotiation code was refactored and improved.
Applications now have more options for selecting the default
values and restricting the available options. The default
negotiation code will now attempt to better match the application
suggested values.
- The loop now has support for locking with priority inversion. Most
of the code was updated to use the locks instead of invoke to
get proper concurrent updates with the loop. The Thread loop
functionality of locks, signal and wait was moved to the SPA loop.
This guarantees better real-time behaviour because inter-thread
synchronization does not have to pass eventfd/epoll.
- The control stream parser was rewritten to be safe against concurrent
updates while parsing, which can occur when parsing shared memory.
It also has extra checks to avoid integer overflows and undefined
behaviour.
- MIDI 2.0 clip support was added to the tools.
- Bluetooth ASHA (Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid) support was added.
- The ALSA node setup was tweaked to provide low latency with the ALSA
Firewire driver.
- Better support for explicit sync. It is now possible to negotiate
extra features to know if a consumer will signal the sync objects and
implement a fallback using a reliable transport.
- Many bug fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Avoid process calls in disconnect in pw-stream. (#3314)
- Disable PipeWire services for root.
- The link negotiation was refactored and improved. Drivers now
always have a lower priority in deciding the final format.
- Backwards compatibility with the v0 protocol was removed.
- pw-stream and pw-filter will now refuse to queue a buffer that
was not dequeued before.
- Object properties will now be updated on the global as well.
- The priority of config overrides is correct now. (#4816)
- Async links now correctly report 1 extra quantum of latency.
- node.exclusive and the new port.exclusive flag are now enforced
by PipeWire itself.
- A new timer-queue helper was added to schedule timeouts.
- node.terminal and node.physical properties are now copied to the
ports to make it possible to create virtual sources and sinks
for JACK applications.
- Port properties will now be dynamically updated when the node
properties they depend on are updated.
- Passive leaf nodes are now handled better. Now they will also
run when the peer is active. (#4915)
- Reliable transport has been added for output ports. This can be
used in some cases if the producer wants to ensure buffers are
consumed by a consumer. (#4885)
- Context properties now support rlimit.<resource> properties to
configure rlimits. (#4047)
## Modules
- Close SyncObj fds.
- module-combine-stream has better Latency reporting.
- The JACK tunnel can now optionally connect ports.
- module-loopback has better Latency reporting.
- A Dolby Surround and Dolby Pro Logic II example filter config
was added.
- Filter-chain can now resample to a specific rate before running the
filters. This is useful when the filter-graph needs to run at a
specific rate.
- Avahi-poll now uses the timer-queue to schedule timeouts.
- Modules are ported to timer-queue instead of using timerfd directly
for non-realtime timers.
## SPA
- The loop now has support for locking with priority inversion. Most
of the code was updated to use the locks instead of invoke to
get proper concurrent updates with the loop. The Thread loop
functionality of locks, signal and wait was moved to the SPA loop.
- UMP to Midi 1.0 conversion was improved, some UMP events are now
converted to multiple Midi 1.0 messages. (#4839)
- The POD filter was refactored and improved. It is now possible to
use the default value of the output by specifying an invalid input
default value.
- The POD parser was made safe for concurrent updates of the memory
it is parsing. This is important when the POD is in shared memory
and the parser should not access invalid memory.
- Some hardcoded channel limits were removed and now use the global
channel limit. More things can dynamically adapt to this global
limit. The max number of channels was then bumped to 128.
- The POD builder is safe to use on shared memory now and tries to
avoid many integer overflows.
- Most debug functions are safe to be used on shared memory.
- User specified Commands and Events are now possible.
- The SPA_IO_CLOCK_FLAG_DISCONT was added to spa_io_clock to signal
a discont in the clock due to clock change.
- AC3, DTS, EAC3, TRUEHD and MPEGH now have helper parser functions.
- H265 was added as a video format. (#4674)
- SPA_PARAM_PeerFormats was added to let a port know about its peer
formats in order to better filter possible conversions.
- More color matrices, transfer functions and color primaries.
- The echo-canceler is enabled now.
- Pro-Audio mode now uses 3 periods by default. This lowers the
latency on some drivers (Firewire). The latency of Firewire is
also reported correctly now.
- The ALSA DLL bandwidth is configurable now.
- The resampler now uses fixed point for the phases and is a little
faster when updating adaptive rates.
- The convolver is a little faster by swapping buffers instead of
copying samples.
- Latency and ProcessLatency support was added to filter-graph.
(#4678)
- Audio channel position support was added to filter-graph.
- A new ffmpeg avfilter plugin was added to filter-graph.
- A new ONNX filter was added to filter-graph.
- A debug, pipe, zeroramp and noisegate filter was added to the
filter-graph. (#4745)
- The filter-graph lv2 plugin now supports options and state.
- videoconvert was greatly improved.
- The v4l2 plugin can negotiate DMABUF with modifiers.
- Colorimetry information was added to v4l2 and libcamera.
- Audioconvert can handle empty buffers more efficiently.
- Improve the POD compare functions for Rectangle.
- There is now a SPA_POD_PROP_FLAG_DROP flag to drop the property when
the property is missing from one side.
- A new FEATURE choice was added that is basically a flags choice with
a FLAG_DROP property.
- Metadata features were added. This is a way to negotiate new features
for the metadata. (#4885)
- DSD playback with pw-cat has been improved.
- Compatibility and xrun prevention for the SOF driver has been
improved. (#4489)
- The filter-graph max plugin can now have 8 input channels.
- Buffer Negotiation between the mixer port and the node ports is much
improved. (#4918)
- An offline AEC benchmark was added.
- Channel positions are now read from HDMI ELD when possible.
- Audioconvert and filter-graph now also support properties of Long
and String types.
## ACP
- It's possible to disable the pro-audio profile.
- Support for Logitech Z407 PC Speakers was improved.
- Support for Razer BlackShark v3.
- Fix volume rounding down causing mute. (#4890)
## Tools
- pw-cat can now play and record MIDI 2.0 Clips, which is the
official format for storing MIDI 2.0 UMP data. pw-midi2play
and pw-midi2record were added as aliases.
- pw-cat can now upload sysex files. The pw-sysex alias was
added for this.
- The pw-link tool now has a -t option to list port latencies.
It also has better monitor support.
- pw-top can now clear the ERR column with the c key.
- pw-cli now keeps the types of the variables it stores and avoid
using wrongly typed variables that can crash things. It can now
also list the available variables.
- pw-dump can now output raw JSON and SPA JSON.
- pw-dump has configurable indentation level.
- pw-mididump can be forced to output MIDI 1.0 messages.
- pw-profiler now uses doubles for extra precision.
- pw-top now marks the async nodes with =.
## Bluetooth
- Telephony improvements.
- ASHA support was added.
- Add packet loss correction with spandsp for some codecs.
- Synchronisation between ISO streams in the same group.
## Pulse-server
- The SUSPEND event is now correctly generated. fail-on-suspend is
now implemented.
- PA_STREAM_DONT_INHIBIT_AUTO_SUSPEND is now implemented. (#4255)
(#4726)
- RTP streams now have stream.properties for extra configuration.
- Timed out streams are now destroyed instead of lingering. (#4901)
- A new help and pipewire-pulse:list-modules core message was added.
## JACK
- Port rename callbacks are now emitted correctly.
- Use safe POD parsing for the control sequences.
## V4l2
- The wrapper now avoids a race while initializing PipeWire. (#4859)
## GStreamer
- Colorimetry support was added.
- Cursor metadata is now exposed as ROI metadata.
- Many more updates.
## Docs
- Document the client-node flow a bit more.
Older versions:
# PipeWire 1.4.0 (2025-03-06)
This is the 1.4 release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
This release contains some of the bigger changes that happened since
the 1.2 release last year, including:
* client-rt.conf was removed, all clients now use client.conf and
are given RT priority in the data threads.
* UMP (aka MIDI2) support was added and is now the default format
to carry MIDI1 and MIDI2 around in PipeWire. There are helper
functions to convert between legacy MIDI and UMP.
* The resampler can now precompute (at compile time) some common
conversion filters. Delay reporting in the resampler was fixed and
improved.
* Bluetooth support for BAP broadcast links and support for hearing aids
using ASHA was added. A new G722 codec was also added.
Delay reporting and configuration in Bluetooth was improved.
* The ALSA plugin now supports DSD playback when explicitly allowed
with the alsa.formats property.
* A PipeWire JACK control API was added.
* A system service was added for pipewire-pulse.
* Many documentation and translation updates.
* Many of the SPA macros are converted to inline functions. All SPA
inline functions are now also compiled into a libspa.so library to
make it easier to access them from bindings.
* The module-filter-chain graph code was moved to a separate
filter-graph SPA plugin so that it becomes usable in more places.
EBUR128, param_eq and dcblock plugins were added to filter-graph.
The filter graph can now also use fftw for doing convolutions.
The audioconvert plugin was optimized and support was added to
audioconvert to insert extra filter-graphs in the processing pipeline.
* New helper functions were added to parse JSON format descriptions.
* The profiler now also includes the clock of the followers.
* RISCV CPU support and assembler optimisations were added.
* The clock used for logging timestamps can be configured now.
* The JSON parser was split into core functions and helper.
* Support for UCM split PCMs was added. Instead of alsa-lib splitting
up PCMs, PipeWire can mark the PCMs with the correct metadata so that
the session manager can use native PipeWire features to do this.
* Support for webrtc2 was added to echo-cancel.
* IEC958 codecs are now detected from the HDMI ELD data.
* Conversion between floating point and 32 bits now preserve 25 bits of
precision instead of 24 bits.
* A new Telephony D-BUS API compatible with ofono was added.
* The invoke queues are now more efficient and can be called from multiple
threads concurrently.
* Clock information in v4l2 was improved.
* An ffmpeg based videoconvert plugin was added that can be used with the
videoadapter.
* The GStreamer elements have improved buffer pool handling and rate
matching.
* The combine-stream module can now also mix streams.
* link-factory now checks that the port and node belong together.
* The netjack-manager module has support for autoconnecting streams.
* The native-protocol has support for abstract sockets.
* The pulse server has support for blocking playback and capture in
pulse.rules.
* The corked state of stream is now reported correctly in pulse-server.
* Fix backwards jumps in pulse-server.
* Latency configuration support was added in loopback and raop-sink.
* The ROC module has more configuration options.
* The SAP module now only send updated SDP when something changed.
* RTP source now has a standby mode where it idles when there is no
data received.
* Support for PTP clocking was added the RTP streams.
* The VBAN receiver can now dynamically create streams when they are
detected.
* Error reporting when making links was improved.
* Support for returning (canceling) a dequeued buffer in pw-stream.
* Support for emiting events in pw-stream was added.
* pw-cat now support stdin and stdout.
## Highlights (since the previous 1.3.83 release)
- Small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix some missing includes in metadata.h
- Pass the current error in errno when a stream is in error (#4574)
## modules
- Evaluate node rules before loading adapter follower to ensure
properties are set correctly. (#4562)
## SPA
- Avoid a use after free when building PODs. (#4445)
- Take headroom into account when calculating resync.
## Bluetooth
- Fix +CLCC parsing.
## GStreamer
- Notify about default device changes in deviceprovider.
- Copy frames between pools and avoid splitting video buffers.
## JACK
- Add an option to disable the MIDI2 port flags. (#4584)
# PipeWire 1.3.83 (2025-02-20)
This is the third and hopefully last 1.4 release candidate that
is (almost) API and (entirely) ABI compatible with previous 1.2.x
and 1.0.x releases.
We note that in the 1.3.x series, the API is slighty not backwards
compatible because some methods previously used to accept void* as
a parameter while they now require the correct type. We think this
is however a good kind of API breakage and expect projects to patch
their code to get things compiled with newer version (which will also
compile for older versions). Note also that this is not an ABI break.
## Highlights
- Handle JACK transport updates in a better way.
- Fix a SAP regression when starting.
- Fix regression in rate scaling.
- Improve bluetooth source rate handling.
- More small bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Handle JACK transport updates in a better way. (#4543)
## Modules
- Check that the link factory port and nodes match. Deprecate the
port.id when making links.
- Improve profiler output by scaling the quantum with the node
rate so that we don't end up with confusing information. (#4555)
- Fix sending of the SAP SDP. Handle some SDP parsing errors.
- Add some more options to the ROC source module. (#4516)
## SPA
- Fix firewire quirks in udev rules. (#4528)
- Fix a bug in the rate scaling in some cases that would make things
run with the wrong samplerate.
- Improve introspection of control types.
## Bluetooth
- Use the G722 codec from Android instead of FFmpeg for ASHA.
- Use the A2DP source rate as the graph rate. (#4555)
- Specify the bluetooth source latency property in the rate of the
stream to avoid conversions and rounding errors.
# PipeWire 1.3.82 (2025-02-06)
This is the second 1.4 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Various pw-stream improvements: timing information fixes,
avoid locking buffers in some cases and an improved drain
event.
- A new Telephony D-BUS API compatible with ofono.
- Documentation fixes and updates.
- More small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Improve timing information when rate is unknown.
- Avoid locked buffers in pw_stream in some cases.
- Improve pw_stream drain event emission.
- Improve manager socket handling. Applications can avoid hardcoding
the sockets so that they will respect the config settings.
## modules
- Fix header size calculation when using ipv6. (#4524)
## SPA
- Optimize byteswapped s16 conversions.
- Improve event handling for internal events.
- Optimize negiotiation when in convert mode, prefer the format
of the follower in adapter.
- Fix EnumPortConfig for videoadapter without converter.
- Fix libcamera property buffer size.
## Pulse-server
- Add systemwide systemd files.
## JACK
- Add a UMP example.
- Use the new JackPortMIDI2 flag to mark UMP ports to JACK.
## Bluetooth
- Support BAP hardware volume.
- Add a Telephony DBUS API.
## GStreamer
- Disable buffer pools for audio by default.
## Docs
- Improve the module documentation.
# PipeWire 1.3.81 (2025-01-23)
This is the first 1.4 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
In addition to all the changes backported to 1.2.x, this release
also contains some new features:
## Highlights
- UMP support was added with MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 support in the ALSA
sequencer plugin. By default PipeWire will now use MIDI 2.0 in UMP
messages to transport MIDI in the graph, with conversions to/from legacy
MIDI where required. This requires UMP support in the kernel.
- client-rt.conf is no longer supported. Custom changes made to this
config should be moved to client.conf. Clients that try to load the
client-rt.conf will emit a warning and be directed to client.conf
automatically for backwards compatibility.
- The module-filter-chain code was moved to a new filter-graph plugin. This
made it possible to add filter-graph support directly in audioconvert. It
is now possible to run up to 8 run-time swappable filter-graphs inside
streams and nodes. This should make it easier to add effects to streams
and device nodes.
- Bluetooth support for BAP broadcast links and support for hearing aids
using ASHA was added.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Nodes are now only scheduled when ready to signal the driver.
- Add slovenian translation. (#4156)
- Link errors are handled better.
- The videoadapter is now enabled by default but no videoconverter
is loaded yet by default.
- Streams now have support for ProcessLatency.
- Streams now have a method to emit events.
- The RequestProcess event and command can now pass around extra
properties.
- Local timestamps are now used for logging.
- client-rt.conf is no longer supported. Custom changes made to this
config should be moved to client.conf. Clients that try to load the
client-rt.conf will emit a warning and be directed to cliert.conf
automatically to preserve backwards compatibility.
- pw_stream now has an API to return unused buffers.
## modules
- module-combine-stream can now mix streams.
- Links in error are now destroyed by link-factory.
- The netjack2 driver can now also create streams that autoconnect when
specified. (#4125)
- Many updates and bugfixes to the RTP modules.
- The netjack2 driver can now bind to a custom IP and port pair. (#4144)
- The loopback module and module-raop have support for ProcessLatency, which
can be used to query and update the latency.
- The profiler module can now reduce the sampling rate.
- The filter-chain was optimized some more.
- The filter-chain gained some more plugins: param_eq, ebur128, dcblock.
- Support for fftw based convolver was added.
- Some module arguments can now be overridden.
- The VBAN receiver now creates new streams per stream name. (#4400)
- The RTP SAP module is now smarter with generating new SAP messages.
- The RTP source can now be paused when no data is received. (#4456)
## tools
- pw-cat can now stream most formats from stdin/stdout.
- pw-profiler has a JSON dump option to dump the raw profiler data.
- pw-cli now supports unload-module. (#4276)
## SPA
- The resampler can precompute some common coeficients now at compile
time.
- UMP support was added with MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 support in the ALSA
sequencer plugin. By default PipeWire will now use MIDI 2.0 in UMP
messages to transport MIDI in the graph, with conversions to/from legacy
MIDI where required.
- Control types can now be negotiated.
- Support for writing ALSA bind controls was added.
- The ALSA sequencer now has better names for the ports.
- The F32 to S32 conversion now uses 25 bits for an extra bit of
precision.
- libcamera controls can now be set in all cases.
- The videoadapter has been improved and a dummy and ffmpeg based
videoconverter plugin was added.
- Negotiation was improved in audioadapter. First a passthrough format
is tried.
- Some JSON helper functions were added and some duplicate code removed
or simplified.
- Add support for RISC V CPU detection and add many optimizations in
the audio converters.
- Add an option to disable ALSA mixer path select. (#4311)
- Fix a potential bug with the cleanup of the loop queues.
- ALSA nodes now dynamically adjust the DLL bandwidth based on average
measured variance.
- The loop invoke queue was made more efficient and make it possible to
invoke from multiple threads.
- The filter-chain code was moved to a new filter-graph plugin.
- Most function macros are now static inlined and can also be built into a
libspa.so file. This should improve language bindings.
- V4l2 clock information was improved.
- Supported IEC958 codecs are now autodetected via ELD info.
- Audioconvert was optimized some more.
- Audioconvert can now include filter-graphs in its processing.
- webrtc-audio-processing-2 is now supported in AEC.
- The resampler now reports the delay and subsample delay. Also the
delay is reported in the samplerate of the input.
- The ALSA sequencer now handle kernels without UMP support. (#4507)
## Pulse-server
- Add quirk to block clients from making record and playback streams.
- The corked state is now set on stream to always report this state
correctly to other clients.
- Readiness notification was added to the pulse server with the
PIPEWIRE_PULSE_NOTIFICATION_FD environment variable. (#4347)
- The pulse.cmd config now supports conditions.
- A bug in clearing the ringbuffer was fixed. (#4464)
## GStreamer
- Support for the default devices was added to the deviceprovider. (#4268)
- The graph clock is now used as the source for the GStreamer clock.
- The sink now does some rate control.
## ALSA
- The ALSA plugin now supports DSD when explicitly enabled.
## JACK
- JACK now supports 2 new extension formats for OSC and UMP.
- JACK clients can receive UMP MIDI1 or MIDI2 messages when using
the new UMP port format extension.
- JACK now reports the PipeWire version in the minor/micro/proto.
- Implement more jackserver functions.
## Bluetooth
- Support BAP broadcast links.
- Support for ASHA was added.
- Delay reporting in A2DP sources was improved.
## Examples
- 2 new examples of pw-stream using spa_ringbuffer were added.
## Docs
- Many updates to the man pages.
- More documentation about thread safety of functions in stream
and filters. (#4521)
# PipeWire 1.2.7 (2024-11-26)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Backport support for lazy scheduling.
- Handle the case where processing would stop when an ALSA driver is
destroyed.
- Add support for v4l2loopback in the v4l2 plugin.
- Small bug fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Invalidate the proxy ID when removed.
- Backport support for lazy scheduling.
- Fix profiler stats for async nodes.
- Fix EARLY_PROCESS again in pw-stream. (#3480)
## Modules
- Fix a crasher issue when nodes are created in the wrong order in
module-filter-chain.
- Fix unmap bug in lv2 uri tables.
- Add ratelimit to jack-tunnel xruns.
- Remove hardcoded limit in filter-chain sofa plugin.
- Handle the MTU size correctly in module-rtp and handle large MTUs.
(#4396)
- Fix JSON float parsing errors in equalizer module. (#4418)
## SPA
- Fix crash in audiotestsrc when using spa-inspect (#4365).
- Improve JSON float infinity checks.
- Improve resampler performace a little.
- Make audioconvert only output when there is something to output.
- Fix regression in v4l2 port flags which would disable support for
EXPBUF.
- Handle the case where an ALSA driver is destroyed and the follower
becomes a driver. Processing would stop. (#4401)
- Add support for v4l2loopback in the v4l2 plugin.
## Pulse-server
- Give a better error message when running out of fds.
- Ensure positive latency reporting.
## GStreamer
- Fix memory leak in deviceprovider.
- Fix locking when emitting an error.
## Tools
- Fix pw-dot link labels.
# PipeWire 1.2.6 (2024-10-23)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- The filter-chain param changes were not aggregated correctly, causing some
param changes to be ignored. (#4331)
- Clear the JACK io ports correctly when stopping to avoid crashes. (#4337)
- Some more small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Stream states are now updated based on the underlying node state.
- Exported nodes now have their state change done synchronously so that the
server can immediately start the driver and avoid some initial xruns.
- Improve stream flush handling and improve the docs.
- Don't send mix_info to destroyed ports to avoid some errors in the
JACK clients.
## Modules
- The filter-chain param changes were not aggregated correctly, causing some
param changes to be ignored. (#4331)
- The filter-chain now correctly optimizes unlinked nodes in all cases.
## SPA
- ALSA PCM node properties are now no longer overwritten with card properties.
(#4135)
- Increase the adapter retry count to avoid xruns in some cases. (#4334)
- Fix potential crash in cleanup of ALSA nodes.
## Bluetooth
- Fix a crash with broadcast sinks.
- Improve compatibility with Phonak hearing aids.
- Don't exit when DBus goes down.
## JACK
- Clear the io ports correctly when stopping to avoid crashes. (#4337)
## Docs
- Backport docs from master.
# PipeWire 1.0.9 (2024-10-22)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix an fd leak and confusion in the protocol that would cause leaks and
wrong memory to be used.
- Fix bug where the mixer would not be synced correctly after selecting
a port, leaving the audio muted. (#4084)
- Backport v4l2 systemd-logind support to avoid races when starting.
(#3539 and #3960).
- Other small fixed and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a bug where renegotiation would sometimes fail to deactivate a link.
- Fix an fd leaks and confusion in the protocol.
## modules
- Fix a use-after-free in the rt module when stopping a thread.
## SPA
- Fix bug where the mixer would not be synced correctly after selecting
a port, leaving the audio muted. (#4084)
- Fix a compilation issue with empty initializers. (#4317)
- Backport v4l2 systemd-logind support to avoid races when starting.
(#3539 and #3960).
- Fix a potential crash when cleaning ALSA nodes.
## JACK
- align buffers to the max cpu alignment in order to allow more
optimizations.
# PipeWire 1.2.5 (2024-09-27)
This is an important bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the
previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix an fd mismatch in the protocol in some cases that could lead to
fd leaks and crashes.
- Fix a bug where the mixer was not updated after setting the port, which would
cause muted audio at boot or resume from suspend.
- Fix a potential use-after-free in module-rt when stopping a thread.
- Cached objects are now freed in the JACK API to avoid memory leaks.
- Some more fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- RequestProcess commands are now only sent after the node completes
the state change to RUNNING.
- More FreeBSD fixes.
- Handle ACTIVE links going to < PAUSED as well. This improves
renegotiation in some cases.
- Fix an fd mismatch in the protocol in some cases that could lead to
fd leaks and crashes.
## Modules
- Many of the network modules can now also accept hostnames instead of
IP addresses.
- Fix a potential use-after-free in module-rt when stopping the thread.
## SPA
- Support for elogind was added.
- Some more errors are checked when converting JSON to POD. (#4313)
- Fix a bug where the mixer was not updated after setting the port, which would
cause muted audio at boot or resume from suspend. (#4084)
## JACK
- The BBT transport handling was improved. Some fields were added to be able
to handle the JACK semantics correctly. (#4314)
- Buffers are now aligned according to the maximum CPU alignment instead of
the hardcoded 16 bytes alignment.
- Cached objects are now freed correctly.
## Doc
- Some small doc updates. (#4272)
# PipeWire 1.2.4 (2024-09-19)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the
previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Avoid a crash in cleanup of globals. (#4250)
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2.
- Some more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Avoid a crash in cleanup of globals. (#4250)
- Improve RequestProcess dispatch.
## Tools
- Improve float parsing. (#4234)
## SPA
- Clear the ringbuffer when stopping in libcamera.
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2. (#3539, #3960)
- Queue dropped first buffer in v4l2.
- Unlink pcm devices when moving drivers to avoid broken pipe.
## JACK
- Emit buffer_size callback in jack_activate() to improve
compatibility with GStreamer. (#4260)
# PipeWire 1.0.8 (2024-09-19)
This is a small bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Backport support for explicit sync.
- FFADO backport fixes.
- Fix some races in JACK.
- More small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Add support for mandatory metadata and explicit sync metadata.
- Fix RequestProcess again.
- Include config.h to use malloc_trim() when cleaning nodes.
- Avoid crash when destroying a global. (#4250)
## Modules
- FFADO fixes: improve timing reporting, avoid some xruns, improve
samplerate and period size handling, implement freewheeling.
- Decrease memory usage of the profiler.
## Tools
- Fix pw-dump metadata changes fix. (#4053)
- Support large params in pw-cli. (#4166)
## SPA
- Improve libcamera devices reporting to properly filter out duplicates in
all cases.
- Improve property reporting in v4l2.
- Fix lost buffer in v4l2.
## Bluetooth
- Improve compatibility with some devices.
## JACK
- Fix some races when shutting down.
- Fix rt-priority on the main thread when using custom thread create
function. (#4099)
## ALSA
- Handle format renegotiation. (#3856)
# PipeWire 1.2.3 (2024-08-22)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the
previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Implement freewheeling support in the FFADO driver. Also improve
buffersize and samplerate handling.
- Improve some locking on spa_loop. Remove a possible deadlock when
the queue was full.
- Allocate more space for the libcamera devices string to properly
deduplicate libcamera and v4l2 devices.
- Some more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Improve activation state changes and xrun detection some more.
(#4182)
- Avoid a memory leak when a link in error is destroyed.
## Modules
- Improve samplerate and buffersize handling in FFADO driver so that
it is possible to force a rate and buffer size.
- Implement freewheeling support in the ffado driver.
- Always set the server side clock.quantum-limit on nodes. This fixes
a buffer size problem in Midi-bridge. (#4005)
## SPA
- Improve some locking on spa_loop. Remove a possible deadlock when
the queue was full. (#4114)
- Allocate more space for the libcamera devices string to properly
deduplicate libcamera and v4l2 devices.
- Fix a potential race when enumerating v4l2 udev devices. (#3960)
## Bluetooth
- Improve compatibility with some devices (Soundcore Motion 300).
## Tools
- pw-cli can now handle arbitrarily large input and params. (#4166)
- Avoid some compiler warnings in pw-top.
# PipeWire 1.2.2 (2024-07-31)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the
previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix some more fallout of the async nodes rewrite. Fixes some
crackling, xruns and possibly also some crashes in some cases.
- Fix freewheeling timeouts in case of xruns. This fixes ardour export.
- Fix event mixdown in JACK. Fixes qsynth and possibly other apps.
- Some more small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Add a new SPA_IO_CLOCK_FLAG_XRUN_RECOVER flag when the process function
is called because of xrun recovery.
- Properly stop nodes in all cases, this avoids spurious xruns and
scheduling errors. (#4122)
- Make sure async nodes receive an async link in all cases. Do the
processing of source output ports slightly differently to make sure we
don't cause latency for sources. (#4138) (#4133)
- Fix some races when negotiating and starting nodes. (#4094)
- Actually include the config.h header to use malloc_trim() to reduce
memory usage in pulse-server.
## Modules
- Avoid unloading some modules on stream errors because it is possible to
recover from the error. (#4121)
- Fix a (harmless) warning in module-rtp because of comparing samples and
time. (#4095)
## SPA
- Let the freewheel driver detect xrun recovery and handle the timeouts
correctly. This fixes an issue with ardour export.
- Remove the HDMI/AC3 profiles. they turn out to fail on some hardware
with no way to detect this.
- Signal the eventfd when the loop is full to make sure the other thread
is woken up to process the queue.
## JACK
- Don't check timestamps when mixing down events. The timestamps are only
checked when writing new events with the public API. This fixes an
issue where qsynth would not receive midi events anymore.
- Fix the jack_get_time() function, it was returning nano instead of micro
seconds.
# PipeWire 1.2.1 (2024-07-12)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
the previous 1.2.0 release and the 1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression in the node activation counters that would break audio
when using KODI.
- Fix a regression in ardour export because of mishandling of sync groups.
- Fix a regression in KDE screen preview because of the new async
scheduling.
- Fix a regression in context.exec argument parsing that would break some
existing scripts.
- More small bug fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a regression in the node activation counters that would break audio
when using KODI. (#4087)
- Fix a regression in ardour export because of mishandling of sync groups.
(#4083)
- Fix a regression in KDE screen preview because of the new async
scheduling. Disable async for driver nodes. (#4092)
- Slightly improve node shutdown to cause less xruns.
- Fix a regression in context.exec argument parsing that would break some
existing scripts.
- Support custom thread create functions.
## Modules
- Improve snapcast address parsing. (#4093)
## SPA
- Fix multiple %f parsing in ACP for the new plug+a52 profiles.
- Improve v4l2 param generation. Improve recovery when framesize or rates
are unknown, support vivid. (#4063)
## JACK
- Use the custom thread create function to correctly let module-rt kit
manage threads so that we don't end up with priorities on the wrong
threads. (#4099)
## GStreamer
- Fix a crash when destroying a stream.
# PipeWire 1.2.0 (2024-06-27)
This is the 1.2 release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.1.x and 1.0.x releases.
This release contains some of the bigger changes that happened since
the 1.0 release last year, including:
* Support for asynchronous processing has been implemented. Nodes can choose
(or be forced) to be scheduled asynchronously. The graph will not wait for
the output of the node to continue processing but it will use the output
of the previous cycle (or silence) instead. This adds one cycle of latency
but it can avoid having some nodes blocking the processing graph. Non realtime
streams and filters now also use this asynchronous processing instead of
their own slightly broken version.
* The concept of node.sync-group was added. This groups nodes with overlapping
sync-group together when one of them sets the node.sync = true. This is now
used to make sure all nodes are scheduled together when JACK transport is
started so that they all see the same transport time.
* Config parsing errors are reported earlier and much better with line and
column numbers where the parsing started to fail.
* Add support for mandatory metadata when negotiating buffer parameters. This
can be used to only negotiate extra buffer planes when certain metadata is
negotiated. One use case is the explicit sync support that requires 2
extra fds for the timelines.
* Explicit sync metadata and support was added.
* Support was added for making and using multiple data-loops in the server
and clients. Support for CPU affinity and priorities was added to the
data-loops as well.
* The log topic debug levels can now be changed at runtime with metadata.
The log levels in the pulse server can be dynamically changed with a
/core message.
* The UCM conflicting devices patches were merged.
* Add snapcast-discover module to stream to snapcast servers.
* Rework how peers are linked and the counters are updated. Resume the
peers when a node is unlinked and not yet processed. This should cause
less occasional dropouts in the graph when reconnecting things.
* Many GStreamer element updates.
* Many more fixes and improvements.
Enjoy the summer vacation!
## Highlights (since the previous 1.1.83 release)
- Small fixes here and there.
## PipeWire
- Compilation fixes after enabling -Werror=float-conversion
## Modules
- The module-rtp-sap now propagates the cleanup.sec property to the
rtp-source and the rtp-source now sets a property with the receiving
status.
- Fix for ROC 0.3, explicitly specify sender encoding. (#4070)
- Some fixes to the RAOP sink module, including a format fix for 32 bit
machines.
## Tools
- Fix pw-cli monitoring code.
## SPA
- Revert peer_enum_params again because it was not used and flawed.
- Fix multichannel processing in webrtc AEC.
## GStreamer
- Logging improvements.
- Fix a race in the bufferpool activation.
## Bluetooth
- Improvements to BAP broadcast code parsing.
# PipeWire 1.1.83 (2024-06-17)
This is the third and hopefully the last 1.2 release candidate that is
API and ABI compatible with previous 1.0.x releases.
Some last minute changes went in to clean up the node activation and
scheduling that justify another pre-release.
## Highlights
- Rework how peers are linked and the counters are updated. Resume the
peers when a node is unlinked and not yet processed. This should cause
less occasional dropouts in the graph when reconnecting things.
- Improve xruns in module-ffado.
- Many GStreamer element updates.
- More fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Rework how peers are linked and the counters are updated. Resume the
peers when a node is unlinked and not yet processed. This should cause
less dropouts in the graph when reconnecting. (#4026)
- Improve debug of xruns.
- Evaluate node.rules and device.rules before loading the plugin so that
extra properties can be passed to the plugin init function.
## Modules
- Improve timing reporting in module-ffado some more.
- Prealloc less memory in the profiler by default.
- Improve xrun handling in module-ffado.
## Tools
- Fix a crash in pw-link when a link fails.
- Fix pw-dump update for metadata. (#4053)
## SPA
- Improve handling of controls. (#4028)
- Fix the string size in v4l2 to hold the device and vendor id.
- Support meta_videotransform on buffers in v4l2. This can be used to
signal that the buffer was rotated for example.
- Add HDMI/AC3 profile to ALSA when supported.
- Make it possible to disable the webrtc dependency
## GStreamer
- Improve caps handling in the elements.
- Set buffer duration when we can.
- Post an element error when all the elements buffers are removed.
(#1980)
- Improve DMA_DRM caps selection.
- Some refactoring work.
- Improve state handling in the elements.
## JACK
- Improve how links are activated.
- Fix some races when freeing memory.
## Bluetooth
- Support multiple BIS in the broadcast source.
# PipeWire 1.1.82 (2024-05-24)
This is the second 1.2 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 1.0.x releases.
Not so many things needed to be fixed so this might already be the
last prerelease if everything goes well...
## Highlights
- Fix problem when moving nodes that could cause nodes to be scheduled
wrongly and cause errors. (#4017)
- Add snapcast-discover module to stream to snapcast servers.
- Work around wrong kernel provided MTU for USB controllers.
- Fix some spelling mistakes all over the codebase.
- More small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Remove the private cleanup.h header and use the public SPA version.
- Fix problem when moving nodes that could cause nodes to be scheduled
wrongly and cause errors. (#4017)
## Modules
- Handle IPv6 in module-protocol-simple and support port allocation.
- Add snapcast-discover module to stream to snapcast servers.
## Bluetooth
- Work around wrong kernel provided MTU for USB controllers.
# PipeWire 1.0.7 (2024-05-24)
This is a small bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a potential race/crash.
- Fix some problems with negotiation of large integers and floats.
- Fix JACK sysex MIDI event handling.
- Some more smaller fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a potential race when adding/removing a port to be scheduled.
## Modules
- Fix FFADO default device handling. (#4023)
## SPA
- Fix in integer overflow and float/double compare in POD.
## JACK
- Copy larger MIDI events correctly.
# PipeWire 1.1.81 (2024-05-16)
This is the first 1.2 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 1.0.x releases.
In addition to all the changes backported to 1.0.x, this release
also contains some new features:
## Highlights
- Support for asynchronous processing has been implemented. Nodes can choose
(or be forced) to be scheduled asynchronously. The graph will not wait for
the output of the node to continue processing but it will use the output
of the previous cycle (or silence) instead. This adds one cycle of latency
but it can avoid having some nodes blocking the processing graph. Non realtime
streams and filters now also use this asynchronous processing instead of
their own slightly broken version.
- The concept of node.sync-group was added. This groups nodes with overlapping
sync-group together when one of them sets the node.sync = true. This is now
used to make sure all nodes are scheduled together when JACK transport is
started so that they all see the same time.
- Config parsing errors are reported earlier and much better with line and
column numbers where the parsing started to fail.
- Add support for mandatory metadata when negotiation buffer parameters. This
can be used to only negotiate extra buffer planes when certain metadata is
negotiated. One use case is the explicit sync support that requires 2
extra fds for the timelines.
- Support was added for making and using multiple data-loops in the server
and clients. Support for CPU affinity and priorities was added to the
data-loops as well.
- The log topic debug levels can now be changed at runtime with metadata.
The log levels in the pulse server can be dynamically changed with a
/core message.
- The UCM conflicting devices patches were merged.
## PipeWire
- snap support has been added.
- Implement async processing. (#3509)
- Support for explicit sync was added.
- Config parsing errors are reported earlier and much better.
- A -P option was added to provide extra properties to the context. This can be
used to enable some features that use rules.
- properties.rules was added to enhance properties based on some rules.
This deprecates the vm.overrides.
- Support was added for security-context. This makes it possible for a flatpak
to request a socket with specific properties from pipewire to mount in the
flatpak. The session manager can then assign permissions based on the connection
properties.
- Support for fixed arrays in pw_array was improved.
- PipeWire server and clients can now use multiple threads to process the nodes
in parallel.
- device.rules and node.rules were added to update device and node properties
based on rules.
- device.param and node.param can now be used to configure params when devices
and nodes are created.
- Memory will now try to use MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL.
- The driver id of a node is now placed in the properties.
- A potential race was fixed when adding and removing ports to the scheduling
lists.
## Modules
- Priorities for the FFADO threads can be configured now.
- The loopback module now has support for up and downmixing.
- Extra properties can now be configured per native-connection socket.
- The pulse-tunnel can now automatically reconnect when the connection is
broken.
- The RTP module now supports the PTP management protocol.
- The RTP sender can now use a timer to send out multiple packets per
quantum.
- A new module was added for loading Parametric EQ.
- The simple-protocol module now has per stream configurable properties
and can also be used to interface with a snapcast server.
- Support for local services was added to raop, rtp and pulse avahi
discoverers. Support for IPv6 on local services was added to RAOP.
## SPA
- Support for reporting JSON parsing errors has been added.
- Some extra checks are added when iterating POD structures.
- Port and profiles can now be hidden from ALSA nodes with
api.acp.hidden-ports and api.acp.hidden-profiles properties.
- The UCM conflicting devices patches were merged.
- Profiles and Routes can now also be set by name.
- Hires timestamps are now used when possible in IRQ based scheduling to
get more accurate wakeup times.
- udev can now be an optional dependency.
- audioadapter now has an option to automatically configure its ports.
- Camera rotation was added to the libcamera node.
- invoke on loops can now be done from multiple threads at the same time.
- Make sure we use CLOCK_MONOTONIC everywhere in the io_clock.
- Vulkan bit and convert filters were added.
- ALSA will now always read the HW ringbuffer pointer when followers are
not on the same card.
- Support for larger MIDI sysex messages was improved. Configuration of
the client input and output pool was added. (#4005)
## Bluetooth
- Support Google OPUS codec.
- Support the LC3-SWB codec.
- Support the AAC-ELD codec.
- Broadcast source configuration support was added.
## pulseaudio-server
- The GSettings schemas are now optionally installed.
- Extensions were moved to the modules.
- The log level of the pulse server can dynamically be changed with
a core object message.
- snap access control was added to pulse-server.
- The old pacmd describe-module functionality is now implemented with
a core message pipewire-pulse:describe-module.
- An option was added to disable module loading and unloading.
## JACK
- OSC messages can now also be placed in JACK MIDI and the translation
layer will detect and tag the right PipeWire control message types.
- A jack.other-connect-mode was added to limit the connections that an
app can do to ports it doesn't own.
- The way the transport is started and how the nodes are grouped together
in the transport was improved using the new sync groups. (#3850)
- Fix large MIDI messages handling. (#4005)
## ALSA
- Fix format renegotiation. (#3858)
- Handle period events better. (#3676)
- Improve handling of the eventfd wakeups.
## GStreamer
- The GStreamer elements can now negotiate and use DMABUF.
## Tools
- The T flag is used in pw-top when the transport is running.
- A new pw-container tool was added to start a new security context and
run an application in it.
- pw-dot handles properties with quotes better. Nodes are grouped with the
node.link-group.
- pw-link has a --wait option to wait for all links to be created.
# PipeWire 1.0.6 (2024-05-09)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- A bitfield race was fixed that could cause some crashes or undefined
behaviour when moving nodes between drivers.
- Fix to some invalid memory access in the pw-mon and pw-dump.
- A regression in kodi with IEC958 formats playback was fixed.
- A race in the ALSA plugin was fixed when updating the eventfd.
- Improvements and fixes to module-combine-stream.
- Negotiation was improved in pipewiresrc.
- Some more small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Context properties are now set early so that client properties can be
matched with rules.
- A bitfield race was fixed that could cause some crashes or undefined
behaviour when moving nodes between drivers.
## Tools
- Fix failure to hide properties in pw-mon. (#3997)
- Fix some memleaks and a crash in pw-dump. (#4001)
## Modules
- The combine-stream module now prevents resampling to avoid broken
audio because of different samplerates.
- Fix a potential double free in module-loopback when calculating the
delay. (#3748)
- The FFADO module now only starts when ports are negotiated to avoid
startup races. (#3968)
- The combine-stream module will now forward tags.
## SPA
- Monitor volumes are now also clamped to the min/max volumes. (#3962)
- V4l2 and libcamera now encodes the device ids into a JSON array. This
is part of the deduplication code of devices.
- A regression in kodi with IEC958 formats playback was fixed.
## Bluetooth
- Improved buffer handling and queued data when stopping.
## ALSA
- A race was fixed when updating the eventfd. (#3711)
## GStreamer
- Handle some errors better instead of crashing. (#3994)
- Fix a memleak in the stream params handling.
- Negotiation was improved in pipewiresrc.
# PipeWire 1.0.5 (2024-04-15)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- pw_stream can now report timestamps on buffers and the expected
amount of samples for the resampler.
- The GStreamer element now has more correct timestamps using the new
pw_stream timestamps as a fallback.
- The FFADO module now handles suspend and resume better.
- A regression in v4l2 was fixed when parsing malformed filters.
- A potential memory/fd leak was fixed in client-node.
- Many more small bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- pw_stream now reports the expected resampler input or output size in
the pw_time structure. (#3750)
- pw_stream now also adds a time field to the buffer, which contains the
time of the graph when the buffer was received in the stream.
- Fix a compiler error when compiling with -Werror=shadow. (#3915)
- The config parser will warn when invalid config is detected.
## Modules
- The FFADO module now opens and closes when suspending. This fixes some
problems when FFADO properties are changed while suspended. (#3558)
- Filter-chain will now warn when invalid config is detected.
- Echo-cancel will now handle manage the state of the echo-cancel plugin
better, making sure run() is not called after deactivate().
- Fix some potential memory/fd leaks in client-node.
## SPA
- Improve reading the bound ALSA controls.
- The resampler can now also report the number of expected output samples.
- The ALSA ACP device objects have some more properties like the card.id
and alsa.components. (#3912)
- Fix a potential string corruption when parsing JSON strings.
- V4l2 now sets the latency on the port. (#3910)
- alsa-udev now has an option to expose the device even if busy. (#3914)
- Improve null-audio-sink channel handling. (#3931)
- v4l2 will now drop the first frame because it often contains wrong
timestamps or garbage. (#3910)
- A regression in v4l2 was fixed where invalid/empty properties in the
filter would make it error early. (#3959)
## GStreamer
- The source now falls back to the new pw_buffer time for the timestamps.
## Docs
- Sync with the master branch.
# PipeWire 1.0.4 (2024-03-13)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Track memfd better to avoid inconsistent memory. Also make sure the
mixer info is removed correctly in all cases on destroyed ports.
- Correctly handle removed objects in the metadata.
- Add an option to set the server and client priorities instead of using
a hardcoded value of 88.
- The FFADO module has been fixed. Audio and MIDI now works with
the same latency as the JACK driver. This has now also been
tested with a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14.
- The JACK library has seen some important fixes. Some ardour crackling
has been fixed when looping and multiple MIDI ports on a client should
now work.
- Small bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Track memfd better to avoid inconsistent memory. Also make sure the
mixer info is removed correctly in all cases on destroyed ports.
- Fix Props param emission again in pw_stream. (#3833)
- Add MAPPABLE flag to buffer data to indicate that the fd can be
mmapped directly. Use this on DMABUF from v4l2. (#3840)
- Correctly handle removed object in the metadata.
- FreeBSD build and compatibility fixes.
- Add an option to set the server and client priorities instead of using
a hardcoded value of 88.
- Read config overrides in the right order.
- Fix PIPEWIRE_QUANTUM rate handling in pw_stream and pw_filter.
- Fix pw_context_parse_conf_section(), actually use the conf argument.
- A new pw_stream_get_nsec() and pw_filter_get_nsec() function was added
to get the current time of the stream/filter without having to assume a
particular clock.
- A new default.clock.quantum-floor property was added to configure the
absolute lowest buffer-size. (#3908)
## docs
- Many doc updates.
## tools
- Make sure we always quit pw-cli when the server stops. (#3837)
- pw-top now prints all drivers in batch mode. (#3899)
## modules
- Don't destroy the client in protocol-simple on EAGAIN.
- Handle IPv6 better in the RTP modules. Fix IPv6 SAP header
parsing. (#3851)
- The FFADO module has been fixed. Audio and MIDI now works with
the same latency as the JACK driver. This has now also been
tested with a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14. (#3558)
## pulse-server
- Make sure the peer_name is filled to avoid protocol errors.
## SPA
- Small resampler tweaks to improve stability of adaptive resampler.
- Add ALSA option to control htimestamp autodisable.
- Avoid some potential crashes in audioconvert when ports are removed.
- Improve HDMI jack detection on some SOCs.
- The audioconvert now has a monitor.passthrough option to pass the
latency information on the monitor ports. (#3888)
## GStreamer
- Don't use timeouts when autoconnect=false in pipewiresrc. (#3884)
- pipewiresrc and pipewiresink can now be automatically selected as
audio source and sink.
- An invalid memory access was fixed when destroying the device
provider.
## JACK
- Remove properties correctly with the object id, not serial.
- Improve sync with the data thread by pausing the core. Also improve
handling of port io to avoid invalid buffer access.
- Fix PIPEWIRE_QUANTUM rate handling.
- Support multiple MIDI input ports per client. (#3901)
- The output buffer size is now always correctly set. (#3892)
## ALSA
- Handle errors from eventfd_create correctly.
# PipeWire 1.0.3 (2024-02-02)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix ALSA version check. This should allow the alsa plugin to work again.
- Some small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Escape @DEFAULT_SINK@ in the conf files.
## Modules
- Improve logging in module-pipe-tunnel.
## SPA
- Always recheck rate matching in ALSA when moving drivers. This fixes a
potential issue where the adaptive resampler would not be activated in
some cases.
## ALSA
- Fix version check. This should allow the alsa plugin to work again
with version 1.0.2.
# PipeWire 1.0.2 (2024-01-31)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix v4l2 enumeration with filter. This should fix negotiation in some
GStreamer pipelines with capsfilter. Also probe for EXPBUF support
before using it.
- Fix max-latency property and Buffer param when dealing with small
ALSA device buffers. This should fix stuttering with some AMD
based soundcards.
- More small cleanups an improvements.
## Modules
- Improve netjack2 channel positions.
- Improve RAOP module state after suspend/resume. (#3778)
- Avoid crash in some LV2 plugins by configuring the Atom ports. (#3815)
## SPA
- Bump libcamera requirements to 0.2.0.
- Try to avoid unaligned load exceptions. (#3790)
- Fix v4l2 enumeration with filter. (#1793)
- Fix max-latency property and Buffer param when dealing with small
ALSA device buffers. This should fix stuttering with some AMD
based soundcards. (#3744,#3622)
- Add a resync.ms option to node.driver to make it possible to resync
fast to clock jumps.
- Probe for EXPBUF support in v4l2 before using it. (#3821)
## pulse-server
- Also emit change events when the port list change.
## Bluetooth
- Log a more verbose explanation when other soundservers seem to be
interfering with bluetooth.
- Add quirks for Rockbox Brick. (#3786)
- Add quirks for SoundCore mini2. (#2927)
## JACK
- Improve check for the running state of clients. (#3794)
# PipeWire 1.0.1 (2024-01-11)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
1.0.x releases.
## Highlights
- Work around the buggy ALSA backend in libcanberra by forcing the pulse
backend in module-x11-bell.
- Fix a race in the device info updates in pulse-server.
- Fix timing and rate matching in ALSA sequencer.
- Improve timing information in JACK and from the ALSA driver.
- More small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a build issue when examples where disabled.
- Avoid some compiler warnings.
- Avoid some bitfield data races. (#3706)
## Modules
- Bump the PTP driver priority. (#3217)
- Support the previous "allowed" permission in the access module.
- Fix filename leak in module-filter-chain.
- Work around the buggy ALSA backend in libcanberra by forcing the pulse
backend in module-x11-bell. (#3688)
- Fix a race in the device info updates in pulse-server.
- Fix compatibility in RAOP. (#3698)
## SPA
- Handle ALSA picth control errors correctly
- Clamp buffer-frames correctly. (#3000)
- Fix timing and rate matching in ALSA sequencer. (#3657)
- Revert a commit that could result in current time in the future in the
timing updates.
- Improve adapter state checks.
- Remove the timer from the ALSA pcm.
- Fix timeout in freewheel driver.
## Pulse-server
- Also handle active ports for monitor sources.
- Fix zeroconf-publish format properties.
## JACK
- Improve timing and transport calculations.
- Handle -ENOENT from the core and don't error out.
## GStreamer
- Handle node port removal in the device provider. (#3708)
- Improve error handling while connecting.
- Fix dts_offset.
# PipeWire 1.0.0 (2023-11-26)
The PipeWire project is immensely proud to announce the 1.0 release
of PipeWire.
It is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
"PipeWire represents the next evolution of audio handling for Linux, taking
the best of both pro-audio (JACK) and desktop audio servers (PulseAudio) and
linking them into a single, seamless, powerful new system."
- Paul Davis, JACK and Ardour author
"What exciting times! PipeWire 1.0 is the culmination of 15 years of
Linux audio expertise, blending lessons from PulseAudio into a high-performance,
flexible, and user-friendly foundation for audio and multimedia on Linux.
I'm looking forward to the next decade of progress in the free software
consumer and professional audio space!."
- Arun Raghavan, PulseAudio developer/maintainer.
"I'm thrilled to witness the first stable release of PipeWire after five years
of collaboration with its remarkable community, pushing the boundaries of
multimedia integration in the Linux ecosystem one step further.”
- George Kiagiadakis, WirePlumber author
"From the beginning of the libcamera project, we have always seen
PipeWire as the solution to handle desktop and mobile integration and
give a seamless multimedia integration to users while providing security
features and resource sharing between applications."
- Kieran Bingham, libcamera author
Happy Holidays!
## Highlights
- Fix a memfd/dmabuf leak when uploading buffers while shutting down.
- Handle concurrent jack_port_get_buffer() calls because ardour seems to
be doing this.
- Improve time reporting (less jitter) in ALSA when using IRQ.
- Many doc improvements.
## PipeWire
- Respect PIPEWIRE_DLCLOSE everywhere, remove pw_in_valgrind().
- Remove a warning when a client tries to change ignored properties.
## Modules
- Fix a memfd/dmabuf leak when uploading buffers while shutting down.
- Fix a potential segfault when copying mix structures. (#3658)
- Avoid races in setrlimit in module-rt.
- Fix a memory leak in filter-chain.
- Set rtp.ptime on senders, not receivers.
- The ROC modules were ported to ROC 0.3
## SPA
- Improve time reporting (less jitter) in ALSA when using IRQ. (#3657)
- Add latency param query in libcamera.
- Fix some compiler warnings.
- The EVL plugin was updated.
## Bluetooth
- LC3 codec and compatibility improvements.
## Pulse server
- Fix emission of events when a sink/source state changes. (#3660)
## JACK
- Improve transport and time handling. Use unique ids to make consistent
snapshots of the current time and transport.
- Avoid enumerating port params that we are not going to use.
- Optimize buffer reuse.
- Handle concurrent jack_port_get_buffer() calls because ardour seems to
be doing this. (#3632)
## Docs
- Many doc improvements.
- Add man pages for pw-dump, pw-loopback, modules, pipewire-pulse.
- Manpages are now made with Doxygen.
- Add docs for pulse-modules
# PipeWire 0.3.85 (2023-11-16)
This is the fifth (and last) 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI
compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix an issue where a link could end up paused while not negotiated.
- Fix an infinite recursion issue when finding runnable nodes.
- Support XDG base directories when loading ACP config.
- Fix MIDI event recording preview in Ardour.
- Many more small fixes, cleanups and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix an issue where a link could end up paused while not negotiated.
(#3619)
- Fix an infinite recursion issue when finding runnable nodes by stopping
the scan on feedback links around the driver. (#3621)
- The system service now has better socket permissions.
## Modules
- Add support for uclamp. This allows the scheduler to make better informed
decisions about where tasks should be placed, and what pstate to set
for the CPU it is running on.
- Emit warnings when applications are not doing the right locking instead
of crashing.
- Improve media.name for RAOP sinks. (#3801)
- Support pause/resume in pipe-tunnel. (#3197)
- Remove time rlimit when probing for realtime to avoid SIGXCPU.
## SPA
- Fix a bug where the resampler would be activated even when there is an
ALSA pitch element. (#3628)
- Improve resume from suspend in ALSA. (#3646)
- Add option to expose ALSA controls as prop params.
- Support XDG base directories when loading ACP config. This makes it possible
to override the ACP config files.
## Bluetooth
- Schedule nodes in the same ISO group together.
- More BAP fixes and cleanups.
## JACK
- Fix MIDI events from peer ports. This makes the MIDI event recording preview
of Ardour work correctly.
## GStreamer
- Fix some error handling in the source and sink.
## ALSA plugin
- Improve poll descriptor handling. (#3648)
## Docs
- Many improvements to the layout and organization.
# PipeWire 0.3.84 (2023-11-02)
This is the fourth 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression with openal because the queued buffers in the stream
were not reported correctly.
- Fix a bug in port busy counters that could cause random silent links.
- Fix a regression in echo-cancel because it was not reporting its
streams as ASYNC.
- Fix a JACK regression where not all ports were enumerated in all cases.
- Many more fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- pw_stream now reports the queued buffers more accurately. This fixes
a regression when using openal. (#3592)
- The port busy counters were not updated correctly in some cases. This
could lead to negotiation errors and silent links. (#3547)
- Ignore latency maximum when forcing rate/quantum. (#3613)
- Nodes can now be added to multiple groups and link-groups. (#3612)
## Modules
- The filter-chain now also handles notify port dependencies
correctly. (#3596)
- Filter-chain has support for new linear, clamp, recip, exp, log, mult,
sine builtin plugins.
- The echo-cancel module now correctly reports its playback and capture
streams as ASYNC to avoid running out of buffers. (#3593)
- It is now possible to specify an array of remote names to connect to
with the native protocol.
- module-rtp-sap and module-rtp-sink now try to bind to the specified
interface.
## SPA
- The alsa plugin now removes the runtime properties such as period-num,
period-size and max-latency when suspended. (#3613)
## Bluetooth
- BAP Locations/Context is now set on endpoints as required by new bluez.
- Improve selection of BAP leader.
## JACK
- Add a jack_set_sample_rate() extension function.
- Make sure we get the info of all nodes/ports before completing the
jack_client_open() operation so that we can enumerate the ports
correctly in all cases. (#3618)
## GStreamer
- Fix types of metadata in pipewiresink.
- Also copy metadata in buffers in all cases.
- Fix size allocation in bufferpool for compressed formats.
- Don't stop streaming thread when unlinked. (#3620)
## ALSA
- The ALSA plugin now handles NULL values from mmap_areas. (#3600)
# 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)
# PipeWire 0.3.82 (2023-10-13)
This is the second 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression in some devices when the Pro-Audio profile was selected.
Only enable the IRQ based scheduling and device linking in specific
safe cases. (#3556)
- Improve rate switching. In some cases the graph rate would not switch
correctly. (#2929)
- Fix regression in alsa wakeups that would cause silence in VMs.
- Fix a leak in the SBC codecs for SCO.
- More improvements to the RAOP module.
- Other small improvements and fixes.
## PipeWire
- Improve client property checks.
- Allow non-power-of-2 quantums when forced.
- Improve rate switching. In some cases the graph rate would not switch
correctly. (#2929)
- The PIPEWIRE_QUANTUM env variable now forces the size and rate in the
graph for the duration of the application. The softer PIPEWIRE_LATENCY
and PIPEWIRE_RATE can still be used to merely suggest a maximum latency
and a rate.
## modules
- Remove the RTSP FLUSH request in RAOP because it does not seem necessary.
- The RAOP module now uses the common RTP stream functions.
- Add sockets option to protocol-native to make pipewire listen on multiple
sockets.
## SPA
- Clean up some of the log functions.
- Add an option in ALSA to disable linking devices together.
- Only link pcms together when 1 capture and 1 playback pcm. For more complex
devices we can't be sure which ones can be linked. (#3556)
- disable tsched only when using linked devices.
- Add some extra checks in ALSA to avoid segfaults. (#3554)
- Add Tag support to alsa-sink and alsa-source.
- Use dynamic pod builder when we can.
- Set priority.driver on midi-bridge to allow it as a fallback driver. (#3562)
- Fix regression in alsa wakeups. (#3565)
- The PTP clock can now be found from the interface in node-driver.
## pulse-server
- Some small cleanups and internal improvements.
- Add some memory debugging messages.
- Add Tag messages to streams.
## Bluetooth
- Fix a leak in the SBC codecs for SCO.
## JACK
- Patch up midi events in the destination buffer instead of writing to the
source buffer. (#3580)
- Group all jack clients together to avoid transport issues. (#3562)
## ALSA-plugins
- Add also.deny option to block alsa clients from opening the PCM.
# PipeWire 0.3.81 (2023-10-06)
This is the first 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- jackdbus support is now enabled by default.
- IRQ based scheduling in ALSA was improved and enabled by default for
Pro-Audio profile. It will also link the pcms together to get lower
latency. This now matches what JACK does and gives equal latency to
PipeWire for Pro-Audio profiles.
- Support both old and new versions of webrtc-audio-processing to make
the transition easier.
- Forced quantum changes by nodes or metadata will now also force a
suspend and resume of the graph, like the rate changes to make sure all
nodes adapt to the new quantum. This is important for Pro-Audio nodes
that need to reconfigure the hardware to a new period in IRQ based
scheduling.
- Fix a regression in regex parsing.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- jackdbus is by default enabled now. The idea is that when jackdbus is
installed, the real libjack.so is in the path and we can become a
real JACK client.
- Forces quantum changes by nodes or metadata will now also force a
suspend and resume in the graph, like the rate changes to make sure all
nodes adapt to the new quantum. This is important for Pro-Audio nodes
that need to reconfigure the hardware to a new period.
- The stream now has an EARLY_PROCESS option that can be used to implement
custom buffer fill levels. (#3480)
- Fix a regression in regex parsing. (#3528)
- Fix a bug in position reporting in the driver node. (#3189) (#3544)
- Destroying a link will now recalculate the graph correctly.
- Fix the rate comparison for finding the best rate in the graph.
- Use malloc_trim() when available to release memory. (#1840)
## Tools
- pw-cat now supports DFF DSD files.
- pw-cli avoid some NULL derefs in some cases.
## Modules
- The RAOP sink has seen some cleanups and improvements. It will now ask
for feedback every 2 seconds to keep some devices alive.
- A bug in filter-chain was fixed where it would fail to apply the gain
when mixing just one source.
- The filter-chain can now pass the stream volume to a control in the
filter-chain graph. (#3434)
- Improve volume handling in RAOP sink.
## Pulse-server
- Some cleanup in the pending_stream handling.
- Fix a regression in the event emission code where it failed to emit
a changed event when a node was linked. (#3522)
- Lower the realtime priority of pulseaudio clients.
- Set pulse.module.id on the echo-cancel streams. (#3541)
## SPA
- Support both old and new versions of webrtc-audio-processing to make
the transition easier.
- The ALSA driver now does the sync of all followers directly from the
wakeup event. This results in more stable rate matching.
- IRQ based scheduling in ALSA was improved and enabled by default for
Pro-Audio profile. It will also link the pcms together to get lower
latency. This now matches what JACK does and gives equal latency to
PipeWire for Pro-Audio profiles.
- GNU/Hurd support was added.
- Some improvements to passthrough handling.
## Bluetooth
- Improvements to the codec handling when PipeWire is used as Audio
Gateway.
- Adapt to new Bluez API for BAP devices.
## JACK
- When the jack library is set in the default library path, avoid using
LD_LIBRARY_PATH because this can cause confusion.
- Handle clearing the latency on a port.
- jack_property now always manages to actually change the metadata because
it waits for a roundtrip before exiting.
# PipeWire 0.3.80 (2023-09-14)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- A new Tag param was added that allows arbitrary metadata to be transported
out-of-band in the graph.
- Vulkan DMA buf support was merged.
- The echo-canceller was ported to webrtc-audio-processing-1.
- Fix a regression in locating monitor sources by id in pulse-server.
- Mixer io areas updates are now synchronized correctly with the data
thread to avoid potential crashes.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Handle driver nodes that refuse to change the quantum or rate.
- A new Tag param was added that allows arbitrary metadata to be transported
out-of-band in the graph.
## Modules
- The pipe-tunnel source has been reworked to use a ringbuffer and rate
adaption to keep the latency constant. It can now also function as a
driver to reduce resampling. (#3478)
## Tools
- pw-cat will now place media properties in Tag params.
- pw-mon can now filter props and params.
## SPA
- ALSA refuses to change quantum and rate when in IRQ mode.
- ALSA will now be smarter in selecting the period size for batch devices
and will make it depend on the samplerate. (#3444)
- Vulkan DMA buf support was merged.
- ALSA latency will now be reported in the time domain of the graph.
- Add udev based autodetection for compress-offload devices.
- The echo-canceller was ported to webrtc-audio-processing-1.
- The v4l2 inotify code was rewritten to avoid a use-after-free and by
using a separate watch (but same fd) for each device. (#3439)
- The tag and latency handling was improved in audioadpter.
- Don't use -Ofast on alpha because it can crash on denormalized
values. (#3489)
- The mixers now synchronize spa_io_buffers updates with the data
thread to avoid crashes.
- Handle NULL param updates. (#3504)
## Pulse-server
- Fix a regression in locating monitor sources by id. (#3476)
- Add support for use_system_clock_for_timing in module-pipe-sink.
- Add support for checking module arguments.
- Avoid some useless change events.
## Bluetooth
- Ports are now marked as physical, which makes the bluetooth devices show
up as hardware devices in Ardour and other JACK apps. (#3418)
- Some fixes for LE audio support (#3479)
## JACK
- Also emit unregister notify even when suppressed when creating the
client.
- The notify callbacks now match JACK2 behaviour more.
- The mixer io areas are updated and handled safely now to avoid
crashes. (#3506)
# PipeWire 0.3.79 (2023-08-29)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression in suspend that could cause silence.
- Fix a regression in JACK port registration that could cause all kinds of
JACK problems. (#3485)
- Fix a typo in the neon sample conversion functions that could cause
distortion.
- Add BAP broadcast source and sink support.
- pw-top now has a batch mode to dump the output to stdout.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a regression in shutdown where a node might not first suspend
properly. This cause loss of sound in some cases. (#3378)
- Failure to compile a regular expression in the config file will now
be reported and ! can be used to negate the match. (#3460)
- Fix a regression where some nodes might not set running in some
cases.
- Nodes are now suspended before the format is cleared, which might
fix some crashes.
## Tools
- pw-top now has a batch mode to dump the output to stdout.
## SPA
- The queued samples in audioconvert are now correctly reported in the
delay. (#3454)
- Make it easier to add a custom profile in ACP.
- Fix a typo in the neon sample conversion functions that could cause
distortion. (#3463)
- device.profile.pro=true is added for pro audio nodes.
- An xrun counter was added to spa_io_clock to detect and track skipped
data because of xruns.
## Pulse-server
- Add alsa-sink and alsa-source modules. (#3456)
## Bluetooth
- Fix a regression where only the BAP off profile is shown.
- Add BAP broadcast source and sink support.
## JACK
- Also emit a latency notify when the buffer size changes.
- Fix a regression in JACK port registration. (#3485)
- jack_port_tie() is now supported.
## ALSA
- Improve property handling, support lists and ranges in addition to
fixed values. (#3451)
# PipeWire 0.3.78 (2023-08-22)
This is a small bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- An old regression was fixed with where some nodes would not run.
- A regression was fixed where removed events would not be shown in some
cases. This would result in duplicate entries in audio clients.
- Fix an off-by-one in the vban audio receiver. Tweak the rate adaption
a little.
- ACP will now set a UCM verb before probing the pro-audio devices.
- More bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- An old regression was fixed with where some nodes would not run. (#3405)
- Suspend was improved a little to avoid races when the session manager would
suspend right when a driver was starting.
## Modules
- module-rtp-sap does not use the deprecated inet_aton anymore.
- Fix an off-by-one in the vban audio receiver. Tweak the rate adaption
a little. (#3380)
## SPA
- ACP will now set a UCM verb before probing the pro-audio devices. (#3407)
- The mandatory flag will be set now on the video modifiers.
- EVL was updated to Xenomai4 r46 and xbuf creation was improved.
- An option was added to force colors in the log even when logging to !tty.
- The return type of spa_pod_builder_control() was fixed.
- inotify errors are handled better now. (#3439)
## pulse-server
- A regression was fixed where removed events would not be shown in some
cases. (#3414)
## Bluetooth
- Improve compatibility with more devices, avoid reusing the same transport
for different media-sink instances to avoid encoder resets.
- Improve enumeration of codec profiles for BAP and A2DP.
## JACK
- Ensure we can't iterate ports from a deactivated client. Also make sure
the JACK clients with the node.always-process=false always show their
ports. (#3416)
## GStreamer
- A potential crash was fixed in the device provider when stopping.
# PipeWire 0.3.77 (2023-08-04)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a bug in ALSA source where the available number of samples was miscaluclated
and resulted in xruns in some cases.
- A new L permission was added to make it possible to force a link between
nodes even when the nodes can't see each other.
- The VBAN module now supports midi send and receive as well.
- Many cleanups and small fixes.
## PipeWire
- Global objects now only show permissions that apply to them. The permissions
required to perform various API calls are documented.
- A new L permission was added to make it possible to force a link between
nodes even when the nodes can't see each other.
- Config files need to end with .conf.
- The client.api is added the to global properties of a node.
## modules
- The VBAN module now supports midi send and receive as well.
- Fix module-profiler alignment and make sure we don't overrun our buffers with
many nodes.
- Protect libcanberra calls with a mutex because it is not thread safe. (#2834)
## SPA
- Support older compilers for spa_clear_ptr().
- Fix a bug in ALSA source where the available number of samples was miscaluclated
and resulted in xruns. (#3395)
- Don't set inotify on /dev but on the videoX devices directly. Setting inotify
on /dev would cause a lot of spurious wakeups and lock contention in the
fsnotify subsystem on some benchmarks.
- Audioconvert now rate limits the warnings when it runs out of buffers. (#3384)
## pulse-server
- Some bugs and inconsistencies were fixed in device lookup.
- Improve subscribe event emission, detect changes to the sink or the monitor
and send the right sink/source event. (#3388)
## JACK
- The libjack.so now has a minor version of 3 and a micro version of the pipewire
version.
- JACK clients will now see portregistration from other jack clients when they
activate/deactivate like real JACK. (#3260)
## bluetooth
- Use some more autoptr cleanups, fix some leaks.
# PipeWire 0.3.76 (2023-07-28)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression that would cause the MPV pipewire backend to fail because
of a spurious thread-loop signal.
- Fix a crash when DBus is not found.
- ALSA hires timestamps are now disabled by default.
- Some more fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- A new option was added to pw-thread-loop to signal when the thread starts.
This is only used in module-rt to avoid regressions in mpv. (#3374)
- Fix a compilation problem.
- Stream flags now only set the properties when not already set. This fixes
a regression with node autoconnect. (#3382)
## Tools
- pw-cat will now stop when the stream is disconnected. (#2731)
- Improve the pw-cat man page, mention that stdin/stdout handling is only
on raw data.
## modules
- module-rt will now not crash when dbus is not available but error out as
before.
- A new VBAN (vb-audio.com) sender and receiver was added. (#3380)
## SPA
- Add an option in audioconvert to disable volume updates. (#3361)
- ALSA hires timestamps are disabled by default because many drivers seem to
give wrong timestamps and cause extra delay.
## bluetooth
- LE Audio support is now enabled by default when liblc3 is available now that
bluez has support for detecting the hardware features.
# PipeWire 0.3.75 (2023-07-21)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Link permissions between nodes are now enforced. This avoids potential portal
managed screencast nodes to link to the camera even though it was not assigned
permissions to do so by the session manager.
- Libcamera and v4l2 devices now have properties so that duplicates can be
filtered out by the session manager.
- A bug with draining was fixed where a buffer would be marked EMPTY and would not
play when it contained drained samples. (#3365)
- Many fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Permissions for links between nodes are now enforced. The link will now check
that the owner clients of the nodes can see each other before allowing the link.
This avoids screensharing clients to accidentally being linked to the camera
nodes by the session manager. A side effect is that patchbay tools will no longer
be able to link portal managed screencast nodes to the camera, for this we need
a new permission for those patchbay clients. (wireplumber#218)
- The stream.rules/filter.rules are now evaluated when connecting the stream/filter
so that more properties can be matched. (#3355)
- Move some internal events from the context to the nodes to better handle per-node
threads in the future.
- The thread-loop will now signal when the thread is started.
## modules
- A timestamp workaround in module-raop was reverted because it does not work
in all cases. Instead latency was increased to 1.5 seconds, which also makes
the problematic device in question work. (#3247)
- The profiler module was reworked a bit to use the new node realtime events. It
should now also handle dynamically added and removed drivers.
- The module-rt now does the rtkit calls from a separate thread so that it does
not block the main thread. This could cause deadlocks during startup in some
cases. (#3357)
## SPA
- Atomic operation macros were move from internal pipewire API to public API.
- The video-info structure now has a new SPA_VIDEO_FLAG_MODIFIER_FIXATION_REQUIRED
flag to instruct the application to fixate the modifiers. This simplifies some
logic in applications a lot.
- The libcamera and v4l2 nodes now have properties to enumerate the device id
they are using. This can be used to match v4l2 devices and libcamera devices
and filter out duplicates.
- A bug with draining was fixed where a buffer would be marked EMPTY and would not
play when it contained drained samples. (#3365)
# PipeWire 0.3.74 (2023-07-12)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a critical bug where audio to bluetooth devices would cut out
randomly. (#3316)
- Improve RAOP compatibility.
- Avoid crashes after an update.
- Small fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Mix info on port is now created explicitly.
- Remove the node as a driver peer when stopping. This caused some problem
with playback on and other remote bluetooth devices. (#3316)
- Work on avoiding crashes when loading new modules that use internal API
with old libpipewire. This is typical after an update where the old library is
still loaded by an application but when a new stream is created, updated
modules are loaded. (#3243)
## Modules
- The RTP source module now has an option to ignore the SSRC, which is
useful to continue to receive the stream when the sender is restarted.
- The native protocol will refuse to load twice now instead of silently
ignoring the error.
- module-raop is compatible with more devices. (#3247)
## SPA
- plugins will now warn when running out of buffers. This is always a bad
thing.
- Merge scope based cleanup macros.
- Add ratelimit function.
# PipeWire 0.3.73 (2023-07-06)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fixes an ALSA resume after suspend error.
- Handle and disable seemingly wrong hires timestamps from ALSA.
- Filter-chain now has loadable plugin modules. The LV2 and sofa plugins are
moved to a separate .so file to make things more modular.
- Rate changes in the graph should now be handled more gracefully by loopback
and filter-chain.
- A regression in the rtp-sap module was fixed where it would in some cases
fail to start.
- A potential crash in the peaks resampler was fixed.
- Many cleanups and other small bug fixes.
## PipeWire
- Fix a potential segfault when no fallback driver was set in the config.
- Improve OPUS detection.
- Add ASYNC flag to pw-filter and pw-stream when queue/dequeue is not called
from the process function. This ensure we allocate an extra buffer.
- Discard pending process callbacks when disconnecting. (#3314)
- Cleanups and improvements to the debug environment variable parsing.
- The graph rate was tweaked to better handle very low rates such as those
requested by pavucontrol when it does the signal monitoring.
## Modules
- An example filter module was added.
- Filter-chain and loopback now disable the resamplers if no rate is specified
and will always follow the graph rate.
- Improve setup of filter-chain. The graph is now created when starting
because this ensure the target graph rate is known.
- Filter-chain can now link notify ports to control ports in the graph.
- Filter-chain now has loadable plugin modules. The LV2 and sofa plugins are
moved to a separate .so file.
- A regression in the rtp-sap module was fixed where it would in some cases
fail to start.
- Module-rt now has options to disable rlimits, portal and rtkit.
- module-raop-discover now has an options to set the latency. (#3247)
## Tools
- pw-cat now supports overriding all stream properties.
## SPA
- Disable rate negotiation when the resampler is disabled. We will always
follow the graph rate.
- Set device.icon property for UCM ports as well.
- Improve ALSA recover when using hires timestamps. This fixes some problems
after resume from suspend. (#3315)
- ALSA will now warn and disable hires timestamp when they seem wrong.
They can also be disabled manually with a property.
- V4l2 will now gracefully handle ENOTTY when enumerating frame sizes and
frame rates. (#3325)
- A potential crash in the peaks resampler was fixed. (#3320)
## pulse-server
- A client crash in pavucontrol is avoided by always setting a card name.
- The graph rate is now taken correctly when using the FIX flags. (#3317)
- An option was added to ignore the FIX flags of a stream. Also the
documentation for those options was updated. (#3317)
- module-raop-discover now support latency_msec. (#3247)
## Bluetooth
- Remove an assert and issue a warning/recover instead when a buffer is too
small.
## GStreamer
- The device provider does locking when destroying the registry.
# PipeWire 0.3.72 (2023-06-26)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a critical bug that would refuse to update the samplerate or
buffersize in JACK clients. (#3226)
- A new module-netjack2-driver and module-netjack2-manager were added
that are compatible with NETJACK2. This allows PipeWire to become
a NETJACK2 manager or a driver between JACK2 or PipeWire servers.
- Support was added for firewire devices with FFADO. This is untested
for now and MIDI is not implemented yet.
- The node scheduling was optimized some more. External drivers are now
as efficient as in-server ones. This should improve performance of
various drivers such as bluetooth and JACK based drivers.
- Many, many bug fixes and a ton of improvements.
## PipeWire
- pw-filter can now be used to write sinks and sources.
- The node activation for drivers was changed. The driver now does not
need to go to the server to start the processing cycle. This makes
out-of-server drivers as efficient as in-server drivers.
- Don't try to use drivers with 0 priority as fallback drivers. This
avoids making the screencast driver a driver for audio. (#3219)
- Improve xrun count reporting in pw-top and the profiler. Now each
node has their own xrun counter updated when it fails to complete
processing during the cycle.
- pw-filter now also has support for TRIGGER.
- A potential fd leak was found when fds were send to a zombie client.
(#1840)
- Fix a bug where monitor or capture streams were logged twice in the
profiler. (#3278)
- Remove stream hooks safely. (#3251)
- A bug in serialization of container properties was fixed. This could
result in truncated property values. (#3290)
- The PIPEWIRE_AUTOCONNECT environment variable now always overrides the
autoconnect settings of streams. (#3299)
- Node, port and link destroy now avoids some useless work.
- Port will now try to renegotiate a new format when idle. (#3266)
## Modules
- The module-sap now is more compatible with AES67.
- A new FFADO driver module was added. This is completely untested because
of lack of hardware. Please test and report issues.
- A new NETJACK2 driver and a NETJACK2 manager module were added. These
should be drop in replacements for the JACK2 parts.
- The RAOP discover module now tries harder to only list devices once.
- The zeroconf discover module now tries harder to only list devices once.
- The RAOP sink module now handles latency better and is compatible with
some more devices. (#3247, #3282)
- The loopback and filter-chain modules now always dequeue the last input
buffer to avoid stuttering in some cases. (#3276)
- The SPA node factory module can now also export nodes. This is used to
export the PTP clock from the AES67 config file.
- A bug in module-jack-tunnel was fixed that would cause stuttering and
corrupted output in some cases. (#3255)
- The resampler is now disabled in module-loopback and filter-chain when
the samplerate is set to follow the graph rate. (#2969)
- The way the mixer peer is sent to clients was improved. It is now also
possible to let a remote node know about mixer port removes, which
can avoid memory leaks and some code simplifications.
## SPA
- Monitor ports now report latency correctly.
- The ALSA plugin now uses htimestamp to get a more accurate ringbuffer
position to estimate the clock skew.
- The channelmixer now has min/max-volume settings to limit or fix the
volume.
- The ALSA plugin can now control the playback and capture rate of USB
gadgets. This can avoid resampling and instead use the USB feedback
to control the rate.
- The ALSA output to multiple devices has been improved, some lockups
are avoided when the device ringbuffer is full.
- The compress-offload sink has improved negotiation.
## pulse-server
- Only try to use GSettings when the schema exists.
- @DEFAULT_SOURCE@, @DEFAULT_SINK@ and @DEFAULT_MONITOR@ are now correctly
handled as targets in playback and capture streams. (#3284)
- 2 new quirks are added to disable volume updates on sinks/sources.
(#1517)
- The virtual-sink and virtual-source modules were added. These are really
example modules but actually also work and are useful on PulseAudio so
implement them as well.
- Fix initial stream volumes. (#3306)
## Bluetooth
- Only register A2DP or BAP when we have codecs.
- Include codec into the media.name
## JACK
- Fix a critical bug that would refuse to update the samplerate or
buffersize. (#3226)
- Improve updates of samplerate/buffersize, delay the updates until the
client is activated. (#3297)
- Use the new mix-info updates to simplify the mixer setup and peer
detection.
## GStreamer
- Fill default strides instead of 0 on pipewire video buffers. (#3236)
# PipeWire 0.3.71 (2023-05-17)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- A new zero-latency jackdbus bridge was added. This works similar to what
PulseAudio has to offer and creates a sink/source when jackdbus is
started. It is however much more efficient and runs the complete PipeWire
graph as a synchronous JACK client with no added latency.
- Many performance improvements. Activation of remote nodes is more
efficient, fewer eventfds are required on the clients, less callback
overhead in performance critical paths and an optimized poll function
was added. This was mainly driven by the jackdbus module to get the lowest
possible overhead when running the graph.
- The JACK notify callback implementation was reworked to emulate better what
JACK does, improving compatibility with ardour7 and the JACK stress test.
- More work on BAP devices. Device latency is now passed on to
applications also for multi-device headsets, and channel allocation
is handled better.
- Many more improvements and bugfixes.
## PipeWire
- Remove the hardcoded limit on io_areas. This is used to link nodes together
and exchange buffers, it was limited to 2048 but now dynamically scales
based on requirements.
- Rate and quantum changes are now applied correctly in more cases. (#3159)
- Updates to client-node to more efficiently process the driver.
- The profiler information was improved to be more accurate. It should
now work better for remote drivers.
- Some potential memory map errors were fixed in the protocol because in some
case with large messages, some fds were closed too soon.
- pw-filter now implements the pw_filter_set_active() method.
- A potential out-of-buffers case was fixed in capture pw-streams where buffers
were not moved to the recycle queue when the node suspended.
- Nodes are now always woken up with the eventfd. Previously there were
some optimizations in the server to directly call into the node process
function but that optimization is not necessary. Without this optimization
it is now possible to run nodes in different threads.
- pw-stream trigger is now implemented correctly in all cases.
- Remote nodes now use one eventfd less because they get triggered with the
node eventfd directly.
- Monitor ports are now ignored in latency updates.
- A potential race when reporting an error to a client was fixed. (#3192)
- Fix a bug where always_process nodes would sometimes IDLE. (#3189)
- Optimize peer activation. Nodes are now activated more efficiently and
independent of the number of links. It also reduces the number of eventfds
and memory in remote clients.
- A bug in property serialization was fixed. Values with spaces would only
serialize the first part of the value.
## Modules
- Correctly handle the echo-canceler plugin init method fallback. The
samplerate was not correctly configured. This is only a regression for people
that have external echo-canceler plugins.
- RAOP sink now only sets the volume on the remote end when the stream is
recording. (#3175)
- RAOP discover now tries to deduplicate entries from the same host.
- A new zero-latency jackdbus bridge was added. This works similar to what
pulseaudio has to offer and creates a sink/source when jackdbus is
started. It is however much more efficient and runs the complete PipeWire
graph as a synchronous JACK client.
- The access module uses a more secure way to check the application
executable.
- module-combine-stream now has configurable delay and latency for each
stream. This can be used to align sinks/sources with different latencies.
- A potential crash in module-pulse-tunnel was fixed when shutting down.
(#3199)
- Module-rt will now clamp the nice value to the min allowed value to avoid
errors from rtkit. (#3186)
- Fix a bug with the session counters in module-rtp-sap. Also use the right
format for L24. Improve the AES67 example config.
- Improve some warning and info messages in module-rt. (#3194)
- module-rtp-session should now do something when started without arguments.
- A potential crash in module-rtp-session was fixed. (#3217)
- module-filter-chain has better error reporting when a convolver fails to
load. (#3223)
## SPA
- Move some things around to avoid compiler warnings. (#3171)
- Increase mixer ports. Reorganize some things and bump mixer input ports
from 128 to 512.
- Fix a potential crash when a node is scheduled before it completes
the setup.
- The JACK sink and source SPA plugins have seen some improvements.
- Allow the peaks resampler still if we disabled resampling.
- Perform more cleanup in audioadapter when in error.
- An optimized non-cancellable loop implementation was added.
- Callbacks were optimized with a _fast() varsion that doesn't check the
version and method. When this check is performed earlier, it can
be skipped in performance critical places.
- Some of the callbacks and system methods are now using the fast function
calls in critical paths.
- A potential division by zero was fixed in the ALSA plugins.
- Improve rate and quantum when starting audioconvert.
- Make it possible to override node.driver in the SPA null-audio-driver.
(#3220)
## pulse-server
- The audio info parameter parsing was refactored and improved.
- Fix some races with clients exiting when playing samples.
- An option was added to change or disable the dbus name registration.
(#2987)
## Bluetooth
- Implement battery reporting using AT+XEVENT.
- Disable hardware volume for 3M WorkTunes.
- Implement BAP audio locations (channel positions) by using the new
bluez properties.
## JACK
- Fix some errors reported by JACK test.cpp. (#2638)
- Add jack.show-midi option to show/hide midi ports.
- Add jack.max-client-ports option. JACK also has a port limit and so
PipeWire needs it as well to make the tests happy.
- Call the shutdown callback only when the server stopped, not when there
is a random error. (#3070)
- Avoid registering the same port name twice.
- Call port registration callbacks in activate/deactivate.
- Improve jack_port_connected().
- Improve some error reporting.
- The JACK headers were updated to a newer version.
- JACK callbacks are now managed with an event queue to simulate
more what JACK does. This avoids emitting callbacks when a method is blocking
for a reply and causing deadlocks. (#3183)
- Assign unique names to JACK clients. (#2833)
- Fix a potential crash when the thread_utils was used after free.
- Aliases are now not filled in by default to improve JACK compatibility.
(#3154)
# ALSA
- The ALSA plugin will now wait for negotiation to complete or an error
before _prepare() completes. This makes more applications deal correctly
with the potential errors.
# Docs
- A new document about how scheduling is implemented was added.
- Update the pw-cli man page. (#2988)
- Document the SPA Pod serialization.
- Document the PipeWire native protocol.
# PipeWire 0.3.70 (2023-04-20)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression in the scheduler that could keep some nodes IDLE.
- Fix a regression in the biquad filters in filter-chain.
- Fix a regression and potential crash in the ALSA mixer probing.
- Fix a regression in pipewiresrc with timestamps that could cause cheese
to record video with wrong timestamps.
- Beamforming support was enabled in the echo-canceler.
- pulse-tunnel and raop-sink will now proxy local volume changes to the
remote end.
- More bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a bug in the graph scheduler where some nodes might stay IDLE in
some cases (like when connecting the source of the echo-canceler to the
sink).
- pw-metadata can now be created from the factory with initial values for
the metadata. (#3076)
- Conditions were added to the pipewire config file to make it possible to
configure the access module and the exec sections.
- Support was added in pw-stream to intercept and override properties for
the adapter. This can be used to implement custom volume control, for
example.
## Tools
- pw-metadata can now list all available metadata objects with the -l
option.
- A new pw-config tool was added to debug configuration file loading and
parsing.
## Modules
- The webrtc echo canceler now supports beamforming. You can provide the
coordinates of the microphones and let webrtc perform beamforming on
the captured samples to improve quality and remove noise.
- Fix a regression in the filter-chain with biquad filters. (#3161) and
improve error reporting.
- The pulse-tunnel will now proxy the volume changes to the remote end.
- The RAOP sink will now send volume parameters to control the volume
remotely. (#2061)
## SPA
- One ALSA commit was not correctly reverted and might cause crashes.
- The ALSA sink and source now calculate the ALSA ringbuffer memory
location more correctly which might improve compatibility with some
hardware.
- v4l2 now sets the values of the controls in the Props param.
## Pulse-server
- The echo-canceler aec_args are now parsed like they would be under
pulseaudio.
## Bluetooth
- More work on synchronizing BAP devices.
## GStreamer
- The GStreamer source can now renegotiate the format when it changes.
- The GStreamer source now uses the BaseSrc clocking code to implement
the clock and timing code.
# PipeWire 0.3.69 (2023-04-13)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Reverted the UCM changes, they seem to cause regressions causing audio
to be muted in some cases.
- Fix a regression in the scheduler where a driver node might not be marked
runnable in some cases, like when echo-cancel is used. (#3145)
- Handle links from the driver to itself. This makes the midi bridge work
again. (#3153)
- ALSA rate matching for sources was fixed. It would previously wait too
long for rate matching and then cause drift. This should reduce
crackling and stuttering when capturing in low latency.
- Fix the GStreamer clock to make cheese video recording work again. (#3149)
- More fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a regression in the scheduler where a driver node might not be marked
runnable in some cases, like when echo-cancel is used. (#3145)
- Handle links from the driver to itself. This makes the midi bridge work
again. (#3153)
- Some man pages were improved.
- Fix a potential crash when thread-loop is destroyed before the loop.
(#3150)
## Modules
- A new raw biquad filter was added to filter-chain. You can manually set the
6 parameters and you can use this to create custom filters per sample rate.
(#3139)
- The echo-canceler now supports different channels for the capture and playback
streams.
## SPA
- A SB Audigy specific profile set was added to make better use of the
controls. (#2934)
- More ALSA IRQ based scheduling improvements.
- ALSA rate matching for sources was fixed. It would previously wait too
long for rate matching and then cause drift. This should reduce
crackling and stuttering when capturing in low latency.
- The echo-cancel plugin API has a new method to make it possible to have
different channels for capture, source and playback.
- Reverted the UCM changes, they seem to cause regressions causing audio
to be muted in some cases.
## Bluetooth
- Many more BAP fixes and improvements. Devices are now created as a set
and can be combined into one device by the session manager.
## GStreamer
- Fix the GStreamer clock to make cheese video recording work again. (#3149)
# PipeWire 0.3.68 (2023-04-06)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
This release contains a huge number of changes, some of which might cause
regressions. Please report anything that seems to fail after the upgrade.
UCM devices in particular might have changed names, profiles and ports that
might require changes in custom scripts.
## Highlights
- Symbolic links to the pipewire binary are now used instead of recompiling
the same binary multiple times.
- Changes to the graph scheduler related to quantum/rate updates and
calculation of the node states. Things should start and switch between
quantums and rates more smoothly now and especially virtual devices should
now only run when required.
- A new RTP session module was added. This uses the Apple MIDI protocol
to configure low-latency bidirectional MIDI (and with a PipeWire specific
extension, also audio) between machines. OPUS encoding was added to the
RTP formats. The SAP module was separated from the rtp-sink/source module
to make it more usable.
- A new runtime debug property was added to all streams and nodes to trigger
a save of the raw samples to a wav file. Support for this has also been
added to the echo-canceler to debug potential issues.
- Module pulse-tunnel has improved rate matching and synchronization
support. It should also not drift anymore for capture devices.
- The link-factory now ignores by default the link.passive property. This means
that tools like pw-link or jack clients and wireplumber can't make passive
links anymore. The reason is that there is now much more advanced logic in
PipeWire itself to handle passive links based on node and port properties.
- The RAOP sink was ported to new OpenSSL functions. Digest passwords are
handled correctly now and support for more devices was added.
- The ACP code was updated with new PulseAudio UCM code: "Create multiple
profiles per verb for conflicting devices". This might change the names
of devices, profiles and ports so scripts might need to be updated.
- Upmixing is disabled again by default. We now ship config files that
distros can install to enable upmixing again. The reason being that PipeWire
should not apply fancy DSP processing to audio by default.
- Many cleanups and bugfixes, including some crashes and memory corruption
bugs.
## PipeWire
- Various FreeBSD compilation fixes.
- Don't crash when calling _connect twice in stream/filter. (#3091)
- Links are now installed instead of compiling the pipewire binary
multiple times.
- There is now a new core event bound_props that augments the bound_id event
with the global properties. This can be used to get the global.serial among
other global properties. It also makes it possible in the future to let the
server allocate unique names or uuids.
- Fix a bug where the server could go into an infinite reconfigure loop when
the samplerate of a driver would change.
- When a samplerate was forced, restore the previous best samplerate when the
samplerate is no longer forced. (#2133)
- Rework how the states of the nodes in the graph are calculated. A more
refined algorithm is now used that only runs nodes that need to run.
- Rework how the quantum change is applied to the graph. Drivers are now
responsible for using the new updated rate/quantum before starting a new
cycle. This avoids starting a cycle with an old quantum first.
- pw-stream and pw-filter will now ensure that the Trigger event is called
from the main thread.
- node.force-rate=0 will now force the node.rate on the graph, forcefully
switching the hardware into the new rate if possible. (#3026)
- Additional checks were added to the thread-loop to check locking order.
- Additional checks were added to pw-stream and pw-filter to check if methods
are called from the right thread context.
## modules
- A new RTP session module was added. This uses the Apple MIDI protocol
to configure bidirectional MIDI (or audio) between machines.
- SAP support was removed from module-rtp-source and module-rtp-sink and
moved to a separate module. This makes it possible to use the RTP modules
without SAP support as well.
- The echo-cancel module now has support to save the signals to a wav
file for debugging purposes.
- The RTP modules now have support for the OPUS codec.
- The RAOP module was ported to new openssl encryption functions and handles
digest passwords correctly now.
- module-raop-discover now has match rules to be able to select the streams
and set properties.
- Module pulse-tunnel has improved rate matching and synchronization
support. (#3093)
- Fix potential memory corruption and infinite loops because
module-pulse-tunnel was unloaded from the wrong thread.
- The link-factory now ignores by default the link.passive property. This means
that tools like pw-link or jack clients and wireplumber can't make passive
links anymore. The reason is that there is now much more advanced logic in
PipeWire itself to handle passive links based on node and port properties.
- module-echo-cancel will now clear its buffers after a suspend to avoid
playing stray samples.
- module-raop-sink will now handle 0 timing_port replies. (#3133)
## SPA
- The adapter module now has support for saving the raw audio to a wav
file for debugging purposes.
- The ACP code was updated with new PulseAudio UCM code: "Create multiple
profiles per verb for conflicting devices". This might change the names
of devices, profiles and ports so scripts might need to be updated.
- Upmixing was disabled again by default. We now ship config files that
distros can install to enable upmixing again. (#3081)
- audioadapter and audioconvert have seen improvements in the experimental
non-DSP/passthrough mode.
- Fix a potential race where the dummy drivers could fail to stop a timer
and cause endless warnings in the logs.
- The ALSA plugin has experimental support for IRQ based scheduling. This
should decrease latency for some (mostly USB) drivers. This should bring
latency within JACK latency. More work on this will be done before the
1.0 release later this year.
- Audioconvert now has support for volume ramping. (#3046)
- A new loop method was added the check if a thread is currently running the
loop.
- channelmix.disable and resample.disable now generate an error when true
and channelmixing or resampling is required in the converter.
## Bluetooth
- Fix a crash in some cases when a device was disconnected.
- Support async transport state changes. This avoids some lockups when the
bluetooth backend is having issues. (#3023)
- Align BAP sinks. This improves synchronization between earpieces.
## ALSA
- Improve properties in pw-top and pavucontrol.
## pulse-server
- Improve error handling from pulse-tunnel.
- Generate silence correctly for unsigned formats as well.
- Review buffer params. The streams should now just work with 1 or 2
buffers.
- module-rtp-send and module-rtp-recv now have support for the OPUS codec.
# JACK
- Make sure we don't call any callbacks anymore when deactivating. (#2781)
## GStreamer
- Sort the device by priority in deviceprovider. (#3072)
# PipeWire 0.3.67 (2023-03-09)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- The loopback module and other couples streams will now not randomly
fail in some cases. (#3028)
- The RTP module now has support for sending and receiving MIDI as
well.
- The compress offload sink has seen many improvements. It now uses
ioctls directly to bypass limitations of tinycompress (to be able
to detect the available codecs, for example).
- Pulse server compatibility was improved for some apps by improving
the format parsing and FIX_ stream flag handling.
- The min quantum in the pulse server was changed from 256/48000 to
128/48000 to fix some issues with games that expect 5ms or less of
latency.
- The Bluetooth plugin has seen many improvements in packet scheduling
to attempt to reduce stuttering on some devices.
- The ALSA plugin now handles some impossible cases better. This fixes
recording in QEMU again. (#2971)
## PipeWire
- SPDX tags were added to the code for copyright information.
- The random number functions were made more usable.
- The port property code was moved from the adapter to the port
implementation itself to make it more useful and unified for the
cases where no adapter is used (midi and video).
- Fix a potential overflow in mixer areas.
- Improve runnable state calculations of nodes. This is part of
ongoing work to avoid running nodes that should not need to run.
- The stream will now always call the process function when using
trigger, even if there are no buffers. This avoids stalls of the
processing graph in some cases. (#3028)
- Links are now marked as passive by PipeWire itself so that
the right thing happens in all cases.
- Implement the in/out/true values for the node.passive property.
Place a passive state on ports to make passive links on a port
by port basis.
## Tools
- pw-cat has seen improvements in the encoded file playback case.
## Modules
- The rtp module has support for MIDI now.
- DSCP is now configurable in the RTP module.
- The loopback module doesn't randomly fail to work anymore. (#3028)
## SPA
- The null-audio sink can now be given a format and it will return this
instead of the default float ones. This makes it possible to make a
null-sink that has a given format.
- The compress offload sink has seen many improvements. It now no longer
uses tinycompress to be able to detect the available codecs.
- The ALSA plugin now handles some impossible cases better. (#2971)
- Fix compilation on older compilers. (#3050)
## Pulse-server
- The FIX_ flags are now implemented more correctly by fixating the
stream to the format of the sink/source they ask to be connected to.
There is now also an option to override the fixation based on rules.
- Format parsing was improved and should now support all format strings
supported by pulseaudio including upper and lower case variants
and shortcuts.
- Channelmap parsing was improved and should now reject invalid
channelmaps as well as support the shortcuts supported by pulseaudio.
- Escape codes in module arguments now work as it does in pulseaudio. (#3071)
- The min quantum was changed from 256/48000 to 128/48000 to fix some
issues with games that expect 5ms or less of latency.
## JACK
- jack.passive-links can now be used to have a JACK client make passive
links and the node.passive property is no longer used for this because
it has a different function.
- The qsynth rule was updated to the new node.passive features. It is now
only passive on the output side.
## Bluetooth
- BAP delay and transport latency are handled now.
- A2DP and SCO can now use bigger buffers to improve quality when the
reception is jittery.
- The AT+BCC command is now implemented.
- Packet encoding now happens ahead of time when possible to avoid delays
before sending it.
- Source should now always produce complete (padded) buffers to avoid sync
problems.
- Don't set unnecessary socket options.
## GStreamer
- The pipewiresrc now has an autoconnect argument.
- The metadata plane count is now handled correctly in more cases.
- Stream errors are now handled correctly to stop the GStreamer elements.
# PipeWire 0.3.66 (2023-02-16)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression in the pulseaudio module-combine-stream because the new
module-combine-stream was not installed.
- PipeWire can now generate a limits.d config file with our recommended
settings for priorities and memlock.
- Modules, exec and objects can now be loaded depending on conditions. One
example is the X11-bell module that can now be disabled with a custom
property override.
- Filter-chain has a new mysofa based spacializer plugin.
- Support was added for different clocks that allow the RTP modules to work
with a PTP clock, for example.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Avoid rate switches when the graph is idle.
- The rate selection algorithm was improved. This ensures minimal performance
and quality loss when resampling.
- The default min.quantum was set to 32 again after it got erroneously changed
to (the too low) 16 in version 0.3.45.
- Fix compilation issues with rust bindings because of macros in defines.
Work around it for now. (#2952)
- Invalid file mappings are now refused (#2617 #2914 #3007)
- Modules, exec and objects can now be loaded depending on conditions. One
example is the X11-bell module that can now be disabled with a custom
property override.
- Filter now also supports _trigger_process() to drive the graph.
- TID is now added to the journald log.
- PipeWire generates and installs */etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf*
that by default contains project's recommended settings. Creation of the
pipewire group is left to the distro or user ( `groupadd -r pipewire` ).
See the rlimits-* Meson options for controlling this behavior.
- Additionally there is now by default disabled Meson option that will
install */etc/security/limits.d/20-pw-defaults.conf* with the current Linux
default memlock value. Distros with only kernels >=5.16 or always using
systemd v251 or newer do not need this. But all other builds should set the
`-Dpam-defaults-install=true` Meson option to ensure that the memlock value
is always large enough. Thanks to Rickie Schroeder for pointing out that
the default Linux memlock value has been somewhat recently increased.
## modules
- Install module-combine-stream.
- RTP source now has support for custom channel names.
- RTP source will now stop when inactive.
- Filter-chain has a new mysofa based spacializer plugin.
- The RTP modules can now use direct clock timestamps to send and receive
packets. This makes it possible to synchronize sender and receiver with
a PTP clock, for example.
- Filter-chain now has an invert plugin to invert the polarity of a
signal. (#3008)
## SPA
- There is now an option to set the channels used for probing Pro Audio
devices. This could unlock more samplerates for some devices when they are
probed with fewer channels. (#2990)
- Support was added for other clocks than the MONOTONIC clock in the
driver nodes. This can be used to synchronize the graph to a PTP clock,
for example.
- The ALSA source has some more headroom when rate matching to avoid
stuttering when following another driver.
- libcamera controls are now mapped to standard PipeWire property values.
- The channelmixer has seen some improvements. MONO and undefined channel
layouts are now upmixed and downmixed more correctly. (#3010)
## Bluetooth
- Many BAP support fixes.
## GStreamer
- The gstreamer elements now support buffer video metadata so that strides
are correctly handled.
- pipewiresrc will now error out correctly in more cases. (#2935)
## JACK
- The frame to/from time functions are improved to also work with negative
time and frame offsets.
# PipeWire 0.3.65 (2023-01-26)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Add back the deprecated symbols but make sure a deprecated warning is
emitted for them. This fixes compilation issues in bindings.
- Fix an error in the AVX code that could cause crackling in filter-chain
when using the mixer.
- The convolver in filter-chain can now select an IR from a list of IRs
that best matches the current samplerate. Also resampling of the IR
has been improved.
- A new native module-combine-stream was added. You can use this to create
a 5.1 device from 3 stereo soundcards, for example, or direct the output
to multiple sinks at once.
- Support for Bluetooth MIDI was added. This requires a wireplumber
addition as well.
- An ALSA plugin rule was added to tweak the buffer settings in Davinci
Resolve so that it now runs with acceptable latency. (#1697)
- Support for compress offload was added using tinycompress. This allows
compressed formats to be decoded in hardware using ALSA on some devices.
- Many more buffixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Add back the deprecated symbols but make sure a deprecated warning is
emitted for them. (#2952)
- Fix a regression when running older servers and newer clients (such as
flatpaks on older server) where the server would run clients too soon,
causing crashes. (#2964)
- Ensure that environment variables override any config values.
## Tools
- pw-cli has received some improvements in the output.
- pw-cat can now use ffmpeg to demux streams for compress offload.
## modules
- The convolver IR volume is now preserved after resampling.
- Adapter ports can now have a custom prefix.
- module-rt now clamps the realtime priority to the user allowed one if
it is within an acceptable range. Before it would fall back to RTKit
immediately.
- The module-echo-cancel can now have per stream channel layouts which
makes it possible to link to specific audio ports on a device. (#2939)
- Fix an error in the AVX code that could cause crackling in filter-chain
when using the mixer. (#2965)
- The convolver in filter-chain can now select an IR from a list of IRs
that best matches the current sample-rate.
- module-pipe-* now better matches the pulseaudio properties. (#2973)
- A new combine-stream module was added to combine multiple sinks into
one sink. It is also possible to merge multiple sources into one.
- module-rtp-source now has match rules to select what SAP sessions
to stream from. There were also improvements to the buffering and
latency handling.
- module-rtp-sink now handles multicast loopback correctly.
- module-rtp-sink implements min-ptime and max-ptime to control the
send packet latency.
## SPA
- A new modifier flag was added to the video format parser helper to
allow 0 (linear) as a valid modifier. (#2943)
- Params includes were reorganized to make it more scalable. Many compressed
audio formats were added.
- The alsa pcm plugin now handles invalid values from the driver
gracefully. (#2953)
- Fix some potential stuttering cause by wrong scaling and overflow
of the output buffers in audioconvert. (#2680)
- Debug output is now also sent to the log instead of stdout. (#2923)
- A debug context was added to debug macros to implement custom debug
handling. This is used to redirect the debug of pods to the debug log
instead of using some custom duplicated code.
- Fix some warnings for potentially undefined shifts in format
conversion.
- Support for compress offload was added using tinycompress. This is mostly
used on some embedded hardware where decoding of audio formats can be
done in hardware.
## Bluetooth
- Some fixes for LE audio were added.
- Support for Bluetooth MIDI was added. This requires a wireplumber
addition as well.
- Reply OK to empty commands.
- Improve compatibility with some devices that send stray \n such as
the Sennheiser HD 350BT. (#2991)
## pulse-server
- Devices with unsupported formats (by the pulseaudio API) are now also
listed in the pulseaudio API (with invalid formats).
- The native module-combine-stream is used for module-combine-sink.
## JACK
- Make jack.merge-monitor default to true to better match the jack1/2
behaviour. Add an exception for mixxx, which is more usable with
unmerged monitors. (#1760)
## ALSA
- The property handling in the ALSA plugin was improved. alsa.properties
and alsa.rules can now be added to the config file.
- A rule was added to tweak the buffer settings in Davinci Resolve so that
it can run with acceptable latency. (#1697)
- ALSA volume will now also use cubic volumes, like pulseaudio.
- The ALSA ctl plugin now also uses the client-rt.conf file.
- A new alsa.volume-method was added to configure cubic or linear volume.
This can be set per application using the rules.
## GStreamer
- pipewiresrc will now advertise DMABUF support if the pipeline supports
this.
- pipewiresrc will now always be a live source unless told otherwise.
# PipeWire 0.3.64 (2023-01-12)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Clear old buffer memory on ports to fix some SIGBUS errors.
- It is now possible to assign custom port names to the ports from an
adapter. This feature is helpful to those who use a multichannel
interface with long-term connections. This way they can label each
port with its designation, such as an instrument name or anything else
to be displayed in a patchbay or DAW.
- Fix some issues with node suspend and quantum and rate calculations.
- Fix some regressions in pulse-tunnel and RTP-source adaptive resampling
that could cause synchronization problems.
- UCM devices now also have a Pro Audio profile.
- NODE_TARGET (with the object.id) is now deprecated, use TARGET_OBJECT
(with the object.serial, which is not reused and can avoid races).
## PipeWire
- Clear all peer input port buffers when suspending. This fixes some
SIGBUS errors when some plugins were using old memory. (#2914)
- Fix a case where nodes that were not supposed to be suspended, were
kept suspended on a rate change. (#2929)
- Fix an error in the quantum and rate calculations that could cause
nodes to run with wrong quantum and rates when multiple rates were
allowed. (#2925)
## Tools
- pw-dump will now sort dictionaries to make it easier to compare
different outputs.
- Improve output of pw-reserve.
- pw-loopback uses TARGET_OBJECT so you will need to use the serial
id (or better the name) as the target instead of the object id.
## modules
- The filter-chain modules has seen some cleanups, refactoring and
optimizations in the various DSP functions.
- The ROC module now supports setting a custom samplerate.
- ROC 0.2.X is now required.
- The pulse tunnel and RTP source were not updating the rate field
correctly which could cause synchronization problems. (#2891)
- The filter-chain now supports an arbitrary number of control
properties. (#2933)
- It is now possible to assign custom port names to the ports from an
adapter with the PW_KEY_NODE_CHANNELNAMES.
- Support was added for capture and playback props in echo-cancel.
(#2939)
## SPA
- The ACP code now has an option to set the probe samplerate. (#1599)
- UCM devices now also have a Pro Audio profile.
- Filtering of Step ranges is now implemented.
## Pulse-Server
- The channel-map is now set correctly on the echo-cancel module.
- source_master and sink_master are now correctly handled in module
echo-cancel.
- Fix a regression in DRAIN where resuming after a DRAIN would fail.
This caused problems for espeak. (#2928)
- TARGET_OBJECT is now used to make it possible to use the indexes
as a target.
- ladspa-source and remap-source can now also link to monitors.
## ALSA
- The ALSA plugin now handles the target.object correctly when set to
-1. (#2893)
## V4L2
- The v4l2 replacement library now also follows symlinks.
- Support for getting and setting controls was added.
- Support for G_PARM was added.
- The environment variable PIPEWIRE_V4L2_TARGET can be used to force
an application onto a specific camera.
## Bluetooth
- Fix compilation without ldac_abr.
- Fix a missing brace in CIND reply. This could cause some devices to
fail.
- Fix configuration of the initial latency.
## GStreamer
- The device provider now supports setting an fd so that it can connect
to PipeWire sessions from the portal.
- DMABuf support was re-enabled in gstpipewiresrc.
# PipeWire 0.3.63 (2022-12-15)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a critical bug that causes audio distortion in some cases when using
AVX2.
- Fix a crash in mpv caused by deinit of PipeWire.
- Resample the convolver IR to match the graph samplerate for better
results.
- Many more small bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a segfault in the PipeWire deinit code triggered by mpv in some
cases. (#2881)
- Fix docs about SPA_PLUGIN_DIR.
- Always dlclose by default (even under valgrind). Add an option with
PIPEWIRE_DLCLOSE to select alternative behaviour.
- Improve PIPEWIRE_DEBUG category handling.
## modules
- Resample the IR for the convolver when the IR samplerate and graph rate
don't match.
## SPA
- Handle spurious reads from timerfd gracefully.
- Fix potential stack-use-after-scope when starting Audacity.
- Fix distorted audio when using AVX2. (#2885)
- Remove fallback to default channel map in channelmix.
- Improve sorting of MIDI events, use the same order as Ardour. (#1816)
- Enable LFE downmixing by default. (#2425)
- Make IEC958/AC3 and IEC958/DTS work better by enforcing a fixed minimal
buffering for the encoder to avoid stuttering. (#2650)
## Pulse-Server
- Add a new pulse.cmd config section to execute pulse commands, currently
only for loading modules. This removes the dependency on pactl.
- Improve debug of messages.
# PipeWire 0.3.62 (2022-12-09)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- A regression in screensharing was fixed. It was caused by a race when
activating links and driver nodes.
- Video transform metadata was added so that cameras and screen sharing
can report the video orientation and transformations.
- Support for the PulseAudio module-gsettings was added to make paprefs
work.
- Support for bluetooth offloading was added. This allows for the bluetooth
reception, decoding and playback to happen completely in hardware.
This also requires some support in WirePlumber.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- More work on stopping nodes in a more controlled way.
- Fix a race in starting nodes and drivers. In some cases the driver
node would already be started while the link to the peer node was not
ready yet. This caused regressions in screen sharing. The driver is
now only started after all the followers and links completed.
- Fix a case where a slow capture stream would not recycle buffers
anymore and stall. (#2874)
- Fix a subtle bug in pw_loop_invoke that could cause callbacks to be
delayed and cause crashes in some cases.
- Fix a case where IPC was done from the data-thread and could cause
crashes.
## Tools
- Silence some expected errors in the pw-top output.
## modules
- The filter-chain has seen some optimizations in the copy plugin and
the convolver.
- The zeroconf plugin will now only unpublish services from the server
that was removed.
- Fix a potential crash when stopping pw-loopback.
- Some harmless errors were turned into info messages.
- Fix some cases where pw_stream methods were called from the data-thread
that could cause segfaults. (#2633)
## SPA
- There is now a video transform metadata that indicates how a video
frame was transformed (rotated/flipped). libcamera and the GStreamer
elements now have support for this metadata.
- The SPA volume plugin is now disabled from the default build.
- Handle missing control info in libcamera.
- Handle errors from loop better, don't call the callbacks on errors.
- Somewhat improve performance in some audioconvert AVX2 code for format
conversion.
- Fix PortConfig and EnumPortConfig params in audioconvert and
audioadapter to reflect what is actually going on instead of using
hardcoded values.
- Pass ignore-dB property correctly in all cases.
- Probing is now done in 48KHz again. (#2857)
## Pulse-server
- IPv4 addresses are now added first to the list and exposed first with
zeroconf discover.
- module-gsettings was added to make paprefs work.
- The pulse.idle.timeout option was disabled by default and only enabled
for selected apps (speech-dispatcher) because it caused some problems
for other apps. (#2880)
## JACK
- Only process valid ports. Could fix some crashes. (#2863)
## Bluetooth
- Support was added for offloading bluetooth handling. Some hardware can
receive, decode and play the bluetooth audio directly in hardware.
# PipeWire 0.3.61 (2022-11-24)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a bug in audioadapter that could cause crashes when switching
bluetooth profiles.
- Fix sound in QEMU, deadbeef and openal again.
- libcamera plugin fixes, dynamic add and remove should now work with
the next wireplumber version.
- Fix a regression in pw-midiplay where the first buffer would not
play and some events would be missing.
- The network module now doesn't export other network sources
anymore.
- pulse-server now detects clients that keep underrunning for a long time
and will pause them to save power.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Optimize away some useless graph recalculations.
- Increase alternative sample rates from 16 to 32.
- FreeBSD and musl build fixes.
- Silence some module loading errors when the error can be ignored.
- Fix initial buffer requested size for pw-stream when operating in
async mode. This also indirectly fixes the first buffer in
pw-midiplay. (#2843)
## Modules
- Set the network property on pulse-tunnel streams so that they are
not exported anymore. (#2384)
- Filter-chain has optimized mix functions now.
## SPA
- Handle some errors in libcamera better.
- Fix libcamera remove events. Fix the id allocation for devices.
- Fix a bug in audioadapter where it would not renegotiate after
a port reconfiguration, leading to crashes, especially when
automatically switching profiles in bluetooth. (#2764)
- Do ALSA probing in 44100Hz again. Some devices seem to fail
otherwise for some unknown reason. (#2718)
- Force playback start when the ALSA buffer is full. This fixes sound
in QEMU. (#2830)
- Support Digital 5.1 AC3 for Asus Xonar SE.
- Improve format renegotiation in audioadapter. This makes the ALSA
plugin work again for deadbeef. (#2832)
- Fix latency reporting on adapter DSP ports.
## pulse-server
- Fix a bug where openal based applications would hang. (#2821)
- Improve zeroconf publish. Only publish on the address of the first
running server. This avoids duplicate entries for IPv4 and IPv6.
Add support for republish entries when new servers are started.
- Add a pulse.idle.timeout option (default to 5 seconds) to pause
streams that have been underrunning for this amount of time. Badly
behaving clients will then not keep the graph and device busy so
that devices can be suspended to save battery. This should give
better default behaviour with speech-dispatcher. (#2839)
## JACK
- Add an option to configure the filter character.
- Fix connect_callbacks. It was only called once for output ports.
(#2841)
- Add option to set node.passive on jack clients. Make some quirks
for qsynth to make it suspend and fade out better.
# PipeWire 0.3.60 (2022-11-10)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- The filter-chain now handles errors better and has fixes for many
crasher bugs.
- A new RTP module was added with a sender and receiver. It uses SAP
to announce and consume RTP streams and is compatible with the
PulseAudio RTP modules.
- Many small bluetooth improvements and fixes.
- The alsa plugin will now only start playback when there is data. This
results in better sync and lower latency between capture and playback.
- The v4l2 and libcamera plugins have seen a lot of improvements. They
support control properties now. Also pw-v4l2 has seen many improvements
and mostly passes the v4l2-compliance test now.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Code cleanups, compiler warning fixes.
- Add some extra checks to avoid scheduling an inactive node.
- Rework the sequence of events to start and stop nodes.
- Improve param enumeration.
- An option was added to give priority to the Buffer params of the
consumer. This makes it possible to use the default values of the
consumer (instead of the producer) when capturing from a source.
- The graph rate selection was improved to pick a rate closest to the
requested one (instead of picking the default).
## Modules
- Fix some crashes in filter-chain. (#2737)
- X11 Bell module will now be loaded by default when available.
- A new RTP module was added with a sender and receiver. It uses SAP
to announce and consume RTP streams and is compatible with the
PulseAudio RTP modules.
- Improve RAOP compatibility.
- The echo-cancel module now uses the resampler prefill option to align
input and output samples without buffering. Better latency control
when starting and stopping has been implemented.
- The pulse tunnel will now write aligned samples to pulseaudio even
when the ringbuffer wraps around. This fixes playback issues with
multichannel sinks.
- Add a delay option to module-loopback using a ringbuffer.
- Implement echo-cancel params.
- The filter-chain module has better error reporting.
- The LADSPA search path was extended with some more common paths.
- The echo-canceler input can now also be a monitor of a sink. This
improves compatibility with some proton games that expect a real
sink instead of a virtual one.
## Tools
- Better error reporting in pw-link.
- pw-top now also shows IEC958 passthrough formats and JPEG/H264 video
formats.
- pw-top refreshes the screen faster.
- pw-top now prints the state of the node and shows less info for
inactive nodes.
- pw-dump now uses the new seq field in the spa_param_info to discard
old param updates and avoid duplicate params in the output.
## Bluetooth
- Add ModemManager support in the native backend.
- Clean up GetManagedObjects handling.
- Handle QoS from the endpoints in the codec.
- Increase the socket buffer to have more control over the rate and QoS.
- Simplify the packet flushing code.
- Stop processing nodes before destroying them.
- Fix timers when a source switches drivers.
- Codecs can now share endpoints. This reduces the amount of endpoints and
avoids problems with devices that can't handle a large amount of
codec endpoints.
- Report battery status to UPower for HFP AG.
- Fix bitpool increase.
## SPA
- The audioresampler now avoids clicks and pops between activating and
deactivating the adaptive resampler when used by the stream API.
- Use default locale to parse float parameters.
- The upmix functions now have SSE optimizations.
- Avoid recalculating the complete channelmix setup when only the
volume changes.
- The alsa plugin will now only start playback when there is data. This
results in better sync and lower latency between capture and playback.
- The ALSA MIDI sequencer will now pull data from the graph even when it
did not output anything. Fixes some graph stalls with the sequencer in
some cases. (#2775)
- v4l2 and libcamera sources now recycle buffers when nothing is consuming
them. This avoids stalling the graph.
- libcamera now suggests a more appropriate frame size than the smallest
poster frame.
- Improve state changes in audioconvert. (#2764)
- A new seq field was added to spa_param_info to keep track of pending
param updates.
- Support speaker output only on RealTek ALC4080. (#2744)
- The v4l2 source now supports setting controls.
- The libcamera plugin now supports enumerating and setting controls.
- A new unit test for 6.1 channel mapping was added. (#2809) More debug
info was added to audioconvert for the channel matrix.
- Audioconvert will now also upmix a rear-center channel when needed.
## pulse-server
- Add support for the RTP send and recv modules with the new native
RTP module.
- Add option to set latency for pulse-tunnel streams and
module-zeroconf-discover.
- The socket will now be given the same permissions as what pulseaudio
did (0777).
- Implement module-loopback latency_msec correctly with the new delay
parameter.
- sysfs.path is now filled with the same data as pulseaudio.
- The manager now uses the new seq field in the spa_param_info.
- Fix a bug where in some cases the read pointer would get out of sync
and cause too large requests. (#2799)
## ALSA
- The alsa plugin now reuses the stream in prepare which results in
better performance.
- Some deadlocks have been fixed in the ALSA plugin.
- The ALSA plugin reports more accurate timing information in some cases.
## V4l2
- The v4l2 compatibility layer has received a lot of updates.
- Improved node names and format enumeration.
- Support for multiple /dev/videoX devices, each mapped to a unique
PipeWire node.
- Passes the v4l2-compliance test now with both the v4l2 and libcamera
backend in PipeWire.
- Improved mmap support for inline buffer memory. This makes it possible to
consume PipeWire streams.
- Negotiation works more reliably now.
## JACK
- Implement jack_acquire_real_time_scheduling() and
jack_drop_real_time_scheduling() by keeping the thread utils in a global
state.
- Fix jack_client_thread_id() to return NULL when the client is not active,
just like jack1 and jack2.
- An option was added to let the jack_set_buffer_size() function update the
global metadata. A quirk was added so that jack_bufsize uses this new feature
to make the buffer size settings persistent and global, just like jack.
- jack_port_register() and jack_port_unregister() can be called on an
active client so make this thread safe. (#2652)
# PipeWire 0.3.59 (2022-09-30)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix possible wrong samplerate in loopback streams after suspend and
rate switch.
- module-filter-chain can now adapt to the graph samplerate.
- Fix some potential stuttering and crackling in pulse-server.
- Add Bluetooth LE support. This requires experimental kernel and bluez
support.
- The ALSA plugin has more options to control the buffer size. This can
be used to work around high latency in davinci resolve.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Add audio capture example with volume meter.
- Fix a case where a rate switch would not suspend all the nodes of the
driver first. This could cause wrong samplerates in streams.
- Fix a case where a node would be Paused while still added to the
graph, causing potential crashes. (#2701)
## Modules
- module-filter-chain and module-loopback now use the resample.prefill
option to avoid buffering extra samples and causing unwanted latency
when resampling is activated.
- module-filter-chain can now adapt to the graph samplerate.
- Improve module-raop to support the ALAC codec as raw PCM.
- Improve RTSP parsing to improve compatibility.
## Tools
- Fix 100% CPU in pw-cli monitor mode. (#2709)
- spa-acp-tool can now be exited with ctrl-D.
## SPA
- Various libcamera fixes and improvements.
- Set stride on audioconvert output buffers.
- Make sure we always place the last requested size from the resampler
on the buffers in pw-stream.
- Add resample.prefill option in the resampler to fill the history with
0 so that we don't have smaller buffers at the start.
- Make sure that when an overflow corrupts a POD, that it will always
stay corrupted.
- Rate limit some ALSA warnings and reduce some unwanted warnings.
- Don't recalculate the audioconverter state for each pause/play. (#2701)
- Fix some POD parsing inconsistencies and potential overflows.
- Add support for Asus Xonar SE.
- Fix Flush command handling. It should not stop playback. (#2726)
- Refactor the peaks function and add some unit tests and optimizations.
- The channelmix has an optimized nXm converter and new unit tests.
- Normalization in the channelmixer was fixed.
## pulse-server
- The requested latency of record streams was reduced to fix some
stuttering in Teamspeak. (#2702)
- Tweak the max amount of bytes sent to a client. (#2711) (#2715)
- Improve maxlength calculations, this fixes some crackling noise with
high samplerate and channel counts in some players (audacious).
## Bluetooth
- Merge Bluetooth LE support.
- Make sure we are backward compatible with WirePlumber.
- Fix some HFP and HSP AT command parsing. (#2463)
- Use HFP by default over HSP.
## ALSA
- Increase max number of periods.
- The parameters handling was improved. There is now an option to set the
buffer-bytes of the ALSA plugin.
- PIPEWIRE_ALSA can now be used as an environment variable to restrict the
plugin formats and buffer size.
# PipeWire 0.3.58 (2022-09-15)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a regression that could cause audio crackling.
- Fix a regression in RTKit because rlimit was not set correctly.
- JAVA sound applications will now alsa work with the pulseaudio-alsa plugin.
- pw-top will now show the negotiated formats of devices and streams.
- Fix some potential crashes when starting streams.
- The ALSA plugin has had improved timing reporting and poll descriptor
handling that should improve compatibility.
- Many more improvements and bugfixes.
## PipeWire
- Avoid scheduling nodes before they are added to the graph. This could
avoid some crashes when scheduling nodes that were not completely
started yet. (#2677)
## Tools
- pw-top now also shows the negotiated formats of streams and devices.
(#2566)
- pw-top prints microseconds as "us" now to avoid unicode problems.
## Modules
- Fix compilation with newer lv2.
- Fix setting realtime priority with RTKit, it was not setting rlimit
correctly and RTKit would refuse to change the priority.
- Fix some playback problems with RAOP sink. (#2673)
- Filter chain will now warn when a non-existing control property is
used in the config file. (#2685)
- Filter chain can now handle control port names with ":" in the name.
(#2685)
- The echo-cancel module and interface now has activate/deactivate
functions to make it possible for plugins to reset their state.
## SPA
- Make sure audioconvert uses the given channelmap and channels for the
volumes, even when not negotiated yet. This makes it possible to change
the volume before the node has been negotiated.
- Refactor the peaks resampler. Fix an error in the SSE code.
- Fix DSD min/max rates, avoid exposing impossible rates.
- Set monitor port buffer size correctly. This could cause some crackling
and hickups. (#2677)
- Make ALSA sequencer port names unique.
## Pulse-server
- Rework the capture buffer attributes to better match pulseaudio. This
fixes a regression where opening pavucontrol could cause crackling.
(#2671)
- Implement TRIGGER and PREBUF methods.
- Handle clients that send more than the requested amount of data.
PipeWire will now also keep this as extra buffered data like PulseAudio.
This fixes JAVA sound applications when they are running on top of the
PulseAudio ALSA plugin. (#2626,#2674)
- Update the requested amount of bytes more like PulseAudio. Fixes
stuttering after resume with the GStreamer pulseaudio sink. (#2680)
## ALSA Plugin
- More debug info was added. The time reporting was improved.
- The poll descriptor handling was improved, avoiding some spurious
wakeups. (#1697)
# PipeWire 0.3.57 (2022-09-02)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Support masking of conf.d/ files. (#2629)
- Use org.freedesktop.portal.Realtime when available. This does the
correct PID/TID mappings to make realtime also work from flatpaks.
- Fix rate adjustment logic in pulse-tunnel. This would cause
increasing delays and hickups when using tunnels. (#2548)
- Add OPUS as a new vendor codec. Add OPUS-A2DP spec. PipeWire can now
send and receive OPUS data over bluetooth.
- An AAC decoder was added so that PipeWire can now also function as
an A2DP AAC receiver.
- Fix some issues where the wrong samplerate was used. (#2614)
- Fix rate match for sources. This fixes an error where follower sources
would generate many resync warnings.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Support masking of conf.d/ files. (#2629)
- Add some more debug info to memfd.
- Improve data-loop invoke method. Also flush pending items. (#2631)
- Add a filter-chain systemd service file than can be used to start
custom filters placed in ~/.conf/pipewire/filter-chain.d/ (#2553)
- Improve triggered timestamps for remote nodes.
- Fix some potential cross compilation problems due to wrong
host_machine.
- Check return values of pw_getrandom().
## Tools
- Updates to pw-cli manpages. (#2552)
- Remove the pw-cli dump command. It is mostly implemented as part of
wpctl status, pw-dump, pw-link, pw-top and others.
- Clean up resource in pw-cat correctly on errors. (#2651)
## Modules
- Fix compilation of AVB on big-endian. Enable AVB only on Linux.
- Use org.freedesktop.portal.Realtime when available. This does the
correct PID/TID mappings to make realtime also work from flatpaks.
- Fix compilation of ROC module when headers are missing. (#2513)
- Improve some error cleanup paths in protocol-native. Improve connect
and disconnect.
- Fix a potential crash in FFT unload in filter-chain.
- Implement PIPEWIRE_NOTIFICATION_FD for notification when the socket
is ready.
- Try to use rtkit if set_nice() fails.
- Fix rate adjustment logic in pulse-tunnel. This would cause
increasing delays and hickups when using tunnels. (#2548)
- Handle disconnect in pulse-tunnel.
## Bluetooth
- Add OPUS as a new vendor codec. Add OPUS-A2DP spec. PipeWire can now
send and receive OPUS data over bluetooth.
- An AAC decoder was added so that PipeWire can now also function as
an A2DP AAC receiver.
## SPA
- Tweak the resampler window function some more. (#2574)
- Improve format convert performance in some fallback cases.
- Fix rounding in format conversion on ARM NEON.
- Fix libcamera build error. (#2575)
- Fix some issues where the wrong samplerate was used. (#2614)
- Don't wait for more samples that can fit in the ringbuffer in ALSA.
- Improve buffer size handling in audioconvert, scale the buffers based
on the rate conversion and make things work with really large rate
conversions as well.
- Add more and better debug for ALSA devices.
- Improve channel mix: Filter FC and LFE when copying from a different
layout. Implement STEREO from FC. Avoid generating REAR from FC in PSD
mode.
- Fix rate match for sources. This fixes an error where follower sources
would generate many resync warnings.
- Improve ALSA format negotiation. If the ALSA node is not running and
there was a previously configured format, close and reopen the device
to enumerate and accept all possible formats again. (#2625).
## ALSA
- The alsa plugin will now also save the volumes set with the control
API. This saves the volumes set with alsa-mixer, for example.
## Pulse-server
- Flatpak apps with devices=all (Zoom) will now be granted Manager
permissions.
- Small tweaks to the amount of data sent to clients to work around an
issue in freerdp.
## JACK
- Clean up the transport correctly when closing a client. (#2569)
- Match context properties in addition to node properties for the jack
client rules. (#2580)
- Make sure to return an error when disconnected from the server. (#2606)
- Fix thread cast problem in jack_client_thread_id().
- Increase jack_client_name_size() length and make sure we have space for
the \0 byte.
- JACK clients from the same application will be added to the same group
so that they share the quantum and rate.
# PipeWire 0.3.56 (2022-07-19)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- A critical bug that could crash JACK apps was fixed.
- Some more regressions in audiomixer were fixed. This should fix crackling
and stuttering in some cases as well as some channel mapping regressions.
- A bug in the alsa plugin was fixed that could cause stuttering in VMs.
- Bluetooth sources should have improved latency and rate control.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## Modules
- An experimental AVB module was added. It can expose PipeWire as an AVB
entity and initiate (broken) streaming between entities.
- module-loopback now handles the cases where the input and output channels
are different without crashing or producing silence.
- The filter-chain module now correctly calculates the output size without
crashing in some cases. It also skips invalid ports instead of crashing.
- Handle and report pthread errors better.
## SPA
- The resampler qualities were tweaked a little.
- A bug that would sometimes cut off the last part of a buffer was fixed in
the alsa plugin. This could cause broken audio in VMs. (#2536)
- Access to the alsa mixer and devices is now checked more thoroughly.
(#2534)
- The spa-resample tool can now also handle large downsampling rates without
crashing.
- Audioconverter now uses rounding for float to int conversions, which
reduces distortions. Compilation of the c functions was separated and uses
its own optimization flags now. Unit tests were added. (#2543)
- Noise shaping was improved in audioconvert. A new Wannamaker 3 tap shaper
was added.
- Audioconvert now uses a pattern for generating keep alive noise. This
should have much less energy and be even more inaudible. (#2540)
- A channel mapping bug was fixed in audioconvert. Unit tests were added.
- The dsp audio mixer would sometimes not mix enough and cause dropouts.
(#2525)
## JACK
- A critical bug in the mixer was fixed. It would cause most JACK apps to
segfault at startup.
## Bluetooth
- A new rate control algorithm was implemented for the sources.
- The media role on HSP/HFP streams is now fixed.
## Pulse Server
- Add the resampler delay to delay reporting as well.
# PipeWire 0.3.55 (2022-07-12)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix some more critical bugs in the new audioconvert and the queueing
in pw-stream that causes stuttering and hickups.
- HFP hardware volumes are now saved and restored.
- Format conversions and mixing was improved.
- Small bug fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- The queueing in pw-stream was improved with support for buffer prefetch
in async mode.
- Add a pw-filter unit test.
## tools
- pw-midiplay should now work again after improvements in pw-stream.
## modules
- The RAOP module was improved to support auth_setup.
- The RAOP module should now handle timing packets better.
- Add some more filter-chain examples.
- The filter-chain now has a separate config file with the boilerplate
settings. The examples are now just config snippets that can be dropped
in .conf.d/ directories, such as the filter-chain.conf.d/ one.
- Start suggesting to use target.object instead of node.target in docs
and examples.
## SPA
- Use the cosh window again for the resampler. It should now
give better resampler quality. (#2483)
- Rework the mixer functions. They were rewritten for higher precision and
better performance. Add unit tests and benchmarks.
- Improve format conversion for 32bits for avoid errors in clang because
of undefined behaviour at extreme ranges.
- Fix a bug in audioconvert where it would not consume the right
amount of samples when the resampler was disabled. This could cause
skipping and hickups. (#2519)
- Fix bug in audioconvert where it would try to convert the input samples
multiple times, causing strange artifacts when upmixing.
- Be more strict about valid JSON floats.
- device.vendor.id and device.product.id should now always show up in
0xXXXX format and should not be converted to floats in pw-dump anymore.
- Add triangular dither, add unit tests for noise generation, add some
more optimizations.
## Bluetooth
- HFP and A2DP now expose different routes and thus can have different
volumes.
- HW Volumes for HFP are now synced better. Volume changes from HW buttons
are now also saved.
# PipeWire 0.3.54 (2022-07-07)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Some critical bugs in the new audioconvert were fixed. The old
adapter had internal buffering that was abused in some places.
- The bluetooth sources were rewritten using a ringbuffer to make them
more reliable to jitter and remove old audioconvert behaviour.
- Many improvements to the audio converter.
- Native DSD128 and up is now supported by pw-dsdplay.
## tools
- Support DSD128 to DSD512 as well by scaling the amount of samples
to read per time slice.
## SPA
- Format conversion is now generated with macros to remove duplication
of code.
- 24bits conversions were rewritten to use the generic conversion
functions.
- Temporary buffers in audioconvert are now made large enough in all
cases.
- Fix draining in audioconvert. This fixes speaker-test.
- Fix the channel remapping. (#2502, #2490)
- Audio conversion constants were tweaked to handle the maximum ranges
and provide lossless conversion between 24bits and floats.
- Vector code and C code are aligned and the unit tests are activated
again. A new lossless conversion test was added.
- Fix an underrun case where the adapter would not ask for more data.
- Fix PROP_INFO for audioconvert. (#2488)
- Use the blackman window again for the resampler, the cosh window has
some bugs that can cause distortion in some cases. (#2483)
- Add more unit tests for audioconvert. Add end-to-end conversion tests.
- Don't leak memory in format converter.
## pulse-server
- Card properties are now also added to sinks and sources, just like
in pulseaudio.
- Increase the maxlength size to at least 4 times the fragsize to avoid
xruns.
- Fix a race when setting default devices.
## Bluetooth
- The source was rewritten to use a ringbuffer. This avoids regressions
caused by audioconvert.
# PipeWire 0.3.53 (2022-06-30)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- The 44.1KHz samplerate was removed again from the defaults, it caused
all kinds of problems with various hardware.
- The ALSA plugin should now be able to deal with unsupported samplerates
and fall back to the nearest supported one.
- The rlimits performance tuning wiki page was updated. Please check
you limits.conf file, the version on the wiki used to give all
processes a -19 nice level instead of just the pipewire daemon.
- The audioconvert plugin was rewritten to be more maintainable and
faster. It also gained support for control ports and dithering with
optional noise shaping.
- An impossible buffering situation is avoided in pulse-server that would
cause some applications (sunshine, ...) to stutter.
## PipeWire
- 44.1KHz was removed from the allowed rates again. It caused all kinds
of regressions due to driver bugs and timing issues on HDMI.
## modules
- filter-chain now does some more error checking and reporting to
avoid some crashes.
- filter-chain now supports more channel layouts for input and output
that does not need to match the plugin layout.
- Format parsing is now more consistent in the modules.
## Tools
- pw-cli can now also work without readline support.
- pw-cat can now also read multichannel ulaw/alaw/u8/s8.
## SPA
- The audioconvert plugin was rewritten. This should make it more
maintainable. It also fixed some issues such as CPU spikes in some
cases and crashes in others. The old plugins were removed, for a
code reduction of some 6000 lines.
- The audioconvert plugin now supports control ports, which can be
enabled on nodes in the session manager. This makes it possible to
control audioconvert properties using timed events or midi.
- NoteOn 0-velocity MIDI events are no longer filtered out. This is
a valid event, nodes that can't deal with it should fix it up
themselves. The JACK layer still filters out these events by default
but this can now be configured with a per-client property.
- The running status on midi events is now disabled to match what
JACK does.
- The ALSA plugin will now deal with driver bugs when a driver announces
support for a samplerate but then refuses to use it later.
- The ALSA plugin has been optimized a little for sample IO.
- V4L2 now doesn't error when there are no controls.
- Error handling was improved in the audio converter.
- The audioconvert plugin now supports rectangular dithering and
noise shaping.
- The audioconvert plugin can now insert additional inaudible noise
that can be used to keep some amplifiers alive. (#705)
- The audioconvert format conversion was changed so that it now produces
the full 32 bits range in the C fallback conversion code as well.
- The resampler window function was changed to a cosh() window
function. (#2483)
- Vendor and device id are now in hex.
## pulse-server
- Tweak the record buffer attributes some more and make sure we don't
end up in impossible buffering situations. Fixes an issue with
distorted sound in sunshine. (#2447)
- Fix a potential crash when updating the client property list.
- Some properties on cards were aligned with pulseaudio.
## Wiki
- Change "priority" to "nice" in the example limits.conf file. It was
giving a -19 nice level to all processes, not just the pipewire
daemon.
# PipeWire 0.3.52 (2022-06-09)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Add 44.1KHz to allowed samplerates. The server can now switch by
default between 48KHz and 44.1KHz.
- Streams now allocate less resources.
- Fix some bugs that could make the server crash.
- Bluetooth now supports the LC3plus vendor codec.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Add 44.1KHz to allowed samplerates.
- Avoid setting the locale.
- Avoid use-after-free when destroying a node from spa-node-factory.
- Avoid using reallocarray when not available.
- Set port alias is not otherwise set.
## Modules
- Improve filter-chain parsing and error reporting. Handle empty
nodes. (#1950)
- Handle destroy of globals and factory in most modules. (#565)
- Add refcounts to client and resources to handle destroy of the
protocol. (#565)
- Handle global node.name in filter-chain and loopback again, use
it to construct unique stream names.
- Avoid a wrapped pw-node in the adapter. This reduces resources
allocated for streams.
- Fix a crash when module-x11-bell was unloaded. (#2392)
- Add a new module-pipe-tunnel that can write/read data from a
UNIX pipe.
## Tools
- Fix DSD playback again in pw-cat.
- Add -n option to pw-loopback to set node names.
- Add -P option to pw-cat to pass properties to the stream.
- Support stdin/stdout in pw-cat. (#2387)
- pw-dump now also dumps object removal when monitoring. (#2426)
## SPA
- Avoid duplicate param results in pw-dump for ports.
- Avoid endless loops in audioconvert for badly behaving client.
(#2359)
- Scale max-error in alsa based on quantum and avoid logging a warning
when starting.
- Improve debug of failed format conversion. (#2383)
- Handle offset in the audio dsp mixer inputs and clamp to the max
buffer size.
- Add option to disable locale support for JSON number conversion.
- Add support for Astro A20 Gen2.
- Fix some of the test sources, the flags were not set correctly.
- Add camera location as property in libcamera and let the session manager
Generate a localized description.
- Fix some crashes due to wrong vargar types in v4l2 controls. (#2400)
- Improve ALSA resync behaviour. (#2257)
- Add support for Komplete Audio 6 MK2.
- Improve loop cancel while iterating.
- Try not to mix surround channels and AUX channels. Make card with many
ports look better when not using the Pro Audio profile.
- Vulkan filters were added.
## Bluetooth
- Add LC3plus vendor codec.
- Handle unsupported indicators better.
- Ensure multiple devices on an adapter use different codecs because one
endpoint can only be used by one device at a time.
- Fix bitpool control as a follower.
- Handle bluetooth errors better.
- Speed up bluetooth connection by only waiting for the profiles
supported by the adapter.
- The dummy AVRCP player is disabled by default because it seems to break
more devices than it fixes.
## pulse-server
- Add initial stream latency property so that devices can be started
with a reasonably accurate latency.
- Fix ringbuffer underrun case. (#2366)
- module-native-protocol-tcp now has a auth-anonymous option to give
full access to the clients.
- Report a node as being moved when it is still moving. This improves
compatibility with pasystray.
- Avoid overallocating message memory.
- Don't export NETWORK nodes in zeroconf. (#2384)
- Fix stride for TrueHD and DTSHD passthrough. (#2284)
- Make sure we don't send too small audio fragments. Fixes capture
from multiple tabs in Chrome. (#2418)
- Rework module handling some more.
- Use the new native module-pipe-tunnel for pipe-sink and pipe-source.
- Implement the STREAM_MOVED message when a stream got moved. (#2407)
- Fix a potential segfault when stopping the server and a TCP module
as still loaded.
## ALSA
- Add support for updating sw_params at runtime, mostly the min-avail
param.
- Capture and playback nodes are now assumed to use a different clock and
will activate the adaptive resampler when linked. This assumption is
removed in Pro Audio mode. This provide a better experience out of the
box with most devices.
## JACK
- Fix setting properties with PIPEWIRE_PROPS again.
- Don't use 64 bits atomic operations for sync_timeout. (#1867)
- Cleanup in error cases was improved, avoiding some crashes. (#2394)
## GStreamer
- Fix pipewiresink in mode=provide. (#1980)
- Share memory into a new buffer in pipewiresrc to avoid buffer corruption.
- Fixes to the source and fd use.
- It is now possible to set client properties as well. (#1573)
# PipeWire 0.3.51 (2022-04-28)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Improved graph reconfiguration.
- Extra configuration options for streams and filters with config
rules and environment variable.
- Improve module-pulse-tunnel latency, stability and error recovery.
- pw-top, pw-cli and pw-link improvements.
- Fix a channelmixer upmixing clipping issue.
- The ROC module has seen many improvements.
- Many more bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- The graph reconfiguration code was reworked:
* Moved nodes will update the new driver quantum correctly. (#2293)
* Inactive nodes are ignored more.
* Nodes that require a driver are now not scheduled anymore when
they are passive (unused). (#2309)
* Improved performance, the graph is reconfigured with a minimal
amount of changes.
- Method and event argument names were improved.
- A linker garbage collection problem was fixed. (#2292)
- Properties on threads are now implemented. Use common code to
set thread name and add an option to set stack-size.
- Streams and filters always want a driver now. This makes it possible
to just link a playback stream to a capture stream without a driver
and have it work. (#1761).
- Streams and filters can now also have rules in the config file.
- Streams, filters, JACK, ALSA and v4l2 now support PIPEWIRE_PROPS
environment variable to override node properties.
- Add config section extensions. This provides a way for modules to
have specific config to override the default config.
- Handle realloc errors better.
- Improve stream and filter property updates.
## Modules
- The pulse-tunnel modules has improved latency management and should
now work a lot better. (#2230)
- Module-loopback, module-echo-cancel, module-filter-chain unload the
module when a stream is destroyed. (#1754)
- Biquads in filter-chain now can have more gain (5->20 dB).
- Documentation updates. Most Wiki content was moved to the source code
inline comments.
- Filter-chain now has a builtin delay line filter. (#2320)
- Filter-chain can now parse the config key correctly in all cases.
- The ROC sink and source saw many improvements. roc-source is now a stream
by default that connects to the default sink. Both modules will try to set
a graph rate. Both modules have an option to select the FEC mode.
The ROC source has lower latency now. (#2331)
- Handle realloc errors better.
## tools
- pw-cat does not have --list-targets anymore, use one of the more
advanced and less buggy tools such as wpctl or pw-cli to list
sinks and sources.
- pw-top has seen many improvements.
* It now has some timeouts to reset the node values to their default
state when unused.
* The man page was improved.
* Invalid timings and errors are displayed in a better way.
- pw-cli and pw-link can now create links between all ports of given nodes.
- pw-cat can now save to other file formats than wav, based on the extension
of the filename.
## SPA
- The resampler now uses a different internal method for draining. It can
now also handle 0 size buffers as input without draining.
- The channelmixer now uses the front channel averages for FC and LFE.
This avoids clipping and results in much better upmixing.
- ALSA should now work again on 32 bits. (#2271)
- The JSON parser now converts escaped unicode correctly to UTF8.
## bluetooth
- Codec switch improvements when the device is disconnected. (#2334)
## pulse-server
- There is a new module-roc-sink-input module, the the PulseAudio equivalent.
- The ROC source and sink-input module now have a much lower latency.
- The ROC module now has an option to select FEC mode.
- Playback and record rate adjustments should work now. (#1159)
## JACK
- Remove some useless pthread attributes. This makes JACK work in QEMU with
sandboxing enabled. (#2297)
- The buffer_size callback is now only called when something has changed
since the last process() callback or get_buffer_size() method. This
fixes a GStreamer issue and is more in line with what JACK does. (#2324)
- Fix a potential deadlock when the process thread is doing IPC and the
IPC thread is blocking on the data thread.
- Allocation errors in metadata are handled better.
# PipeWire 0.3.50 (2022-04-13)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- pw-stream can now report more timing information and can suggest
the optimal number of samples to queue for playback.
- pw-dot now works again..
- module-pulse-tunnel latency was improved.
- WINE applications using the JACK backend should no longer crash.
- The channelmixer defaults are improved and the muffled sound when
playing back 5.1 and 7.1 material has been fixed.
- Many fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- pw-stream now places a suggested amount of samples in the pw-buffer
for playback. This allows you to remove some places where
spa_io_rate_match was needed to get this information.
- pw-stream has new API to request a timing update. New fields are
added in the timing info, such as number of buffered samples in
the resampler and the number of queued and dequeued buffers.
- pw-stream has support for double controls now. More controls are
exposed such as the Rate control to do adaptive resampling.
- The thread-utils object was moved to the context to avoid some
concurrent use cases that caused crashes. (#2252)
- Deactivating an exported node/stream will now remove the node from
the data-thread immediately so that the process function will not
be called anymore and resources can be safely freed. This could
fix some of the last remaining crashes when streams are stopped.
- PipeWire will now fail to load a module that tries to register
the same export type twice instead of silently doing the wrong
thing. (#2281)
## Modules
- Many modules now use the NODE_WANT_DRIVER instead of the
pipewire.dummy NODE_GROUP property. This makes it possible to use
them with any other driver and can avoid resampling in some
cases.
- module-pulse-tunnel now uses an adaptive resampler to keep the
latency under control. Latency should be much better than before
and stay constant even when there are network delays.
- There is now an option for packages to disable building the RTKit
module, which is still built by default for backwards compatibility
reasons.
- A leak was fixed in filter-chain. (#2220)
- Module node names are now made more unique with the pid.
## tools
- pw-cat verbose output has been improved.
- pw-link now has a man page. (#2263)
- pw-reserve now has an -r option to make it issue a RequestRelease
command on the owner of the device. This makes it possible to ask
WirePlumber to close and release a device.
- Fix pw-dot again. It didn't work anymore because of stray done
events that were emitted to notify the client of object serials.
(#2253)
## SPA
- The channelmixer now has PSD upmixing enabled again. We used the
simple upmixing in the previous release but that just sounds too
awful to be a good default. (#861) and (#2219)
- The channelmixer will not upmix FC and LFE anymore when upmixing is
explicitly disabled. (#2266)
- The channelmixer will only lowpass filter FC and LFE channels when
they were upmixed. (#2280)
- The defaults of the channelmixer were tweaked a little. There is now
a little bit more bass in the LFE channel and more high frequencies
in the FC channel when upmixing. Also the channel widening has been
disabled by default.
- Locale independent float parsing now uses a more portable solution
with uselocale.
- ALSA will now only allocate a buffer size big enough to hold 4
times the quantum limit instead of as large as possible.
## pulse-server
- Internal cleanups in handling of modules.
- A quirk to force s16 sample formats for teams-insider has been added.
## JACK
- The data-loop is now started in activate and stopped in deactivate.
This makes the data-loop respect any custom thread functions you
configure. This also makes WINE apps using the JACK backend work.
(#1495).
- Port sorting was improved/fixed. (#2260)
# PipeWire 0.3.49 (2022-03-29)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Sample rate switching should work again.
- pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph.
- Bluetooth A2DP streaming was improved that would reduce stuttering on
some devices.
- A JACK bug was fixed that would sometimes make it impossible to add more
tracks in Ardour. (#1714)
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a potential crash when NULL params were configured.
- Add some simple functional tests to avoid some recent regressions. Improve
the test framework for this as well.
- Improvements to the poll loop to avoid some use-after-free scenarios.
- Fix samplerate switching again.
- setlocale is not called anymore from the pipewire library. This should be
called by the application. (#2223)
- pw_init() and pw_deinit() can now be nested and called multiple times.
- pw_stream will now report the resampler delay in the pw_time.queued field.
## modules
- module-filter-chain now supports arbitrary many properties and will use
property hints to assign them the right type.
- The ROC modules now accept a sink/source_properties parameter.
- The module-rt can now also be built without RT-Kit support.
- module-echo-cancel can now use a fraction to specify the delay for more
precise control.
## SPA
- The channelmixer will now do upmixing by default and will not use
normalization. It will also use a simple upmixing algorithm that duplicates
channels by default. A more interesting upmix method is also available (PSD)
but needs to be enabled manually. (#861)
- Add SSE optimized (de)interleave functions for 32 bits samples with and
without byteswap.
- JSON parsing of empty strings will now give an invalid number instead of
0.
- JSON numbers are now parsed and serialized in a locale independent way so
that , and . are not mixed up.
- The resampler will now report the resample delay and queued samples as the
extra delay.
## tools
- pw-cat will read more dsf files correctly and will not crash at the end.
- pw-top now has a man page.
- pw-dot can now use the output of pw-dump to render a graph.
## bluetooth
- Improve interactions with oFono.
- Fix recovery with slow connections.
- Improve frame size of AptX-ll.
- A2DP can now use any quantum and will flush packets in smaller chunks
when needed to adapt. This improves stuttering in some cases.
## pulse-server
- The server configuration can now be placed in pulse.properties section,
which also makes it possible to have custom overrides.
- Implement FIX_ flags for capture as well.
- Small fixes and improvements in module loading.
## JACK
- Clear the last error before executing a new action or else we could end up
with error from a previous action. This causes some problems in Ardour where
adding a track would fail after some time. (#1714)
# PipeWire 0.3.48 (2022-03-03)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix IEC958 passthrough again.
- Fix pulse-server crashes when playing a sample.
- Support for more a more advanced upmixing algorithm.
- filter-chain now supports arbitrary many ports.
- Fix multichannel support in WINE. (with new WirePlumber).
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- The work queue is now created in the context so we can fail early and
avoid further error checking in various places.
- Fix a potential use after free with threaded loops.
- The protocol now has a message footer. This is used to pass around
global state such as the last registered object serial number. This can
be used to detect when a client tries to bind to old (but reused)
object ids. This avoids some races in the session manager but also
when binding objects.
- The zero-denormals CPU flag is now not touched anymore unless explicitly
selected by the user. Denormals are avoided in filter-chain now in
software. If the zero-denormals are now only configured in the data
thread. This should fix issues with luajit. (#2160)
- Configuration parsing will not actually fail on errors.
- pw-top now correctly clips unicode characters.
- Many places now use a dynamic POD builder to support arbitrary large
property sets.
- pw-stream now support PropInfo parameters so that they can announce
custom properties.
- Serial number are now also set on metadata and session-manager objects.
## SPA
- audioadapter is now smarter when trying to fixate the format. It will
use the PortConfig format to fill in any wildcards. This results in
the least amount of conversions when the stream can handle it. It also
is part of a fix (also requires a session manager fix) for WINE
multichannel support. (#876).
- Fix 5.1 to 2 channels mixing. It was using the volume of the stereo
pair on all channels.
- Fix some weird volume issues when a source is capturing and
channelmixing.
- Add stereo to 7.1 upmixing.
- The channelmix parameters can be changed at runtime now.
- Many improvements to the upmixing algorithms. Rear channels are now
constructed from the ambient sound and can have delay and phase shift
applied to them to improve specialization. The stereo channels can
be filtered so that the dialog is more concentrated in the center
channel. (#861)
## modules
- Module X11 bell received cleanups and improvements.
- The module now has a private method to schedule unload later. This
simplifies cleanup in many modules.
- module-filter-chain now handles arbitrary many ports and control
ports. (#2179)
- Fix a bug in RAOP where it was reading from the wrong port. (#2183)
## pulse-server
- Nodes with the DONT_MOVE property should fail with -EINVAL when
they are moved.
- Fix a segfault when playing a sample. (#2151)
- The _FIX flags in pulse-server also now ignore the configured
sample format, just like pulseaudio does. (#876)
- Fix IEC958 passthrough again. It got accidentally broken since
0.3.45 with a fix for another issue. (#1442)
- Fix module-null-sink device.description. (#2166)
## Bluetooth
- Don't try to connect HSP/HFP when no backend is available.
# PipeWire 0.3.47 (2022-02-18)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
This is a quick emergency release to fix some severe
problems with the previous release.
## Highlights
- Fixes a bug in pulse-server that caused cached notifications
to play multiple times. (#2142)
- Removed check and warnings to catch leaked listeners on the
proxy. This might access invalid memory and cause infinite
loops in older wireplumber.
# PipeWire 0.3.46 (2022-02-17)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fix a critical bug in pipewire-pulse buffer size handling that made some
apps (MuseScore, ... ) stutter.
- Fix a critical bug where devices would not show when the kernel was
compiled without VERBOSE_PROCSFS.
- JACK clients will now use lock-quantum by default. This makes sure that
all dynamic quantum changes are disabled while a JACK app is running.
The only way to force a quantum chance is through a JACK app or with
the metadata.
- Almost all limits on number of ports, clients and nodes are removed.
- A Dummy fallback sink is now automatically created when there are no
other sinks. This avoids stalling browsers.
- Sound sharing with Zoom should work better. A new WirePlumber release
might be required.
- Many more fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Update docs with new config overrides.
- The rule matching logic was moved to config and code is now shared with
pulse-server and JACK.
- Add new Romanian translation.
- When a quantum is forced with metadata, any node that asked to lock-quantum
is ignored so that the quantum change can happen.
- Fix a bug where a mixer was removed twice, leading to potential memory
corruption.
- The port limits on nodes and filters are now removed. Some code was
simplified.
- Fix a potential leak because listeners where removed while they could be
emitted.
- Improve context.exec and avoid zombie processes.
## Modules
- The RAOP module now has a default latency of 2 seconds, like PulseAudio.
- The echo-cancel module now uses the plugin loader to load the backends.
This makes it possible to add custom, out of tree, echo cancel plugins.
## Tools
- Improve help of pw-link.
- Output to stdout and error to stderr. Use setlinebuf for stdout to improve
piping between apps. (#2110)
## SPA
- Improve removing sources when dispatching. Also improve performance now
that a destroy loop can be removed. (#2114)
- Fix an fd leak in the logger when logging to a file.
- Improve loop enter/leave checks and support recursive loops.
## pulse-server
- Clamp various buffer attributes to the max length. Fixes some issues
with various applications. (#2100)
- Module properties are now remapped correctly from their pulseaudio variant
to the PipeWire ones.
- Fix module index in introspect. Use the right index when loaded from our
internal modules. (#2101)
- Improve argument parsing and node.description. (#2086)
- The sink-index should now be filled in correctly when playing a sample.
(#2129)
- module-always-sink is now implemented and loaded by default. (#1838)
- Add support for loading some modules only once.
- Module load and unload now does extra sync to make it appear synchronous,
like in PulseAudio. This improves sounds sharing in Zoom.
## ALSA
- Fix critial bug where alsa devices would not show when the kernel was
compiled without VERBOSE_PROCFS.
- Some corner cases were fixed in the ALSA timing code. When the capture node
is follower, it will now not try to read too much data and xrun but it will
instead produce a cycle of silence.
- Various fixes and improvements to make ALSA devices resync to the driver
more quickly and accurately.
## JACK
- Add an option to name the default device as `system` to improve
compatibility with some applications,
- Use lock-quantum by default. This makes sure that all dynamic quantum
changes are disabled while a JACK app is running. The only way to force
a quantum chance is through a JACK app or with the metadata.
- It is now possible to do IPC calls from the data thread. Note that this
is a very bad idea but required for compatibility with JACK2.
## GStreamer
- GStreamer sink will now set a default channelmap to make it possible to
remap to the channel layout of the device.
# PipeWire 0.3.45 (2022-02-03)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Zoom, telegram and other apps should be able to play sound again.
- Implement a better way to force and lock JACK buffersize.
- Default sink and source names and properties are improved.
- The config loader can now load and merge fragments in conf.d directories
for easier user configuration of config files.
- Many small bug fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- pw-cli can now also send Commands to nodes. This can be used to Suspend
a device, for example.
- The eventfd was removed from loops and invoke is now used to stop the loop,
this saves an fd.
- New Alpine CI target to test musl builds, various build fixes.
- Add force-quantum and force-rate properties.
- The config loader can now load and merge fragments in conf.d directories.
(#207)
- resource error methods can be called without a resource and then just
log an error message.
- link-factory can now also work from the config. (#2095)
## modules
- module-simple-protocol has better argument parsing and can handle
channelmap now. (#2068) It's also possible to configure latency and
rate.
- The native protocol now does extra checks for invalid data. (#2070)
## ALSA
- TI2902 chips as found in various Behringer cards should have inputs
again.
- Better handling of busy devices in udev, retry when the inotify close
event is emitted.
## SPA
- plugins now handle alignment properly and only expect the max alignment
required for the CPU. (#2074)
## Bluetooth
- SBC-XQ is now enabled for the JBL Endurance RUN BT headset.
- Support for non-hexadecimal XAPL version strings to improve compatibility.
- Use HCI commands again to probe the adapter msbc capability. This improves
compatibility with some adapters. (#2030)
- Set the right startup volume.
- Better A2DP source idle handling.
- Fix a timer bug in SCO sink that could cause busy looping.
## pulse-server
- A playback issue when the tlength > maxlength was fixed. (#2069) This
affected Zoom and other applications.
- The STREAM_BUFFER_ATTR command is now implemented.
- Module names are improved. (#2076)
- Many small fixes and improvements.
- Fix a pavucontrol crash with invalid channels. (#1442)
## JACK
- Use the new force-quantum and force-rate properties in the JACK API to
switch quantum and ensure it can't change for the lifetime of the JACK
app. (#2079)
# PipeWire 0.3.44 (2022-01-27)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- It is now possible to run a minimal PipeWire server without a session
manager, enough to run JACK clients.
- The maximum buffer size is now configurable and can be larger than
the previously hardcoded limit of 8192 samples. When using high sample
rates, the larger buffer size can avoid xruns.
- The default maximum latency was reduced from 170ms to 42ms. This should
improve overall latency for application that ask for a large latency,
such as notifications.
- Better JACK compatibility. Patchbays should now get less confused about
ports appearing and disappearing.
- Fix some bluetooth crashes.
- Fix some races in ALSA device detection.
- Many bug fixes and improvements all over the place.
## PipeWire
- Bump the meson requirement to 0.59.0.
- pw-top now reports correct times for filter-chain and loopback.
- max-quantum is now also scaled with the rate. A new quantum-limit
property was added as a hard limit for the quantum. This makes it
possible to configure for larger than 8192 buffer sizes. Note
than many JACK applications have a hardcoded 8192 limit. (#1931)
- The max-quantum was reduced to 2048, This gives a 42ms default
latency. (#1908)
- pw-filter can now return a NULL buffer from _get_dsp_buffer().
- Add a PIPEWIRE_RATE and PIPEWIRE_QUANTUM env variable to set the
graph rate and the graph quantum and rate respectively.
- Fix a potential file descriptor leak in the connection.
- A new minimal.conf file was added to demonstrate a static setup
of a daemon that doesn't require a session manager and is able to
run JACK applications.
- Nice levels are now only changed on the servers, not the clients.
- Add an option to suspend nodes when idle.
- Make it possible to avoid quantum and rate changes with
pw-metadata. This is essential in a locked down system.
- Handle mixer port errors better and fail to create the link instead
of silently not working.
- Nodes that are moved to a driver now have all the linked nodes moved
as well. This makes it possible to run some graphs without a
driver, such as paplay -> zita-j2n.
- pw-cli and pw-dump can now also list objects by name, serial and
object.path using glob style pattern matching.
## modules
- filter-chain can now also configure parameters by index.
- Fix the client name of module-protocol-simple. (#2017)
- module-rtkit was merged into module-rt. This makes it easier to
ship a default config that works on more systems by default.
- module-adapter can now configure the adapter node from the config.
Previously, this was a task only performed by the session manager.
- module-metadata can now also create metadata object from the
config file.
- The ROC module should now work again. (#2045)
- An X11-bell module was added to handle X11 bell events. (#1668)
- filter-chain and loopback modules now have better unique default
names for the streams, which makes it possible to save and restore
their volumes independently. (#1983)
- module-echo-cancel now has properties to control the delay and
buffer size.
## ALSA
- The monitor names are now correctly parsed.
- The default period size for batch devices is limited now to avoid
large latency.
- The unused min/max-latency properties were removed.
- Internal latency is now also configurable with params at runtime.
- The udev rule for TI2902 was removed because it causes problems.
- Fix a race where some devices would sometimes be missing. (#2046)
- Add some more timeouts to work around a race in udev device
permission changes when switching VTs.
## SPA
- Fix potential infinite loop in audioconvert.
- The spa-resample tools can now also use optimized implementations.
- Fix a potential crash in resampler. (#1994)
- audioconvert can now also handle F64 formats. (#1990)
- The channelmixer now does normalization by default to avoid clipping
when downmixing is active.
- The channelmixer will now generate LFE channels when the lfe_cutoff
frequency is set, even when upmix is disabled.
- The channelmixer will now always generate FC when the target has it.
- Adapter now reports latency correctly, even after linking the monitor
ports.
- Reduce memory usage and preallocated memory in some of the
audioconvert nodes.
- Many properties are now exposed in adapter, such as the resample
quality.
- The resampler and channelmixer can now be disabled.
## V4L2
- pw-v4l2 now also works for ffplay. (#2029)
- Take product names from udev now that the kernel returns a generic
name.
## JACK
- The jack pkgconfig file now has the `jack_implementation=pipewire`
variable to be able to distinguish jack implementations. (#1666)
- jconvolver now starts correctly again. (#1989)
- The object.serial is now used for the port_id. This makes it easier
to track old objects in the cache.
- Add a dummy jacknet implementation. (#2043)
- A bug in the port allocation was fixed that would make it impossible
to allocate ports at some point. (#1714)
## Bluetooth
- Bluetooth profiles are now saved properly by the session manager.
- Improved profile detections, increased timeouts for slow devices.
- Implement HFP call indicator for improved compatibility.
- Handle the case where bluez does not set the adapter or address
properties on the device instead of crashing.
- Improved support for setting the profile from the session manager.
## pulse-server
- Monitor sources now have the device.class=monitor for better
compatibility.
- Behaviour after seeking is improved. The algorithm for requesting
bytes from the client was simplified and improved. (#1981)
- module-ladspa-sink implements the control argument now. (#1987)
- A potential memory leak in the message queue was fixed. (#1840)
- Use the object.serial for the pulseaudio object index. The index is
not supposed to be reused and this would cause problems with some
clients.
- Servers should now again be able to listen in IPv4. (#2047)
- module-x11-bell was added. (#1668)
- There is now support for per-application quirks and properties in
the pipewire-pulse.conf file. Per-application latency and buffering
properties can also be configured.
- Fix a regression in telegram sounds not playing.
# PipeWire 0.3.43 (2022-01-05)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Flatpak apps such as Ardour can now remove links again.
- Many fixes to pulse-server. Memory usage should be improved. Some
crashes are fixed. Underrun handling should work better. Better
compatibility with GStreamer based applications after seeking.
- Many of the samplerate and quantum changes bugs in previous releases
were fixed. This fixes some issues where the microphone would fail
to work.
- Many more small fixes and improvements all over the place.
## PipeWire
- Quantum and rate changes are now applied immediately when the driver
is idle. This avoids setting the driver in the previous samplerate.
(#1913)
- Object destruction now does not need write permissions anymore. This
restriction needs some more work. (#1920)
- When we reposition, start a sync operation. This fixes a problem
in Ardour when seeking. (#1907)
- Require meson 0.56.0
- Make the align property in BUFFER_PARAM optional. We now only set this
if the plugin has specific requirements and we default to the CPU
largest alignment requirement.
- pw-record will now also list monitors and streams as possible targets.
## modules
- Improve LV2 plugin support in filter-chain. Add support for Worker and
Options.
- The loopback module now has a unique media.name to make it possible
for the session manager to restore unique volume settings.
## SPA
- Improve sample rate for EAC3 streams, some clients scale it while
others don't so use some heuristics to make things work better.
(#1902)
- Allocate ports dynamically in audioconvert. This avoids using larger
memory blocks of preallocated memory that confuses the allocator.
(#1840)
## ALSA
- Merge the latest pulseaudio UCM improvements. (#1849)
- Fixes for selecting the sample rate. (#1892)
- Improve latency on USB devices by scaling the period size based on
the desired quantum when the device is opened.
- Add api.alsa.period-num to configure the amount of periods to use
in the device. Some devices have lower latency when a small value
is forced. (#1473)
- Allow multi-rate by default. In previous versions cards could only
be opened in one samplerate to avoid bugs in pre 5.16 kernels. This
however caused other problems so the default was removed.
- Fix a bug where a card was not freed correctly.
- Fix a bug in the alsa boundary check that could hang the alsa-plugin
for a long time.
- The ALSA plugin now has a parameter to configure the allowed
samplerates.
## JACK
- Improve handling of monitor nodes.
## Bluetooth
- Codecs now have a priority. This should improve codec selection.
## pulse-server
- The stream FIX_ flags are now implemented. (#1912)
- Improve flushing and draining behaviour. Short samples will now
play correctly. (#1549)
- Fix a crash when enumerating the formats. (#1928)
- Track quantum changes and update the amount of required buffering
accordingly. This improves forced quantum handling. (#1930)
- Improve handling of channels > 32.
- Handle the case where a module is destroyed before it could be
completely loaded.
- Fixes some issues when samples were removed while they were playing.
(#1953)
- Fix some issues in module-zeroconf-publish.
- Fix some memory leaks in module-roc.
- Add command access control. This avoids execution of commands without
proper authentication.
# PipeWire 0.3.42 (2021-12-16)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
This is a quick emergency release to fix some severe
problems with the previous release.
## Highlights
- Fixes a bug in pulse-server underrun handling that broke qemu
and orca.
- A fix was added to pulse-server to handle quantum changes
gracefully.
- Fix module-echo-cancel again.
- Fix a bug where the bluetooth headset capture was producing
noise.
# PipeWire 0.3.41 (2021-12-13)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Improved compatibility for flatpaks. Flatpaks with newer PipeWire
version can connect to an older server in all cases.
- A new RAOP module was added to stream to Apple Airplay devices.
- OBS can now capture from the monitor devices again when using
WirePlumber.
- Improved JACK compatibility. Improved stability in Carla and Ardour
when changing buffer size. Improved latency calculations and
playback latency in Ardour.
- Improved pulse-server handling of underruns and buffer size changes.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- The systemd service files now have better names.
- client.access permission checks are improved.
- Fix some memory leaks in error paths.
- Objects now have a global serial number that is unique for the
lifetime of the server.
- Make clock.rate, clock.allowed-rates and clock.quantum
runtime tunable parameters with the settings metadata.
- Add some additional memory checks in client-node to avoid
sending invalid memory to clients. (#1859)
- Improve buffer memory allocation. If one of the nodes is a
remote node, ensure we only use memory that can be shared.
- Version checks when binding to objects is removed. This means
that newer clients can now bind to older servers, which is
a typical case for a flatpak.
- A bug in the latency calculations was fixed where it would in
some cases report the wrong minimum latency.
## modules
- module-echo-cancel has voice-detection enabled now.
- module-raop-sink and module-raop-discover to stream audio to
an Apple Airplay device.
- module-filter-chain now has preliminary support for LV2
plugins.
## SPA
- The audio resampler now has improved buffer size calculations.
In some cases it was too small and would cause distortions.
- More checks are done when doing volume changes so that the
channelmap is correct.
- Audioadapter now exposes most config options with params so that
they can be adjusted at runtime.
- The resampler can now calculate the expected input buffer size
before receiving the first buffer, which avoids some confusion
when starting streams.
- Support was added for some 10bit video formats.
- MONO channel handling was improved.
- Most plugins now set a clock name and this is configurable where
it makes sense. The clock.system.monotonic clock name is used
for most plugins that use the system clock for timing.
## pulse-server
- implement module-raop-discover
- Use STREAM_CAPTURE_SINK property when capturing from a monitor
source to better inform the session manager. This fixes some
issues where OBS would capture from the microphone instead of
the output monitor.
- Limit the amount of cache messages to 16MB and don't add large
memory blocks to the cache. This should fix some excessive
memory usage that people reported.
- Fix a potential memory leak when cleaning up a client.
- Do some additional checks to avoid buffer overruns.
- Improve recovery from underruns better. (#1857) This improves
seeking in gnome-music.
- Improve recovery when the quantum is forced larger that the
stream configured latency.
- The prebuf state is now handled correctly.
## JACK
- A per type object cache is now implemented. This ensures that
port objects remain valid for a longer time because many
JACK applications inspect objects after they are destroyed.
This improves catia/carla compatibility.
- Recompute the latencies when the buffer-size changes. Fix some
cases where we would end up with negative latencies.
- Handle regcomp errors to avoid some crashes later.
- Latency calculations are improved a lot.
- More care is taken to not call a process callback while a buffer
size change is pending. This fixes some crashes in Carla, which
expect that all clients are paused when one handles the buffersize
callback.
- Loopback links to a client are now handled correctly and without
latency. This fixes playback latency in ardour6 (#1839)
## ALSA
- ALSA devices now keep track of the samplerate of the card and
ensure that all PCM use the same rate. This is a workaround for
a kernel bug that is fixed in 5.16.
- Refactor the ALSA plugin a little.
- The ALSA plugin now reports correct delay for a capture PCM. (#1697)
- The ALSA nodes now expose all config options with params that can be
changed at runtime.
- The ALSA node has a configurable clock name. Adaptive resampling to
match clock rates is avoided when the driver has the same clock
name as the ALSA node. This can be used to link alsa devices together
with a word clock.
# PipeWire 0.3.40 (2021-11-11)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Producers and consumers can now incrementally negotiate a format
by narrowing down the options. This can be used to select an optimal
combination of format and modifiers.
- Driver nodes such as the consumer of a headless compositor can now
throttle the speed based on a new trigger_done event.
- Headless compositors can now signal a damage event to consumers
to start the processing of the graph.
- Compatibility improvements in JACK.
- Draining and resuming is now working correctly in pulse and alsa.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Many BSD fixes.
- clang compilation fixes.
- Fix map implementation on big-endian machines.
- Improve tracking of param changes in pw-stream.
- Add support for renegotiation. With this change, producer and
consumer can incrementally renegotiate a format until it is fixed.
This will be used to do complex negotiation of DRM modifiers.
(#1732).
- Add a trigger-done event in the stream. This can be used to know
when processing of the complete graph has finished after issuing
a trigger_process() and it can be used to throttle processing.
- Add a RequestProcess node event and command. This can be used by
non-driver nodes to suggest to a driver to start processing. One
case is where a compositor can emit this event as a result of a
screen update to let the headless compositor start an update.
- Fix zeroconf sample format.
- pw-mon outputs to stderr now and has colors.
## SPA
- Fix compilation on ppc and armv7.
- Fix port type check for ALSA seq midi ports so that they are not
falsely listed as hardware.
- Fix crash when running SSE code on unsupported HW. (#1775)
- The libcamera plugin was rewritten. It now supports hotplug,
format enumeration and an easier to read codebase.
- Fix compatibility some more for cards with 64 channels.
## pulse-server
- Flush data in pause in combine-sink to avoid stray audio fragments.
- Fix a race where not all objects were removed correctly.
- The latency calculations and setup was improved to more closely
match pulseaudio behaviour. PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC should now resemble
pulseaudio more closely. (#1769)
- The drained reply is now sent only once and new data will be
accepted once the drain completes.
- Fix a potential crasher bug where the stream started processing
before the setup was completed.
- The server will now drop the client connections when the pipewire
connection is lost.
## JACK
- Rework the jack_port_get_buffer() method to return the same memory
when called multiple times during the process() callback. This makes
things work on a new Hydrogen. (#1748)
- Add an option to disable showing the monitor ports.
- JACK ports are now sorted per node/client and port_id. This should
more closely match JACK behaviour and avoid random port order.
(#1780)
## v4l2
- Fix v4l2 LD_PRELOAD script.
- Make sure we destroy the proxy when the global is destroyed.
## ALSA
- _prepare should exit the draining state. (#1467)
- Fix the precision of the _delay function by taking into account
the amount of queued samples are the correct samplerate.
# PipeWire 0.3.39 (2021-10-21)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous
0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- media-session is now moved into a separate module to speed up its
deprecation in favour of WirePlumber.
- There is now an LD_PRELOAD v4l2 emulation library to run some existing
v4l2 applications on top of PipeWire.
- Filter-chains should now flush out remaining samples when paused. There
is now also the option to let a filter-chain drain so that long filters
such as reverbs can fade out properly.
- Stability and compatibility improvements in JACK apps.
- Better Bluetooth compatibility with more devices.
- libcamera plugin improvements.
- Many bugfixes and improvements all over the map.
## PipeWire
- Fix compilation on ARM.
- Log topics are added to most modules.
- Documentation updates. Many improvements to the layout. Reorganisation
of the modules and groups.
- Share a work queue for all links and nodes. This removes the need for
a separate eventfd per link and per node.
- Catch errors in the map implementation.
- Add option to compile without dbus support.
- Fix biquad frequency. It was using the wrong sample rate.
- Fix a potential crash when destroying nodes, in some cases the node
would not be deactivated properly.
- Add some more helpers for dealing with properties and their values.
- Implement flush and reset on virtual sinks/sources.
- Make it possible to let virtual sinks/filter-chains run and drain
after being idle.
- Fix a bug where the quantum could exceed the maximum because it was
scaled with the sample rate.
- Fix channel_map parsing in module-zeroconf-discover so that the remote
channel map is used.
- pw-stream errors emitted on the proxy are reported but not fatal
any more. They are usually used by the session manager to signal status
to the client but otherwise does not really cause an error on the
client.
- Links now also store the output and input node id in the global
properties so that applications can parse and use them regardless of
how the link was made. (#1723)
- pw-stream and pw-filter now have an event to notify commands.
- The echo-cancel module can now operate on larger quantums.
- pw-cat now uses the right metadata to find the default devices in
--list-targets.
## media-session
- Don't try to remix unpositioned streams when linking. This ensures
that linking to Pro-Audio nodes does not remix the stream channels
but links them as they are, one by one.
- media-session is now moved to a separate module to accelerate its
deprecation in favour of WirePlumber.
## SPA
- Many libcamera improvements, handle MemFd buffers, handle errors
gracefully.
- Small improvements to make interface fall-backs easier to implement.
- Add support to enable flush-to-zero and denormals-are-zero to avoid
high CPU usage when dealing with denormals.
- AUX13 channels are no longer reported as AUX12. (#1727)
- Devices with more than 32 channels in Pro-Audio mode now only
uses AUX channels.
- Improve windowing function of the resampler to reduce aliasing and
improve the quality.
## JACK
- Port connect callbacks will not only be emitted after the port
has negotiated buffers, which improves compatibility with
applications that try to use the port right after the callback
(jack_midi_latency_test).
- Fix crash when midi ports were removed and being monitored, like
in Ardour.
## pulse-server
- The pulse tunnel will now use the specified format/rate/channels.
- Improve lookup of default source and fall back to the monitors when
no sources are available.
- Mark some nodes as network nodes so that we can set the NETWORK flag
correctly.
## GStreamer
- The GStreamer element not releases the buffers in the stream again in
all cases so that they can be reused by other streams.
## v4l2
- Add a v4l2 LD_PRELOAD library to emulate v4l2 system calls on top of
PipeWire. This is tested with firefox and GStreamer and is known to
not work with Chrome.
## Bluetooth
- AAC compatibility improvements.
- Disable hardware volume for "Tribit MAXSound Plus" and
"SoundCore mini".
- Add quirk to disable faststream. Disable faststream on "FiiO BTR3".
- Add a dummy AVRCP player to improve compatibility with some devices.
# PipeWire 0.3.38 (2021-09-30)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Topic based logging was added to improve debugging.
- An off-by-one error was fixed in the audio resampler that could
cause distortion when downsampling.
- Various bluetooth compatibility improvements.
- More fixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- module-pulse-tunnel now has better default latency to make it work
better in more cases. There is also an option to configure the
desired latency.
- pw-cli now has readline support.
- Topic based logging was added. Log lines can now be filtered by
topic using wildcards. This should improve debugging.
- The systemd service files should now have better descriptions.
- Fix a crash in module-zeroconf-discover when unloading.
- Fix a crash in filter-chain when using unaligned memory.
## ALSA
- Sync the udev rules and profiles with pulseaudio.
- Fix a memory leak.
## SPA plugins
- An off-by-one error was fixed in the resampler that could cause
distortion when downsampling. (#1646)
## Bluetooth
- Avoid probing the native backend because it might block for DBus
activation. This fixes some long startup times.
- Fix the kernel version check, 5.14.x kernels should also support
mSBC.
- Fix FastStream microphone support in more cases.
- Add workaround for Intel AX200.
- SCO sink should now also work in follower mode.
## PulseAudio server
- Make the service file require a session manager.
# PipeWire 0.3.37 (2021-09-23)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Capture and playback is now avoided even more on unavailable
devices. This should fix some issues where an unusable microphone
was selected by default. It should now also again be possible
to select an unavailable device as the default.
- Native DSD audio playback is now supported. pw-cat can now also
play DSF files with the -d option.
- JACK stability improvements with buffer-size and samplerate
changes in some apps.
- Many cleanups and bugfixes all over the place.
## PipeWire
- pw-metadata -d does not cause an infinite loop anymore. (#1622)
- Increase some plugin buffer sizes to fix some issues with many
channels. (#1620)
- Protect the global plugin list with a lock. Make sure pw_init()
is locked. Fixes some issues with concurrent ALSA plugin usage.
## media-session
- Unavailable devices can be set as the default again. (#1624)
- Do a better check if a device has available routes and avoid
selecting devices with unavailable routes as default.
- Media-session was moved to its own directory. It used to live
in examples but it is past the example stage and it interferes
with the build options for the real examples.
## Bluetooth
- The hardware quirk database is now loaded by the plugin instead of
the session manager. This makes it also work with wireplumber.
## ALSA
- The ALSA mixer now handles device removal much better. (#1627)
## libcamera
- Many fixes and improvement to the libcamera plugin. (#1513)
## pulse-server
- Improve compatibility with pulseaudio module arguments.
- Parse channel_map arguments in module-loopback. (#1486)
## JACK
- Delay emitting the samplerate and buffersize callbacks until the
client is active. This fixes some crashes with Carla and other
JACK apps.
# PipeWire 0.3.36 (2021-09-16)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- A quick update with mostly only bugfixes and small improvements.
- Capture and playback is now avoided on unavailable devices. This
should fix some issues where an unusable microphone was selected
by default.
- MIDI output should not stop randomly now.
- The GStreamer elements are much improved, cheese should work
a lot better now.
- Virtual sinks and sources should now always show up immediately.
- JACK processing is now delayed until buffersize and samplerate
are emitted. This should improve stability of many JACK apps.
- JACK transport sync is now implemented correctly so that preroll
in bitwig works.
## PipeWire
- The module dir environment variable can now contain multiple paths.
- Documentation now contains dot graphs of dependencies. (#1585)
- config min/max/default quantum values are now scaled with the
samplerate.
- A potential crash was fixed where destroyed memory was still used
by a node. This could cause crashes in cheese.
## pipewire-media-session
- Only allow passthrough for passthrough formats (S/PDIF) for
now. (#1587)
- Improve bluetooth profile autoswitch.
- Don't try to route audio to nodes with unavailable routes.
## ALSA
- Pass the right AES bits to the alsa device when opening an
S/PDIF stream.
- Fix a bug in the MIDI bridge port management logic. When a port
was added and immediately removed, output would stop.
## GStreamer
- The GStreamer source now handles the flushing state correctly.
- All blocking operations now have a 30 seconds timeout, to avoid
infinite locks.
## Plugins
- V4l2 Device formats and controls are now passed on the node, just
like with audio devices.
- audioconvert now also exposes the softMute property.
## JACK
- Improve stability when changing buffer size and sample rate
dynamically by pausing the processing until the application has
handled the callback.
- Improve handling of timebase master. When the master was moved to
another driver, it did not attempt to become a new timebase
master on the new driver. (#1589)
- Implement transport sync to make preroll in bitwig work. (#1589)
## pulse-server
- Fix an issue where virtual sinks/sources would not show up
immediately. (#1588)
# PipeWire 0.3.35 (2021-09-09)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- S/PDIF passthrough over optical or HDMI is now implemented.
- Some critical fixes to MIDI, draining of streams and various
modules.
- skypeforlinux should work better now after adding it to the
quirks database.
- Bluetooth codecs are now in separate plugins to make it easier
to ship them.
## PipeWire
- Drain was fixed in pw-stream. In some cases it would not clear
the drain state correctly. Fixes the issue where speaker-test would
only play one channel.
- Loopback connections to a driver will now activate the driver. This
fixes an issue where MIDI connections between devices or some
applications (puredata) would not get any MIDI messages. (#1559)
- The audiomixer can now mix more formats. Together with the passthrough
improvements this can be used to avoid conversions to/from the DSP
format in some cases.
- Make sure we idle drivers when removing a node from it in all cases.
JACK clients could keep a driver node busy.
- Add new methods to accumulate object info. The old one was difficult
to use when applications need to accumulate multiple changes.
- A new interface to load modules has been added. Plugins can use this
to ask the host (PipeWire) to load spa plugins.
- Increase param buffer size to handle larger params. Nodes with a large
number of channels would sometimes not have properties. (#1574)
- Concurrent link negotiation that caused some links to not work,
is now avoided. This fixes monitor ports in Ardour6.
- Small tweaks to how the quantum and rate are handled when nodes move
between drivers. Make node.lock-quantum work with node.latency
## PipeWire modules
- The convolver plugin in filter-chain has been optimized some more.
- The echo-cancel stream properties were improved so that it actually
can remember the streams it links to. (#1557)
- module-pulse-tunnel had the buffer attributes wrong and would cause
high latency with older pulseaudio servers. (#1434)
- module-roc had the properties configured wrongly, which would cause
it to not work at all in most cases. (#1538)
- There is now an example of a 7.1 virtual surround sink using the
hesuvi impulse responses.
- The convolver now supports dirac pulses as the IR.
## ALSA
- UCM config is now cached per device, using up less memory. It also
temporarily works around a problem in alsa-lib that is now being
patched and rolled out. Should stop devices from disappearing when
logging out and back in. (#1553)
- Fix the MIDI clock rate matching. It was too sensitive to small
changes and would spiral out of control and break MIDI rather
quickly.
## pipewire-media-session
- The media session can now save and restore IEC958 (S/PDIF) codecs
for the sinks.
- Passthrough of IEC958 (S/PDIF) content is now possible. If the client
and the sink contain a compatible set of codecs, an exclusive
connection can be made between client and sink to pass the encoded
S/PDIF content directly to the device.
- Use new introspection info update methods to suspend nodes in all
cases. Sometimes, nodes would fail to suspend because the state info
was not evaluated.
- The media session can now work in non-DSP mode, which will try to
avoid any audio conversions between client and device when possible.
But, this will also disable compatibility with JACK applications.
## Bluetooth
- Bluetooth codecs are now compiled into separate plugins which are
dynamically loaded. This makes it possible to change the plugin
implementation or ship plugins separately without having to recompile
the bluetooth module.
## PulseAudio server
- Delay stream create reply until the stream is linked to a sink/source.
- The device-restore extension is now implemented. This makes it possible
to configure the IEC958 (S/PDIF) codecs supported by the sink with
pavucontrol.
- skypeforlinux now uses the same quirks as teams to make the sinks
show up in all cases. This fixes the issue of not being able to hear
the remote end in skypeforlinux.
## JACK
- Improve catia and carla compatibility by caching objects a little longer
after being removed. (#1531)
- JACK ports now notify the negotiated format correctly.
- A potential deadlock was fixed when multiple threads would perform a
call that would require a roundtrip.
- Improve bufsize callback, it should not be called right after doing
activate() but only when the buffersize changes later.
- Add tweak to disable the process lock. Some older apps might not
expect it. (#1576)
## Docs
- man pages are now generated with rst2man.
- DMA-BUF docs were updated.
- Documentation updates.
# PipeWire 0.3.34 (2021-08-26)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fixes some critical issues with previous release. Such as
devices not showing up and default devices being lost.
- Support for consumer driver streams to make the producer v-sync
to the consumer monitor in a headless compositor setup.
- Improvements to routing of streams.
- Bluetooth battery status support for head-set profile and
using Apple extensions. aptX-LL and FastStream codec support
was added.
- Internal latency of ALSA devices can now be configured.
- A fast convolver was added to the filter-chain to implement
virtual surround sinks or reverbs.
## PipeWire
- Add support for streams that are driver nodes for the graph.
This was already possible for source streams but it is now
also possible for playback streams. This can be used to let
a producer v-sync to the consumer monitor in a headless
compositor setup. (#1484)
- State files are now stored in XDG_STATE_HOME instead of
XDG_CONFIG_HOME. They will still be loaded from the config home
if they are not in the new state home, to ease migration.
- Set a driver on inactive nodes to make transport work in xjadeo.
(#1491)
- Fix parsing of filter-chain controls.
- A new FFT based convolver was added to module-filter-chain. It
uses a 0-latency 2 stage convolver with small FFT for the head
and a large FFT for the tail of the convolution. A convolution
can be used to implement IR based reverbs, HRIR surround sound
or other convolution based operations. An example HRIR
virtual surround sound sink has been added as well.
- module-filter-chain was reworked a bit to support more config
options for the plugins.
- Endian conversion and alaw/ulaw formats are now supported for
streams.
- pw-cat will now suggest a samplerate for the graph.
- SPA_PLUGIN_DIR can now search in multiple paths separated with
a ':'.
- Passthrough mode has been worked on and has been partially
merged. S/PDIF definitions have been added and ALSA devices
updated to report and configure S/PDIF formats. The session
manager changes to fully configure and enable passthrough mode
will hopefully be merged next time.
- Fix a race in pw-stream where it would not always emit the
right events.
## ALSA
- Fix volume changed check. It was checking against the wrong
value and this could cause rounding errors.
- The ALSA plugin now also uses RT scheduling.
- Fix the behringer UMC202 usb device id, it was using a generic
TI chip ID that caused problems.
- Fix USB devices that don't show up anymore. Use an ALSA
workaround to fix this. (#1478)
- Add a rule for the new firmware of Sennheiser GSX 1200.
- ALSA sink and source can now use ProcessLatency param to configure
the internal latency. The latencyOffsetNsec property is also
exposed so that the latency can be adjusted in pavucontrol as
well.
## media-session
- Fix a critical issue where the default device was not remembered
anymore when it was removed.
- Fix the issue where some apps need to be restarted when nodes go
away and reappear.
- Improve routing of streams. Streams that have a specific target
set will now be moved to the target when it appears instead of
staying on the fallback.
- Small memory leak fixes.
- Try to switch back to the user selected profile after finishing a
Bluetooth recording.
## Bluetooth
- Add support for HF indicator 2 battery status.
- Add support for XAPL battery status.
- Set the Communication intended role for HFP profile.
- Enable SBC-XQ by default if not disabled by quirks.
- Fix some potential crashes due to excessive polling.
- Add aptx-LL codec and enable duplex for aptx-LL devices.
- Add FastStream codec. This is a codec that can use a
duplex SBC channel.
## PulseAudio server
- Suggests a samplerate for the graph.
- Support for handling S/PDIF (IEC958) formats was added. This will
start working when the session manager supports configuring streams
and nodes in passthrough mode.
- Be smarter when handling devices without a negotiated format
yet so that they are visible as well. This makes virtual
devices show up immediately.
## ALSA plugin
- Now suggests a samplerate for the graph.
## JACK
- The jack.pc file can only be generated with meson >= 0.59.0. When
the jack-devel option is enabled, it will generate an error with
older meson.
- Small stability improvements when connecting/disconnecting in
Ardour.
# PipeWire 0.3.33 (2021-08-05)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Better support for virtual sinks/sources for Pro Audio
profile.
- Better DMA-BUF format modifier negotiation.
- Support multiple sample rates in the graph. Not enabled
by default yet.
- Bluetooth can now automatically switch between headset
and audio profile.
- Documentation updates.
- Many improvements and crasher fixes.
## PipeWire
- Make AUX channels an official channel map, use this for the
PRO audio profile so that we can name the channels. This
make it possible to define virtual sources and sinks for
Pro Audio devices in a more reliable way.
- Fix scheduling of some virtual sinks/sources. (#1407)
- Fix potential corruption of ringbuffer because of multiple
concurrent writers. This might be the cause for many reported
crashes. (#1451)
- Don't place sockets in $HOME. (#1443)
- Improve DMA-BUF negotiation. Add a flag to avoid fixation
of a property so that producers can negotiate more
efficiently. This is used to negotiate DMA-BUF modifiers,
which should make more efficient use of the GPU. (#1084)
- Add support for multiple sample rates. The graph can switch
when IDLE to one of the supported rates. Add an option to
lock the rate as well. This is not enabled by default yet
because of driver bugs that need to be worked around first.
- Add node.lock-quantum property that can be used to lock the
quantum in place.
- Improve latency reporting in the loopback module.
- Make new client-node method to send the peer port id to the
mixer. This can be used to know where the buffers entering the
mixer are coming from. (#1471)
## Tools
- pw-top should now also correctly show bluetooth devices. (#1540)
## media-session
- Handle unset of the default node.
- Added a module that can switch the bluetooth profile to headset
profile when a stream wants to record from it.
## JACK
- Only call the jack callbacks when the client is active. Some
JACK applications don't expect callbacks before the client is
active and crash (x42-dpl). (#1461)
- Emit client unregister event.
- Add per-client match rules in the config file to set app
specific configuration and tweaks. (#1456)
- Use peer_id to implement jack_port_get_buffer() from one of
our peer ports to get the data before it enters the mixer.
Makes the capture monitors work in Ardour6.8. (#1471)
## Bluetooth
- Add some broken kernel versions to the mSBC blocklist
- Avoid looping and consuming CPU when we can't write to the
BT socket.
- Use libfreeaptx instead of libopenaptx.
- Fix rounding errors in HW volume conversion.
## PulseAudio server
- implement module-switch-on-connect to emulate pulseaudio
behaviour of new devices. Some desktop environments expect
this behaviour and break otherwise.
- Fix stream cleanup, make sure the stream is stopped before
destroying it. Might be cause for some of the reported
crashes.
- Update message API to use the JSON format.
## Other
- Many documentation updates.
- Many cleanups and small improvements.
- Support the latest libcamera version. (#1435)
# PipeWire 0.3.32 (2021-07-20)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Real-time priority handling for threads was reworked. Freewheeling
will now drop RT priorities to avoid being killed.
- Problems with filter chains and echo-cancel being linked in a loop
was fixed.
- alsamixer should now be able to see the mixer controls again.
- JACK has seen some latency reporting improvements that make Ardour
report latencies correctly.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Fix a bug in the neon audio resampler code.
- There is now a node.link-group property to relate linked streams.
this can be used to track the dataflow with coupled streams.
- Fix a crash when recalculating latency on a destroyed port. (#1371)
- Filter chains and other modules that create streams can now also
be added to the daemon config itself. (#1309)
- Fix some potential deadlocks in timerfd. (#1377)
- Feedback links are skipped when recalculating latency to avoid
loops.
- The dummy driver and null-sink now stop the timerfd when following
another driver instead of generating useless graph wakeups.
- rt.limit was increased to 2 seconds. Some applications got killed
because they run lengthy code in the Real-Time thread. (#1344)
- Fix s24_32 to float, it was not sign extending properly. (#1393)
- The performance of the feedback loop check algorithm was improved
a lot, making complex graphs start much much faster.
- The zeroconf publish module now doesn't republish nodes every time
the volume changes. (#1406)
- A potential memory corruption error has been fixed in the loop
that could cause random crashes.
- Mempools can now be created from multiple threads at the same
time.
## media-session
- Loops in coupled streams are now avoided. (#1394)
- Port changes for inactive profiles are ignored now by the
default-route module. (#1403)
## ALSA
- Make sure that alibpref is not part of the device node name because
it is random. (#1362)
- Fixed an off-by-one that could cause midi events to end up with a
wrong timestamp and thus being discarded by some apps. (#1395)
- Fix some memory leaks when destroying a card object.
## JACK
- Fix some invalid cycle wakeups that could cause JACK application to
run with a 0 buffer size. (#1386)
- JACK can now use rtkit to manage realtime priorities on threads.
- The Real-time priority is dropped when entering freewheel mode to
make sure we don't get killed when using too much CPU.
- jack_recompute_total_latencies() is now implemented, fixing the
latency reporting in Ardour. (#1388)
- Fix some overflows in time calculations.
- Ensure frame_rate in position is never 0.
- Graph callbacks are now emitted as well.
## Bluetooth
- RTP payload type is now set correctly for aptX, LDAC and SBC, which
should improve compatibility with devices that care about this.
## PulseAudio server
- There is now a quirks database to deal with bad clients. The database
is builtin but can be made external later.
- Teams is now lied to and told all sink/sources use s16 samples to make
it show all sinks/sources.
- Firefox is forced to remove the DONT_MOVE flag on capture streams so
that you can move firefox streams with other tools.
- The UNDERFLOW warnings are now made into info log messages to not
spam the log too much. Many application just let things underrun
and PulseAudio did not warn about this either. (#910)
## ALSA plugin
- The alsa plugin now uses the right metadata for finding the default
source and sink, which makes the volume controls reappear. (#1384)
## Other
- Cleanups in pulse-server and pipewire.
- Documentation additions.
# PipeWire 0.3.31 (2021-06-28)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Fixes for alsa-lib 1.2.5
- New pulseaudio modules: module-avahi-zeroconf,
module-pipe-source, module-roc-sink, module-roc-source.
- JACK has seen massive stability improvements. Locking
and correctness wrt to callbacks has been reworked. Also
thread priorities have improved.
- Handle various crashes and lockups when running out of file
descriptors.
- Bluetooth now uses a hardware database to disable
non-working features on listed devices.
- Scheduling quantum and rate can now be changed dynamically
with pw-metadata.
- Many bugfixes and improvements.
## PipeWire
- Improve cleanup of context in error cases.
- There is now a pw-test framework for improved unit tests.
- Improve property serialization to valid JSON.
- Fix some macros to work with better with coverity.
- Metadata permissions are checked now. Clients need the
M permission on an object to be able to set metadata for
it.
- The core metadata object will now remove metadata for
removed objects, the implementor does not need to worry
about that anymore.
- Audioadapter will now follow the rate of the graph with
the resampler adjusting itself dynamically.
- Core now has a metadata implementation helper. A context
will expose a metadata with settings that can be changed
at runtime. This can be used to change the loglevel or
graph quantum and samplerate on the fly.
- An infinite loop was fixed in the audio converter.
- Handle out-of-fds more gracefully. Handle truncated
control data by dropping the client connection.
- Fix profiler crash with many streams.
- Improve latency handling in pw-filter. There is now a
default handler and a ProcessLatency parameter to simplify
latency reporting.
- Latency reporting was improved in devices and streams.
- And example sink/source was added.
## ALSA
- hardware mute and volume are now properties on the
Route param to make things easier.
- More fixes for alsa-ucm 1.2.5.
## Tools
- spa-json-dump now properly encodes string and keys.
- pw-dump now shows the correct subject of the metadata.
## PulseAudio server
- Ensure the node.description is set, some applications
crash otherwise (TeamSpeak).
- Module loading and unloading was improved.
- module-avahi-zeroconf was implemented.
- module-pipe-source was implemented
- module-roc-sink and module-roc-source was implemented.
- The maximum amount of connections has been limited to 64,
like pulseaudio.
- Handle out-of-fds more gracefully.
- Fix overflow of read/write pointers.
- Source and sink state are now decoupled from the monitor
state and will report IDLE when not playing anything.
## media-session
- Port switching should now happen to/from the port that
actually changed.
## JACK
- The locking was reviewed. All callbacks are now emitted
from the PipeWire thread with the lock released and
the process function will be disabled for the duration
of the callback. This ensures that no two callbacks are
called at the same time.
- Improve internal consistency and try to never call callbacks
with invalid objects.
- Monitor port can now be accessed with system:monitor_%d
- client threads are now created with SCHED_FIFO and module-rt
is used to create the other RT threads. This should avoid
SIGKILL from RTKit in some cases.
## Bluetooth
- Various bugfixes to improve connections to devices.
- Handle delayed UUID connection.
- There is now a hardware database that can disable features
in listed devices.
- Use libusb to detect availability of mSBC.
## ALSA
- The virtual device name can now also contain a media role.
# PipeWire 0.3.30
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
This is a quick emergency release to fix some severe
problems with the previous release.
## Highlights
- Recording from a monitor port should work again.
- JACK applications should now be more stable again.
- Freewheeling should not lock up anymore.
- Fix lockups in many pulseaudio apps.
- module-echo-cancel was implemented in pipewire-pulse
- Many other stability fixes.
## PipeWire
- Improve module path logic.
- Improve logger formatting
## PulseAudio server
- Make sure to pass 64 bits values for time on ARM 32 bits to
avoid protocol errors.
- Avoid a crash when unloading module-combine-sink.
- Avoid overflow in requested bytes, resulting in stalled
audio.
- Implement module-echo-cancel.
## Bluetooth
- Handle latency parameters instead of failing.
## JACK
- Fix locking in many places to avoid deadlocks and crashes.
- Fix port rename.
- Stop freewheeling correctly instead of deadlocking.
# PipeWire 0.3.29
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Latency reporting is now implemented.
- Many documentation updates and cleanups.
- module-combine-sink was added to PulseAudio server.
- Better handling of multichannel input profiles.
- Fix 100% volume issue when monitor suspends or profile
changes in some cases.
- Bugfixes and crashes
## PipeWire
- A new module-rt was added to acquire real-time scheduling
privileges without using RTKit.
- Documentation fixes and updates. Docs are now using a
custom theme.
- There is now a MANDATORY flag on properties that influence
how properties are filtered.
- Filter-chain now parses the LADSPA_PATH correctly when it
contains a colon separated list.
- Move `#pipewire` IRC channel to oftc.net.
- Fix an error where param changes were not emitted in all
cases.
- Implement Latency reporting. Latency values are propagated
through the graph so that each node knows the latency to
the output/input device. Synchronization in pw-stream has
been updated to use this.
- Some more upmix cases are added so that LFE, SIDE and REAR
can be generated from a mono channel as well.
- pw-stream and pw-filter will now emit the process event from
the real-time thread in a safe way, potentially avoiding some
of the harder to debug crashes.
- Fix potential stack overflow with serialize_dict.
- Add PIPEWIRE_NO_CONFIG to run without custom config files.
- The WebRTC echo canceler was added. Next versions will
integrate this better.
## PulseAudio server
- module-combine-sink was implemented.
- Fix some segfaults when DBus connections fail.
- Support for listening on IPv6 was added.
- Fix a bug where many flushes could result in requests for too
much data from the client, causing sync, latency and garbled
sound problems after many seeks.
## ALSA
- Also probe input paths for multichannel mappings. This makes
multichannel input ports show up in more cases.
- Fix headphones/front volume issue on some cards.
- Fix max volume issue when profile changes.
- Fix issue with UCM local config that was not available when the
device was opened in the server but the UCM was opened by the
session manager. Fixes alsa 1.2.5 compatibility.
## JACK
- Implement latency reporting with the new Latency params.
# PipeWire 0.3.28
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
## Highlights
- Freewheeling was implemented. This makes it possible to
export projects in ardour.
- A new powerful filter-chain module was added that can
be used to created all kinds of filter-chains from ladspa
and builtin plugins.
- Many more pulseaudio modules are now implemented:
module-ladspa-sink, module-ladspa-source, module-pipe-sink,
module-tunnel-sink, module-tunnel-source,
module-zeroconf-discover
- Fix a bug where devices would not appear after logout/login.
- Fix a bug where the volume was reset to 0 and devices would
have no audio.
- Config files are now installed in the data dir, system
overrides in /etc/pipewire and $HOME are checked first.
## PipeWire
- Implement freewheeling for JACK clients
- Add filter-chain module that can be used to construct
arbitrary graphs from ladspa and builtin plugins.
- Add new property to easily set algorithm params
- Add module-pulse-tunnel to tunnel audio to and from
a PulseAudio compatible server.
- Add a avahi zeroconf discover module, create pulse-tunnel
when PulseAudio devices are announced.
- Config files are now installed in the data dir, system
overrides in /etc/pipewire and $HOME are checked first.
- Applications now have their monitor ports named with the
"monitor" prefix to avoid confusion with the output ports.
- LICENSE clarifications.
## GStreamer
- fixes to the pipewiresink plugin.
## SPA plugins
- Fix a bug where the volume was reset to 0
- Add events to dbus plugin. This can be used to detect dbus
disconnects.
## Media-session
- Handle dbus disconnect.
- Handle device reservation errors.
## PulseAudio server
- Implement module-ladspa-sink and a new PipeWire-only
module-ladspa-source
- Implement module-pipe-sink
- Implement module-tunnel-sink and module-tunnel-source
- Fix a bug with module argument parsing
- Implement module-zeroconf-discover
## ALSA plugin
- improve error handling
PipeWire 0.3.27
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Fix bug that caused bluetooth devices to stop working.
- Fix session-manager crash when switching users caused by
the DBus plugin cleanup errors.
- Improve volume handling of monitor ports.
- Fix GStreamer v4l2 support.
- Implement module-remap-sink and module-remap-source in
pipewire-pulse.
- More fixes and improvements.
- PipeWire
- Move the loopback code into a module. Use this in pw-loopback
and pipewire-pulse. Fix some cleanup crashes.
- A dummy echo-cancel module was added. Later versions will
include the webrtc echo-canceler.
- State files don't have the X permission anymore.
- Move i18n core into a private header file.
- Stream can now advertise properties and receive property
updates.
- Fix an issue where the wrong index was used to address a port.
It caused Bluetooth devices to stop working.
- SPA plugins
- Only do LFE filtering on channels we created.
- Improve name and description of devices.
- Improve cleanup in DBus connections and sources to avoid crash
when destroying.
- Improved volume handling. Hardware, Software and Monitor
volumes are now properly separated and handled.
- Support for S8 and S8P formats was added.
- Tools
- pw-cli can now also create Struct from JSON arrays.
- Session-manager
- The session manager can now also create passive links. This
makes is possible to suspend effect chains together with the
sinks when not in use.
- Match rules now check the complete property value instead of
only the start.
- Handle multiple pending param enumerations, take only last
result. This fixes some volume update issues.
- GStreamer plugins
- GStreamer plugins now advertise handling DMABUF explicitly. This
is currently the only way to avoid a memcpy for v4l2 devices.
- Device support
- sync ACP with pulseaudio, merge upstream patch instead of our
hack to workaround missing duplex devices.
- V4l2 devices don't expose their fd anymore. Previously the fd
and mmap offsets were passed to the client to access the buffer
memory but that could create security issues.
- Bluetooth
- Don't unregister the profiles on shutdown because this can cause
delay, just close the dbus connection.
- Bluetooth devices now try to use the global samplerate from the
graph.
- PulseAudio server
- Implement remap-sink and remap-source modules using the
new loopback module.
PipeWire 0.3.26
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- I18n support, with translations merged from PulseAudio.
- New pw-link tool.
- Many Bluetooth improvements, support for hardware volumes.
- Support for 64 channel devices.
- Stability fixes and improvements.
- PipeWire improvements
- The link factory can now also make links between nodes and
ports by name so that it can be used in scripts.
- Add module-protocol-simple that can stream raw audio on a
socket.
- Added i18n support. Merge PulseAudio translations for the ACP
library so that we don't cause regressions.
- Support more than 19 channels in the channel mixer.
This makes all channels usable on 32 and 64 channel cards.
- Detect if we're running in a VM and allow for tweaking some
settings such as the max-quantum to make things work better in
VMs.
- Fix a potential crash when connecting a client and updating
permissions.
- Fix a potential crash when trying to link incompatible ports.
- Lingering links in error will now be destroyed automatically.
- Tools
- Added new pw-link tool to list and monitor ports and to
list, monitor, create and destroy links between them.
- pw-cli can now also list params by name.
- pw-dump now outputs Spa:String:JSON types in metadata as properly
parsed and formatted JSON so that tools can parse the
metadata values using a JSON parser.
- Session-manager
- Add logind support. The bluetooth monitor can only be started
for one user at the time, so use logind detect active seats.
- ALSA icon names were improved to match what PulseAudio does.
- Improve the bluetooth icon name. Also use the device alias
as the device description, like PulseAudio.
- Device support
- When devices become inaccessible, they are now removed from
the PipeWire graph.
- Fix datatype selection for buffers in v4l2 and libcamera.
- Bluetooth
- Various memory leaks and crashes are fixed.
- Added support for AVRCP hardware volume.
- Added support for HSP/HFP hardware volume.
- PulseAudio server
- Fix module-loopback connections to monitor ports.
- Implement module-native-protocol-tcp.
- Handle nodes and streams with > 32 channels. The PulseAudio
API only supports up to 32 channels so only make those 32
first channels available with the PA API.
- Implement module-simple-protocol-tcp.
- Improve events emitted by the server.
- Improvements to channels and channel_map properties on
modules. one can imply the other and they should match when
both given.
- null-sink will now have their volume work correctly by
default.
- JACK
- JACK development files can now optionally be installed.
PipeWire 0.3.25
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Many stability improvements.
- Plug fd leak in flatpak detection
- add pw-loopback tool and support module-loopback
- volume restore for virtual sinks/sources or other sink/sources
without hardware volume.
- Fix cracks and pops in audio capture.
- Many bluetooth improvements and compatibility fixes.
- PipeWire improvements
- Hex encode invalid SEC_LABEL properties to avoid generating
invalid json.
- Small fixes to how nodes are started to avoid crashes.
- Make sure ports are only scheduled after being fully
negotiated to avoid crashes.
- Implement coverity into CI, fix some bugs detected by
coverity.
- Plug leak in flatpak detection.
- Fix crash when removing globals in some cases.
- Fix crash because the mixer info was not removed from a
port in all cases.
- Add PIPEWIRE_AUTOCONNECT environment variable to disable
stream autoconnect. Also add a config option to disable
autoconnect.
- Improve wildcard in format helpers.
- Add env variable to disable journald logging.
- Tools
- Add a new pw-loopback tool to loop a capture device to a
playback device.
- Display localized strings correctly in pw-top
- Add some more options to pw-dot
- Session-manager
- When a new node is configured and some stream have this
as the default target, move them to it.
- Fix some crashes.
- Implement volume restore on nodes without routes. This makes
it possible to restore volume on purely software nodes like
null-sinks.
- Also try to suspend errored nodes so that they may leave the
error state and be reused again.
- Break endless link loops when something went wrong.
- Device support
- Fix monitor volumes, they are now separate from the hardware
volume.
- Fix cracks and pops in alsa capture caused by mismatch between
resampler and capture source.
- Add start-delay config option to alsa sink.
- Ensure the PipeWire midi ports start from a higher number so
that the lower port numbers are available to apps as before.
- Bluetooth
- source devices are now removed when idle
- Support using pipewire as Audio Gateway.
- LDAC encoding quality can be configured now
- Implement codec switching for HFP
- Implement codec switching with new device property.
- Improved stability and compatibility
- Autoconnect device profiles at startup
- Add AAC bitrate mode configuration
- Make it possible to use an A2DP source as an input device. You
can then use your phone as an A2DP microphone, for example.
- Remove battery reporting when RFCOMM connections is closed.
- PulseAudio server
- Add some workarounds for Blueman
- Set correct errno values, fixes a hang in load-module of a
non-existing module
- Try to not send inconsistent information to clients.
- Fix some crashes.
- Add support for the new send-message API, use this to
switch bluetooth codecs.
- Fix draining by making sure we are started.
- Handle 0 sink and source as the default sink/source.
- Implement module-loopback
- JACK
- Fix some memory leaks when closing a client
- Add self-connect config option to limit where clients
can connect themselves.
- Don't crash when apps call _port_get_buffer() on a
port that is not their own but simply return NULL.
This fixes a crash in Ardour6.
- Improve client added/removed callbacks. Sometimes it would
emit a client remove when there were still ports for the
client.
- make sure midi port names are stable across reboots.
PipeWire 0.3.24
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Many JACK midi improvements and device support.
- Fixes in gnome-control-center default sink/source handling.
- Many small performance improvements in alsa device handling
and latency. There should also be less cracks/pops and xruns
now.
- Fixes for gnome-control-center default sink/source handling.
- More bluetooth compatibility improvements.
- PipeWire improvements
- Implement simple upmixing.
- Disable the resampler when not used. This improves latency
and CPU usage.
- Handle max-quantum on devices and try to not make the quantum
larger than the device buffer size.
- Improvements to how nodes and links are activated. It should
now result in less xruns and cracks/pops.
- meson uses the feature options everywhere now.
- Handle volume remap in the channelmixer. This fixes the channels
on multichannel devices.
- Try to escape invalid JSON string characters.
- Keep better track of changed parameters in audioconvert.
- Improve config files, make arrays where needed.
- Respect NO_COLOR where possible
- Support in-place config file parsing to avoid allocations and
improve startup performance.
- There is now a config option to enable non-power-of-two quantums.
- Preliminary support for upmixing and generating LFE channels.
- Session-manager
- Default nodes are not stored as JSON in the metadata. This
is more readable and introspectable.
- More default-nodes and default-routes improvements. Port
switching should work better now.
- Wait until all devices are scanned before linking clients.
- Fixes some crashes.
- Sinks (monitors) can now be set as default sources.
- Device support
- Fix startup timers for alsa devices.
- Improve timers in alsa when quantum changes. It should cause
less xruns and cracks.
- Fix UCM setup of capture devices.
- Only disable IRQ in alsa when not batch. For batch devices the
hw pointers are updated each IRQ so we need to keep them enabled.
This massively improves latency on USB batch devices to the same
level as JACK (with small enough period size).
- Bluetooth
- Improvements to profile switches.
- Improvements to volume handling.
- Fixes for A2DP sources
- Add support for battery status when available.
- Many other small improvements.
- PulseAudio server
- Handle NULL in set_default_sink/source to clear the default.
- Implement a workaround for gnome-control-center when setting
the default sink/source. It also sets the target in
stream-restore to the new default. This fixes moving streams
in gnome-control-center.
- Fix some races by replying to some requests after the operation
completed.
- Prefer formats of the extended format API.
- Create a pid file on startup to improve compatibility with apps
that look for it.
- Capture streams can now be moved to monitors with pavucontrol.
- Fixes for crashes.
- JACK
- jack clients can now connect to the 'default' server.
- Move midi ports back to the midi client.
- Only mark midi hardware ports as terminal/physical.
- Use the same midi names as a2jmidid.
- match system ports in get_ports.
- Improve compatibility with some apps that require a
fixed latency.
- Beginnings of the libjackserver implementation.
PipeWire 0.3.23
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Fixes for some critical bugs in last release.
- Fix bug where audio was not drained properly at the end of
playback, causing repeating sound.
- Profile and route switching was improved and should mimic
more what pulseaudio did.
- Various fixes for xruns in capture and playback.
- Bluetooth now supports delay adjustment and various other
improvements.
- The pulseaudio server now correctly identifies AC3 and DTS
streams and returns a not supported error instead of playing
static.
- Multichannel support was improved in the alsa plugin and
the channel mixer. Channels should now play on the right
speakers in all cases.
- PipeWire improvements
- Small fixes and improvements in JSON parsing and encoding.
- Improvements to param handling in audioconverter. It would
previously not always notify of changes.
- Avoid updating some properties that we use internally such
as the object id and the node.id.
- log.level in the config files is now actually used.
- the PIPEWIRE_LATENCY env variable should always override
any application settings in filter/stream/jack.
- The config file can now contain filer and stream properties
to, for example, control the resampler, mixer and latency.
- Add sandboxing to the systemd services
- Various FreeBSD fixes.
- Improve draining and a way to exit the drain state as well.
- Many multichannel fixes. Channel remapping should now be
correct.
- Fix bug with repeating audio at the end of playback because
the drain in the resampler was not draining all channels.
- RTKit default rt.prio has been increased to 88. This will
likely still be clamped to 20 until distros increase the
max priority.
- Session-manager
- Don't try to switch to Pro Audio profile, this should be
a user choice only.
- Don't crash when metadata was disabled such as when not
using the audio features of pipewire.
- Rework the profile and route handling.
- Add systemd unit files for the media-session
- Device names should now also have sane names so that tab
pactl completion works on them.
- Device support
- Fix ALSA format enumeration in more cases. Use the channels
and rate as a filter.
- Make sure the graph doesn't ever use buffers larger than
the alsa device buffer size or we get xruns.
- Tuning of the alsa device timeout handling and dynamic
resampler. There should now not be any xruns when streams
appear and disappear or when the quantum changes.
- Fix bug in alsa device when reassigning to a new driver,
in some cases the dynamic resampler was not activated and
things would drift out of sync and fail.
- Fixes in quantum changes for ALSA capture and how the
resampler is drained and fed with the new samples.
- Bluetooth
- Delay adjustment has been implemented now. Bluetooth
devices should now be more synchronized with video due
to proper delay reporting. Because BT delays can be
large, it can cause hickups in some players.
- Fix volume in bluetooth devices.
- Codec switch improvements.
- PulseAudio server
- Latency offset adjustment is now implemented and functional
for bluetooth devices. It is not working for alsa devices
yet.
- Handle unsupported formats. Previously we would accept encoded
formats and play noise. This fixes AC3 playback in vlc.
- Move some of the configurable parameters to the config file.
- Fix a fatal use after free when playing samples
- Improve module handling. loaded modules now show up in the
list of modules and can be unloaded. This also prepares the
core for more module implementations later.
- ALSA plugin
- Fix drain with very large buffers, we need to manually start
the stream before draining.
- Fix the channel layout handling.
- Improve compatibility with apps that expect the poll to only
return when there is activity.
- Fix drain for capture
- JACK
- Add a config option to shorten and filter client names
- Increase the length of the client name size and make sure
we don't exceed the allocated size.
- We now include our own jack header files so we can build
without depending on another jack-devel package. We don't
yet install the headers or provide pkgconfig files.
PipeWire 0.3.22
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Per client config files replace the module-profiles. It's
now possible to tweak settings and load custom modules.
- Pro Audio card profile support. You can now select the
Pro Audio profile and have raw device access with the
maximum number of channels and no mixer controls. This is
the usual setup for managing high end Pro Audio cards.
- Many fixes and improvements in the JACK library to make
devices look and integrate better.
- Many bluetooth improvements. Playback should be more
reliable and better synchronized. Support for the HFP HF
profile.
- Small fixes and improvements all over the map.
- PipeWire improvements
- Add support for restrictions requested by a client. This
makes it possible to implement Flatpak policy for emulated
PulseAudio clients as well.
- Fix removal of params in objects. Previously they would not
be removed from the cache.
- Remove mlock warnings by default. There is an option to enable
them again if you want to check if your system is optimized.
- Remove LimitMEMLOCK lines from the service files. They can
only lower the system settings and are thus not useful.
- Implement per-client config files. Each pipewire client will
now read a config file that you can use to configure the
context of the client.
- Implement state and config load/save in pipewire. This is used
by the session manager or other apps.
- Make an option to disable dbus support.
- Add tool to convert pipewire config to JSON.
- Session-manager
- Give all permissions to Manager flatpak apps. In the future
we will use the Permission store to remember user settings.
- Improvements to default audio/sink handling.
- Add option to configure device suspend time.
- Small fixes in route handling.
- Device support
- Complain when ACP profile files are not found and use
a fallback in order to get something working.
- Add volume support to monitor ports.
- Fix resume from suspend for ALSA in more cases.
- ALSA ACP cards now have a Pro Audio profile that exposes
the raw card devices.
- Bluetooth
- Enable A2DP delay reporting. This improves audio/video sync
when playing audio over bluetooth.
- Fix stuttering in A2DP source
- Tweak buffer size and latency settings to avoid stuttering
- More work on HSP and HFP support
- Fix initial profile configuration
- Add HFP HF support
- PulseAudio server
- Small tweaks in capture packet size to avoid crashes in some
apps.
- Detect Flatpak apps and requests the flatpak permissions from
the session manager. This means that Flatpak pulseaudio apps
will now run with reduced permissions.
- ALSA plugin
- Reduce min buffer size in the plugin for lower possible
latency.
- JACK
- implement some missing methods to make qjackctl work again.
- Use the context data thread instead of making our own. This
fixes the issue where the data thread was not given RT
priority correctly.
- Pass extra jack flags around in port properties. This makes
CV ports in carla work.
- Many tweaks to the port names and aliases. Unwanted characters
are filtered out, giving better names to jack apps. Default
device names are now equal to those seen in pulseaudio apps.
- Add an option to make a separate client for the monitor ports
of a device. This makes it more usable in apps.
- add support for system:playback_N and system:capture_N port
names for apps that hardcode these port names.
PipeWire 0.3.21
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Many PulseAudio compatibility fixes. Handling of corked
streams, the prebuf setting, seek modes and stream flags
are now implemented correctly.
- Ports and Profiles are now managed by the session manager
and can save and restore previous settings.
- ALSA device handling has been tweaked for maximum
compatibility at the expense of latency. There are tuning
options in the config file.
- Improved Bluetooth support. HSP is disabled by default
because it is old and deprecated and in some cases causes
conflicts with the newer HFP profile. Codec switching is
now implemented as well.
- PipeWire accepts donations with liberapay now.
- PipeWire improvements
- Improve draining in pw-stream.
- pw-stream now uses busy metadata by default. This makes sure
that no writer can write to buffers when readers are still
busy.
- Fix handling of empty array/choice instead of failing.
- Fix crashes when creating properties from empty strings.
- Make it possible to pass an array to module-access
access.allowed variables
- Fix small bug in argument parsing in pw-cat
- Session-manager
- Restore route volumes in all cases, also when switching
routes.
- Use a default route volume for unknown routes instead of
letting the system decide on a default.
- Improve profile handling. Don't try to restore unavailable
profiles. Implement the profile switching in the session
manager now.
- Fix handling of Virtual sources as defaults.
- Handle port switching in the session manager. Implement
save and restore of default ports per profile.
- GStreamer
- Fix a crash with zero SPA_PARAM_BUFFERS_size
- Device support
- v4l2-source will now respect the requested memory types.
- ALSA buffering has been tweaked. USB devices should have
less XRuns by default. Parameters can be tweaked to
decrease the latency on capable devices. Also fix a case
where a quantum change would cause an xrun.
- Fix mute in bluetooth devices
- bluetooth devices are not paused in idle anymore for
improved compatibility.
- Codec switching for bluetooth is implemented along with
config options to select the codecs manually.
- HSP for bluetooth is now disabled by default. Most devices
support the newer HFP profile and some devices fail when
both are available.
- Reduce the amount of events the ALSA plugins emit by bundling
them.
- PulseAudio server
- Implement the suspend command
- Fixes volume in sample info
- Fix playback of samples, sometimes samples would be clipped
short. Also implement the target sink for the sample.
- Use rate match to feed samples. This way the latency can
be kept to a minimum.
- Latency has been tuned some more, more closely emulating
pulseaudio behaviour.
- Improve default sink/source handling. Make sure all events
are sent correctly when defaults change.
- Handle underrun better without causing sync issues. Make sure
to pause in corked state.
- Implement rewind due to seeks, fixes GStreamer seeking.
PipeWire 0.3.20
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Latency was reduced in ALSA and PulseAudio and time
reporting has improved a lot.
- Bluetooth now has a native HFP backed, SBC XQ and
mSBC support.
- Many bugfixes and improvements, improved device
support.
- PipeWire improvements
- pw-dump can now dump all objects such as Endpoints
- pw-dump has a -m option to monitor changes
- pw-dump can now dump metadata
- pw-stream can now use the rate-match io to exactly
produce the required number of samples for the
current cycle. When using this feature, a stream can
achieve the same low-latency as pw-filter.
- spa-acp-tool can now load a custom profile-set and
correctly parses the volume updates
- There is now a nofail option when loading modules
- The connection has been made reentrant to fix some
strange random problems with metadata.
- Turn some errors into warnings or simply info.
- Executables are now built with PIE
- S24OE formats should work now (MAudio FastTrack Pro)
- Remove mlock warnings. Add support for mlockall with
a config option.
- Session-manager
- There are now config files for bluez and v4l2 modules
- Improve ALSA device and node properties
- Bluetooth devices have better properties now.
- The default device routing has been improved.
- Device support
- Port priorities are updated for UCM devices
- ACP devices notify change in routes in all cases
- There is now RW support in ALSA devices to increase
compatibility.
- Many improvements to Bluetooth. SBC XQ support can now
be enabled with a config option. mSBC can be enabled
with an option.
- Bluetooth devices not expose Routes so that they look
more like how PulseAudio handles them
- Gracefully handle missing profile-sets
- There is now a native HFP backend
- Improve card names in some cases.
- pause-on-idle is now disabled for ALSA devices. This can
reduce pops and clicks when the device is stopped.
- ALSA plugin
- Use rate-match to reduce the latency
- Implement a _delay() function to get smoother timestamps.
- Fix property parsing. Fixes volume changes in alsamixer.
- PulseAudio server
- Use rate-match to reduce the latency. This also reduces
the buffering in audioconvert and improves timestamp
reporting.
- Implement rate changes now that we have rate-match
support.
- pactl stats will now work
- Fix excessive memory usage when a capture client doesn't
read fast enough.
PipeWire 0.3.19
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Startup after login should be fixed now with inotify
used to wait for permissions.
- Channels should be mapped correctly now.
- Many bluetooth improvements in LDAC, AptX-HD. AAC was
also added. Headsets should work better now.
- pipewire-libpulse was removed. It is now completely
replaced by pipewire-pulse.
- Fix a crasher bug in pipewire-pulse and some memory leaks.
- Fix a bug with feedback loop that would cause 100% CPU.
- A new pw-top tool to display real-time graph performance.
- The example session manager now has config files.
- The config file format was changed to use the SPA JSON
tokenizer. This makes it more flexible and extensible.
- PipeWire improvements
- Fix debug of id in format channels
- Audioconvert should now remap channels correctly in all
cases.
- Feedback loops were not scheduled correctly and would
cause 100% CPU usage.
- Small improvements to the profiler to also log incomplete
graph status.
- a new tool pw-top was added that prints real-time performance
stats of the graph.
- the rtkit module now sets the nice level to -11
- Session-manager
- The session manager would sometimes link dont-reconnect
nodes to another node, which would leak monitor streams in
pipewire-pulse.
- The session manager now has configuration files. Config files
can also be placed in the user home directory to make custom
configurations.
- The session managers now creates unique device and node
names for alsa and v4l2 devices.
- Device support
- Many improvements in Bluetooth codecs, LDAC stuttering,
AptX-HD negotiation, LDAC ABR support
- Bluetooth supports AAC audio now.
- Many fixes to Bluetooth SCO transport used in headsets.
- inotify support in device monitors
- ACP was synced with the latest pulseaudio code
- Fix a bug in enumeration of device ports.
- PulseAudio server
- seek flags and offset are now supported, making gstreamer
pulse elements work better.
- Fix a crasher bug in pipewire-pulse, we sometimes would
write too much to the ringbuffer
- Fix some memory leaks in error cases.
- Fix handling of NULL string to locate default sink/source
- JACK layer
- Ports can also be found with the aliases now, making
qjackctl work in more cases.
PipeWire 0.3.18
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- More work in the PulseAudio server. It should be compatible
with more applications.
- Bluetooth now support extra codecs such as AptX/HD and LDAC.
- Support for virtual sources and sink was improved a lot.
- Added a new pw-dump tool to dump the objects in JSON formats
and for filtering them with tools like jq.
- Many more stability fixes and improvements.
- PipeWire improvements
- Silence some harmless warnings
- pw-cli can now be used to set parameters.
- Streams now perform the correct channel mapping when linked
to non-standard multichannel devices. Previously channels
would get swapped.
- port, node and device params are now cached in the server.
This avoids opening and closing devices whenever some client
enumerates formats, which improves performance a lot,
especially in cases where opening a device is slow.
- Add a command to keep a device open during negotiation. This
is used to enumerate and set a format while opening the
device just once, improving performance.
- The null-sink scheduling was fixed.
- A memory corruption bug was fixed in format conversion, this
could cause crashes, silent channels or other undefined
behaviour.
- There is now a simple JSON parser.
- Session-manager
- Settings files are now stored in JSON. With the json parser
this is easier to parse and extend
- Device support
- Bluetooth now supports additional codecs: LDAC, AptX and
AptX HD. LDAC is known to not work very well yet.
- ALSA devices will now default to the max supported channels
if nothing else is specified. This makes it possible to use
8+ channel cards with the alsa-pcm module, which is not
supported with the default alsa-acp module.
- Enable mSBC support in oFono.
- Add an option to disable hardware mixers
- ALSA now improves support for batch devices.
- The udev rules had references to Pulseaudio removed in order
to not create conflicts.
- Fix a potential crash in bluetooth devices when
disconnecting.
- UCM cards now use HW volume when possible.
- PulseAudio server
- The id can now be used as the name to locate cards and
devices
- Report streams with planar formats as well
- Better error reporting when stream create fails
- module-null-sink can now handle channels, rate and
channel_map properties
- Add support for 3 types of virtual devices: source,
sink and duplex.
- set-port was fixed
- Some buffer parameters were tweaked to improve
performance, compatibility and stuttering with lower
latency.
- NULL can be used as a name for the device sink/source
- Support lookup of monitor names
- Set properties more like pulseaudio so that some
clients (Teamspeak) don't crash anymore
PipeWire 0.3.17
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Fix crasher bug for kwin when screensharing stopped.
- Massive improvements and compatibility fixes in the
PulseAudio server.
- The session manager now has a config directory in
/etc/pipewire/media-session.d/ It will look for files there
to activate session manager modules. Packagers can use
this to only activate the audio modules when the PulseAudio
server, libjack.so or the alsa modules are installed.
- PipeWire improvements
- We now clear hooks before adding them. Some application
did not clear them and had random data for the destroy
callback.
- Return -ENOENT from unknown resources so apps can handle
this better. It's a common problem when an app tries to
introspect and object but it disappeared before the message
reached the server. Apps should ignore this.
- channelmap information is now passed with the volume
settings.
- DMABuf is not mmapp()ed anymore with the FLAG_MAP_BUFFERS in
the stream or filter. This is because DMABuf usually
requires more that just a simple mmap and is better left
for the application.
- increase the maximum number of ports for a client-node.
- adapter and node-factory now support the linger option to
keep the objects alive after the creating client disconnected.
- Device support
- ALSA now handles error in close(), like when unplugging a
USB device.
- Session-manager
- The session manager is now handling DONT_RECONNECT streams
without a target node. They get connected to a default node
once and then fail to reconnect.
- The session manager now exposes the stream setting as
metadata. This makes it possible for other components, such
as pulse-server to use this information. Information is stored
as a json object for easier consumption.
- The session manager now has a config directory in
/etc/pipewire/media-session.d/ packagers can use this
- PulseAudio server
- Pulse server now acquire the dbus name.
- Improvements in timing and compatibility with many apps.
- The stream-restore extension is now implemented so that
the event volume can be configured.
- Many stability fixes and improvements.
- Fix some issues with module-load/unload
PipeWire 0.3.16
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- Fix screensharing for old 0.2 clients
- Many pulse-server improvements. There is now a
pipewire-pulse binary that is the preferred solution for
PulseAudio compatibility. The replacement libpulse
libraries are now deprecated. This also makes audio in
Flatpak work.
- PipeWire improvements
- Fix cleanup of listeners everywhere. Force remove of
listeners in _destroy to avoid crashes.
- Add support for a journald logger module.
- Various memory leak fixes
- Silence some warnings that spammed the logs.
- Fix flush in pw_stream. This fixes small glitches when
switching streams in music players.
- Various FreeBSD fixes and improvements.
- Fix some crashes when destroying objects.
- Device support
- Reload the ALSA configuration when creating a node so that
hotplugged devices work in all cases.
- Fix memory leaks in ACP library. This also fixes issues
where the mixer device was not closed.
- Bluetooth now has support for the mSBC codec for SCO
source and sink.
- pulse-server
- Many introspection and compatibility improvements. It should
now be as good or better than the replacement library.
- Implement sample cache to make notification events work.
- JACK layer
- handle errors when linking, fixes jack_connect hang when
the ports were already linked.
PipeWire 0.3.15
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- This is a quick update to fix critical issues with the
0.3.14 update, which broke screen sharing and accidentally
enabled the experimental pulse-server.
- Fix some compatibility issues in pulse-server with
pavucontrol and fix an issue that would block the complete
server.
- PipeWire improvements
- Permission checks for new clients are now done from a
global context, which makes it possible to assign initial
permissions to objects.
- Handle EINTR everywhere
- Fix an issue with the node state changes where a quick
pause/play would hang a client.
- Session manager improvements
- Disable the bluez5 and pulse-bridge modules by default because
they interfere with pulseaudio. These options should only be
enabled if pulseaudio is removed or disabled in the system.
- Fix an issue where the session manager could end up in
infinite recursion while scanning for things to do.
- The session manager will now always configure nodes to remix
to the channel configuration of the device. This fixes the case
where mono streams would only end up on one channel of a stereo
device.
- Device support
- Initial merge of A2DP extra codec support using the new bluez5
API.
- pulse-server
- Create the runtime directory when it doesn't exist.
- Don't ever block the server, use non-blocking IO everywhere.
- Fill description of profiles with the name if not otherwise set,
this fixes a crash in pavucontrol.
- the connection debug category will now also debug pulse
messages.
- Respect the no_remix flag to make the control panel channel
check work.
- ALSA plugin
- implement pause
PipeWire 0.3.14
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Highlights
- This release focuses on bugfixes and stability
improvements.
- A new experimental pulse-server module was added. This
module implements the pulseaudio protocol on top of
PipeWire and can be used to make flatpaks work with
PipeWire. It looks like this might be a better way
forward compared to the libpulse.so replacement library.
- A2DP bluetooth was reworked. Playback should work a lot
better now. Support was also added to automatically link
an A2DP source to a playback device, which makes it possible
to use PipeWire as a bluetooth receiver as well.
- Improvements to the routing and volume restore features
of the session manager.
- PipeWire improvements
- The channelmixer does not normalize volumes anymore. Volumes
are only normalized for monitoring streams now.
- Streams can actually start in the inactive state now.
- The channelmixer can now also convert volume updates from one
channel layout to another. This makes saved volumes work
even when streams have different channel layouts.
- Clients are only registered after the properties have been
updated.
- Links now have a new active state.
- Drivers can now also specify a minimum quantum. This makes it
possible for bluetooth devices to specify an optimum quantum
for the given codec settings and MTU.
- The amount of data sent over the socket was reduced by only
sending the data that changed.
- Client objects are now exposed after they uploaded their
properties, which makes the new object more useful.
- Tools improvements
- pw-cat will now add metadata to the PipeWire streams.
- Session manager improvements
- Fix crashes when reading bad data in stored settings.
- volume and routing is improved. Settings are now remembered
per application or media-role.
- The session manager remembers the last device used per stream
- Fix a bug when moving streams where it could sometimes end
up with linking a stream to multiple devices.
- Use RTKit to set realtime priority on the data thread in the
session manager. This improves performance of the pulse-server
and bluetooth devices.
- Add a new property to mark streams that want to capture from
the monitor of the default sink.
- NODE_TARGET can now also contain the node name. This avoids
some lookups in the pulseaudio layer when selecting target
nodes by name.
- the -e and -d options are more usable now and can be used to
add and remove modules from the default list of modules.
- Device support
- v4l2: add some workarounds for buggy drivers. Add Limited
support for droidcam.
- ACP: improve selection of default port and profiles.
- ACP: add support for using the hardware mixer for more than
8 channel streams.
- ACP: support the new port type and availability group found
in PulseAudio.
- A2DP bluetooth timings were reworked. Automatic linking of
A2DP sources was added to make it possible for PipeWire to
act as a bluetooth receiver. The code was reworked to allow
other codecs such as APTX and LDAC in the future.
- Try harder to recover from ALSA errors.
- GStreamer improvements
- Fix some crashes in the monitor that cause
gnome-initial-setup to crash.
- PulseAudio layer improvements
- Many compatibility improvements. Improved playback in
chrome. Fix a crash in firefox when the daemon is stopped.
- Fix a leak in the formats.
- Fix !ADJUST_LATENCY streams like paplay.
- Make the device option in paplay work.
- Fix volume/mute notifications, this makes plasma volume updates
work again.
- Do the conversion between PulseAudio cubic volumes and PipeWire
linear volumes. Volume levels should behave now like they did
with PulseAudio.
- JACK layer improvements
- Return an error when we run out of midi events. Some application
rely on this behaviour.
- ALSA plugin improvements
- The ALSA plugin now also supports the node name in the
playback_node and capture_node properties.
PipeWire 0.3.13
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- PipeWire improvements
- Add pw-reserve tool to reserve or monitor a device on DBus.
- Install spa-resample, a tool to resample a file.
- Install spa-acp-tool, a tool to inspect the card profile.
- Various fixes and improvements
- Fix a bug in pw-stream where a capture stream could run out
of buffers and become silent.
- Rework the processing loops in the adapter and stream. There
is now less latency in PulseAudio and ALSA layers.
- Session manager improvements
- Improve the device reservation code. We now try to acquire
the device using the dbus device reservation API before we
probe the device. This avoids conflicts with a running
PulseAudio where devices would disappear (because they were
locked by the other process).
- Don't fail on invalid input from the config files.
- Audio devices now have the same name as what PulseAudio
would assign.
- Device support
- v4l2: try to use the format before enumerating the size and
framerate. Some drivers don't check the format and might now
work better.
- v4l2: Fall back to MMAP when EXPBUF fails. Fix MMAP access,
just export the fd and the mapoffset. This should make more
devices work.
- Fix crash in ALSA Card Profile (ACP) code.
- ACP: fix selection of default profile. Prefer any possibly
available profile over 'Off'. This makes some card at least
start with something.
- Fix soft volume. After setting the volume to 0, it would stay
at 0 until pushed over the max volume. This should fix
various volume related issues.
- PulseAudio layer improvements
- Rework the buffering and latency measurements and tweak the
buffer attributes. This should make browsers and media
players work better. This should also improve speechd
performance.
- JACK layer improvements
- Fix compilation against newer JACK.
PipeWire 0.3.12
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- PipeWire improvements
* the channelmap converter now handles unknown and strange
channellayouts much better.
* the resampler is now cleared correctly, avoiding clicks and
pops at the start of sound.
* Fixes for various crasher bugs. (paplay drain, vlc shutdown,
pactl info, ...)
* Fix a race condition in the node state changes that caused
all kinds of sync and other issues (vlc, mpv, ...)
* Improve the binary name property of applications
* Fix the scheduling again of nodes that always need a driver
such as the jack clients.
- Session manager improvements
* fix routing to default nodes. Sometimes nodes were not routed to
the default node (bluetooth)
- Device support
* disable channelmap from ALSA by default. This is what PulseAudio
does and thus provides better compatibility.
* fix a bug in how the resampler was used in the ALSA source,
causing distortion and errors when using low latency capture
clients. (Discord, webrtc, ...)
* Small bluetooth improvements. More work is needed for reliable
bluetooth playback.
- GStreamer plugins
* the device provider now stops the processing loop before shutting
down, which avoids crashes (gnome-initial-setup).
- PulseAudio layer improvements
* the buffer attributes were reworked to ensure compatibility with
many more applications such as mpv and audacious.
* the pulseaudio layer will now try hard to not hand out invalid
channel maps to the application. (avoids crashes in
gnome-volume-control). The channel map will now also look more
like what PulseAudio does.
* the @DEFAULT_SINK/SOURCE/MONITOR@ wildcards now work. This
fixes the problem with volume keys when they are bound to
scripts using pactl and the default sink/source wildcards.
* the PIPEWIRE_LATENCY environment variable now works again
* Fix some leaks of ports and port info. Also fix the leak of the
context when the mainloop is stopped.
* The sink/source format_info array is now filled up completely,
this is actually not implemented yet in the real PulseAudio.
- JACK layer improvements
* jack now returns version 3.0.0 and has PipeWire in the version
string so that apps can report this.
PipeWire 0.3.11
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- PipeWire improvements
* Properly cleanup the mixer structures when a port is removed,
this should fix client crashes related to port config changes
and other random crashes.
* Optimize the preferred formats in the audio converter. Higher
quality formats with higher performance are chosen first.
* Make sure the time reported by pw_stream is always increasing,
even when the driver and clock changes.
* There is now also a system service and socket that can be used
to enable PipeWire systemwide. This is however not recommended
and disabled by default.
* Fix channelmixer 5.1 to stereo mix matrix. It was not reading
the conversion matrix correctly and cause channels to be
dropped. The channelmixer will now also normalize the volume,
like what pulseaudio does.
* The channelmixer will now just copy channels when no layout
has been given. It has also optimized paths for this. This
makes it possible for apps to request > 8 channels from the
alsa plugin (ardour).
* Port, Node and Link will now also emit an error on the
resources in addition to updating the error in the info. This
would make it easier to track negotiation errors in the session
manager later.
* many small fixes and cleanups.
* Fix compatibility:
+ DOSBox: fix crash because of double free in pw_stream
- Session manager improvements
* The session manager will now try to configure the client to
the channel configuration of the sink/source. It will only
do this for downmixing, never for upmixing and also never
when the client has the dont-remix property set. It will
also renegotiate the channel layout when moving a stream to
a new sink/source.
* Configuration state is now saved in XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
Previously it was saved in $HOME/.pipewire-media-session/
You can migrate the state by moving the files to
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pipewire-media-session (or
$HOME/.config/pipewire-media-session as a fallback when
XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set).
- Device support
* Bluetooth sources and sinks should work better now.
* There is now also a new bluetooth backend using hsphfpd.
* fix the ALSA UCM Off profile for alsa pcm devices
* improve ALSA port and profile switching. The ACP device will
now switch to the best port and profile when availability
changes.
- PulseAudio layer improvements
* Implement some more callbacks. The pulse layer will now also
notify applications of stream moved, started and latency
changes.
* Fix error code when an object was not found. We now return
PA_ERR_NOENTITY instead of PA_ERR_INVALID.
* Add some support for loading new null sinks. Applications such
as pulseeffects use this. Note that pulseeffects does not yet
work reliably but can start now.
* Improve handling of profile and port updates, it should work
much more reliable now. Apps should now also again receive
volume updates from sinks/sources.
* Fix compatibility:
+ openal-soft 1.20
+ pavucontrol (checks PA_ERR_NOENTITY)
- JACK layer improvements
* improve default source and sink handling. It was not updated
correctly in all cases.
* add samplerate and period to the pw-jack wrapper to easily
configure the desired samplerate and period for the app.
- ALSA plugin improvements
* Add a mixer entry in the alsa config file.
* Implement support for planar types, rework the processing
function to make it more robust.
* refuse to load the alsa plugin when linked against 0.2. This
catches some old apps linked against 0.2 that want to use the
alsa plugin.
* Fix compatibility:
+ linphone (ALSA SIGFPE when _status() is called
before _prepare()).
PipeWire 0.3.10
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Many improvements to the pulse layer.
* GStreamer pulsesink element now works.
* Fixes some segfaults.
* Enable rtkit for client threads.
* fixes capture of monitor stream by name
* implement some more extensions, this makes paman
work and removes some warnings.
- Many improvements to the GStreamer elements
* negotiation rework, avoid calling GStreamer methods from
the PipeWire callbacks because they might block and cause
deadlocks.
* Add support for non-string property values.
* improve stability after buffer and format
renegotiation.
* Rework the device provider.
* pipewiresink can now provide a stream that can
be consumed by apps like cheese.
- Many improvements to the JACK layer:
* Rework the buffer_size callbacks. Make sure we call
the callback from a 'safe' thread and that we don't
call the process callback while the application is
handling the callback. This improves stability in
apps like Carla when PipeWire dynamically changes
the buffer size.
* Improve compatibility with apps that call
get_buffer_frames() with a 0 size (calfjackrack)
* JACK can now create nodes that can be set as a
sink/source in PulseAudio/ALSA apps (you can make an
effects rack and set that as default sink for
apps).
- Added a group id property for nodes. This makes it
possible to schedule nodes with the same driver even
when they are otherwise not linked together. To make
this work well a new flag needed to be added to nodes
to signal when they are ready for processing.
Together with the GStreamer fixes, this makes things
like:
gst-launch-1.0 -v pipewiresrc path=51 stream-properties="props,node.group=1" !
audio/x-raw ! pipewiresink stream-properties="props,node.group=1"
work as expected with PipeWire managing the resampling
to keep the clocks of the devices in sync.
This can later also be used to force devices to be grouped
together to create a JACK-like scheduling group.
- Streams and filter now use PIPEWIRE_NODE and
PIPEWIRE_LATENCY env variables as fallback.
- ACP add per device port list. This makes UCM devices
expose the right ports.
- Fix some segfaults in ACP and UCM.
- make pw-cat use the metadata to find default devices.
- The media session can now save and load audio device
Profiles and Routes (volumes), stream volumes and
the default sink and sources.
PipeWire 0.3.9
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Fix bad audio in chrome
- Remove some errors that are not real errors.
- Fix 100% cpu when disconnecting devices.
- Improve pulseaudio introspection of formats
- Fix JACK metadata handling, carla can now monitor the
port it creates and insert midi.
- Add a new permission bit (M) that is needed to be able
to configure metadata on an object. Improve security of
metadata some more, only allow metadata on objects that
are visible to the client setting the metadata.
- Add support for videocrop in the GStreamer elements.
- Improve handling of the runtime directory for the
server sockets. Add some reasonable fallback when
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set, as suggested in the spec.
- Improve ALSA device names from ACP.
- Fix various crasher bugs. One in the pulse layer, one in
the session manager.
- Make alsa plugin respect the PIPEWIRE_REMOTE env variable.
- Various compile fixes.
PipeWire 0.3.8
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Fix an embarrassing crasher in the JACK layer when
metadata keys were removed.
- Make it possible to add properties to jack clients with
a PIPEWIRE_PROPS env variable. This can be used to make
JACK nodes look like a device (like an effects rack).
- Improvements in the session manager in how it links
ports. Now it will try to link matching channels first
and be more intelligent otherwise. The session manager
will also configure the stream to the device port
configuration when needed.
- Add ofono backend for Bluetooth HeadSet support.
- Improve default source and sink handling. They are now
stored with their id, instead of name, in the metadata.
This makes it work better with JACK because of JACK's
limited name length.
- Improve environment variables to make it possible to
create and connect to servers other than "pipewire-0".
Implement this in pulseaudio, JACK and alsa layers.
- Add an alsa mixer plugin so that alsamixer works with
PipeWire. It will configure the default source/sink
volumes.
- Fix capture devices. There was something wrong with how
the resampler was used that caused corruption in the
signal when the resampler was active.
- We now ship alsa card paths, profile-sets configuration
files and udev rules so that we don't have to rely on
the pulseaudio ones.
- Many build and stability fixes.
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.
PipeWire 0.3.6
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Extensive memory leak fixing and stress testing was done.
A big leak in screen sharing with DMA-BUF was fixed.
- Compile fixes
- Stability improvements in jack and pulseaudio layers.
- Added the old portal module to make the Camera portal
work again. This will be moved to the session manager in
future versions.
- Improvements to the GStreamer source and sink shutdown.
- Fix compatibility with v2 clients again when negotiating
buffers.
PipeWire 0.3.5
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Compiler fixes
- Add pw-midiplay and pw-midirecord aliases
- Add pw-mididump tool
- Add pw-metadata tool to inspect, add and remove metadata
for objects.
- Docs updates, man pages
- install alsa config files
- Fix linked sink/source in pulseaudio
- ratelimit graph processing warnings
- improve buffer handling in GStreamer elements
- Fix power usage by removing the queue for the alsa
sequencer system announce messages.
- Fix metadata clear() method dispatch.
- Improve parameter enumeration, make it possible to detect
missing parameters vs no-compatible parameters so that we
can use defaults in the first case and error in the second
case.
- Fix cleanup of proxy objects. Stability improvements on
plug/unplug in session manager.
- Make it possible to set log level from config file
- improve debug of param negotiation errors. Log the
parameters to stderr/journal.
- Make it possible to configure global logger
implementation.
- Fix NEON detection
- JACK and PulseAudio compatibility improvements
PipeWire 0.3.4
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- A quick update with some important stability fixes.
PipeWire 0.3.3
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- NEON optimizations for audio conversion (32 and 64 bits)
- rework of session manager implementation
- Add option to disable modules in the session manager
- Release midi hardware devices when suspended
- various build fixes
- Clean up options of various utils
- Stability improvements
- Mayor improvements in pulseaudio emulation. Improved
timings and compatibility.
- Implementation of drain and flush in pulse and alsa
emulation.
- Implement poll on file descriptors.
- Improvement of metadata for jack emulation.
- Fix memory and thread problems in jack emulation.
- Simplification of state changes. Should make more use
cases work in the jack emulation.
- Improvements in the gstreamer elements. Removal of
extra internal queue. pipewiresink can now be used to
play audio.
- Add pw-jack and pw-pulse scripts to run pulseaudio and
jack applications with the right library path.
PipeWire 0.3.2
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- build fixes
- Added support for data type negotiation. This makes it
possible for a client to say that it can handle DMABuf
and MemFd and then let the server select a compatible
format.
- Handle errors when enumerating parameters better.
- Add support for rate, format, channels and period_bytes
to the alsa config file to restrict what alsa apps can
negotiate.
- Fix JACK midi output.
- Optimizations in common audio format conversions using
AVX2. Small optimizations to plugins.
- Change the vulkan compute example to an MIT licensed
shader.
- Remove some hardcoded defaults in the audio and video
processing and use the values from the processing
context. This also fixes the vulkan example.
- Correct the documentation and defaults in the daemon
config file.
- Fix alsa and v4l2 buffer recycle. A paused client could
cause the server to leak all buffers.
- Remove some warnings that should be ignored.
- Fix a crash in the bluez5 plugins.
- Try to select higher quality formats first when
negotiating a format with an audio device.
- Fix an infinite loop in udev detection in some cases.
- Add non-interactive mode to pw-cli. You can now just
do "pw-cli ls Port" to get a listing of all ports.
pw-cli will now also connect to the default server by
default and has options to select a different server.
- Allow the server to go up to the maximum quantum (8192
samples or ~=180ms) if a client explicitly wants this.
PipeWire 0.3.1
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible
with previous 0.3.x releases.
- Don't load the rtkit module by default. It can cause a
sigkill, which is not desirable for mutter, for example.
Only enable this for the jack library for now.
- Don't use pthread cancel by default because it uses a
signal that might crash some apps. Only use it for
the jack library because jack clients really expect this.
- Build fixes for -Werror=suggest-attribute=format
- improve error messages, don't report harmless errors and
warnings. Try to send error messages to the proxy that
started the operation or is the owner of the object.
- pw-cat: midi improvement, add midi recording and dump
in verbose mode
- fix properties when loading spa-nodes from the config
- Fix and update some examples
- jack: check arguments and don't crash when invalid
- Fix buffer memory upload.
- jack: fix compatibility with zrythm. Fix timemaster
install, improve sample_rate callback. Fix reposition
handling.
- fix crash in port after buffer negotiation error.
- add support for control ports in pw_filter
- fix cleanup of the metadata module
- improve param enumeration.
- Clear stream buffers when the format is cleared.
- Add create-object command in the config file to create
object from a factory.
- Fix crash after the driver was not removed from unassigned
nodes. Also properly pause inactive nodes.
- Use "true" and "false" in properties when we are talking
about a boolean.
- pulseaudio: improve compatibility
PipeWire 0.3.0
The 0.3 release is a major milestone in the development of
PipeWire. It features a complete redesign of the scheduling
mechanisms that make it possible to run a JACK compatibility
layer with comparable performance to JACK2.
The API has been reworked and is declared stable now. All
development files and runtime paths are versioned so that
future incompatible changes can be done without breaking
existing applications.
PipeWire 0.3 also includes a (now mandatory) session manager
that populates and controls the PipeWire graph. This example
session manager is very simple and not configurable. It is
expected that future version will either switch to a more
flexible session manager (like WirePlumber) or improve the
configuration options of the example session manager.
PipeWire 0.3 includes both PulseAudio, JACK and ALSA
compatibility libraries that are known to support a wide range
of applications. The ALSA library is pretty complete at this
point. The JACK and mostly the PulseAudio compatibility
libraries need more work. See the Wiki pages for the current
compatibility problems. We do not yet encourage people to
switch away from their existing audio solutions (PulseAudio
or JACK) but we would love to hear from people who try it
anyways. Future versions will mostly focus on improving
compatibility further to make PipeWire a drop-in replacement.
PipeWire comes with some GStreamer plugins to consume and
produce data for PipeWire. The consumer (pipewiresrc) is
working well in most cases. The sink (pipewiresink) is known
to be somewhat problematic for now.
PipeWire 0.2.97
Eighth pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- Build fixes
- pw-cat improvement: Fix remote name, add midi support
- add device subscribe params for completeness
- jack and pulseaudio compatibility fixes
- Fix a bug in resampler, add quality option, tweaked quality
settings, tested now against https://src.infinitewave.ca/
testsignals and submitted results for publication.
- Fix awkwardness in buffer negotiations, the default number of
buffers was 4 and jack could only handle 2, causing
corruption. Also implement negotiation of Step ranges.
- Fix device reservation to work together with pulseaudio,
previously we would block pulseaudio.
PipeWire 0.2.96
Seventh pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- jack: improve compatibility
- Fix unit test
- Fix license of jack and alsa libs
- Make start/stop more threadsafe
- Fix rt-kit again, add params to configure things, increase default
soft/hard limits to avoid being killed.
- version 0 compatibility improvements, tested with firefox, cheese,
GStreamer and chrome using compat layers.
- Fix timing for gstreamer source
- Require libspa in pkg-config file
- Limit buffers to 16 to support old clients
PipeWire 0.2.95
Sixth pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- Fix tests for big endian some more
- Improve v2 compatibility mode: improve type negotiation and
update_permissions
- Workaround for firefox screen sharing
PipeWire 0.2.94
Fifth pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- Fix man page names
- Fix jack set_sync_timeout
- Improve JACK compatibility with apps that cache buffer pointers.
- Improve mlock failure warning message, add property to configure
if mlock should be used.
- Improve OBJECT_PATH in alsa objects
- Install in versioned directory
- Add pw-profiler tool
- Improve pulseaudio compatibility wrt pa_operations
- Thread safety fixes in remote nodes when activating/deactivating
- Improve JACK names on duplicates
- Add option to ignore failure when loading modules
PipeWire 0.2.93
Fourth pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- Fix unit tests on 32 bits
- Append -pw version to pulse and jack libs. This way we can install
it next to the real libraries and use a symlink to enable it.
- Improve jack support by killing threads with pthread_cancel. This
then also remove the eventfd from the data-loop, making it
maybe a little faster.
- Fix jack_client_close() compatibility
- Fix some segfaults in the session manager
- Improve debug of protocol messages
- Add examples options
- Don't fail when alsa is not found
- Fix some compiler warnings with a new spa_aprintf() helper.
- Add pw-cat, the simple audio playback/record tool
- Rename pipewire tools to pw- prefix
- Add improve pw-cli object dump feature
PipeWire 0.2.92
Third pre-release for upcoming 0.3:
- Improve old version check some more
- Fix unit tests on little/big endian
- Fix compilation when CPU has no optimisations
- Install jack and pulse libraries
- Handle -EACCESS in flatpack access module
PipeWire 0.2.91
It is mostly a bugfix release to make the new version install and
run correctly in distros.
- Install session manager, fix path to find the session manager
- Fix alsa buffer reuse
- Small fixes for crasher bugs
- Implement pw_core_set_paused() to suspend/resume even
processing. This can be used when using multiple connections
to a daemon and one needs to pause one connection until the
other one completes an action. Used by session managers.
- Improve old version check
PipeWire 0.2.90
This is the first pre-release of the 0.3 version. It consists of a
major rewrite and is not API or ABI compatible with the 0.2
branch.
PipeWire 0.2.7
This is mostly a bugfix release and is API/ABI compatible with
previous 0.2 versions.
Work is ongoing in the work branch that features a completely new
scheduling method that will enable audio support. Some of these
API changes are backported in this branch.
- Add support for alsa-lib 1.1.9 which changed the include path
- Improve error checking and reporting in the protocol
- deviceprovider: fix probing without starting
- add sentinel to some functions
- compiler fixes for musl
- Revert object tree permission checks that broke things, this is
probably not a good idea (and the tree of objects is going to
be removed later)
PipeWire 0.2.6
- Improve error checking for threads
- Fix some memory and fd leaks
- Fix compilation with C++ compilers and clang
- DISABLE_RTKIT should now not try to use dbus at all
- Camera Portal fixes:
- add Camera media.role
- Rename module-flatpak to module-portal
- Use the portal permissions store for camera checks
- Actually use the passed fd in pipewiresrc
- Make properties with "pipewire." prefix read-only
- Add security label to client object
- Enforce link permissions
- Permissions of objects are now combined with parent permissions
- Remove libv4l2 dependency, it is not used
- Improve format negotiation in autolink #146
- Try to avoid list corruption with event emission #143
- Fix destroy of client-node memory corruption
- Various small improvements
PipeWire 0.2.5
- build fixes for systemd
- Add cursor and bitmap metadata. This can be used to send a cursor
sprite with the video stream.
- permissions were set too strict for non-flatpak clients
- Fix crash in loop caused by thread unsafe hook emission
- Add more error checking for thread-loop
- Small cleanups and bugfixes
PipeWire 0.2.4
- Install man pages in right directory
- Add systemd socket activation
- Various memory leak and corruption fixes in properties, dbus and
buffer mmapped memory.
- Fix v4l2 crash on unplug
- improve stream cleanup
PipeWire 0.2.3
- Fix deviceprovider caps introspection
- Refcounting fixes in pipewiresrc
- Remove clock interpolation from stream
- Improve clock in gstreamer elements
- Remove spalib
- Fix crash with pw_map
- Add version number to hook list
- Improve driver mode in gstreamer elements
- add daemon options
- add man pages
PipeWire 0.2.2
- Increment API version and .so version
PipeWire 0.2.1
- Various fixes to memory handling
- Fixes for shutdown
- v4l2 fix enumeration of frame intervals
- Make the daemon stop when the setup commands fail
- Improve safety of hooks
- Update stream API to more future proof version
- Add more options to stream API such as scheduling in the
main thread and automatic mapping of buffers
- Add version file and macros to check compile time and
runtime versions of pipewire
- Future proof some structs
PipeWire 0.1.9
- Various build fixes
- Do more permission checks
- Add support for doing async connections. This can be used to
make connections through the portal later.
- Fix device creation from the GStreamer device monitor
- v4l2 experiment with controls
- move rtkit to a module to avoid dbus dependency
- use dmabuf allocator in gstreamer elements
- Add DSP module for pro audio cases, remove jack module. The
idea is to make a replacement jack client library that talks
pipewire directly instead of trying to emulate a jack server.
- Various memory handling improvements
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