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PulseAudio 11.1

A bug fix release.

 * Fix a crash in filter modules related to flat volumes and volume sharing
 * Fix a crash when the bluetooth adapter reports weird MTU size
 * Disable bluetooth MTU autodetection by default
 * Add mixer handling back for hardware that doesn't have any alsa-lib
   configuration
 * Prioritize USB devices over built-in sound cards (11.0 was supposed to have
   this feature, but the implementation turned out to be incomplete)

Contributors

  Arun Raghavan
  Tanu Kaskinen


PulseAudio 11.0

Changes at a glance:

 * Support for newer AirPlay hardware
 * USB and bluetooth devices preferred over internal sound cards
 * Bluetooth HSP headset role implemented
 * Bluetooth HFP audio gateway role implemented (requires oFono)
 * Bluetooth HSP audio gateway and HFP hands-free unit roles can be enabled
   simultaneously
 * Upmixing can now be disabled without bad side effects
 * Avoid having unavailable sinks or sources as the default
 * Option to avoid resampling more often
 * Option to automatically switch bluetooth profile to HSP more often
 * Better latency control in module-loopback
 * Changed module argument names in module-ladspa-sink and
   module-virtual-surround-sink
 * Fixed input device handling in module-waveout
 * Improved bluetooth MTU configuration
 * GNU Hurd support
 * Applications can request LADSPA or virtual surround filtering for their
   streams
 * Support for 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems in padsp

Detailed change log:

  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/11.0/

Contributors

  Arun Raghavan
  ced2c
  Christian Kellner
  Colin Leroy
  Corentin Noël
  David Mandelberg
  David Michael
  Denis Shulyaka
  Felipe Sateler
  Georg Chini
  Grzegorz Kolodziejczyk
  Hajime Fujita
  Hui Wang
  Imre Vadász
  Jungsup Lee
  Karl Ove Hufthammer
  KimJeongYeon
  Luiz Augusto von Dentz
  Martin Blanchard
  Matthias Wabersich
  Mihai Moldovan
  Milo Casagrande
  Moo
  Moritz Bruder
  Muhammet Kara
  muzena
  Pali Rohár
  Paul Seyfert
  Peter Meerwald-Stadler
  Philip Chimento
  Piotr Drąg
  Rafael Fontenelle
  Renjith Thomas
  Stephen Paul Weber
  Takashi Sakamoto
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Ted Ying
  Vadim Troshchinskiy
  Wim Taymans
  Yuri Chornoivan


PulseAudio 10.0

Changes at a glance:

 * Automatically switch Bluetooth profile when using VoIP applications
 * New module for prioritizing passthrough streams (module-allow-passthrough)
 * Fix hotplugging support for USB surround sound cards
 * Separate volumes for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP profiles
 * memfd-based shared memory mechanism enabled by default
 * Removed module-xenpv-sink
 * Dropped dependency to json-c
 * When using systemd to start PulseAudio, pulseaudio.socket is always started
   first
 * Compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.0
 * Clarified qpaeq license

Detailed change log:

  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/10.0/

Contributors

  Ahmed S. Darwish
  Aidan Gauland
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Anton Lundin
  Arun Raghavan
  Balázs Úr
  Chris Billington
  Cédric Valmary
  Deepak Srivastava
  Dušan Kazik
  Felipe Sateler
  Fran Dieguez
  Georg Chini
  Guillaume Desmottes
  Jan Alexander Steffens
  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
  Juha Kuikka
  Juho Hämäläinen
  KimJeongYeon
  Marcin Lewandowski
  Mario Blättermann
  Moo
  Nils Schneider
  Pali Rohár
  Peter Meerwald-Stadler
  Philip Withnall
  Pierre Ossman
  Piotr Drąg
  Rikard Söderström
  Romain Naour
  Sylvain Baubeau
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Ulrich Eckhardt
  Viktar Vaŭčkievič


PulseAudio 9.0

Changes at a glance:

 * Automatic routing improvements
 * Beamforming and various other new features in the WebRTC echo canceller
 * Various improvements in module-role-cork and module-role-ducking
 * LFE remixing disabled by default
 * memfd-backed shared memory transport
 * Support for sample rates up to 384 kHz
 * webrtc-audio-processing dependency minimum version bumped to 0.2
 * Changed the C standard from C99 to C11.

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/9.0

Contributors

  Ahmed S. Darwish
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Arun Raghavan
  Barun Kumar Singh
  David Henningsson
  Deepak Srivastava
  Gabor Kelemen
  Georg Chini
  Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
  Jonathan Perkin
  Juho Hämäläinen
  Jungsup Lee
  Kamil Rytarowski
  Marcin Lewandowski
  Milo Casagrande
  Muhammet Kara
  Nazar Mokrynskyi
  Peter Meerwald
  Piotr Drąg
  Sachin Kumar Chauhan
  Sangchul Lee
  Tanu Kaskinen
  YunQiang Su


PulseAudio 8.0

Changes at a glance:

 * Automatic routing more likely to change profile
 * OS X and NetBSD support improvements
 * Systemd journal logging for clients
 * New LFE balance programming interface
 * Module-dbus-protocol improvements
 * More flexible configuration file handling
 * pulsecore-8.0.so moved to a private directory
 * New script for measuring memory consumption
 * Various bug fixes and small improvements

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/8.0

Contributors

  Ahmed S. Darwish
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Andrey Semashev
  Arun Raghavan
  David Henningsson
  Deepak Srivastava
  Felipe Sateler
  Georg Chini
  Jason Gerecke
  John Horan
  Juho Hämäläinen
  Julien Isorce
  Kamil Rytarowski
  KimJeongYeon
  Kiran Krishnappa
  Lev Melnikovsky
  Manish Sogi
  Mihai Moldovan
  Mingye Wang
  Nazar Mokrynskyi
  Peter Mattern
  Peter Meerwald
  Pierre Ossman
  Ross Burton
  Shawn Walker
  Takashi Iwai
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Thomas Petazzoni
  Yuri Chornoivan
  Zbigniew Kempczyński
  jungsup lee


PulseAudio 7.0

Changes at a glance:

  * LFE channel synthesis with low-pass filtering
  * New libsoxr based resamplers
  * Socket activation support for TCP
  * The "srbchannel" IPC mechanism enabled by default
  * More flexible jack detection support when using UCM
  * Exiting due to SIGTERM isn't considered a failure
  * Better support for Creative SoundBlaster Omni Surround 5.1

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/7.0

Contributors:

  Ahmed S. Darwish
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Andrey Semashev
  Andrey Zholos
  Arun Raghavan
  Cédric Valmary
  David Henningsson
  David Herrmann
  Deepak Srivastava
  Dušan Kazik
  Felipe Sateler
  Hui Wang
  Jaska Uimonen
  Juho Hämäläinen
  Manish Sogi
  Michael Cree
  Milo Casagrande
  Muhammet Kara
  Nazar Mokrynskyi
  Paul Menzel
  Peter Meerwald
  Pierre Ossman
  Piotr Drąg
  René J. V. Bertin
  Sagar Nageshmurthy
  Shawn Walker
  Sukesh Adiga
  Takashi Sakamoto
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Ville Skyttä
  Wim Taymans
  Yuri Chornoivan
  Zavadovsky Yan


PulseAudio 6.0

Changes at a glance:

  * Bluez 5 HSP (headset profile) support, both with and without oFono
  * SystemD socket activation support
  * Better support for multichannel and 2.1 profiles
  * Protocol optimisations
  * Remap optimisations
  * Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documenation and i18n updates

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/6.0

Contributors:

  Alexander Couzens
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Alexander Kurtz
  Alexander Potashev
  Andrey Semashev
  Arun Raghavan
  Bradley Broom
  Cheng-Chia Tseng
  Colin Guthrie
  David Henningsson
  Dimitris Spingos
  Dušan Kazik
  Evan Nemerson
  Felipe Sateler
  Georg Chini
  Hemanth Meenakshisundaram
  Hui Wang
  James Bunton
  Jason Newton
  Javier Jardón
  Joe Marcus Clarke
  Josef Andersson
  João Paulo Rechi Vita
  Juho Hämäläinen
  kozdincer
  Luiz Augusto von Dentz
  Lukas Peleska
  Lukasz Marek
  Mauro Guerrera
  Michał Górny
  Niels Ole Salscheider
  Pali Rohár
  Parin Porecha
  Pete Beardmore
  Peter Meerwald
  Peter Ujfalusi
  Pierre Ossman
  Piotr Drąg
  poljar (Damir Jelić)
  Rafael Ferreira
  Rex Dieter
  Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
  Sajeesh Sidharthan
  Sjoerd Simons
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Wim Taymans
  Yuri Chornoivan


PulseAudio 5.0

Changes at a glance:

  * BlueZ 5 support (A2DP only)
  * Reimplementation of the tunnel modules
  * Native log target support for systemd-journal
  * Resampler refactoring
  * --monitor-stream option for parecord and parec
  * "latency_msec" argument for module-rtp-recv
  * "inhibit_auto_suspend" argument for module-rtp-send
  * "auto" argument for module-tunnel-sink and module-tunnel-source
  * Removed module-bluetooth-proximity
  * Jack detection for line out
  * Laptop internal surround speaker volume support
  * Improved float->s16 and s16->float sample conversion for ARM NEON
  * "Available" flag for card profiles
  * Removed module-dbus-protocol from the default configuration
  * Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documenation and i18n updates

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0

Contributors:

  Alexander Couzens
  Alexander E. Patrakov
  Alexander Potashev
  Anton Lundin
  Arun Raghavan
  Ben Brewer
  Cheng-Chia Tseng
  Colin Guthrie
  Damir Jelić
  Daniel Albers
  David Henningsson
  Dominique Leuenberger
  Héctor Martín
  Ismo Puustinen
  Jan Alexander Steffens
  Javier Jardón
  João Paulo Rechi Vita
  Juho Hämäläinen
  Kenneth Perry
  Kerrick Staley
  Kiran Krishnappa
  Koop Mast
  Lars-Peter Clausen
  Laurentiu Nicola
  Luiz Augusto von Dentz
  Magnus Ekhall
  Mikel Astiz
  Mitchell Fang
  Nikolay Amiantov
  Parin Porecha
  Peter Meerwald
  Pierre Ossman
  Piotr Drąg
  Rafael Ferreira
  Ryan Lortie
  Scott Reeves
  Shuai Fan
  Stefan Sperling
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Wim Taymans
  Yuri Chornoivan
  victory


PulseAudio 4.0

Changes at a glance:

  * Better handling of low latency requests
  * Optimisations while mixing (generic, ARM NEON)
  * Default resampler is now speex-float-1 (lower CPU usage)
  * Major Bluetooth refactoring for better reliability and easier maintenance
  * Fixes for graceful hand-off to/from JACK
  * New module to apply ducking based on stream roles
  * Echo canceller infrastructure fixes
  * Bash and zsh completion for command line tools
  * Solaris and OS X fixes
  * Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documenation and i18n updates

Detailed change log:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/4.0

Contributors:

  Akihiro Tsukada
  Albert Zeyer
  Arun Raghavan
  Christoph Gysin
  David Henningsson
  Flavio Ceolin
  Jarkko Suontausta
  Javier Jardón
  João Paulo Rechi Vita
  Jyri Sarha
  Luiz Augusto von Dentz
  Maarten Lankhorst
  Marc-Antoine Perennou
  Martin Pitt
  Matěj Laitl
  Mikel Astiz
  Paul Meng
  Peter Meerwald
  Peter Nelson
  Piotr Drąg
  poljar (Damir Jelić)
  Robin H. Johnson
  Stefan Huber
  Ștefan Săftescu
  Tanu Kaskinen
  Vadim Troshchinskiy
  Wang Xingchao
  Yuri Chornoivan

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Change logs for previous versions can be seen at:

  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes