* Remove obsolete hal option for PLIST.
Changelog:
PulseAudio 6.0 Release Notes
Changes at a Glance
BlueZ 5 native HSP (headset) support
BlueZ 5 HFP (hands-free) profile support via oFono
systemd socket activation support
Better support for multichannel and 2.1 profiles
Remap optimisations
Many minor improvements, bug fixes, and i18n updates
Notes for Application Developers
New function in libpulse: pa_stream_write_ext_free(). The function allows more flexible use of free callbacks than the regular pa_stream_write() function. This is useful if an audio buffer is part of a bigger structure that needs to be freed or unreferenced when the audio buffer is no longer needed.
We now have Vala bindings for libpulse-simple.
* Remove dependency to sysutils/hal, hald backend is removed.
* Use deprecated OSS backend under NetBSD (alsa backend should be used?)
Changelog:
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
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
PulseAudio 3.0 Release Notes
We're, back with another shiny PulseAudio release! While the 3.0 release was a little delayed, it brings a number of important improvements, and bug fixes. A summary of changes follows.
Notable Changes
ALSA Use Case Manager (UCM) support
Runtime editable LADSPA filter parameters
Out-of-the-box support for Bluetooth sources
ARM NEON optimisations
Configurable device latency offset
Adhere to the XDG Base Directory Specification
Various ALSA changes
Lots of infrastructure improvements
Packaging
Bluetooth support requires now "sbc", a library for the SBC codec. The codec used to be included within PulseAudio, but it has now been split off into a separate library. It's available at http://www.bluez.org.
Support for the "socket API" of BlueZ has been dropped in favour of the D-Bus based "media API". Due to this change, the minimum supported version of BlueZ is now 4.99. Also, make sure that you don't have "Disable=Media" in /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf. And due to a bug in BlueZ, it's probably necessary to have "Disable=Socket", otherwise there will be problems with the A2DP profile.
Support for HAL has been removed. This shouldn't affect anyone, but if it does, please configure PulseAudio to use udev instead. module-hal-detect still exists for maintaining configuration file compatibility, but all it does is to load module-udev-detect. module-hal-detect may get completely removed in 4.0.
* Tested on NetBSD/i386 5.1, /i386 6.0, and /amd64 6.99.13
* Also tested on OpenIndiana/i386 151a7, but my environment lacks audio
device, so I cannot check audio output
* Tested with multimedia/mplayer's -ao pulse option, works fine
* Add gm4 to USE_TOOLS for OpenIndiana build
Changelog:
Many changes. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio .
PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems. A sound server is
basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced
operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your
hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing
the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are
easily achieved using a sound server.
