Changelog:
Since we had a couple of annoying bugs in 7.0, we thought it'd be a
good idea to do a 7.1 to address those.
Changes at a glance:
* Fix a crasher when using srbchannel
* Fix a build system typo that caused symlinks to turn up in /
* Make Xonar cards work better
* Other minor bug fixes and improvements
Changelog:
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
* 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.
on Linux. What were they thinking... If there is one platform that it's
rash to make assumptions about API consistency on, it's Linux...
Fixes build on Ubuntu 11.10.
* 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 .
Also add a patch by drochner:
pthread_key_create returns 0 on success; return values on failure are
not defined.
Remaining patches without comments:
patch-ab: adding an ifdef notyet in src/daemon/main.c
patch-a{c,e}: --start -> -D (no idea why)
patch-af: allow some Linux-only code also on NetBSD
patch-ah (new):
Fix wrong placed #else clause against #if defined(__linux__) in cpu-arm.c.
patch-ba:
Check NetBSD's native atomic_ops in configure even in arm case.
configure checks $host_cpu first, not $host_os on checks for
native atomic operations.
(In upstream it seems fixed to see $host_os first but
it might still have problem around NetBSD version checks)
Colin Guthrie (2):
Fix a potential C++/C99 ism, add a log message on error condition
Fix two typos that broke tunnels
Lennart Poettering (46):
Initialize exit_idle_time to -1 instead of 0 when in system mode.
instead of resetting virtual_volume unconditionally on initialization, do so only when no volume was set before
use pa_channel_map_init_extend() instead of pa_channel_map_init_auto() as channel map for sink inputs/source outputs in case no map is specified
if the channel map was modified due to PA_SINK_INPUT_FIX_CHANNELS, remap the specified volume properly
define 0dB in PA as maximum amplification
properly remove dbus matches an filters when unloading m-b-d
always check for libtool prefix binary name to avoid confusion when using both installed and run-from-build-tree versions of PA in parallel
Fix spelling of privilige
Make missing git-changelog.perl non-fatal
fix invalid validity check
convert argument to boolean int in PA_UNLIKELY, too
include log.h near the end so that macro.h can be included in log.h and defines pa_bool_t properly
Try to catch certain driver errors
make the debug trap macro a proper macro in macro.h
don't set the volume of pacat unless it is explicitly set
warn if ALSA wakes us up and there is actually nothing to do
fix build
make sure to use 64bit rounding even on 32bit machines when converting to pa_usec_t
make shm marker architecture independant, patch from michich, closes#401
Make sure libpulse never gets unloaded
Check if environ is actually set before we use it
Fix return value of --dump-resample-methods
Don't mix front-center into rear channels
Pass GDBM_NOLOCK to gdbm
Load module-volume-restore and module-device-restore before all other modules
introduce new function pa_module_unload_request_by_index
Don't store pointer to pa_module
actually unload the modules from a new stack frame
unload tunnel modules from a new stack frame
it's better to always use the index of a module instead of the pa_module*
downgrade a few warnings
Make sure we drop CAP_NICE if RT is not allowed
Allow access("/dev/dsp", W_OK) succeed
Use FIONREAD instead of TIOCINQ
Implement PA_SOURCE_MESSAGE_GET_LATENCY
make sure we don't hit an assert when we issue two rewind requests in a
If we cannot open an ALSA device with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT retry without
fix a gcc warning
Rework handling of the PA_SINK_LATENCY/PA_SOURCE_LATENCY flags
A few minor cleanups and updates
add a few missing parens
show maximum usable slot size
Make sure we don't drop any data on the client side
for record streams fill in the latency as the fragsize
Fix suspending of all sinks/sources
bump version/soname
Luiz Augusto von Dentz (7):
Unload module-bluetooth-device if the remote device disconnects.
Fix possible invalid read while attempting to load module-bluetooth-device.
Fix bug walking on module list.
Update module-bluetooth-device to the new ipc.
Send packets with proper size.
Fix send and recv message sizes.
Fix sending wrong codec capability length.
Sean McNamara (1):
--check: Updated manpage slightly and pulseaudio --help slightly.
Tom Bamford (1):
Multicast SDP packets sent with same IP TTL as RTP packets
chocolateboy (1):
Fix typo in log message: s/Recevied/Received/
won't be available, and the previous version of this patch would not allow
successful building.
Change the code (in the OSS module) to check for a defined AUDIO_GETBUFINFO
under NetBSD. If it isn't available, indicate that the system has no
mechanism available.
(May compromise on audio synchronisation on local OSS devices)
Ok jmcneill@
go one operating system further.
Old patch-ac disabled the guts of tests/rtstutter.c for all but Linux. But it
isn't that portable on Linux either as it stands, and errors out (on EeePC) at
link time with:
rtstutter.c:(.text+0xbd): undefined reference to `pthread_setaffinity_np'
Just bring Linux in line with other platforms by changing the #ifdef __linux__
to #if 0.
Doesn't deserve a revision bump.
