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PulseAudio 11.0 released

Version 11.0 of the PulseAudio sound system has been released. New features include more hardware support, a priority change so that external sound devices are preferred over internal devices, support for operating as a Bluetooth headset device, and the long awaited GNU Hurd port. See the release notes for details.

From:  Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk-AT-iki.fi>
To:  pulseaudio-discuss <pulseaudio-discuss-AT-lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject:  [ANNOUNCE] PulseAudio 11.0
Date:  Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:30:46 +0300
Message-ID:  <1504607446.2980.6.camel@iki.fi>

Hello, world!

The release of PulseAudio 11.0 has been a long time coming, and now it
has finally materialized! Look at all this delicious new stuff the
contributors have cooked:

 * 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 on Windows
 * 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

Yummy! Details of all those things are available in the release notes:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Note...

The tarball:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/...
SHA1: df04f9ffb3fc1de9255f8b88e5d824fcd942607d
MD5: c5fe1cd05f5306b1a0fba5099f0e9e37

Big thanks to all the people who helped by contributing code,
translations, bug reports, or anything else that I forgot to mention
here!

-- 
Tanu

https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
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PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 5, 2017 22:39 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (8 responses)

"And the long awaited GNU Hurd Port".

Love the cheeky overview. This is why I read LWN.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 5, 2017 23:34 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Let me be the first to speculate that 2018 will be the year of the Hurd desktop.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 9:19 UTC (Wed) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035) [Link] (6 responses)

The Hurd support is actually somewhat cool:

"the summary is that the translator pretends to be a Solaris audio device and acts as a rump kernel client converting I/O to the NetBSD audio device. Since PulseAudio has a Solaris module, this allows audio playback from any programs that use PulseAudio without patching them or modifying their build processes."

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2017-07/msg00001.html

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 9:59 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

There is truly not problem that cannot be solved with an additional layer of indirection. ;)

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 16:28 UTC (Wed) by alvieboy (guest, #51617) [Link] (4 responses)

Too bad Oracle decided to kill Solaris. So pulseaudio now relies on a defunct system.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 20:23 UTC (Wed) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link] (1 responses)

As opposed to Hurd, which was never alive to begin with, and thus cannot be killed! Win.

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 20:48 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

A squid may even be a good mascot too. :)

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 6, 2017 21:17 UTC (Wed) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

What makes you believe it relies on it?

PulseAudio 11.0 released

Posted Sep 8, 2017 14:44 UTC (Fri) by bandrami (guest, #94229) [Link]

That's all the better, isn't it, since it's internally implemented and now won't be a moving target?


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