pipewire-0.3.46

[Douglas R. Reno]

New point version

[Bruce Dubbs]

# 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.

# SPA

• Improve removing sources when dispatching. Also improve performance now that a destroy loop can be removed.
• 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.
• 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.
• Improve argument parsing and node.description.
• The sink-index should now be filled in correctly when playing a sample.
• module-always-sink is now implemented and loaded by default.
• 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 defauld 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.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 394eb4c6b9f971ef25b32b941ca291e359b6f11b