pulseaudio-7.0

[Fernando de Oliveira]

​http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2015-August/024306.html

This is a release candidate for 7.0. Following the announcement. After that, for 7.1: some drafts and other not yet working links.

To be included in the book only if needed by some other package.

[pulseaudio-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] PulseAudio 6.99.1
Tanu Kaskinen tanuk at iki.fi
Thu Aug 27 11:25:44 PDT 2015

Good evening, citizens of Earth!

The first release candidate for PulseAudio 7.0 is now ready. Testing
and reporting found issues would be greatly appreciated. These are the
most significant changes since 6.0 (according to some undefined
criteria):

  • 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

The full release notes draft is available here: 
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/7.0/

Download the tarballs here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-6.99.1.tar.xz
SHA1: 4c463999562e557801fb47e8ae363c3bb5460ee4
MD5: c808839d148ad248358415a7d66aa318

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-6.99.1.tar.gz
SHA1: 68573b78995e2d738f138c3a491cecb5a4fd3d05
MD5: cb9297744c633924f8e807a7d301237b

And finally, here's the git shortlog:

Ahmed S. Darwish (1):
    • pulse: Document client libraries logging behavior

Alexander E. Patrakov (3):
    • Make pa_socket_server_new static
    • module-loopback: don't use 0 for custom source output message id
    • echo-cancel: fix the obviously-wrong "buffer+=buffer" logic

Andrey Semashev (4):
    • Added libsoxr resampler backend.
    • Enabled libsoxr resampler backend.
    • Added libsoxr detection and optional build of soxr resampler
      backend.
    • Added documentation for soxr resampling methods.

Andrey Zholos (1):
    • detect: Fix OSS device detection with long names

Arun Raghavan (15):
    • sink-input: Clarify the meaning of rewrite and flush a bit in
      rewinds
    • udev: Deal with unavailable bus property
    • protocol-native: Fix source latency calculation in ADJUST_LATENCY
      mode
    • rescue-streams: Document a cryptic looking condition
    • rescue-streams: Fix a couple of typos
    • stream: Support extended API with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC if possible
    • sink,source: Add a helper function to check whether this is a
      filter
    • always-sink: Ignore filter sinks
    • echo-cancel: Handle underlying sink going away better when
      autoloaded
    • equalizer: Handle underlying sink going away better when
      autoloaded
    • build-sys: Fix distcheck for systemd user unit dir
    • build-sys: Make echo-cancel use speex cflags/libs conditionally
    • build-sys: Fix up setting the bash completion dir
    • alsa-mixer: Drop redundant conditional frees
    • alsa: Clarify potentially confusing device port data field

Cédric Valmary (1):
    • i18n: add Occitan translation

David Henningsson (28):
    • alsa-util: Make two of the warnings "debug" instead of "error"
    • pstream: Don't split (non-SHM) memblocks
    • protocol-native: Re-enable srbchannel
    • pstream: Remove unnecessary if condition
    • thread-mq: Make pa_thread_mq_done more robust
    • lfe-filter: Import code from the Chrome OS audio server
    • lfe-filter: Enable LFE filter in the resampler
    • lfe-filter: Cleanup and refactor
    • memblock: Change pa_memblock_new_malloced to an inline function
    • lfe-filter: Add rewind support
    • resampler: Make some basic functions for rewinding
    • resampler: Allow disabling the LFE filter by setting crossover to
      0
    • resampler: Rename "lfe_filter_required" to "lfe_remixed"
    • module: Add hook dynarray
    • module-*-restore: use pa_module_hook_connect
    • module-suspend-on-idle: use pa_module_hook_connect
    • module-alsa-card: use pa_module_hook_connect
    • module-filter-*: use pa_module_hook_connect
    • module-switch-*: use pa_module_hook_connect
    • alsa-mixer: Use separate profiles for Multichannel Input/Output
    • alsa-mixer: Add paths/ports for multichannel profile
    • core-util, pactl: Make one localised and one non-localised version
      of pa_yes_no
    • alsa-mixer: Make line out path unavailable when "Front Headphone"
      is plugged in
    • lfe-filter-test: Use S16NE format
    • echo-cancel: Add config.h in adrian-aec.c
    • stream: Check sample spec validity before abiding
      PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC
    • module: Warn about modules loaded after unload
    • alsa-mixer: Add "Front Line Out" and "Rear Line Out"

David Herrmann (1):
    • core-util: Fix set_nice() to use private bus connections

Deepak Srivastava (3):
    • padsp: Avoid possible deadlock. Unlocked i->mainloop before
      returning from default case.
    • patcl: Error msg from pactl not quite accurate for 'mute' commands
    • Removed exclamation marks from user-visible messages.

Dušan Kazik (1):
    • i18n: update Slovak translation

Felipe Sateler (2):
    • Add a .travis.yml for Travis CI
    • man: fix reference to --daemonize option

Hui Wang (5):
    • lfe-filter: change the crossover frequency as a parameter
    • tests: adding lfe-filter-test
    • daemon-conf: enable the lfe remixing by default
    • tests: Remove a redundant mempool_new from resampler-test
    • tests: add tolerant variation for comparing the rewind result

Jaska Uimonen (1):
    • socket-server: add tcp support for systemd socket activation

Juho Hämäläinen (17):
    • dbus: Use hooks for card profile events
    • dbus: Use hooks for client proplist changes
    • dbus: Use hooks for sink and source events
    • dbus: Use hooks for sink-input and source-output events
    • dbus: Use state changed hook for sink-input and source-output rate
      changes
    • core: Add hooks for default sink and source changes
    • namereg: Fire hooks for default sink and source changes
    • dbus: Use hooks for put and unlink
    • dbus: Use hooks for default sink and source changes
    • core: Add core hooks for module changes
    • module: Fire hooks for new, proplist changed and removed
    • core, core-scache: Fire hooks for new, changed and removed events
    • dbus: Use hooks for sample cache new and removed events
    • dbus: Use hook for sample cache proplist changes
    • dbus: Use hooks for module new and removed events
    • dbus: Use hooks for module proplist changes
    • Revert "Warn on loading module-dbus-protocol"

Manish Sogi (2):
    • xen: Resource leak in local function alloc_gref() - alloc_fd and
      dev_fd
    • pacmd: Placeholders describing command line options should not
      have spaces

Milo Casagrande (1):
    • Update Italian translation.

Muhammet Kara (1):
    • i18n: Updated Turkish translation

Paul Menzel (1):
    • lfe-filter: Use length modifier `z` for type `size_t`

Peter Meerwald (26):
    • context: pa_context_connect() with PA_CONTEXT_NOFAIL should return
      0 when waiting for PA on D-Dus
    • man: Describe optional prefix {string} in server address
    • man: Drop separate paplay man page, move info to pacat man page
    • man: Install man page symlinks to pacat for paplay, parec,
      parecord, pamon
    • pacat: State purpose of program depending how it was invoked
    • alsa-util: No logging when sound card only supports
      non-interleaved sample format
    • alsa: Fix spelling of officially
    • tagstruct: Distinguish pa_tagstruct_new() use cases
    • tagstruct: Replace dynamic flag with type
    • tagstruct: Get rid of pa_tagstruct_free_data()
    • tagstruct: Add type _APPENDED
    • tagstruct: Use flist to potentially save calls to malloc()/free()
    • packet: Hide internals of pa_packet, introduce pa_packet_data()
    • packet: Make pa_packet_new() create fixed-size packets
    • packet: Introduce pa_packet_new_data() to copy data into a newly
      created packet
    • packet: Use flist to save calls to malloc()/free()
    • pacat: Fix comment wording
    • man: Fix typos in pulse-cli-syntax.5
    • man: Document .ifexists CLI meta command
    • daemon: Exit with code 0 on SIGINT and SIGTERM
    • pulse: Document pa_mainloop_quit()'s retval parameter
    • core: Don't export pa_rtpoll_quit(), only used internally
    • biquad: Make use of M_SQRT2 constant
    • biquad: Fix warning, gamma shadows global declaration
    • padsp: Fix wrong condition discovered by -Wlogical-not-parentheses
      warning
    • core: Work around -Wlogical-not-parentheses warnings

Pierre Ossman (1):
    • core: make sure we use the correct win32 socket errno:s

René J. V. Bertin (1):
    • coreaudio: Change error type to OSStatus

Sagar Nageshmurthy (1):
    • Fix: Prevent calling pa_rtpoll_free() for a NULL rtpoll

Shawn Walker (1):
    • modules: Fix struct namespace collision on Solaris

Sukesh Adiga (1):
    • cpu-arm: Fix memory leak in pa_cpu_get_arm_flags()

Takashi Sakamoto (1):
    • udev: use ID_MODEL/ID_VENDOR to give friendly name for FireWire
      devices

Tanu Kaskinen (27):
    • socket-server: pa_socket_server_new() can't fail, so don't check
      its return value
    • dynarray: Add pa_dynarray_last()
    • dynarray: Add pa_dynarray_remove_by_index()
    • dynarray: Add pa_dynarray_remove_by_data()
    • dynarray: Add PA_DYNARRAY_FOREACH
    • tagstruct: Refactor writing/reading basic types
    • alsa: Don't access pa_sink/source_new_data after done() has been
      called
    • core-util: Make number parsing stricter
    • ucm: Add support for "JackControl"
    • .gitignore: Add lfe-filter-test
    • sink, source: Fix a volume change leak
    • pactl: Fix relative volume parsing
    • core-util: Filter out not-a-numbers in pa_atod()
    • core-util: Make pa_parse_volume() more strict
    • oss: Use the correct fd when interacting with the mixer
    • build-sys: add winerrno.h to libpulsecommon_SOURCES
    • combine-sink: Fix unsafe message handling
    • alsa-mixer: Add descriptions for analog-stereo-input and
      analog-stereo-output mappings
    • build-sys: make error message visible
    • alsa: Add pa_alsa_jack_new() and pa_alsa_jack_free()
    • ucm: Don't create separate input and output jacks
    • alsa: Add associations between jacks, UCM devices and UCM ports
    • alsa: Move UCM port availability updating to the mixer code
    • ucm: Create only one jack object per kcontrol
    • ucm: Add support for "JackHWMute"
    • build-sys: bump sonames
    • update NEWS for 7.0

Ville Skyttä (1):
    • build-sys: Install bash completion to where bash-completion.pc
      says

Wim Taymans (1):
    • Add korean translation

Yuri Chornoivan (1):
    • i18n: Update Ukrainian translation

-- 
Tanu

​http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-7.0.tar.xz

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

Notes for Application Developers
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[bdubbs@…]

If anyone wants these tickets before I get them updated, please take it.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 16546.