PulseAudio 8.0 Changes at a glance: * Automatic routing more likely to change profile * OS X and NetBSD support improvements * Systemd journal logging for clients * New LFE balance programming interface * Module-dbus-protocol improvements * More flexible configuration file handling * pulsecore-8.0.so moved to a private directory * New script for measuring memory consumption * Various bug fixes and small improvements Detailed change log: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/8.0 Contributors Ahmed S. Darwish Alexander E. Patrakov Andrey Semashev Arun Raghavan David Henningsson Deepak Srivastava Felipe Sateler Georg Chini Jason Gerecke John Horan Juho Hämäläinen Julien Isorce Kamil Rytarowski KimJeongYeon Kiran Krishnappa Lev Melnikovsky Manish Sogi Mihai Moldovan Mingye Wang Nazar Mokrynskyi Peter Mattern Peter Meerwald Pierre Ossman Ross Burton Shawn Walker Takashi Iwai Tanu Kaskinen Thomas Petazzoni Yuri Chornoivan Zbigniew Kempczyński jungsup lee 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 Detailed change log: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/7.0 Contributors: Ahmed S. Darwish Alexander E. Patrakov Andrey Semashev Andrey Zholos Arun Raghavan Cédric Valmary David Henningsson David Herrmann Deepak Srivastava Dušan Kazik Felipe Sateler Hui Wang Jaska Uimonen Juho Hämäläinen Manish Sogi Michael Cree Milo Casagrande Muhammet Kara Nazar Mokrynskyi Paul Menzel Peter Meerwald Pierre Ossman Piotr Drąg René J. V. Bertin Sagar Nageshmurthy Shawn Walker Sukesh Adiga Takashi Sakamoto Tanu Kaskinen Ville Skyttä Wim Taymans Yuri Chornoivan Zavadovsky Yan PulseAudio 6.0 Changes at a glance: * Bluez 5 HSP (headset profile) support, both with and without oFono * SystemD socket activation support * Better support for multichannel and 2.1 profiles * Protocol optimisations * Remap optimisations * Lots of other enhancements, bug fixes, and documenation and i18n updates Detailed change log: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/6.0 Contributors: Alexander Couzens Alexander E. Patrakov Alexander Kurtz Alexander Potashev Andrey Semashev Arun Raghavan Bradley Broom Cheng-Chia Tseng Colin Guthrie David Henningsson Dimitris Spingos Dušan Kazik Evan Nemerson Felipe Sateler Georg Chini Hemanth Meenakshisundaram Hui Wang James Bunton Jason Newton Javier Jardón Joe Marcus Clarke Josef Andersson João Paulo Rechi Vita Juho Hämäläinen kozdincer Luiz Augusto von Dentz Lukas Peleska Lukasz Marek Mauro Guerrera Michał Górny Niels Ole Salscheider Pali Rohár Parin Porecha Pete Beardmore Peter Meerwald Peter Ujfalusi Pierre Ossman Piotr Drąg poljar (Damir Jelić) Rafael Ferreira Rex Dieter Ricardo Salveti de Araujo Sajeesh Sidharthan Sjoerd Simons Tanu Kaskinen Wim Taymans Yuri Chornoivan 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 Contributors: Alexander Couzens Alexander E. Patrakov Alexander Potashev Anton Lundin Arun Raghavan Ben Brewer Cheng-Chia Tseng Colin Guthrie Damir Jelić Daniel Albers David Henningsson Dominique Leuenberger Héctor Martín Ismo Puustinen Jan Alexander Steffens Javier Jardón João Paulo Rechi Vita Juho Hämäläinen Kenneth Perry Kerrick Staley Kiran Krishnappa Koop Mast Lars-Peter Clausen Laurentiu Nicola Luiz Augusto von Dentz Magnus Ekhall Mikel Astiz Mitchell Fang Nikolay Amiantov Parin Porecha Peter Meerwald Pierre Ossman Piotr Drąg Rafael Ferreira Ryan Lortie Scott Reeves Shuai Fan Stefan Sperling Tanu Kaskinen Wim Taymans Yuri Chornoivan victory 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 Contributors: Akihiro Tsukada Albert Zeyer Arun Raghavan Christoph Gysin David Henningsson Flavio Ceolin Jarkko Suontausta Javier Jardón João Paulo Rechi Vita Jyri Sarha Luiz Augusto von Dentz Maarten Lankhorst Marc-Antoine Perennou Martin Pitt Matěj Laitl Mikel Astiz Paul Meng Peter Meerwald Peter Nelson Piotr Drąg poljar (Damir Jelić) Robin H. Johnson Stefan Huber Ștefan Săftescu Tanu Kaskinen Vadim Troshchinskiy Wang Xingchao Yuri Chornoivan ---- Change logs for previous versions can be seen at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes