PipeWire 0.3.63 (2022-12-15)
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
Highlights
- Fix a critical bug that causes audio distortion in some cases when using AVX2.
- Fix a crash in mpv caused by deinit of PipeWire.
- Resample the convolver IR to match the graph samplerate for better results.
- Many more small bugfixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Fix a segfault in the PipeWire deinit code triggered by mpv in some cases. (#2881)
- Fix docs about SPA_PLUGIN_DIR.
- Always dlclose by default (even under valgrind). Add an option with PIPEWIRE_DLCLOSE to select alternative behaviour.
- Improve PIPEWIRE_DEBUG category handling.
modules
- Resample the IR for the convolver when the IR samplerate and graph rate don't match.
SPA
- Handle spurious reads from timerfd gracefully.
- Fix potential stack-use-after-scope when starting Audacity.
- Fix distorted audio when using AVX2. (#2885)
- Remove fallback to default channel map in channelmix.
- Improve sorting of MIDI events, use the same order as Ardour. (#1868)
- Enable LFE downmixing by default. (#2425)
- Make IEC958/AC3 and IEC958/DTS work better by enforcing a fixed minimal buffering for the encoder to avoid stuttering. (#2650)
Pulse-Server
- Add a new pulse.cmd config section to execute pulse commands, currently only for loading modules. This removes the dependency on pactl.
- Improve debug of messages.