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.