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Update NEWS for 16.0

Dylan Van Assche requested to merge dylanvanassche/pulseaudio:release-notes/16.0 into master

Mostly copied from https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/16.0/ but added also:

 * Notes for end users
   * Improved hardware support
     * Behringer UMC22 generalized to Texas Instruments PCM2902 to support more products
     * NI Komplete Audio 6 MK2 profiles
   * A lot of fixes to ALSA, bluetooth, and other components.
 * Notes for packagers
   * Change Meson option 'daemon-only' to 'client'
   * glib and fftw are now common dependencies, not only for the client.
   * Enable GStreamer-based RTP by default when available

Up to commit 852c1595, commit date 07 Mar, 2022

For the website release notes:

End users

Behringer UMC22 generalized to Texas Instruments PCM2902 to support more products

Recognize more products based upon the Texas Instruments PCM2902 chip besides the Behringer UMC22 such as Intopic Jazz-UB700 USB headset

NI Komplete Audio 6 MK2 profiles

The NI Komplete Audio 6 MK2 is similar to the NI Komplete Audio 6 and is now supported as well.

Packagers

Change Meson option 'daemon-only' to 'client'

The meson option to build only the daemon is renamed from 'daemon-only' to 'client'

glib and fftw are now common dependencies, not only for the client.

glib and fftw are not only used for the client and moved to the common dependencies in Meson.

Enable GStreamer-based RTP by default when available

If PulseAudio is built with GStreamer, GStreamer-based RTP is enabled by default now. This feature was introduced in PulseAudio 14.0 but not enabled by default.

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