On 2014-11-28 05:05, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 16:05 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: >> Hi! >> >> PulseAudio 6.0 rc1 has now been released - compared to 5.0, we have over >> 300 patches contributed by 41 people, and that's just the tip of the >> iceberg. All the millions of you who are using it, discussing it with >> your friends or random people who are wrong on the Internet [1], >> reporting bugs, answering questions on support forums, IRC channels, >> Facebook etc, or in other ways have been caring for PulseAudio, you have >> all helped shape PulseAudio what it is today. Thank you! >> >> Some of the new features include: >> >> * 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 >> * Zsh shell completion support >> * Remap optimisations >> >> ...but most of all, it's all of the many minor improvements and bug >> fixes all across the place [2]. >> >> As usual, we are not 100% confident that not a bug or two might have >> slipped in with all the improvements. Hence this is a release candidate, >> which we count on you to test in your environment to make sure it still >> works for you. >> >> You can get the tarballs here: >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-5.99.1.tar.xz >> MD5: ce6fae362378d5b1c7d4d52235dc8219 >> SHA1: 7a84bc008c64ab00153756c2696ecffcd41e0881 >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-5.99.1.tar.gz >> MD5: 7afcfbf27807d231f21b7cac69826cbe >> SHA1: 3ba2f03bc821e5e2445e23bee63c3d0c908ef8c1 >> >> Oh, and btw. There is a caveat: extra-hdmi.conf has been merged into >> default.conf. This can cause a transitional problem with a lot of >> hardware not being detected by PulseAudio, and you can resolve it by >> either rebooting your computer, or making a symlink from extra-hdmi.conf >> to default.conf (in /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets). > > udevadm reload-rules and trigger is probably the easiest way to take > care of this. Right. I was just afraid this could cause unwanted side effects for other unrelated hardware, but if it's safe, we could certainly recommend this approach instead. > For those of you testing on Fedora, it looks like we've already got > packages on Rawhide, and I've set up a copr to build the same package > for Fedora 20 and 21: > > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/arunsr/pulseaudio-latest/ The Ubuntu Desktop team is currently testing Bluez 5 and PA 6.0 RC1 in https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/transitions It contains builds for Ubuntu 15.04 only. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
