May I have your attention, please? PulseAudio 12.0 has entered our world, and it claims to be superior to its predecessors at least in the following ways: * Better latency reporting (and hence better A/V sync) with the A2DP bluetooth profile * Much more accurate latency reporting for AirPlay devices * Fixed a crash or high CPU use problem with Intel HDMI LPE * module-switch-on-connect now ignores virtual devices * When using passthrough for compressed audio, set the "non-audio" bit * Prioritize HDMI output over S/PDIF output * HSP support for more bluetooth headsets * Choose the A2DP bluetooth profile by default instead of HSP * New "sink_input_properties" module argument for module-ladspa-sink * New "use_system_clock_for_timing" module argument for module-pipe-sink * module-pipe-sink can now use an existing pipe * Steelseries Arctis 7 USB headset stereo output support * Dell Thunderbolt Dock TB16 speaker jack support * Fixed digital input support for some USB sound cards * Fixed Native Instruments Traktor Audio 6 detection * Ability to disable input or output on macOS * New "dereverb" option for the Speex echo canceller * New module: module-always-source * State files not any more readable by all users in the system mode * module-augment-properties now uses XDG_DATA_DIRS to find .desktop files * Updates for the Vala bindings * The GConf dependency can now be avoided * qpaeq license changed from AGPL to LGPL * qpaeq ported to Qt 5 * Compatibility with glibc 2.27 * The esdcompat tool isn't any more installed if esound support is disabled This stuff is explained in more detail in the release notes: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/12.0/ The creature has assumed a form of a tarball: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-12.0.tar.xz SHA1: 9b0dcd62ae4c24542e13644e5fac3de5b13d6db7 MD5: efe7683310080e80bc42707285df8c36 Big thanks to all the people who helped by contributing code, translations, bug reports, or anything else that I forgot to mention here! -- Tanu https://liberapay.com/tanuk https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
