[pulseaudio-discuss] [ANNOUNCE] PulseAudio 6.0 RC1 released!

[David Henningsson]

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.
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