[ANNOUNCE] WebRTC AudioProcessing v2.0

[Andrey Semashev]

On January 8, 2025 10:54:05 PM liebrecht at grossmann-venter.com wrote:

> Webrtc, one of the worst security risks that ever happened to a browser.

Stop spreading FUD.

> For security concerned users, here is how to switch it off to prevent
> access to your cameras and microphones.
>
> https://browserleaks.com/webrtc
>
> On 2025-01-08 12:55, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've just rolled out WebRTC AudioProcessing v2.0, a standalone version
>> of the AudioProcessing module from libwebrtc. The code is bumped to the
>> WebRTC M131 version.
>>
>> tarball:
>> http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/webrtc-audio-processing/webrtc-audio-processing-2.0.tar.xz
>> sha256:
>> 7ea5b079073a9e8bfb55d2dc59471d6507dec1cf2fc697f1fdc53e2da1a2f77b
>>
>> Changes include:
>>
>> * Minor (breaking) API changes upstream
>> * Various improvements to the AEC implementation
>> * Transient suppression is removed
>> * ExperimentalAgc and ExperimentalNs are removed
>> * iSAC and the webrtc-audio-coding library were removed
>> * abseil-cpp dependency bumped to 20240722
>> * NEON runtime detection dropped following upstream
>> * Fixes for building on i686 and MIPS
>> * Support for BSDs is added
>> * Other build-system cleanups
>> * Patches to upstream are now also tracked in patches/
>>
>> Shoutout to everyone who contributed, much appreciated. I was a slow to
>> act on feedback w.r.t. i686 builds (and others) in the previous
>> release. That should be addressed now, and I'll try to help distros
>> pickup this change in a more timely fashion this time.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Arun