PulseAudio 17.0
Changes at a glance:
Notes for end users
- Updates to ALSA UCM-based setups
- Battery level indication to Bluetooth devices
- Support for the Bluetooth FastStream codec
- webrtc-audio-processing dependency updated
- Trigger role groups added to module-role-cork
- XDG base directory spec for profile-set loading
Notes for application developers
- PA_RATE_MAX increased
Notes for packagers
- webrtc-audio-processing dependency updated
Linuxiac:
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PulseAudio 17.0 Enhances Bluetooth and ALSA Support
For a long time, PulseAudio was the go-to sound server for Linux, reliably catering to the multimedia requirements of countless users. However, the landscape is evolving.
In recent years, PipeWire, a more versatile and modern audio framework, has emerged as the preferred choice, now widely adopted as the default by most Linux distributions.
This shift has significantly slowed down the development of PulseAudio, evidenced by the considerable gap of over a year and a half since the release of its last version, 16.