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PulseAudio 17.0

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 13, 2024,

updated Jan 13, 2024

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

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Linuxiac:

PulseAudio 17.0 Enhances Bluetooth and ALSA Support

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.