PipeWire 1.4.2 (2025-04-14)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with
previous 1.x releases.
Highlights
- Do extra checks for MIDI to avoid 100% CPU usage on older kernels.
- Fix some potential crashes in POD builder.
- pw-cat streaming improvements on stdout/stdin.
- Small fixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Make the service files depend on DBus to avoid startup races.
SPA
- Do extra checks for MIDI to avoid 100% CPU usage on older kernels.
- Use Header metadata by default in videoadapter.
- Handle set_format result from v4l2 better.
- Handle crash when POD builder overflows in the filter.
- Work around a libebur128 bug. (#4646)
Tools
- pw-cat prefers AU format when streaming on stdout/stdin. (#4629)
- Improve pw-cat verbose sndfile format debug.
- Add the missing --channel-map long option to pw-loopback.
GStreamer
- Fix a leak in the deviceprovider. (#4616)
- Fix negotiation and make renegotiation better.
Signed-off-by: Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
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