Markus Volk
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PipeWire 1.6.5 (2026-05-13)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
1.6.x releases.
Highlights
- Fix muted output in some cases.
- Removed the pipe filter in filter-graph.
- More fixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Fix an issue in pw-filter where it could end up in a loop where buffers
are stuck on a port and the port becomes silent. (#5249)
Modules
- Improve ROC receiver start/stop, fixes memory leaks. (#5250)
- Remove the pipe filter from filter-graph, it's broken by design and a
security nightmare.
- Fix the midi buffer size in jack-tunnel.
SPA
- Rate limit out-of-buffers errors. (#5249)
- Partially revert the line-out mute patch, it seems to break things and leave
audio muted when plugging-unplugging jacks. (#5246)
- Improve renegotiation in audioconvert when the graph rate changes and the
resampler was disabled. (#4933).
- Fix potential crash in alsa when logging.
Pulse-server
- A whole bunch of extra security checks and hardening fixes.
Older versions:
PipeWire 1.6.4 (2026-04-22)
This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
1.6.x releases.
Highlights
- Small improvements and seqfault fixes.
- Try to not emit ports that JACK doesn't understand. Fixes glitches in
ardour and other JACK apps.
PipeWire
- Refuse to load plugins and crash when pw_init() was not called. (!2784)
SPA
- Fix LADSPA plugin loading, support LADSPA_PATH ending with /
- Fix segfault in alsa-seq when removing devices in some cases. (#5221)
- Allow negative gain in mixer. (#5228)
- Improve alsa-seq port names, add : between client and port. (#5229)
- ACP: don’t override user-selected port on availability changes.
Bluetooth
- Backport some important fixes and minor improvements.
JACK
- Ignore non DSP ports to avoid emitting extra callbacks.
GStreamer
- Fix crop metadata.
Tools
- Fix WAVEX saving in pw-cat. (#5233)
Signed-off-by: Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>
This layer depends on:
URI: git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core branch: master
URI: git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded layers: meta-oe branch: master
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Layer maintainer: Khem Raj raj.khem@gmail.com