Highlights
- Avoid a crash in cleanup - of globals. (#4250)
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2.
- Some more bugfixes and improvements.
PipeWire
- Avoid a crash in cleanup of globals. (#4250)
- Improve RequestProcess dispatch.
Tools
- Improve float parsing. (#4234)
SPA
- Clear the ringbuffer when stopping in libcamera.
- Use systemd-logind to scan for new devices in v4l2. (#3539, #3960)
- Queue dropped first buffer in v4l2.
- Unlink pcm devices when moving drivers to avoid broken pipe.
JACK
- Emit buffer_size callback in jack_activate() to improve compatibility with GStreamer. (#4260)
Now the big question is if the update fixes this nasty little bug where no matter what, the audio is muted on login until you mute and unmute. that I had to add a dirty little shell script on startup to fix:
#!/bin/bash pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle pactl set-sink-mute 0 toggle
I was experiencing it with 1.2.3 on Debian Trixie, though I’ve heard of Arch users experiencing it. I’m updating to 1.2.4 right now.