PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and video streams while nicely integrating with sandboxed Flatpak apps and more.
PipeWire 1.6 retains API/ABI compatibility with PipeWire 1.4 while adding many new features. PipeWire 1.6 ships an LDAC decoder for Bluetooth, support for metadata features, the maximum channel count was increased to 128 by default, more HDR color types added, many Bluetooth updates, RTP updates, and a variety of other improvements.
PipeWire 1.6 also brings other channel improvements, safe parsing and building of PODs in shared memory, fliter-graph has an FFmpeg and ONNX plug-in, and retiring support for v0 clients. Plus there are various documentation updates too.
Downloads and more details on the PipeWire 1.6 release via FreeDesktop.org GitLab.
