PipeWire 0.3.40 Released With Better JACK Compatibility

[RahulSundaram]

The version scheme is a bit different. PA has matured a bit, but surely doesn't feel like it has a history of 15 stable production versions. Pipewire 0.3.40 is somewhere close to PA 6 or 7 when it comes to stability and maturity.

You will have to keep in mind, PipeWire isn't starting over from scratch. Audio in Linux itself including underlying ALSA drivers have come a long way. The jump from ALSA to PulseAudio was much higher than the transition from PulseAudio to PipeWire.

[Slithery]

Now only if Ubuntu developers would picking up and use it by default in the next Ubuntu version instead of chasing wild goose!

Not going to happen unfortunately. Ubuntu never introduces new features for an LTS.

[Slithery]

Mir for all intents and purposes is dead (replaced with Wayland)

Mir is a compositor that uses the Wayland protocol. How is it 'dead'?

[Space Heater]

I have the opposite experience: bluetooth audio support has become a whole a lot better.

The overall bluetooth audio experience regressed with Fedora 35 due to wireplumber becoming the default session-manager and it does not support bluetooth profile autoswitching which was fully working in Fedora 34. So far Fedora 35 has been one of their worst releases in recent years in terms of regressions and bugs.

[QwertyChouskie]

Not going to happen unfortunately. Ubuntu never introduces new features for an LTS.

16.04 begs to differ

[QwertyChouskie]

Now only if Ubuntu developers would picking up and use it by default in the next Ubuntu version instead of chasing wild goose!
Every time a new promising technology comes up (systemd, Wayland) that solves real problems, Ubuntu prefers to stand aside for 10 years, not to contribute anything and then pick it up and use it when it's developed and polished by others.
Maybe they want to compete with Nvidia in selfishness.
Congratulations and many thanks to Red Hat and whoever is working on it!

Ubuntu made Wayland default in 2017, but it wasn't ready, so they switched to X.Org back with the next release.

[Mario Junior]

I never see a clusterfuc* audio subsystem like the Linux audio subsystem. What is wrong with these people? Just do like MacOS does, for God's sake!

What is the next? JackPipeaudioossalsa?

[Sonadow]

I never see a clusterfuc* audio subsystem like the Linux audio subsystem. What is wrong with these people? Just do like MacOS does, for God's sake!

What is the next? JackPipeaudioossalsa?

Even the Windows audio subsystem is a heck lot more sensible and less of a clusterfu** than Linux's.

[mSparks]

What is the next? JackPipeaudioossalsa?

Pretty sure that's now. Just the others are the "wire" in pipewire.
Don't really know tho, since, not found any documentation.

https://docs.pipewire.org/page_tools.html

Just comes up a blank page for me, and the rest of the site is absolute gibberish.

[andre30correia]

AFAIK Ubuntu has been dropping in-house developed features left and right for the past at least four to five years. Mir for all intents and purposes is dead (replaced with Wayland), Unity is dead (replaced with gnome), upstart is dead (replaced with systemd), etc. etc. etc.

Let's just say they don't want to deal with a torrent of new bug reports for new shiny not well-tested features RH has come up with. After all we are talking about PipeWire version 0.3.40, which is a far cry from 1.0(.0.).

right, upstart was a great project even used by RH, unity the only pro DE for may years, mir was a good ideia sice they need to control their product then and continues alive as wayland. PA works very well right why they change for something in beta yet? is enought having blending edge distros for that who broke the things and need a lot of work