PipeWire: bugfix release v1.6.8 released

PipeWire has been released in version 1.6.8.

This is a pure bugfix release that stays API and ABI compatible with previous 1.6.x versions. It focuses on a data race in JACK that could cause lost MIDI events in Ardour, plus several unbounded memory allocations.

This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.6.x releases.

Highlights

Fix a data race in JACK that could cause lost MIDI events in ardour.

Fix some unbounded memory allocations.

Various small fixes.

PipeWire

Avoid some graph recalcs, which fixes a bug when suspending a node while it is active.

Modules

Do Content-Length and allocation check in RAOP to avoid OOM errors.

Fix a potential memory leak in the error path of client-node. (#5348)

SPA

Fix filter-graph dynamic graph updates.

Avoid 100% when unplugging a card.

Fix filter-graph volumes when the filter is loaded inside a node with hardware volume. (#5344)

Add normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter. (#5322)

Bluetooth

Fix a potential leak when transport fails to start.

Pulse-server

Avoid stack exhaustion via unbounded alloca.

JACK

Fix a data race in jack_port_get_buffer() when called from concurrent threads, like in ardour. (#5324)

GStreamer

Skip invalid crop metadata.

Avoid crash because metadata listener was registered twice.

PipeWire

Source: GitLab