PipeASIO, an ASIO bridge for PipeWire on Linux (primarily for Wine), has been released in version v1.8.0.

The settings panel is now called PipeASIO Manager and can manage driver installations: the “Installations” tab discovers Faugus, Bottles (native and Flatpak) and manually selected Wine prefixes, and installs, updates, repairs, checks and removes the driver with checksum verification. Changes are reversible, and failed checks restore the previous installation. Also new are the pipeasio-manage CLI tool, a standalone AppImage and an ARM64 tarball for Debian.

Added

• PipeASIO Manager’s Installations tab discovers Faugus, native/Flatpak Bottles, and explicitly selected custom Wine prefixes. It downloads checksum-verified official driver releases and supports install, update, repair, check, and removal through each prefix’s own runner.
• Reversible prefix file, registry, launcher-environment, and Flatpak permission changes. Runtime checks require native-library loading and a PipeWire connection without starting audio playback. Failed checks restore the preceding installation.
• Native C++ pipeasio-manage CLI shared with the Qt GUI, manager-only CMake builds with BUILD_DRIVER=OFF, and an independent AppImage bundling the required native libraries and prebuilt installation probes. Driver releases include machine-readable artifact checksums and native-library requirements.
• ARM64 driver tarball (#23): the tagged release workflow builds pipeasio-<tag>-debian-aarch64.tar.gz on Debian stable, with the driver, the pipeasio-manage CLI and the aarch64 installation probe, and merges the two per-architecture manifests into one pipeasio-release.json whose artifacts array holds both the x86_64 and the aarch64 entry. There is no ARM64 AppImage.

Changed

• The settings panel’s desktop and window name is PipeASIO Manager. Existing settings and monitoring remain available.
• The AppImage includes Qt desktop-portal appearance integration and defaults to Fusion widgets, using system colors and the desktop’s light/dark preference without bundling the KDE/Darkly framework stack. Theme environment overrides are restored before launching Wine or launcher tools.
• The manager is architecture-generic (#23): release listing, download verification, install, check and removal derive the Wine module directories and the expected PE/ELF machines from the host architecture, so an aarch64 host uses the aarch64-windows/aarch64-unix pair instead of the x86_64 one. Existing x86_64 manifests keep validating unchanged.

Downloads

• pipeasio-manager-v1.8.0-x86_64.AppImage: native manager with Qt, PipeWire, yaml-cpp and libarchive bundled. No driver build or interpreter required.
• pipeasio-v1.8.0-archlinux-x86_64.tar.gz: Arch/CachyOS driver binaries and manager files.
• pipeasio-v1.8.0-debian-aarch64.tar.gz: Debian stable ARM64 driver binaries and manager files. There is no ARM64 AppImage: run bin/pipeasio-manage from this tarball, or build the GUI from source.
• pipeasio-release.json: checksums, native library requirements and Wine SDK metadata. Runtime compatibility is checked in the selected launcher.

Source: GitHub