Please upgrade PulseAudio to new version 0.9.11 now available

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Some major fixes in this release: http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.11

First release with glitch-free PA.

    * the best new feature, although not directly visible from the outside and often enough not enabled due to artificial limitations on the hardware buffer size of ALSA is time-scheduled playback (aka 'glitch-free'). See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html
    * The PA client libraries now interpolate timing information in a more sophisticated fashion, to avoid roundtrips.
    * Arbitrary properties can be attached to streams, devices, clients in PA, such as icons, program names, X11 windows
    * a new PA startup scheme that should make PA compatible with multiple simultaneous logins by the same user and console applications.
    * "Spatial" event sounds, i.e. sound events from UI elements are positioned in space, according to where they were triggered on the screen (click on a button on the left side of the screen and audio comes from the left speaksers, ...) To make use of these features clients need to use the libcanberra event sound library.
    * The startup logic has been rewritten to allow file-based capababilites (CAP_SYS_NICE) instead of suid root for acquiring real-time scheduling
    * Fix RTP client to adapt to the speed of the sender
    * A new module 'module-always-sink' to make sure there is always at least one sink defined, and it it is a null sink.
    * A new switch --start to start PA only if it is not running yet
    * Add peak detection monitor/record streams
    * Optimize memory consumption
    * Lots of other additions, and fixes.

Not sure what the workflow is here, but this is worth it.

[Azazel (hoverthevacum)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an Feature Request to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at [WWW] https://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

The correct course of action for this bug is to see if it is in Debian and request a sync if it is. No need to discuss on Brainstorm.

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

I was under the impression that we kept our pulseaudio branch largely out of sync with Debian.

That said, Sid only has 0.9.10 anyway: http://packages.debian.org/sid/pulseaudio