Linux News: PulseAudio 4.0 Has Been Released

PulseAudio 4.0 Has Been Released

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As you may already know, PulseAudio 4.0 stable has been released in the 3rd of June and it is available for download.

Among other features, PulseAudio 4.0 handles better the low-latency requests, brings zsh and bash completion for CLI utilities, fixes the echo canceler infrastructure, sets the default resampler to speex-float-1 for lower CPU usage, et cetera. Read more in the official changelog.

How to install PulseAudio 4.0 on Arch Linux:

For now, PulseAudio 4.0 is available via PPA only on Arch Linux. Do this to install PulseAudio 4.0 on Arch:

Enable the Arch Linux Extra repository:

$ sudo su
# echo -e "[extra]\nInclude = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" >> /etc/pacman.conf

Update the local repositories:

# pacman -Sy

Install PulseAudio 4.0:

# pacman -Sy pulseaudio

How to install PulseAudio 4.0 on other Linux Systems

For other Linux Systems, like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE and many others, download pulseaudio from here.

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