[[!inline pages="Software/PulseAudio/TOC" quick="yes" raw="yes"]] # Welcome to PulseAudio! ## What Is PulseAudio? PulseAudio is a sound system for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server. PulseAudio is designed for Linux systems. It has also been ported to Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but we don't currently have maintainers using non-Linux systems, so if you're having issues on those systems, you get to fix them yourself (patches are welcome). Windows binaries are not provided by the upstream PulseAudio project. PulseAudio is an integral part of all relevant modern Linux distributions and used in various mobile devices by multiple vendors. [[Details ...|Software/PulseAudio/About]] | [[Definition at Wikipedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio]] | [[OpenHub page|https://www.openhub.net/p/pulseaudio]] ## A note on the project status PulseAudio is currently maintained by three volunteer developers on their free time (probably amounting to less than one full time developer), which is not really enough, given the project size and scope. For this reason bug reports and patch submissions are often handled slowly if at all, even important ones. If you'd be interested in becoming a maintainer yourself, please contact us! IRC and mailing list details can be found on the [[Community page|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Community/]], or send email directly to Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk@iki.fi), Arun Raghavan (arun@arunraghavan.net) and/or Georg Chini (georg@chini.tk). ## News ### Jan 2021 * **2021-01-16**: [[PulseAudio 14.2|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-14.2.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2021-January/031990.html]]) * **2021-01-12**: [[PulseAudio 14.1|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-14.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2021-January/031986.html]]) ### Nov 2020 * **2020-11-23**: [[PulseAudio 14.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-14.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/14.0/]]) ### Sep 2019 * **2019-09-13**: [[PulseAudio 13.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/13.0/]]) ### Jul 2018 * **2018-07-16**: [[PulseAudio 12.2|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-12.2.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2018-July/030280.html]]) * **2018-07-14**: [[PulseAudio 12.1|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-12.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2018-July/030259.html]]) ### Jun 2018 * **2018-06-20**: [[PulseAudio 12.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-12.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/12.0/]]) ### Sep 2017 * **2017-09-18**: [[PulseAudio 11.1|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-11.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2017-September/028733.html]]) * **2017-09-05**: [[PulseAudio 11.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-11.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/11.0/]]) ### Jan 2017 * **2017-01-19**: [[PulseAudio 10.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-10.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/10.0/]]) ### Jun 2016 * **2016-06-22**: [[PulseAudio 9.0|https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-9.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/9.0/]]) ### Jan 2016 * **2016-01-22**: [[PulseAudio 8.0|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-8.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/8.0/]]) ### Oct 2015 * **2015-10-30**: [[PulseAudio 7.1|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-7.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/24367]]) ### Sep 2015 * **2015-09-24**: [[PulseAudio 7.0|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-7.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/7.0/]]) ### Feb 2015 * **2015-02-12**: [[PulseAudio 6.0|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-6.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/6.0/]]) ### March 2014 * **2014-03-03**: [[PulseAudio 5.0|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-5.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/]]) ### June 2013 * **2013-06-03**: [[PulseAudio 4.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-4.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/4.0/]]) ### March 2013 * **2013-03-08**: [[PAVUControl 2.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-2.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Notes|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/]]) ### December 2012 * **2012-12-18**: [[PulseAudio 3.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-3.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/3.0]]) ### July 2012 * **2012-07-19**: [[PulseAudio 2.1|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-2.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/2.1]]) ### May 2012 * **2012-05-11**: [[PulseAudio 2.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-2.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/2.0]]) ### March 2012 * **2012-03-28**: [[PulseAudio 1.99.2|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-1.99.2.tar.xz]] has been released. * **2012-03-15**: [[PulseAudio 1.99.1|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-1.99.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ### October 2011 * **2011-10-20**: [[PulseAudio 1.1|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-1.1.tar.xz]] has been released. ### September 2011 * **2011-09-27**: [[PulseAudio 1.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-1.0.tar.xz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/1.0]]) Also [[PaVuControl 1.0|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/pavucontrol-1.0.tar.xz]] and [[PaPrefs 0.9.10|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/paprefs/paprefs-0.9.10.tar.xz]]. * **2011-09-15:** Fourth pre-release for 1.0, [[PulseAudio 0.99.4|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-0.99.4.tar.gz]] has been released. ### August 2011 * **2011-08-29:** Third pre-release for 1.0, [[PulseAudio 0.99.3|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-0.99.3.tar.gz]] has been released. * **2011-08-16:** Second pre-release for 1.0, [[PulseAudio 0.99.2|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-0.99.2.tar.gz]] has been released. * **2011-08-03:** First pre-release for 1.0, [[PulseAudio 0.99.1|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-0.99.1.tar.gz]] has been released. ### June 2011 * **2011-06-23:** [[PulseAudio 0.9.23|http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-0.9.23.tar.gz]] has been released. ([[Changes|http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.23]]) [[Old News|Software/PulseAudio/OldNews]]