The Plan
This schedule is a guideline to keep a set of rolling releases rather than a longer cycle with lots of changes in between.
- All releases happen off the master branch, and are numbered as N.0
- If a release introduces a major bugs/regressions that need immediate attention, a stable-N.x branch is created and point releases in that series (N.1, N.2, ...) are made off this branch
- Major releases are planned to be made every 4 months
- A feature freeze will be announced ~2-4 weeks before the release, depending on how large the changes that have gone into the release are
- Periodic release candidate tarballs will be rolled out during the freeze period for easy packaging and testing
- World domination is targeted for December 2012
Current Release: 3.0
Blockers
- Vala patches [Alexander Kurtz]
pa_once bug
Previous releases
Release: 2.0
- Target date: March 26th, 2012
- Target freeze date: Feb 27th, 2012
- Actual date: May 11th, 2012
Blockers
Blocker bugs are tracked on bug #45812
The following patches need to be reviewed and evaluated to see if merging is achievable within a bound timeframe.
- Vala patches [Alexander Kurtz]
Jack detection [David Henningsson] done
module-profile-switcher [Arun Raghavan] done
module-bluetooth-policy [Frederic Dalleau] deferred
Fixed resamplers [Pierre-Louis Bossart] deferred
NEON sconv/mixing [Peter Meerwald] deferred
More Orc [Maarten Bosmans] deferred
Highlights
These should go into release notes.
- Alternate sample rates
- Echo cancellation: WebRTC canceller, AGC
- Fixed HURD support
- A2DP decoder quality improvements
- Infrastructure + Implementation for headphone/mic jack detection
- Virtual Surround sink support
Xen Paravirtualised audio sink (#43503)