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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

  • Target date: Sep 25th, 2012
  • Target freeze date: Sep 11th, 2012
  • Actual date: Oct 31st, 2012 (freeze)

Blockers

  • Vala patches [Alexander Kurtz]
  • pa_once bug done
  • module-profile-switcher [Arun Raghavan] deferred
  • module-bluetooth-policy [Frederic Dalleau] done
  • Fixed resamplers [Pierre-Louis Bossart] deferred
  • NEON sconv/mixing [Peter Meerwald] partially done
  • Win32 build fixes (Thomas Martitz) done

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 re viewed 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] deferred
  • 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)