PipeWire 1.6.2

PipeWire 1.6.2 (2026-03-16)

This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.6.x releases.

Highlights

• Fix a potential crash when the wrong memory was freed.
• Fix a optimization with shared memory over some links that could cause errors later on.
• Fix SOFA filter and default control input in LADSPA and LV2.
• Some other small fixes and improvements.

PipeWire

• Remove an optimization to skip share mem in links, it causes problems later on. (#5159)

Modules

• Don't try to free invalid memory or close invalid fds when the client aborted before allocating buffer memory. (#5162)

SPA

• support ACP_IGNORE_DB in udev.
• Use 0x as a prefix for hex values.
• Mark Props as write-only in libcamera.
• Small optimization in the audio mixer.
• Fix initialization of control properties for SOFA and biquads in the filter-graph. (#5152)
• Fix min/max default values for LADSPA and LV2.

JACK

• Fix jack_port_type_id(). Return values that are compatible with JACK1/2.

Fixes:

fb47e739d9f605772b5098421a809537c108d30c Fix compilation