1openal-soft-1.21.1: 2 3 Improved alext.h's detection of standard types. 4 5 Improved slightly the local source position when the listener and source 6 are near each other. 7 8 Improved click/pop prevention for sounds that stop prematurely. 9 10 Fixed compilation for Windows ARM targets with MSVC. 11 12 Fixed ARM NEON detection on Windows. 13 14 Fixed CoreAudio capture when the requested sample rate doesn't match the 15 system configuration. 16 17 Fixed OpenSL capture desyncing from the internal capture buffer. 18 19 Fixed sources missing a batch update when applied after quickly restarting 20 the source. 21 22 Fixed missing source stop events when stopping a paused source. 23 24 Added capture support to the experimental Oboe backend. 25 26openal-soft-1.21.0: 27 28 Updated library codebase to C++14. 29 30 Implemented the AL_SOFT_effect_target extension. 31 32 Implemented the AL_SOFT_events extension. 33 34 Implemented the ALC_SOFT_loopback_bformat extension. 35 36 Improved memory use for mixing voices. 37 38 Improved detection of NEON capabilities. 39 40 Improved handling of PulseAudio devices that lack manual start control. 41 42 Improved mixing performance with PulseAudio. 43 44 Improved high-frequency scaling quality for the HRTF B-Format decoder. 45 46 Improved makemhr's HRIR delay calculation. 47 48 Improved WASAPI capture of mono formats with multichannel input. 49 50 Reimplemented the modulation stage for reverb. 51 52 Enabled real-time mixing priority by default, for backends that use the 53 setting. It can still be disabled in the config file. 54 55 Enabled dual-band processing for the built-in quad and 7.1 output decoders. 56 57 Fixed a potential crash when deleting an effect slot immediately after the 58 last source using it stops. 59 60 Fixed building with the static runtime on MSVC. 61 62 Fixed using source stereo angles outside of -pi...+pi. 63 64 Fixed the buffer processed event count for sources that start with empty 65 buffers. 66 67 Fixed trying to open an unopenable WASAPI device causing all devices to 68 stop working. 69 70 Fixed stale devices when re-enumerating WASAPI devices. 71 72 Fixed using unicode paths with the log file on Windows. 73 74 Fixed DirectSound capture reporting bad sample counts or erroring when 75 reading samples. 76 77 Added an in-progress extension for a callback-driven buffer type. 78 79 Added an in-progress extension for higher-order B-Format buffers. 80 81 Added an in-progress extension for convolution reverb. 82 83 Added an experimental Oboe backend for Android playback. This requires the 84 Oboe sources at build time, so that it's built as a static library included 85 in libopenal. 86 87 Added an option for auto-connecting JACK ports. 88 89 Added greater-than-stereo support to the SoundIO backend. 90 91 Modified the mixer to be fully asynchronous with the external API, and 92 should now be real-time safe. Although alcRenderSamplesSOFT is not due to 93 locking to check the device handle validity. 94 95 Modified the UHJ encoder to use an all-pass FIR filter that's less harmful 96 to non-filtered signal phase. 97 98 Converted examples from SDL_sound to libsndfile. To avoid issues when 99 combining SDL2 and SDL_sound. 100 101 Worked around a 32-bit GCC/MinGW bug with TLS destructors. See: 102 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83562 103 104 Reduced the maximum number of source sends from 16 to 6. 105 106 Removed the QSA backend. It's been broken for who knows how long. 107 108 Got rid of the compile-time native-tools targets, using cmake and global 109 initialization instead. This should make cross-compiling less troublesome. 110 111openal-soft-1.20.1: 112 113 Implemented the AL_SOFT_direct_channels_remix extension. This extends 114 AL_DIRECT_CHANNELS_SOFT to optionally remix input channels that don't have 115 a matching output channel. 116 117 Implemented the AL_SOFT_bformat_ex extension. This extends B-Format buffer 118 support for N3D or SN3D scaling, or ACN channel ordering. 119 120 Fixed a potential voice leak when a source is started and stopped or 121 restarted in quick succession. 122 123 Fixed a potential device reset failure with JACK. 124 125 Improved handling of unsupported channel configurations with WASAPI. Such 126 setups will now try to output at least a stereo mix. 127 128 Improved clarity a bit for the HRTF second-order ambisonic decoder. 129 130 Improved detection of compatible layouts for SOFA files in makemhr and 131 sofa-info. 132 133 Added the ability to resample HRTFs on load. MHR files no longer need to 134 match the device sample rate to be usable. 135 136 Added an option to limit the HRTF's filter length. 137 138openal-soft-1.20.0: 139 140 Converted the library codebase to C++11. A lot of hacks and custom 141 structures have been replaced with standard or cleaner implementations. 142 143 Partially implemented the Vocal Morpher effect. 144 145 Fixed the bsinc SSE resamplers on non-GCC compilers. 146 147 Fixed OpenSL capture. 148 149 Fixed support for extended capture formats with OpenSL. 150 151 Fixed handling of WASAPI not reporting a default device. 152 153 Fixed performance problems relating to semaphores on macOS. 154 155 Modified the bsinc12 resampler's transition band to better avoid aliasing 156 noise. 157 158 Modified alcResetDeviceSOFT to attempt recovery of disconnected devices. 159 160 Modified the virtual speaker layout for HRTF B-Format decoding. 161 162 Modified the PulseAudio backend to use a custom processing loop. 163 164 Renamed the makehrtf utility to makemhr. 165 166 Improved the efficiency of the bsinc resamplers when up-sampling. 167 168 Improved the quality of the bsinc resamplers slightly. 169 170 Improved the efficiency of the HRTF filters. 171 172 Improved the HRTF B-Format decoder coefficient generation. 173 174 Improved reverb feedback fading to be more consistent with pan fading. 175 176 Improved handling of sources that end prematurely, avoiding loud clicks. 177 178 Improved the performance of some reverb processing loops. 179 180 Added fast_bsinc12 and 24 resamplers that improve efficiency at the cost of 181 some quality. Notably, down-sampling has less smooth pitch ramping. 182 183 Added support for SOFA input files with makemhr. 184 185 Added a build option to use pre-built native tools. For cross-compiling, 186 use with caution and ensure the native tools' binaries are kept up-to-date. 187 188 Added an adjust-latency config option for the PulseAudio backend. 189 190 Added basic support for multi-field HRTFs. 191 192 Added an option for mixing first- or second-order B-Format with HRTF 193 output. This can improve HRTF performance given a number of sources. 194 195 Added an RC file for proper DLL version information. 196 197 Disabled some old KDE workarounds by default. Specifically, PulseAudio 198 streams can now be moved (KDE may try to move them after opening). 199 200openal-soft-1.19.1: 201 202 Implemented capture support for the SoundIO backend. 203 204 Fixed source buffer queues potentially not playing properly when a queue 205 entry completes. 206 207 Fixed possible unexpected failures when generating auxiliary effect slots. 208 209 Fixed a crash with certain reverb or device settings. 210 211 Fixed OpenSL capture. 212 213 Improved output limiter response, better ensuring the sample amplitude is 214 clamped for output. 215 216openal-soft-1.19.0: 217 218 Implemented the ALC_SOFT_device_clock extension. 219 220 Implemented the Pitch Shifter, Frequency Shifter, and Autowah effects. 221 222 Fixed compiling on FreeBSD systems that use freebsd-lib 9.1. 223 224 Fixed compiling on NetBSD. 225 226 Fixed the reverb effect's density scale and panning parameters. 227 228 Fixed use of the WASAPI backend with certain games, which caused odd COM 229 initialization errors. 230 231 Increased the number of virtual channels for decoding Ambisonics to HRTF 232 output. 233 234 Changed 32-bit x86 builds to use SSE2 math by default for performance. 235 Build-time options are available to use just SSE1 or x87 instead. 236 237 Replaced the 4-point Sinc resampler with a more efficient cubic resampler. 238 239 Renamed the MMDevAPI backend to WASAPI. 240 241 Added support for 24-bit, dual-ear HRTF data sets. The built-in data set 242 has been updated to 24-bit. 243 244 Added a 24- to 48-point band-limited Sinc resampler. 245 246 Added an SDL2 playback backend. Disabled by default to avoid a dependency 247 on SDL2. 248 249 Improved the performance and quality of the Chorus and Flanger effects. 250 251 Improved the efficiency of the band-limited Sinc resampler. 252 253 Improved the Sinc resampler's transition band to avoid over-attenuating 254 higher frequencies. 255 256 Improved the performance of some filter operations. 257 258 Improved the efficiency of object ID lookups. 259 260 Improved the efficienty of internal voice/source synchronization. 261 262 Improved AL call error logging with contextualized messages. 263 264 Removed the reverb effect's modulation stage. Due to the lack of reference 265 for its intended behavior and strength. 266 267openal-soft-1.18.2: 268 269 Fixed resetting the FPU rounding mode after certain function calls on 270 Windows. 271 272 Fixed use of SSE intrinsics when building with Clang on Windows. 273 274 Fixed a crash with the JACK backend when using JACK1. 275 276 Fixed use of pthread_setnane_np on NetBSD. 277 278 Fixed building on FreeBSD with an older freebsd-lib. 279 280 OSS now links with libossaudio if found at build time (for NetBSD). 281 282openal-soft-1.18.1: 283 284 Fixed an issue where resuming a source might not restart playing it. 285 286 Fixed PulseAudio playback when the configured stream length is much less 287 than the requested length. 288 289 Fixed MMDevAPI capture with sample rates not matching the backing device. 290 291 Fixed int32 output for the Wave Writer. 292 293 Fixed enumeration of OSS devices that are missing device files. 294 295 Added correct retrieval of the executable's path on FreeBSD. 296 297 Added a config option to specify the dithering depth. 298 299 Added a 5.1 decoder preset that excludes front-center output. 300 301openal-soft-1.18.0: 302 303 Implemented the AL_EXT_STEREO_ANGLES and AL_EXT_SOURCE_RADIUS extensions. 304 305 Implemented the AL_SOFT_gain_clamp_ex, AL_SOFT_source_resampler, 306 AL_SOFT_source_spatialize, and ALC_SOFT_output_limiter extensions. 307 308 Implemented 3D processing for some effects. Currently implemented for 309 Reverb, Compressor, Equalizer, and Ring Modulator. 310 311 Implemented 2-channel UHJ output encoding. This needs to be enabled with a 312 config option to be used. 313 314 Implemented dual-band processing for high-quality ambisonic decoding. 315 316 Implemented distance-compensation for surround sound output. 317 318 Implemented near-field emulation and compensation with ambisonic rendering. 319 Currently only applies when using the high-quality ambisonic decoder or 320 ambisonic output, with appropriate config options. 321 322 Implemented an output limiter to reduce the amount of distortion from 323 clipping. 324 325 Implemented dithering for 8-bit and 16-bit output. 326 327 Implemented a config option to select a preferred HRTF. 328 329 Implemented a run-time check for NEON extensions using /proc/cpuinfo. 330 331 Implemented experimental capture support for the OpenSL backend. 332 333 Fixed building on compilers with NEON support but don't default to having 334 NEON enabled. 335 336 Fixed support for JACK on Windows. 337 338 Fixed starting a source while alcSuspendContext is in effect. 339 340 Fixed detection of headsets as headphones, with MMDevAPI. 341 342 Added support for AmbDec config files, for custom ambisonic decoder 343 configurations. Version 3 files only. 344 345 Added backend-specific options to alsoft-config. 346 347 Added first-, second-, and third-order ambisonic output formats. Currently 348 only works with backends that don't rely on channel labels, like JACK, 349 ALSA, and OSS. 350 351 Added a build option to embed the default HRTFs into the lib. 352 353 Added AmbDec presets to enable high-quality ambisonic decoding. 354 355 Added an AmbDec preset for 3D7.1 speaker setups. 356 357 Added documentation regarding Ambisonics, 3D7.1, AmbDec config files, and 358 the provided ambdec presets. 359 360 Added the ability for MMDevAPI to open devices given a Device ID or GUID 361 string. 362 363 Added an option to the example apps to open a specific device. 364 365 Increased the maximum auxiliary send limit to 16 (up from 4). Requires 366 requesting them with the ALC_MAX_AUXILIARY_SENDS context creation 367 attribute. 368 369 Increased the default auxiliary effect slot count to 64 (up from 4). 370 371 Reduced the default period count to 3 (down from 4). 372 373 Slightly improved automatic naming for enumerated HRTFs. 374 375 Improved B-Format decoding with HRTF output. 376 377 Improved internal property handling for better batching behavior. 378 379 Improved performance of certain filter uses. 380 381 Removed support for the AL_SOFT_buffer_samples and AL_SOFT_buffer_sub_data 382 extensions. Due to conflicts with AL_EXT_SOURCE_RADIUS. 383 384openal-soft-1.17.2: 385 386 Implemented device enumeration for OSSv4. 387 388 Fixed building on OSX. 389 390 Fixed building on non-Windows systems without POSIX-2008. 391 392 Fixed Dedicated Dialog and Dedicated LFE effect output. 393 394 Added a build option to override the share install dir. 395 396 Added a build option to static-link libgcc for MinGW. 397 398openal-soft-1.17.1: 399 400 Fixed building with JACK and without PulseAudio. 401 402 Fixed building on FreeBSD. 403 404 Fixed the ALSA backend's allow-resampler option. 405 406 Fixed handling of inexact ALSA period counts. 407 408 Altered device naming scheme on Windows backends to better match other 409 drivers. 410 411 Updated the CoreAudio backend to use the AudioComponent API. This clears up 412 deprecation warnings for OSX 10.11, although requires OSX 10.6 or newer. 413 414openal-soft-1.17.0: 415 416 Implemented a JACK playback backend. 417 418 Implemented the AL_EXT_BFORMAT and AL_EXT_MULAW_BFORMAT extensions. 419 420 Implemented the ALC_SOFT_HRTF extension. 421 422 Implemented C, SSE3, and SSE4.1 based 4- and 8-point Sinc resamplers. 423 424 Implemented a C and SSE based band-limited Sinc resampler. This does 12- to 425 24-point Sinc resampling, and performs anti-aliasing. 426 427 Implemented B-Format output support for the wave file writer. This creates 428 FuMa-style first-order Ambisonics wave files (AMB format). 429 430 Implemented a stereo-mode config option for treating stereo modes as either 431 speakers or headphones. 432 433 Implemented per-device configuration options. 434 435 Fixed handling of PulseAudio and MMDevAPI devices that have identical 436 descriptions. 437 438 Fixed a potential lockup when stopping playback of suspended PulseAudio devices. 439 440 Fixed logging of Unicode characters on Windows. 441 442 Fixed 5.1 surround sound channels. By default it will now use the side 443 channels for the surround output. A configuration using rear channels is 444 still available. 445 446 Fixed the QSA backend potentially altering the capture format. 447 448 Fixed detecting MMDevAPI's default device. 449 450 Fixed returning the default capture device name. 451 452 Fixed mixing property calculations when deferring context updates. 453 454 Altered the behavior of alcSuspendContext and alcProcessContext to better 455 match certain Windows drivers. 456 457 Altered the panning algorithm, utilizing Ambisonics for better side and 458 back positioning cues with surround sound output. 459 460 Improved support for certain older Windows apps. 461 462 Improved the alffplay example to support surround sound streams. 463 464 Improved support for building as a sub-project. 465 466 Added an HRTF playback example. 467 468 Added a tone generator output test. 469 470 Added a toolchain to help with cross-compiling to Android. 471 472openal-soft-1.16.0: 473 474 Implemented EFX Chorus, Flanger, Distortion, Equalizer, and Compressor 475 effects. 476 477 Implemented high-pass and band-pass EFX filters. 478 479 Implemented the high-pass filter for the EAXReverb effect. 480 481 Implemented SSE2 and SSE4.1 linear resamplers. 482 483 Implemented Neon-enhanced non-HRTF mixers. 484 485 Implemented a QSA backend, for QNX. 486 487 Implemented the ALC_SOFT_pause_device, AL_SOFT_deferred_updates, 488 AL_SOFT_block_alignment, AL_SOFT_MSADPCM, and AL_SOFT_source_length 489 extensions. 490 491 Fixed resetting mmdevapi backend devices. 492 493 Fixed clamping when converting 32-bit float samples to integer. 494 495 Fixed modulation range in the Modulator effect. 496 497 Several fixes for the OpenSL playback backend. 498 499 Fixed device specifier names that have Unicode characters on Windows. 500 501 Added support for filenames and paths with Unicode (UTF-8) characters on 502 Windows. 503 504 Added support for alsoft.conf config files found in XDG Base Directory 505 Specification locations (XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_HOME, or their 506 defaults) on non-Windows systems. 507 508 Added a GUI configuration utility (requires Qt 4.8). 509 510 Added support for environment variable expansion in config options (not 511 keys or section names). 512 513 Added an example that uses SDL2 and ffmpeg. 514 515 Modified examples to use SDL_sound. 516 517 Modified CMake config option names for better sorting. 518 519 HRTF data sets specified in the hrtf_tables config option may now be 520 relative or absolute filenames. 521 522 Made the default HRTF data set an external file, and added a data set for 523 48khz playback in addition to 44.1khz. 524 525 Added support for C11 atomic methods. 526 527 Improved support for some non-GNU build systems. 528 529openal-soft-1.15.1: 530 531 Fixed a regression with retrieving the source's AL_GAIN property. 532 533openal-soft-1.15: 534 535 Fixed device enumeration with the OSS backend. 536 537 Reorganized internal mixing logic, so unneeded steps can potentially be 538 skipped for better performance. 539 540 Removed the lookup table for calculating the mixing pans. The panning is 541 now calculated directly for better precision. 542 543 Improved the panning of stereo source channels when using stereo output. 544 545 Improved source filter quality on send paths. 546 547 Added a config option to allow PulseAudio to move streams between devices. 548 549 The PulseAudio backend will now attempt to spawn a server by default. 550 551 Added a workaround for a DirectSound bug relating to float32 output. 552 553 Added SSE-based mixers, for HRTF and non-HRTF mixing. 554 555 Added support for the new AL_SOFT_source_latency extension. 556 557 Improved ALSA capture by avoiding an extra buffer when using sizes 558 supported by the underlying device. 559 560 Improved the makehrtf utility to support new options and input formats. 561 562 Modified the CFLAGS declared in the pkg-config file so the "AL/" portion of 563 the header includes can optionally be omitted. 564 565 Added a couple example code programs to show how to apply reverb, and 566 retrieve latency. 567 568 The configuration sample is now installed into the share/openal/ directory 569 instead of /etc/openal. 570 571 The configuration sample now gets installed by default. 572