14 DAY TRIAL // PulseAudio, the powerful and controversial sound system used in numerous GNU/Linux and UNIX-like computer and mobile operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD), reached version 6.0, a release that introduces several new features and fixes numerous annoying bugs reported by users from previous versions.
Prominent features include native support for HSP (headset) in BlueZ 5, support for SystemD socket activation, remap optimizations, improved support for 2.1 profiles, better support for multi-channel profiles, HFP (hands-free) profile support in BlueZ 5 via oFono, updated translations, as well as several minor improvements and bug fixes.
The changelog of PulseAudio 6.0 is huge and cannot be listed here, so if you’re curious and want to know exactly what bugs have been fixed, do not hesitate to take a look at the official release announcement and changelog. In the meantime, you can download PulseAudio 6.0 right now from Softpedia.
Because PulseAudio is the default sound server of many popular Linux kernel-based distributions, it is recommended to wait for your operating system vendor to update the PulseAudio packages. Arch Linux users are among the first to get the brand-new PulseAudio software, so make sure to update your system as soon as possible.