PulseAudio 9.0 is out

The PulseAudio 9.0 release is out. Changes include improvements toautomatic routing, beamforming support, use of the Linux memfd mechanism for transport, highersample-rate support, and more; see therelease notes for details.

See also: thisarticle from Arun Raghavan on how the beamforming feature works."The basic idea is that if you have a number of microphones (a micarray) in some known arrangement, it is possible to 'point' or steer thearray in a particular direction, so sounds coming from that direction aremade louder, while sounds from other directions are rendered softer(attenuated)."