Pipewire in F37 is not updated anymore?

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I am using F37 and F38.
I noticed that pipewire on F37 is at version 0.3.71 and on F38 it"s at version 0.3.73.
Pipewire is still a little bit experimental and I am wondering why it’s not updated anymore on F37 ?

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Again, an update of pipewire on F38 but nothing on F37.
The amount of update on F37 makes me think that you already have abandonned f37. Am I right ?

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Once a new Fedora version is released, it generally only receives maintenance updates to fix security issues and other bugs. See https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/lifecycle

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Yes, I know. But I have F38 and F37 installed and I really a minimal set of updates on F37 and nothing related to pipewire for weeks.
I feared that, following the layoff orchestrated by IBM, that there is not enough people for the updates on F37 and that the work has now switched quasi exclusively on f38 …

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That might be true if there were only employees working on the software. The fedora community (including developers) it seems are mostly volunteers and it appears only a very small percentage are actually employees of either redhat or fedora so I would anticipate minimal impact from that action.

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Yes, I can understand stand, but I think that some key packages are managed by redhat / fedora people. Like the kernel (with is updated at the same pace on F37 / 38) and pipewire with is not updated for week now on F37.
I am a big user of pipewire-jack and I think these updates are really required. The situation of pipewire-jack has really improved but still, there are some minor problems.
And generaly, I don’t see that much updated on F37 wrt F38 … That’s why I asked the question.

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pipewire in F37: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=pipewire&release=f37
pipewire in F38: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?search=pipewire&release=f38
pipewire package overview: pipewire - Fedora Packages

I’d recommend talking to the package maintainer The Wim and find out why no pipewire updates have been built for f37 recently.

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Thanks for the links:
I was grabbing these information via:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pipewire

And via:

$ dnf --release=37 info pipewire
$ dnf --release=38 info pipewire
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I open a ticket on bugzilla and the package pipewire will be updated on F37.

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A build and a lot of test cases available.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-8085046f99

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new buid pipewire-0.3.75-1.fc37

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-42a23c131f

we need a tester with a USB MIDI keyboard

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I’ve got a MIDI keyboard: how do you start the tests ?

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im a user/tester without proaudio. i hope you can test

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I found the test. I will test this tomorrow.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_PipeWire_Jack_Midi_Routing

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Test OK on my side.

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Recorded live with kernel 6.4.4 (and preempt=full as a kernel option) and pipewire 0.3.75.
I used OBS Studio for the recording.
The backing track is played via tuxguitar.
I used Guitarix for the guitar sound and the LV2 plugin mod-gxpitchshifter to tune down the guitar via guitarix.

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