release of the sound subsystem . This is the first release of the 1.2.x branch (the 1.1 branch was formed in 2015). The new version includes updates to libraries, utilities, and plugins that operate at the user level. Drivers are evolving synchronously with the Linux kernel.
Notable changes include extraction into a separate library of functions related to (the method of loading driver handlers from user space). Configuration files for topologies have been moved to the alsa-topology-conf package. The syntax has been expanded (Use Case Manager). UCM-related configuration files have been relocated to the alsa-ucm-conf package, distributed under the BSD license.
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