Release v0.20.0

What's Changed

Features

• Decode VP9 spatial layers with VA-API by @devopvoid in #388
• Encode H.264 and H.265 temporal layers with VA-API by @devopvoid in #381
• Encode VP9 temporal layers with VA-API by @devopvoid in #380
• Encode AV1 temporal layers with VA-API by @devopvoid in #379
• Encode AV1 with VA-API on Linux by @devopvoid in #377
• Decode AV1 with VA-API on Linux by @devopvoid in #376
• Decode H.264 with VA-API on Linux by @devopvoid in #375
• Encode VP9 with VA-API on Linux without turning it on by @devopvoid in #374
• Decode H.265 with VA-API on Linux by @devopvoid in #372
• Let the audio codecs of a factory be limited and ordered by @devopvoid in #340
• Report receiver source changes and audio packet infos by @devopvoid in #366
• Send encoded frames through RTP sender injectors by @devopvoid in #365
• List the hardware codecs of the hardware video codec factories by @devopvoid in #359
• Decode H.265 and AV1 with NVDEC on Linux by @devopvoid in #353
• Encode H.265 and VP9 and decode VP9 with VA-API on Linux, when turned on by @devopvoid in #352
• Encode VP9 in hardware on Windows, when turned on by @devopvoid in #348
• Encode and decode H.265 in hardware on Windows by @devopvoid in #347
• Build WebRTC with H.265 by @devopvoid in #346
• Decode with Vulkan Video on Linux in the media player by @devopvoid in #345
• Decode HEVC and AV1 in hardware in the media player by @devopvoid in #331
• Let a video processor change camera and desktop frames by @devopvoid in #342
• Add first-packet observers, sender and receiver IDs, and track volume by @devopvoid in #338
• Add the missing peer connection signaling and control calls by @devopvoid in #334
• Decode H.264 and VP9 with NVDEC on NVIDIA GPUs on Linux by @devopvoid in #321
• Decode video in hardware in the media player by @devopvoid in #320
• Decode VP9 on the GPU with Media Foundation on Windows by @devopvoid in #319
• Decode VP9 with VideoToolbox on macOS by @devopvoid in #318
• Add a hardware video decoder factory, with Media Foundation on Windows by @devopvoid in #315
• Encode AV1 on the GPU with Media Foundation and NVENC by @devopvoid in #314
• Encode H.264 with VA-API on Intel and AMD GPUs on Linux by @devopvoid in #313
• Encode H.264 with NVENC on NVIDIA GPUs, on Windows and Linux by @devopvoid in #312
• Add a hardware video encoder factory, with Media Foundation H.264 by @devopvoid in #310
• Add custom video codec factories by @devopvoid in #303
• Map the remaining peer connection configuration fields by @devopvoid in #317
• Map the remaining sender encoding parameters by @devopvoid in #316

Bug Fixes

• Restore version and changelog before 0.20.0 release by @devopvoid in #392
• Map the VP9 interpolation filter to VA-API's order by @devopvoid in #383
• Write the H.264 and H.265 headers for VA-API drivers that need them by @devopvoid in #371
• Call network thread observers on a callback thread by @devopvoid in #364
• Play and record on Windows devices that mix in more than two channels by @devopvoid in #358
• Capture screens with ScreenCaptureKit on macOS by @devopvoid in #354
• Mark encoded frames as the end of their temporal unit by @devopvoid in #356
• Dispose a MediaStream from onAddTrack as a view, and return its ID by @devopvoid in #343
• Keep camera hotplug and track views from crashing or releasing shared tracks by @devopvoid in #341
• Stop exceptions from callbacks unwinding through WebRTC by @devopvoid in #335
• Keep audio device change handling from aborting or corrupting state by @devopvoid in #337
• Keep exceptions inside the audio device change callbacks by @Yml-0 in #333
• Fall back from a failed hardware video decoder without losing or damaging pictures by @devopvoid in #329
• Keep a seek near the end of the source and the position after seeking back by @devopvoid in #328
• Keep hardware encoders for sources whose first frame has an odd size by @devopvoid in #324

Refactor

• Let the PeerConnectionFactory own its worker thread by @devopvoid in #355

Documentation

• Link the unreleased docs from the README and release notes by @devopvoid in #386
• Note that VP9 cannot be injected by @devopvoid in #385
• Add icons and links to the home page features by @devopvoid in #384
• List the hardware codecs in tables by @devopvoid in #378
• Open the other channel's docs in the same tab by @devopvoid in #382
• List hardware codecs, video processing and frame injection as features by @devopvoid in #369

Performance

• Cut the processor time of hardware decoding on Windows by @devopvoid in #326

Testing

• Play real sizes and formats the GPU refuses in the media player by @devopvoid in #325
• Cover the lifecycle of hardware decoding in the media player by @devopvoid in #323
• Check that hardware decoders crop padded frames to the picture by @devopvoid in #322

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Bump @vue/server-renderer and vue in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #363
• Bump source-map-js from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #362
• Publish the docs of the latest release, and main's under /next/ by @devopvoid in #361
• Send Central credentials again under Maven 3.10 by @devopvoid in #339
• Bump the github-actions group across 3 directories with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #309
• Share one platform matrix and deploy snapshots once by @devopvoid in #306
• Add Dependabot and trim caches and artifacts by @devopvoid in #304
• Harden the release workflow and keep native caches warm by @devopvoid in #302

Other

• Bump the maven-dependencies group with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #370
• Update WebRTC branch from 7977 to 8059 (M155) by @devopvoid in #360
• Build WebRTC with autoninja by @devopvoid in #357
• Patch FFmpeg so that Direct3D 12 decoding works on AMD and Intel by @devopvoid in #330
• Bump the maven-dependencies group with 7 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #308
• Bump the maven-plugins group with 9 updates by @dependabot[bot] in [#307](https://github.com/devopvoid/webrt...

Release v0.19.0

What's Changed

Features

• Add encoded frame transforms and a media recorder by @devopvoid in #300
• Add a native extension API and an FFmpeg-based media module by @devopvoid in #291

Bug Fixes

• Repair the release pipeline and publish the media module by @devopvoid in #299
• Clear the CI build annotations by @devopvoid in #294
• Take Map method IDs from the interface instead of from HashMap by @devopvoid in #290
• Keep device-captured audio out of sink-fed audio senders by @devopvoid in #289
• Give AudioTrackSource a dispose() to release its native reference by @devopvoid in #287

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Cache the FFmpeg build of the macOS x86_64 target by @devopvoid in #295

Other

• Sync the WebRTC checkout without git history by @devopvoid in #298
• Cross compile the macOS x86_64 target natively on Apple Silicon by @devopvoid in #296
• Build FFmpeg on every platform and make the media module part of the normal build by @devopvoid in #292

Release v0.18.0

What's Changed

Features

• Allow setting custom WebRTC field trials on PeerConnectionFactory by @devopvoid in #284

Bug Fixes

• Make CustomVideoSource's frame_id_ counter thread-safe by @devopvoid in #286
• Synchronize CustomAudioSource's sinks_ against AddSink/RemoveSink by @devopvoid in #285
• JNI memory-safety and thread-safety bugs in the native bridge by @devopvoid in #283

Release v0.17.0

What's Changed

Features

• Expose asynchronous data channel send results by @SendableMetatype in #281
• Add windows arm64 platform support by @SendableMetatype in #266
• Offer both screens and windows in the Wayland portal picker by @B077AS in #264

Bug Fixes

• Report rejected synchronous data channel sends by @SendableMetatype in #278
• Throw instead of aborting when the default audio device module fails to initialize by @SendableMetatype in #276
• Keep the desktop capture frame rate at the configured value by @SendableMetatype in #274
• Keep libwebrtc quiet by default and make logToDebug work again by @SendableMetatype in #273
• Delete the local references created for received data channel messages by @SendableMetatype in #272
• Load libudev and libdbus at runtime instead of linking them by @SendableMetatype in #271

Documentation

• Correct changelog v0.16.0 and supported os matrix by @devopvoid in #282
• Correct data channel buffered amount semantics by @SendableMetatype in #279
• List the Linux runtime dependencies of the native library by @SendableMetatype in #275

Performance

• Avoid redundant data channel buffer copies by @SendableMetatype in #280

Testing

• Give the DTMF completion wait more headroom by @SendableMetatype in #268

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Test the windows arm64 natives on a native runner by @SendableMetatype in #270
• Test cross compiled natives on native runners by @SendableMetatype in #267

Other

• Bootstrap depot_tools before fetching the WebRTC source by @SendableMetatype in #277

Release v0.16.0

What's Changed

Other

• Add Wayland/PipeWire desktop capture support by @B077AS in #261
• Improve release workflow reliability and artifact management by @devopvoid in #260
• Refactor release workflows and setup for multi-platform deployment by @devopvoid in #259

New Contributors

• @B077AS made their first contribution in #261

Release v0.15.0

What's Changed

Features

• Bridge OnIceSelectedCandidatePairChanged to Java observers by @SendableMetatype in #247
• Add asynchronous sendAsync to RTCDataChannel by @SendableMetatype in #246
• Device transport and form factor types by @Stasyanych in #203
• Add funding information to support development
• Add legacy AGC1 and update AGC2 in the AudioProcessingConfig by @devopvoid in #205

Bug Fixes

• Honor the buffer window in every send path by @SendableMetatype in #245
• Add OnBufferedAmountChange callback to RTCDataChannelObserver by @devopvoid in #206

Documentation

• Add sponsorship link to index page
• Recreated using VitePress by @devopvoid in #210
• Add notes on native library classifiers for webrtc-java
• Reorganize guide links

Testing

• Buffer trickled candidates until both descriptions are applied by @SendableMetatype in #256

Other

• Update versions of dependencies and plugins by @devopvoid in #257
• Update WebRTC branch version from 7339 to 7977 (m152) by @SendableMetatype in #249
• Derive the WebRTC cache branch from the pom and guard deploys by @SendableMetatype in #248
• Bump org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server in /webrtc-examples by @dependabot[bot] in #255
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind by @dependabot[bot] in #254
• Bump picomatch from 4.0.3 to 4.0.5 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #253
• Bump rollup from 4.50.0 to 4.59.0 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #235
• Bump vite from 7.1.11 to 7.3.6 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #252
• Bump postcss from 8.5.6 to 8.5.26 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #251
• Bump org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-util in /webrtc-examples by @dependabot[bot] in #250
• Updates all checkout GitHub Actions to v6 by @maxkratz in #226
• Bump mdast-util-to-hast from 13.2.0 to 13.2.1 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #230
• Bump vite from 7.1.5 to 7.1.11 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #218
• Update WebRTC branch version from 7204 to 7339 (m140)
• Bump vite from 7.1.4 to 7.1.5 in /docs by @dependabot[bot] in #211

New Contributors

• @Isacco-B made their first contribution in #236
• @SendableMetatype made their first contribution in #249
• @jonathannaguin made their first contribution in #244
• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #255
• @Stasyanych made their first contribution in #241
• @westernbear made their first contribution in #231

Release v0.14.0

What's Changed

Features

• Restrict ICE port ranges and control candidate gathering behavior by @devopvoid in #202
• Push or pull audio frames with a headless audio device module by @devopvoid in #201
• Add guide for configuring send-only and receive-only media
• Add the platform classifier to the native library filename by @SnirDecartAI in #194
• Add VideoBufferConverter.convertToI420 by @SnirDecartAI in #192
• Add SyncClock for audio and video synchronization support
• Add CustomVideoSource and related JNI bindings for video frame handling
• Added a new web-based example
• Custom audio source that can be provided to audio tracks by @devopvoid in #188

Bug Fixes

• RTCDtmfSenderTests timeouts
• Update error handling to stop capturing on permanent errors #186
• Ensure JNIEnv is properly attached before deleting global reference 146
• Return a valid NtpTime from SyncClock::GetNtpTime by @SnirDecartAI in #193
• Release video frame after processing in WHEP example #191
• Made RTCRtpCodecCapability's int fields optional by @SnirDecartAI in #190

Documentation

• Add AudioRecorder and AudioPlayer documentation
• Documentation for VideoBufferConverter
• Documentation for MediaStreamTrack, VideoBufferConverter, and VideoCapture
• Add Video Capture guide
• Add Screen Capturer and Window Capturer guides
• Add Power Management utility
• Add Audio Converter guide
• Add Voice Activity Detector guide
• Reorganize media guides into categories
• Add section on disabling audio processing with dummy audio layer
• Add Custom Video Source guide and update documentation
• Update example descriptions and add WebClientExample
• Add Custom Audio Source guide
• Update asset paths and add a privacy policy by @devopvoid in #187
• Add camera capture guide
• Update CHANGELOG.md

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Add custom video source and generator to the web example

Other

• Update release workflow to use main branch
• Update GitHub Actions workflows to use changelog generation
• Update all GitHub Actions setup-java to v5 by @maxkratz in #200

New Contributors

• @maxkratz made their first contribution in #200
• @SnirDecartAI made their first contribution in #194

Release v0.13.0

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• macOS screen capturing only the first frame
• Crash in MediaDevices by validating COM initialization in audio device management

Feature

• Enable H.264 support for Linux, macOS and Windows
• Added RTCDtmfSender implementation for sending DTMF tones

Documentation

• Comprehensive guide and examples are now available @ https://jrtc.dev

Refactoring

• Moved master branch to main

Release v0.12.0

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Maven release action for macOS platforms

Feature

• Add the missing macOS camera capture functionality (#180)
• Add a copy method for NativeI420Buffer and VideoFrame

Build

• Update package installation commands and enhance sysroot configuration for Linux (#178)

Refactoring

• Updated the native interface to m138 (#179)

Release v0.11.0

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Screen/Window capturer memory leak.

Build

• Updated project to a more recent stable WebRTC branch, m134 (6998).
• Link against the WebRTC custom libc++ and libc++abi on Linux, and against libc++ on Windows.
• Added support for Linux ARM and ARM64 builds.
• Build with Clang on all platforms.