CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Fixed

• Worked around an interaction between Ubuntu 24.10 and certain hosts like Ardour that would cause yabridge to hang and eventually crash the host by consuming too much memory. This only affected the prebuilt binaries from the releases page.

yabridgectl

• Fixed a regression that caused yabridgectl set --path-auto to no longer work.

[5.1.1] - 2024-12-23

Fixed

• Fixed DPI scaling causing windows contents to become larger than they should be when using Wine 9.17+ and Wine's font DPI scaling feature.
• Fixed a potential segfault when unloading yabridge.

[5.1.0] - 2023-12-23

Added

• The yabridge libraries now export a yabridge_version function that hosts can query to know that a plugin is a yabridge plugin, and which version of yabridge is in use. Ardour 8.2 will use this to fix a regression in Ardour 7.3 that could cause some VST3 plugins to freeze.

Changed

• Parsing failures for yabridge.toml files will no longer cause plugins to fail to load. If this does happen, you'll now get a desktop notification and the plugin will simply use the default settings instead.

Fixed

• Fixed freezes in new versions of Renoise when it tries to set DPI scaling for VST2 plugins.

yabridgectl

• Yabridgectl's command line interface looks slightly differently again after some dependency updates. The behavior remains the same.
• Some outdated warning messages have been updated to match yabridge's current state. There are also some additional warnings for common installation issues.

Packaging notes

• This release includes a workaround to make bitsery compile with GCC 13 due to changes in transitive header includes.
• The CLAP dependency has been updated to target version 1.1.9 (revision version update).
• The asio dependency has been updated to target version 1.28.2.
• The bitsery dependency has been updated to version 5.2.3 (revision version bump).
• The function2 dependency has been updated to version 4.2.3 (revision version bump).
• The ghc::filesystem dependency has been updated to version 1.5.14 (revision version bump).
• The tomlplusplus dependency has been updated to target version 3.4.0.

[5.0.5] - 2023-05-07

Changed

• Parameter information for VST3 and CLAP plugins is now queried all at once. This should work around a bug in VST3 Kontakt that would cause loading patches with lots of exposed parameters to become very slow in REAPER (#236).
• When dragging plugin windows around, yabridge now waits for the mouse buttons to be released before informing Wine about the window's new screen coordinates. This prevents constant flickering when dragging plugin windows around with some plugin and window manager combinations.
• Since the above change limits the number of times a plugin GUI potentially has to redraw when dragging the window around to once, the workaround added to yabridge 5.0.2 for Audio Nebula Aurora FM implementing drawing in a very suboptimal way has be reverted. This removes flickering when resizing for a lot of plugin GUIs again.
• Yabridge now preemptively unsets the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable when launching Wine. Upstream Wine currently does not yet have a Wayland driver, but future versions may. When that happens yabridge's X11 window embedding may suddenly start breaking spectacularly. This change makes sure that Wine will keep using X11 even if Wayland support becomes available at some point.

Fixed

• Fixed a race condition that could occur when a CLAP plugin instance would request a host callback while the host simultaneously tried to create another instance of the same plugin. This would result in a deadlock. An example of a plugin that triggered this is PolyChrome DSP's McRocklin Suite.
• Mutually recursive callbacks are now enabled for more CLAP lifetime function calls. This was another change needed to avoid a deadlock in PolyChrome DSP's McRocklin Suite, as it changes its latency while being initialized.
• Negative indices were not treated as invalid arguments in some of the VST3 interface implementations and could cause crashes if a plugin tried to query a parameter value with signed index -1. This has now been fixed. The issue only appeared with the VST3 validator, and not with any regular hosts or DAWs.

yabridgectl

• VST 3.7.5 moduleinfo.json files without a Compatibility field are now supported. Previously this would result in a parsing error because the whole point of the moduleinfo.json files is to provide Compatibility mappings for older VST2 plugins.

[5.0.4] - 2023-02-23

Fixed

• Fixed a regression from yabridge 4.0.0 where plugin groups would not exit correctly. When removing a plugin instance that was part of a plugin group, it would block until the group host process had exited. This in turn resulted in hangs if the group host process hosted more than one plugin instance.
• Configuring the Meson build now works correctly on Wine 8.0 final. Meson's version comparison function considers 8.0 to be a lower version than 8.0rc2.
• The tomlplusplus dependency in the Meson build new avoids linking against tomlplusplus' shared libraries. These were recently introduced, and depending on the build environment Meson may still try to link them despite tomlplusplus being used in headers only mode. This is to keep yabridge's plugin libraries free of dependencies outside of the C and C++ standard libraries, avoiding potential symbol clashes.

Packaging notes

• The CLAP dependency has been updated to target version 1.1.7.
• The tomlplusplus dependency has been updated to target version 3.3.0.

[5.0.3] - 2022-12-23

Changed

• The yabridge 5.0.3 binaries up on the GitHub releases page (and in the yabridge-bin AUR package) now work again with every Wine version after Wine 5.7, including 7.21, 7.22, and the 8.0 release candidates. All workarounds for Wine 7.21 and 7.22 have been reverted. See Wine bug #53912 for more information.

Packaging notes

• The VST3 dependency has been updated to target version 3.7.7 with tag v3.7.7_build_19-patched.
• The CLAP dependency has been updated to target version 1.1.4.
• The patch-vst3-sdk.sh script now applies a handwritten diff to the SDK instead of patching the SDK using sed. This makes it easier to use older (but still API-compatible) VST3 SDK versions with yabridge and it makes the patching less brittle. The patches can be found in tools/vst3-sdk-patches.
• Since the workarounds from yabridge 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 have been reverted, the Meson build will now throw an error when trying to build against Wine 7.21, 7.22, or 8.0-rc1. Yabridge binaries built against these Wine versions will not work correctly.
• Yabridge built against Wine 8.0-rc2 will also work with older Wine versions, including the aforementioned ones that previously required workarounds. Yabridge built against older Wine versions will not work with Wine 8.0-rc2 or later.
• Unity builds can safely be re-enabled again.

[5.0.2] - 2022-11-28

Changed

• The yabridge builds on the GitHub releases page now have the unity build option disabled. This may work around the same Wine bug #53912 mentioned in the last release, as the bug has not yet been fixed for Wine 7.22. Since this is a low level bug within Wine, there's no guarantee that everything will work correctly until the bug gets fixed. If you still experience crashes or freezes with yabridge, then do consider downgrading back to Wine Staging 7.20.
• Yabridge's build system now errors out when enabling unity builds while compiling with Wine 7.21 and 7.22.

Fixed

• Changed the behavior when setting window positions for yabridge's editor. This avoids a painfully slow redraw in the Audio Nebula Aurora FM plugin when dragging the editor window around. The change may also help with other slow to redraw GUI, and especially with window managers that send excessive events on window movement like in Cinnamon and XFCE.

Packaging notes

• The --unity=on build option should be removed for the time being as this together with the VST3 SDK triggers the above mentioned Wine bug. Make sure to run yabridge-host.exe (just that, with no wine in front of it) at least once with Wine Staging 7.21 or 7.22 after building to make sure the build works correctly. It should print a usage message if it does.

[5.0.1] - 2022-11-14

Fixed

• Added a temporary workaround for yabridge hanging indefinitely on startup as the result of a new bug in Wine 7.21: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53912

yabridgectl

• Fixed converted VST 3.7.5 moduleinfo.json files being considered orphan files immediately after yabridgectl created them as part of the sync operation.

[5.0.0] - 2022-11-02

Added

• Yabridge 5.0 now supports bridging CLAP plugins in addition to its existing VST2 and VST3 plugin support. CLAP is a collaborative effort by a group of plugin and host developers of all backgrounds to create a permissively licensed extensible plugin standard that is simple while also catering to the needs of plugin developers, host developers, and musicians alike. When bridged under yabridge, these plugins are likely to have lower bridging overhead than their VST2 and VST3 counterparts while also being more responsive and offering better support for instrument plugins and parameter modulation.

  Yabridge 5.0.0's CLAP bridging supports all official CLAP 1.1 extensions except for the audio thread pool extension. Support for that extension will be added in a future yabridge release as Windows-only plugins that rely on the feature get released.

• Desktop notifications no longer rely on the notify-send command line tool, and are now sent by directly talking to D-Bus instead. This ensures that you'll always see yabridge's notifications when something important happens, even when using more niche distros where you may not have notify-send installed by default.

• A new editor_disable_host_scaling yabridge.toml compatibility option lets you prevent hosts from setting an explicit DPI scaling factor for a plugin's editor. In some cases this can help with inconsistent scaling when using HiDPI displays. This option affects both VST3 and CLAP plugins and it replaces the older vst3_no_scaling option.

Removed

• The vst3_no_scaling compatibility option has been removed in favor of the new editor_disable_host_scaling option.

Changed

• Slightly optimized the use of serialization buffers to reduce memory usage for VST3 audio threads. This change also potentially speeds up parameter information queries for parameters with lots of associated text.

Fixed

• Fixed a minor memory leak in the Wine->X11 drag-and-drop implementation when converting Windows file paths.
• Removed leftover debug prints when opening VST2 editors.

yabridgectl

• Added support for setting up CLAP plugins.

Packaging notes

• There are new libyabridge-clap.so and libyabridge-chainloader-clap.so files need to be included in the package.
• The new CLAP support requires version 1.1.2 of the CLAP headers because earlier versions did not yet contain calling conventions. (free-audio/clap#153, free-audio/clap#154). Building against older versions will result in memory errors.
• The VST3 dependency is now at tag v3.7.5_build_44-patched-2. The only difference with the previous v3.7.5_build_44-patched is a fixed version number in the meson.build file.
• The Meson build now requires the libdbus-1 development package to be installed. Yabridge's binaries don't dynamically link against the shared library, but they do use the definitions from the headers to load libdbus-1.so.3 at runtime when it needs to send a desktop notification.

[4.0.2] - 2022-06-27

Fixed

• Fixed a rare edge case where a Windows VST3 plugin would incorrectly be classified as a bundle-style plugin, which caused loading those plugins to fail. This could happen if the directory foo contained some random directory, containing another directory, containing foo.vst3. Yabridge always assumed this to be a bundle, even if it was not.
• Fixed Full Bucket's Ragnarök causing some hosts to freeze when changing presets due to some mutually recursive function calls that weren't being handled as such.

yabridgectl

• Parsing errors for plugin binaries are now non-fatal. This could happen if your Windows plugin directories contain text files with a .dll or .vst3 file extension. This would normally never happen, but it can still happen if you extracted those Windows plugins from a .zip file that was created on macOS. Don't ask me how or why.
• Prematurely abort the yabridgectl sync process if ~/.vst/yabridge or ~/.vst3/yabridge are symlinks to a directory that's part of or contains one of yabridgectl's plugin search directories. This prevents an edge cases where VST2 plugin .dll files could be replaced by symlinks to themeselves.
• Don't trigger a panic on yabridgectl sync if someone yabridgectl add'ed the inner contents of a Windows VST3 bundle. For the record, you really, really, really shouldn't be doing this.

[4.0.1] - 2022-06-12

Added

• Added a system-asio build option to aid distro packaging.

Fixed

• Fixed recent Arturia VST3 plugins running into memory errors at the end of a plugin scan in REAPER and Ardour. These plugins would try to read data in the Windows message loop without checking whether that data was initialized, after the data had just been deinitialized.

yabridgectl

• Fixed a regression from yabridge 4.0.0 where VST3 plugins in the 'new' Windows VST3 bundle format, like Sforzando, were not set up correctly.

Packaging notes

• The new system-asio build option forces Asio to be used from the standard include directories. Otherwise the dependency is defined as a regular Meson dependency. Asio does not have any pkgconfig or CMake build definitions, so it's impossible to detect its presence and version in a standard way. Because of that the Meson build will always fall back to using the included wrap dependency. Configuring the project with meson setup build -Dsystem-asio=true ... forces <asio.hpp> to be used instead.
• The ghc_filesystem dependency now explicitly mentions the ghcFilesystem::ghc_filesystem CMake module. ghc::filesystem's naming is inconsistent so Meson can't detect the correct module automatically. It also doesn't expose a version, so even with this change version 1.5.12 of the upstream dependency still won't be detected correctly. There is a PR that fixes this.

[4.0.0] - 2022-06-09

Added

• Yabridge 4.0 completely revamps the way plugin loading works to allow yabridge to be updated without breaking existing yabridge'd plugins while saving disk space on filesystems that don't support reflinks and speeding up the yabridgectl sync process. Up until this point, yabridgectl sync has always made copies of yabridge's libyabridge-vst2.so or libyabridge-vst3.so plugin libraries for every Windows plugin it sets up. These plugins are tightly coupled to the yabridge plugin host binaries, and updating one but not the other can thus cause issues. With yabridge 4.0, yabridgectl no longer copies the entire plugin libraries. Instead, it now creates copies of these new tiny dependencyless shim libraries. When loaded by a plugin host, these libraries locate the actual plugin libraries on the system and then transparently forward all entry point function calls to them as if the host was loading the yabridge plugin library directly. Yabridge internally calls these libraries chainloaders due to their similarity to the identically named functionality in boot loading process. This allows yabridge to be updated independently of these copied chainloading libraries. As such, it is no longer possible for yabridge to be out of sync after an update. If you use a distro packaged version of yabridge, then that means yabridge can now be updated safely without requiring any action from your side.
• Added support for the effBeginLoadBank and effBeginLoadProgram VST2 opcodes for loading state as a program or a program bank.

Changed

• Almost the entirety of yabridge's backend has been rewritten to get rid of all dependencies on the Boost libraries. As a consequence, the runtime dependency on Boost.Filesystem has also been removed. This makes packaging yabridge for distros easier, and it makes the packages more reliable by removing the need for yabridge to be rebuilt whenever Boost gets updated. Additionally, it also makes compiling slightly faster and the binaries are slightly smaller.
• The functionality for the yabridge-group binaries has been merged into the yabridge-host binaries to reduce duplication.
• When the user does not have the permissions to lock the shared audio buffers into memory, yabridge will now retry mapping the memory without locking it instead of immediately terminating the process. An annoying desktop notification will still be shown every time you load a plugin until you fix this however.
• Yabridge now prints the path to the libyabridge-{vst2,vst3}.so library that's being used on startup. This tells you where the chainloader is loading the library file from. Because you can never have too much information, right?
• The with-bitbridge, with-vst3, and with-winedbg build options have been renamed to bitbridge, vst3, and winedbg.
• effProcessEvents VST2 calls are now filtered out from the log when YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 1.

Removed

• Removed the with-static-boost build option since there's no longer a dependency on Boost.Filesystem.
• Removed the yabridge-group binaries as they are now part of the yabridge-host binaries. This saves precious megabytes.

Fixed

• Fixed manually changing channel counts with supported VST3 plugins in REAPER not working.
• Fixed an obscure issue with VST3 plugins crashing in Ardour on Arch/Manjaro because of Ardour's misreported parameter queue lengths.
• Fixed yabridge throwing assertion failures on serialization when using some of the Orchestral Tools Kontakt libraries in the VST2 version of Kontakt. Some of those libraries would output more than 2048 MIDI events in a single buffer.
• Some of yabridge's socket file names contained extremely aesthetically unpleasing trailing underscores. Begone pesky underscores!
• Fixed building with VST3 support disabled.

yabridgectl

• VST2 plugins are now set up in ~/.vst/yabridge by default. This means that you no longer have to add any directory search locations in your DAW. The only potential downside is that it's no longer possible for two plugin directories (perhaps in different Wine prefixes) to provide the same plugin file, although you would not have been able to use both with the same DAW anyways. Like with yabridgectl's VST3 support, the subdirectory structure within the plugin directory is preserved. You can use yabridgectl set --vst2-location=inline to revert back to the old behavior of setting the plugins up right next to the VST2 plugin .dll files. Some migration notes:

  • Because the plugins are now set up in ~/.vst/yabridge by default instead of next to the Windows VST2 plugin .dll file, you will see notices about leftover .so files the first time you run yabridgectl sync after updating. Double check the list to make sure there are no files in there that shouldn't be removed, and then run yabridgectl sync --prune as instructed to remove the old .so files.
  • Make sure your DAW searches for VST2 plugins in ~/.vst.
  • You can and should remove any entries for VST2 plugin directories you added to your DAW's plugin search locations as they will no longer contain any relevant files.
  • If you were using a yabridge.toml configuration file to configure VST2 plugins, then you will now need to move that file in ~/.vst/yabridge instead.

• As mentioned above, yabridgectl now uses the new chainloading libraries when setting up plugins. This means that once you've ran yabridgectl sync after updating to yabridge 4.0, yabridge can now be updated without needing to rerun yabridgectl sync. This is particularly useful when using a distro packaged version of yabridge.

• Added support for the new VST 3.7.5 moduleinfo.json format to allow VST3 plugins to replace VST2 and VST3 plugins with different class IDs.

• Yabridgectl no longer depends on winedump. It now parses Windows PE32(+) binaries without requiring any external dependencies. Or at least, that's the idea. I've come across at least one binary that this new parser can't handle (m4b/goblin#307), so it will still fall back to winedump when that happens.

• After yabridgectl sync has finished setting up plugins, yabridgectl now also checks whether notify-send is installed as part of its post-installation verification process. If notify-send is missing, then yabridge won't be able to send any notifications when things are going terribly wrong.

• yabridgectl status now shows the locations where bridged VST2 and VST3 plugins will be set up.

• yabridgectl sync --prune now also considers broken symlinks.

• The VST3 subdirectory detection has been made more robust and can now handle arbitrary plugin directories, not just directories that are called VST3. This, of course, should not be needed.

• The previously deprecated symlink installation method has been removed from yabridgectl, along with the yabridgectl set --method option. The terminology in yabridgectl status has changed accordingly.

• yabridgectl status now lists the architecture of libyabridge-chainloader-vst2.so just like it already did for the VST3 library.

Packaging notes

• libyabridge-chainloader-vst2.so and libyabridge-chainloader-vst3.so are new files that should be included in the package.
• The yabridge-group binaries no longer exist as they are now part of the yabridge-host binaries.
• The with-bitbridge build option has been renamed to just bitbridge.
• Both runtime and compile time dependencies on the Boost libraries have been removed.
• There's a new dependency on the headers-only ghc::filesystem library to replace Boost.Filesystem. A Meson wrap is included as a fallback for a distro package.
• The headers-only Asio library now replaces Boost.Asio. A Meson wrap is included as a fallback for a distro package.
• Fixed a deprecation warning in the Meson build, causing the minimum supported Meson version to be bumped up to Meson 0.56 from 0.55.
• Yabridge now targets VST3 SDK version 3.7.5 with git tag v3.7.5_build_44-patched.

[3.8.1] - 2022-03-08

Changed

• Change the low RLIMIT_RTTIME warning to mention setting up realtime priviliges instead of changing PipeWire's config now that PipeWire MRs !1118 and !1120 have been merged and PipeWire can use regular realtime scheduling without imposing any resource limits out of the box.
• Prevented yabridge's ad-hoc socket acceptors from inheriting realtime scheduling when spawned from audio threads. In practice this should not have caused any noticeable effects as these threads are sleeping all the time except for under very specific circumstances.

Fixed

• Fixed the REAPER-specific editor_force_dnd option not working correctly when using the Track -> Insert virtual instrument on new track... option. When using this option REAPER will first embed the plugin in an offscreen plugin window and it will only then create the actual FX window and embed the other window in it.
• Fixed the VST3 version of IK Multimedia's T-RackS 5 producing silent output when doing offline rendering. This could happen when exporting or bouncing audio in Bitwig Studio 4.1+, Ardour and in REAPER. These plugins apparently need to process audio from the main GUI thread when in offline rendering mode. If you try to process audio from the...audio thread, then they will produce silence and hang afterwards (which a fix in yabridge 3.7.0 previously addressed).
• Fixed crashes when opening plugin editors under Crostini on ChromeOS due to non-standard X11 implementations.
• Worked around a bug in the RandARP VST2 plugin where the plugin would report that its editor window is 0 by 0 pixels.
• Fixed building under Wine 7.2 and up because of changes to the definitions of Wine's numerical types.

yabridgectl

• yabridgectl status no longer mentions anything about installation methods if you're using the regular, copy-based installation method. This is a follow-up to the changes made in yabridgectl 3.8.0.

[3.8.0] - 2022-01-15

Added

• Added support for VST3 plugins interacting directly with the host's context menu items. Most plugins that use VST3's context menu support let the host handle drawing the actual menu, but it's also possible for plugins to incorporate the host's menu items into their own custom context menu. So far this feature has only been tested with Surge XT's Windows VST3 version since very few if any other plugins do this right now, but other plugins may start doing this as well in the future.

Changed

• Added support for Wine 6.23's new fixed winedbg command line argument handling.
• Changed the build and cross-compilation definitions to allow repository-packaged CMake build configurations to be used for the bitsery and function2 dependencies.

Fixed

• Fixed Waves V13 VST3 plugins crashing when opening the GUI. These plugins thought it would be a great idea to randomly dereference null pointers if the window they're embedded in is already visible. A day's worth of debugging well spent. Even after this, the V13 plugins are a bit unstable under Wine in general, and they will likely crash when reopening the editor a couple of times or when removing them. So as always, if you can avoid Waves, that would be for the best.
• Fixed sluggish UIs in Output's Thermal and likely a handful of other JUCE-based plugins with a lot of parameters. These plugins would emit hundreds to thousands of events when the GUI changes. Yabridge now detects this, and relaxes the throttling we have in place to prevent certain other plugins from getting stuck in infinite loops.
• Fixed DrumCore 3 crashing when trying to drag grooves from the plugin to other applications. This happened because of an integer underflow in that plugin, causing the number of reported drag-and-drop formats to be magnitudes higher than yabridge's indicated maximum.
• Fixed Wine version detection in the build configuration.
• Fixed VST3 connection point proxies not being disconnected properly. The code path for this is not being used for any of the current Linux VST3 hosts, so this won't have caused any issues.
• Rewritten the VST3 object handling to prevent some theoretical data races when the host inserts or removes plug instances while other instances of that plugin are processing audio.

yabridgectl

• Yabridgectl's help text received some shiny new colors.
• Disallowed adding individual files or symlinks to individual files with yabridgectl add. Yabridgectl was never intended to be used that way and while it does sort of work, it will lead to a number of surprises down the line.
• Deprecated support for the symlink-based installation method in yabridgectl and removed all remaining mentions of it from the documentation. This feature has for all intents and purposes already been made obselete in yabridge 2.1.0, but the option still remained available. Enabling this option would lead to a lot of surprises because of the way Linux's dynamic linker works. And with modern file systems supporting reflinks and yabridge falling back to searching for binaries in ~/.local/share/yabridge, there's zero reason to use this feature anymore. Yabridgectl will now print a warning upon syncing when the symlink installation method has been enabled, and the feature will be removed completely in yabridge 4.0.
• Blacklisted symlinks and symlinked directories are now handled correctly when syncing.

Packaging notes

• The tomlplusplus wrap dependency has been updated to version 3.0.1 because of breaking API changes in version 3.0.
• We now target VST3 SDK version 3.7.4 with git tag v3.7.4_build_25-patched.
• Yabridgectl now uses Rust 2021 and requires rustc 1.56 or newer to build.

[3.7.0] - 2021-11-21

Added

• Added an environment variable for changing the directory yabridge stores its sockets and other temporary files in. This is only useful when running the Wine process under a separate namespace. If you don't know what this means, then you probably don't need this!

Changed

• Added a workaround for a new bug in Wine 6.20 that would cause compilation to fail by redefining common variable names used in the standard library. This issue has since been fixed in Wine 6.21 and up.

Fixed

• Fixed the VST3 version of IK Multimedia's T-RackS 5 causing offline rendering to stall indefinitely. This could happen when exporting or bouncing audio in Bitwig Studio 4.1, Ardour and in REAPER. Those plugins deadlock when they receives timer events while doing offline audio processing, so we now prevent that from happening.
• The socket endpoints used by plugin group host processes to accept new connections now get removed when those processes shut down. Previously this would leave behind a file in the temporary directory.

Packaging notes

• All Meson wraps now use wrap-git instead of downloading tarballs from GitHub. Previously the bitsery and function2 wraps would use source tarballs.
• The meson.build patch overlays for the bitsery and function2 wraps are no longer stored in tarballs committed to yabridge's repository. Instead, they are now regular directories in the subprojects/packagefiles directory. This means that building yabridge with these wraps now requires Meson 0.55 or later because of the use of patch_directory.
• The bitsery wrap dependency was updated to version 5.2.2.
• The function2 wrap dependency was updated to version 4.2.0.
• The tomlplusplus wrap dependency was updated to slightly after version 2.5.0 because of an issue with their meson.build file that breaks compatibility with Meson 0.60.0 on older versions.

[3.6.0] - 2021-10-15

Added

• Yabridge will now also show annoying desktop notifications when encountering low RLIMIT_RTTIME and RLIMIT_MEMLOCK values. This can happen on systems that have not yet been configured for pro audio work or with using an out of the box PipeWire configuration. If these issues are not fixed, then certain plugins may crash during initialization. Since these configuration issues may not immediately cause any obvious problems, it's better to be upfront about it so they can't cause mysterious issues later on. We would already print warnings about this to the terminal, but those are easily missed when starting a DAW from the GUI.
• Added a new editor_coordinate_hack compatibility option to replace editor_double_embed. This can be useful with buggy plugins that have their editor GUIs misaligned after resizing the window. These plugins tend to draw their GUI based on (top level) window's absolute screen coordinates instead of their own relative position within the parent window. Some known plugins that can benefit from this are PSPaudioware E27 and Soundtoys Crystallizer.

Removed

• The editor_double_embed option added in yabridge 1.4.0 has been removed as the editor_coordinate_hack option supersedes it.

Changed

• The Wine plugin host applications now print their version information before the Usage: string when invoked without any command line arguments.
• VST3 Data (SysEx) events now use the same small buffer optimization yabridge already used for VST2 SysEx events. This avoids allocations when a VST3 plugin sends or receives a small SysEx event.

Fixed

• Worked around a bug in Boost.Process that would cause yabridge to crash with an locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid exception when (part of) the current locale is invalid. This could happen on Arch Linux if you skipped part of the Arch installation process.
• Fixed New Sonic Arts' Vice plugin freezing when loading the plugin. This happened because the plugin interacted with the GUI and tried to spawn new threads when the host changes the sample rate or block size from the audio thread. These things are now done from the main GUI thread, so please let me know if there are any new loading issues with other VST2 plugins after this update.
• Fixed the drag-and-drop implementation not sending an XdndStatus message on the very first tick. This fixes drag-and-drop from the Samplab plugin which has a broken drag-and-drop implementation and only starts the operation after the left mouse button has already been released.
• Fixed the drag-and-drop implementation not properly handling errors caused by the pointer being grabbed. This would only happen with Samplab.
• Fixed sub 100 millisecond drag-and-drop operations being ignored by certain hosts, like Bitwig Studio. This would only happen with Samplab. The XDND implementation now has a warmup phase to prevent this from happening.

yabridgectl

• yabridgectl rm and yabridgectl blacklist rm now accept relative paths.

Packaging notes

• We now target VST3 SDK version 3.7.3 with git tag v3.7.3_build_20-patched.
• Because of an update to clap, the minimum rustc version required to build yabridgectl is now 1.54.

[3.5.2] - 2021-08-08

Added

• Added support for VST2 plugins sending and receiving SysEx events. Certain MIDI controllers like the Arturia MiniLab Mk II output SysEx events when changing between octaves, and some hosts like REAPER forwards these events directly to the plugin. Before this change this might cause crashes with plugins that try to handle SysEx events, like the D16 Group plugins.

Fixed

• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.5.1 where certain VST3 plugins wouldn't resize to their correct size when opening the editor. This affected Kontakt, and it was caused by reverting just a little bit too much code in the regression fix from the previous release.
• Fixed D16 Group plugins crashing when the host tries to send SysEx events.

[3.5.1] - 2021-07-31

Added

• You can now directly focus the plugin's editor instead of allowing the host to process keyboard events by holding down the Shift key while entering a plugin's GUI with your mouse. Certain hosts like Bitwig Studio normally still respond to common key presses like Space for play/pause while interacting with a plugin. That in turn can make it impossible to type a space character in those hosts, which may become a problem when searching for or naming presets. With this feature you can temporarily override this behaviour and allow all keyboard input to go directly to Wine. This can also be useful for Voxengo plugins, which don't grab input focus in their settings and license dialogs.

Changed

• Added more tracing for the input focus handling when using the +editor YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL flag.
• Yabridge will now handle X11 events from within the Win32 message loop. What this means is that X11 events are now handled even when the plugin is blocking the GUI thread, which can potentially increase responsiveness and help with graphical issues in certain situations (although at the moment there aren't any known situations where the old approach caused any issues).

Fixed

• Reverted the workaround for the Nimble Kick plugin freezing added in yabridge 3.5.0. This could cause VST3 plugins in Bitwig Studio and Ardour to have frozen, nonfunctional editors when using multiple instances of a plugin unless you opened every plugin instance's editor. Since the plugin would also cause the native Windows version of Bitwig to crash, we will thus simply revert this change.
• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.5.0 where clicking inside of a plugin GUI while the window is already open in the background would not give keyboard focus to the plugin.
• Changed how input focus releasing works by more selectively filtering out mouse pointer leave events where the pointer is still hovering over a Wine window instead of ignoring an entire wider class of events. This should fix some edge cases where input focus would not be given back to the host, or where dropdown menus could close immediately when hovering over and them leaving them with your mouse. The first case would in practice only happen when using a touchscreen or drawing tablet, since it would require the mouse to instantly move from the plugin GUI to another window without first going over the window's borders.
• Similarly, the filter in yabridge 3.5.0's Wine->X11 drag-and-drop implementation for distinguishing between Wine windows and other windows (so that we won't interfere with Wine's own internal drag-and-drop mechanism) has also been made more specific. Before this change we might use our own XDND-based drag-and-drop implementation when dragging files from a plugin to a standalone Wine application running within the same Wine prefix.

[3.5.0] - 2021-07-23

Added

• Added a warning on startup if yabridge may not be able to lock enough shared memory for its audio processing. If you have not yet set up realtime priviliges and memory locking limits for your user, then yabridge may not be able to map enough shared memory for processing audio with plugins that have a lot of inputs or outputs channels.
• When this shared memory mapping fails because of a low value being set for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, yabridge will now print a more specific error message telling you about the issue and how to fix it.
• Added a an optional +editor flag to the YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL environment variable that causes debug tracing information about the plugin editor window to be printed. This can be useful for diagnosing DAW or window manager specific issues.

Changed

• The way editor embedding works has been rewritten. Yabridge now inserts a wrapper window between the host's parent window and the embedded Wine window instead of embedding the Wine window directly into the host. This should get rid of all rare edge cases where the host would ignore the window size reported by the plugin and would instead try to detect the plugin's size on its own by intercepting configuration events sent to the Wine window. This could cause the editor window to grow to fit the entire screen in certain hosts under very specific circumstances.
• We now support version 3 and 4 of the XDND specification for the Wine->X11 drag-and-drop support. Before this yabridge assumed every application supported version 5 from 2002, but JUCE based hosts only support XDND version 3.

Fixed

• Fixed crashes or freezes when a plugin uses the Windows drag-and-drop system to transfer arbitrary, vendor specific data. This prevents Reaktor from freezing when editing a patch after upgrading to yabridge 3.4.0.
• Fixed yabridge thinking that the Wine plugin host process has died when the user doesn't have permissions to access the Wine process's memory. This fixes a seemingly very rare regression from yabridge 3.4.0 where the Wine plugin host application would immediately be seen as dead when using AppArmor, preventing yabridge from starting.
• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.4.0 where plugins with zero input and output audio channels like FrozenPlain Obelisk would result in a crash.
• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.4.0 where JUCE-based VST3 plugins might cause Ardour or Mixbus to freeze in very specific circumstances.
• As mentioned above, it's now no longer possible for hosts to wrongly detect the editor window size. This fixes a rare issue with Ardour on older XFCE versions where the editor window would extend to cover the entire screen. A similar issue also exists with Carla 2.3.1.
• This same change also fixes VST3 editors in Ardour not rendering past their original size when resizing them from the plugin (as opposed to resizing the actual window).
• Worked around a REAPER bug that would cause REAPER to not process any keyboard input when the FX window is active but the mouse cursor is positioned outside of the window. We now use the same validation used in xprop and xwininfo to find the host's window instead of always taking the topmost window.
• Fixed Wine->X11 drag-and-drop in Tracktion Waveform. Waveform only supports an old 1998 version of the XDND specification, so it was ignoring our messages since we assumed every application would support the most recent XDND version from 2002.
• Worked around a race condition in Nimble Kick, which would trigger a stack overflow when loading the plugin if it wasn't already activated.
• Potentially fixed an obscure issue where the editor would not render at all when using multiple displays and the rightmost display was set as the primary display. This issue appears to be very rare, and I haven't gotten any response back when I asked the people affected by this to test a potential fix, so I'm just including it in yabridge anyways in case it helps. If anyone was affected by this, please let me know if this update makes any difference!

yabridgectl

• yabridgectl status now also lists the paths to the yabridge-host.exe and yabridge-host-32.exe binaries that yabridge will end up running. This can be helpful for diagnosing issues with complex setups.

[3.4.0] - 2021-07-15

Added

• Added support for drag-and-drop from Windows plugins running under yabridge to native applications, such as your DAW. This makes it much more convenient to use plugins like Scaler 2 that generate audio or MIDI files. Because of the way this is implemented this feature will work with any Wine version.
• When a plugin fails to load or when the Wine plugin host process fails to start, yabridge will now show you the error in a desktop notification instead of only printing it to the logger. This will make it much faster to quickly diagnose issues if you weren't already running your DAW from a terminal. These notifications require libnotify and its notify-send application to be installed.
• Similarly, yabridge will show you a warning and a desktop notification with a reminder to rerun yabridgctl sync when it detects that there's been a version mismatch between the plugin and the used Wine plugin host application.
• Added support for building 32-bit versions of the yabridge libraries, allowing you to use both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows VST2 and VST3 plugins under 32-bit Linux plugin hosts. This should not be needed in any normal situation since Desktop Linux has been 64-bit only for a while now, but it could be useful in some very specific situations. Building on an actual 32-bit system will also work, in which case the 64-bit Wine plugin host applications simply won't be built.
• Added the deprecated pre-VST2.4 main entry point for VST2 plugins. This allows the above mentioned 32-bit version of yabridge to be used in EnergyXT, allowing you to use both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows VST2 plugins there.
• Added an environment variable to disable the watchdog timer. This is only needed when running the Wine process under a separate namespace. If you don't know that you need this, then you probably don't need this!

Changed

• The audio processing implementation for both VST2 and VST3 plugins has been completely rewritten to use both shared memory and message passing to cut down the number of expensive memory copies to a minimum. This reduces the DSP load overhead of audio processing even further.
• Respect $XDG_DATA_HOME as a fallback when looking for yabridge's plugin host binaries instead of hardcoding this to ~/.local/share/yabridge. This matches the existing behaviour in yabridgectl.
• Optimized the management of VST3 plugin instances to reduce the overhead when using many instances of a single VST3 plugin.
• Slightly optimized the function call dispatch for VST2 plugins.
• Prevented some more potential unnecessary memory operations during yabridge's communication. The underlying serialization library was recreating some objects even when this wasn't needed, which could result in unnecessary memory allocations under certain circumstances. This is related to the similar issue that was fixed in yabridge 3.3.0. A fix for this issue has also been upstreamed to the library.

Fixed

• Fixed mouse cursors disappearing when interacting with some plugin GUIs. This often happened with JUCE based plugins, such as Sonic Academy's Kick 2 and Anaglyph. While this is technically a workaround for a bad interaction between JUCE and Wine, it should make these plugins much more pleasant to use.
• Fixed Waves VST3 plugins not being able to initialize correctly. These plugins would at runtime change their query interface to support more VST3 interfaces, including the mandatory edit controller interface. Yabridge now requeries the supported interfaces at a later stage to work around this.
• Fixed VST2 plugins in Ardour not receiving all transport information, breaking host sync and LFOs in certain plugins. This was a regression from yabridge 3.2.0.
• Fixed input focus handling being broken REAPER after reopning a closed FX window. Now moving the mouse cursor outside of the plugin's GUI will always release input focus, even after closing the window.
• Fixed Insert Piz Here's midiLooper crashing in REAPER when the plugin tries to use REAPER's host function API. This currently isn't supported by yabridge. We now explicitly ignore these requests.
• Worked around a rare thread safety issue in MeldaProduction VST3 plugins where the plugin would deadlock when the host asks for the editor's size while plugin is also being initialized from the audio thread at the same time.
• Fixed JUCE VST3 plugins like Tokyo Dawn Records' SlickEQ M causing the host to freeze when they send a parameter change from the audio thread using the wrong VST3 API while the plugin is also trying to resize the window from the GUI thread at the same time. This would happen in SlickEQ M when reopning the Smart Ops panel after having used it once. To fix this, yabridge's Wine-side VST3 mutual recursion mechanism now only operates when invoked from the GUI thread.
• Fixed yabridge's logging seeking the STDERR stream to position 0 every time it writes a log message. This would be noticeable when piping the host's STDERR stream to a file and YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL wasn't set.
• When printing the Wine version during initialization, the Wine process used for this is now run under the same environment that the Wine plugin host process will be run under. This means that if you use a custom WINELOADER script to use different Wine versions depending on the prefix, the wine version: line in the initialization message will now always match the version of Wine the plugin is going to be run under.
• Fixed the plugin-side watchdog timer that allows a yabridge plugin to terminate when the Wine plugin host application fails to start treating zombie processes as still running, active processes. This could cause plugins to hang during scanning if the Wine process crashed in a very specific and likely impossible way.
• If a VST3 plugin returns a null pointer from IEditController::createView(), then this will now be propagated correctly on the plugin side.
• Fixed VST2 speaker arrangement configurations returned by the plugin not being serialized correctly. Very few plugins and hosts seem to actually use these, so it should not have caused any issues.

yabridgectl

• Added support for setting up merged VST3 bundles when using a 32-bit version of libyabridge-vst3.so.
• Fixed the post-installation setup checks when the default Wine prefix over at ~/.wine was created with WINEARCH=win32 set. This would otherwise result in an 00cc:err:process:exec_process error when running yabridgectl sync because yabridgectl would try to run the 64-bit yabridge-host.exe in that prefix. Yabridgectl now detects the architecture of the default prefix first and then runs the proper Wine plugin host application for that prefix.
• Copies of libyabridge-vst2.so and libyabridge-vst3.so are now reflinked when supported by the file system. This speeds up the file coyping process while also reducing the amount of disk space used for yabridge when using Btrfs or XFS.
• If pruning causes a directory to be empty, then the empty directory will now also be removed. This avoids having your plugin directories littered with empty directories.
• Fixed incorrect new and total plugin counts. These counts are now always correct, even when using multiple versions of the same VST3 plugin or when multiple plugin directories overlap because of the use of symlinks.
• Aside from pruning only unmanaged VST3 bundles in ~/.vst3/yabridge, yabridge will now also prompt you to prune leftover files from within a managed VST3 bundle. This makes it easy to switch from the 64-bit version of a plugin to the 32-bit version, or from a 64-bit version of yabridge to the 32-bit version. I don't know why you would want to do either of those things, but now you can!
• Yabridgectl now prints a more descriptive error message instead of panicing if running $WINELOADER --version during yabridgectl's post-setup verification checks does not result in any output. This is only relevant when using a custom WINELOADER script that modifies Wine's output.

[3.3.1] - 2021-06-09

Added

• Added thread names to all worker threads created by yabridge. This makes it easier to debug and profile yabridge.

Fixed

• Fixed the IPlugView::canResize() cache added in yabridge 3.2.0 sometimes not being initialized properly, preventing host-driven resizes in certain situations. This was mostly noticeable in Ardour.
• Fixed mouse clicks in VST2 editors in Tracktion Waveform being offset vertically by a small amount because of the way Waveform embeds VST2 editors.
• Fixed Shattered Glass Audio plugins crashing when opening the plugin editor because those plugins don't initialize Microsoft COM before trying to use it. We now always initialize the Microsoft COM library unconditionally, instead of doing it only when a plugin fails to initialize without it.
• Fixed incorrect version strings being reported by yabridge when building from a tarball that has been extracted inside of an unrelated git repository. This could happen when building the yabridge AUR package with certain AUR helpers.
• Fixed the log message for the cached IPlugView::canResize() VST3 function calls implemented in yabridge 3.2.0.

[3.3.0] - 2021-06-03

Added

• Added a compatibility option to redirect the Wine plugin host's STDOUT and STDERR output streams directly to a file. Enabling this allows ujam plugins and other plugins made with the Gorilla Engine, such as the LoopCloud plugins, to function correctly. Those plugins crash with a seemingly unrelated error message when their output is redirected to a pipe.
• Added a small warning during initialization when RLIMIT_RTTIME is set to some small value. This happens when using PipeWire with rtkit, and it can cause crashes when loading plugins.

Changed

• Added a timed cache for the IPlugView::canResize() VST3 function so the result will be remembered during an active resize. This makes resizing VST3 plugin editor windows more responsive.
• Added another cache for when the host asks a VST3 plugin whether it supports processing 32-bit or 64-bit floating point audio. Some hosts, like Bitwig Studio, call this function at the start of every processing cycle even though the value won't ever change. Caching this can significantly reduce the overhead of bridging VST3 plugins under those hosts.
• Redesigned the VST3 audio socket handling to be able to reuse the process data objects on both sides. This greatly reduces the overhead of our VST3 bridging by getting rid of all potential memory allocations during audio processing.
• VST2 audio processing also received the same optimizations. In a few places yabridge would still reallocate heap data during every audio processing cycle. We now make sure to always reuse all buffers and heap data used in the audio processing process.
• Considerably optimized parts of yabridge's communication infrastructure by preventing unnecessary memory operations. As it turned out, the underlying binary serialization library used by yabridge would always reinitialize the type-safe unions yabridge uses to differentiate between single and double precision floating point audio buffers in both VST2 and VST3 plugins, undoing all of our efforts at reusing objects and preventing memory allocations in the process. A fix for this issue has also been upstreamed to the library.
• VST3 output audio buffers are now no longer zeroed out at the start of every audio processing cycle. We've been doing this for VST3 plugins since the introduction of VST3 bridging in yabridge 3.0.0, but we never did this for VST2 plugins. Since not doing this has never caused any issues with VST2 plugins, it should also be safe to also skip this for VST3 plugins. This further reduces the overhead of VST3 audio processing.
• Optimized VST3 audio processing for instruments by preallocating small vectors for event and parameter change queues.
• VST2 MIDI event handling also received the same small vector optimization to get rid of any last potential allocations during audio processing.
• This small vector optimization has also been applied across yabridge's entire communication and event handling architecture, meaning that most plugin function calls and callbacks should no longer produce any allocations for both VST2 and VST3 plugins.
• Changed the way mutual recursion in VST3 plugins on the plugin side works to counter any potential GUI related timing issues with VST3 plugins when using multiple instances of a plugin.
• Changed the way realtime scheduling is used on the Wine side to be less aggressive, potentially reducing CPU usage when plugins are idle.
• The deserialization part of yabridge's communication is now slightly faster by skipping some unnecessary checks.
• Log messages about VST3 query interfaces are now only printed when YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 2 or higher, up from 1.

Fixed

• Fixed a longstanding thread safety issue when hosting a lot of VST2 plugins in a plugin group. This could cause plugins to crash or freeze when initializing a new instance of a VST2 plugin in a plugin group while another VST2 plugin in that same group is currently processing audio.
• Fixed yabridge's Wine processes inheriting file descriptors in some situations. This could cause Ardour and Mixbus to hang when reopening the DAW after a crash. The watchdog timer added in yabridge 3.2.0 addressed this issue partially, but it should now be completely fixed. This may also prevent rare issues where the JACK server would hang after the host crashes.
• Fixed DMG VST3 plugins freezing in REAPER when the plugin resizes itself while the host passes channel context information to the plugin.
• Also fixed DMG VST3 plugins freezing in REAPER when restoring multiple instances of the plugin at once while the FX window is open and the GUI is visible.
• Fixed the PG-8X VST2 plugin freezing in REAPER when loading the plugin.
• Fixed Voxengo VST2 plugins freezing in Renoise when loading a project or when otherwise restoring plugin state.
• Fixed logging traces in the VST2 audio processing functions and the VST3 query interfaces causing allocations even when YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is not set to 2.
• Fixed building on Wine 6.8 after some internal changes to Wine's windows.h implementation.

yabridgectl

• Improved the warning yabridgectl shows when it cannot run yabridge-host.exe as part of the post-installation setup checks.
• Fixed the reported number of new or updated plugins when yabridgectl manages both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of the same VST3 plugin.
• Fixed text wrapping being broken after a dependency update earlier this year.

[3.2.0] - 2021-05-03

Added

• During VST2 audio processing, yabridge will now prefetch the current transport information and process level before sending the audio buffers over to the Windows VST2 plugin. This lets us cache this information on the Wine side during the audio processing call, which significantly reduces the overhead of bridging VST2 plugins by avoiding one or more otherwise unavoidable back and forth function calls between yabridge's native plugin and the Wine plugin host. While beneficial to every VST2 plugin, this considerably reduces the overhead of bridging MeldaProduction VST2 plugins, and it has an even greater impact on plugins like SWAM Cello that request this information repeatedly over the course of a single audio processing cycle. Previously yabridge had a cache_time_info compatibility option to mitigate the performance hit for those plugins, but this new caching behaviour supercedes that option.
• We now always force the CPU's flush-to-zero flag to be set when processing audio. Most plugins will already do this by themselves, but plugins like Kush Audio REDDI and Expressive E Noisy that don't will otherwise suffer from extreme DSP usage increases when processing almost silent audio.
• Added a new compatibility option to hide the name of the DAW you're using. This can be useful with plugins that have undesirable or broken DAW-specific behaviour. See the known issues section of the readme for more information on when this may be useful.
• Yabridge now uses a watchdog timer to prevent rare instances where Wine processes would be left running after the native host has crashed or when it got forcefully terminated. By design yabridge would always try to gracefully shut down its Wine processes when native host has crashed and the sockets become unavailable, but this did not always happen if the crash occurred before the bridged plugin has finished initializing because of the way Unix Domain Sockets work. In that specific situation the yabridge-host.exe process would be left running indefinitely, and depending on your DAW that might have also prevented you from actually restarting your DAW without running wineserver -k first. To prevent any more dangling processes, yabridge's Wine plugin hosts now have a watchdog timer that periodically checks whether the original process that spawned the bridges is still running. If it detects that the process is no longer alive, yabridge will close the sockets and shut down the bridged plugin to prevent any more dangling processes from sticking around.

Changed

• Most common VST2 functions that don't have any arguments are now handled explicilty. Yabridge could always automatically support most VST2 functions by simply inspecting the function arguments and handling those accordingly. This works practically everywhere, but Plugsound Free by UVI would sometimes pass unreadable function arguments to functions that weren't supposed to have any arguments, causing yabridge to crash. Explicitly handling those functions should prevent similar situations from happening in the future.
• Yabridge will now try to bypass VST3 connection proxies if possible. Instead of connecting two VST3 plugin objects directly, Ardour and Mixbus place a connection proxy between the two plugin objects so that they can only interact indirectly through the DAW. In the past yabridge has always honored this by proxying the host's connection proxy, but this causes difficult situations with plugins that actively communicate over these proxies from the GUI thread, like the FabFilter plugins. Whenever possible, yabridge will now try to bypass the connection proxies and connect the two objects directly instead, only falling back to proxying the proxies when that's not possible.
• Compile times have been slightly lowered by compiling most of the Wine plugin host into static libraries first.
• When building the package from source, the targetted Wine version now gets printed at configure-time. This can make it a bit easier to diagnose Wine-related compilation issues.

Removed

• The cache_time_info compatibility option has been removed since it's now obsolete.
• Removed a message that would show up when loading a VST3 plugin in Ardour, warning about potential crashes due to Ardour not supporting multiple input and output busses. These crashes have been resolved since yabridge 3.1.0.

Fixed

• Fixed rare X11 errors that could occur when closing a plugin's editor. In certain circumstances, closing a plugin editor would trigger an X11 error and crash the Wine plugin host, and with that likely the entire DAW. This happened because Wine would try to destroy the window after it had already been destroyed. This could happen in Renoise and to a lesser degree in REAPER with plugins that take a while to close their editors, such as the iZotope Rx plugins. We now explicitly reparent the window to back the root window first before deferring the window closing. This should fix the issue, while still keeping editor closing nice and snappy.
• Plugin group host processes now shut down by themselves if they don't get a request to host any plugins within five seconds. This can happen when the DAW gets killed right after starting the group host process but before the native yabridge plugin requests the group host process to host a plugin for them. Before this change, this would result in a yabridge-group.exe process staying around indefinitely.
• Prevented latency introducing VST3 from freezing Ardour and Mixbus when loading the plugin. This stops Neural DSP Darkglass from freezing when used under those DAWs.
• Fixed FabFilter VST3 plugins freezing in Ardour and Mixbus when trying to duplicate existing instances of the plugin after the editor GUI has been opened.
• Fixed VST3 plugins freezing in Ardour and Mixbus when the plugin tries to automate a parameter while loading a preset.
• Fixed Voxengo VST3 plugins freezing in Ardour and Mixbus when loading a project or when duplicating the plugin instances.
• Fixed potential X11 errors resulting in assertion failures and crashes in Ardour and Mixbus when those hosts hide (unmap) a plugin's editor window.
• Fixed saving and loading plugin state for VST3 iZotope Rx plugins in Bitwig Studio.
• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.1.0 where REAPER would freeze when opening a VST3 plugin context menu.
• Fixed a potential freezing issue in REAPER that could happen when a VST3 plugin resizes itself while sending parameter changes to the host when REAPER's 'disable saving full plug-in state' option has not been disabled.
• Fixed another potential freeze when loading a VST3 plugin preset while the editor is open when the plugin tries to resize itself based on that new preset.
• Fixed a potential assertion failure when loading VST3 presets. This would depend on the compiler settings and the version of libstdc++ used to built yabridge with.
• Fixed PSPaudioware InifniStrip failing to initialize. The plugin expects the host to always be using Microsoft COM, and it doesn't try to initialize it by itself. InfiniStrip loads as expected now.
• Fixed Native Instruments' FM7 crashing when processing MIDI. In order to fix this, MIDI events are now deallocated later then when they normally would have to be.
• Fixed extreme DSP usage increases in Kush Audio REDDI and Expressive E Noisy due to denormals.
• Fixed the VST3 version of W. A. Production ImPerfect crashing during audio setup.
• Fixed UVI Plugsound Free crashing during initialization.
• Fixed the Wine version detection when using a custom WINELOADER.
• Fixed incorrect logging output for cached VST3 function calls.
• Because of the new VST2 transport information prefetching, the excessive DSP usage in SWAM Cello has now been fixed without requiring any manual compatibility options.

[3.1.0] - 2021-04-15

Added

• Added support for using 32-bit Windows VST3 plugins in 64-bit Linux VST3 hosts. This had previously been disabled because of a hard to track down corruption issue.
• Added an option to prefer the 32-bit version of a VST3 plugin over the 64-bit version if both are installed. This likely won't be necessary, but because of the way VST3 bundles work there's no clean way to separate these. So when both are installed, the 64-bit version gets used by default.

Fixed

• Worked around a regression in Wine 6.5 that would prevent yabridge from shutting down (wine bug #50869). With Wine 6.5 terminating a Wine process no longer terminates its threads, which would cause yabridge's plugin and host components to wait for each other to shut down.
• Fixed preset/state loading in both the VST2 and VST3 versions of Algonaut Atlas 2.0 by loading and saving plugin state from the main GUI thread.
• Added a workaround for a bug present in every current Bluecat Audio VST3 plugin. Those plugins would otherwise crash yabridge because they didn't directly expose a core VST3 interface through their query interface.
• Fixed a multithreading related memory error in the VST3 audio processor socket management system.

yabridgectl

• Added an indexing blacklist, accessible through yabridgectl blacklist. You most likely won't ever have to use this, but this lets you skip over files and directories in yabridgectl's indexing process.
• Minor spelling fixes.

Packaging notes

• The Meson wrap dependencies for bitsery, function2 and tomlplusplus are now defined using dependency() with a subproject fallback instead of using subproject() directly. This should make it easier to package.
• The VST3 SDK Meson wrap dependency and the patches in tools/patch-vst3-sdk.sh are now based on version 3.7.2 of the SDK.
• The VST3 SDK Meson wrap now uses a tag (v3.7.2_build_28-patched) instead of a commit hash.

[3.0.2] - 2021-03-07

Fixed

• Fix bus information queries being performed for the wrong bus index. This fixes VST3 sidechaining in Renoise, and prevents a number of VST3 plugins with a sidechain input from causing Ardour and Mixbus to freeze or crash.

[3.0.1] - 2021-02-26

Changed

• Wine 6.2 introduced a regression that would cause compile errors because some parts of Wine's headers were no longer valid C++. Since we do not need the affecting functionality, yabridge now includes a small workaround to make sure that the affected code never gets compiled. This has been fixed for Wine 6.3.

Fixed

• Added support for a new ReaSurround related VST2.4 extension that REAPER recently started using. This would otherwise cause certain plugins to crash under REAPER.
• Fixed a regression from yabridge 3.0.0 where log output would no longer include timestamps.

yabridgectl

• Changed the wording and colors in yabridgectl status for plugins that have not yet been setup to look less dramatic and hopefully cause less confusion.
• Aside from the installation status, yabridgectl status now also shows a plugin's type and architecture. This is color coded to make it easier to visually parse the output.
• Plugin paths printed during yabridgectl status and yabridgectl sync --verbose are now always shown relative to the plugin directory instead of the same path prefix being repeated for every plugin.

[3.0.0] - 2021-02-14

Added

• Yabridge 3.0 introduces the first ever true Wine VST3 bridge, allowing you to use Windows VST3 plugins in Linux VST3 hosts with full VST 3.7.1 compatibility. Simply tell yabridgectl to look for plugins in $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/VST3, run yabridgectl sync, and your VST3 compatible DAW will pick up the new plugins in ~/.vst3/yabridge automatically. Even though this feature has been tested extensively with a variety of VST3 plugins and hosts, there's still a substantial part of the VST 3.7.1 specification that isn't used by any of the hosts or plugins we could get our hands on, so please let me know if you run into any weird behaviour! There's a list in the readme with all of the tested hosts and their current VST3 compatibility status.
• Added an option to use Wine's XEmbed implementation instead of yabridge's normal window embedding method. This can help reduce flickering when dragging the window around with certain window managers. Some plugins will have redrawing issues when using XEmbed or the editor might not show up at all, so your mileage may very much vary.
• Added a compatibilty option to forcefully enable drag-and-drop support under REAPER. REAPER's FX window reports that it supports drag-and-drop itself, which makes it impossible to drag files onto a plugin editor embedded there. This option strips the drag-and-drop support from the FX window, thus allowing you to drag files onto plugin editors again.
• Added a frame rate option to change the rate at which events are being handled. This usually also controls the refresh rate of a plugin's editor GUI. The default 60 updates per second may be too high if your computer's cannot keep up, or if you're using a host that never closes the editor such as Ardour.
• Added a compatibility option to disable HiDPI scaling for VST3 plugins. At the moment Wine does not have proper fractional HiDPI support, so some plugins may not scale their interfaces correctly when the host tells those plugins to scale their GUIs. In some cases setting the font DPI in winecfg's graphics tab to 192 will also cause the GUIs to scale correctly at 200%.
• Added the with-vst3 compile time option to control whether yabridge should be built with VST3 support. This is enabled by default.

Changed

• libyabridge.so is now called libyabridge-vst2.so. If you're using yabridgectl then nothing changes here. To avoid any potential confusion in the future, please remove the old libyabridge.so file before upgrading.

• The release archives uploaded on GitHub are now repackaged to include yabridgectl for your convenience.

• Window closing is now deferred. This means that when closing the editor window, the host no longer has to wait for Wine to fully close the window. Most hosts already do something similar themselves, so this may not always make a difference in responsiveness.

• Slightly increased responsiveness when resizing plugin GUIs by preventing unnecessary blitting. This also reduces flickering with plugins that don't do double buffering.

• VST2 editor idle events are now handled slightly differently. This should result in even more responsive GUIs for VST2 plugins.

• Win32 and X11 events in the Wine plugin host are now handled with lower scheduling priority than other tasks. This might help get rid of potential DSP latency spikes when having the editor open while the plugin is doing expensive GUI operations.

• Opening and closing plugin editors is now also no longer done with realtime priority. This should get rid of any latency spikes during those operations, as this could otherwise steal resources away from the threads that are processing audio.

• The way realtime priorities assigned has been overhauled:

  • Realtime scheduling on the plugin side is now a more granular. Instead of setting everything to use SCHED_FIFO, only the spawned threads will be configured to use realtime scheduling. This prevents changing the scheduling policy of your host's GUI thread if your host instantiates plugins from its GUI thread like REAPER does.
  • Relaying messages printed by the plugin and Wine is now done without realtime priority, as this could in theory cause issues with plugins that produce a steady stream of fixmes or other output.
  • The realtime scheduling priorities of all audio threads in the Wine plugin host are now periodically synchronized with those of the host's audio threads.

• When using yabridge.toml config files, the matched section or glob pattern is now also printed next to the path to the file to make it a bit easier to see where settings are being set from.

• The architecture document has been updated for the VST3 support and it has been rewritten to talk more about the more interesting bits of yabridge's implementation.

• Part of the build process has been changed to account for this Wine bug. Building with Wine 5.7 and 5.8 required a change for yabridge-host.exe to continue working, but that change now also breaks builds using Wine 6.0 and up. The build process now detects which version of Wine is used to build with, and it will then apply the change conditionally based on that to be able to support building with both older and newer versions of Wine. This does mean that when you switch to an older Wine version, you might need to run meson setup build --reconfigure before rebuilding to make sure that these changes take effect.

• yabridge-host.exe will no longer remove the socket directories if they're outside of a temporary directory. This could otherwise cause a very unpleasant surprise if someone were to pass random arguments to it when for instance trying to write a wrapper around yabridge-host.exe.

• When YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 2 or higher and a plugin asks the host for the current position in the song, yabridge will now also print the current tempo to help debugging host bugs.

Fixed

• VST2 plugin editor resizing in REAPER would not cause the FX window to be resized like it would in every other host. This has now been fixed.
• The function for suspending and resuming audio, effMainsChanged(), is now always executed from the GUI thread. This fixes EZdrummer not producing any sound because the plugin makes the incorrect assumption that effMainsChanged() is always called from the GUI thread.
• Event handling is now temporarily disabled while plugins are in a partially initialized state. The VST2 versions of T-RackS 5 would have a chance to hang indefinitely if the event loop was being run before those plugins were fully initialized because of a race condition within those plugins. This issue was only noticeable when using plugin groups.
• Fixed a potential issue where an interaction between Bitwig Studio and yabridge's input focus grabbing method could cause delayed mouse events when clicking on a plugin's GUI in Bitwig. This issue has not been reported for yabridge 2.2.1 and below, but it could in theory also affect older versions of yabridge.

yabridgectl

• Updated for the changes in yabridge 3.0. Yabridgectl now allows you to set up yabridge for VST3 plugins. Since libyabridge.so got renamed to libyabridge-vst2.so in this version, it's advised to carefully remove the old libyabridge.so and yabridgectl files before upgrading to avoid confusing situations.
• Added the yabridgectl set --path-auto option to revert back to automatically locating yabridge's files after manually setting a path with yabridgectl set --path=<...>.
• Added the yabridgectl set --no-verify={true,false} option to permanently disable post-installation setup checks. You can still directly pass the --no-verify argument to yabridgectl sync to disable these checks for only a single invocation.

[2.2.1] - 2020-12-12

Fixed

• Fixed some plugins, notably the Spitfire Audio plugins, from causing a deadlock when using plugin groups in REAPER. Even though this did not seem to cause any issues in other hosts, the race condition that caused this issue could also occur elsewhere.

[2.2.0] - 2020-12-11

Added

• Added an option to cache the time and tempo info returned by the host for the current processing cycle. This would normally not be needed since plugins should ask the host for this information only once per audio callback, but a bug in SWAM Cello causes this to happen repeatedly for every sample, resutling in very bad performance. See the compatibility options section of the readme for more information on how to enable this.

Changed

• When YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 2 or higher and a plugin asks the host for the current position in the song, yabridge will now print that position in quarter notes and samples as part of the debug output.
• YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL 2 will now also cause all audio processing callbacks to be logged. This makes recognizing misbheaving plugins a bit easier.
• Symbols in all libyabridge.so and all Winelib .so files are now hidden by default.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where in certain situations Wine processes were left running after the host got forcefully terminated before it got a chance to tell the plugin to shut down. This could happen when using Kontakt in Bitwig, as Bitwig sets a limit on the amount of time a plugin is allowed to spend closing when you close Bitwig, and Kontakt can take a while to shut down.
• Fixed a potential crash or freeze when removing a lot of plugins from a plugin group at exactly the same time.

[2.1.0] - 2020-11-20

Added

• Added a separate yabridgectl AUR package for Arch and Manjaro. The original idea was that yabridgectl would not require a lot of changes and that a single yabridgectl-git package would be sufficient, but sometimes changes to yabridgectl will be incompatible with the current release so it's nicer to also have a separate regular package.

Changed

• Yabridge will now always search for yabridge-host.exe in ~/.local/share/yabridge even if that directory is not in the search path. This should make setup easier, since you no longer have to modify any environment variables when installing yabridge to the default location. Because of this, the symlink-based installation method does not have a lot of advantages over the copy-based method anymore other than the fact that you can't forget to rerun yabridgectl sync after an upgrade, so most references to it have been removed from the readme.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where Renoise would show an error message when trying to load a plugin in the mixer.

[2.0.2] - 2020-11-14

Fixed

• Added a workaround for a bug in Ardour 6.3 which would cause several plugins including MT Power Drumkit to crash when opening the editor.
• Fixed linking error in debug build related to the parallel STL.

[2.0.1] - 2020-11-08

Fixed

• Fixed a regression where yabridge-host.exe would not exit on its own after the host crashes or gets terminated without being able to properly close all plugins.

[2.0.0] - 2020-11-08

Added

• The way communication works in yabridge has been completely redesigned to be fully concurrent and to use additional threads as necessary. This was needed to allow yabridge to handle nested and mutually recursive function calls as well as several other edge cases a synchronous non-concurrent implementation would fail. What this boils down to is that yabridge became even faster, more responsive, and can now handle many scenarios that would previously require workarounds. The most noticeable effects of these changes are as follows:

  • The hack_reaper_update_display workaround for REAPER and Renoise to prevent certain plugins from freezing is no longer needed and has been removed.
  • Opening and scanning plugins becomes much faster in several VST hosts because more work can be done simultaneously.
  • Certain plugins, such as Kontakt, no longer interrupt audio playback in Bitwig while their editor was being opened.
  • Any loading issues in Bitwig Studio 3.3 beta 1 are no longer present.
  • Hosting a yabridged plugin inside of the VST2 version of Carla now works as expected.
  • And probably many more improvements.

  Aside from these more noticeable changes, this has also made it possible to remove a lot of older checks and behaviour that existed solely to work around the limitations introduced by the old event handling system. I have been testing this extensively to make sure that these changes don't not introduce any regressions, but please let me know if this did break anything for you.

Changed

• The way the Wine process handles threading has also been completely reworked as part of the communication rework.
• GUI updates for plugins that don't use hardware acceleration are now run at 60 Hz instead of 30 Hz. This was kept at 30 updates per second because that seemed to be a typical rate for Windows VST hosts and because function calls could not be processed while the GUI was being updated, but since that limitation now no longer exists we can safely bump this up.
• Sockets are now created in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (which is /run/user/<user_id> on most systems) instead of /tmp to avoid polluting /tmp.

Removed

• The now obsolete hack_reaper_update_display option has been removed.
• The previously deprecated use-bitbridge and use-winedbg compilation options have been removed. Please use with-bitbridge and with-winedbg instead.

Fixed

• Fixed a very long standing issue with plugins groups where unloading a plugin could cause a crash. Now you can host over a hundred plugins in a single process without any issues.
• Fixed another edge case with plugin groups when simultaneously opening multiple plugins within the same group. The fallover behaviour that would cause all of those plugins to eventually connect to a single group host process would sometimes not work correctly because the plugins were being terminated prematurely.
• Fixed the implementation of the accumulative process() function. As far as I'm aware no VST hosts made in the last few decades even use this, but it just feels wrong to have an incorrect implementation as part of yabridge.

[1.7.1] - 2020-10-23

Fixed

• Fixed a regression where the editor_double_embed option would cause X11 errors and crash yabridge.
• Fixed a regression where certain fake dropdown menus such as those used in the Tokyo Dawn Records plugins would close immediately when hovering over them.
• Fixed an issue where plugins hosted within a plugin group would not shut down properly in certain situations. This would cause the VST host to hang when removing such a plugin.

yabridgectl

• When running yabridgectl sync, existing .so files will no longer be recreated unless necessary. This prevents hosts from rescanning all plugins after setting up a single new plugin through yabridgectl. Running yabridgectl sync after updating yabridge will still recreate all existing .so files as usual.
• Added a --force option to yabridgectl sync to always recreate all existing .so files like in previous versions.
• Fixed a regression from yabridgectl 1.6.1 that prevented you from removing directories that no longer exist using yabridgectl rm.

[1.7.0] - 2020-10-13

Changed

• The way keyboard input works has been completely rewritten to be more reliable in certain hosts and to provide a more integrated experience. Hovering over the plugin's editor while the window provided by the host is active will now immediately grab keyboard focus, and yabridge will return input focus to the host's window when moving the mouse outside of the plugin's editor when the window is still active. This should fix some instances where keyboard input was not working in hosts with more complex editor windows like REAPER and Ardour, and it also allows things like the comment field in REAPER's FX window to still function.

  A consequence of this change is that pressing Space in Bitwig Studio 3.2 will now play or pause playback as intended, but this does mean that it can be impossible to type the space character in text boxes inside of a plugin editor window. Please let me know if this causes any issues for you.

• Both unrecognized and invalid options are now printed on started to make debugging yabridge.toml files easier.

• Added a note to the message stating that libSwell GUI support has been disabled to clarify that this is expected behaviour when using REAPER. The message now also contains a suggestion to enable the hack_reaper_update_display option when it is not already enabled.

Fixed

• Added a workaround for reparenting issues with the plugin editor GUI on a specific i3 setup.

Documentation

• The documentation on yabridge.toml files and the available options has been rewritten in an effort to make it easier to comprehend.

[1.6.1] - 2020-09-28

Fixed

• Fixed a potential crash that could happen if the host would unload a plugin immediately after its initialization. This issue affected the plugin scanning in REAPER.
• Fixed parsing order of yabridge.toml. Sections were not always read from top to bottom like they should be, which could cause incorrect and unexpected setting overrides.
• Fixed an initialization error when using plugin groups for plugins that are installed outside of a Wine prefix.

yabridgectl

• Relative paths now work when adding plugin directories or when setting the path to yabridge's files.
• Also search /usr/local/lib for libyabridge.so when no manual path has been specified. Note that manually copying yabridge's files to /usr is still not recommended.

[1.6.0] - 2020-09-17

Added

• Added support for double precision audio processing. This is not very widely used, but some plugins running under REAPER make use of this. Without this those plugins would cause REAPER's audio engine to crash.

Fixed

• Increased the limit for the maximum number of audio channels. This could cause issues in Renoise when using a lot of output channels.

[1.5.0] - 2020-08-21

Added

• Added an option to work around timing issues in REAPER and Renoise where the hosts can freeze when plugins call a certain function while the host doesn't expect it, see #29 and #32. The readme contains instructions on how to enable this.

Changed

• Don't print calls to effIdle() when YABRIDGE_DEBUG_LEVEL is set to 1.

Fixed

• Fix Waves plugins from freezing the plugin process by preventing them from causing an infinite message loop.

[1.4.1] - 2020-07-27

yabridgectl

• Fixed regression caused by alexcrichton/toml-rs#256 where the configuration file failed to parse after running yabridgectl sync. If you have already run yabridgectl sync using yabridgectl 1.4.0, then you'll have to manually remove the [last_known_config] section from ~/.config/yabridgectl/config.toml.
• Fixed issue with overwriting broken symlinks during yabridgectl sync.

[1.4.0] - 2020-07-26

Added

• Added an alternative editor hosting mode that adds yet another layer of embedding. Right now the only known plugins that may need this are PSPaudioware plugins with expandable GUIs such as E27. The behaviour can be enabled on a per-plugin basis in the plugin configuration. See the readme for more details.

Changed

• Both parts of yabridge will now run with realtime priority if available. This can significantly reduce overall latency and spikes. Wine itself will still run with a normal scheduling policy by default, since running wineserver with realtime priority can actually increase the audio processing latency although it does reduce the amount of latency spikes even further. You can verify that yabridge is running with realtime priority by looking for the realtime: line in the initialization message. I have not found any downsides to this approach in my testing, but please let me know if this does end up causing any issues.

Fixed

• Fixed rare plugin location detection issue on Debian based distros related to the plugin and host detection fix in yabridge 1.2.0.

yabridgectl

• Added a check to yabridgectl sync that verifies that the currently installed versions of Wine and yabridge are compatible. This check will only be repeated after updating either Wine or yabridge.

• Added a --no-verify option to yabridgectl sync to skip the post-installation setup checks. This option will skip both the login shell search path check for the copy-based installation method as well as the new Wine compatibility check.

[1.3.0] - 2020-07-17

Added

• By somewhat popular demand yabridge now comes with yabridgectl, a utility that can automatically set up and manage yabridge for you. It also performs some basic checks to ensure that everything has been set up correctly so you can get up and running faster. Yabridgectl can be downloaded separately from the GitHub releases page and its use is completely optional, so you don't have to use it if you don't want to. Check out the readme for more information on how it works.

Deprecated

• The use-bitbridge and use-winedbg options have been deprecated in favour of the new with-bitbridge and with-winedbg options. The old options will continue to work until they are removed in yabridge 2.0.0.

[1.2.1] - 2020-06-20

Changed

• When building from source, only statically link Boost when the with-static-boost option is enabled.
• The use-bitbridge and use-winedbg options have been replaced by with-bitbridge and with-winedbg for consistency's sake. The old options will be marked as deprecated in the next minor release.

Fixed

• Fixed memory error that would cause crashing on playback with some buffer sizes in Mixbus6.
• Opening a plugin would override the Wine prefix for all subsequent plugins opened from within the same process. This prevented the use of multiple Wine prefixes in hosts that do not sandbox their plugins, such as Ardour.
• Manual Wine prefix overides through the WINEPREFIX environment were not reflected in the output shown on startup.
• Fixed plugin group socket name generation. This would have prevented plugin groups with the same name from being used simultaneously in different Wine prefixes.
• Distinguish between active processes and zombies when checking whether a group host process is still running during initialization.

[1.2.0] - 2020-05-29

Added

• Added the ability to host multiple plugins within a single Wine process through plugin groups. A plugin group is a user-defined set of plugins that will be hosted together in the same Wine process. This allows multiple instances of plugins to share data and communicate with each other. Examples of plugins that can benefit from this are FabFilter Pro-Q 3, MMultiAnalyzer, and the iZotope mixing plugins. See the readme for instructions on how to set this up.

Changed

• Changed architecture to use one fewer socket.
• GUI events are now always handled on a steady timer rather than being interleaved as part of the event loop. This change was made to unify the event handling logic for individually hosted plugins and plugin groups. It should not have any noticeable effects, but please let me know if this does cause unwanted behavior.

Fixed

• Steal keyboard focus when clicking on the plugin editor window to account for the new keyboard focus behavior in Bitwig Studio 3.2.
• Fixed large amount of empty lines in the log file when the Wine process closes unexpectedly.
• Made the plugin and host detection slightly more robust.

[1.1.4] - 2020-05-12

Fixed

• Fixed a static linking issue with the 32-bit build for Ubuntu 18.04.

[1.1.3] - 2020-05-12

Fixed

• Added a workaround for the compilation issues under Wine 5.7 and above as caused by Wine bug #49138.
• Added a workaround for plugins that improperly defer part of their initialization process without telling the host. This fixes startup behavior for the Roland Cloud plugins.
• Added a workaround for a rare race condition in certain plugins caused by incorrect assumptions in plugin's editor handling. Fixes the editor for Superior Drummer 3 and the Roland Cloud synths in Bitwig Studio.
• Fixed potential issue with plugins not returning their editor size.

[1.1.2] - 2020-05-09

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where plugin removal could cause Ardour and Mixbus to crash.

[1.1.1] - 2020-05-09

Changed

• Changed installation recommendations to only install using symlinks with hosts that support individually sandboxed plugins.
• Respect YABRIDGE_DEBUG_FILE when printing initialization errors.

Fixed

• Stop waiting for the Wine VST host process on startup if the process has crashed or if Wine was not able to start.

[1.1.0] - 2020-05-07

Added

• Added support for plugins that send MIDI events back to the host. This allows plugins such as Cthulhu and Scaler to output notes and CC for another plugin to work with.
• Added support for querying and setting detailed information about speaker configurations for use in advanced surround setups. This indirectly allows yabridge to work under Renoise.
• Added automated development builds for yabridge, available by clicking on the 'Automated builds' badge in the project readme.

Changed

• Changed the plugin detection mechanism to support yet another way of symlinking plugins. Now you can use a symlink to a copy of libyabridge.so that's installed for a plugin in another directory. This is not recommended though.
• Changed Wine prefix detection to be relative to the plugin's .dll file, rather than the loaded .so file.
• Increased the maximum number of audio channels from 32 to 256.
• Clarified the error that appears when we're unable to load the .dll.
• Yabridge will now print the used version of Wine during startup. This can be useful for diagnosing startup problems.

Fixed

• Fixed plugins failing to load on certain versions of Ubuntu because of paths starting with two forward slashes.
• Redirect the output from the Wine host process earlier in the startup process. Otherwise errors printed during startup won't be visible, making it very hard to diagnose problems.

[1.0.0] - 2020-05-03

Added

• This changelog file to track keep track of changes since yabridge's 1.0 release.