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+Version: 3.3.26
+Patch: 00
+Date: 2023-03-28
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RELEASE NOTES:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Significant upgrade to sound server running detections, much more granular and
+hopefully more accurate, with more useful reporting values. Also added some nice
+useful audio api/server tool and info items.
+
+Packagers: this corrects possibly wrong or misleading audio server reports, 
+particularly related to PulseAudio/PipeWire, which can lead to support issues 
+and lack of clarity due to ambiguous or wrong reports about sound Servers 
+present, active, or off. Upgrading your package is highly recommended.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+SPECIAL THANKS:
+
+1. Thanks to people like Chimera dev Daniel "q66" Kolesa for experimenting with 
+non systemd (uses dinit/dinitctl), non GCC, non GNU linux, and for making early 
+pre-alpha versions run in vm, and for being easy to test!
+
+Not so much because I personally want or care about or view as a positive 
+skipping GNU tools or GCC in favor of clang and BSD tools, but more because 
+these experiments help make the general overall Linux ecosystem more robust. 
+Including inxi.
+
+2. Thanks for the Manjaro people for noting this issue on their forums.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+KNOWN ISSUES:
+
+1a. AUDIO: jack_control and pw-cli won't run as root, exit with error. This 
+forces back to fallback process present tests for active running state. 
+
+1b. AUDIO: pactl will start pipewire/pipewire-pulse/pulseaudio if stopped and 
+not masked, so not using since that would make inxi alter the state of the 
+system.
+
+1c. AUDIO: pipewire-alsa, pulseaudio-jack depend on file exist globs, tested on
+Arch Linux, Debian base, but unknown if paths exist on other Linux pimary 
+distros. Easy to add to globbing tests, but no going to check them all!
+
+2. SERVICES: systemctl status [service] can fail if service loaded using --user
+which is a new one on me, not sure how to handle that.
+
+3. It would be nice to get inxi issues like the sound server/api glitches 
+handled by filing an issue on inxi github, and not to rely on my seeing a random 
+distro forum post, which I only found by pure coincidence.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+BUGS:
+
+1. AUDIO: See Fixes 3a,b,c. In some cases false report of pulseaudio and 
+pipewire running: yes create unclear output and results, or misleading. Thanks 
+to manjaro users to noticing this and mentioning it in a forum post. 
+
+Note: it's much more effective to file issues on inxi github than to hope I will
+see a random forum post one day.
+
+2. DEBUGGER: Bug in debugger, somewhere introduced '-- list' (instead of 
+'--list') for bluetoothctl which made older systems hang when running the 
+debugger. No idea when or how that space got introduced.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+FIXES:
+
+1. INFO: Compilers showed Compilers: gcc: N/A when clang/gcc not installed, this 
+was not intended, but was a small glitch in main::get_gcc_data(), where it 
+assigned undef as array contents when gcc not defined. This was exposed by 
+Chimera, which uses clang, but would have happened any time gcc not installed on 
+system. 
+
+2. SYSTEM: tiny fix, was getting ',' at end of kernel compiler version.
+
+3a. AUDIO: For pipewire, made process detection test more robust, now excludes 
+pipewire-pulse in case where that might be running without pipewire on/enabled. 
+
+3b. AUDIO: bigger fix, more robust tests for audio servers running for jack, 
+pipewire, pulseaudio, these look for more explicit server tool reports. Certain 
+not to be reliable always, and fail for superuser, will probably need more 
+tweaking. Also notes for jack, pulse, pipewire if only positive detection found 
+via ps aux: active (process) to avoid incorrect data, and root specific messages
+depending on situation.
+
+3c. AUDIO: was testing for pactl to determine if pulseaudio installed, but found 
+case where pactl could be installed without pulseaudio. Now tests for pulseaudio 
+installed.
+
+3d. AUDIO: weak fix for Linux OSS4 version, using /etc/oss4/version.dat file, 
+which may or may not exist on all distros. 
+
+3e. AUDIO: alsa-oss compat can create /dev/sndstat file, which would then lead 
+to positive OSS detection even if it's not present. This is corrected, and will 
+not show if asound/version exists and no ossinfo. For linux, relying on ossinfo 
+presence, which comes from oss4-base.
+
+3f. AUDIO: Older ALSA /proc/asound/version had a date string in parentheses 
+after the Driver Version, so now explicitly get the string after Version.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+1. REPOS: added support for /etc/apk/repositories.d/*.list, which works pretty 
+much the same as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list. This is to make Chimera apk 
+repos show up, previously only supported /etc/apk/repositories file read.
+
+2a. DistroData: Added Feren to distro system base. This was much trickier than 
+it should be due to inconsistent use of os-release field names, but that's how 
+it goes.
+
+2b. DistroData: new Arch derived distro XeroLinux added to system base. I know, 
+I know, it's a never-ending endeavor (get it?) since these pop up all the time, 
+but might as well add them now and then as they appear.
+
+3a. AUDIO: inxi now handles pipewire-pulse as top layer audio daemon, along with 
+several other server/api helpers. Note that pw-jack does not appear to be a 
+daemon, just a plugin, so shows 'plugin'. Extra sound server helpers added when 
+discovered or requested. 
+
+  API: ALSA
+    v: k5.19.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64
+    status: kernel-api
+  Server-1: PulseAudio
+    v: 16.1
+    status: off (on pipewire-pulse)
+  Server-2: PipeWire
+    v: 0.3.65
+    status: active
+    with: 
+      1: pipewire-pulse
+        status: active
+      2: pw-jack
+        type: plugin
+
+3b. AUDIO: For -Aa, added tools: report. Currently supports these basic tools:
+
+alsa: alsamixer alsamixergui amixer
+jack: cadence jack_control jack_mixer qjackctl
+oss: dsbmixer mixer ossinfo ossmix ossxmix vmixctl
+nas: auctl auinfo
+pipewire: pw-cat pw-cli wpctl) [+pactl if pipewire-pulse and no pulseaudio
+pulse: pacat pactl pamix pamixer pavucontrol pulsemixer
+roar: roarcat roarctl
+sndiod: aucat midicat mixerctl sndioctl
+	
+Note that inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt has lists of alternates or rejected
+helpers and tools, but we want to keep that output short and sane.
+	
+3c. AUDIO: For BSDs, if sndiod is detected, adds an API line for sndio. Note 
+this may create 2 API lines for FreeBSD using OSS.
+
+3d. AUDIO: Added basic support for roar sound server, NAS (Network Audio 
+System).
+
+4. CPU: new Intel and AMD cpu model matches for latest and future, Luna Lake, 
+Zen 4c.
+
+5. GRAPHICS: new nvidia current, AMD, and Intel GPU ids.
+
+6. DRIVES: more disk vendors, ids! The list never stops, but sadly, so many are
+not identifiable. Check: inxi-perl/tools/lists/disks_unhandled to see if you 
+can positively identify any of those.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+CHANGES:
+
+1a. AUDIO: Changed main API/Server running: to status: [status], that syntax is 
+more able to handle different circumstances.
+
+1b. AUDIO: With change to status:, now uses granular fixes above, and adds root 
+notes if no active detections.
+
+1c. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound API', 'Sound Server' to 'API', 'Server'. This avoids
+ambiguity with some types, it's the Audio section, and those are the APIs and 
+Servers for that Audio section. Makes it match Graphics as well. and is shorter.
+
+1d. AUDIO: Changed 'Sound Interface' for sndiod to 'Server', which is how it's 
+listed, and for BSD, added API: sndio item. Also changed 'sndio' to 'sndiod' for
+the Server: item.
+
+1e. AUDIO: Changed ALSA/BSD sndio to show: status: api since saying an api
+is running makes little sense, it's there or it's not there. OSS can be enabled
+or disabled so shows status: active/off for Linux, but kernel-api for BSDs.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+DOCUMENTATION:
+
+1a. MAN: Added note for helpers item: with: pipewire-pulse/pw-jack etc to -Axx.
+
+1b. MAN: Added -Aa item for audio server tools.
+
+2. OPTIONS: Updated for -Axx helpers, -Aa tools.
+
+3. DOCS: Created inxi-perl/docs/inxi-audio.txt doc file. Too many odd factoids 
+to forget about during this upgrade!
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+CODE:
+
+1. REPOS: Moved %keys to %repo_keys and set it only once with set_repo_keys(), 
+those big hash assigns per iteration are really expensive, now stores it 
+globally in RepoItem and sets only once.
+
+2. INFO: main::get_gcc_data() failed to handle case where there is no gcc at all
+installed, resulted in returning an array with content of 'undef', not an empty 
+array as intended. This made the array not set test fail for Compilers, so gcc
+showed as N/A, which was not intended.
+
+3. DistroData: changed internal lsb/osr $distro to $distro_lsb/$distro_osr, 
+which lets inxi update the distro name during system base processing in cases 
+where the data is redundant. Stupid hack, sigh, should not be necessary, but 
+that's life, /etc/os-release was poorly designed so it leads to such confusions.
+
+4a. AUDIO: Added --dbg 52 to output results of pw-cli.
+
+4b. AUDIO: refactored sound_data, renamed, added {jack,pipewire,pulse}_status(), 
+sound_helpers(), sound_tools() utilities. 
+
+5. DEBUGGER: added more pactl and pw-cli outputs, and pipewire-pulse, 
+pipewire-jack --version.
+
+6. main::get_driver_modules(): add space after ',' if total string > 40 
+characters to allow splitting very long unbroken strings of modules that 
+otherwise would not break as expected.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Harald Hope - Tues, 28 Mar 2023 16:30:00 -0800
+
+================================================================================
 Version: 3.3.25
 Patch: 00
-Date: 2022-??-??
+Date: 2023-02-07
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 RELEASE NOTES:
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@@ -137,7 +368,7 @@ when I'm working on that specific feature. But slowly, surely.
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 CODE:
 
-1. GRAPHICS: Test when no gpu drivers and no dri drivers but x drivers never 
+1a. GRAPHICS: Test when no gpu drivers and no dri drivers but x drivers never 
 showed x driver. Was supposed to be all || for tests:
 
 if (@$gpu_drivers || $graphics{'dri-drivers'} && @$x_drivers){
@@ -147,7 +378,7 @@ https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop. I believe this led to test 1 being false, test
 logical and to be true. Since only one of the two was true, the last bit was 
 seen as false. 
 
-2. GRAPHICS: Connected with 1, noticed that for some weird reason, I'd decided 
+1b. GRAPHICS: Connected with 1, noticed that for some weird reason, I'd decided 
 to assign the array ref for drivers like this:
 
 @$x_drivers = (a, b, c);
@@ -157,13 +388,13 @@ $x_drivers = [a,b,c];
 This did not cause any issues, since they mean the same thing, but it was silly
 to write it that way.
 
-3a. DEBUG: Added --debug-arg-use which allows testers to run a specific argument 
+2a. DEBUG: Added --debug-arg-use which allows testers to run a specific argument 
 combination that may be causing issues.
 
-3b. DEBUG: Also added more validation, to make sure arg for --debug-arg / 
+2b. DEBUG: Also added more validation, to make sure arg for --debug-arg / 
 --debug-arg-use start with - or -- followed by a letter.
 
-4. START: Removed this code block from set_konvi_data. I had left this in place 
+3. START: Removed this code block from set_konvi_data. I had left this in place 
 for a release or two to make sure no need for it was found, but it will never be 
 used since it never worked in the first place.
 	# my $config_cmd = '';
@@ -188,11 +419,11 @@ used since it never worked in the first place.
 	#	 main::log_data('dump',"kde config \@data",\@data) if $b_log;
 	# }
 	
-5. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and 
+4. OPTIONS: in OptionsHandler::post_process(), reorganized the various run and 
 exit triggers, help, configs, recommends, version, etc. All on top now.
 
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--- Harald Hope - Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:22:22 -0800
+-- Harald Hope - Tue, 7 Feb 2023 18:00:00 -0800
 
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