Release 5.9.0 (January 16, 2026):
* added: new feature to wvtag to copy tags from one WavPack file
to another
* improved: minor tweaks to the new DNS (dynamic noise shaping)
algorithm
* improved: better handling of specific non-standard WAV and AIFF
files
* improved: added CI (GitHub Actions) and fixed a few minor build
issues
* fixed: --pause option failed in many situations (Windows-only)
* fixed: issues related to encoding from an unknown length
(e.g., pipes)
* fixed: several fuzzer-revealed issues related to multithreading
* fixed: potential buffer overruns in WavpackOpenRawDecoder()
Link: https://github.com/dbry/WavPack/blob/5.9.0/NEWS
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
"This dot release replaces 5.8.0 that was missing a couple CMake files
in the tarball and the multicore detection did not compile on MacOS
and other BSDs. Because the Windows executables were not affected I
will not be updating them."
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Release 5.8.0 - January 27, 2025
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added: if present, use multiple cores by default (cli programs only)
added: option --no-threads to force single-threading (cli programs)
fixed: noise issue in hybrid mode (low bitrate / high sample rate)
improved: all new DNS algorithm for better hybrid mode quality
improved: "extra" option with multithreading and hybrid modes
added: TSOC (Composer Sort) added to handled ID3v2 tags
added: --no-overwrite command-line option to wvunpack
fixed: handling of 24+ channels (CoolEdit / Audition)
fixed: encoding raw audio from pipes (Windows only)
fixed: handling of unpacked samples in WAV files
fixed: rare command-line option parsing issue
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Wei-Ting Yang
Daniel Golle
Fabrice Fontaine