--- title: PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead | daily.dev description: PipeWire made significant progress in 2021: its Bluetooth audio plugin matured into one of the best open source implementations, Fedora 34 became the first... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead | daily.dev og:description: PipeWire made significant progress in 2021: its Bluetooth audio plugin matured into one of the best open source implementations, Fedora 34 became the first... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QODmtKEjN.png og:image:alt: PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PipeWire made significant progress in 2021: its Bluetooth audio plugin matured into one of the best open source implementations, Fedora 34 became the first distro to ship PipeWire as the default audio service, and WirePlumber 0.4.0 introduced a Lua scripting engine for session management. Audio passthrough support was added in September for lower-latency use cases like gaming. WirePlumber became the default session manager in Fedora 35 and was adopted by other major distros. Looking ahead, plans include reworking WirePlumber's configuration for better usability, improving policy logic beyond what PulseAudio offered, and experimenting with libcamera integration for advanced camera support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When did Fedora first ship PipeWire as the default audio service? Fedora 34, released in April 2021, was the first Linux distribution to ship PipeWire as its default audio service. Before that, PipeWire was present only as a video transport service for screen sharing on Wayland. The broader audio exposure led to a significant number of improvements and bug fixes driven by wider user adoption. _Developers tracking Linux audio stack changes follow milestones like this on daily.dev._ ### What did WirePlumber 0.4.0 introduce and when was it released? WirePlumber 0.4.0, released in June 2021, introduced a Lua scripting engine that made it possible to write most session management logic in a relatively simple scripting language. This enabled syncing policy logic with pipewire-media-session to replace PulseAudio and made it easier to maintain embedded policies such as those used by Automotive Grade Linux. _Engineers replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire keep up with WirePlumber releases on daily.dev._ ### What is PipeWire audio passthrough and what use cases does it enable? PipeWire audio passthrough, integrated in September 2021, enables faster audio paths by bypassing the standard audio conversion pipeline. It is managed by both WirePlumber and pipewire-media-session. It benefits resource-intensive applications like video games and embedded device applications where avoiding unnecessary audio format conversions reduces latency and CPU overhead. _Developers building low-latency audio pipelines on Linux find relevant PipeWire developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features](https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-1-6-released-with-many-new-features-le91077m0) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Escaping Linux Sandboxes via PipeWire \(CVE-2026-5674\) · Embrace The Red](https://daily.dev/posts/escaping-linux-sandboxes-via-pipewire-cve-2026-5674-embrace-the-red-x9e0vsjk1) · Embrace The Red · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#bluetooth](https://daily.dev/tags/bluetooth) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:53:51.515Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:14:39.277Z","description":"PipeWire made significant progress in 2021: its Bluetooth audio plugin matured into one of the best open source implementations, Fedora 34 became the first...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/55b0dab15b468c2dd6bfb18b89d184ca?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/55b0dab15b468c2dd6bfb18b89d184ca?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Collabora Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Collabora Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZGZ0FjqS--/f_auto,q_auto/v1786438306/logos/collabora?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"bluetooth","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Collabora Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/collabora"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pipewire-a-year-in-review-a-look-ahead-qodmtkejn#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"When did Fedora first ship PipeWire as the default audio service?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Fedora 34, released in April 2021, was the first Linux distribution to ship PipeWire as its default audio service. 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