SOF Release v1.8

The SOF developers are pleased to announce the release of SOF v1.8.

Features

• Improved support for Intel Tiger Lake- and Alder Lake-based devices.
• Bluetooth support on Intel Alder Lake devices.
• Support for Intelligo noise reduction technology.
• Support for further Cadence library codecs.
• Further performance improvements to audio processing library.
• Power optimizations for Intel Tiger Lake and Alder Lake.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements.
• Pipeline level multi-core support.
• LL scheduler refinement for multi-core support.
• Continued Zephyr integration with more native features being used.
• Fixes for known xrun issues with multi-core.
• Various fixes for i.MX8 DAIs.
• Cadence toolchain support for i.MX8 platforms.

Changes since rc2

• Multi-core xrun bugs fixing.
• Codec_adapter component fixes.

Recommended Linux recipe

• Linux stable kernel 5.12 or newer, or SOF Linux kernel branch release-v1.8, commit 861331047798b
• alsa-lib 1.2.5 or newer
• alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.5 or newer (e.g. There is a change in topology for the HP Spectre x360 that requires this new alsa-ucm-conf version to be used.)

Binaries
Firmware, topology and tool binaries are available here: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin