Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS
Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects,which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as severaloptimizations to NVIDIA Effects
Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal,allowing removal of chairs
Added experimental Metal renderer for Apple Silicon Macs
Added Hybrid MOV support
Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supportedHEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms
Changes
OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release ofOBS to prevent future compatibility issues
Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates
Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!)
Changed default bitrate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps
Changed Hybrid MP4/MOV to be the default containers
Changed the crash sentinel file location to its own subdirectory
Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nestedscenes, groups, and multiple canvases
Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor andOutput" while the monitoring device is also being captured
Updated the default settings for AMD encoders
Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV
Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS
Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture
Removed workarounds to prevent loading Qt 5 based plugins
Removed the --disable-shutdown-check launch flag
Hybrid MP4/MOV is now out of beta and has been made the defaultoutput format for new profiles
Bug Fixes
Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing theOBS window
Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL
Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT
Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certainvideo files
Fixed a UI deadlock when opening source properties from the Sourceslist when the Windows setting 'Snap mouse to default button in dialogboxes' was enabled by adding a 200ms delay before creating theproperties window
Fixed a memory leak when trying to output Hybrid MP4 to anon-writeable location
Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank
Fixed SRT reconnection failures
Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness
Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder
Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases
Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS ScreenCapture
Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS
Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes
Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases,potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames
Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latencyafter temporary encoder stalls
Fixed an issue where Multitrack Video could still be enabled afterswitching from a service that supports it to one that does not
Fixed an issue where GetGroupList with obs-websocket would returnnothing
Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks fromloading correctly while OBS is maximized