Hi all, I would like to post the following post-mortem to inform our users about the recent mishap with wireplumber. ``` Two days ago the `wireplumber` package was made to replace `pipewire-media-session` as the latter session manager for PipeWire is considered dead upstream and will see no more releases. Unfortunately, this step was premature. Our pipewire audio packages (`pipewire-alsa`, `pipewire-jack` and `pipewire-pulse`) ship configuration that prompt media-session to activate PipeWire's audio features. Without this configuration, PipeWire can be used without interfering with ALSA or PulseAudio when these packages are not installed. Unlike media-session, WirePlumber disregards this mechanism and will always configure PipeWire to grab audio devices. The replacement has been reverted while we attempt to look for a better solution switching to WirePlumber. If you are currently not using PipeWire for audio and `wireplumber` got installed on your system, please reinstall `pipewire-media-session` and reboot to restore audio functionality. pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session ``` Greetings, Jan