OBS Studio — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| OBS Studio 32.1.1 Hotfix | 2026-04-03 | Fixed missing audio mixer tooltips Fixed audio mixer minimum width being too large Fixed audio mixer sorting weight for global and pinned sourcesFixed disabled sources appearing in audio mixer Fixed missing toolbar actions for audio mixer Fixed incorrect colors in audio mixer Fixed audio deduplication incorrectly applying when an audio outputcapture source is set to monitor only |
| OBS Studio 32.1 | 2026-04-03 | 32.1 New FeaturesOverhauled the Audio Mixer Adjusted the horizontal layoutAdjusted the vertical layoutAdded button to swap layouts to the toolbarChanged the default layout to verticalAdded button to toggle audio monitoringSources in the preview are now shown while in Studio ModeAdded ability to pin audio sourcesPinned sources are always displayedGlobal audio sources are always pinnedAdded ability to display sources set to hideAdded ability to display sources that are not in the current sceneAdded WebRTC Simulcast Support Added missing undo/redo actions for scene items Scale filtering, blending mode, blending method, deinterlacing mode and dei |
| OBS Studio 32.0.1 Hotfix | 2025-09-27 | 32.0.1 Hotfix Changes Fixed a possible crash in 32.0.0 on Windows when opening source properties Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 where browser sources would break after switching scenes This issue may also have caused increased resource usage. Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 with the audio deduplication logic when an Audio Capture Source device is also used for monitoring Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 where Multitrack Video settings were unavailable to Custom Services |
| OBS Studio 32.0 | 2025-09-24 | New FeaturesAdded a basic plugin managerAdded opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOSAdded 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 MacsAdded Hybrid MOV support Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supportedHEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platformsChangesOBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release ofOBS to prevent future compatibility issues |
| OBS Studio 31.1.2 | 2025-07-29 | Fixed an issue in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 causing Multitrack Video to set the Maximum Video Tracks to 10 if the user had set it to "Auto" Fixed an issue in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 causing Browser Source hardware acceleration to fail in the Flatpak version Fixed an issue in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 where progress bars were styled incorrectly Fixed an issue in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 where spacing around scrollbars was incorrect Fixed an issue in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 where Decklink Output did not work Fixed a freeze in OBS Studio 31.1.0 and 31.1.1 on Linux when using PipeWire capture with explicit sync Fixed an issue |
| OBS Studio 31.1.1 | 2025-07-12 | Fixed a crash when using YouTube browser docks Fixed an issue causing RTMPS streams to fail in some cases Fixed an issue causing Media Sources ingesting SRT streams to fail in some cases Fixed an issue causing Browser Source hardware acceleration to fail on Linux |
| OBS Studio 31.1 | 2025-07-08 | Important Notices The code signing certificate for OBS has been updated. This may impact game capture compatibility with some anti-cheat solutions with this OBS update. If you are a game or anti-cheat developer please see https://obsproject.com/kb/capture-hook-certificate-update for more information. 31.1 New Features Added new UI appearance options, font size and density (padding/spacing) Added preview zoom controls Added support for Multitrack Video to macOS (Apple Silicon) Added support for Multitrack Video to Linux Added support for additional canvases for Multitrack Video output Added AV1 B-frame support for AMF Added support for color f |
| OBS Studio 31.0.1 Hotfix | 2025-01-18 | Fixed a crash on macOS caused by hand gesture reactions Fixed a crash caused by malformed scene collection files Fixed a possible crash on Linux when initializing PipeWire screen sharing Fixed a possible deadlock and freeze on macOS while exiting OBS Fixed an issue with inhibiting screensaver on Linux Fixed an issue where migrated NVIDIA Audio Effects filters would not retain their position in the filter order Fixed an issue where Scene Collections could have an incorrect base resolution Fixed an issue on Linux with Portable Mode causing the config directory to be in the wrong location Fixed an issue where an Image Slideshow Source set to Ran |
| OBS Studio 31.0 | 2024-12-07 | Important Notices NVIDIA Kepler (600 and 700 series) GPUs are no longer supported for NVENC. NVIDIA users may need to update their GPU drivers to 551.76 (Windows) / 550.54.14 (Linux) or newer. The code signing certificate for OBS has been updated. This may impact game capture compatibility with some anti-cheat solutions with this OBS update. If you are a game or anti-cheat developer please see https://obsproject.com/kb/capture-hook-certificate-update for more information. 31.0 New Features Added NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur Added preview scrollbars and zoom/scale indicator Added v210 format support for AJA device capture Added Amazo |
| OBS Studio 30.2.3 Hotfix | 2024-08-15 | Fixed a possible deadlock when using Hybrid MP4 Fixed a possible deadlock when closing OBS while outputs are active Fixed a possible crash when connecting to an RTMP server Fixed a possible RTMP disconnect/timeout on Windows systems without IPv6 connectivity when connecting to a dual-stack RTMP server Fixed browser source custom CSS injection for sites with 'require-trusted-types-for' CSP (e.g., YouTube) Adjusted IPv4/IPv6 address selection to be stricter Fixed a memory leak with the volume sliders |
| OBS Studio 30.2.1 Hotfix | 2024-07-23 | Fixed a possible crash when loading scene data Fixed an issue with CoreAudio AAC timestamps causing a stream to fail Fixed an issue with obs-websocket not reading Virtual Camera availability correctly Fixed an issue with obs-websocket settings not saving correctly Fixed an issue causing the legacy AMF encoder to no longer be available after updating OBS Fixed an issue where attempting to run OBS with the OpenGL renderer on Windows would fail Fixed read-only QTextEdit background color Fixed source tree icon spacing Adjusted sizing of Classic audio meter elements |
| OBS Studio 30.2 | 2024-07-13 | OBS Studio 30.2 is now available! This release comes with exciting new features, such as Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting, a new theme system, zero-copy hardware encoding on Linux, and a new “Hybrid MP4” format for crash resiliency, compatibility, and long-awaited support for chapter markers! 30.2 New Features Added support for Multitrack Video streaming On Twitch, this is known as Enhanced Broadcasting. For more information, see: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/multiple-encodes The supported audio channel configurations are stereo or mono. This feature is currently only available on Windows and requires an NVIDIA GTX 900, GTX 10, or RTX 20 seri |
| OBS Studio 30.2 Beta is live! | 2024-06-13 | A beta build for OBS Studio version 30.2 is now available! This is a minor release, with a number of new features and enhancements, as well as the usual round of bug fixes. Find the the full patch notes for OBS Studio 30.2 Beta 3 here: github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/30.2.0-beta3 You can now opt-into the beta by adding the "OBS Studio Beta" app to your library, this will allow you to keep the stable release installed side-by-side and give you a clean installation to play with. To add the beta to your library go to the OBS Studio store page and click "Request Access", you will be given access immediately: If you instead wish to u |
| OBS Studio 30.1.2 Hotfix | 2024-04-06 | Fixed NVENC failing with old drivers/devices Reverted: Changed default recording format to fMP4/fMOV for stable releases |
| OBS Studio 30.1.1 Hotfix | 2024-03-30 | Fixed a crash on macOS 11 when starting OBS Fixed missing HDR metadata for certain encoders Fixed broken hardware decoding of remote streams in Media Sources Fixed broken file output from remuxing a file with PCM audio Fixed an issue where macOS Audio Capture or macOS Screen Capture sources could stop capturing Fixed an issue on Windows causing Virtual Camera and 32-bit Game Capture to fail Fixed an issue on Linux which caused QSV encoders to be enabled on systems with no Intel GPUs Backported xdg-data metadata updates |
| OBS Studio 30.1 | 2024-03-12 | Note: NVIDIA users may need to update their GPU drivers to 531.61 or newer. 30.1 New Features Enabled HDR for HEVC over RTMP Reworked the Image Slideshow source The reworked Image Slideshow source loads files asynchronously and fixes an issue where the slideshow would loop before showing all images. To change existing Image Slideshow sources to the new version, you must recreate them. Existing Image Slideshow sources will continue functioning as before. Added Capture Audio option to window/game capture on Windows Added Premultiplied Alpha option for game capture on Windows Added option for automatic cropping to bounding box Added maxRGB tonem |
| OBS Studio 30.0.2 | 2023-12-10 | Fixed a CEF-related crash on macOS due to application bundle naming Fixed a crash with PipeWire Screen Capture Fixed a crash when removing scene items Fixed a crash on shutdown in obs-websocket Fixed macOS Sonoma capture indicator lingering on screen Fixed a memory leak on first run after updating OBS Fixed Safe Mode activating when using multiple OBS instances Fixed Stats Dock reporting incorrect free disk space on macOS Fixed menu bar application title issues on macOS Fixed issues with the shader cache feature causing OBS to be unable to run on Windows Fixed an issue causing browser docks to close OBS Fixed handling frontend JS events in br |
| OBS Studio 30.0 Update | 2023-11-12 | 30.0 New Features Added WHIP/WebRTC output Redesigned the status bar The redesigned status bar now provides the same information in a more organized and well structured way, with more representative and recognizable icons. Added option for Full-Height docks to the "Docks" menu When enabled, a dock such as chat can take up the entire height of the OBS window Added support for Intel QSV H264, HEVC, AV1 on Linux Added a shader cache to improve OBS startup time on Windows Added application audio capture on macOS Reworked the virtual camera on macOS to work with all applications (on macOS 13 and newer) Added a YouTube Live Control Room Panel when |
| OBS Studio 30.0 Beta is live! | 2023-08-17 | A beta build for OBS Studio version 30.0 is now available! This is a major release, with a number of exciting new features and enhancements, as well as the usual round of bug fixes. Find the the full patch notes for OBS Studio 30 Beta 1 here: github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/30.0.0-beta1 You can now opt-into the beta by adding the "OBS Studio Beta" app to your library, this will allow you to keep the stable release installed side-by-side and give you a clean installation to play with. To add the beta to your library go to the OBS Studio store page and click "Request Access", you will be given access immediately: If you instead wi |
| OBS Studio 29.1.3 Hotfix Update | 2023-06-19 | Fixed service selection resetting for services that are not shown by default Fixed crash when properties are deleted in callback, e.g. with the Source Record plugin Fixed keyboard shortcuts not being displayed for some context menu items Fixed crash with Freetype 2 text sources with non-ASCII text Fixed AMF encoder reconfiguration and dynamic bitrate not working Fixed AMF preset fallback not taking the GPUs reported throughput into account Fixed a bug preventing properties dialogs from being closed with the “Cancel” button Fixed window capture/game capture compatibility notices being displayed erroneously Fixed potential crash on exit with ob |