Open Broadcaster Studio (OBS) announced in a tweet: “OBS Studio 27.2 is now out for everyone! The release adds support for @AJAVideo devices, source blend modes (like Photoshop), AV1 encoding, updated CEF (Chrome 95), official Flatpak support, hotkey duplicate detection, and more!”
OBS also tweeted: “Twitch Users You MUST update to 27.2 before the end of February! After February 28th, you will no longer be able to connect your Twitch account in any previous version of OBS due to Twitch ending support for the old v5 API. Only OBS Studio 27.2 and later support the new API.”
New Features and Additions in OBS 27.2:
- Added AJA source for AJA devices
- Added AJA output to tools menu for AJA devices
- Updated CEF (Chromium) for the browser source from 76 (3770) to version 95 (4638)
- Added the ability to set different blend modes to sources via the source right-click context menu
- Added AOM AV1 and STV-AV1 encoders
- Added an OBS hotkey for browser source to allow refreshing a browser source via that hotkey
- Added hotkey filter search
- Added hotkey duplicate detection
- Added a warning dialog when switching profiles that have settings changes that require a restart
- Added a “Show active outputs warning on exit” option in advanced settings, which allows you to enable/disable the confirmation dialog on exit while recording/streaming
- Added support for the RIST protocol
- Added official Flatpak support for Linux
- Added framework for future support of background hotkeys on Wayland
- Added an option to general settings to hide OBS from all capturing, allowing you to capture your screen without OBS showing up
Tweaks:
- Updated dependencies to their latest versions
- Volume meters will now show audio activity in greyscale when muted rather than showing no activity
- Improve menu bar icons on macOS
- A warning will now be shown when failing to start/stop YouTube streams
- Improved consistency of transition duration suffixes
- On Linux, the list of windows shown in Window capture will now show alphabetically
- Twitch panels will now use the light or dark mode depending on the OBS theme
- Changed the Docks menu from being a submenu in the View menu to instead be its own top-level menu on the menu-bar
- A more user-friendly dialog is now displayed when a file could not be written for recording
- The filters preview/properties are now resizable
- Added the ability for RTMP servers to request a silent reconnect when the server is going down
- Incompatible audio filters will now not be shown for sources that don’t support them
- Added frontend event so scripts can know when OBS is shutting down
- PipeWire capturing is now more robust, especially in multi-GPU setups
- Sources will now be activated when viewing them in the filters dialog
- Browser sources are no longer refreshed when their size changes
For more information, visit the OBS Studio 27.2 notes on GitHub.