December 15th, 2025
Opus 1.6 Released
Opus gets another major update with the release of version 1.6. This release again brings many new features and improvements, while remaining fully compatible with RFC 6716.

Major changes since 1.5 include:
A new wideband-to-fullband bandwidth extension (BWE) module
Support for 96 kHz audio with Opus HD
Significant improvement to Deep Redundancy (DRED)
A new 24-bit encoder/decoder API
Fixed-point improvements
As usual, many minor bug fixes