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OBS Studio 32.0.3
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- Aug 7, 2026
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32.0.3 Hotfix Changes --------------------- Adjusted application shutdown logic [Warchamp7] This is a fairly large change that aims to stabilize OBS Studio's application shutdown process. This reduces the number of scenarios in which the "OBS Studio Unclean Shutdown" dialog will appear and also fixes a crash when forcing a log off or shutdown with active outputs. Fixed a crash during canvas removal [dsaedtler] Fixed.
32.0.3 Hotfix Changes
- Adjusted application shutdown logic [Warchamp7]
- This is a fairly large change that aims to stabilize OBS Studio’s application shutdown process. This reduces the number of scenarios in which the “OBS Studio Unclean Shutdown” dialog will appear and also fixes a crash when forcing a log off or shutdown with active outputs.
- Fixed a crash during canvas removal [dsaedtler]
- Fixed a forced application shutdown while changing scene collections due to attempting to access removed sources [exeldro]
- Fixed several audio monitoring deduplication issues [pkv]
32.0.2 Hotfix Changes
- Fixed a crash on macOS when attempting to login with service integrations [PatTheMav]
- Fixed an issue on macOS where Syphon Client sources could be blank/transparent [gxalpha]
32.0.1 Hotfix Changes
- Fixed a possible crash in 32.0.0 on Windows when opening source properties [wanhongqing123]
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 where browser sources would break after switching scenes [tytan652]
- 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 [pkv]
- Fixed an issue in 32.0.0 where Multitrack Video settings were unavailable to Custom Services [PatTheMav]
32.0 New Features
- Added a basic plugin manager [FiniteSingularity/PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS [PatTheMav/Warchamp7]
- Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects, which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as several optimizations to NVIDIA Effects [pkv]
- Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal, allowing removal of chairs [pkv]
- Added experimental Metal renderer for Apple Silicon Macs [PatTheMav]
- Added Hybrid MOV support [derrod]
- Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supported HEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms
32.0 Changes
- OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release of OBS to prevent future compatibility issues [norihiro]
- Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates [derrod/gxalpha/Warchamp7]
- Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!) [PatTheMav]
- Changed default bitrate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps [notr1ch]
- Changed the crash sentinel file location to its own subdirectory [PatTheMav]
- Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nested scenes, groups, and multiple canvases [pkv]
- Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to “Monitor and Output” while the monitoring device is also being captured [pkv]
- Updated the default settings for AMD encoders [rhutsAMD]
- Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV [derrod]
- Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS [gxalpha]
- Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture [tytan652]
- Removed workarounds to prevent loading Qt 5 based plugins [RytoEX]
- Removed the –disable-shutdown-check launch flag [PatTheMav]
- Hybrid MP4/MOV is now out of beta and has been made the default output format for new profiles [derrod]
32.0 Bug Fixes
- Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing the OBS window [PatTheMav]
- Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL [pkv]
- Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT [pkv]
- Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certain video files [howellrl]
- Fixed a UI deadlock when opening source properties from the Sources list when the Windows setting ‘Snap mouse to default button in dialog boxes’ was enabled by adding a 200ms delay before creating the properties window [Warchamp7]
- Fixed a memory leak when trying to output Hybrid MP4 to a non-writeable location [norihiro]
- Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank [norihiro]
- Fixed SRT reconnection failures [pkv]
- Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness [PatTheMav]
- Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder [rhutsAMD]
- Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases [derrod]
- Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS Screen Capture [jcm93]
- Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS [gxalpha]
- Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes [shiina424]
- Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases, potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latency after temporary encoder stalls [dsaedtler]
- Fixed an issue where Multitrack Video could still be enabled after switching from a service that supports it to one that does not [Penwy]
- Fixed an issue where GetGroupList with obs-websocket would return nothing [gxalpha]
- Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks from loading correctly while OBS is maximized [RytoEX]
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Technical Details
- Released
- Dec 5, 2025
- File size
- 150 MB
- Official source checked
- Jul 21, 2026
- Official notes checked
- Jul 21, 2026
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- OBS Project. (2025, December 5). OBS Studio 32.0.3.github-release
- OBS Project. Download page.download