v2.6

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**scrcpy v2.6**

Changes since v2.5:
 - Add audio playback capture method (#4380, #5102)
 - Add audio duplication feature (#3875, #4380, #5102)
 - Add mouse secondary bindings with Shift+click (#5055, #5076)
 - Rework mouse events (#5067, #5076)
 - Fix "turn screen off" for Honor devices (#4823, #4943, #5109)
 - Add clipboard workaround for Honor devices (#4822, #5073)
 - Always apply device workarounds (#4922, #5140, #5148, #5154)
 - Fix missing initialization (#5057, #5058)
 - Do not report error on device disconnected (#5044)
 - Upgrade SDL to 2.30.5 in Windows releases
 - Various technical fixes

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# Highlights

## Audio mirroring

Audio forwarding was introduced in scrcpy 2.0. Until now, when audio was captured by scrcpy, it was necessarily disabled on the device.

This release introduces a new audio capture method, which (optionally) supports audio duplication, to keep playing audio on the device. It is exposed as an alternative audio source named `playback` (in addition to `output`, the default, and `mic`).

```bash
scrcpy --audio-source=playback               # do not play on the device
scrcpy --audio-source=playback --audio-dup   # keep playing on the device
```

For convenience, `--audio-dup` automatically selects the `playback` audio source. Therefore, to **mirror** audio rather than **forward**, this is sufficient:

```bash
scrcpy --audio-dup
```

However, this playback capture has some drawbacks:
 - it requires Android 13 (rather than Android 11),
 - Android apps can opt-out, in which case they are not captured.

See [documentation](https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/doc/audio.md#duplication), #4380, #5102.


## Secondary mouse bindings

By default, with SDK mouse:
 - right-click triggers BACK (or POWER on)
 - middle-click triggers HOME
 - the 4th click triggers APP_SWITCH
 - the 5th click expands the notification panel

It was also possible to forward the clicks to the device instead, by using the `--mouse-bind=xxxx` option introduced in the previous version (2.5). But that way, we had to choose at startup whether a button triggered a shortcut or a click.

This release introduces a new set of secondary bindings via <kbd>Shift</kbd>+click, so that both are possible at runtime.

**By default, a simple (secondary) click triggers the shortcuts, and <kbd>Shift</kbd>+click forwards the click to the device.**

_In AOA and UHID mouse modes, the default bindings are reversed: all clicks are forwarded by default, and pressing <kbd>Shift</kbd> gives access to the shortcuts (since the cursor is handled on the device side, it makes more sense to forward all mouse buttons by default in these modes)._

All these mouse bindings can be configured, check the [documentation](https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/doc/mouse.md#mouse-bindings).

See [#5076](https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/5076).

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