I remember this being in the works since almost 2 years ago. Nice to see it finally being included.

here's the PR (also was linked in the article but nevertheless): https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/10885

It was an awaited feature, you can see at the start of the PR comments from developers employed at various companies working with streaming media (Twitch, Dolby, Cloudflare and more) excited about this PR