2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.6 "Take the cannoli"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
7 in the 0.10.x stable series of the
8 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
11 The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
16 The 0.10.x series has been reworked for threadsafety. It also features
17 various feature additions and enchancements.
20 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
21 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
24 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
26 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
28 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
31 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
32 rigorous quality testing we expect
37 Features of this release
39 * Fixes for the collectpads helper
40 * Support for proper time recording on server-trickmode streams
41 via the applied_rate parameter of the NewSegment event
44 Bugs fixed in this release
46 * 339808 : [patch] mem-leak of bin in gstbin.c
47 * 338339 : [patch] registry cache is always written
48 * 339843 : [patch] fdsink should not handle short writes and non fat...
49 * 340016 : does not build on opensolaris, must always include config...
50 * 340079 : gst-launch wrapper fails with 'No version of tool gst-lau...
51 * 340174 : locking problem in gstbasesink
52 * 340460 : gst-launch no longer supports --version
53 * 340508 : remove glib pre 2.8 hacks and compat stuff
54 * 340604 : gst_mini_object_ref () docs make no mention of writeability
55 * 340608 : leaking caps in padtemplate
56 * 340697 : gstsystemclock hangs when outputting to stdout via fdsink
57 * 340721 : API: add GST_TAG_IMAGE
58 * 340772 : [qtdemux] bails out on Meet The Robinsons trailer
59 * 341556 : gst-launch: print image tags in a human readable form
60 * 339821 : [patch] serializing a GValue with a NULL buffer crashes
62 API changed in this release
67 * gst_adapter_take_buffer()
68 * GST_TAG_IMAGE tag added.
69 * gst_event_new_new_segment_full()
70 * gst_event_parse_new_segment_full()
71 * GstSegment::applied_rate field
72 * gst_segment_set_newsegment_full()
76 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
77 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
81 More details can be found on the project's website:
82 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
86 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
87 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
91 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
92 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
93 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
94 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
95 will create more lists as necessary.
100 Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
101 Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
102 Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
105 Contributors to this release
115 * Thomas Vander Stichele