2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.6.0
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
6 stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
9 This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
10 features, bug fixes and other improvements.
14 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
15 for the full list of changes.
19 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
20 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
23 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
25 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
27 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
30 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
31 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
34 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
40 Bugs fixed in this release
42 * 753887 : queue2: " Process SEEKING query " ok, but should handle SEEK events too (regression with non-seekable sources)
43 * 755141 : inputselector: fix buffer leak
44 * 755257 : Minor documentation typo in gstpad & gstcaps APIs
45 * 755342 : element: state_change may fail because of release_request_pad (racy)
46 * 755343 : funnel: Fix racy state change
47 * 755511 : gstharness: don't crash when adding a sink-harness without h- > sinkpad
48 * 755607 : ptpclock: Fix error leak during failures
52 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
53 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
55 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
56 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
60 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
62 ==== Support and Bugs ====
64 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
65 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
67 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
69 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
70 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
72 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
76 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
77 from there (see link above).
79 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
80 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
83 Contributors to this release