2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.7 "Soepeke, ik zie ou"
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 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
40 * Threadsafe design and API
41 * Registry cache updating is now done in a fork, so no plugins are left opened
42 * New version of data protocol now serializes events
46 Bugs fixed in this release
48 * 338335 : [patch] memleak in gst-utils.c (leak pads from iterator)
49 * 343598 : undefined symbol in coreindexers when using --disable-loa...
50 * 336929 : GstCollectPads does not clear/reset segment info after fl...
51 * 337100 : [fakesink] add " preroll-handoff " signal
52 * 339918 : GstTagSetter merge-mode description unclear, and implemen...
53 * 340501 : [filesrc] give primary rank
54 * 341662 : gst-launch print_tags() fix
55 * 342238 : API: gst_element_seek_simple
56 * 342321 : GST_QUERY_POSITION fails if GstBaseSrc in get_range mode
57 * 342777 : rebuilding the registry leaves all plugins in memory
58 * 342820 : gstnetclientclock.c(453): servaddr used before set
59 * 343057 : gst-launch-0.10 segfaults when passed gst-plugin-path and...
60 * 343341 : [API] add GST_TAG_PREVIEW_IMAGE
61 * 343827 : leak in gst_index_gtype_resolver
62 * 343929 : Use of // in public header
63 * 343988 : data protocol needs extending to handle events better
64 * 341479 : Too many plugins loaded even for up-to-date registry
65 * 343334 : GstCollectPads testsuite and fixes
66 * 343538 : GstCollectPads doesn't reset EOS fields when stopped
68 API changed in this release
73 * gst_element_seek_simple()
74 * GST_FLOW_CUSTOM_SUCCESS
75 * GST_FLOW_CUSTOM_ERROR
77 * gst_collect_pads_set_flushing()
78 * GST_TAG_PREVIEW_IMAGE
82 * GstFakeSink::preroll-handoff
83 * GstFakeSink::use-mmap
87 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
88 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
92 More details can be found on the project's website:
93 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
97 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
98 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
102 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
103 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
104 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
105 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
106 will create more lists as necessary.
111 Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
112 Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
113 Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
116 Contributors to this release
127 * Thomas Vander Stichele
130 * Zaheer Abbas Merali