2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.5 "Fogo"
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 * QoS in BaseTransform
43 * BaseTransform reworked
44 * Bus reworked; signal API added
46 Bugs fixed in this release
48 * 131079 : [PATCH] [api] loading a class leaves elementfactory blank
49 * 317048 : gstreamer Cygwin build fixes
50 * 325599 : Build fails with GCC 4.1
51 * 327315 : GStreamer CVS head files to build with GCC 4.1
52 * 331248 : [basesink] filesink spews warnings when used with flacenc
53 * 332151 : xml registry loader should use mmap() where possible
54 * 332390 : [GstQueue/GstPad] queue pauses immediately when linked, p...
55 * 332986 : Something wrong in caps checking...
56 * 334109 : pkg-config files must link with the same check library th...
57 * 334303 : Stale libgnomeui check in configure
58 * 334434 : Missing functions in def files for dlls
59 * 335195 : GST_BOILERPLATE_FULL etc isn' optimised
60 * 335480 : start with debugging disabled
61 * 335513 : totem goes (and stays) out of sync when running bittorrent
62 * 336336 : [queue] Queue might block in EOS
63 * 336945 : [filesink] throws error when writing 0 bytes
64 * 337103 : small cleanup in gstplugin.c
65 * 337386 : Pipeline bus is not initially flushing
66 * 338711 : Internal data flow error with latest updates for FC5 with...
67 * 326311 : basesink does not call the PAUSED- > PLAYING change_state f...
68 * 326998 : GstBaseSrc's send_event handler ignores seek requests aft...
70 API changed in this release
75 * gst_controller_unset_all()
76 * gst_pad_query_peer_position()
77 * gst_pad_query_peer_duration()
78 * gst_pad_query_peer_convert()
79 * GstBaseSink::async_play()
81 * gst_base_sink_set_qos_enabled()
82 * gst_base_sink_is_qos_enabled()
83 * gst_base_transform_update_qos()
84 * gst_base_transform_set_qos_enabled()
85 * gst_base_transform_is_qos_enabled()
86 * gst_pipeline_get_delay()
87 * gst_pipeline_set_delay()
91 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
92 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
96 More details can be found on the project's website:
97 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
101 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
102 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
106 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
107 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
108 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
109 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
110 will create more lists as necessary.
115 Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
116 Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa,
118 Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
121 Contributors to this release
127 * Julio M. Merino Vidal
134 * Thomas Vander Stichele
138 * Zaheer Abbas Merali