2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.3.2
5 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
6 1.3 release series. The 1.3 release series is adding new features on top of
7 the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
8 series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.3 release series
9 will lead to the stable 1.4 release series in the next weeks, and newly added
10 API can still change until that point.
14 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
15 during the unstable 1.3 release series.
19 The versioning scheme that is used in general is that 1.x.y is API and
20 ABI backwards compatible with previous 1.x.y releases. If x is an even
21 number it is a stable release series and all releases in this series
22 will only contain important bugfixes, e.g. the 1.0 series with 1.0.7. If
23 x is odd it is a development release series that will lead to the next
24 stable release series 1.x+1 and contains new features and bigger
25 changes. During the development release series, new API can still
30 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
31 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
34 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
36 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
38 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
41 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
42 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
45 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
51 Bugs fixed in this release
53 * 726423 : playbin/decodebin: aggregate buffering messages
54 * 680183 : queue2: when download buffering has holes, plug the holes
55 * 727916 : bufferpool: Does not implement set_config() as documented
56 * 728268 : Need a way to detect that pool haven't changed, is active, and does not need to be renegotiated
57 * 729949 : core plugins and libgstbase now depend on gio
58 * 729951 : base: keep new GstSparseFile helper API private
59 * 730125 : c7d68da broke W32 builds
60 * 730312 : Remove or fix reference to Mandrake
64 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
65 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
67 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
68 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
72 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
74 ==== Support and Bugs ====
76 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
77 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
79 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
81 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
82 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
84 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
88 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
89 from there (see link above).
91 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
92 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
95 Contributors to this release