2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.0 "It's a boy"
6 The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first release
7 in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
8 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
11 The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers.
12 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
13 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series.
16 The 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features
17 various cleanups and enhancements.
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
38 Features of this release
40 * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
41 * Reworked buffer memory management
42 * Arbitrary buffer metadata
43 * integrated bufferpool management
44 * Improved dynamic pipeline handling
45 * Reworked video caps system
49 Bugs fixed in this release
51 * 322851 : basesrc: add fill virtual method
52 * 491501 : Reduce usage of base_init in GstElement subclasses
53 * 518597 : [0.11] Get rid of .gstreamer-X.X folder and follow fd.o xdg base directory specifications
54 * 616237 : Stop allocating buffers for any caps
55 * 643244 : [0.11] gstpad: gst_pad_alloc_buffer(_and_set_caps) take size as gint instead of guint
56 * 648181 : [basetransform] Trigger upstream renegotiation if the sinkpad is (re-)linked
60 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
61 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
65 More details can be found on the project's website:
66 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
70 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
71 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
75 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
76 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
77 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
78 will create more lists as necessary.
83 No applications are ported to 0.11 as of yet. We are looking for more people to
84 port plugins and applications.
87 Contributors to this release