2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.6.1
5 The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable
6 1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
9 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided by the
10 GStreamer project for this release.
12 This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a
13 full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla.
15 The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. It is not API
16 or ABI compatible with the 0.10.x series. It can, however, be installed
17 in parallel with the 0.10.x series and will not affect an existing
21 See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/
22 for the full release notes.
26 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
27 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
30 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
32 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
34 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
37 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
38 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
41 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
47 Bugs fixed in this release
49 * 747612 : Valgrind 3.7.0 chokes on match-leak-kinds in gst.supp
50 * 756069 : Gstreamer: Fix sample memory leaks
51 * 756136 : gstreamer-1.6.0 doesn't compile on OS X 10.6: header file issue in gst-ptp-helper.c
52 * 756645 : multiqueue: Improve incoming SEGMENT handling
53 * 756810 : segment_to_stream_time and position_from_stream_time miscalculate when applied_rate < 0
54 * 756898 : pad: gst_pad_probe_info_get_buffer_list() has wrong ownership transfer
55 * 757065 : uri: incorrect behavior when merging uris ending in ..
56 * 757257 : pad: Unblock blocking pad probes when receiving FLUSH_START in send_event() too
60 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
61 directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
63 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
64 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
68 The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
70 ==== Support and Bugs ====
72 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
73 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
75 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
77 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
78 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
80 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
84 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
85 from there (see link above).
87 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
88 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
91 Contributors to this release