2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.8.0
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable
5 1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
6 the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x
7 release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after
11 the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release
15 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
16 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
19 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
21 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
23 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
26 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
27 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
30 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
36 Bugs fixed in this release
38 * 763491 : typefind: behavior has changed on have-type signal, sets pad caps after signal handlers
39 * 763895 : Incorrect gir annotation on gst_element_query_convert
40 * 764034 : preset: Use GST_PRESET_PATH as an extension of the system path, not a replacement of the user path
41 * 763770 : multiqueue: not-linked pads might not drain out at EOS
45 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
46 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
48 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
49 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
53 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
55 ==== Support and Bugs ====
57 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
58 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
60 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
62 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
63 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
65 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
69 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
70 from there (see link above).
72 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
73 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
76 Contributors to this release