2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.18 "So far away"
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 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 * New GstPoll abstraction simplifies operations on multiple fd's/sockets
41 * Various bug fixes and corrections
43 Bugs fixed in this release
45 * 516187 : adding gst_collect_pads_read_buffer () collectpads
46 * 516395 : gst_buffer_create_sub does not copy flags
47 * 520756 : different registry backend configurations cause build errors
48 * 498222 : configure improvements
49 * 499127 : [multiqueue] has no documentation
50 * 505417 : Add GstPoll to core
51 * 509559 : [gstinfo]_gst_debug_init() memory leak
52 * 510194 : segmentation fault when trying to link elements.
53 * 511783 : [API] [check] add gst_check_element_push_buffer_list() etc.
54 * 513964 : [GstPad] gst_pad_get_caps don't return a copy of the caps
55 * 515469 : patch to add gst_index_set_resolver_full
56 * 519584 : gst_element_implements_interface() segfaults with 'filesr...
57 * 519698 : g_free/xmlFree mismatches in gstregistryxml
58 * 520152 : Core uses non-portable size_t and ssize_t
59 * 520671 : GstPoll needs to be ported to Windows
60 * 520808 : GstPoll's API could need some changes for Windows
61 * 520877 : registrybinary.c doesn't build cleanly on Windows/MSVC
62 * 521740 : libgstreamer.def exports not up to date
63 * 522741 : regression: gst_index_entry_free() frees string it does n...
67 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
68 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
72 More details can be found on the project's website:
73 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
77 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
78 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
82 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
83 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
84 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
85 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
86 will create more lists as necessary.
91 Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
92 Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
93 Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
96 Contributors to this release
104 * Ole André Vadla Ravnås