2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.0 "Executive Slacks"
5 The GStreamer team is happy to announce the first release
6 in the 0.8.x stable series
7 of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
10 The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
15 This module only contains core functionality. For actual media playback,
16 you will need other modules. GStreamer Plugins contains a huge set of
17 additional plugins. GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the popular
18 FFmpeg decoding library. These modules need not have the same source version
19 as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.
22 Features of this release
24 * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
25 * Internationalization
26 * Dutch, French and Serbian translations
27 * Reworked capabilities and negotiation subsystem
28 * Reworked tagging subsystem
29 * Reworked interactivity subsystem (for DVD playback)
30 * Consistent error and debug signaling
31 * Dynamic debug logging
33 * Binding support fixes
35 * Coding style consistency
37 Bugs fixed in this release
39 * 133653 : need to settle on coding style using indent and use it befor
40 * 136683 : Add padding to GstCaps [ABI change]
44 You find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
45 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
49 More details can be found on the project's website:
50 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
54 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
55 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
59 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
60 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
61 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
62 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
63 will create more lists as necessary.
68 Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
69 desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
70 GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.
73 Contributors to this release
95 * Thomas Vander Stichele