2 Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.16 "Special Dispensation"
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 * Monotonic/Posix clock support
41 * Dumping of dot-file graph descriptions for debugging
42 * Clean-up of exported symbols
43 * Many bug-fixes and enhancements
46 Bugs fixed in this release
48 * 497859 : --disable-gst-debug option fails compilation
49 * 339279 : [gst.URIHandler] interfaces with class-global virtual met...
50 * 498694 : Patches to avoid g_signal_emit(SIGNAL_HANDOFF) on identit...
51 * 498746 : basesink is forwarding downstream events
52 * 498767 : Hangs after end of tracks since 0.10.15
53 * 498924 : deprecate GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC because it's not portable
54 * 499007 : [gst-plot-timeline] more options
55 * 499140 : Add check to ensure .def files are kept up-to-date
56 * 500143 : Some small improvements (limiting realloc and CPU usage )
57 * 500150 : [filesink] add property to enable buffering via setvbuf()
58 * 501560 : gst_(caps|structure)_from_string() crash if structure nam...
59 * 503131 : g_intern_string SUSE 10.2
60 * 503231 : Change to GST_BUFFER_FLAG_GAP meaning can break with base...
61 * 503417 : Build failure due uninitialized variable in function 'gst...
62 * 503590 : gstreamer-0.10.15 fails tests on ppc64
63 * 503675 : broken registry files written to disk
64 * 504499 : Messages from check no longer contain the test case name
65 * 505799 : iSight camera does not work in gstreamer
66 * 506643 : crash in fixate_value/gst_value_init_and_copy on empty li...
67 * 507957 : clean-up incomplete function declarations
68 * 508175 : GST_TIMEVAL_TO_TIME() and GST_TIMESPEC_TO_TIME() need to ...
69 * 510187 : gst_plugin_register_static() API review and GST_PLUGIN_DE...
70 * 510747 : Use $(MAKE) instead of make to fix the build if GNU make ...
71 * 511750 : Configure of prereleases 15.2-15.4 fail in OpenEmbedded M...
73 API changed in this release
77 * GstIdentity::signal-handoffs
78 * gst_util_get_timestamp()
79 * gst_base_transform_set_gap_aware()
80 * GstFileSink::buffer-mode
81 * GstFileSink::buffer-size
82 * gst_plugin_register_static()
85 * GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC()
89 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
90 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
94 More details can be found on the project's website:
95 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
99 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
100 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
104 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
105 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
106 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
107 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
108 will create more lists as necessary.
113 Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
114 Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
115 Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
118 Contributors to this release
133 * Thomas Vander Stichele