2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.9.4 "Tyrannosaurus Rex"
5 The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
6 in the 0.9.x development series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
15 The main focus of the 0.9 series is to make GStreamer threadsafe.
18 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
19 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
22 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
24 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
26 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
29 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
30 rigorous quality testing we expect
35 Features of this release
37 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
38 * Threadsafe design and API
39 * state lock redefined
40 * Extensive documentation updates
41 * BaseTransform reworked
42 * Bus reworked; signal API added
44 Bugs fixed in this release
46 * 111146 : new GstThread fails on pipeline with errors
47 * 169772 : [PATCH] GOption command-line parsing
48 * 170777 : use GST_TYPE_DATE for GST_TAG_DATE
49 * 315050 : [API] consider using GstClockTime instead of GTimeVal in ...
50 * 315126 : filesrc + forced caps should be possible
51 * 315383 : gst-launch shouldn't run broken pipelines
52 * 317041 : GstObject flags should be made real flags
53 * 318447 : gst_bin_iterate_sorted: Invalid call to gst_iterator_new
57 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
58 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
62 More details can be found on the project's website:
63 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
67 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
68 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
72 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
73 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
74 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
75 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
76 will create more lists as necessary.
81 At this point, ports of existing applications to 0.9 are still experimental.
82 A patch for Totem is maintained at
84 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313086.
85 A patch for Rhythmbox is maintained at
87 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309609.
88 Jamboree has a branch with the tag "jamboree-gst-0.9" that works against
90 Flumotion has been mostly ported to 0.9 as well.
93 Contributors to this release
103 * Thomas Vander Stichele