2 Release notes for GStreamer 1.9.2
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release of the unstable
5 1.9 release series, which marks the feature freeze for 1.10. The 1.9 release
6 series is adding new features on top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8 series
7 and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer
8 multimedia framework. The unstable 1.9 release series will lead to the stable
9 1.10 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added API can still change
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
16 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
17 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
20 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
22 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
24 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
27 contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
28 rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
31 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
37 Bugs fixed in this release
39 * 631673 : add " redirect " message to core
40 * 756806 : message: Add extra information fields to error/warning/info messages
41 * 767857 : leaks tracer: list alive objects on demand and add 'checkpointing' support
42 * 767862 : leaks tracer: display creation stack trace of leaked objects
43 * 768301 : buffer: add explicit setters and getters for GstBufferFlags
44 * 768577 : element: clean up thread pool from gst_task_cleanup_all()
45 * 768578 : leaks: warn if object is destroyed while the tracer is disposing
46 * 768579 : improve some debug/log output
47 * 768776 : message: fix annotation of message parse API returning objects
48 * 768810 : core: add a couple of transfer annotations
49 * 768948 : collectpads: add g-i transfer annotations to peek/pop/read_buffer/take_buffer functions
50 * 768989 : leaks: update type filter later for unknown types
51 * 768995 : New API: StreamGroupDone event
52 * 769449 : queue2: Add higher-resolution low/high-watermark properties
53 * 770158 : element: Add API to more easily post messages about flowing issues
54 * 770161 : streams: notify tag update only when tags actually changed
55 * 770225 : multiqueue: High CPU usage with multiple audio tracks in playbin3
56 * 770428 : docs: fix typo on stream selection
57 * 770628 : multiqueue: Add higher-resolution low/high-watermark properties
61 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
62 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
64 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
65 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
69 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
71 ==== Support and Bugs ====
73 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
74 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
76 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
78 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
79 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
81 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
85 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
86 from there (see link above).
88 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
89 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
92 Contributors to this release