-This is GStreamer 1.6.0
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
-stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
-This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
-features, bug fixes and other improvements.
+GSTREAMER 1.18 RELEASE NOTES
+
+
+THESE RELEASE NOTES ARE A PLACEHOLDER, PLEASE BEAR WITH US WHILE WE
+FINISH WRITING UP THE REAL THING.
+
+GStreamer 1.18.0 has not yet been released. It is scheduled for release
+in summer 2020 now.
+
+1.17.x is the unstable development series that is currently being
+developed in the git master branch and which will eventually result in
+1.18, and 1.17.2 is the current development release in that series.
+
+The schedule for the 1.18 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but
+it is expected that feature freeze will be in June/July 2020, followed
+by several 1.17 pre-releases and then a new 1.18 stable release in
+July/August 2020.
+
+1.18 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10,
+1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.
+
+See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/ for the latest
+version of this document.
+
+_Last updated: Wednesday 1 July 2020, 23:50 UTC (log)_
+
+
+Introduction
+
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in
+the stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia
+framework!
+
+As always, this release is again packed with many new features, bug
+fixes and other improvements.
-See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of
-changes.
Highlights
-- Stereoscopic 3D and multiview video support
-- Trick mode API for key-frame only fast-forward/fast-reverse playback etc.
-- Improved DTS (decoding timestamp) vs. PTS (presentation timestamp) handling
- to account for negative DTS
-- New GstVideoConverter API for more optimised and more correct conversion of
- raw video frames between all supported formats, with rescaling
-- v4l2src now supports renegotiation
-- v4l2transform can now do scaling
-- V4L2 Element now report Colorimetry properly
-- Easier chunked recording of MP4, Matroska, Ogg, MPEG-TS: new splitmuxsink
- and multifilesink improvements
-- Content Protection signalling API and Common Encryption (CENC) support for
- DASH/MP4
-- Many adaptive streaming (DASH, HLS and MSS) improvements
-- New PTP and NTP network client clocks and better remote clock tracking
- stability
-- High-quality text subtitle overlay at display resolutions with glimagesink
- or gtkglsink
-- RECORD support for the GStreamer RTSP Server
-- Retransmissions (RTX) support in RTSP server and client
-- RTSP seeking support in client and server has been fixed
-- RTCP scheduling improvements and reduced size RTCP support
-- MP4/MOV muxer acquired a new "robust" mode of operation which attempts to
- keep the output file in a valid state at all times
-- Live mixing support in aggregator, audiomixer and compositor was improved a
- lot
-- compositor now supports rescaling and converting inputs streams on the fly
-- New audiointerleave element with proper input synchronisation and live input
- support
-- Blackmagic Design DeckLink capture and playback card support was rewritten
- from scratch; 2k/4k support; mode sensing
-- KLV metadata support in RTP and MPEG-TS
-- H.265 video encoder (x265), decoders (libav, libde265) and RTP payloader and
- depayloaders
-- New DTLS plugin and SRTP/DTLS support
-- OpenGL3 support, multiple contexts and context propagation, 3D video,
- transfer/conversion separation, subtitle blending
-- New OpenGL-based QML video sink, Gtk GL video sink, CoreAnimation
- CAOpenGLLayerSink video sink
-- gst-libav switched to ffmpeg as libav-provider, gains support for
- 3D/multiview video, trick modes, and the CAVS codec
-- GstHarness API for unit tests
-- gst-editing-services got a completely new ges-launch-1.0 interface, improved
- mixing support and integration into gst-validate
-- gnonlin has been deprecated in favor of nle (Non Linear Engine) in
- gst-editing-services
-- gst-validate has a new plugin system, an extensive default testsuite,
- support for concurrent test runs and valgrind support
-- cerbero build tool for SDK binary packages gains new 'bundle-source' command
-- Various improvements to the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows platform support
+- FIXME
+
+
+Major new features and changes
+
+Noteworthy new API
+
+- FIXME
+
+New Elements
+
+- FIXME
+
+New element features and additions
+
+- FIXME
+
+Plugin and library moves
+
+- FIXME
+
+Plugin removals
+
+The following plugins have been removed from gst-plugins-bad:
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Miscellaneous API additions
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Miscellaneous performance and memory optimisations
+
+As always there have been many performance and memory usage improvements
+across all components and modules. Some of them have already been
+mentioned elsewhere so won’t be repeated here.
+
+The following list is only a small snapshot of some of the more
+interesting optimisations that haven’t been mentioned in other contexts
+yet:
+
+- FIXME
+
+GstPlayer
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Miscellaneous changes
+
+- FIXME
+
+OpenGL integration
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Tracing framework and debugging improvements
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Tools
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer RTSP server
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer VAAPI
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer OMX
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer Editing Services and NLE
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer validate
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer Python Bindings
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer C# Bindings
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer Rust Bindings
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+GStreamer Rust Plugins
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Build and Dependencies
+
+- The Autotools build system has finally been removed in favour of the
+ Meson build system. Developers who currently use gst-uninstalled
+ should move to gst-build.
+
+- API and plugin documentation are no longer built with gtk_doc. The
+ gtk_doc documentation has been removed in favour of a new unified
+ documentation module built with hotdoc. The intention is to
+ distribute the generated documentation in form of tarballs alongside
+ releases.
+
+- FIXME
+
+Cerbero
+
+Cerbero is a meta build system used to build GStreamer plus dependencies
+on platforms where dependencies are not readily available, such as
+Windows, Android, iOS and macOS.
+
+Cerbero has seen a number of improvements:
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Platform-specific changes and improvements
+
+Android
+
+- FIXME
+
+macOS and iOS
+
+- FIXME
+
+Windows
+
+- toolchain upgrade
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Contributors
+
+- FIXME
+
+… and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent
+suggestions or helped testing.
+
+
+Stable 1.18 branch
+
+After the 1.18.0 release there will be several 1.18.x bug-fix releases
+which will contain bug fixes which have been deemed suitable for a
+stable branch, but no new features or intrusive changes will be added to
+a bug-fix release usually. The 1.18.x bug-fix releases will be made from
+the git 1.18 branch, which will be a stable branch.
+
+1.18.0
+
+1.18.0 has not been released yet.
+
+
+Known Issues
+
+- FIXME
+
+
+Schedule for 1.20
+
+Our next major feature release will be 1.20, and 1.19 will be the
+unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.20 release. The
+development of 1.19/1.20 will happen in the git master branch.
+
+The plan for the 1.20 development cycle is yet to be confirmed.
+
+1.20 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.18, 1.16, 1.14, 1.12,
+1.10, 1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_These release notes have been prepared by Tim-Philipp Müller with_
+_contributions from … (FIXME)_
+_License: CC BY-SA 4.0_
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