-GSTREAMER 1.14 RELEASE NOTES
+GSTREAMER 1.16 RELEASE NOTES
-GStreamer 1.14.0 has not been released yet. It is scheduled for release
-in early March 2018.
+GStreamer 1.16 has not been released yet. It is scheduled for release
+around September 2018.
-There are unstable pre-releases available for testing and development
-purposes. The latest pre-release is version 1.13.90 (rc1) and was
-released on 03 March 2018.
+1.15.0.1 is the unstable development version that is being developed in
+the git master branch and which will eventually result in 1.16.
-See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.14/ for the latest
+The plan for the 1.16 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but it
+is expected that feature freeze will be around August 2017 followed by
+several 1.15 pre-releases and the new 1.16 stable release in September.
+
+1.16 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 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/1.16/ for the latest
version of this document.
-_Last updated: Saturday 03 March 2018, 16:30 UTC (log)_
+_Last updated: Tuesday 20 March 2018, 01:30 UTC (log)_
Introduction
Highlights
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Major new features and changes
Noteworthy new API
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New Elements
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New element features and additions
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Plugin and library moves
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Plugin removals
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Miscellaneous API additions
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GstPlayer
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Miscellaneous changes
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OpenGL integration
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Tracing framework and debugging improvements
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Tools
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GStreamer RTSP server
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GStreamer VAAPI
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GStreamer Editing Services and NLE
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GStreamer validate
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GStreamer Python Bindings
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Build and Dependencies
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Platform-specific improvements
Android
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macOS and iOS
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Windows
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Contributors
-Aaron Boxer, Adrián Pardini, Adrien SCH, Akinobu Mita, Alban Bedel,
-Alessandro Decina, Alex Ashley, Alicia Boya García, Alistair Buxton,
-Alvaro Margulis, Anders Jonsson, Andreas Frisch, Andrejs Vasiljevs,
-Andrew Bott, Antoine Jacoutot, Antonio Ospite, Antoni Silvestre, Anton
-Obzhirov, Anuj Jaiswal, Arjen Veenhuizen, Arnaud Bonatti, Arun Raghavan,
-Ashish Kumar, Aurélien Zanelli, Ayaka, Branislav Katreniak, Branko
-Subasic, Brion Vibber, Carlos Rafael Giani, Cassandra Rommel, Chris
-Bass, Chris Paulson-Ellis, Christoph Reiter, Claudio Saavedra, Clemens
-Lang, Cyril Lashkevich, Daniel van Vugt, Dave Craig, Dave Johnstone,
-David Evans, David Schleef, Deepak Srivastava, Dimitrios Katsaros,
-Dmitry Zhadinets, Dongil Park, Dustin Spicuzza, Eduard Sinelnikov,
-Edward Hervey, Enrico Jorns, Eunhae Choi, Ezequiel Garcia, fengalin,
-Filippo Argiolas, Florent Thiéry, Florian Zwoch, Francisco Velazquez,
-François Laignel, fvanzile, George Kiagiadakis, Georg Lippitsch, Graham
-Leggett, Guillaume Desmottes, Gurkirpal Singh, Gwang Yoon Hwang, Gwenole
-Beauchesne, Haakon Sporsheim, Haihua Hu, Håvard Graff, Heekyoung Seo,
-Heinrich Fink, Holger Kaelberer, Hoonhee Lee, Hosang Lee, Hyunjun Ko,
-Ian Jamison, James Stevenson, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan
-Schmidt, Jason Lin, Jens Georg, Jeremy Hiatt, Jérôme Laheurte, Jimmy
-Ohn, Jochen Henneberg, John Ludwig, John Nikolaides, Jonathan Karlsson,
-Josep Torra, Juan Navarro, Juan Pablo Ugarte, Julien Isorce, Jun Xie,
-Jussi Kukkonen, Justin Kim, Lasse Laursen, Lubosz Sarnecki, Luc
-Deschenaux, Luis de Bethencourt, Marcin Lewandowski, Mario Alfredo
-Carrillo Arevalo, Mark Nauwelaerts, Martin Kelly, Matej Knopp, Mathieu
-Duponchelle, Matteo Valdina, Matt Fischer, Matthew Waters, Matthieu
-Bouron, Matthieu Crapet, Matt Staples, Michael Catanzaro, Michael
-Olbrich, Michael Shigorin, Michael Tretter, Michał Dębski, Michał Górny,
-Michele Dionisio, Miguel París, Mikhail Fludkov, Munez, Nael Ouedraogo,
-Neos3452, Nicholas Panayis, Nick Kallen, Nicola Murino, Nicolas
-Dechesne, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ognyan Tonchev, Ole André
-Vadla Ravnås, Oleksij Rempel, Olivier Crête, Omar Akkila, Orestis
-Floros, Patricia Muscalu, Patrick Radizi, Paul Kim, Per-Erik Brodin,
-Peter Seiderer, Philip Craig, Philippe Normand, Philippe Renon, Philipp
-Zabel, Pierre Pouzol, Piotr Drąg, Ponnam Srinivas, Pratheesh Gangadhar,
-Raimo Järvi, Ramprakash Jelari, Ravi Kiran K N, Reynaldo H. Verdejo
-Pinochet, Rico Tzschichholz, Robert Rosengren, Roland Peffer, Руслан
-Ижбулатов, Sam Hurst, Sam Thursfield, Sangkyu Park, Sanjay NM, Satya
-Prakash Gupta, Scott D Phillips, Sean DuBois, Sebastian Cote, Sebastian
-Dröge, Sebastian Rasmussen, Sejun Park, Sergey Borovkov, Seungha Yang,
-Shakin Chou, Shinya Saito, Simon Himmelbauer, Sky Juan, Song Bing,
-Sreerenj Balachandran, Stefan Kost, Stefan Popa, Stefan Sauer, Stian
-Selnes, Thiago Santos, Thibault Saunier, Thijs Vermeir, Tim Allen,
-Tim-Philipp Müller, Ting-Wei Lan, Tomas Rataj, Tom Bailey, Tonu Jaansoo,
-U. Artie Eoff, Umang Jain, Ursula Maplehurst, VaL Doroshchuk, Vasilis
-Liaskovitis, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, vijay, Vincent Penquerc'h,
-Vineeth T M, Vivia Nikolaidou, Wang Xin-yu (王昕宇), Wei Feng, Wim
-Taymans, Wonchul Lee, Xabier Rodriguez Calvar, Xavier Claessens,
-XuGuangxin, Yasushi SHOJI, Yi A Wang, Youness Alaoui,
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... and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent
suggestions or helped testing.
-Bugs fixed in 1.14
+Bugs fixed in 1.16
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-More than 704 bugs have been fixed during the development of 1.14.
+More than XXX bugs have been fixed during the development of 1.16.
This list does not include issues that have been cherry-picked into the
-stable 1.12 branch and fixed there as well, all fixes that ended up in
-the 1.12 branch are also included in 1.14.
+stable 1.16 branch and fixed there as well, all fixes that ended up in
+the 1.16 branch are also included in 1.16.
This list also does not include issues that have been fixed without a
bug report in bugzilla, so the actual number of fixes is much higher.
-Stable 1.14 branch
+Stable 1.16 branch
-After the 1.14.0 release there will be several 1.14.x bug-fix releases
+After the 1.16.0 release there will be several 1.16.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 1.14.x bug-fix releases will be made from
-the git 1.14 branch, which is a stable branch.
+a bug-fix release usually. The 1.16.x bug-fix releases will be made from
+the git 1.16 branch, which is a stable branch.
-1.14.0
+1.16.0
-1.14.0 is scheduled to be released in early March 2018.
+1.16.0 is scheduled to be released around September 2018.
Known Issues
Windows binary packages due to a build system issue.
-Schedule for 1.16
+Schedule for 1.18
Our next major feature release will be 1.16, and 1.15 will be the
unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.16 release. The