-Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.0 "It's a boy"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer 1.2.0
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new feature release
+in the 1.x stable series of the
core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
-The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers.
+The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.10.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series.
+It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.10.x series and
+will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation.
-The 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features
-various cleanups and enhancements.
+The 1.x series has been reworked for more flexible memory handling, improved
+caps negotiation and re-negotiation, better handling of dynamic pipelines,
+and increased performance in general. It also features countless other feature
+additions and enhancements.
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
gst-plugins-base
-contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
+contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-good
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
+contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
+contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
distributors
gst-plugins-bad
-contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect
+contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
+ rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
+ and/or unit tests
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-Features of this release
-
- * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
- * Reworked buffer memory management
- * Arbitrary buffer metadata
- * integrated bufferpool management
- * Improved dynamic pipeline handling
- * Reworked video caps system
- * Reworked pad probes
-
-
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 322851 : basesrc: add fill virtual method
- * 491501 : Reduce usage of base_init in GstElement subclasses
- * 518597 : [0.11] Get rid of .gstreamer-X.X folder and follow fd.o xdg base directory specifications
- * 616237 : Stop allocating buffers for any caps
- * 643244 : [0.11] gstpad: gst_pad_alloc_buffer(_and_set_caps) take size as gint instead of guint
- * 648181 : [basetransform] Trigger upstream renegotiation if the sinkpad is (re-)linked
+ * 706551 : gsttestclock check failed
+ * 708605 : testclock: Does not handle unscheduled entries correctly
+ * 708636 : collectpads: Should set *all* its pads to flushing when set_flushing is called, not only the ones in the public list
+ * 708668 : context: Potential regression
+
+==== Download ====
-Download
+You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
+directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
-You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
-GStreamer Homepage
+==== Homepage ====
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-Support and Bugs
+==== Support and Bugs ====
We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
-Developers
+Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
-GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned from there.
-Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
-subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
-will create more lists as necessary.
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
-
-Applications
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-No applications are ported to 0.11 as of yet. We are looking for more people to
-port plugins and applications.
+==== Developers ====
-
-Contributors to this release
+GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
+from there (see link above).
+
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
- * David Schleef
+
+Contributors to this release
+
+ * Alex Ashley
* Edward Hervey
- * Johan Dahlin
- * Koop Mast
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Mathieu Duponchelle
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thiago Santos
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
-
+
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