-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.23 "Alaboo Alaboo"
+Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level"
The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
-It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
-It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
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-The 0.10.x series has been reworked for threadsafety. It also features
-various feature additions and enhancements.
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
Features of this release
- * Support files > 4GB on Windows
- * Controller interpolation fixes
- * Add timer support to GstPoll and use it for clocking
- * Attempt to typefind contents from the file extension if all else fails
- * GStreamer revision control switched to Git
- * Many other bug fixes and improvements
+ * GLib requirement is now >= 2.22
+ * New core element: valve (moved from -bad)
+ * New core element: input-selector (N.B. without "select-all" property, use fsfunnel instead) (moved from -bad)
+ * New core element: output-selector (with different negotiation behaviour by default, set pad-negotiation-mode=active for previous behaviour) (moved from -bad)
+ * Performance improvements for many heavily-used code paths: GstPad, GstPoll, GstClock, GstTask, basesink, basesrc, queue2, multiqueue (use atomic ops make many code-paths
+ * gobject-introspection: add annotations for most core API
+ * clock: make sync clock wait lockfree
+ * fdsrc/fdsink: reenable on MSVC
+ * registry: fix GStatBuf definition for win32 when building against older glib (fixes unnecessary rescanning of plugins at start-up)
+ * element: add a more flexible way to get request pads from elements
+ * multiqueue: return upon input when already eos
+ * object: fix creation of default name (when creating more than 100000 elements)
+ * pluginloader: fix hangs on OSX
+ * poll: fixes for (p)select backend (used e.g. on OSX)
+ * poll: refactor and make more lockfree; fixes for win32 and OSX (pselect backend)
+ * registry: don't replace valid existing plugins by blacklisted ones
+ * tags: don't produce duplicated entries when merging same value twice
+ * basesink: preroll fixes for async=false case
+ * basesink: rework position reporting code
+ * basetransform: handle downstream giving a buffer with new caps but invalid size
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 579177 : GstInfo: maintain ABI compatibility
- * 163577 : [RFC] Interlaced/progressive media support in GStreamer.
- * 574160 : collectpads does not reliably eos when last pad is removed
- * 575598 : hierarchical pipelines accumulate segment-done wrongly
- * 575922 : disabling subsystems cause API break
- * 576842 : loading a broken registry file can crash
- * 555978 : [ladspa] no elements exposed/found on Cygwin
- * 565607 : Broken macros in gsturi.h and gstinterface.h
- * 566936 : [ghostpads] unlink function wrongly called on target
- * 567692 : gstinfo.h header not compatible with C++
- * 567725 : [qtdemux] stopping at a time sometimes shows a different ...
- * 568289 : gst_pad_template_new() leaks caps it's supposed to take o...
- * 568438 : gst_poll_wait calling read() on control socket
- * 568481 : GStreamer linking failures.
- * 568632 : __MSVCRT_VERSION__ not defined with mingw, causing " stora...
- * 568678 : filesrc doesn't logs offsets
- * 570910 : Removing the target of a ghostpad does not re-target the ...
- * 571227 : Add home page tag
- * 571559 : [API] add GST_PARAM_MUTABLE_PLAYING etc. to indicate vali...
- * 572480 : unref and copy functions should not be macros
- * 573623 : [API] Array binary search utility function
- * 574024 : [GstAdapter] gst_adapter_push should not accept empty buf...
- * 574211 : gst_poll_*_control always returns FALSE on Windows
- * 574213 : [gstcheck] fix for libcheck > 0.9.6
- * 574241 : gst_tag_list_add and gst_tag_list_add_values behave incon...
- * 574484 : [patch] Make caps in DOT debug graphs more readable
- * 574623 : [dot_file_with_ts] ':' not a valid character for a filename
- * 574805 : [capsfilter] Doesn't reset the internal suggestion with A...
- * 575695 : build fails on OpenSolaris due to incorrect header file i...
- * 575814 : flag for EOS on gst-launch when exiting with ctrl-c
- * 576381 : [basesink] QoS: emergency rendering not always done
- * 576563 : pidgin crashes on exit in gst_plugin_ext_dep_free()
- * 576582 : A patch to enable the use of 'name' in Enum parameters
- * 577887 : Missing GST_DISABLE_GST_DEBUG in gstregistrybinary.c
- * 577891 : add alloc-pad property on tee
- * 578114 : API: add two new log levels: FIXME and MEMDUMP
- * 578201 : _gst_plugin_fault_handler_is_setup undefined under HAVE_W...
- * 579127 : gst-launch: disable CLOCK_LOST message handling
- * 580121 : race condition in GStreamer state changes causes problems...
- * 361155 : Add monotonic clock
- * 517231 : threadsafe/colored windows logging
- * 572591 : Another batch of " differs in signedness " warnings
- * 573823 : pad block callback if it is re-blocked while the previous...
- * 574163 : Fix gst_pad_activate_pull deactivation with unlinked element
- * 575682 : Add gst_pad_is_compatible()
- * 575988 : On Windows filesink can't write files longer than 2-4 GiB...
+ * 635785 : basesrc: fix deadlock
+ * 638599 : GST_PTR_FORMAT causes crashes if GLib-internal printf is used but system provides register_printf_specifier
+ * 503592 : gstpad.c does many ref/unref of peer pad in dataflow
+ * 564056 : Protect against umask(0177)
+ * 607513 : input-selector segfaults in g_object_notify()
+ * 632168 : [gsttask] MSVC thread names for task debugging
+ * 632447 : reduce static memory allocated by the registry
+ * 632557 : [macros] Define restrict keyword if not available
+ * 632778 : Optimisations to GstBaseSink
+ * 632779 : gstdataqueue: Only emit g_cond_signal when needed
+ * 632780 : queue: Remove useless checks from e406f7
+ * 633918 : [fakesink] [PATCH] print sink-message events like a message and its structure
+ * 634965 : sinks render buffers in state PAUSED when async is FALSE
+ * 635001 : basesink: fix position reporting in PAUSED
+ * 636268 : configure test fails on FreeBSD
+ * 636455 : basesrc: Avoid taking object locks for just checking tag presence
+ * 637057 : [plugin-scanner] gstpoll fails with select backend
+ * 637300 : [API] request pad based on caps
+ * 637549 : build fails: ./.libs/libgstbase-0.10.so: undefined reference to `gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit'
+ * 637776 : merging the same tag values again produces lists containing duplicates
+ * 638381 : {input,output}-selector: double-check API before release
+ * 638399 : a few typos in GStreamer
+ * 638900 : [GstPoll] Doesn't compile with MinGW
+ * 638941 : registry scan/loading race and inconsistency
API changed in this release
- API additions:
-* New FIXME and MEMDUMP debug levels
-* gst_tag_list_get_buffer() and gst_tag_list_get_buffer_index()
-* New tags: GST_TAG_SUBTITLE_CODEC, GST_TAG_HOMEPAGE
-* gst_util_array_binary_search()
-* gst_message_new_request_state(), gst_message_parse_request_state(), GST_MESSAGE_REQUEST_STATE
-* GstPoll::gst_poll_new_timer()
-* GstPoll::gst_poll_write_control()
-* GstPoll::gst_poll_read_control()
+ * gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit()
+ * gst_element_request_pad()
+ * GstElementClass::request_new_pad_full()
+ * gst_poll_get_read_gpollfd()
+ * gst_value_list_merge()
+ * GST_CLOCK_DONE
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-Applications
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-Applications ported to GStreamer 0.10 include Totem, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
-Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
-Let us know if you want to be added to this list.
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Contributors to this release
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Ali Sabil
- * Andy Wingo
- * Antoine Tremblay
- * Brian Cameron
- * Damien Lespiau
- * David Adam
- * David Flynn
+ * Andoni Morales Alastruey
+ * Benjamin Gaignard
+ * Benjamin Otte
+ * David Hoyt
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Felipe Contreras
+ * Havard Graff
* Jan Schmidt
- * Jan Schmidt - Sun Microsystems - Dublin Ireland
- * Jonas Holmberg
- * LRN
- * Laszlo Pandy
+ * Kipp Cannon
+ * Koop Mast
+ * Lasse Laukkanen
* Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Michael Smith
* Olivier Crete
* Olivier Crête
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
+ * Raimo Järvi
* Sebastian Dröge
* Stefan Kost
* Thiago Santos
- * Thijs Vermeir
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
+ * Tommi Myöhänen
* Wim Taymans
- * Yaakov Selkowitz
- * Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
+ * Zhang Wanming
+ * Christian Schaller
+ * Sjoerd Simons
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