-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.9 "On the road again"
+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 enchancements.
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
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Features of this release
- * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
- * Threadsafe design and API
- * The testsuite can now generate coverage information
- * Better support for non-linear editing
- * Removed Glib 2.6 compatibility
- * Performance improvements on cpus that support branch hints
- * Bug fixes
+ * 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
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+ * 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
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+API changed in this release
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+- API additions:
- * 346730 : some warnings about enums and macros
- * 341029 : Ghostpads internal and target should be linked from the b...
- * 346192 : [PATCH] Pad blocking on events
- * 347384 : [ghostpad] padtemplates shouldn't be set automatically
- * 344115 : [patch] make more internal data const
- * 324176 : gst-element-check-0.x.m4 should use versioned gst-inspect
- * 330379 : Bogus commits to basesink, basetransform, collectpads
- * 341667 : restore_from_xml breaks pad links again after creating them
- * 344642 : tools/gst-inspect.c does not compile if --disable-nls is ...
- * 344748 : Fails with non-writable registry
- * 344849 : GstController doesn't handle float properties correct
- * 345086 : [gst-feedback] calls un-versioned tools
- * 346097 : SIGSEGV when using --gst-plugin-load
- * 347337 : GDP does not correctly deserialize events without a struc...
- * 347408 : basesrc causes regressions in pull with 0 bytes
- * 345720 : Bad performance playing files off CD
- * 331727 : make probes and Ghostpads more elegant
- * 343196 : basetransform not handles ro/rw buffer flagging for trans...
- * 346663 : Segmentation error with fakesrc, fakesink and a filter
+ * 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
Download
Developers
-CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
-All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
+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.
-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
- * Andy Wingo
+ * Andoni Morales Alastruey
+ * Benjamin Gaignard
+ * Benjamin Otte
+ * David Hoyt
+ * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
+ * Havard Graff
* Jan Schmidt
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
- * Philip Jägenstedt
- * Sebastien Moutte
+ * Kipp Cannon
+ * Koop Mast
+ * Lasse Laukkanen
+ * Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Michael Smith
+ * Olivier Crete
+ * Olivier Crête
+ * Raimo Järvi
+ * Sebastian Dröge
* Stefan Kost
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
+ * Thiago Santos
* Tim-Philipp Müller
+ * Tommi Myöhänen
* Wim Taymans
- * Wouter Paesen
+ * Zhang Wanming
+ * Christian Schaller
+ * Sjoerd Simons
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