-Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.2 "A Shiny White Tooth"
-
+Release notes for GStreamer 1.0.2
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new bug-fix 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 and will
-eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 series.
+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
- * Added pts/dts to buffers
- * Moved controller into core
- * Pad probe rewrite
- * AcceptCaps and GetCaps made as queries
- * Added parent to pad functions
- * Sticky events rewrite
- * New GstSample object
- * Asynchronous state change support for basesrc
- * Added new bitmask type
- * GstMemory updates
- * Port to gio
- * Port to newest glib
- * Add stepped ranges
- * Do typefind in separate thread
- * Rework alloc tracing
- * Added STREAM_CONFIG, GAP and STREAM_START events
- * Various cleanups and leak fixes
+ * Parallel installability with 0.10.x series
+ * collectpads: ensure all timestamps are in same time domain
+ * gobject-introspection: fix GstSample annotations
+ * add GstElement::post_message() vfunc
+ * info: allow gst_debug_add_log_function() to be called before gst_init()
+ * event: allow GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE as duration for GAP events
+ * documentation: new chapters and updates for the application development manual and the plugin writer's guide
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 664491 : compiler warnings on OS X 64bit
- * 402562 : [gst_parse_launch] Requesting pads but not releasing them
- * 383102 : [0.11] Rethink pad_blocking
- * 610338 : [0.11] [controller] Triggers should be moved into their own control source
- * 660300 : gst_memory_alignment undefined if HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN isn't defined
- * 662207 : gst: Fix a lot of GLib deprecations and errors
- * 664099 : 0.11 new to use new floating ref annotation
- * 664880 : [0.11] GstBaseParse default caps query implementation broken
- * 664927 : GST_STATIC_CAPS missing initializer
- * 666096 : [0.11] encodebin bindings failing to accept None
- * 666154 : [0.11] Python - query_caps fails to accept 'None'
- * 666351 : [0.11] Get rid of GST_TYPE_DATE
- * 666890 : [0.11] controller compiler warning: gsttriggercontrolsource.c:82: control reaches end of non-void function
+ * 686456 : g_type_init is no longer required
+ * 686658 : allocator: fix memory leak in _fallback_mem_copy
+ * 686659 : preset: remove variable not read
+ * 686723 : basesrc: generic/states test in -base now hangs with appsrc
+ * 686787 : testrtpool must be linked to pthreads
+
+==== 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.
-Various applications have early ports to GStreamer 0.11 including Totem, RhythmBox,
-Webkit, Jokosher, Transmageddon and others. We're working on porting more applications.
+==== Developers ====
-
+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.
+
+
Contributors to this release
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Antoine Tremblay
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * Colin Walters
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Havard Graff
- * Idar Tollefsen
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jason DeRose
- * Johan Boulé
- * Johan Dahlin
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Matej Knopp
- * Nicolas Dufresne
- * Olivier Crête
- * Peteris Krisjanis
- * Philippe Normand
- * René Stadler
- * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
- * Robert Swain
+ * Michael Smith
+ * Miguel Angel Cabrera Moya
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Stas Sergeev
- * Stefan Sauer
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Penquerc'h
* Wim Taymans
+ * Руслан Ижбулатов