-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.23 "Alaboo Alaboo"
+Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.3 "Thrill of the Hunt"
The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.10.x stable series of the
+in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
-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.
+The 0.11.x series is an unstable series targeted at developers and will
+eventually lead up to the stable 1.0 series.
+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.
-The 0.10.x series has been reworked for threadsafety. It also features
-various feature additions and enhancements.
+The 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features
+various cleanups 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
-
-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...
-
-API changed in this release
-
-- API additions:
+ * Various bug fixes and improvements
+ * Input-selector defaults to sync-streams=true
+ * Queue don't just start the thread on linking
+ * Add user_data and notify to gst_memory_new_wrapped()
+ * Rework caps function for performance
+ * Improve basetransform allocator handling
+ * Implement metadata transforms
+ * Metadata registration improvements
+ * Use generic marshallers everywhere
+ * Push Sticky events in more cases
+ * Register queries like events
+ * Add DRAIN serialized query
+ * Add 0-padding and prefix to GstMemory
+ * Rework the ALLOCATION query
+ * Allow setting the allocator in a bufferpool
+ * Improve pull/get_range
+There were no bugs fixed in this release
-* 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()
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Applications
-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.
+Various applications have early ports to GStreamer 0.11 including Totem, RhythmBox,
+Webkit, Jokosher, Transmageddon and others. We're working on porting more applications.
Contributors to this release
- * Alessandro Decina
- * Ali Sabil
- * Andy Wingo
- * Antoine Tremblay
- * Brian Cameron
- * Damien Lespiau
- * David Adam
- * David Flynn
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Felipe Contreras
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jan Schmidt - Sun Microsystems - Dublin Ireland
- * Jonas Holmberg
- * LRN
- * Laszlo Pandy
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Olivier Crete
- * Olivier Crête
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thijs Vermeir
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
- * Yaakov Selkowitz
- * Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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