-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.16 "Special Dispensation"
+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
- * Monotonic/Posix clock support
- * Dumping of dot-file graph descriptions for debugging
- * Clean-up of exported symbols
- * Many bug-fixes and enhancements
- *
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 497859 : --disable-gst-debug option fails compilation
- * 339279 : [gst.URIHandler] interfaces with class-global virtual met...
- * 498694 : Patches to avoid g_signal_emit(SIGNAL_HANDOFF) on identit...
- * 498746 : basesink is forwarding downstream events
- * 498767 : Hangs after end of tracks since 0.10.15
- * 498924 : deprecate GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC because it's not portable
- * 499007 : [gst-plot-timeline] more options
- * 499140 : Add check to ensure .def files are kept up-to-date
- * 500143 : Some small improvements (limiting realloc and CPU usage )
- * 500150 : [filesink] add property to enable buffering via setvbuf()
- * 501560 : gst_(caps|structure)_from_string() crash if structure nam...
- * 503131 : g_intern_string SUSE 10.2
- * 503231 : Change to GST_BUFFER_FLAG_GAP meaning can break with base...
- * 503417 : Build failure due uninitialized variable in function 'gst...
- * 503590 : gstreamer-0.10.15 fails tests on ppc64
- * 503675 : broken registry files written to disk
- * 504499 : Messages from check no longer contain the test case name
- * 505799 : iSight camera does not work in gstreamer
- * 506643 : crash in fixate_value/gst_value_init_and_copy on empty li...
- * 507957 : clean-up incomplete function declarations
- * 508175 : GST_TIMEVAL_TO_TIME() and GST_TIMESPEC_TO_TIME() need to ...
- * 510187 : gst_plugin_register_static() API review and GST_PLUGIN_DE...
- * 510747 : Use $(MAKE) instead of make to fix the build if GNU make ...
- * 511750 : Configure of prereleases 15.2-15.4 fail in OpenEmbedded M...
-
-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
-* GstIdentity::signal-handoffs
-* gst_util_get_timestamp()
-* gst_base_transform_set_gap_aware()
-* GstFileSink::buffer-mode
-* GstFileSink::buffer-size
-* gst_plugin_register_static()
-- API deprecations:
-
-* GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE_STATIC()
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
-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
- * Alexis Ballier
- * Damien Lespiau
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Julien MOUTTE
- * Julien Moutte
- * Laurent Glayal
- * Matthias Bolte
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
+ * Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thijs Vermeir
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
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