-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.15 "October"
+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 enchancements.
+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
- * Changes for asynchronous sink management
- * New ts-offset property on basesink for adjusting clock synchronisation
- * New GstController LFO feature
- * Fixes and improvements in latency measurement for live pipelines
- * Additional documentation and docs fixes
- * Faster typefinding
- * More tag types added
- * Improvements in various core elements and parent classes
- * New unit tests
- * Allow dumping pipelines as dot graphs
- * GstStructures now support nesting
- * URIHandler interface can now be implemented in bindings
- * Many other bug-fixes and improvements
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 496722 : DSP/DSW files in win32/vs6 directory are in unix format
- * 476514 : [queue] Doesn't forward EOS event in all cases
- * 456573 : allow dumping pipelines as dot graphs
- * 475723 : cleanup static caps correctly
- * 480341 : Memory leak at fakesink (regression in cvs)
- * 349410 : Problems with type handling
- * 414539 : [API] Support more GST_TAG*_SORTNAME and remove MusicBrai...
- * 459717 : [Controller] Add GstLFOControlSource that provides values...
- * 459809 : [API] add GST_TAG_COMPOSER
- * 461598 : Commit Hungarian translations from TP
- * 461599 : Some files missing from POTFILES.in
- * 464366 : program including gst/gstbuffer.h does not compile with -...
- * 466595 : gst_index_add_association generates corrupted entries
- * 469402 : File uri handling on windows broken
- * 473846 : Deadlock if sink is unable to send first buffer
- * 474371 : Can't build libsgtcontroller with VS6
- * 474823 : tee unit test failure
- * 478347 : GST_STATIC_PAD_TEMPLATE macro causes warnings with g++-4.2
- * 478401 : gstbasesrc.c ref count bug
- * 479784 : GST_PLUGIN_DEFINE() doesn't accept BSD and MIT/X11 licences
- * 485343 : Implement a wait_eos function in basesink
- * 487969 : allow nested GstStructures
- * 492077 : Build issues on Windows/MSVC
- * 493134 : Wrong GstObject signals registration
- * 493983 : Build issues on Windows
- * 494343 : pre-release vs6 patch
- * 480858 : gstqueue code cleaning
- * 486758 : queue element fails to re-negotiate caps upstream when si...
- * 488201 : gst_segment_set_newsegment does not accumulate correctly
- * 492729 : PAUSED- > PLAYING returns ASYNC when triggered from bus han...
- * 494245 : [basesink] doesn't sync correctly if segment is in BYTES ...
-
-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
-* gst_base_sink_get_last_buffer()
-* GstBaseSink::last-buffer
-* GstURIHandlerInterface::get_type_full
-* GstURIHandlerInterface::get_protocols_full
-* New tag: GST_TAG_ARTIST_SORTNAME
-* New tag: GST_TAG_ALBUM_SORTNAME
-* New tag: GST_TAG_TITLE_SORTNAME
-* New tag: GST_TAG_COMPOSER
-* gst_value_set_structure()
-* gst_value_get_structure()
-* GST_VALUE_HOLDS_STRUCTURE macro
-* gst_bus_pop_filtered()
-* gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered()
-* gst_base_sink_wait_eos()
-* gst_pad_peer_query()
-* GstBaseSrc::do-timestamp
-* gst_base_src_set_do_timestamp()
-* gst_base_src_get_do_timestamp()
-* GstBaseSink::ts-offset property
-* gst_base_sink_set_ts_offset()
-* gst_base_sink_get_ts_offset()
-* GstBaseSink::async property
-* gst_base_sink_set_async_enabled()
-* gst_base_sink_is_async_enabled()
-* gst_structure_get_uint()
-* GstLFOControlSource and functions
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
- *
- * Benoit Fouet
- * David Nečas
- * Edgard Lima
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Felipe Contreras
- * Gabor Kelemen
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jan Schmidt - Sun Microsystems
- * Jorge González González
- * Julien MOUTTE
- * Michael Smith
- * Murray Cumming
- * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
- * Philippe Kalaf
+ * Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastien Moutte
- * Stefan Kost
- * Steve Fink
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
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