-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.20 "You Crazy Diamond"
+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
- * Add the Presets interface
- * Use the binary registry by default
- * Deprecate gst_element_get_pad and don't use it anywhere any more.
- * Reverse playback fixes
- * API to get missing element messages from parse_launch parsing.
- * Fixes in latency calculations
- * BaseTransform negotiation fixes
- * New Buffering query and messages
- * Fix multiqueue deadlocks when changing limits
- * Remove pre-generated parser hacks and require newer flex/bison
- * Use GSlice in more places
- * Use static strings in property declarations everywhere to save memory allocations
- * Fix unaligned memory accesses with the binary registry and add CRC checks
- * Lots of other bug fixes
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 535069 : basesrc no longer support non-flushing seeks on itself
- * 522882 : Add a configure option to enable/disable OPTION_PARSING i...
- * 396779 : Preset interface for elements
- * 359653 : GStreamer Binary Registry patch
- * 401456 : [API] Rename gst_bin_find_unconnected_pad to gst_bin_find...
- * 446763 : [identity] leaks events in single segment mode
- * 459862 : typefinding coud be more efficient
- * 461253 : Crash when gst_base_transform_prepare_output_buffer is se...
- * 489269 : valgrind option parameter invalid for valgrind 2.2
- * 508070 : gstreamer crashes whilst trying to read .so files in .deb...
- * 512577 : GstTagMergeMode doc has slightly incorrect explanation
- * 512578 : gst_tag_setter_merge_tags can mess up with KEEP_ALL merge...
- * 514507 : gst-xmlinspect outputs text instead of xml for plugins
- * 518022 : [libgstnet] MSVC 6.0 compile error due to socklen_t
- * 518932 : Expose gst_segment_copy() to facilitate wrapping of GstSe...
- * 520468 : Add a Env to enable/disable scan_and_update_registry for ...
- * 522326 : use of 'char*' instead of 'const char*' in gst_caps_set_s...
- * 523798 : [API] Some GstMiniObject enhancements
- * 523806 : Should use G_PARAM_STATIC_(NAME|NICK|BLURB) when possible
- * 523978 : Documentation fixes.
- * 523985 : [PATCH] [identity] meta-writes buffers without meta-writa...
- * 524659 : Add specific error code for encrypted streams (e.g. WMA/A...
- * 525532 : [fakesink/fakesrc/identity] Uses GObject marshallers for ...
- * 526042 : [identity] check-imperfect-timestamp doesn't handle new s...
- * 526236 : mingw32 gstpoll compilation fix
- * 526247 : Actually build dlls when cross-compiling with mingw32
- * 526705 : GstIndexResolver uses nickname field as description field
- * 526768 : Basetransform bufferalloc passing through too easily
- * 526814 : [API] add gst_pad_add_{data,event,buffer}_probe_full() wi...
- * 527967 : gst_gerror_get_type is not thread safe
- * 528187 : Get missing elements from gst_parse_launch()
- * 528868 : URI schemes/protocols should be handled case insensitive
- * 529148 : Make gstqueue give the right min latency
- * 530317 : GType registration error - race condition when parallel c...
- * 530637 : queue leak on capacity change
- * 531538 : Race between gst_bus_set_flushing and async bus watches
- * 533490 : gst_message_new_warning() should take const gchar*
- * 533635 : gst_event_new_tag() documentation should say it takes own...
- * 533740 : [API] add gst_typefind_suggest_simple()
- * 533865 : gst_element_get_pad() should really be deprecated
- * 534258 : basesink not accumulated time in some cases.
- * 535218 : gst_base_src_send_event will block if basesrc is blocking...
- * 536723 : Misspelled word in error string
- * 536744 : Must link to libdl if dladdr() is used
- * 536780 : gcc 4.3.0 compile warnings
- * 536857 : DATADIR definition conflicts with windows headers
- * 525961 : Build fails on darwin
- * 535285 : Correct reference to GST_URI_UNKNOWN in gst_element_facto...
-
-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
-* Add GST_IS_PARAM_SPEC_MINI_OBJECT, GST_PARAM_SPEC_MINI_OBJECT
- GST_TYPE_PARAM_MINI_OBJECT and gst_value_dup_mini_object
-* typefind::force-caps
-* gst_message_set_buffering_stats()
-* gst_message_parse_buffering_stats()
-* GST_QUERY_BUFFERING
-* GstBufferingMode
-* gst_query_new_buffering()
-* gst_query_set_buffering_percent()
-* gst_query_parse_buffering_percent()
-* gst_query_set_buffering_stats()
-* gst_query_parse_buffering_stats()
-* gst_query_set_buffering_range()
-* gst_query_parse_buffering_range()
-* GST_STREAM_ERROR_DECRYPT
-* GST_STREAM_ERROR_DECRYPT_NOKEY
-* gst_segment_copy()
-* gst_pad_add_data_probe_full()
-* gst_pad_add_buffer_probe_full()
-* gst_pad_add_event_probe_full()
-* GstEvent::gst_event_has_name()
-* GstFakeSrc:format
-* gst_type_find_suggest_simple()
-* GstBaseSink::gst_base_sink_wait_clock()
-* gst_parse_launch_full()
-* gst_parse_launchv_full()
-* gst_parse_bin_from_description_full()
-* gst_parse_context_new()
-* gst_parse_context_free()
-* gst_parse_context_get_missing_elements()
-* gst_bin_find_unlinked_pad()
-* GstPreset interface
-- API deprecations:
-
-* gst_element_get_pad - use gst_element_get_static_pad or gst_element_get_request_pad
-* gst_atomic_int_set() - g_atomic_int_set from GLib
-* gst_bin_find_unconnected_pad()
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
- * José Alburquerque
- * Antoine Tremblay
- * Bjarne Rosengren
- * Damien Lespiau
- * Felipe Contreras
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Jason Zhao
- * Jonas Holmberg
- * José Alburquerque
- * Julien Moutte
- * Kwang Yul Seo
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ * David Schleef
+ * Edward Hervey
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michael Smith
- * Milosz Derezynski
- * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
- * Olivier Crete
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
- * Rene Stadler
- * Rob Bradford
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Stefan Kost
- * Suresh Kumar P
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Wim Taymans
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