-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.26 "Think Twice"
+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
- * Threadsafe design and API
- * registry: do plugin scanning (on *nix) using an external helper binary
- * lots of performance improvements all over the place (ghostpads,
- multiqueue, pad construction, superfluous type checks, registry loading)
- * add GstByteWriter, a simple generic byte writer
- * filesink: Use _wfopen on win32 to open files with non-ascii filenames correctly.
- * queue2: add option to remove the temp-file (enabled by default)
- * it is now allowed to use gst_caps_set_simple() on non-simple caps
- * queue2: move from gst-plugins-base into the coreelements plugin in core
- (this means you may need to remove libgstqueue2.so manually if you
- installed from source and don't do make uninstall before upgrading, or
- combine an older -base with a newer core)
- * multiqueue: add support for buffering mode where we post BUFFERING
- messages based on the level of the queues
- * typefind: speed up typefinding a lot by first trying the typefinder for
- the file's extension
- * buffer: remove private/internal subbuffer subclass and keep track of
- the parent buffer directly in the GstBuffer structure (this removes
- quite a bit of special-casing and will allow for future improvements/
- extensions that are harder to do if there's a separate subbuffer class.
- * collectpads: add ability to install clipping functions
- * new tags for TV/Radio shows/episodes, lyrics, composer sortname and
- grouping
- * miniobject: avoid race when recycling buffers
- * basesrc: fix race in PLAYING->PAUSED->PLAYING
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 476514 : [multiqueue] Doesn't forward EOS event in all cases
- * 590941 : API: add gst_pad_get_caps() variant that avoids unneeded caps copies
- * 595602 : g_child_proxy_get_valist doesn't initialize GValue correctly
- * 535069 : basesrc no longer support non-flushing seeks on itself
- * 560442 : GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated GLib symbols
- * 595511 : Annotations for gst_element_query_{position,duration}
- * 595886 : gst_pad_fixate_caps() does not return fixed caps in case of multiple structures
- * 595964 : [multiqueue] can hang pipeline during startup
- * 596366 : proxy_getcaps reverses direction of getcaps
- * 597407 : GstPipeline calculates base_time incorrectly when a new clock appears during PAUSED state
- * 597550 : basesrc: sometimes no buffers produced after PLAYING - PAUSED - PLAYING
- * 597690 : Improve caps setters API
- * 598297 : make check fails when any --disable option which changes the API has been used
- * 598526 : bytewriter: fails to compile with gcc 4.2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy 64 bits
- * 598700 : scripts: Parallelise git-update.sh build script
- * 598895 : [GstRegistry] Use hash table for feature lookups
- * 598896 : [GstRegistry] Cache lists of ElementFactory and TypeFindFactory
- * 599147 : typefind : Avoid having to re-sort the typefind factory list
- * 599759 : [qtdemux] Add support for more tags
- * 600313 : Visualisations stop updating after seek
- * 600922 : gst-launch: wake up less often to check for Ctrl-C
- * 601587 : MiniObject race condition
- * 601668 : [gstregistry] gstregistry.c uses a variable from gst.c
- * 601669 : [tests] tests/examples/manual depends on libgstcheck
- * 602093 : libgstcheck fails to export some symbols when built under et_EE locale
- * 602275 : [API] Add new sink-message event
- * 602419 : [basesink] Regression with position reporting
- * 603059 : Totem crashes when DVD is encrypted but libdvdcss isn't available
- * 603787 : [registry] Doesn't use GMappedFile
- * 604091 : tee: cleanup requestpads in dispose
- * 604093 : gst-inspect/launch: move gst_tools_print_version to avoid glib warning
- * 605251 : tee causes segfault if there is no source pad
- * 605930 : [shave] common/shave not existing yet when configure checks need it
- * 606435 : gsttee not threadsafe
- * 607283 : segfaults and/or miniobject warnings with GLib > = 2.23.2
- * 607317 : [PATCH] fix unaligned detection for x86-64 when cross compiling
- * 607431 : update common modules before freeze
- * 607481 : Should define G_THREADS_MANDATORY everywhere
- * 607739 : [queue2] Temporary file is removed although code claims the opposite
- * 607842 : Audio comes out with short breaks after resume pipeline (paused- > playing)
- * 608136 : multiqueue handles UNEXPECTED flowreturn wrongly
- * 608398 : Initializing the glib thread system seems not to work
- * 608442 : [filesrc] typo in warning message
- * 608726 : bytewriter: mistake in .h/.c function naming
- * 609166 : Buffer list docs ascii art
- * 590669 : [API] need GstByteWriter or GstChunkWriter
- * 601698 : Rename new plugin-scanner helper executable before release
- * 604565 : [gstcheck] Update check to 0.9.8
- * 596877 : New internal libcheck breaks the Solaris build
-
-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_DEBUG_REGISTER_FUNCPTR()
-* gst_base_src_new_seamless_segment()
-* gst_event_new_sink_message()
-* gst_event_parse_sink_message()
-* gst_util_fraction_add()
-* gst_util_fraction_multiply()
-* gst_util_greatest_common_divisor()
-* gst_util_double_to_fraction()
-* gst_util_fraction_to_double()
-* gst_registry_get_feature_list_cookie()
-* gst_default_registry_get_feature_list_cookie()
-* gst_pad_get_caps_reffed()
-* gst_pad_peer_get_caps_reffed()
-* gst_structure_id_has_field()
-* gst_structure_id_has_field_typed()
-* gst_plugin_feature_list_copy()
-* gst_caps_set_value()
-* gst_byte_writer_ensure_free_space()
-* gst_byte_writer_free()
-* gst_byte_writer_free_and_get_buffer()
-* gst_byte_writer_free_and_get_data()
-* gst_byte_writer_get_remaining()
-* gst_byte_writer_init()
-* gst_byte_writer_init_with_buffer()
-* gst_byte_writer_init_with_data()
-* gst_byte_writer_init_with_size()
-* gst_byte_writer_new()
-* gst_byte_writer_new_with_buffer()
-* gst_byte_writer_new_with_data()
-* gst_byte_writer_new_with_size()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_data()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_float32_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_float32_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_float64_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_float64_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int16_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int16_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int24_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int24_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int32_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int32_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int64_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int64_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_int8()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_string_utf16()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_string_utf32()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_string_utf8()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint16_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint16_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint24_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint24_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint32_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint32_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint64_be()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint64_le()
-* gst_byte_writer_put_uint8()
-* gst_byte_writer_reset()
-* gst_byte_writer_reset_and_get_buffer()
-* gst_byte_writer_reset_and_get_data()
-* gst_bit_reader_get_size()
-* gst_byte_reader_get_size()
-* gst_data_queue_new_full()
-* gst_collect_pads_set_clip_function()
-* gst_type_find_helper_get_range_ext()
-- API deprecations:
-
-* gst_registry_xml_read_cache()
-* gst_registry_xml_write_cache()
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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
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Bastien Nocera
- * Benjamin Otte
- * Christian Schaller
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Frederic Crozat
- * Havard Graff
- * Håvard Graff
- * Jan Schmidt
- * Javier Jardón
- * Johan Bilien
- * LRN
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michael Smith
- * Ole André Vadla Ravnås
- * Olivier Crête
- * Peter Kjellerstedt
- * Peter van Hardenberg
- * Priit Laes
- * Rob Clark
- * Robert Swain
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
- * Thiago Santos
- * Thiago Sousa Santos
- * Thijs Vermeir
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Tommi Myöhänen
* Wim Taymans
- * Руслан Ижбулатов
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