-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.14 "Breathing Vacuum"
+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
- * State change handling improvements
- * New improved GstController API
- * Multi-queue fixes and enhancements
- * Fewer dynamic library relocations
- * Various other fixes and improvements
- * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
- * Threadsafe design and API
-
-Bugs fixed in this release
-
- * 457322 : registry is read twice on startup
- * 406632 : pkgconfigify the check for Check in configure.ac
- * 423700 : [multiqueue] leaks memory when flushing
- * 437457 : saving relocations for GstElementDetails
- * 444648 : [API] add GstParamSpecFraction
- * 444820 : build error with grammar.tab.c
- * 448794 : state changes are racy with decodebin after rewrite for 0...
- * 449197 : [capsfilter] Should set src pad caps on buffer
- * 449226 : Incomplete ghostpads in xml session save
- * 449493 : minor quoting fix in gst-feature.m4 macro
- * 450711 : [GstController] Improve extensibility by providing a GstC...
- * 451939 : [API] add GST_TAG_LICENSE_URI and GST_TAG_COPYRIGHT_URI
- * 459501 : gst_registry_lookup_feature_locked is slow
- * 462558 : Regression in async state change handling
- * 462752 : make gst_element_class_set_details_simple args const
- * 430682 : multiqueue doesn't output data on unlinked pads properly
- * 462085 : registry feature hash can access invalid memory
- * 357959 : buffer_alloc is not proxied through tee
- * 374639 : GstTee doesn't handle pad list resyncs properly
- * 449414 : [capsfilter] Copy of passed GstCaps taken instead of refe...
- * 453732 : [PATCH] multiqueue returns wrong internally linked pads
-
-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 GstParamSpecFraction, so elements can have fraction
- properties without lots of painful string parsing (#444648).
-* Add fail_unless_equals_float() and assert_equals_float()
-* Add gst_type_register_static_full
-* Add gst_element_class_set_details_simple
-* Refactor GstController into the core controller which can take
- a GstControlSource for providing actual values for timestamps.
-* add GST_TAG_LICENSE_URI and GST_TAG_COPYRIGHT_URI (#451939)
-* gst_element_factory_has_interface()
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
- * Andy Wingo
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ * David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
- * Jan Schmidt
* Mark Nauwelaerts
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Ryan Lortie
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sebastien Moutte
- * Stefan Kost
- * Steve Fink
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
- * Tim Angus
+ * Sreerenj Balachandran
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Tommi Vainikainen
* Wim Taymans
- * Étienne Noreau-Hébert
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