-Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.2 "A Shiny White Tooth"
-
-
+Release notes for GStreamer 1.11.90
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
-in the 0.11.x unstable series of the
-core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
+The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the
+stable 1.12 release series. The 1.12 release series is adding new features on
+top of the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.10 series and is part of the API and
+ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
-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.
+Full release notes will be provided with the 1.12.0 release, highlighting all
+the new features, bugfixes, performance optimizations and other important
+changes.
-The 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features
-various cleanups and enhancements.
+Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
gst-plugins-base
-contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
+contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
gst-plugins-good
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
+contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
-contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
+contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
distributors
gst-plugins-bad
-contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
- rigorous quality testing we expect
+contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
+ rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
+ and/or unit tests
+gst-libav
+contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
-Features of this release
-
- * Added pts/dts to buffers
- * Moved controller into core
- * Pad probe rewrite
- * AcceptCaps and GetCaps made as queries
- * Added parent to pad functions
- * Sticky events rewrite
- * New GstSample object
- * Asynchronous state change support for basesrc
- * Added new bitmask type
- * GstMemory updates
- * Port to gio
- * Port to newest glib
- * Add stepped ranges
- * Do typefind in separate thread
- * Rework alloc tracing
- * Added STREAM_CONFIG, GAP and STREAM_START events
- * Various cleanups and leak fixes
-
Bugs fixed in this release
- * 664491 : compiler warnings on OS X 64bit
- * 402562 : [gst_parse_launch] Requesting pads but not releasing them
- * 383102 : [0.11] Rethink pad_blocking
- * 610338 : [0.11] [controller] Triggers should be moved into their own control source
- * 660300 : gst_memory_alignment undefined if HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN isn't defined
- * 662207 : gst: Fix a lot of GLib deprecations and errors
- * 664099 : 0.11 new to use new floating ref annotation
- * 664880 : [0.11] GstBaseParse default caps query implementation broken
- * 664927 : GST_STATIC_CAPS missing initializer
- * 666096 : [0.11] encodebin bindings failing to accept None
- * 666154 : [0.11] Python - query_caps fails to accept 'None'
- * 666351 : [0.11] Get rid of GST_TYPE_DATE
- * 666890 : [0.11] controller compiler warning: gsttriggercontrolsource.c:82: control reaches end of non-void function
+ * 779175 : registry: Only scan plugin files that end with an extension
+ * 775445 : adaptivedemux: Fix deadlock during transition from track disable to enable
+ * 776293 : GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_stream_collection_get_size: assertion 'collection- > priv- > streams' failed
+ * 779459 : Document whether GST_CAT_LEVEL_LOG() & co print a new-line
+ * 779755 : Timecodes get serialized as flagsets
+ * 780111 : _gst_param_array_validate is not correctly implemented
+ * 780751 : gstvalue: fix GstValue leak in structure_field_union_into
+ * 780923 : Various combined-flag #defines are not C++ friendly
+
+==== Download ====
-Download
+You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
+directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
-You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
+The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/
-GStreamer Homepage
+==== Homepage ====
-More details can be found on the project's website:
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
+The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
-Support and Bugs
+==== Support and Bugs ====
We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
-Developers
+Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
-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.
+For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
+gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
-
-Applications
+There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
-Various applications have early ports to GStreamer 0.11 including Totem, RhythmBox,
-Webkit, Jokosher, Transmageddon and others. We're working on porting more applications.
+==== Developers ====
-
+GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
+from there (see link above).
+
+Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
+subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
+
+
Contributors to this release
- * Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Antoine Tremblay
- * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
- * Colin Walters
- * David Schleef
- * Edward Hervey
- * Havard Graff
- * Idar Tollefsen
* Jan Schmidt
- * Jason DeRose
- * Johan Boulé
- * Johan Dahlin
- * Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Matej Knopp
* Nicolas Dufresne
* Olivier Crête
- * Peteris Krisjanis
- * Philippe Normand
- * René Stadler
- * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
- * Robert Swain
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Sjoerd Simons
- * Stas Sergeev
- * Stefan Sauer
+ * Seungha Yang
* Thiago Santos
- * Thomas Vander Stichele
+ * Thibault Saunier
* Tim-Philipp Müller
* Vincent Penquerc'h
* Wim Taymans
-
+
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