-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.12 "Inevitable Demise"
+Release notes for GStreamer 0.11.2 "A Shiny White Tooth"
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 a warning if GLib threading support is not properly initialised
- * Add support for binary registry serialisation
- * Preliminary support for pull-mode scheduling of entire chains
- * Add support for HPPA
- * Collectpads fixes
- * Lots of bug fixes
+ * 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
- * 378931 : Bison version check doesn't work on Solaris 9
- * 399875 : [multiqueue] dynamic growth not implemented.
- * 339326 : pads not set to FLUSHING when created
- * 380129 : gst_plugin_feature_load doesn't consistently ref a return...
- * 381301 : [patch] Make GstBus watch work with any GMainContext
- * 383382 : Removing pads from collectpads not threadsafe
- * 383506 : Disallow CLOCK_TIME_NONE as periodic clock id interval
- * 387073 : gst-launch videotestsrc ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink d...
- * 387866 : [docs] Small fix for GstCollectPads docs
- * 391278 : g_thread_init() called too late, possibly causing memory ...
- * 391296 : [API] add gst_update_registry() to rescan registry at run...
- * 391777 : GStreamer does not reset SEGV trap handler
- * 391909 : Fix compilation with MinGW
- * 399094 : gst_pad_start_task: small doc typo
- * 401381 : GstRegistry signals documentation is missing
- * 401781 : [API] add GST_ROUND_DOWN_* macros
- * 402393 : [API][GstCollectPads] Allow elements to specify destroy n...
- * 405284 : Changing state of pipeline can lock up with preroll queue...
- * 400656 : [PATCH] filesrc seekability detection fix (NFS and 2GB+ f...
- * 403172 : [filesrc] doesn't handle localhost file locations
- * 404569 : [filesrc] Unexpected end of file
- * 161922 : script to provide plugin installation info
- * 391915 : adapter test doesn't compile with mingw
- * 395554 : gst_tag_setter_merge_tags works at most once
- * 403597 : [API] Add ReplayGain reference level tag
- * 405288 : Configure checks use pkg-config directly
- * 381492 : [SystemClock] ClockID wait_async notification broken
- * 382592 : Multiple wait()ers break periodic clock ids
- * 385084 : endless ghost pad pull/push activate recursion until crash
- * 388201 : [API] add gst_adapter_copy()
-
-API changed in this release
-
-- API additions:
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-* gst_update_registry()
-* gst_adapter_copy()
-* GST_ROUND_DOWN_* macros
-* GstCollectDataDestroyNotify
-* gst_query_new_latency()
-* gst_query_set_latency()
-* gst_query_parse_latency()
-* gst_message_new_lost_preroll()
-* gst_message_parse_lost_preroll()
-* gst_message_new_prerolled()
-* gst_message_new_latency()
-* gst_event_new_latency()
-* gst_event_parse_latency()
-* GST_TAG_REFERENCE_LEVEL
-* gst_base_sink_query_latency()
-* gst_base_sink_get_latency()
-* gst_bus_timed_pop()
-* gst_message_new_info()
-* gst_message_parse_info()
+ * 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
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
- * Carlos Sanmartin Dominguez
+ * Andoni Morales Alastruey
+ * Antoine Tremblay
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ * Colin Walters
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
+ * Havard Graff
+ * Idar Tollefsen
* Jan Schmidt
- * Jindrich Makovicka
+ * Jason DeRose
+ * Johan Boulé
+ * Johan Dahlin
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michal Benes
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Nicolas Dufresne
+ * Olivier Crête
+ * Peteris Krisjanis
+ * Philippe Normand
* René Stadler
+ * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
+ * Robert Swain
* Sebastian Dröge
* Sjoerd Simons
- * Stefan Kost
- * Sébastien Moutte
+ * Stas Sergeev
+ * Stefan Sauer
+ * Thiago Santos
* Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Vincent Torri
+ * Vincent Penquerc'h
* Wim Taymans
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