-Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level"
+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.
+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 0.11.x series has improved memory management and features
+various cleanups and enhancements.
This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
Features of this release
- * GLib requirement is now >= 2.22
- * New core element: valve (moved from -bad)
- * New core element: input-selector (N.B. without "select-all" property, use fsfunnel instead) (moved from -bad)
- * New core element: output-selector (with different negotiation behaviour by default, set pad-negotiation-mode=active for previous behaviour) (moved from -bad)
- * Performance improvements for many heavily-used code paths: GstPad, GstPoll, GstClock, GstTask, basesink, basesrc, queue2, multiqueue
- * gobject-introspection: add annotations for most core API
- * clock: make sync clock wait lockfree
- * fdsrc/fdsink: reenable on MSVC
- * registry: fix GStatBuf definition for win32 when building against older glib (fixes unnecessary rescanning of plugins at start-up)
- * element: add a more flexible way to get request pads from elements
- * multiqueue: return upon input when already eos
- * object: fix creation of default name (when creating more than 100000 elements)
- * pluginloader: fix hangs on OSX
- * poll: fixes for (p)select backend (used e.g. on OSX)
- * poll: refactor and make more lockfree; fixes for win32 and OSX (pselect backend)
- * registry: don't replace valid existing plugins by blacklisted ones
- * tags: don't produce duplicated entries when merging same value twice
- * basesink: preroll fixes for async=false case
- * basesink: rework position reporting code
- * basetransform: handle downstream giving a buffer with new caps but invalid size
+ * 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
- * 635785 : basesrc: fix deadlock
- * 638599 : GST_PTR_FORMAT causes crashes if GLib-internal printf is used but system provides register_printf_specifier
- * 503592 : gstpad.c does many ref/unref of peer pad in dataflow
- * 564056 : Protect against umask(0177)
- * 607513 : input-selector segfaults in g_object_notify()
- * 632168 : [gsttask] MSVC thread names for task debugging
- * 632447 : reduce static memory allocated by the registry
- * 632557 : [macros] Define restrict keyword if not available
- * 632778 : Optimisations to GstBaseSink
- * 632779 : gstdataqueue: Only emit g_cond_signal when needed
- * 632780 : queue: Remove useless checks from e406f7
- * 633918 : [fakesink] [PATCH] print sink-message events like a message and its structure
- * 634965 : sinks render buffers in state PAUSED when async is FALSE
- * 635001 : basesink: fix position reporting in PAUSED
- * 636268 : configure test fails on FreeBSD
- * 636455 : basesrc: Avoid taking object locks for just checking tag presence
- * 637057 : [plugin-scanner] gstpoll fails with select backend
- * 637300 : [API] request pad based on caps
- * 637549 : build fails: ./.libs/libgstbase-0.10.so: undefined reference to `gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit'
- * 637776 : merging the same tag values again produces lists containing duplicates
- * 638381 : {input,output}-selector: double-check API before release
- * 638399 : a few typos in GStreamer
- * 638900 : [GstPoll] Doesn't compile with MinGW
- * 638941 : registry scan/loading race and inconsistency
-
-API changed in this release
-
-- API additions:
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- * gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit()
- * gst_element_request_pad()
- * GstElementClass::request_new_pad_full()
- * gst_poll_get_read_gpollfd()
- * gst_value_list_merge()
- * GST_CLOCK_DONE
+ * 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
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+Applications
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+Various applications have early ports to GStreamer 0.11 including Totem, RhythmBox,
+Webkit, Jokosher, Transmageddon and others. We're working on porting more applications.
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Contributors to this release
* Andoni Morales Alastruey
- * Benjamin Gaignard
- * Benjamin Otte
- * David Hoyt
+ * Antoine Tremblay
+ * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ * Colin Walters
* David Schleef
* Edward Hervey
* Havard Graff
+ * Idar Tollefsen
* Jan Schmidt
- * Kipp Cannon
- * Koop Mast
- * Lasse Laukkanen
+ * Jason DeRose
+ * Johan Boulé
+ * Johan Dahlin
* Mark Nauwelaerts
- * Michael Smith
- * Olivier Crete
+ * Matej Knopp
+ * Nicolas Dufresne
* Olivier Crête
- * Raimo Järvi
+ * Peteris Krisjanis
+ * Philippe Normand
+ * René Stadler
+ * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
+ * Robert Swain
* Sebastian Dröge
- * Stefan Kost
+ * Sjoerd Simons
+ * Stas Sergeev
+ * Stefan Sauer
* Thiago Santos
+ * Thomas Vander Stichele
* Tim-Philipp Müller
- * Tommi Myöhänen
+ * Vincent Penquerc'h
* Wim Taymans
- * Zhang Wanming
- * Christian Schaller
- * Sjoerd Simons
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