X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=0a189fe2a62042d072fbe6c298ea9bba2b05ab3e;hb=ce43de86902c4e9c8ed4e9682602664cb9bce2ee;hp=b82f4b9bc025e2dda16ef7821a70cc8ecfa807e9;hpb=1abf889dddc75b4e4db2f4505a4287cb20878d27;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index b82f4b9..0a189fe 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,44 +1,58 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.0. -Release notes for GStreamer 1.8.0 +The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release in the +stable 1.0 API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! -The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the new stable -1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of -the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x -release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. +As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and +other improvements. +The 1.16 release series adds new features on top of the 1.14 series and is +part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia +framework. -Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided shortly after -the source release by the GStreamer project during the stable 1.8 release -series. +Full release notes will one day be found at: + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ -This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided +shortly after the release. -gst-plugins-base -contains a basic set of well-supported plugins -gst-plugins-good -contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license -gst-plugins-ugly -contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for - distributors -gst-plugins-bad -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) +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. + - gstreamer: provides the core GStreamer libraries and some generic plugins + - gst-plugins-base: a basic set of well-supported plugins and additional + media-specific GStreamer helper libraries for audio, + video, rtsp, rtp, tags, OpenGL, etc. - + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 763491 : typefind: behavior has changed on have-type signal, sets pad caps after signal handlers - * 763895 : Incorrect gir annotation on gst_element_query_convert - * 764034 : preset: Use GST_PRESET_PATH as an extension of the system path, not a replacement of the user path - * 763770 : multiqueue: not-linked pads might not drain out at EOS + - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose + problems for distributors + + - gst-plugins-bad: a set of plugins of varying quality that have not made + their way into one of core/base/good/ugly yet, for one + reason or another. Many of these are are production quality + elements, but may still be missing documentation or unit + tests; others haven't passed the rigorous quality testing + we expect yet. + + - gst-libav: a set of codecs plugins based on the ffmpeg library. This is + where you can find audio and video decoders and encoders + for a wide variety of formats including H.264, AAC, etc. + + - gstreamer-vaapi: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding using + VA-API on Linux. Primarily for Intel graphics hardware. + + - gst-omx: hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding, primarily for + embedded Linux systems that provide an OpenMax + implementation layer such as the Raspberry Pi. + + - gst-rtsp-server: library to serve files or streaming pipelines via RTSP + + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing ==== Download ==== @@ -46,7 +60,7 @@ You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at -http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ +https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== @@ -54,10 +68,16 @@ The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ ==== Support and Bugs ==== -We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests: -http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer +We have recently moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitLab on freedesktop.org +for bug reports and feature requests: -Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer + +Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See + + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/ + +for more details. For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). @@ -66,19 +86,14 @@ There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network. ==== Developers ==== -GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned -from there (see link above). +GStreamer source code repositories can be found on GitLab on freedesktop.org: + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer + +and can also be cloned from there and this is also where you can submit +Merge Requests or file issues for bugs or feature requests. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should -subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. - - -Contributors to this release - - * Anthony G. Basile - * Aurélien Zanelli - * Ben Iofel - * Jan Schmidt - * Romain Picard - * Sebastian Dröge -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel