X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=518b6916c41a358cacc3abc7561a94acfd9b4c67;hb=dac5966da6a0f53d0443dfa1ac239289028c415d;hp=1d1f6da8186568d386394edd935ce6d521ecc30e;hpb=ed39f8b5b7f011523ec96bba699e61c0b3b9e380;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 1d1f6da..518b691 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,78 +1,80 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.1. -Release notes for GStreamer 1.3.91 +The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug-fix release in the +stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! +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. -The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of -the stable 1.4 release series. The 1.4 release series is adding new features -on top of the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x -release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. +Full release notes will one day be found at: + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ -This release candidate will hopefully shortly be followed by the stable 1.4.0 -release if no bigger regressions or bigger issues are detected, and enough -testing of the release candidate happened. The new API that was added during -the 1.3 release series is not expected to change anymore at this point. +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided +shortly after the release. +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. -Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are provided together with this -release. + - 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. -The stable 1.4 release series is API and ABI compatible with 1.0.x, 1.2.x and -any other 1.x release series in the future. Compared to 1.2.x it contains some -new features and more intrusive changes that were considered too risky as a -bugfix. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license + - 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. -This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. + - 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. -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) + - 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 - - -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 732534 : Introspection and documentation issues for new 1.4 symbols - * 732540 : basesink: reset QoS on segment event - * 732556 : pad: Race condition when removing sticky events - * 732559 : identity: Should proxy accept-caps query - * 732770 : gst-uninstalled: add video and base library paths from -bad - * 732786 : docs: Various fixes for omissions, typos and inconsistencies. + - gst-editing-services: library an plugins for non-linear editing ==== Download ==== You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download -directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/ +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://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== -The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ +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: + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer + +Please submit patches via GitLab as well, in form of Merge Requests. See + + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/contribute/ -Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. +for more details. For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details). @@ -81,22 +83,14 @@ 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 - - * Evan Nemerson - * Guillaume Desmottes - * Göran Jönsson - * Matthieu Bouron - * Sebastian Dröge - * Sebastian Rasmussen - * Thiago Santos - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Vincent Penquerc'h -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel