X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=518b6916c41a358cacc3abc7561a94acfd9b4c67;hb=dac5966da6a0f53d0443dfa1ac239289028c415d;hp=318db42280a89b5b5b0766e6f1b5aab5b31c2786;hpb=7d76c2d538617db1c046417a82e112cf2282be79;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 318db42..518b691 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,72 +1,80 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.1. -Release notes for GStreamer 1.1.90 +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 proud to announce a new bug-fix release -in the 1.x stable series of the -core of the GStreamer streaming media framework. +Full release notes will one day be found at: + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ -The 1.x series is a stable series targeted at end users. -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 and -will not affect an existing 0.10.x installation. +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. -The 1.x series has been reworked for more flexible memory handling, improved -caps negotiation and re-negotiation, better handling of dynamic pipelines, -and increased performance in general. It also features countless other feature -additions and enhancements. + - 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. -This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. + - gst-plugins-good: a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred + license -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) + - 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. -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 701996 : context: Still inconvenient to use and racy - * 707088 : capsfilter: Don't forget to update pending_events. - * 707130 : output-selector: Changes the start of the segment it sends to a pad when making it active - * 707156 : multiqueue: Lowering single queue limits below automatically detected limits can cause the pipeline to starve - * 707648 : queue2: Update the buffering state before stalling for more data - * 707657 : tests/capsfilter: Improving check test code coverage... + - 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 ==== 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 -Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. + 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). @@ -75,24 +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 - - * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller - * Gustavo Noronha Silva - * Jonas Holmberg - * Matej Knopp - * Mathieu Duponchelle - * Rico Tzschichholz - * Sebastian Dröge - * Sebastian Rasmussen - * Thiago Santos - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Zaheer Abbas Merali -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel