X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE;h=518b6916c41a358cacc3abc7561a94acfd9b4c67;hb=dac5966da6a0f53d0443dfa1ac239289028c415d;hp=e1853870ae243c8812a1268bf769e71547f55a48;hpb=e505e1e6cd2e090f9ec17b276d16eaf617d4d151;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index e185387..518b691 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,48 +1,55 @@ +This is GStreamer core 1.16.1. -Release notes for GStreamer 1.7.90 +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 GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the 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. +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. +Full release notes will one day be found at: -Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately -during the stable 1.8 release series. + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ +Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will usually be provided +shortly after the release. -This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. -For actual media playback, you will need other modules. +This module will not be very useful by itself and should be used in conjunction +with other GStreamer modules for a complete multimedia experience. -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: 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 - + - gst-plugins-ugly: a set of well-supported plugins which might pose + problems for distributors -Bugs fixed in this release - - * 728326 : Check for return values of gst_buffer_map and gst_memory_map - * 759539 : Stopping a stream with AAC very soon after starting crashes - * 760979 : tracers: Allow adding tracers programatically without defining environment variables - * 762450 : tags: add GST_TAG_CONDUCTOR - * 762702 : gst_bus_add_watch will SEGV when process reaches fd limit - * 762778 : API: add gst_element_class_add_static_pad_template() - * 762792 : amcvideodec: Can't render to Surface if the color format is not supported - * 762845 : tests: ghostpad: Fix memory leak - * 762849 : bus: GSource can access GPollFD after the bus was destroyed + - 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 ==== @@ -50,7 +57,7 @@ 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://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ ==== Homepage ==== @@ -58,10 +65,16 @@ 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: + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer -Please submit patches via bugzilla as well. +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). @@ -70,24 +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 - - * Adam Miartus - * Edward Hervey - * George Yunaev - * James Stevenson - * Mark Nauwelaerts - * Nirbheek Chauhan - * Sebastian Dröge - * Thiago Santos - * Thibault Saunier - * Tim-Philipp Müller - * Vineeth TM -  \ No newline at end of file +subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel