gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.0 "Executive Slacks"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce the first release
in the 0.8.x stable series
of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.


The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.


This module only contains core functionality.  For actual media playback,
you will need other modules.  GStreamer Plugins contains a huge set of
additional plugins.  GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the popular
FFmpeg decoding library.  These modules need not have the same source version
as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.

  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * Dutch, French and Serbian translations
      * Reworked capabilities and negotiation subsystem
      * Reworked tagging subsystem
      * Reworked interactivity subsystem (for DVD playback)
      * Consistent error and debug signaling
      * Dynamic debug logging
      * Portability fixes
      * Binding support fixes
      * ChangeLog use
      * Coding style consistency

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 133653 : need to settle on coding style using indent and use it befor
      * 136683 : Add padding to GstCaps [ABI change]

Download

You find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/

GStreamer Homepage

More details can be found on the project's website:
http://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

Developers

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
will create more lists as necessary.

        
Applications

Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Andy Wingo
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Brian Cameron
      * Christian Schaller
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Colin Walters
      * Danilo Segan
      * David I. Lehn
      * David Schleef
      * Iain Holmes
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jérémy Simon
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Jon Trowbridge
      * Julien Moutte
      * Laurent Vivier
      * Leif Morgan Johnson
      * Mattias Wadman
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thomas Vander Stichele