gstreamer/RELEASE

GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.1 "Snow Brigade"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new 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
      * New translations in this release: Swedish, Afrikaans, Azerbeaijani
      * Translations: af, az, fr, nl, sr, sv
      * New scheduler: entry
      * 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
    
      * 136841 : Some code will need to be rewritten to compile against gc...
      * 136904 : [opt] support loop in multi-loop based group
      * 137279 : [patch] dispose/finalize functions for gst core elements
      * 137625 : HAVE_ATOMIC_H is not used
      * 138705 : Problem testing gstreamer 0.8.0
      * 139002 : Compilation error
      * 139109 : Compilation of gst-plugins fails because of errors in header
      * 139617 : v4l2src ! spider ! ximagesink : crashes

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
      * Christian Rose
      * Colin Walters
      * David Schleef
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Johan Dahlin
      * Martin Soto
      * Mətin Əmirov
      * Petri Jooste
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Thomas Vander Stichele