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GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.4 "Light"
        


The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release
in the 0.10.x stable series of the
core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.


The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.
It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.


The 0.10.x series has been reworked for threadsafety.  It also features
various feature additions and enchancements.


This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
For actual media playback, you will need other modules.

gst-plugins-base
contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect



  
Features of this release
    
      * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
      * Threadsafe design and API
      * 33% of library size removed by parse change
      * (Experimental) QoS features (use max-lateness on BaseSink subclasses to enable)

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 323542 : GStreamer 0.10 hangs at EOS for all songs
      * 320340 : triggering a gst_task_join from the streaming task can de...
      * 322628 : document thread-unsafety of gst_value_foo() + gst_value_r...
      * 324186 : Smarter (deterministic!) typefind decisions
      * 324398 : varargs/valist functions aren't bindable
      * 328873 : only one gst_bin_recalc_state allowed at a time
      * 330899 : CVS directory in make dist tarball
      * 330906 : API: add GST_QUERY_TYPE_NAME and GST_MESSAGE_TYPE_NAME
      * 330996 : basesrc emits EOS unconditionally when going to READY
      * 331255 : Shrinking gst_parse_launch bloat
      * 331898 : Basetranform is not reusable
      * 332045 : API: GstPipeline needs API to disable  flushing of its bu...
      * 332277 : [filesrc] seek does not correct read position in non-mmap...
      * 332611 : [basesrc] needs way to prevent expensive start/stop in ch...
      * 332723 : New API: gst_type_find_helper_for_buffer
      * 333042 : New API: gst_type_find_helper_get_range
      * 333266 : Registry file writing rewrite
      * 333272 : tests should set G_SLICE=always-malloc now
      * 333417 : GST_BOILERPLATE_WITH_INTERFACE can't be used in C++ code
      * 333669 : Add pad accessor defines for GstBaseTransform
      * 333779 : New API: add gst_uri_has_protocol
      * 324818 : gst_registry_get_default doesn't sink newly created registry
      * 330125 : _pad_send_event does not check flushing correctly
      * 330684 : Add ability to emit sync-message without messing with the...

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* gst_pipeline_set_auto_flush_bus()
* gst_pipeline_get_auto_flush_bus()
* gst_uri_has_protocol()
* gst_pipeline_set_max_lateness()
* gst_pipeline_get_max_lateness()
* gst_pipeline_get_sync()
* gst_pipeline_do_sync()
* GST_BASE_TRANSFORM_SRC_PAD()
* GST_BASE_TRANSFORM_SINK_PAD()
* GstBaseSrc::check_get_range()
* GstBaseSink::max-lateness
* gst_type_find_helper_get_range()
* gst_type_find_helper_for_buffer()
* GST_MESSAGE_TYPE_NAME()
* GST_QUERY_TYPE_NAME()
* gst_bus_enable_sync_message_emission()
* gst_bus_disable_sync_message_emission()

Download

You can 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 ported to GStreamer 0.10 include: totem, gnome-media, RhythmBox,
Sound-juicer, Jamboree, Flumotion.


  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Andy Wingo
      * Christophe Fergeau
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Julien MOUTTE
      * Loïc Minier
      * Michael Smith
      * Renchi Raju
      * Ross Burton
      * Sebastien Moutte
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Torsten Schoenfeld
      * Vincent Torri
      * Wim Taymans