gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer libav Plugins 1.3.1


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable
1.3 release series. The 1.3 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0 and 1.2 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.3 release series
will lead to the stable 1.4 release series in the next weeks, and newly added
API can still change until that point.



Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the unstable 1.3 release series.



The versioning scheme that is used in general is that 1.x.y is API and
ABI backwards compatible with previous 1.x.y releases. If x is an even
number it is a stable release series and all releases in this series
will only contain important bugfixes, e.g. the 1.0 series with 1.0.7. If
x is odd it is a development release series that will lead to the next
stable release series 1.x+1 and contains new features and bigger
changes. During the development release series, new API can still
change.



This module contains plugins based on the libav project, including codecs.



Other modules containing plugins are:


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

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 689936 : avdec: leak when skipping frames while Video Decoding
      * 696770 : avdec_h264: Memory leak when processing h.264 field pictures
      * 719923 : Port to libav 10 API
      * 722290 : avviddec: mark buffers as corrupted if libav tells us so
      * 722453 : avviddec: add output-corrupt property
      * 722598 : gas-preprocessor: libav 10alpha2 fails to build on iOS: libavcodec/arm/vc1dsp_neon.S:2810:14: error: invalid operand
      * 722935 : avdemux: Don't go into pull mode when the sequential scheduling flag is set
      * 724536 : Infinite loop while encoding audio to aac
      * 724823 : hevc: rename plugin to avdec_h265 for consistency
      * 726814 : avvidenc: Fix leak of AVBufferRef
      * 727673 : avdec_aic sink missing caps

==== Download ====

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

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is 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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).

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).

Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
      * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
      * Dmitry Melnichenko
      * Edward Hervey
      * Greg Rutz
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Matthieu Bouron
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Sjoerd Simons
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stian Selnes
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thijs Vermeir
      * Tim 'mithro' Ansell
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Todd Agulnick
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Wim Taymans