GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.6 "Narc"
        

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
      * spider, queue fixes
      * fakesrc and identity now have a datarate property
      * dataprotocol threadsafety fix

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 136962 : crc error when decoding flac with typefind and threads
      * 150001 : [PATCH] Mem leaks in gstpad.c, gstxml.c and gstelement.c
      * 150262 : gstreamer.spec file needs correction to work with rpmbuil...
      * 150626 : bug trying to play a theora web stream
      * 153657 : make typefind prevent unneeded discont element
      * 153881 : [PATCH] in-code C declarations

API changed in this release
     

- API additions:
    
* The "fakesrc" element now has a datarate property.
* The "identity" element now has a datarate property.

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 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
    
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Schleef
      * Luca Ognibene
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Steve Lhomme
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Wim Taymans