GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.9 "Like Eating Glass"
        

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
      * Probe fixes
      * Thread and queue fixes fixes
      * Documentation updates
      * New translation added: Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
      * Important GstBin state change fix - see #166371 if you subclass

Bugs fixed in this release
    
      * 94464 : [threads] gst_scheduler_add_scheduler() doesn't ref passe...
      * 123775 : [PATCH] [api] setting state on element should force highe...
      * 142588 : [threads] if all elements have been removed from a bin, s...
      * 150546 : [api] Error for calling gst_pad_push in a get function is...
      * 162276 : [build] gstregistry.h and gstxmlregistry.c don't build wi...
      * 163234 : [PATCH] plugin loading isn't thread-safe
      * 163383 : [PATCH] ogm plugins won't register
      * 163801 : [PATCH] mem leak in xml registry loading
      * 164062 : [PATCH] tee capsnego is broken
      * 164261 : [PATCH] GST parsing doesn't recognise urls without a file...
      * 165272 : [PATCH] Problem compiling gstreamer 0.8.8
      * 165365 : [PATCH] gst_string_wrap() segfaults on NULL strings
      * 165922 : add locking in opt
      * 166269 : Typo in current .po file msgid string
      * 166362 : data discarded by probes is leaked
      * 166371 : GstBin derived classes not notified of state change

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
    
      * Andy Wingo
      * Benjamin Otte
      * Clytie Siddall
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Luca Ognibene
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Sebastien Cote
      * Stefan Kost
      * Stephane Loeuillet
      * Stephane Wirtel
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vincent Torri
      * Wim Taymans