Release notes for GStreamer 1.7.90

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the stable
1.8 release series. The 1.8 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the stable 1.8 release series.


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 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
gst-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)



  

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 728326 : Check for return values of gst_buffer_map and gst_memory_map
      * 759539 : Stopping a stream with AAC very soon after starting crashes
      * 760979 : tracers: Allow adding tracers programatically without defining environment variables
      * 762450 : tags: add GST_TAG_CONDUCTOR
      * 762702 : gst_bus_add_watch will SEGV when process reaches fd limit
      * 762778 : API: add gst_element_class_add_static_pad_template()
      * 762792 : amcvideodec: Can't render to Surface if the color format is not supported
      * 762845 : tests: ghostpad: Fix memory leak
      * 762849 : bus: GSource can access GPollFD after the bus was destroyed

==== Download ====

You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/

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

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is https://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
    
      * Adam Miartus
      * Edward Hervey
      * George Yunaev
      * James Stevenson
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Vineeth TM