gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.24 "It matters"
        


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 enhancements.


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
    
      * Fully support nested structures in caps
      * Support frame-by-frame stepping in sinks
      * Add buffer-lists to pass around groups of buffers
      * Use TaskPools for managing worker threads
      * New stream-status API for finer thread control
      * Code optimisations
      * Many other bug-fixes and enhancements

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 580579 : crash in Volume Control: aucunes idées désolé.
      * 527488 : [GstXML] can't load elements with request pads from XML
      * 570233 : allow plugins caching data in the registry
      * 584389 : don't recreate plugin feature and element factories on fi...
      * 534208 : [API] add gst_structure_get()
      * 545787 : [API] add gst_plugin_register_static_full() for bindings
      * 554460 : thumbnailer crash in gst_fake_sink_event() on FLUSH_START...
      * 559643 : Don't allow empty or NULL strings in taglists
      * 560345 : gst_tag_list_get_string() may return NULL or empty string
      * 560442 : GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated GLib symbols
      * 572285 : Buffer Lists
      * 577926 : Remove old xml registry
      * 578908 : [fdsink] implement seeking on seekable fds
      * 580177 : glibc 2.10 deprecates register_printf_function
      * 580716 : race condition in gst_element_lost_state
      * 581198 : [tags] Add gst_tag_setter_add_tag_value() and gst_tag_lis...
      * 581281 : [GstURIHandler] Doesn't use get_type_full() at all
      * 582010 : audiotestsrc is-live=1 ! pulsesink unreliable
      * 582564 : [controller] Use ordered GSequence instead of GList in th...
      * 582588 : [API] Add a way to get the pad corresponding to a taglist
      * 582878 : [GstClock] ABI breakage in GIT on x86
      * 583187 : [API] add gst_adapter_masked_scan_uint32() and gst_adapte...
      * 583419 : Bad translatable string in gst-launch.c
      * 583456 : framestep functionality
      * 583554 : Slow down or lock if date time is changed to the past
      * 584835 : MSVC compiler fails with 'static inline' function
      * 584838 : basesrc: confusing QUERY_SEEKING handling
      * 585039 : rtpool-test can't find pthreads
      * 585075 : Compilation with MSVC fails for files including config.h ...
      * 585137 : gst_xml_write_file() fails serialising GstStructure property
      * 585592 : [API] add gst_byte_reader_masked_scan_uint32()
      * 585733 : Wrong #include order in gstsegment.c
      * 585748 : [API] add gst_tag_list_new_full() to create taglist with ...
      * 586566 : Add GAP Flag support to gstcapsfilter
      * 586568 : [bytereader] add misc. string functions and gst_byte_read...
      * 587973 : use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S instead of " /' " 
      * 587976 : Fix for gst-inspect and gst-launch when option parsing is...
      * 588744 : [check] Stream consistency checker utility
      * 588745 : [basesrc] Serialize tags in the dataflow
      * 589127 : gsttask leaks the pool
      * 590056 : [collectpads] race resulting in double flush-stop being o...
      * 590622 : [bytereader] buffer size checks subject to wrap-around ov...
      * 579177 : GstInfo: maintain ABI compatibility
      * 581321 : typefind element leaks force-caps property
      * 584118 : [gstadapter][doc] Improve documentation of gst_adapter_ma...
      * 585433 : [queue] Can lock down if min-threshold conflicts with max...
      * 585569 : rtsp/rtp streaming fails when skipping explicit PAUSED st...
      * 585834 : Support for GstBufferList in ghostpads
      * 585960 : Support for GstBufferList in gstbasesink
      * 587052 : [filesink.c] Support for files > 4GB on windows makes file...

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
* GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_GET() macro
* gst_byte_reader_dup_data
* gst_byte_reader_dup_string
* gst_byte_reader_dup_string_utf8
* gst_byte_reader_dup_string_utf16
* gst_byte_reader_dup_string_utf32
* gst_byte_reader_skip_string
* gst_byte_reader_skip_string_utf8
* gst_byte_reader_skip_string_utf16
* gst_byte_reader_skip_string_utf32
* gst_byte_reader_peek_string
* gst_byte_reader_peek_string_utf8
* gst_byte_reader_get_string
* gst_byte_reader_get_string_utf8
* add gst_tag_list_new_full()
* add gst_tag_list_new_full_valist()
* add gst_byte_reader_masked_scan_uint32()
* add gst_plugin_get_cache_data, gst_plugin_set_cache_data
* gst_structure_get()
* gst_structure_id_get()
* gst_structure_get_valist()
* gst_structure_id_get_valist()
* GstSegment::gst_segment_set_running_time()
* Add GST_MESSAGE_SRC_NAME() macro
* GstSegment::gst_segment_to_position()
* GstEvent::gst_event_new_step()
* GstEvent::gst_event_parse_step()
* GstMessage::gst_message_new_step_done()
* GstMessage::gst_message_parse_step_done()
* gst_structure_id_new()
* Add gst_message_{new,parse}_tag_full() to get/set the source pad
* GstAdapter::gst_adapter_masked_scan_uint32()
* GstElement::gst_element_lost_state_full()
* GstAdapter::gst_adapter_prev_timestamp()
* gst_plugin_register_static_full()
* gst_tag_list_add_value()
* gst_tag_setter_add_tag_value()
* add GST_TAG_CONTAINER_FORMAT tag
* GstTask::gst_task_set_state()
* GstObject::gst_object_ref_sink()

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

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned 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, RhythmBox, Sound-Juicer,
Gnome Media, Flumotion, Amarok, Jamboree, Pitivi, Istanbul, AnnoAmp, Elisa, and others.
Let us know if you want to be added to this list.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Andoni Morales
      * Arnout Vandecappelle
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Branko Subasic
      * Chad Hanna
      * Christopher Halse Rogers
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Hannes Bistry
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Jonas Holmberg
      * Josep Torra
      * José Alburquerque
      * Marc-Andre Lureau
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Ognyan Tonchev
      * Olivier Crête
      * Philip Jägenstedt
      * René Stadler
      * Robin Stocker
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Wim Taymans
      * Руслан Ижбулатов