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Thomas Vander Stichele 46774ce005 releasing 0.8.10
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releasing 0.8.10
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This is GStreamer 0.8.10, "No Fun".
Changes since 0.8.9:
* Fixes for 64-bit platforms
* Fixes for gcc 4
* New translation added: Russian (Peter Astakhov)
* Registry now uses libxml for faster startup
API changes since 0.8.9:
* GST_EVENT_COMMON_FLAGS_NEED_RESPONSE has been added, to indicate whether a
reply is expected to an upstream event
* GST_TAG_LANGUAGE_CODE has been added
* GstChildProxy, a new interface to uniformly access elements' children
and their properties, has been added
- API depreciations:
* gst_buffer_set_data was deprecated
Bugs fixed since 0.8.9:
* 137485 : [strings] Please don't unnecessarily abbreviate in Gstrea...
* 147782 : [build] When compiling, CPPFLAGS don't propagate to GTKDO...
* 149791 : fdsrc w/o timeout can hang exiting threads
* 159676 : [playbin] audible click after 3s of playback using playbin
* 161991 : gst_init is slow
* 164479 : [cli-tools] gst_parse_launch can't handle spaces
* 164821 : [docs] GstLibraryError misses (proper) descriptions
* 165354 : Tests failure report for gstreamer 0.8.8
* 166073 : [threads] wrong error handling
* 166250 : [PATCH] [queue] When two threads are connected with queue...
* 166699 : Typo in gstreamer-0.8.9/tools/gst-launch.1.in
* 167701 : [PATCH, strings] Please do not split translatable strings...
* 168493 : [API] gst_index_factory_new() doesn't increase refcount o...
* 168659 : [build] Need to patch gst-element-check-0.8.m4 to check f...
* 168703 : [API] Add gst_index_add_associationv() to gstindex.h
* 169111 : [API] GstEvent NEED_RESPONSE flag
* 169123 : [build] false dependence on libxml2 if registry is enabled
* 169405 : [API] GST_TYPE_EVENT and gst_event_get_type unusable befo...
* 169732 : gstreamer (element) does not build on cygwin
* 170067 : Typefind leaks
* 170464 : Bad variable's name mp3player in sample source code
* 170499 : spider no decode some .mp3
* 171400 : mmapsize property on gstfilesrc borked.
* 172526 : gst-register fails on a lot of plugins on MacOSX
* 300339 : assertion with gst_pad_relink_filtered
* 300736 : Plug a bunch of leaks in the registry code
* 300932 : [PATCH] add a GST_ELEMENT_WORK_IN_PLACE flag to gstelement
* 301128 : cvs login command line is incorrect in PWG
* 301313 : [decodebin] seek while reading (non-existant) ID3v2 tag d...
* 301331 : gst_element_unlink only unlinks real pads
Changes since 0.8.8:
* Probe fixes
* Thread and queue fixes fixes
* Documentation updates
* Important GstBin state change fix - see #166371 if you subclass
Bugs fixed since 0.8.8:
* 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
Changes since 0.8.7:
* Threading fixes
* Opt scheduler fixes
* Documentation updates
* New translation: Norwegian Bokmaal (Kjartan Maraas)
* New translation: Italian (Luca Ferretti)
* New scheduler: fair
Bugs fixed since 0.8.7:
* 144804 : opt scheduler breaks on playing a pipeline
* 148787 : clocks are not distributed correctly
* 149936 : [PATCH] [build] GStreamer without registry support do not...
* 150051 : fakesrc needs a data rate parameter that timestamps the d...
* 151605 : impossible to play .mpg or avi files with gst-launch-ext
* 153882 : [PATCH] The win32 version of gstenumtypes is not up to date
* 154061 : optimal scheduler doesn't get freed
* 156063 : infinite loop and 100% CPU with some MP3
* 156179 : gstreamer typefind plugin information from gst-inspect is...
* 157127 : Cleanup of issues reported by sparse
* 157263 : use G_SIGNAL_TYPE_STATIC_SCOPE for GstBuffers in handoff ...
* 158018 : gstreamer typefind stalls on these JPEG files
* 158162 : opt deadlock
* 158163 : [api] Problem querying on ghostpads
* 159852 : [PATCH] [api] g_signal_emit thread safety issues
* 160019 : segfault when error occurs playback of uri containing per...
* 160220 : gst_pad_set_explicit_caps of a NULL caps doesn't work
API changes since 0.8.7:
- API additions:
* A new function, gst_plugin_get_version, has been added.
Changes since 0.8.6:
* important playback thread fix
* typefind fix for non-seekable streams
Changes since 0.8.5:
* spider, queue fixes
* fakesrc and identity now have a datarate property
* dataprotocol threadsafety fix
Bugs fixed since 0.8.5:
* 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 changes since 0.8.5:
- API additions:
* The "fakesrc" element now has a datarate property.
* The "identity" element now has a datarate property.
Changes since 0.8.4:
* New Translation: Albanian (sq), Laurent Dhima
* first release that works on Windows with MSVC7
* fixed lists can now be intersected
* transform functions from fraction to double added
* optimal scheduler fixes
* fixation fixes
* filesrc fixes
* typefind fixes
Bugs fixed since 0.8.4:
* 145100 : segfault in gst_pad_call_get_function
* 147889 : gst_element_link_pads_filtered may ignore named dest pad ...
* 148692 : GstQueue binary compatibility breakage
* 149981 : Win32 not included in the source distribution
* 150242 : GStreamer doesn't copy some buffer flags correctly
API changes since 0.8.4:
- API additions:
* A new function, gst_scheduler_register, has been added.
* A new enum member of GstBufferFlag, GST_BUFFER_DELTA_UNIT has been added.
- API depreciations:
* GstBufferFlag has a deprecated enum member, GST_BUFFER_KEY_UNIT.
Buffers should be marked with GST_BUFFER_DELTA_UNIT when they're not
key units instead, since key units are the more common case.
Changes since 0.8.3:
* New Translation: Czech (cs), Miloslav Trmac
* New Translation: Catalan (ca), Jordi Mallach
* gst_init () now behaves like gtk_init ()
* queue fixes
* ongoing win32 build integration
* bytestream now has GstFilePad
* gst-register is now i18n-ized
* GstCaps XML-ization works again
* Fixed enum GValue
* Added GstFraction GValue
Bugs fixed since 0.8.3:
* 109831 : clocks aren't refcounted properly
* 123774 : state change on bin should set same state change on all c...
* 134663 : failed assertion at end of movie in totem
* 137863 : CPU/Memory leak when using spider decoder
* 140219 : no man page for gst-xmlinspect
* 141378 : gstreamer crashes during initialization due to a recent c...
* 141692 : gst_init() type function that ignores arguments it doesn'...
* 142418 : Win32 Debug build should not be the same as the Release one
* 142422 : Win32 Build documentation missing
* 142795 : [PATCH] Memory leak in queue element
* 142813 : [PATCH] Deadlock in optimal scheduler
* 142850 : GST-Register didn't find any plugins
* 142903 : [PATCH] fdsrc element never resets buffer offset to zero
* 143741 : cross compiling issue
* 143777 : [opt] problem after removing some elemnts and putting the...
* 143953 : Crash cause by gst_data_is_writable + audioconvert
* 144185 : Double-free memory
* 145137 : patch to make GstCaps XML functions actually do something
* 145338 : [PATCH] Fix a bus error in the optimal scheduler
* 145391 : gstvalue.c: ref klasses instead of peek
* 145520 : registry rebuilds too easily
* 147707 : FreeBSD dosn't have strndup
* 147713 : opt scheduler resorts the chain incorrectly
* 147819 : [PATCH] Add some checks in the opt scheduler
* 147894 : opt scheduler decoupled elements mismanagement
* 147929 : [PATCH] running gst-register in non-utf8 locale can cause...
Changes since 0.8.2:
* Hotfix for unregisterable switch element
Changes since 0.8.1:
* new translations: Turkish, Ukrainian, GB English
* Fixes for setting elements to NULL to release devices
* Windows port
* New GStreamer Data Protocol helper library
* New GstAdapter, similar to bytestream
* Fixes for registry loading plugins with same name
* Added no-more-pads signal
* Added Fixed List GValue type
* Fixes to schedulers
Bugs fixed since 0.8.1:
* 133897 : Internal GStreamer error: seek problem
* 134839 : buffers leaked by filesrc, typefind, spider or fakesink
* 137710 : When seeking, the sink's time is reset
* 138012 : [opt] simple pipeline crashe
* 138836 : docs build but won't install
* 140015 : GstValue GTypes should not derive from G_TYPE_BOXED
* 140156 : ARM port / type reading patches
* 140477 : [debug] crash with *:2 while playing alien.mpg
* 140594 : Small memory leak int gst_parse_launch()
* 140734 : filesrc should handle named pipes/devices
* 140743 : Leak in _gst_parse_escape()
* 141083 : gstreamer-0.8.1 compile failure with gcc-3.4: error: PIC ...
* 141304 : GST_CAPS and GST_IS_CAPS broken
* 141317 : Win32 build with newest Microsoft compilers
* 141414 : filesink leaks events
* 141416 : leak in entrygthread scheduler
* 141417 : Memory leak in gthread-cothreads.h
* 142304 : The Win32 makefiles clean too much
* 142804 : needed change to allow x86 Solaris compile with Forte
* 142957 : xmlregistry failes to compile on osx
Changes since 0.8.0:
* new translations: Azarbaijani, Afrikaans, Swedish
* MinGW compilation fixes
* buffer internal fixes
* new entry scheduler
* move from memchunks to malloc
* lots of memleak fixes
* better valgrind support
* registry fixes
Changes since 0.7.6:
* coding style consistency for .c files
* ABI padding for GstCaps and GstStructure
Changes since 0.7.5:
* uses 0.8 as the major/minor number
* opt scheduler fixes
* don't link non-versioned tools to gstreamer
* bindings-related fixes and additions
Changes since 0.7.4:
* API additions for bindings
* Queue memleak fix
* optimal scheduler fixes
* Ghost pad fixes
* Signal marshalling fixes
* documentation fixes
* underquotedness fixes for automake 1.8
* fixed atomic implementation on sparc and S390
* gstreamer-scan fixes
* multidisksrc renamed to multifilesrc
* fixed GstCaps docs
* fixed libxml checking when not needed
* added timeout to filesrc
* added support for double dparams
* make spider report an error when it can't handle a mime type
* fixed navigation event handling
* added codec and volume tags
Bugs fixed since 0.7.4:
* 105844 : --disable-loadsave --disable-registry still check for libxml
* 118310 : Timeout support added for fdsrc
* 127133 : [API] Need non-vararg version of gst_index_add_association
* 127815 : gst-register sigsegs 100% of the time.
* 129600 : patch to compile on OSX
* 131362 : use serialize/deserialize in the core
* 132045 : incorrect dependency causes rebuilding of libgstreamer on "m
* 132935 : setting pipeline -> NULL -> PLAYING doesn't restart stream
* 132996 : configure fails: aclocal: macro `jm_AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LO
* 133391 : the asm mutex implementation is broken on SPARC
* 133631 : gst-launch seg faults in gst_caps_free with no sink
* 133800 : fixes for underquoted macros and automake 1.8.x
* 133817 : add support for disc number tag
* 134128 : typo in ./gstreamer/gst/gstclock.c
* 134145 : pot-update not updated after file removal
* 134583 : Race on gst_pad_link_free
* 134816 : test -e in autogen.sh does not work on Solaris
* 134841 : gst-inspect.c is defining GList *pads twice