gstreamer/RELEASE

Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level"
        


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.


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
    
      * GLib requirement is now >= 2.22
      * New core element: valve (moved from -bad)
      * New core element: input-selector (N.B. without "select-all" property, use fsfunnel instead) (moved from -bad)
      * New core element: output-selector (with different negotiation behaviour by default, set pad-negotiation-mode=active for previous behaviour) (moved from -bad)
      * Performance improvements for many heavily-used code paths: GstPad, GstPoll, GstClock, GstTask, basesink, basesrc, queue2, multiqueue
      * gobject-introspection: add annotations for most core API
      * clock: make sync clock wait lockfree
      * fdsrc/fdsink: reenable on MSVC
      * registry: fix GStatBuf definition for win32 when building against older glib (fixes unnecessary rescanning of plugins at start-up)
      * element: add a more flexible way to get request pads from elements
      * multiqueue: return upon input when already eos
      * object: fix creation of default name (when creating more than 100000 elements)
      * pluginloader: fix hangs on OSX
      * poll: fixes for (p)select backend (used e.g. on OSX)
      * poll: refactor and make more lockfree; fixes for win32 and OSX (pselect backend)
      * registry: don't replace valid existing plugins by blacklisted ones
      * tags: don't produce duplicated entries when merging same value twice
      * basesink: preroll fixes for async=false case
      * basesink: rework position reporting code
      * basetransform: handle downstream giving a buffer with new caps but invalid size

Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 635785 : basesrc: fix deadlock
      * 638599 : GST_PTR_FORMAT causes crashes if GLib-internal printf is used but system provides register_printf_specifier
      * 503592 : gstpad.c does many ref/unref of peer pad in dataflow
      * 564056 : Protect against umask(0177)
      * 607513 : input-selector segfaults in g_object_notify()
      * 632168 : [gsttask] MSVC thread names for task debugging
      * 632447 : reduce static memory allocated by the registry
      * 632557 : [macros] Define restrict keyword if not available
      * 632778 : Optimisations to GstBaseSink
      * 632779 : gstdataqueue: Only emit g_cond_signal when needed
      * 632780 : queue: Remove useless checks from e406f7
      * 633918 : [fakesink] [PATCH] print sink-message events like a  message and its structure
      * 634965 : sinks render buffers in state PAUSED when async is FALSE
      * 635001 : basesink: fix position reporting in PAUSED
      * 636268 : configure test fails on FreeBSD
      * 636455 : basesrc: Avoid taking object locks for just checking tag presence
      * 637057 : [plugin-scanner] gstpoll fails with select backend
      * 637300 : [API] request pad based on caps
      * 637549 : build fails: ./.libs/libgstbase-0.10.so: undefined reference to `gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit'
      * 637776 : merging the same tag values again produces lists containing duplicates
      * 638381 : {input,output}-selector: double-check API before release
      * 638399 : a few typos in GStreamer
      * 638900 : [GstPoll] Doesn't compile with MinGW
      * 638941 : registry scan/loading race and inconsistency

API changed in this release
     
- API additions:
    
      * gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit()
      * gst_element_request_pad()
      * GstElementClass::request_new_pad_full()
      * gst_poll_get_read_gpollfd()
      * gst_value_list_merge()
      * GST_CLOCK_DONE

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.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Andoni Morales Alastruey
      * Benjamin Gaignard
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Hoyt
      * David Schleef
      * Edward Hervey
      * Havard Graff
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Kipp Cannon
      * Koop Mast
      * Lasse Laukkanen
      * Mark Nauwelaerts
      * Michael Smith
      * Olivier Crete
      * Olivier Crête
      * Raimo Järvi
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Kost
      * Thiago Santos
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Tommi Myöhänen
      * Wim Taymans
      * Zhang Wanming
      * Christian Schaller
      * Sjoerd Simons