2 GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.9.7 "My Dog Has No Nose"
5 The GStreamer team is petrified to announce a new release
6 in the 0.9.x development series of the
7 core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.
10 The 0.9.x series is a development series and not recommended for end users.
11 It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.8.x series.
12 It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.8.x series.
16 This release is a pre-release for the new 0.10 stable series.
18 The major/minor has been bumped to 0.10 - update your pkg-config magic if
19 you're developing applications..
22 The main focus of the 0.9 series is to make GStreamer threadsafe.
25 This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality.
26 For actual media playback, you will need other modules.
28 gst-plugins-base
29 contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
30 gst-plugins-good
31 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
32 gst-plugins-ugly
33 contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for
34 distributors
35 gst-plugins-bad
36 contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the
37 rigorous quality testing we expect
42 Features of this release
44 * Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
45 * Threadsafe design and API
46 * bumped major/minor to 0.10
47 * API cleanup
48 * PluginFeature and TypeFind leak fixes
49 * cleaned up source tree
50 * added plugin documentation for core elements
51 * fixes for stripped core
53 Bugs fixed in this release
55 * 320529 : [API] gst_event_new_segment mentions " stream_time " as an ...
56 * 321917 : quicktime with two video tracks and extra foo, makes tote...
57 * 322257 : Fix gstnet library name
58 * 322427 : gst-compprep aborts with 'double free or corruption'
59 * 322429 : Filesink seeking problem
60 * 322626 : Strings in gst-launch.c adn gstdebug.c are horrid
61 * 322708 : gst_plugin_load_file leaks a reference to a GstPlugin
62 * 322751 : gst_ghost_pad_get_target borks on pads without target
63 * 322842 : GStreamer-CRITICAL in GstBaseSink and GstBaseTransform
65 Download
67 You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download directory:
68 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/
70 GStreamer Homepage
72 More details can be found on the project's website:
73 http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
75 Support and Bugs
77 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
78 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
80 Developers
82 CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
83 All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there.
84 Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should
85 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we
86 will create more lists as necessary.
89 Applications
91 At this point, ports of existing applications to 0.9 are still experimental.
92 A patch for Totem is maintained at
94 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313086.
95 A patch for Rhythmbox is maintained at
97 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309609.
98 Jamboree has a branch with the tag "jamboree-gst-0.9" that works against
99 GStreamer 0.9.
100 Flumotion has been mostly ported to 0.9 as well.
103 Contributors to this release
105 *
106 * Andy Wingo
107 * Edward Hervey
108 * Jan Schmidt
109 * Michael Smith
110 * Stefan Kost
111 * Thomas Vander Stichele
112 * Tim-Philipp Müller
113 * Wim Taymans