[gst-devel] RELEASE: GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level"

[Tim-Philipp Müller <t i m zen co uk>]

This mail announces the release of GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level".

GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of
graphs of elements which operate on media data.

Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound
processing over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other
types of media data. Its architecture allows for adding new data types
or processing capabilities simply by installing new plug-ins.

GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic
object hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.

Highlights of this release:

 * New core elements: valve, input-selector, output-selector (moved from -bad)
 * Performance improvements for many heavily-used code paths (making more things lock-free etc.)
 * gobject-introspection annotations for most core API

For more information, see
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gstreamer.html

To report bugs, request features or submit patches, please go to
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer&component=gstreamer+%28core%29

Direct links:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-0.10.32.tar.bz2
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-0.10.32.tar.gz

MD5 sums (for tarballs downloaded from gstreamer.freedesktop.org):
bcc72c77bf00e183102f6302e627aa20  gstreamer-0.10.32.tar.gz
442bc3d37b8511a73379143e7531d726  gstreamer-0.10.32.tar.bz2

Enjoy!


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