GStreamer: Release notes for GStreamer 0.7.5 "In A Bar"
        

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the
0.7.x development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
The goal of this release series is to stabilize towards a 0.8
release series which will be part of the GNOME 2.6 releases
and hopefully eventually KDE 4.x. 


The 0.7 series is a development series and is aimed at developers.
It is NOT API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series or
with other releases in the series.  This means you can not use this
release to upgrade your current GStreamer installation and expect your
GStreamer applications to keep working without a recompile.
It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.

  
Features of this release
    
      * 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 in this release
    
      * 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

Download

You 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

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org.
All code is in CVS and can be checked out 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

As mentioned there are some changes in API/ABI between the 0.6.x and 0.7.x
releases.
Many applications will probably be source compatible between 0.6.x. and 0.7.x
however. Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer
for instance work very well when compiled on 0.7.x.
GStreamer Player does not work across releases however,
so we will make a separate release of gst-player with the needed
fixes for it to work with 0.7.x. This release contains the core fixes we
were waiting for to port the player over so expect a gst-player release in
the near future.

  
Contributors to this release
    
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Andy Wingo
      * Julien Moutte
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Schleef
      * Stefan Kost
      * Mattias Wadman