[gst-devel] GStreamer 0.8.6 "Narc" released

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Release notes for GStreamer 0.8.6 "Narc"

The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x
stable series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.

The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users. It is not API or
ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. It is, however, parallel
installable with the 0.6.x series.

This module only contains core functionality. For actual media playback,
you will need other modules. GStreamer Plugins contains a huge set of
additional plugins. GStreamer FFmpeg contains a plugin based on the
popular FFmpeg decoding library. These modules need not have the same
source version as the core, as long as they are in the 0.8.x series.

Features of this release
      * Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
      * Internationalization
      * spider, queue fixes
      * fakesrc and identity now have a datarate property
      * dataprotocol threadsafety fix

Bugs fixed in this release
      * 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
      * API additions 
              * The "fakesrc" element now has a datarate property.
              * The "identity" element now has a datarate property.

Download
You can find source releases of gstreamer in the gstreamer 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. 
Developers

CVS is hosted on cvs.freedesktop.org. You can browse the gstreamer
repository here:
http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gstreamer//gstreamer/

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
Applications already ported to use GStreamer 0.8.x include the GNOME
desktop components like gnome-media and nautilus-media, as well as other
GNOME applications including sound-juicer, totem and RhythmBox.

Contributors to this release
      * Benjamin Otte
      * David Schleef
      * Luca Ognibene
      * Ronald Bultje
      * Steve Lhomme
      * Thomas Vander Stichele
      * Wim Taymans