<html><head></head><body>The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!The 1.22 release series adds new features on top of the 1.20 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series.As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and many other improvements.Highlights:<ul><li>AV1 video codec support improvements</li><li>New HLS, DASH and Microsoft Smooth Streaming adaptive streaming clients</li><li>Qt6 support for rendering video inside a QML scene</li><li>Minimal builds optimised for binary size</li><li>Playbin3, decodebin3, uridecodebin3, parsebin enhancements and stabilisation</li><li>WebRTC simulcast support and support for Google Congestion Control</li><li>WebRTC-based media server ingestion/egress (WHIP/WHEP) support</li><li>New easy to use batteries-included WebRTC sender plugin</li><li>Easy RTP sender timestamp reconstruction for RTP and RTSP</li><li>ONVIF timed metadata support</li><li>New fragmented MP4 muxer and non-fragmented MP4 muxer</li><li>New plugins for Amazon AWS storage and audio transcription services</li><li>New gtk4paintablesink and gtkwaylandsink renderers</li><li>New videocolorscale element that can convert and scale in one go for better performance</li><li>High bit-depth video improvements</li><li>Touchscreen event support in navigation API</li><li>Rust plugins now shipped in macOS and Windows/MSVC binary packages</li><li>H.264/H.265 timestamp correction elements for PTS/DTS reconstruction before muxers</li><li>Improved design for DMA buffer sharing and modifier handling for hardware-accelerated video decoders/encoders/filters and capturing/rendering on Linux</li><li>Video4Linux2 hardware accelerated decoder improvements</li><li>CUDA integration and Direct3D11 integration and plugin improvements</li><li>New H.264 / AVC, H.265 / HEVC and AV1 hardware-accelerated video encoders for AMD GPUs using the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK</li><li>applemedia: H.265 / HEVC video encoding + decoding support</li><li>androidmedia: H.265 / HEVC video encoding support</li><li>New "force-live" property for audiomixer, compositor, glvideomixer, d3d11compositor etc.</li><li>Lots of new plugins, features, performance improvements and bug fixes</li></ul>Full release notes can be found at:<a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/">https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/</a>Binaries for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows will be provided shortly.Release tarballs can be downloaded directly from the links in the attachment.Enjoy!</body></html>