<html><head><style>pre,code,address { margin: 0px; } h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; } ol,ul { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; } blockquote { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; } </style><style>pre,code,address { margin: 0px; } h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; } ol,ul { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; } blockquote { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; } </style></head><body><p></p><div>The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!</div><div><br></div><div>The 1.26 release series adds new features on top of the 1.24 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release series.</div><div><br></div><div>As always, this release is again packed with new features, bug fixes and many other improvements.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Highlights:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><ul><li>H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec support</li><li>Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support</li><li>Closed captions: H.264/H.265 extractor/inserter, cea708overlay, cea708mux, tttocea708 and more</li><li>New hlscmafsink, hlssink3, and hlsmultivariantsink; HLS/DASH client and dashsink improvements </li><li>New AWS and Speechmatics transcription, translation and TTS services elements, plus translationbin</li><li>Splitmux lazy loading and dynamic fragment addition support</li><li>Matroska: H.266 video and rotation tag support, defined latency muxing </li><li>MPEG-TS: support for H.266, JPEG XS, AV1, VP9 codecs and SMPTE ST-2038 and ID3 meta; mpegtslivesrc </li><li>ISO MP4: support for H.266, Hap, Lagarith lossless codecs; raw video support; rotation tags</li><li>SMPTE 2038 ancillary data streams support</li><li>JPEG XS image codec support</li><li>Analytics: New TensorMeta; N-to-N relationships; Mtd to carry segmentation masks </li><li>ONVIF metadata extractor and conversion to/from relation metas</li><li>New originalbuffer element that can restore buffers again after transformation steps for analytics</li><li>Improved Python bindings for analytics API</li><li>Lots of Vulkan integration and Vulkan Video decoder/encoder improvements</li><li>OpenGL integration improvements, esp. in glcolorconvert, gldownload, glupload</li><li>Qt5/Qt6 QML GL sinks now support direct DMABuf import from hardware decoders</li><li>CUDA: New compositor, Jetson NVMM memory support, stream-ordered allocator</li><li>NVCODEC AV1 video encoder element, and nvdsdewarp</li><li>New Direct3D12 integration support library</li><li>New d3d12swapchainsink and d3d12deinterlace elements and D3D12 sink/source for zero-copy IPC</li><li>Decklink HDR support (PQ + HLG) and frame scheduling enhancements</li><li>AJA capture source clock handling and signal loss recovery improvements</li><li>RTP and RTSP: New rtpbin sync modes, client-side MIKEY support in rtspsrc</li><li>New Rust rtpbin2, rtprecv, rtpsend, and many new Rust RTP payloaders and depayloaders</li><li>webrtcbin support for basic rollbacks and other improvements</li><li>webrtcsink: support for more encoders, SDP munging, and a built-in web/signalling server</li><li>webrtcsrc/sink: support for uncompressed audio/video and NTP & PTP clock signalling and synchronization </li><li>rtmp2: server authentication improvements incl. Limelight CDN (llnw) authentication</li><li>New Microsoft WebView2 based web browser source element</li><li>The GTK3 plugin has gained support for OpenGL/WGL on Windows</li><li>Many GTK4 paintable sink improvements</li><li>GstPlay: id-based stream selection and message API improvements</li><li>Real-time pipeline visualization in a browser using a new dots tracer and viewer </li><li>New tracers for tracking memory usage, pad push timings, and buffer flow as pcap files</li><li>VA hardware-acclerated H.266/VVC decoder, VP8 and JPEG encoders, VP9/VP8 alpha decodebins</li><li>Video4Linux2 elements support DMA_DRM caps negotiation now</li><li>V4L2 stateless decoders implement inter-frame resolution changes for AV1 and VP9</li><li>Editing services: support for reverse playback and audio channel reordering</li><li>New QUIC-based elements for working with raw QUIC streams, RTP-over-QUIC (RoQ) and WebTransport</li><li>Apple AAC audio encoder and multi-channel support for the Apple audio decoders</li><li>cerbero: Python bindings and introspection support; improved Windows installer based on WiX5</li><li>Lots of new plugins, features, performance improvements and bug fixes</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Full release notes</b> can be found at:</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-left: 3ch;"> <a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/">https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Binaries for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows will be provided shortly.</div><div><br></div><div>Release tarballs can be downloaded directly from the links in the attachment.</div><div><br></div><div>As always, please let us know of any issues you run into by filing an issue or merge request in <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/">GitLab</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>