
Release notes for GStreamer 1.7.1


The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable
1.7 release series. The 1.7 release series is adding new features on top of
the 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x release
series of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.7 release series
will lead to the stable 1.8 release series in the next weeks. Any newly added
API can still change until that point.


Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided separately
during the unstable 1.7 release series.


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 plugins
gst-plugins-good
contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly
contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
    distributors
gst-plugins-bad
contains a set of less supported plugins that haven't passed the
    rigorous quality testing we expect, or are still missing documentation
    and/or unit tests
gst-libav
contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)


Bugs fixed in this release
     
      * 600648 : multiqueue: queues up too much data, excessive memory use with subtitle streams
      * 755822 : test_ABI: failed ABI check
      * 702921 : [pygi] python applications cannot interpret buffer metadata
      * 733187 : integrating the tracer branch
      * 744040 : bin: Deadlock when sending event
      * 753851 : gstreamer: Fix memory leaks when context parse fails.
      * 754112 : pad: don't fallback to caps queries with proxy pads
      * 754166 : debug: Dump pad properties values
      * 754356 : event: Make sure that timestamp + diff in QoS events is never smaller than 0
      * 754418 : segment: Added gst_segment_position_from_stream_time()
      * 754457 : segment: Rewording of struct field descriptions
      * 754464 : Add support for g_autoptr() and friends
      * 754496 : tracer: stats: log message structures
      * 754678 : controller: the cubic interpolation we have implemented can overshoot min/max of the control-point values
      * 755498 : timedvaluecontrolsource: Use g_sequence_lookup where possible
      * 755651 : gst-uninstalled: Added env var for uninstalled PTP helper
      * 755657 : Fix -Werror build for clang
      * 755832 : interpolationcontrolsource: memory corruption due to wrong  assignment
      * 756208 : pad: memory leak when pushing events to an EOS pad
      * 756507 : multiqueue: Use buffer DTS if present, else PTS
      * 756564 : segment: Don't return -1 for out-of-segment values in running/stream-time conversion functions
      * 756760 : Tracer framework reuses existing GST_TRACE environment variable
      * 756864 : stats: memory leak when fgets() fails
      * 756870 : Don't disable assertions for releases and provide a new GST_ENABLE_EXTRA_CHECKS #define
      * 756954 : basesink: rename 'pad' arg in LOCK/COND macros
      * 757045 : tracer: Emit 'element-new' hook when using parse_launch
      * 757193 : multiqueue: Handle negative DTS
      * 757197 : pad: Append hooks instead of prepending to call them in the order they were added
      * 757353 : multiqueue: Fix high_time computation
      * 757596 : filesink: left in half cleaned in case of fclose failure
      * 757821 : New GstPadEventFunction which returns a GstFlowReturn
      * 758012 : systemclock: Use mach_time on Apple platforms
      * 758078 : plugin: Dependency hash does not work with 32 or more files
      * 758080 : plugin: Allow using device nodes as plugin dependency
      * 758083 : plugin: Add prefix support to dependencies
      * 758207 : debugutils: Fix string memory leak
      * 758340 : tests: funnel test is racy
      * 758541 : gstinfo: Fix ISO non-standard predefined identifier warning for __FUNCTION__ when compiled with gcc 5 -Wpedantic
      * 758870 : clock: GST_STIME_ARGS does not handle GST_CLOCK_STIME_NONE
      * 759055 : baseparse: post tag list updates on percentage delta instead of fixed delta
      * 759089 : Add a fallback that copies the commit hook in autogen.sh
      * 759125 : GstBin: async-handling latency handling is decoupled from parent pipeline
      * 759300 : element: unref message in _post_message when there is no implementation
      * 759430 : queue: Illegal memory access of sink event
      * 759503 : Stopping a stream very soon after starting asserts
      * 759713 : -Bsymbolic configure check doesn't work on FreeBSD.
      * 751182 : identity: allow dropping buffers with specified flags

==== Download ====

You can find source releases of gstreamer in the download
directory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/

==== Homepage ====

The project's website is 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

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).

There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

==== Developers ====

GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
from there (see link above).

Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.

        
Contributors to this release
    
      * Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
      * Anton Bondarenko
      * Athanasios Oikonomou
      * Aurélien Zanelli
      * Duncan Palmer
      * Edward Hervey
      * Florin Apostol
      * Guillaume Desmottes
      * Heinrich Fink
      * Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
      * Jan Schmidt
      * Koop Mast
      * Luis de Bethencourt
      * Lukasz Forynski
      * Marcin Kolny
      * Mathieu Duponchelle
      * Matthew Waters
      * Miguel París Díaz
      * Nicolas Dufresne
      * Nirbheek Chauhan
      * Philippe Normand
      * Ravi Kiran K N
      * Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
      * Ross Burton
      * Sebastian Dröge
      * Stefan Sauer
      * Stian Selnes
      * Thiago Santos
      * Thibault Saunier
      * Tim-Philipp Müller
      * Ting-Wei Lan
      * Vincent Penquerc'h
      * Vineeth TM
      * Vivia Nikolaidou
      * Wim Taymans
      * Xavier Claessens