The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.26 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

This release only contains bugfixes, and it should be safe to update from 1.26.x.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• playback: playbin3 and decodebin3 stability fixes
• Ancillary metadata handling fixes for AJA playout and Blackmagic Decklink capture cards
• HLS and DASH adaptive streaming clients stability improvements
• gst-play-1.0 will now print details of any missing plugins again
• gtk4paintablesink: Add property to fine-tune reconfiguration behaviour on window-resize
• macOS device monitoring: fix potential crash when probing for audio devices
• macOS video decoder stability improvements
• NDI source: fix audio corruption for non-interleaved audio with stride padding
• Add SMPTE ST291-1 ancillary metadata RTP payloader and depayloader
• Add ST-2038 metadata combiner and extractor
• webrtcsink: support hardware-accelerated encoders from the `va` VA-API plugin
• spotifysrc: fix the Spotify integration by using Spotify's extended metadata endpoint
• Python bindings cross compilation fixes
• cerbero: add Visual Studio 2026 support, fix building on drives other than C:\, and ship svtjpegxs plugin on Windows
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.26.9 release notes for more details.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly and will be published on the Downloads page.