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:

• audioconvert: Fix caps negotiation regression when using a mix matrix
• aws: Add support for brevity in awstranslate and add option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2
• speechmatics speech-to-text: Expose mask-profanities property
• cea708mux: Add support for discarding select services on each input
• cea608overlay, cea708overlay: Accept GPU memory buffers if downstream supports the overlay composition meta
• d3d12screencapture source element and device provider fixes
• decodebin3: Don't error on an incoming ONVIF metadata stream
• uridecodebin3: Fix potential crash when adding URIs to messages, e.g. if no decoder is available
• v4l2: Fix memory leak for dynamic resolution change
• VA encoder fixes
• videorate, imagefreeze: Add support for JPEG XS
• Vulkan integration fixes
• wasapi2 audio device monitor improvements
• webrtc: Add WHEP client signaller and add whepclientsrc element on top of webrtcsrc using that
• threadshare: Many improvements and fixes to the generic threadshare and RTP threadshare elements
• rtpbin2 improvements and fixes
• gst-device-monitor-1.0 command line tool improvements
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.26.5 release notes for more details.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly.