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:

• cea608overlay: improve handling of non-system memory
• cuda: Fix runtime kernel compile with CUDA 13.0
• d3d12: Fix crop meta support in converter and passthrough handling in deinterlacer
• fallbacksrc: source handling improvements; no-more-pads signal for streams-unaware parents
• inter: add properties to fine tune the inner elements
• qtdemux: surround sound channel layout handling fixes and performance improvements for GoPro videos
• rtp: Add linear audio (L8, L16, L24) RTP payloaders / depayloaders
• rtspsrc: Send RTSP keepalives in TCP/interleaved modes
• rtpamrpay2: frame quality indicator flag related fixes
• rtpbasepay2: reuse last PTS when possible, to work around problems with NVIDIA Jetson AV1 encoder
• mpegtsmux, tsdemux: Opus audio handling fixes
• threadshare: latency related improvements and many other fixes
• matroskamux, tsmux, flvmux, cea608mux: Best pad determination fixes at EOS
• unixfd: support buffers with a big payload
• videorate unknown buffer duration assertion failure with variable framerates
• editing services: Make GESTimeline respect `SELECT_ELEMENT_TRACK` signal discard decision; memory leak fixes
• gobject-introspection annotation fixes
• cerbero: Update meson to 1.9.0 to enable Xcode 26 compatibility
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.26.7 release notes for more details.

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