The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.28 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

This release only contains bug fixes as well as a number of security fixes. It should be safe to update from 1.28.x, and we recommend you do so at your earliest convenience.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• Various security fixes and playback fixes
• playbin3, playbin: fix stalls after re-enabling previously disabled subtitles
• Fix regression in core if a pad is re-linked while changed sticky events are being pushed
• dtls/webrtc: fix some issues with OpenSSL 4.0.0
• RTP retransmission bitrate estimation fixes
• Fix RTP depayloading of SMPTE ST291 frames with multiple ANC packets
• Add H.266 muxing support to the Rust (f)mp4 muxers
• Better handling of input buffers without timestamps in Rust (f)mp4 muxers
• webrtcsink H.264 level/profile negotiation fixes and support for nvv4l2h265enc encoder
• SMPTE ST2038 ancillary metadata and closed caption combiner improvements
• Fix SEI insertion into H.265/HEVC streams with alpha
• Windows D3D11 WinRT screen capture element fixes
• Improved coded buffer size handling for VA encoders
• Textaccumulate: various tweaks how the element outputs text, plus better handling of French punctuation
• hlssink3: improved handling of input buffers without timestamps
• Fix build against FFmpeg 9.0
• cerbero: fix Windows packages binary size increase regression; upgrade libsrt recipe to 1.5.6
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.28.6 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.