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:

• Fix showtime video player showing washed-out colours for HDR videos when subtitles are active
• core: performance improvements for elements with many source pads
• aacparse: support streams which do not have frequent LOAS config
• av1parse: Fix duplicated frames issue in frame splitting
• fmp4mux: Fix EAC3 datarate calculation and substream writing
• gtk4painablesink: fixes glitches with padded buffers such as for sub-sampled video formats with odd sizes
• mpegtsmux: PUSI flag and ID3 tag handling fixes
• rtpbaseaudiopay2: Fix marker bit handling for DISCONT and RESYNC buffer flags
• rtpvp9pay: Fix parsing of show-existing-frame flag, fixes compatibility with vavp9lpenc
• splitmuxsink: accept pads named 'sink_%u' on the muxer for fmp4 muxer support
• webrtcsink: Correct lock ordering to prevent deadlock
• gst-plugins-rs meson build gained an `auto_plugin_features` option and no longer requires all gstreamer libraries to be available
• v4l2 device monitor fixes
• x265enc: advertise latency based on encoder parameters instead of hard-coding it to 5 frames
• cerbero package builder: Add Rust support for 32-bit Linux x86
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.26.8 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.