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 as well as a number of security fixes and important playback fixes, and it should be safe to update from 1.26.x.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• Various security fixes and playback fixes
• aggregator base class fixes to not produce buffers too early in live mode
• AWS translate element improvements
• D3D12 video decoder workarounds for crashes on NVIDIA cards on resolution changes
• dav1d AV1-decoder performance improvements
• fmp4mux: tfdt and composition time offset fixes, plus AC-3 / EAC-3 audio support
• GStreamer editing services fixes for sources with non-1:1 aspect ratios
• MIDI parser improvements for tempo changes
• MP4 demuxer atom parsing improvements and security fixes
• New skia-based video compositor element
• Subtitle parser security fixes
• Subtitle rendering and seeking fixes
• Playbin3 and uridecodebin3 stability fixes
• GstPlay stream selection improvements
• WAV playback regression fix
• GTK4 paintable sink colorimetry support and other improvements
• WebRTC: allow webrtcsrc to wait for a webrtcsink producer to initiate the connection
• WebRTC: new Janus Video Room WebRTC source element
• vah264enc profile decision making logic fixes
• Python bindings gained support for handling mini object writability (buffers, caps, etc.)
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.26.2 release notes for more details.

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