Release notes for GStreamer 0.10.32 "Take Me to the Bonus Level"

The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release in the 0.10.x stable series of the core of the GStreamer streaming media framework.

The 0.10.x series is a stable series targeted at end users.

This module, gstreamer, only contains core functionality. For actual media playback, you will need other modules.

gst-plugins-base: contains a basic set of well-supported plug-ins
gst-plugins-good: contains a set of well-supported plug-ins under our preferred license
gst-plugins-ugly: contains a set of well-supported plug-ins, but might pose problems for distributors
gst-plugins-bad: contains a set of less supported plug-ins that haven't passed the rigorous quality testing we expect

Features of this release

GLib requirement is now >= 2.22
New core element: valve (moved from -bad)
New core element: input-selector (N.B. without "select-all" property, use fsfunnel instead) (moved from -bad)
New core element: output-selector (with different negotiation behaviour by default, set pad-negotiation-mode=active for previous behaviour) (moved from -bad)
Performance improvements for many heavily-used code paths: GstPad, GstPoll, GstClock, GstTask, basesink, basesrc, queue2, multiqueue
gobject-introspection: add annotations for most core API
clock: make sync clock wait lockfree
fdsrc/fdsink: reenable on MSVC
registry: fix GStatBuf definition for win32 when building against older glib (fixes unnecessary rescanning of plugins at start-up)
element: add a more flexible way to get request pads from elements
multiqueue: return upon input when already eos
object: fix creation of default name (when creating more than 100000 elements)
pluginloader: fix hangs on OSX
poll: fixes for (p)select backend (used e.g. on OSX)
poll: refactor and make more lockfree; fixes for win32 and OSX (pselect backend)
registry: don't replace valid existing plugins by blacklisted ones
tags: don't produce duplicated entries when merging same value twice
basesink: preroll fixes for async=false case
basesink: rework position reporting code
basetransform: handle downstream giving a buffer with new caps but invalid size

635785 : basesrc: fix deadlock
638599 : GST_PTR_FORMAT causes crashes if GLib-internal printf is used but system provides register_printf_specifier
503592 : gstpad.c does many ref/unref of peer pad in dataflow
564056 : Protect against umask(0177)
607513 : input-selector segfaults in g_object_notify()
632168 : [gsttask] MSVC thread names for task debugging
632447 : reduce static memory allocated by the registry
632557 : [macros] Define restrict keyword if not available
632778 : Optimisations to GstBaseSink
632779 : gstdataqueue: Only emit g_cond_signal when needed
632780 : queue: Remove useless checks from e406f7
633918 : [fakesink] [PATCH] print sink-message events like a message and its structure
634965 : sinks render buffers in state PAUSED when async is FALSE
635001 : basesink: fix position reporting in PAUSED
636268 : configure test fails on FreeBSD
636455 : basesrc: Avoid taking object locks for just checking tag presence
637057 : [plugin-scanner] gstpoll fails with select backend
637300 : [API] request pad based on caps
637549 : build fails: ./.libs/libgstbase-0.10.so: undefined reference to `gst_clock_single_shot_id_reinit'
637776 : merging the same tag values again produces lists containing duplicates
638381 : {input,output}-selector: double-check API before release
638399 : a few typos in GStreamer
638900 : [GstPoll] Doesn't compile with MinGW
638941 : registry scan/loading race and inconsistency

You can find source releases of gstreamer in the gstreamer download directory.

The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at git.freedesktop.org .

Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.

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