Release 1.6.11.6.1

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-This is GStreamer 1.6.0
+This is GStreamer 1.6.1
 
-The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new major feature release in the
-stable 1.x API series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
+The GStreamer team is proud to announce the first bugfix release in the stable
+1.6 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
 
-This release has been in the works for more than a year and is packed with new
-features, bug fixes and other improvements.
+This release only contains bugfixes and it is safe to update from 1.6.0. For a
+full list of bugfixes see Bugzilla:
+  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&limit=0&list_id=73005&order=bug_id&product=GStreamer&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=1.6.1
 
-See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the full list of
-changes.
+See http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.6/ for the latest version of this document.
 
-Highlights
+Major bugfixes
 
-- Stereoscopic 3D and multiview video support
-- Trick mode API for key-frame only fast-forward/fast-reverse playback etc.
-- Improved DTS (decoding timestamp) vs. PTS (presentation timestamp) handling
-  to account for negative DTS
-- New GstVideoConverter API for more optimised and more correct conversion of
-  raw video frames between all supported formats, with rescaling
-- v4l2src now supports renegotiation
-- v4l2transform can now do scaling
-- V4L2 Element now report Colorimetry properly
-- Easier chunked recording of MP4, Matroska, Ogg, MPEG-TS: new splitmuxsink
-  and multifilesink improvements
-- Content Protection signalling API and Common Encryption (CENC) support for
-  DASH/MP4
-- Many adaptive streaming (DASH, HLS and MSS) improvements
-- New PTP and NTP network client clocks and better remote clock tracking
-  stability
-- High-quality text subtitle overlay at display resolutions with glimagesink
-  or gtkglsink
-- RECORD support for the GStreamer RTSP Server
-- Retransmissions (RTX) support in RTSP server and client
-- RTSP seeking support in client and server has been fixed
-- RTCP scheduling improvements and reduced size RTCP support
-- MP4/MOV muxer acquired a new "robust" mode of operation which attempts to
-  keep the output file in a valid state at all times
-- Live mixing support in aggregator, audiomixer and compositor was improved a
-  lot
-- compositor now supports rescaling and converting inputs streams on the fly
-- New audiointerleave element with proper input synchronisation and live input
-  support
-- Blackmagic Design DeckLink capture and playback card support was rewritten
-  from scratch; 2k/4k support; mode sensing
-- KLV metadata support in RTP and MPEG-TS
-- H.265 video encoder (x265), decoders (libav, libde265) and RTP payloader and
-  depayloaders
-- New DTLS plugin and SRTP/DTLS support
-- OpenGL3 support, multiple contexts and context propagation, 3D video,
-  transfer/conversion separation, subtitle blending
-- New OpenGL-based QML video sink, Gtk GL video sink, CoreAnimation
-  CAOpenGLLayerSink video sink
-- gst-libav switched to ffmpeg as libav-provider, gains support for
-  3D/multiview video, trick modes, and the CAVS codec
-- GstHarness API for unit tests
-- gst-editing-services got a completely new ges-launch-1.0 interface, improved
-  mixing support and integration into gst-validate
-- gnonlin has been deprecated in favor of nle (Non Linear Engine) in
-  gst-editing-services
-- gst-validate has a new plugin system, an extensive default testsuite,
-  support for concurrent test runs and valgrind support
-- cerbero build tool for SDK binary packages gains new 'bundle-source' command
-- Various improvements to the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows platform support
+- Crashes in the gst-libav encoders were fixed
+- More DASH-IF test streams are working now
+- Live DASH, HLS and MS SmoothStreaming streams work more reliable and other
+  fixes for the adaptive streaming protocols
+- Reverse playback works with scaletempo to keep the audio pitch
+- Correct stream-time is reported for negative applied_rate
+- SRTP packet validation during decoding does not reject valid packets anymore
+- Fixes for audioaggregator and aggregator to start producing output at the
+  right time, and e.g. not outputting lots of silence in the beginning
+- gst-libav's internal ffmpeg snapshot was updated to 2.8.1
+- cerbero has support for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
+- Various memory leaks were fixed, including major leaks in playbin, playsink
+  and decodebin
+- Various GObject-Introspection annotation fixes for bindings
+- and many, many more: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&limit=0&list_id=73005&order=bug_id&product=GStreamer&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=1.6.1