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index 10acdc1e9..f16e24592 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1,14 +1,44 @@
- GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1]
-
+ GStreamer "Starfleet" 0.5.1 released
+
+ Send a message out accross the sky,
+ Alien raiders just passed Gemini,
+ Who will come and save us now?
+ Who can defend us from their power?
+ GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer!
+
+ Tell the people back at Earth Control,
+ Send GStreamer legions to save our souls,
+ always daring and couragous,
+ ooh! only they can save us.
+ GStreamer! GStreamer! GStreamer!
The GStreamer team is happy to announce another release of the
GStreamer streaming-media framework. This release has mainly focused
on code clean-up and rounding out of the features. Large chunks of
- GStreamer are API stable at this point. In preparation of a stable
- release, we have also done a thorough license audit to make sure that
- the licenses of all plug-ins are properly documented, and that as many
- of them as possible are available under the LGPL license that
- GStreamer uses.
+ GStreamer are API stable at this point.
+
+ This is a development release, in which we test several new features
+ and change installs and break stuff ! Do not update unless you are a
+ developer or willing to deal with issues that will crop up. You have
+ been warned ;)
+
+ From now on, GStreamer will follow a versioning scheme similar to
+ kernel and GTK+/GLib releases. Odd minor numbers (like for this
+ release) will be development releases. While GStreamer itself is very
+ much under development, during stable releases we will guarantee API-
+ and ABI-stability. The point of this development release cycle is to
+ support Gnome 2.1.x development.
+
+ GStreamer major-minor series versions will now be
+ parallel-installable. Please update your applications to check for
+ gstreamer-0.5, gstreamer-libs-0.5 and gstreamer-play-0.5 using
+ pkg-config.
+
+ Our development currently focuses on the following items:
+ * Increase stability and portability of scheduler
+ * Add more video editing specific plugins
+ * Improve plugins currently used by existing applications
+ * Create language bindings
We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
@@ -18,77 +48,29 @@ Updates and Enhancements
General
- * Further work on the Graphical Pipeline Editor, getting to be very
- stable and well working.
- * KDE/Qt bindings created for easier creation of KDE applications on
- top of GStreamer
- * General C++ bindings for use with gtkmm and other C++ projects
- added to gst-bind module (in CVS)
- * Effectv and virtualdub based plug-ins relicensed under LGPL
- (previously GPL)
- * Some manual examples updated and extracted to code (in
- examples/manual)
+ * More Solaris Forte fixes
+ * Updates to documentation
Core
- * Many memleaks plugged
- * Lots of code cleaning
- * Many documentation improvements
- * Small change to [2]Plugin API
- * Removed use of -Wall and -Werror from release tarball for non-gcc
- compilers, more permanent solution upcoming.
- * Old schedulers renamed: we now use basicomega as the default
- scheduler, with the others being fastomega, basicwingo and
- fastwingo.
+ * New non-cothread based scheduler
+ * API change: s/GST_PAD_QUERY/GST_QUERY/g
+ * API change: s/GstPadQuery/GstQuery/g
Plug-ins
- * BSD and Darwin cd playing
- * New Mixermatrix plugin added
- * New Flash plugin added
- * RTP plugin moved back to librtp and plugin now includes library
- code (still experimental, check configure --help on how to enable)
- * New v4l2 plugins
- * Updated v4l plugins
- * Improvements to dvdnav plugin
- * iRadio support added to gnomevfs plugin
- * Median video plugin updated and now working
- * Fixed many major bugs in the gnome-vfs library
- * Got rid of misleading warnings from plugins
- * Avi muxer much improved
- * Fix bug in mad plugin that caused loss of frames
- * mp3 typefind fixed to properly handle id3v2 tags
-
-Known Issues
-
- GStreamer currently ships with schedulers based on two cothread
- packages. The 'omega' cothread package is the one we have been
- shipping for a long time now and is still the default in this release.
- There are however some limitations and thread-related bugs in the
- omega scheduler. These limitations are not present in the 'wingo'
- schedulers, but unfortunately it does not work with i686 glibc at this
- time due to differences in the way threads are handled compared to
- other architectures, including i386. A new (third) scheduler (that
- doesn't use cothreads) is being developed.
-
- As for the bugs in the 'omega' schedulers, we did not feel they
- warranted not releasing 0.4.1 as they are rather obscure. For instance
- if you are using Rhythmbox you will need to be playing over 500 songs
- nonstop to trigger it. You can choose a different scheduler by passing
- --scheduler=(name) to any GStreamer application.
-
- Wim Taymans has started work on a new scheduler. The first part is
- already in CVS, but it will probably still be some months before it is
- ready.
+ * New ffmpeg-based plugins supporting avi
+ * Improvements including PAL support for RAW1394 plugin
+ * lots of misc smaller fixes
GStreamer Homepage
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
- [3]http://gstreamer.net/.
+ [2]http://gstreamer.net/.
Support and Bugs
- We use [4]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
+ We use [3]Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following
before writing a bug report :
gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
@@ -98,7 +80,7 @@ gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
Developers
- GStreamer is [5]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
+ GStreamer is [4]hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel
list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as
@@ -114,43 +96,27 @@ Contributors to this release
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
- * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com>
- * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
- * Cameron Hutchison <camh(AT)xdna.net>
- * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
- * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
+ * David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
+ * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
+ * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
Plugins and Sample Applications
- * Richard Boulton <richard(AT)tartarus.org>
- * David Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
+ * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
+ * Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
+ * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
- * Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zak147(AT)yahoo.com>
- * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
- * Charles Schmidt <cbschmid(AT)users.sourceforge.net>
- * Goraxe <goraxe@ntlworld.com>
- * Colin Walters <walters(AT)gnu.org>
- * Kristian Rietveld <kris(AT)gtk.org>
+ * Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)bigpond.net.au>
+ * Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
Misc
* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
- * Tim Jansen <tim.jansen(AT)kde.org>
- * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
- * Christian Meyer <chrisime(AT)gnome.org>
-
- [1] It is a little-known fact that the Beatles decided their track
- listing for their albums based on a process called the 'GEP' process.
- After some initial problems, this worked very well. The only known
- failure of this process happened when George Harrison commited the
- out-of-place 'Within You Without You' to Sergeant Pepper without
- review by the other band members. This near split-up led to one of
- their finest songs on the world-reknowned White Album.
+ * Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
References
1. http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
- 2. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9557296/
- 3. http://gstreamer.net/
- 4. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
- 5. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
+ 2. http://gstreamer.net/
+ 3. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
+ 4. http://gstreamer.sf.net/
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0705c4d1f..ccaf9e89f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
dnl when going to/from release please set the nano (fourth number) right !
dnl releases only do Wall, cvs and prerelease does Werror too
-AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS_VERSION, 0, 5, 0, 3, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
+AS_VERSION(gst-plugins, GST_PLUGINS_VERSION, 0, 5, 1, 0, GST_ERROR="-Wall", GST_ERROR="-Wall -Werror")
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE,$VERSION)
dnl our libraries and install dirs use major.minor as a version