From d48f8b03d6faf8a99b675e2a36f2d4aa9989290a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:34:51 +0000 Subject: release notes Original commit message from CVS: release notes --- RELEASE | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE index 10acdc1e9..ae904d2d0 100644 --- a/RELEASE +++ b/RELEASE @@ -1,14 +1,33 @@ - GStreamer "GEPpiness is a warm gun" 0.4.1 released [1] + GStreamer "Private Dancer" 0.5.0 released 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 +37,40 @@ 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) + * We will soon provide an apt repository with RPMS for Yellow Dog + Linux thanks to Christopher Taylor. + * Misc Linux PPC and FreeBSD buildfixes + * parallel-installability fixes + * libtool versioning 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. + * Main scheduler moved to GThread + * Registry moved from /etc to /var/cache + * fix crasher bug in fdsrc element + * more portability work, including 64-bit fixes + * timecaches 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. + * XV_COLORKEY issues fix + * Raw1394 plugin build fix + * Ogg and mp3 metadata support + * Modplug mod plugin fixed to work within the Gst-player & Rhythmbox + * UDP plugin updated to work with dynamic caps + * Fix so OSS open with O_NONBLOCK + * New pngenc plugin + * Fix endianness and unsigned issues in wavparse plugin + * media info library under development 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 +96,36 @@ Contributors to this release * Wim Taymans * Thomas Vander Stichele - * Andy Wingo - * Steve Baker - * Cameron Hutchison - * Iain Holmes - * Ronald Bultje + * David I. Lehn + * David Schleef + * Leif Morgan Johnson Plugins and Sample Applications - * Richard Boulton - * David Lehn + * Ronald Bultje + * Ben Liblit + * Steve Baker + * Iain Holmes + * Jan Schmidt * Jérémy Simon - * Zeeshan Ali Khattak - * David Schleef - * Charles Schmidt - * Goraxe + * Zeeshan Ali + * Mark Humphreys * Colin Walters - * Kristian Rietveld + * Pedro Côrte-Real + * Jon Nall Misc * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller - * Tim Jansen - * Leif Morgan Johnson + * Christopher Taylor * Christian Meyer - - [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 + * Joshua N. Pritikin + * Joe Marcus Clarke 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/ -- cgit v1.2.1