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+GStreamer 1.18 Release Notes
-
-GSTREAMER 1.18 RELEASE NOTES
-
-
-THESE RELEASE NOTES ARE A PLACEHOLDER, PLEASE BEAR WITH US WHILE WE
-FINISH WRITING UP THE REAL THING.
+These release notes are a placeholder, please bear with us while we
+finish writing up the real thing.
GStreamer 1.18.0 has not yet been released. It is scheduled for release
-in summer 2020 now.
+in late August / early September 2020.
1.17.x is the unstable development series that is currently being
developed in the git master branch and which will eventually result in
-1.18, and 1.17.2 is the current development release in that series.
-
-The schedule for the 1.18 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but
-it is expected that feature freeze will be in June/July 2020, followed
-by several 1.17 pre-releases and then a new 1.18 stable release in
-July/August 2020.
+1.18, and 1.17.90 is the current 1.18 pre-release in that series.
1.18 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10,
1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series.
@@ -24,8 +16,7 @@ July/August 2020.
See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/ for the latest
version of this document.
-_Last updated: Wednesday 1 July 2020, 23:50 UTC (log)_
-
+Last updated: Wednesday 20 August 2020, 11:00 UTC (log)
Introduction
@@ -36,12 +27,10 @@ framework!
As always, this release is again packed with many new features, bug
fixes and other improvements.
-
Highlights
- FIXME
-
Major new features and changes
Noteworthy new API
@@ -66,12 +55,10 @@ The following plugins have been removed from gst-plugins-bad:
- FIXME
-
Miscellaneous API additions
- FIXME
-
Miscellaneous performance and memory optimisations
As always there have been many performance and memory usage improvements
@@ -88,7 +75,6 @@ GstPlayer
- FIXME
-
Miscellaneous changes
- FIXME
@@ -97,62 +83,50 @@ OpenGL integration
- FIXME
-
Tracing framework and debugging improvements
- FIXME
-
Tools
- FIXME
-
GStreamer RTSP server
- FIXME
-
GStreamer VAAPI
- FIXME
-
GStreamer OMX
- FIXME
-
GStreamer Editing Services and NLE
- FIXME
-
GStreamer validate
- FIXME
-
GStreamer Python Bindings
- FIXME
-
GStreamer C# Bindings
- FIXME
-
GStreamer Rust Bindings
- FIXME
-
GStreamer Rust Plugins
- FIXME
-
Build and Dependencies
- The Autotools build system has finally been removed in favour of the
@@ -177,7 +151,6 @@ Cerbero has seen a number of improvements:
- FIXME
-
Platform-specific changes and improvements
Android
@@ -194,7 +167,6 @@ Windows
- FIXME
-
Contributors
- FIXME
@@ -202,7 +174,6 @@ Contributors
… and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent
suggestions or helped testing.
-
Stable 1.18 branch
After the 1.18.0 release there will be several 1.18.x bug-fix releases
@@ -215,12 +186,10 @@ the git 1.18 branch, which will be a stable branch.
1.18.0 has not been released yet.
-
Known Issues
- FIXME
-
Schedule for 1.20
Our next major feature release will be 1.20, and 1.19 will be the
@@ -234,7 +203,7 @@ The plan for the 1.20 development cycle is yet to be confirmed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-_These release notes have been prepared by Tim-Philipp Müller with_
-_contributions from … (FIXME)_
+These release notes have been prepared by Tim-Philipp Müller with
+contributions from … (FIXME)
-_License: CC BY-SA 4.0_
+License: CC BY-SA 4.0