GSTREAMER 1.18 RELEASE NOTES 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. 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 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. 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)_ Introduction 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! 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 - FIXME New Elements - FIXME New element features and additions - FIXME Plugin and library moves - FIXME Plugin removals 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 across all components and modules. Some of them have already been mentioned elsewhere so won’t be repeated here. The following list is only a small snapshot of some of the more interesting optimisations that haven’t been mentioned in other contexts yet: - FIXME GstPlayer - FIXME Miscellaneous changes - FIXME 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 Meson build system. Developers who currently use gst-uninstalled should move to gst-build. - API and plugin documentation are no longer built with gtk_doc. The gtk_doc documentation has been removed in favour of a new unified documentation module built with hotdoc. The intention is to distribute the generated documentation in form of tarballs alongside releases. - FIXME Cerbero Cerbero is a meta build system used to build GStreamer plus dependencies on platforms where dependencies are not readily available, such as Windows, Android, iOS and macOS. Cerbero has seen a number of improvements: - FIXME Platform-specific changes and improvements Android - FIXME macOS and iOS - FIXME Windows - toolchain upgrade - FIXME Contributors - FIXME … 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 which will contain bug fixes which have been deemed suitable for a stable branch, but no new features or intrusive changes will be added to a bug-fix release usually. The 1.18.x bug-fix releases will be made from the git 1.18 branch, which will be a stable branch. 1.18.0 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 unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.20 release. The development of 1.19/1.20 will happen in the git master branch. The plan for the 1.20 development cycle is yet to be confirmed. 1.20 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.18, 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10, 1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _These release notes have been prepared by Tim-Philipp Müller with_ _contributions from … (FIXME)_ _License: CC BY-SA 4.0_