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authorTim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>2019-09-23 11:20:44 +0100
committerTim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>2019-09-23 11:20:45 +0100
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Release 1.16.11.16.1
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@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ GSTREAMER 1.16 RELEASE NOTES
GStreamer 1.16.0 was originally released on 19 April 2019.
+The latest bug-fix release in the 1.16 series is 1.16.1 and was released
+on 23 September 2019.
+
See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.16/ for the latest
version of this document.
-_Last updated: Friday 19 April 2019, 00:00 UTC (log)_
+_Last updated: Sunday 22 September 2019, 21:00 UTC (log)_
Introduction
@@ -353,7 +356,7 @@ New element features and additions
- rtpjitterbuffer has improved end-of-stream handling
-- rtpmp4vpay will be prefered over rtpmp4gpay for MPEG-4 video in
+- rtpmp4vpay will be preferred over rtpmp4gpay for MPEG-4 video in
autoplugging scenarios now
- rtspsrc now allows applications to send RTSP SET_PARAMETER and
@@ -1208,7 +1211,7 @@ Cerbero has seen a number of improvements:
used in order to re-produce a specific build. To set a manifest, you
can set manifest = 'my_manifest.xml' in your configuration file, or
use the --manifest command line option. The command line option will
- take precendence over anything specific in the configuration file.
+ take precedence over anything specific in the configuration file.
- The new build-deps command can be used to build only the
dependencies of a recipe, without the recipe itself.
@@ -1224,6 +1227,12 @@ Cerbero has seen a number of improvements:
section in the Cerbero documentation for more details how to enable
and use these variants.
+- When building on Windows, Cerbero can now build GStreamer recipes
+ and core dependencies such as glib with Visual Studio. This is
+ controlled by the visualstudio variant. Visual Studio 2015, 2017,
+ and 2019 are supported. Currently, only 64-bit x86 is supported due
+ to a known bug which will be fixed for the next release.
+
- A new -t / --timestamp command line switch makes commands print
timestamps
@@ -1353,6 +1362,342 @@ the git 1.16 branch, which is a stable branch.
1.16.0 was released on 19 April 2019.
+1.16.1
+
+The first 1.16 bug-fix release (1.16.1) was released on 23 September
+2019.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and it _should_ be safe to update
+from 1.16.0.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.16.1
+
+- GStreamer-vaapi: fix green frames and decoding artefacts in some
+ cases
+- OpenGL: fix wayland event source burning CPU in certain
+ circumstances
+- Memory leak fixes and memory footprint improvements
+- Performance improvements
+- Stability and security fixes
+- Fix enum for GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED which is technically an API
+ break, but this is only used internally in GStreamer and duplicated
+ another message enum
+- hls: Make crypto dependency optional when hls-crypto is auto
+- player: fix switching back and forth between forward and reverse
+ playback
+- decklinkaudiosink: Drop late buffers
+- openh264enc: Fix compilation with openh264 v2.0
+- wasapisrc: fix segtotal value being always 2
+- Fix issues on Android Q
+
+gstreamer core
+
+- device: gst_device_create_element() is transfer floating, not
+ transfer full
+- filesink, fdsink: respect IOV_MAX for the writev iovec array
+ (Solaris)
+- miniobject: free qdata array when the last qdata is removed (reduces
+ memory footprint)
+- bin: Fix minor race when adding to a bin
+- aggregator: Actually handle NEED_DATA return from update_src_caps()
+- aggregator: Ensure that the source pad is created as a
+ GstAggregatorPad if no type is given in the pad template
+- latency: fix custom event leaks
+- registry: Use plugin directory from the build system for
+ relocateable Windows builds
+- message: fix up enum value for GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED
+- info: Fix deadlock in gst_ring_buffer_logger_log()
+- downloadbuffer: Check for flush after seek
+- identity: Non-live upstream have no max latency
+- identity: Fix the ts-offset property getter
+- aggregator: Make parsing of explicit sink pad names more robust
+- bufferpool: Fix the buffer size reset code
+- fakesink, fakesrc, identity: sync gst_buffer_get_flags_string() with
+ new flags
+- multiqueue: never unref queries we do not own
+- concat: Reset last_stop on FLUSH_STOP too
+- aggregator: fix flow-return boolean return type mismatch
+- gstpad: Handle probes that reset the data field
+- gst: Add support for g_autoptr(GstPromise)
+- gst-inspect: fix unused-const-variable error in windows
+- base: Include gstbitwriter.h in the single-include header
+- Add various Since: 1.16 markers
+- GST_MESSAGE_DEVICE_CHANGED duplicates GST_MESSAGE_REDIRECT
+- Targetting wrong meson version
+- meson: Make get_flex_version.py script executable
+- meson: Link to objects instead of static helper library
+- meson: set correct install path for gdb helper
+- meson: fix warning about configure_file() install kwarg
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+- video-info: parse field-order for all interleaved formats
+- tests: fix up valgrind suppressions for glibc getaddrinfo leaks
+- meson: Reenable NEON support (in audio resampler)
+- audio-resampler: Update NEON to handle remainders not multiples of 4
+- eglimage: Fix memory leak
+- audiodecoder: Set output caps with negotiated caps to avoid critical
+ info printed
+- video-frame: Take TFF flag from the video info if it was set in
+ there
+- glcolorconvert: Fix external-oes shader
+- video-anc: Fix ADF detection when trying to extract data from vanc
+- gl/wayland: fix wayland event source burning CPU
+- configure: add used attribute in order to make NEON detection
+ working with -flto.
+- audioaggregator: Return a valid rate range from caps query if
+ downstream supports a whole range
+- rtspconnection: data-offset increase not set
+- rtpsconnection: Fix number of n_vectors
+- video-color: Add compile-time assert for ColorimetryInfo enum
+- audiodecoder: Fix leak on failed audio gaps
+- glupload: Keep track of cached EGLImage texture format
+- playsink: Set ts-offset to text sink.
+- meson.build: use join_paths() on prefix
+- compositor: copy frames as-is when possible
+- compositor: Skip background when a pad obscures it completely
+- rtspconnection: Start CSeq at 1 (some servers don’t cope well with
+ seqnum 0)
+- viv-fb: fix build break for GST_GL_API
+- gl/tests: fix shader creation tests part 2
+- gl/tests: fix shader creation tests
+- wayland: set the event queue also for the xdg_wm_base object
+- video: Added GI annotation for gstvideoaffinetransformationmeta
+ apply_matrix
+- compositor: Remove unneeded left shift for ARGB/AYUV SOURCE operator
+- Colorimetry fixes
+- alsasrc: Don’t use driver timestamp if it’s zero
+- gloverlaycompositor: fix crash if buffer doesn’t have video meta
+- meson: Don’t try to find gio-unix on Windows
+- glshader: fix default external-oes shaders
+- subparse: fix pushing WebVTT cue with no newline at the end
+- meson: Missing “android” choice in gl_winsys
+- video test: Keep BE test inline with LE test
+- id3tag: Correctly validate the year from v1 tags before passing to
+ GstDateTime
+- gl/wayland: Don’t prefix wl_shell struct field
+- eglimage: Add compatibility define for DRM_FORMAT_NV24
+- Add various Since: 1.16 markers
+- video-anc: Handle SD formats correctly
+- Docs: add GL_CFLAGS to GTK_DOC_CFLAGS
+- GL: using vaapi and showing on glimagesink on wayland loads one core
+ for 100% on 1.16
+- GL: external-oes shader places precision qualifier before #extension
+ (was: androidmedia amcviddec fail after 1.15.90 1.16.0 update)
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+- alpha: Fix one_over_kc calculation on arm/aarch64
+- souphttpsrc: Fix incompatible type build warning
+- rtpjitterbuffer: limit max-dropout-time to maxint32
+- rtpjitterbuffer: Clear clock master before unreffing
+- qtdemux: Use empty-array safe way to cleanup GPtrArray
+- v4l2: Fix type compatibility issue with glibc 2.30
+- valgrind: suppress Cond error coming from gnutls and Ignore leaks
+ caused by shout/sethostent
+- rtpfunnel: forward correct segment when switching pad
+- gtkglsink: fix crash when widget is resized after element
+ destruction
+- jpegdec: Don’t dereference NULL input state if we have no caps in
+ TIME segments
+- rtp: opuspay: fix memory leak in gst_rtp_opus_pay_setcaps
+- v4l2videodec: return right type for drain.
+- rtpssrcdemux: Avoid taking streamlock out-of-band
+- Support v4l2src buffer orphaning
+- splitmuxsink: Only set running time on finalizing sink element when
+ in async-finalize mode
+- rtpsession: Always keep at least one NACK on early RTCP
+- rtspsrc: do not try to send EOS with invalid seqnum
+- rtpsession: Call on-new-ssrc earlier
+- rtprawdepay: Don’t get rid of the buffer pool on FLUSH_STOP
+- rtpbin: Free storage when freeing session
+- scaletempo: Advertise interleaved layout in caps templates
+- Support v4l2src buffer orphaning
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+- hls: Make crypto dependency optional when hls-crypto is auto
+- player: fix switching back and forth between forward and reverse
+ playback
+- decklinkaudiosink: Drop late buffers
+- srt: Add stats property, include sender-side statistics and fix a
+ crash
+- dshowsrcwrapper: fix regression on device selection
+- tsdemux: Limit the maximum PES payload size
+- wayland: Define libdrm_dep in meson.build to fix meson configure
+ error when kms is disabled
+- sctp: Fix crash on free() when using the MSVC binaries
+- webrtc: Fix signals documentation
+- h264parse: don’t critical on VUI parameters > 2^31
+- rtmp: Fix crash inside free() with MSVC on Windows
+- iqa: fix leak of map_meta.data
+- d3dvideosink: Fix crash on WinProc handler
+- amc: Fix crash when a sync_meta survives its sink
+- pitch: Fix race between putSamples() and setting soundtouch
+ parameters
+- webrtc: fix type of max-retransmits, make it work
+- mxfdemux: Also allow picture essence element type 0x05 for VC-3
+- wasapi: fix symbol redefinition build error
+- decklinkvideosrc: Retrieve mode of the ancillary data from the frame
+- decklinkaudiosrc/decklinkvideosrc: Do nothing in
+ BaseSrc::negotiate() and…
+- adaptivedemux: do not retry downloads during shutdown.
+- webrtcbin: fix GInetAddress leak
+- dtls: fix dtls connection object leak
+- siren: fix a global buffer overflow spotted by asan
+- kmssink: Fix implicit declaration build error
+- Fix -Werror=return-type error in configure.
+- aiff: Fix infinite loop in header parsing.
+- nvdec: Fix possible frame drop on EOS
+- srtserversrc: yields malformed rtp payloads
+- srtsink: Fix crash in case no URI
+- dtlsagent: Fix leaked dtlscertificate
+- meson: bluez: Early terminate configure on Windows
+- decklink: Correctly ensure >=16 byte alignment for the buffers we
+ allocate
+- webrtcbin: fix DTLS when receivebin is set to DROP
+- zbar: Include running-time, stream-time and duration in the messages
+- uvch264src: Make sure we set our segment
+- avwait: Allow start and end timecode to be set back to NULL
+- avwait: Don’t print warnings for every buffer passed
+- hls/meson: fix dependency logic
+- Waylandsink gnome shell workaround
+- avwait: Allow setting start timecode after end timecode; protect
+ propeties with mutex
+- wayland/wlbuffer: just return if used_by_compositor is true when
+ attach
+- proxy: Set SOURCE flag on the source and SINK flag on the sink
+- ivfparse: Check the data size against IVF_FRAME_HEADER_SIZE
+- webrtc: Add various Since markers to new types after 1.14.0
+- msdk: fix the typo in debug category
+- dtlsagent: Do not overwrite openssl locking callbacks
+- meson: Fix typo in gsm header file name
+- srt: handle races in state change
+- webrtc: Add g_autoptr() support for public types
+- openh264enc: Fix compilation with openh264 v2.0
+- meson: Allow CUDA_PATH fallback on linux
+- meson: fix build with opencv=enabled and opencv4. Fixes #964
+- meson: Add support for the colormanagement plugin
+- autotools: gstsctp: set LDFLAGS
+- nvenc/nvdec: Add NVIDIA SDK headers to noinst_HEADERS
+- h264parse: Fix typo when setting multiview mode and flags
+- Add various Since: 1.16 markers
+- opencv: allow compilation against 4.1.x
+- Backport of some minor srt commits without MR into 1.16
+- meson: fix build with opencv=enabled and opencv4
+- wasapisrc: fix segtotal value being always 2 due to an unused
+ variable
+- meson: colormanagement missing
+- androidmedia amcviddec fail after 1.15.90 1.16.0 update
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+- meson: Always require the gmodule dependency
+
+gst-libav
+
+- docs: don’t include the type hierarchy, fixing build with gtk-doc
+ 1.30
+- avvidenc: Correctly signal interlaced input to ffmpeg when the input
+ caps are interlaced
+- autotools: add bcrypt to win32 libs
+- gstav: Use libavcodec util function for version check
+- API documentation fails to build with gtk-doc 1.30
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+- rtsp-client: RTP Info must exist in PLAY response
+- onvif-media: fix “void function returning a value” compiler warning
+- Add various Since: 1.16 markers
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+- fix egl context leak and display creation race
+- pluginutil: Remove Mesa from drivers white list
+- Classify vaapidecodebin as a hardware decoder
+- Fix two leak
+- vaapivideomemory: demote error message to info
+- encoder: vp8,vp9: reset frame_counter when input frame’s format
+ changes
+- encoder: mpeg2: No packed header for SPS and PPS
+- decoder: vp9: clear parser pointer after release
+- encoder: Fixes deadlock in change state function
+- encoder: h265: reset num_ref_idx_l1_active_minus1 when low delay B.
+- encoder: not call ensure_num_slices inside g_assert()
+- encoder: continue if roi meta is NULL
+- decoder: vp9: Set chroma_ ype by VP9 bit_depth
+- vaapipostproc: don’t do any color conversion when GL_TEXTURE_UPLOAD
+- libs: surface: fix double free when dmabuf export fails
+- h264 colors and artifacts upon upgrade to GStreamer Core Library
+ version 1.15.90
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+- element: Properly handle the fact that pasting can return NULL
+- Add various missing Since markers
+- launch: Fix caps restriction short names
+- python: Avoid warning about using deprecated methods
+- video-transition: When using non crossfade effect use ‘over’
+ operations
+- meson: Generate a pkgconfig file for the GES plugin
+
+gst-devtools
+
+- launcher: testsuites: skip systemclock stress tests
+- validate: fix build on macOS
+
+gst-build
+
+- Update win flex bison binaries
+- Update the flexmeson windows binary version
+- Don’t allow people to run meson inside the uninstalled env
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.16.1
+
+- cerbero: Add enums for Fedora 30, Fedora 31 and Debian bullseye
+- gnutls.recipe: Fix crash when running on Android Q
+- recipes: Upgrade openssl to 1.1.1c
+- Fix some typos
+- add support for vs build tools 2019, fixes #183
+- android: Adjust gstreamer-1.0.mk for NDK r20
+- Fix license enums
+- bootstrap: Fix dnf usage on CentOS
+- Make _add_system_libs reentrant
+- meson.recipe: Fix setting of bitcode compiler options
+- cerbero: support Ubuntu disco dingo
+- cerbero: Set utf-8 to execution character set also on MSVC
+- git: simplify the reset of the source branch.
+- FORTIFY: %n not allowed on Android Q
+- Fails to build if there’s no license file for the given license
+ (GPL/LGPL without Plus, Proprietary, …)
+
+Contributors to 1.16.1
+
+Aaron Boxer, Adam Duskett, Alicia Boya García, Andoni Morales Alastruey,
+Antonio Ospite, Arun Raghavan, Askar Safin, A. Wilcox, Charlie Turner,
+Christoph Reiter, Damian Hobson-Garcia, Daniel Klamt, Danny Smith, David
+Gunzinger, David Ing, David Svensson Fors, Doug Nazar, Edward Hervey,
+Eike Hein, Fabrice Bellet, Fernando Herrrera, Georg Lippitsch, Göran
+Jönsson, Guillaume Desmottes, Haihao Xiang, Haihua Hu, Håvard Graff, Hou
+Qi, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Ilya Smelykh, Jan Schmidt, Javier Celaya,
+Jim Mason, Jonas Larsson, Jordan Petridis, Jose Antonio Santos Cadenas,
+Juan Navarro, Knut Andre Tidemann, Kristofer Björkström, Lucas Stach,
+Marco Felsch, Marcos Kintschner, Mark Nauwelaerts, Martin Liska, Martin
+Theriault, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Michael Olbrich, Mike
+Gorse, Nicola Murino, Nicolas Dufresne, Niels De Graef, Niklas
+Hambüchen, Nirbheek Chauhan, Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Ross
+Burton, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Song Bing, Thiago Santos,
+Thibault Saunier, Thomas Coldrick, Tim-Philipp Müller, Víctor Manuel
+Jáquez Leal, Vivia Nikolaidou, Xavier Claessens, Yeongjin Jeong,
+
+… and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent
+suggestions or helped testing. Thank you all!
+
+List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.16.1
+
+- List of Merge Requests applied in 1.16
+- List of Issues fixed in 1.16.1
+
Known Issues
@@ -1376,9 +1721,9 @@ unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.18 release. The
development of 1.17/1.18 will happen in the git master branch.
The plan for the 1.18 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but it
-is possible that the next cycle will be a short one in which case
-feature freeze would be perhaps around August 2019 with a new 1.18
-stable release in September.
+is now expected that feature freeze will take place shortly after the
+GStreamer conference/hackfest in early November 2019, with the first
+1.18 stable release ready in late November or early December.
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.