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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.18 Release Notes
GStreamer 1.18.0 was originally released on 8 September 2020.
-The latest bug-fix release in the 1.18 series is 1.18.4 and was released
-on 15 March 2021.
+The latest bug-fix release in the 1.18 series is 1.18.5 and was released
+on 8 September 2021.
See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/ for the latest
version of this document.
-Last updated: Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Wednesday 8 September 2021, 11:00 UTC (log)
Introduction
@@ -2102,7 +2102,10 @@ Possibly Breaking Changes
Known Issues
-- None in particular
+- GStreamer 1.18 versions <= 1.18.4 would fail to build on Linux with
+ Meson 0.58 due to an issue with the include directories. Either
+ apply the patch or build with an older Meson version (<= 0.57) until
+ there is a GStreamer 1.18.5 release that includes the fix.
Contributors
@@ -2879,6 +2882,307 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.18.4
- List of Merge Requests applied in 1.18.4
- List of Issues fixed in 1.18.4
+1.18.5
+
+The fifth 1.18 bug-fix release (1.18.5) was released on 8 September
+2021.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.18.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.18.5
+
+- basesink: fix reverse frame stepping
+- downloadbuffer/sparsefile: several fixes for win32
+- systemclock: Update monotonic reference time when re-scheduling,
+ fixes high CPU usage with gnome-music when pausing playback
+- audioaggregator: fix glitches when resyncing on discont
+- compositor: Fix NV12 blend operation
+- rtspconnection: Add IPv6 support for tunneled mode
+- avidemux: fix playback of some H.264-in-AVI streams
+- jpegdec: Fix crash when interlaced field height is not DCT block
+ size aligned
+- qmlglsink: Keep old buffers around a bit longer if they were bound
+ by QML
+- qml: qtitem: don’t potentially leak a large number of buffers
+- rtpjpegpay: fix image corruption when compiled with MSVC on Windows
+- rtspsrc: seeking improvements
+- rtpjitterbuffer: Avoid generation of invalid timestamps
+- rtspsrc: Fix behaviour of select-streams, new-manager,
+ request-rtcp-key and before-send signals with GLib >= 2.62
+- multiudpsink: Fix broken SO_SNDBUF get/set on Windows
+- openh264enc: fix broken sps/pps header generation and some minor
+ leaks
+- mpeg2enc: fix interlace-mode detection and unbound memory usage if
+ encoder can’t keep up
+- mfvideosrc: Fix for negative MF stride and for negotiation when
+ interlace-mode is specified
+- tsdemux: fix seek-with-stop regression and decoding errors after
+ seeking with dvdlpcmdec
+- rtsp-server: seek handling improvements
+- gst-libav: fix build (and other issues) with ffmpeg 4.4
+- cerbero: spandsp: Fix build error with Visual Studio 2019
+- win32 packages: Fix hang in GLib when G_SLICE environment variable
+ is set
+
+gstreamer
+
+- aggregator: Release the SRC lock while querying latency
+- aggregator: Release pads’ peeked buffer when removing the pad or
+ finalizing it
+- basesink: Don’t swap rstart/rstop when stepping
+- basesrc: Print segments with GST_SEGMENT_FORMAT and not
+ GST_PTR_FORMAT
+- childproxy: init value in gst_child_proxy_get_property() if needed
+- clocksync: Fix providing system clock by default
+- concat: Properly propagate seqnum of segment events
+- concat: adjust running time offsets on downstream events
+- concat: fix locking in SEGMENT event handler
+- downloadbuffer/sparsefile: several fixes for win32
+- element: NULL the lists of contexts in dispose()
+- multiqueue: Use running time of gap events for wakeups.
+- multiqueue: Ensure peer pad exists when iterating internal links
+- pad: Keep IDLE probe hook alive during immediate callback
+- pad: Ensure last flow return is set on sink pads in push mode
+- pad: Don’t spam the debug log at INFO level when default-chaining a
+ buffer list
+- pad: clear probes holding mutex
+- parse-launch: Fix a critical when using the : operator.
+- parse-launch: Don’t do delayed property setting for top-level
+ properties.
+- plugin: load plugins with unknown license strings
+- ptpclock: Don’t leak the GList
+- queue2: Refuse all serialized queries when posting buffering
+ messages
+- systemclock: Update monotonic reference time when re-scheduling
+- High CPU usage in 1.18 (but not master) when pausing playback in
+ gnome-music
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+- appsrc: Don’t leak buffer list while wrongly unreffing buffer on
+ EOS/flushing
+- audioaggregator: Don’t overwrite already written samples
+- audioaggregator: Resync on the next buffer when dropping a buffer on
+ discont resyncing
+- audiobasesink: Fix of double lock release
+- audioaggregator: Don’t overwrite already written samples
+- audiobasesrc: Fix divide by zero assertion
+- clockoverlay: Fix broken string formatting by strftime() on Windows
+- compositor: Fix NV12 blend operation
+- giosrc: Don’t leak scheme string in gst_gio_src_query()
+- giobasesink: Handle incomplete writes in gst_gio_base_sink_render()
+- gl/wayland: Use consistent wl_display when creating work queue for
+ proxy wrapper
+- gl: Fix build when Meson >= 0.58.0rc1
+- gl/wayland: provide a dummy global_remove function
+- playbin2: fix base_time selection when flush seeking live (such as
+ with RTSP)
+- rtspconnection: Add IPv6 support for tunneled mode
+- rtspconnection: Consistently translate GIOError to GstRTSPResult
+ (for rtspsrc)
+- rawbaseparse: check destination format correctly
+- uridecodebin: Don’t force floating reference for future reusable
+ decodebin
+- parsebin: Put stream flags in GstStream
+- splitmuxsink: always use factory property when set
+- video-converter: Set up matrix tables only once.
+- videoscale: Performance degradation from 1.16.2 -> 1.18.4
+- videotestsrc: Fix a leak when computing alpha caps
+- audio/video-converter: Plug some minor leaks
+- audio,video-format: Make generate_raw_formats idempotent for
+ assertions
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+- Fix build issue on MinGW64
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+- avidemux: Also detect 0x000001 as H264 byte-stream start code in
+ codec_data
+- deinterlace: Plug a method subobject leak
+- deinterlace: Drop field-order field if outputting progressive
+- jpegdec: Fix crash when interlaced field height is not DCT block
+ size aligned
+- qmlglsink: Keep old buffers around a bit longer if they were bound
+ by QML
+- qml: qtitem: don’t potentially leak a large number of buffers
+- qtdemux: Force stream-start push when re-using EOS’d streams
+- qtmux: for Apple ProRes, allow overriding pixel bit depth, e.g. when
+ exporting an opaque image, yet with alpha.
+- qtmux: Make sure to write 64-bit STCO table when needed.
+- rtpjpegpay: fix image corruption when compiled with MSVC on Windows
+- rtpptdemux: Remove pads also in PAUSED->READY
+- rtph265depay: update codec_data in caps regardless of format
+- rtspsrc: Do not overwrite the known duration after a seek
+- rtspsrc: De-dup seek event seqnums to avoid multiple seeks
+- rtspsrc: Fix race saving seek event seqnum
+- rtspsrc: Using multicast UDP has no relation to seekability, also
+ add some logging
+- rtpjitterbuffer: Fix parsing of the mediaclk:direct= field
+- rtpjitterbuffer: Avoid generation of invalid timestamps
+- rtpjitterbuffer: Check srcresult before waiting on the condition
+ variable too
+- rtpjitterbuffer: More logging when calculating rfc7273 timestamps
+- rtspsrc: Fix more signals
+- rtspsrc: Fix accumulation of before-send signal return values
+- souphttpsrc: Always use the content decoder but set
+ `Accept-Encoding:…
+- udpsrc: Plug leaks of saddr in error cases
+- multiudpsink: Fix broken SO_SNDBUF get/set on Windows
+- v4l2object: Add interlace-mode back to caps for camera
+- v4l2object: Use default colorimetry if that in caps is unknown
+- V4l2object: Avoid colorimetry mismatch for streams with invalid
+ colorimetry
+- v4l2object: Add support for hdr10 stream playback
+- wavparse: adtl/note/labl chunk parsing fixes
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+- 1.18.4: build fails with glib 2.67.6 and gcc-11: argument 2 of
+ ‘__atomic_load’ must not be a pointer to a ‘volatile’ type
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+- audiolatency: Use live mode audiotestsrc
+- audiolatency: Handle audio buffers with invalid duration
+- ccconverter: fix framerate caps negotiation from non-cdp to cdp
+- dashdemux: Properly initalize GError, remove duplicate logging call
+- dashdemux: Log protection events on corresponding pad
+- dashdemux: fix dash_mpdparser_check_mpd_client_set_methods unit test
+- h264parse,h265parse: Push parameter set NAL units again per
+ segment-done
+- h265parse: Fix a typo in get_compatible_profile_caps()
+- h265parse: don’t invalidate the last PPS when parsing a new SPS
+- h264parse: improve PPS handling
+- h2645parser: Catch overflows in AVC/HEVC NAL unit length
+ calculations
+- interlace: Don’t set field-order field for progressive caps, fixes
+ negotiation issues
+- interlace: Fix too small buffer size error
+- jpegparse: Don’t generate timestamp for 0/1 framerates
+- opencv: fix build error on macOS
+- openexr: Fix build with OpenEXR 3
+- openh264enc: fix broken sps/pps header generation and some minor
+ leaks
+- mpeg2enc: fix interlace-mode detection on input video
+- mpeg2enc: Only allow 1 pending frame for encoding (fixes unbound
+ memory usage in case encoder can’t keep up with input)
+- mfvideoenc: Don’t pass 0/1 framerate to MFT
+- mfvideosrc: Fix for negative MF stride
+- mfvideosrc: Fix negotiation when interlace-mode is specified
+- mxfvanc: Handle empty ANC essence
+- rtmp2src: workaround a GLib race when destroying a
+ GMainContext/GSource
+- rtpsrc: Plug leak of rtcp_send_addr and fix setting URI back to NULL
+- rtpsink: Return proper pad from _request_new_pad()
+- rist: Plug leak of rtcp_send_addr
+- rtmp2: Use correct size of write macro for param2.
+- rtmp2/connection: Separate inner from outer cancelling
+- tsmux: When selecting random PIDs, name the pads according to those
+ PIDs
+- tsmux: Recheck existing pad PIDs when requesting a new pad with a
+ random pid
+- tsdemux: fix seek with stop regression
+- tsdemux: Clear all streams when rewinding, fixes the case where the
+ demuxer sends out partial invalid data downstream after a seek which
+ causes some decoders (such as dvdlpmdec) to error out
+- v4l2slh264dec: Fix slice header bit size calculation
+- videoparseutils: Fix for wrong CEA708 minimum size check
+- waylandsink: Fix for missing initial configure
+- wpe: Make threaded view singleton creation thread safe
+- x265: Fix a deadlock when failing to create the x265enc
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+- asfdemux/realmedia: Drop duplicate seek events
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-libav
+
+- avmux: Blacklist ttml subtitles (fixes crash with ffmpeg >= 4.4)
+- avmux: fix segfault when a plugin’s long_name is NULL
+- avviddec: Fix size of linesize parameter
+- avviddec: Take into account coded_height for pool
+- avdemux: fix build with FFmpeg 4.4
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+- rtsp-media: Ensure the bus watch is removed during unprepare
+- rtsp-media: Add one more case to seek avoidance
+- rtsp-media: Improve skipping trickmode seek
+- Fix a few memory leaks
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+- plugins: Demote rank of vaapipostproc and vaapioverlay to match
+ other filters
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+- xml-formatter: Fix allocation size of buffer
+- framepositioner: Fix runtime warning
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-devtools
+
+- scenario: Fix EOS handling in seek_forward.scenario
+- validate-utils: Only modify structure fields that really need
+ updates
+- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with
+ gcc 11)
+
+gst-integration-testsuites
+
+- validate: Update interlace_deinterlace_alternate to remove
+ field-order from expected caps
+
+gst-build
+
+- git-update: Make fetching of external repos non-fatal on the CI
+- gst-env: Windows: Fix looking for cmd_or_ps.ps1 in the wrong
+ directory
+- Pin gst-plugins-rs subproject to 0.7 branch
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.18.5
+
+- cerbero: Add a dotted progress bar for urllib downloads
+- libunwind: make sure all pkgconfig files get included in the devel
+ package
+- openssl.recipe: Bump to 1.1.1k
+- glib: Fix hang on Windows when G_SLICE env is configured
+- utils: Support latest Debian release names
+- enums: generate fedora version strings automatically
+- Rework cmake build system
+- spandsp: Fix build error with Visual Studio 2019
+
+Contributors to 1.18.5
+
+Alba Mendez, Andoni Morales Alastruey, Antonio Rojas, Bartłomiej
+Kurzeja, Binh Truong, Daniel Knobe, Doug Nazar, Edward Hervey, He
+Junyan, Hou Qi, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Schmidt, Marijn
+Suijten, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Michael Olbrich, Miguel
+Paris, Nicholas Jackson, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan, Olivier
+Crête, Per Förlin, Philippe Normand, Robin Burchell, Ruslan Khamidullin,
+Scott Moreau, Sebastian Dröge, Sergei Kovalev, Seungha Yang, Stéphane
+Cerveau, Steve McDaniel, Thibault Saunier, Tim-Philipp Müller, Víctor
+Manuel Jáquez Leal, Xavier Claessens, Youngsoo Lee,
+
+… 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 1.18.5
+
+- List of Merge Requests applied in 1.18.5
+- List of Issues fixed in 1.18.5
+
Schedule for 1.20
Our next major feature release will be 1.20, and 1.19 will be the
@@ -2886,9 +3190,9 @@ 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, but it
-is now expected that feature freeze will take place some time in April
-2021, with the first 1.20 stable release hopefully around April/May
-2021.
+is now expected that feature freeze will take place some time in
+September/October 2021, with the first 1.20 stable release hopefully
+towards the end of October 2021.
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.