Release 1.22.81.22.8

59 files changed, 2052 insertions, 84 deletions

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fb1c54b2c0..29a7f2a03a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gstreamer-full', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62.0',
   default_options : ['buildtype=debugoptimized',
                      # Needed due to https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1889,
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-devtools/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-devtools/RELEASE
index d48fc9943c..9faf933e90 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-devtools 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-devtools 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/gst-devtools.doap b/subprojects/gst-devtools/gst-devtools.doap
index 807cf1fd9f..6a780acef6 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/gst-devtools.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/gst-devtools.doap
@@ -55,6 +55,16 @@
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-devtools/gst-devtools-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson.build
index f3e6420bea..236f3dd9ff 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-devtools', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'c_std=gnu99',
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-docs/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-docs/meson.build
index 12c29b509a..75704dc64c 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-docs/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-docs/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('GStreamer manuals and tutorials', 'c',
-  version: '1.22.7.1',
+  version: '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62')
 
 hotdoc_p = find_program('hotdoc')
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/RELEASE
index d7c7574a44..8cf01b2b19 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-editing-services 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-editing-services 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services.doap b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services.doap
index fbe03c123b..fe8b11db73 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services.doap
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ GStreamer library for creating audio and video editors
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
index 59e6ecd5c4..fc4f3cc45f 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-editing-services', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-examples/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-examples/meson.build
index f627b8d095..3c14f54413 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-examples/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-examples/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('gst-examples', 'c', version : '1.22.7.1', license : 'LGPL')
+project('gst-examples', 'c', version : '1.22.8', license : 'LGPL')
 
 cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
 m_dep = cc.find_library('m', required : false)
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-integration-testsuites/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-integration-testsuites/meson.build
index 9147d5034e..015073b437 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-integration-testsuites/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-integration-testsuites/meson.build
@@ -1 +1 @@
-project('gst-integration-testsuites', [], version: '1.22.7.1', meson_version : '>= 0.62', license: 'LGPL')
+project('gst-integration-testsuites', [], version: '1.22.8', meson_version : '>= 0.62', license: 'LGPL')
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-libav/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-libav/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-libav/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-libav/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-libav/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-libav/RELEASE
index 92b898b393..6266c61421 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-libav/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-libav/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-libav 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-libav 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-libav/gst-libav.doap b/subprojects/gst-libav/gst-libav.doap
index c654c9acb5..17a37e11ce 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-libav/gst-libav.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-libav/gst-libav.doap
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ colorspace conversion elements.
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-libav/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-libav/meson.build
index 0e7360b66b..8cd5ad84e8 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-libav/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-libav/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-libav', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-omx/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-omx/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-omx/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-omx/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-omx/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-omx/RELEASE
index 376e3d4fc0..6ce0b32833 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-omx/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-omx/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-omx 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-omx 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-omx/gst-omx.doap b/subprojects/gst-omx/gst-omx.doap
index 3fc6c7d2f7..40249d7587 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-omx/gst-omx.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-omx/gst-omx.doap
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ a basic collection of elements
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-omx/gst-omx-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-omx/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-omx/meson.build
index 7537c8d84d..fda3bb343b 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-omx/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-omx/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-omx', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/RELEASE
index 159761eb17..e1852a1a83 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-bad 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad.doap b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad.doap
index 3e099c65e4..0f3ae2ddd9 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad.doap
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ real live maintainer, or some actual wide use.
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
index 2740ba5898..0590dbeac0 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-plugins-bad', 'c', 'cpp',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/RELEASE
index bf9c810fad..ed96554826 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-plugins-base 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-base 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base.doap b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base.doap
index e4afc3cc2f..8e9e9607aa 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base.doap
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ A wide range of video and audio decoders, encoders, and filters are included.
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
index f6ea7496b5..64589409d7 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-plugins-base', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/RELEASE
index 20e2ccb41d..b4947707b4 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-good 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
index 2f86df8cc4..57150cf136 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
@@ -7027,7 +7027,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.7.1 FLV muxer",
+                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.8 FLV muxer",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
@@ -7039,7 +7039,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.7.1 FLV muxer",
+                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.8 FLV muxer",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
@@ -21257,7 +21257,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer/1.22.7.1",
+                        "default": "GStreamer/1.22.8",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
@@ -21816,7 +21816,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.7.1",
+                        "default": "GStreamer 1.22.8",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
@@ -23253,7 +23253,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer souphttpsrc 1.22.7.1 ",
+                        "default": "GStreamer souphttpsrc 1.22.8 ",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good.doap b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good.doap
index 4a616629cd..1fe7818469 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good.doap
@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library).
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
index b87dbc5c83..6419fde188 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-plugins-good', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-rs.wrap b/subprojects/gst-plugins-rs.wrap
index f4d0b23f8d..e8368fe86b 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-rs.wrap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-rs.wrap
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 directory=gst-plugins-rs
 url=https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs.git
 push-url=git@gitlab.freedesktop.org:gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs.git
-revision=0.9
+revision=gstreamer-1.22.8
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/RELEASE
index c1221afd99..a91ed0eed1 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-plugins-ugly 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-plugins-ugly 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly.doap b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly.doap
index 811c638c98..7cfa0aa2bd 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly.doap
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ might be widely known to present patent problems.
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
index e22a7df752..5ffe557496 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-plugins-ugly', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-python/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-python/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-python/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-python/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-python/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-python/RELEASE
index 18f95fa5ea..715a1ed48f 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-python/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-python/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-python 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-python 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-python/gst-python.doap b/subprojects/gst-python/gst-python.doap
index 74a56772bc..300aaaf3a7 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-python/gst-python.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-python/gst-python.doap
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ GStreamer Python Bindings is a set of overrides and Gst fundamental types handli
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python/gst-python-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-python/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-python/meson.build
index 5d90a3b8d4..7898213955 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-python/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-python/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-python', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'c_std=gnu99',
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/NEWS b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/RELEASE b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/RELEASE
index 94134337e1..e8a4243173 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gst-rtsp-server 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gst-rtsp-server 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/docs/plugins/gst_plugins_cache.json b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/docs/plugins/gst_plugins_cache.json
index 920c8b687f..619c802b29 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/docs/plugins/gst_plugins_cache.json
+++ b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/docs/plugins/gst_plugins_cache.json
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
                         "construct": false,
                         "construct-only": false,
                         "controllable": false,
-                        "default": "GStreamer/1.22.7.1",
+                        "default": "GStreamer/1.22.8",
                         "mutable": "null",
                         "readable": true,
                         "type": "gchararray",
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server.doap b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server.doap
index 6fa9efe135..45790a1ebb 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server.doap
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ RTSP server library based on GStreamer
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/meson.build
index 7891971261..e49199d03a 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-rtsp-server/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gst-rtsp-server', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : ['warning_level=1', 'buildtype=debugoptimized'])
 
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/meson.build
index 734bc4f9f7..d20d43cd8a 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/meson.build
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-project('gstreamer-sharp', ['cs', 'c'], version: '1.22.7.1',
+project('gstreamer-sharp', ['cs', 'c'], version: '1.22.8',
     meson_version : '>= 0.62', license: 'LGPL')
 
 if host_machine.system() == 'osx'
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst.PbUtils/Constants.cs b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst.PbUtils/Constants.cs
index f4c0f437ef..f6d0560487 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst.PbUtils/Constants.cs
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst.PbUtils/Constants.cs
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ namespace Gst.PbUtils {
 		public const string ENCODING_CATEGORY_ONLINE_SERVICE = @"online-service";
 		public const string ENCODING_CATEGORY_STORAGE_EDITING = @"storage-editing";
 		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR = 1;
-		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO = 7;
+		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO = 8;
 		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MINOR = 22;
-		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_NANO = 1;
+		public const int PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_NANO = 0;
 #endregion
 	}
 }
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst/Constants.cs b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst/Constants.cs
index 9d51d7f342..8065c6adc6 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst/Constants.cs
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/Gst/Constants.cs
@@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ namespace Gst {
 		public const int VALUE_LESS_THAN = -1;
 		public const int VALUE_UNORDERED = 2;
 		public const int VERSION_MAJOR = 1;
-		public const int VERSION_MICRO = 7;
+		public const int VERSION_MICRO = 8;
 		public const int VERSION_MINOR = 22;
-		public const int VERSION_NANO = 1;
+		public const int VERSION_NANO = 0;
 #endregion
 	}
 }
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/gstreamer-sharp-api.xml b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/gstreamer-sharp-api.xml
index 9c14d06640..d4503d1c5e 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/gstreamer-sharp-api.xml
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-sharp/sources/generated/gstreamer-sharp-api.xml
@@ -12127,10 +12127,10 @@
       <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint" name="VALUE_GREATER_THAN" />
       <constant value="-1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint" name="VALUE_LESS_THAN" />
       <constant value="2" ctype="gint" gtype="gint" name="VALUE_UNORDERED" />
-      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="VERSION_MAJOR" />
-      <constant value="7" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="VERSION_MICRO" />
-      <constant value="22" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="VERSION_MINOR" />
-      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="VERSION_NANO" />
+      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="VERSION_MAJOR" />
+      <constant value="8" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="VERSION_MICRO" />
+      <constant value="22" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="VERSION_MINOR" />
+      <constant value="0" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="VERSION_NANO" />
     </object>
     <class name="Parse" cname="GstParse" disable_void_ctor="1">
       <method name="ParseBinFromDescription" cname="gst_parse_bin_from_description" shared="true">
@@ -21582,10 +21582,10 @@
       <constant value="file-extension" ctype="gchar*" gtype="gchar*" name="ENCODING_CATEGORY_FILE_EXTENSION" />
       <constant value="online-service" ctype="gchar*" gtype="gchar*" name="ENCODING_CATEGORY_ONLINE_SERVICE" />
       <constant value="storage-editing" ctype="gchar*" gtype="gchar*" name="ENCODING_CATEGORY_STORAGE_EDITING" />
-      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR" />
-      <constant value="7" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO" />
-      <constant value="22" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MINOR" />
-      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                             name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_NANO" />
+      <constant value="1" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MAJOR" />
+      <constant value="8" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MICRO" />
+      <constant value="22" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_MINOR" />
+      <constant value="0" ctype="gint" gtype="gint"                              name="PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION_NANO" />
     </object>
   </namespace>
   <namespace name="Gst.Rtp" library="gstrtp-1.0-0.dll">
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/NEWS b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/RELEASE b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/RELEASE
index dc9ed00bd2..57fee0ab99 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer gstreamer-vaapi 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer gstreamer-vaapi 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi.doap b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi.doap
index a52bc88ba3..63205bf21e 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi.doap
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson.build
index 108cad9d3f..2849f893fe 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gstreamer-vaapi', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/NEWS b/subprojects/gstreamer/NEWS
index e7c25cc94f..d561a390c3 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/NEWS
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/NEWS
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.22 Release Notes
 
 GStreamer 1.22.0 was originally released on 23 January 2023.
 
-The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.7 and was
-released on 13 November 2023.
+The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.22 series is 1.22.8 and was
+released on 18 December 2023.
 
 See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.22/ for the latest
 version of this document.
 
-Last updated: Monday 13 November 2023, 10:00 UTC (log)
+Last updated: Monday 18 December 2023, 11:00 UTC (log)
 
 Introduction
 
@@ -2582,6 +2582,160 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.22.7
 -   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.7
 -   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.7
 
+1.22.8
+
+The eight 1.22 bug-fix release (1.22.8) was released on 18 December
+2023.
+
+This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be
+safe to update from 1.22.x.
+
+Highlighted bugfixes in 1.22.8
+
+-   Security fixes for the AV1 video codec parser
+-   avdec video decoder: fix another possible deadlock with FFmpeg 6.1
+-   qtdemux: reverse playback and seeking fixes for files with raw audio
+    streams
+-   v4l2: fix “newly allocated buffer … is not free” warning log flood
+-   GstPlay + GstPlayer library fixes
+-   dtls: Fix build failure on Windows when compiling against OpenSSL
+    3.2.0
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   Cerbero build tool: More python 3.12 string escape warning fixes;
+    make sure to bundle build tools as well
+-   various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other
+    stability and reliability improvements
+
+gstreamer
+
+-   buffer: Unref memories before metas
+-   pad: Recheck pads when linking after temporary unlock
+-   baseparse: Fixes to buffers extracted from adapter
+
+gst-plugins-base
+
+-   appsrc: Fix flow return when buffer is dropped
+-   audioringbuffer: Don’t try to map MONO channel
+-   encoding-target: Properly free when missing type field in
+    parse_encoding_profile
+-   pbutils: Don’t include default vp9 parameters in resulting codec
+    mime string
+-   videorate: Don’t forget last_ts on caps changes
+
+gst-plugins-good
+
+-   dcaparse: keep upstream buffer meta
+-   rtpklvdepay: Recover after invalid fragmented KLV unit
+-   matroska-demux: fix accumulated base offset in segment seeks
+-   qtdemux: fix bug report URL
+-   qtdemux: Don’t overflow sample index
+-   qtdemux: Fix reverse playback for pcm audio stream
+-   qtdemux: Ignore raw audio streams when adjusting seek
+-   qtdemux: Under-seeking to a key unit in certain (encoded by Adobe
+    products) ProRes movies (macOS x86_64 & arm64, Windows x86_64, …)
+-   rtpac3depay: should output audio/x-ac3 not audio/ac3
+-   rtp: Fix incorrect RTP channel order lookup by name
+-   v4l2bufferpool: add lock as atomic operation for seek
+
+gst-plugins-bad
+
+-   aesenc: Fix IV length addition to output buffer length
+-   av1parser: Fix array sizes in scalability structure
+-   camerabin: Fix source updates with user filters
+-   codecparsers: av1: Clip max tile rows and cols values
+-   dtlscertificate: Define WINSOCKAPI before including windows.h
+-   d3d11: fix building with address sanitizer
+-   d3d11screencapturesrc: Fix wrong color with HDR enabled
+-   h264decoder: Fix GstVideoCodecFrame leak
+-   ladspa: Make RDF parsing truly optional
+-   rtponviftimestamp: Fix drop-out-of-segment=false mode
+-   qsvdecoder: Fix stream format detection
+-   webrtcsdp: Remove fingerprint validation that doesn’t make sense
+-   GstPlay: Automatically flush the bus when disposing the signal
+    adapter
+-   GstPlayer: Without dispatcher emit signals directly instead of via
+    the default main context
+
+gst-plugins-ugly
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-plugins-rs
+
+-   threadshare: Fix a deadlock in used-socket notification
+-   threadshare: Fix a typo while logging
+-   webrtcsink: don’t panic on failure to request pad from webrtcbin
+-   ndi: Remove wrong Clone impl on RecvInstance
+-   ndi: Don’t mark private type as public
+-   fallbacksrc: Fix timeout scheduling
+
+gst-libav
+
+-   avviddec: Unlock stream lock while waiting for decoded frame. Fixes
+    potential deadlock
+-   avviddec: Calculate latency only for fixed framerate
+
+gst-rtsp-server
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-vaapi
+
+-   No changes
+
+gstreamer-sharp
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-omx
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-python
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-editing-services
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
+
+-   No changes
+
+gst-examples
+
+-   No changes
+
+Development build environment
+
+-   No changes
+
+Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.22.8
+
+-   cerbero: Fix some more python 3.12 string escape warnings
+-   cerbero: Fix bundle-source not including build-tools recipes, fix
+    CalledProcessError handling
+-   pango: Add Perl interpreter consistency check
+
+Contributors to 1.22.8
+
+Alessandro Bono, Alexander Slobodeniuk, Arun Raghavan, Benjamin
+Gaignard, Daniel Moberg, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Guillaume Desmottes,
+Hosang Lee, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), jeri.li, Jimmy Ohn, L. E.
+Segovia, Mathieu Duponchelle, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan,
+Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Rabindra Harlalka,
+Robert Mader, Robin Gustavsson, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stefan
+Brüns, Tim-Philipp Müller, Xavier Claessens,
+
+… 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 1.22.8
+
+-   List of Merge Requests applied in 1.22.8
+-   List of Issues fixed in 1.22.8
+
 Schedule for 1.24
 
 Our next major feature release will be 1.24, and 1.23 will be the
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/RELEASE b/subprojects/gstreamer/RELEASE
index 2133be9a1e..dd4d443d8d 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/RELEASE
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/RELEASE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is GStreamer core 1.22.7.
+This is GStreamer core 1.22.8.
 
 The GStreamer team is thrilled to announce a new major feature release
 of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/gstreamer.doap b/subprojects/gstreamer/gstreamer.doap
index 7579d49724..054b4377ba 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/gstreamer.doap
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/gstreamer.doap
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
 
  <release>
   <Version>
+   <revision>1.22.8</revision>
+   <branch>1.22</branch>
+   <name></name>
+   <created>2023-12-18</created>
+   <file-release rdf:resource="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.22.8.tar.xz" />
+  </Version>
+ </release>
+
+ <release>
+  <Version>
    <revision>1.22.7</revision>
    <branch>1.22</branch>
    <name></name>
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
index 0e8a740adf..e175021a45 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gstreamer', 'c',
-  version : '1.22.7.1',
+  version : '1.22.8',
   meson_version : '>= 0.62',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=1',
                       'buildtype=debugoptimized' ])