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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.18 Release Notes GStreamer 1.18.0 was originally released on 8 September 2020. -The latest bug-fix release in the 1.18 series is 1.18.4 and was released -on 15 March 2021. +The latest bug-fix release in the 1.18 series is 1.18.5 and was released +on 8 September 2021. See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.18/ for the latest version of this document. -Last updated: Monday 15 March 2021, 13:00 UTC (log) +Last updated: Wednesday 8 September 2021, 11:00 UTC (log) Introduction @@ -2102,7 +2102,10 @@ Possibly Breaking Changes Known Issues -- None in particular +- GStreamer 1.18 versions <= 1.18.4 would fail to build on Linux with + Meson 0.58 due to an issue with the include directories. Either + apply the patch or build with an older Meson version (<= 0.57) until + there is a GStreamer 1.18.5 release that includes the fix. Contributors @@ -2879,6 +2882,307 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.18.4 - List of Merge Requests applied in 1.18.4 - List of Issues fixed in 1.18.4 +1.18.5 + +The fifth 1.18 bug-fix release (1.18.5) was released on 8 September +2021. + +This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be +safe to update from 1.18.x. + +Highlighted bugfixes in 1.18.5 + +- basesink: fix reverse frame stepping +- downloadbuffer/sparsefile: several fixes for win32 +- systemclock: Update monotonic reference time when re-scheduling, + fixes high CPU usage with gnome-music when pausing playback +- audioaggregator: fix glitches when resyncing on discont +- compositor: Fix NV12 blend operation +- rtspconnection: Add IPv6 support for tunneled mode +- avidemux: fix playback of some H.264-in-AVI streams +- jpegdec: Fix crash when interlaced field height is not DCT block + size aligned +- qmlglsink: Keep old buffers around a bit longer if they were bound + by QML +- qml: qtitem: don’t potentially leak a large number of buffers +- rtpjpegpay: fix image corruption when compiled with MSVC on Windows +- rtspsrc: seeking improvements +- rtpjitterbuffer: Avoid generation of invalid timestamps +- rtspsrc: Fix behaviour of select-streams, new-manager, + request-rtcp-key and before-send signals with GLib >= 2.62 +- multiudpsink: Fix broken SO_SNDBUF get/set on Windows +- openh264enc: fix broken sps/pps header generation and some minor + leaks +- mpeg2enc: fix interlace-mode detection and unbound memory usage if + encoder can’t keep up +- mfvideosrc: Fix for negative MF stride and for negotiation when + interlace-mode is specified +- tsdemux: fix seek-with-stop regression and decoding errors after + seeking with dvdlpcmdec +- rtsp-server: seek handling improvements +- gst-libav: fix build (and other issues) with ffmpeg 4.4 +- cerbero: spandsp: Fix build error with Visual Studio 2019 +- win32 packages: Fix hang in GLib when G_SLICE environment variable + is set + +gstreamer + +- aggregator: Release the SRC lock while querying latency +- aggregator: Release pads’ peeked buffer when removing the pad or + finalizing it +- basesink: Don’t swap rstart/rstop when stepping +- basesrc: Print segments with GST_SEGMENT_FORMAT and not + GST_PTR_FORMAT +- childproxy: init value in gst_child_proxy_get_property() if needed +- clocksync: Fix providing system clock by default +- concat: Properly propagate seqnum of segment events +- concat: adjust running time offsets on downstream events +- concat: fix locking in SEGMENT event handler +- downloadbuffer/sparsefile: several fixes for win32 +- element: NULL the lists of contexts in dispose() +- multiqueue: Use running time of gap events for wakeups. +- multiqueue: Ensure peer pad exists when iterating internal links +- pad: Keep IDLE probe hook alive during immediate callback +- pad: Ensure last flow return is set on sink pads in push mode +- pad: Don’t spam the debug log at INFO level when default-chaining a + buffer list +- pad: clear probes holding mutex +- parse-launch: Fix a critical when using the : operator. +- parse-launch: Don’t do delayed property setting for top-level + properties. +- plugin: load plugins with unknown license strings +- ptpclock: Don’t leak the GList +- queue2: Refuse all serialized queries when posting buffering + messages +- systemclock: Update monotonic reference time when re-scheduling +- High CPU usage in 1.18 (but not master) when pausing playback in + gnome-music +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-plugins-base + +- appsrc: Don’t leak buffer list while wrongly unreffing buffer on + EOS/flushing +- audioaggregator: Don’t overwrite already written samples +- audioaggregator: Resync on the next buffer when dropping a buffer on + discont resyncing +- audiobasesink: Fix of double lock release +- audioaggregator: Don’t overwrite already written samples +- audiobasesrc: Fix divide by zero assertion +- clockoverlay: Fix broken string formatting by strftime() on Windows +- compositor: Fix NV12 blend operation +- giosrc: Don’t leak scheme string in gst_gio_src_query() +- giobasesink: Handle incomplete writes in gst_gio_base_sink_render() +- gl/wayland: Use consistent wl_display when creating work queue for + proxy wrapper +- gl: Fix build when Meson >= 0.58.0rc1 +- gl/wayland: provide a dummy global_remove function +- playbin2: fix base_time selection when flush seeking live (such as + with RTSP) +- rtspconnection: Add IPv6 support for tunneled mode +- rtspconnection: Consistently translate GIOError to GstRTSPResult + (for rtspsrc) +- rawbaseparse: check destination format correctly +- uridecodebin: Don’t force floating reference for future reusable + decodebin +- parsebin: Put stream flags in GstStream +- splitmuxsink: always use factory property when set +- video-converter: Set up matrix tables only once. +- videoscale: Performance degradation from 1.16.2 -> 1.18.4 +- videotestsrc: Fix a leak when computing alpha caps +- audio/video-converter: Plug some minor leaks +- audio,video-format: Make generate_raw_formats idempotent for + assertions +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) +- Fix build issue on MinGW64 + +gst-plugins-good + +- avidemux: Also detect 0x000001 as H264 byte-stream start code in + codec_data +- deinterlace: Plug a method subobject leak +- deinterlace: Drop field-order field if outputting progressive +- jpegdec: Fix crash when interlaced field height is not DCT block + size aligned +- qmlglsink: Keep old buffers around a bit longer if they were bound + by QML +- qml: qtitem: don’t potentially leak a large number of buffers +- qtdemux: Force stream-start push when re-using EOS’d streams +- qtmux: for Apple ProRes, allow overriding pixel bit depth, e.g. when + exporting an opaque image, yet with alpha. +- qtmux: Make sure to write 64-bit STCO table when needed. +- rtpjpegpay: fix image corruption when compiled with MSVC on Windows +- rtpptdemux: Remove pads also in PAUSED->READY +- rtph265depay: update codec_data in caps regardless of format +- rtspsrc: Do not overwrite the known duration after a seek +- rtspsrc: De-dup seek event seqnums to avoid multiple seeks +- rtspsrc: Fix race saving seek event seqnum +- rtspsrc: Using multicast UDP has no relation to seekability, also + add some logging +- rtpjitterbuffer: Fix parsing of the mediaclk:direct= field +- rtpjitterbuffer: Avoid generation of invalid timestamps +- rtpjitterbuffer: Check srcresult before waiting on the condition + variable too +- rtpjitterbuffer: More logging when calculating rfc7273 timestamps +- rtspsrc: Fix more signals +- rtspsrc: Fix accumulation of before-send signal return values +- souphttpsrc: Always use the content decoder but set + `Accept-Encoding:… +- udpsrc: Plug leaks of saddr in error cases +- multiudpsink: Fix broken SO_SNDBUF get/set on Windows +- v4l2object: Add interlace-mode back to caps for camera +- v4l2object: Use default colorimetry if that in caps is unknown +- V4l2object: Avoid colorimetry mismatch for streams with invalid + colorimetry +- v4l2object: Add support for hdr10 stream playback +- wavparse: adtl/note/labl chunk parsing fixes +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) +- 1.18.4: build fails with glib 2.67.6 and gcc-11: argument 2 of + ‘__atomic_load’ must not be a pointer to a ‘volatile’ type + +gst-plugins-bad + +- audiolatency: Use live mode audiotestsrc +- audiolatency: Handle audio buffers with invalid duration +- ccconverter: fix framerate caps negotiation from non-cdp to cdp +- dashdemux: Properly initalize GError, remove duplicate logging call +- dashdemux: Log protection events on corresponding pad +- dashdemux: fix dash_mpdparser_check_mpd_client_set_methods unit test +- h264parse,h265parse: Push parameter set NAL units again per + segment-done +- h265parse: Fix a typo in get_compatible_profile_caps() +- h265parse: don’t invalidate the last PPS when parsing a new SPS +- h264parse: improve PPS handling +- h2645parser: Catch overflows in AVC/HEVC NAL unit length + calculations +- interlace: Don’t set field-order field for progressive caps, fixes + negotiation issues +- interlace: Fix too small buffer size error +- jpegparse: Don’t generate timestamp for 0/1 framerates +- opencv: fix build error on macOS +- openexr: Fix build with OpenEXR 3 +- openh264enc: fix broken sps/pps header generation and some minor + leaks +- mpeg2enc: fix interlace-mode detection on input video +- mpeg2enc: Only allow 1 pending frame for encoding (fixes unbound + memory usage in case encoder can’t keep up with input) +- mfvideoenc: Don’t pass 0/1 framerate to MFT +- mfvideosrc: Fix for negative MF stride +- mfvideosrc: Fix negotiation when interlace-mode is specified +- mxfvanc: Handle empty ANC essence +- rtmp2src: workaround a GLib race when destroying a + GMainContext/GSource +- rtpsrc: Plug leak of rtcp_send_addr and fix setting URI back to NULL +- rtpsink: Return proper pad from _request_new_pad() +- rist: Plug leak of rtcp_send_addr +- rtmp2: Use correct size of write macro for param2. +- rtmp2/connection: Separate inner from outer cancelling +- tsmux: When selecting random PIDs, name the pads according to those + PIDs +- tsmux: Recheck existing pad PIDs when requesting a new pad with a + random pid +- tsdemux: fix seek with stop regression +- tsdemux: Clear all streams when rewinding, fixes the case where the + demuxer sends out partial invalid data downstream after a seek which + causes some decoders (such as dvdlpmdec) to error out +- v4l2slh264dec: Fix slice header bit size calculation +- videoparseutils: Fix for wrong CEA708 minimum size check +- waylandsink: Fix for missing initial configure +- wpe: Make threaded view singleton creation thread safe +- x265: Fix a deadlock when failing to create the x265enc +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-plugins-ugly + +- asfdemux/realmedia: Drop duplicate seek events +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-libav + +- avmux: Blacklist ttml subtitles (fixes crash with ffmpeg >= 4.4) +- avmux: fix segfault when a plugin’s long_name is NULL +- avviddec: Fix size of linesize parameter +- avviddec: Take into account coded_height for pool +- avdemux: fix build with FFmpeg 4.4 + +gst-rtsp-server + +- rtsp-media: Ensure the bus watch is removed during unprepare +- rtsp-media: Add one more case to seek avoidance +- rtsp-media: Improve skipping trickmode seek +- Fix a few memory leaks + +gstreamer-vaapi + +- plugins: Demote rank of vaapipostproc and vaapioverlay to match + other filters +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-editing-services + +- xml-formatter: Fix allocation size of buffer +- framepositioner: Fix runtime warning +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-devtools + +- scenario: Fix EOS handling in seek_forward.scenario +- validate-utils: Only modify structure fields that really need + updates +- Don’t use volatile to mean atomic (fixes compiler warnings with + gcc 11) + +gst-integration-testsuites + +- validate: Update interlace_deinterlace_alternate to remove + field-order from expected caps + +gst-build + +- git-update: Make fetching of external repos non-fatal on the CI +- gst-env: Windows: Fix looking for cmd_or_ps.ps1 in the wrong + directory +- Pin gst-plugins-rs subproject to 0.7 branch + +Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.18.5 + +- cerbero: Add a dotted progress bar for urllib downloads +- libunwind: make sure all pkgconfig files get included in the devel + package +- openssl.recipe: Bump to 1.1.1k +- glib: Fix hang on Windows when G_SLICE env is configured +- utils: Support latest Debian release names +- enums: generate fedora version strings automatically +- Rework cmake build system +- spandsp: Fix build error with Visual Studio 2019 + +Contributors to 1.18.5 + +Alba Mendez, Andoni Morales Alastruey, Antonio Rojas, Bartłomiej +Kurzeja, Binh Truong, Daniel Knobe, Doug Nazar, Edward Hervey, He +Junyan, Hou Qi, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Schmidt, Marijn +Suijten, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Michael Olbrich, Miguel +Paris, Nicholas Jackson, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan, Olivier +Crête, Per Förlin, Philippe Normand, Robin Burchell, Ruslan Khamidullin, +Scott Moreau, Sebastian Dröge, Sergei Kovalev, Seungha Yang, Stéphane +Cerveau, Steve McDaniel, Thibault Saunier, Tim-Philipp Müller, Víctor +Manuel Jáquez Leal, Xavier Claessens, Youngsoo Lee, + +… and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent +suggestions or helped testing. Thank you all! + +List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.18.5 + +- List of Merge Requests applied in 1.18.5 +- List of Issues fixed in 1.18.5 + Schedule for 1.20 Our next major feature release will be 1.20, and 1.19 will be the @@ -2886,9 +3190,9 @@ unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.20 release. The development of 1.19/1.20 will happen in the git master branch. The plan for the 1.20 development cycle is yet to be confirmed, but it -is now expected that feature freeze will take place some time in April -2021, with the first 1.20 stable release hopefully around April/May -2021. +is now expected that feature freeze will take place some time in +September/October 2021, with the first 1.20 stable release hopefully +towards the end of October 2021. 1.20 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.18, 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10, 1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0 release series. |