GStreamer 1.18.5 release tracker

Milestone 1.18.5

• Milestone 1.18.5 Overview: %1.18.5

Todo

• Merge Requests with Needs backport label
• Issues with Needs backport label
• Merge Requests with Maybe backport label
• Merge Requests with 1.18.5 milestone
• Issues with 1.18.5 milestone
• Ensure all Merge Requests on the 1.18 branch have a milestone set or are labelled as No milestone
• Issues with Security label

For bonus points:

• Issues with next-stable milestone
• Merge Requests with next-stable milestone
• check that there are no closed issues / merged MRs with %"next-stable" milestone

Prep

• www: add release note entry and add contributors
• update translations (to make sure we don't forget during release)

Modules

• git commit, tag, upload tarball for each of:
• gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, gst-libav, gst-rtsp-server, gst-editing-services, gst-devtools, gst-python, gstreamer-vaapi, gst-omx, gstreamer-sharp
• GPG sign source tarballs: for i in */*1.18.5.tar.xz; do gpg --armor --detach-sign $i; done

Cerbero

• macOS framework is unusable starting from 1.18.0 - fix or un-tag as blocker - not waiting with 1.18.5 for this, can always tag a 1.18.5.1 if needed
• build 1.18.5 tag - cerbero!728 (merged)
• binaries
  • Windows x86 MinGW (@nirbheek)
  • Windows x86_64 MinGW (@nirbheek)
  • Windows x86 MSVC (@nirbheek)
  • Windows x86_64 MSVC (@nirbheek)
  • Windows UWP release-crt (@nirbheek)
  • Windows UWP debug-crt (@nirbheek)
  • Android (@thaytan)
  • macOS (@ystreet)
  • iOS (@ystreet)
  • source bundle (@thaytan)
  • check for sha265sums for binaries
  • check for GPG signatures for binaries
• tag cerbero (@tpm)
• build 1.18 branch again
• update download section on website
• announce binaries (twitter, gstreamer-devel)

gst-build

• bump gst-integration-testsuites version
• build 1.18.5 tag: gst-build!263 (merged)
• tag gst-build
• build 1.18 branch again: gst-build!264 (merged)

Announce

• Mailing lists
• Website: news item: www!38 (merged)
• Website: release notes: www!38 (merged)
• Twitter
• Upload tarballs to GNOME FTP
• IRC channel topic