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1.20.4
The fourth 1.20 bug-fix release (1.20.4) was released on 12 October 2022.
This release only contains bugfixes and it should be safe to upgrade from 1.20.x.
Highlighted bugfixes in 1.20.4
- avaudiodec: fix playback issue with WMA files, would throw an error at EOS with FFmpeg 5.x
- Fix deadlock when loading gst-editing-services plugin
- Fix input buffering capacity in live mode for aggregator, video/audio aggregator subclasses, muxers
- glimagesink: fix crash on Android
- subtitle handling and subtitle overlay fixes
- matroska-mux: allow width + height changes for avc3|hev1|vp8|vp9
- rtspsrc: fix control url handling for spec compliant servers and add fallback for incompliant servers
- WebRTC fixes
- RTP retransmission fixes
- video: fixes for formats with 4x subsampling and horizontal co-sited chroma (Y41B, YUV9, YVU9 and IYU9)
- macOS build and packaging fixes, in particular fix finding of gio modules on macOS for https/TLS support
- Performance improvements
- Miscellaneous bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements
gstreamer
- buffer: drop parent meta in deep copy/foreach_metadata
- devicemonitor: Use a sync bus handler for the provider to avoid accumulating all messages until the provider is stopped
- element: Fix requesting of pads with string templates
- gst: Protect initialization state with a recursive mutex
- gst: add missing define guard for build without gstreamer debug logging support
- gst_init: Initialize static plugins just before dynamic plugins
- info: Parse "NONE" as a valid level name
- meta: Set the parent refcount of the GstStructure correctly
- pluginloader: Don't hang on short reads/writes
- tracers: leaks: fix potentially invalid memory access when trying to detect object type
- tracers: leaks: fix object-refings.class flags
- uri: When setting the same string again do nothing
- value: Don't loop forever when serializing invalid flag
Base Libraries
- aggregator: fix input buffering in live mode (was too low before in many cases)
- aggregator: fix reversed active/flushing arguments in debug log output
- aggregator: Reset EOS flag after receiving a stream-start event
Core Elements
- queue2: Hold the lock when modifying sinkresult
- queue2: Fix deadlock when deactivate is called in pull mode
gst-plugins-base
- decodebin3: fix mutex leaks
- decodebin3: Fix memory issues with active selection list
- decodebin3, uridecodebin3, urisourcebin: Event handling fixes
- decodebin3: fix EOS event sequence
- parsebin: Avoid crash with unknown streams
- parsebin: SIGSEGV during HLS stream using souphttpsrc
- glimagesink: only allow setting the GL display/context if it is a valid value
- glimagesink: segfault on android devices
- gstgl: Fix several memory leaks in macOS
- opusenc: improve inband-fec property documentation
- playsink: Hold a reference to the soft volume element
- pbutils: descriptions: fix gst_pb_utils_get_caps_description_flags()
- rtspurl: Use gst_uri_join_strings() in gst_rtsp_url_get_request_uri_with_control() instead of a hand-crafted, wrong version
- rtspconnection: protect cancellable by a mutex
- sdpmessage: Don't set SDP medias from caps without media/payload/clock-rate fields
- samiparse: fix handling of self-closing tags
- ssaparse: include required system headers for isspace() and sscanf() functions
- subparse: fix crash when parsing invalid timestamps in mpl2
- subparse fixes
- textoverlay: Don't miscalculate text running times
- videoaggregator: always convert when user provides converter-config
- video: Fix scaling in 4x horizontal co-sited chroma (Y41B, YUV9, YVU9 and IYU9)
- xmptag: register musicbrainz tags during init to fix critical in jpegparse
- xvimagesink: fix image leaks in error code path
- tests: skip unit tests for dependency-less elements that have been disabled
Tools
- No changes
gst-plugins-good
- alpha: fix stride issue when out buffer has padding on right
- isoff: Fix earliest pts field parse issue
- matroska-mux: allow width + height changes for avc3|hev1|vp8|vp9
- qt: Fix another instance of Qt/GStreamer both defining
GLsyncdifferently - qtdemux: Avoid crash on reconfiguring.
- qtdemux: guard against timestamp calculation overflow in gap event loop
- qtdemux: Don't use invalid values from failed trex parsing
- qtdemux: possible endless loop
- rtpjitterbuffer: Only unschedule timers for late packets if they're not RTX packets and only once
- rtpjitterbuffer: remove lost timer for out of order packets
- rtspsrc: SETUP generates 400 Bad Request
- rtspsrc: Retry SETUP with non-compliant URL resolution on "Bad Request" and "Not found"
- rtpst2022-1-fecenc: Drain column packets on EOS
- rtpvp8depay: If configured to wait for keyframes after packet loss, also do that if incomplete frames are detected
- splitmuxsink: Don't crash on EOS without buffer
- splitmuxsrc: Stop pad task before cleanup
- splitmuxsrc: don't consider unlinked pads when deactivating part
- soup: libsoup3 makes audio streaming stop
- v4l2: fix critical when unreferencign buffer with no data
- v4l2bufferpool: Fix debug trace
- v4l2object: Add support for Apple's full-range bt709 colorspace variant 1:3:5:1
- v4l2videocodec: workaround for failure to fully drain frames preceding MIDSTREAM renegotiation
- v4l2allocator: Fix invalid imported dmabuf fd
- videoflip: Fix caps negotiation when method is selected
- build failure trying to build jack examples
- examples: don't try and build jack examples if jack was disabled
- tests: skip unit tests for dependency-less elements that have been disabled
gst-plugins-bad
- amcvideodec: fix GstAmcSurfaceTexture segfault
- audiobuffersplit: Fix drift that was introduced by wrong calculations in gapless mode
- avfvideosrc: Fix wrong default framerate value
- audiovisualizer: fix buffer mapping to not increase refcount
- d3d11decoder: Check 16K resolution support
- d3d11videosink: Fix for force-aspect-ratio setting when rendering on shared texture
- mxfdemux: Always calculate BlockAlign of raw audio to work around files with broken BlockAlign field in the headers
- nvdec: Fix for HEVC decoding when coded resolution is larger than display resolution
- openh264: Register debug categories earlier
- openh264enc: Fix constrained-high encoding
- openmpt: update from now deprecated api
- GstPlay: missing cleanup for g_autoptr
- player/play: Fix object construction and various leaks
- player: Plug a memory leak
- proxysink: Make sure stream-start and caps events are forwarded, and fix memory leak
- tsdemux: Don't trigger a program change when falling back to ignore-pcr behaviour
- va: allocator: Fix translation of VADRMPRIMESurfaceDescriptor
- va: h265dec: Fix a crash because of missing reference frame.
- vah265dec: Decoder segfaults on seek
- wasapi: Implement default audio channel mask
- wasapi2: Fix initial mute/volume setting
- webrtcbin: Limit sink query to sink pads
- webrtcbin: Fix pointer dereference before null check
- webrtc: Make sure to return
NULLwhen validating TURN server fails - tests: skip unit tests for dependency-less elements that have been disabled
gst-plugins-ugly
gst-libav
- avauddec: fix regression with WMA files, would throw an error at EOS
- avauddec: fix unnecessary reconfiguration if the audio layout isn't specified
- libav: Fix for APNG encoder property registration
- Failure to decode end of WMA file
gst-rtsp-server
- gst-rtsp-server: Fix pushing backlog to client
- rtsp-server: stream: Don't loop forever if binding to the multicast address fails
gstreamer-vaapi
- vaapi: Handle when no encoders/decoders available.
- vaapi: Crash in gst_vaapidecode_class_init() when no decoders/encoders available
gstreamer-sharp
- No changes
gst-omx
- No changes
gst-python
gst-editing-services
- Deadlock in ges because of recursive gst_init() call
- ges/gstframepositioner: don't create one compositor per frame meta
- nle: clear seek event properly
gst-examples:
Development build environment + gst-full build
- build: Fix some compiler warnings by upgrading wraps
- dv, opusparse: fix duplicate symbols in static build
- Fix fedora 36 warnings - OpenSSL 3.0 deprecations + GLib 2.72 tls-validation deprecations
- Various macOS build fixes
- meson: Improve certifi documentation on macOS
Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.20.4
- Add Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish
- Add gst-rtsp-server library to the macOS framework
- cerbero: Quick fix for gen-cache breakage
- macos: Fix the install_name for the GStreamer framework
- Download using powershell on Windows and rework download func
- macos: Add arm64 to the metadata for the installer
- cerbero: Allow building on Linux ARM64
- pkg-config.recipe: Add to core platform files list
- git: Fix issue with last security patch
- distros: Fix CentOS allowance
- cerbero: Print working directory for commands that are run
- cerbero: Fix license property usage example
- Fix issue getting distro_version in Debian Bookworm
- glib: Fix gio modules loading on macOS
- cmake: Fix macOS ARM64 -> x86_64 cross-compilation
- Fix logo display in macOS installer
- openssl.recipe: Fix segfault on latest macOS
- msvc: Fix for broken CRT linking at application project because of MSVCRT linking
- cerbero: Do not add rpaths that already exist on macOS
- android: fix build with android gradle plugin 7.2
- macOS framework is unusable starting from 1.18.0
Contributors to 1.20.4
Adrian Fiergolski, Aleksandr Slobodeniuk, Andoni Morales Alastruey, Andrew Pritchard, Bruce Liang, Corentin Damman, Daniel Morin, Edward Hervey, Elliot Chen, Fabian Orccon, fduncanh, Guillaume Desmottes, Haihua Hu, He Junyan, Ignazio Pillai, James Cowgill, James Hilliard, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig), Jan Schmidt, Jianhui Dai, Jonas Danielsson, Jordan Petridis, Khem Raj, Krystian Wojtas, Martin Dørum, Mart Raudsepp, Mathieu Duponchelle, Matthew Waters, Matthias Clasen, Nicolas Dufresne, Nirbheek Chauhan, Olivier Crête, Paweł Stawicki, Philippe Normand, Philipp Zabel, Piotr Brzeziński, Rafael Caricio, Rafael Sobral, Raul Tambre, Ruben Gonzalez, Sangchul Lee, Sebastian Dröge, Seungha Yang, Stéphane Cerveau, Thibault Saunier, Tim-Philipp Müller, Tristan Matthews, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Xavier Claessens, Zhiyuan Liu,
... and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent suggestions or helped testing. Thank you all!