@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ GStreamer 1.24 Release Notes
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33GStreamer 1.24.0 was originally released on 4 March 2024.
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5- The latest bug-fix release in the stable 1.24 series is 1.24.10 and was released on 06 January 2025.
5+ The latest and most likely last bug-fix release in the stable 1.24 series is 1.24.13 and was released on 11 June 2025.
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77See https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.24/ for the latest version of this document.
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9- Last updated: Tuesday 06 January 2025, 19:30 UTC (log)
9+ The GStreamer 1.24 stable series has now been superseded by the GStreamer 1.26 stable release series.
10+
11+ Last updated: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 01:00 UTC (log)
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1113## Introduction
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@@ -3171,15 +3173,199 @@ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.24.12
31713173- List of Merge Requests applied in 1.24.12
31723174- List of Issues fixed in 1.24.12
31733175
3174- Schedule for 1.26
3176+ 1.24.13
3177+
3178+ The thirteenth, and most likely final, 1.24 bug-fix release (1.24.13) was released on 11 June 2025.
3179+
3180+ This release only contains bugfixes as well as a number of security fixes and it should be safe to update from 1.24.x.
3181+
3182+ The 1.24 stable series is no longer actively maintained and has been superseded by the GStreamer 1.26 stable series now.
3183+
3184+ Highlighted bugfixes in 1.24.13
3185+
3186+ - Various security fixes and playback fixes
3187+ - MP4 demuxer atom parsing improvements and security fixes
3188+ - H.265 decoder base class and caption inserter SPS/PPS handling fixes
3189+ - Subtitle parser security fixes
3190+ - Subtitle rendering and seeking fixes
3191+ - Closed caption fixes
3192+ - Matroska rotation tag support and v4 muxing support
3193+ - Ogg seeking improvements in streaming mode
3194+ - Windows plugin loading fixes
3195+ - MIDI parser improvements for tempo changes
3196+ - Video time code support for 119.88 fps and drop-frames-related conversion fixes
3197+ - GStreamer editing services fixes for sources with non-1:1 aspect ratios
3198+ - RTP session handling and RTSP server fixes
3199+ - Thread-safety improvements for the Media Source Extension (MSE) library
3200+ - macOS video capture improvements for external devices
3201+ - Python bindings: Fix compatibility with PyGObject >= 3.52.0
3202+ - cerbero: bootstrapping fixes on Windows, improved support for RHEL, and openh264 recipe update
3203+ - Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements
3204+
3205+ gstreamer
3206+
3207+ - Correctly handle whitespace paths when executing gst-plugin-scanner
3208+ - buffer: Mark gst_buffer_extract() size parameter as in-parameter
3209+ - element: ref-sink the correct pad template when replacing an existing one
3210+ - gstvalue: fix a couple of leaks
3211+ - pipeline: Store the actual latency even if no static latency was configured
3212+ - pluginloader-win32: Fix helper executable path under devenv
3213+ - pluginloader-win32: create no window
3214+ - pluginloader: fix pending_plugins Glist use-after-free issue
3215+
3216+ gst-plugins-base
3217+
3218+ - alsadeviceprovider: Fix leak of Alsa longname
3219+ - appsink: fix initial pile-up of caps events
3220+ - audiobasesink: Fix custom slaving driftsamples calculation and add custom audio clock slaving callback example
3221+ - convertframe: Fix video crop meta handling
3222+ - decodebin3: Don’t avoid parsebin even if we have a matching decoder
3223+ - gl: Implement basetransform meta transform function
3224+ - glupload: Fix for wrongly recognized reconfigure condition
3225+ - gstaudioutilsprivate: Fix gcc 15 compiler error with function pointer
3226+ - mikey: Avoid infinite loop while parsing MIKEY payload with unhandled payload types
3227+ - oggdemux: Don’t push new packets if there is a pending seek
3228+ - oggdemux: Fix racy decode error
3229+ - pitch, playbin3: fix build error and wrong locking
3230+ - smartencoder: Don’t assert if the caps have unknown chroma-site
3231+ - subparse: various subtitle text parsing fixes
3232+ - textoverlay: fix shading for RGBx / RGBA pixel format variants
3233+ - uridecodebin3: Don’t hold play items lock while activating source items
3234+ - urisourcebin: Make parsebin activation more reliable
3235+ - videoconvertscale: Explicitly handle overlaycomposition meta caps feature
3236+ - videoencoder: Use the correct segment and buffer timestamp in the chain function
3237+ - videotimecode: Fix conversion of timecode to datetime with drop-frame timecodes and handle 119.88 fps correctly in all
3238+ places
3239+
3240+ gst-plugins-good
3241+
3242+ - adaptivedemux2: free cancellable when freeing transfer task
3243+ - gl: Implement basetransform meta transform function
3244+ - interleave: Don’t hold object lock while querying caps downstream
3245+ - Matroska mux v4 support
3246+ - matroska-demux: Prevent corrupt cluster duplication
3247+ - matroska: Implement rotation tag support
3248+ - qtdemux: Check length of JPEG2000 colr box before parsing it
3249+ - qtdemux: Fix stsc size check in qtdemux_merge_sample_table()
3250+ - qtdemux: Ignore non-zero values for UV/XY in transformation matrix
3251+ - qtdemux: Use byte reader to parse mvhd box
3252+ - qtdemux: unref simple caps after use
3253+ - qtmux: Implement rotation tag support
3254+ - rtph264pay: Reject stream-format=avc without codec_data
3255+ - rtpmanager: skip RTPSources if last_rtime is not set yet
3256+ - rtpsession: Do not push events while holding SESSION_LOCK
3257+ - v4l2: bufferpool: Fix buffer state after group release
3258+ - wavparse: Ignore EOS when parsing the headers
3259+ - y4menc: handle frames with GstVideoMeta
3260+
3261+ gst-plugins-bad
3262+
3263+ - alphacombine: De-couple flush-start/stop events handling
3264+ - analytics: objectdetectionoverlay: improve event handling for EOS and flush events
3265+ - avfvideosrc: Guess reasonable framerate values for some 3rd party devices
3266+ - avtpsrc: Use GSocket to have cancellable wait
3267+ - bayer2rgb: Fix RGB stride calculation
3268+ - cccombiner: Fix critical warnings
3269+ - cccombiner: Fix wrong caps and buffer ordering
3270+ - dashsink: Make sure to use a non-NULL pad name when requesting a pad from splitmuxsink
3271+ - docs: Do not try to generate cuda documentation when gir is not generated
3272+ - h264parse: Force full timestamp on all timecode updates. Was invalid between midnight and 1am
3273+ - h265decoder,h265ccinserter: Fix broken SPS/PPS link
3274+ - h265parser: Fix num_long_term_pics bound check
3275+ - mediafoundation: Fix memory leak and codec profile check
3276+ - meson: fix building -bad tests with disabled soundtouch
3277+ - midiparse: Consider tempo changes when calculating duration
3278+ - mpegts: Fix PCR Discontinuity handling for HLS
3279+ - mpegts: Take into account adaptation field discont
3280+ - mpegtsdescriptor: Add (transfer none) annotation to out parameter of parse_registration()
3281+ - mpegtsmux: Fix deadlock when requesting pad for PID < 0x40
3282+ - mse: Improved Thread Safety of API
3283+ - pitch, playbin3: fix build error and wrong locking
3284+ - uvcgadget: Properly implement GET_INFO control responses
3285+ - vacompositor: Add missing GST_VIDEO_CROP_META_API_TYPE
3286+ - webrtc: fix pkg-config missing sdp dependency
3287+ - webrtc: fix recursive G_BEGIN_DECLS and include missing sctptransport.h in webrtc.h
3288+
3289+ gst-plugins-ugly
3290+
3291+ - No changes
3292+
3293+ GStreamer Rust plugins
3294+
3295+ - cargo: Default to thin lto for the release profile
3296+ - webrtc: Require livekit-protocol < 0.3.4 due to uncoordinated breaking changes
3297+ - cargo_wrapper: Force log file to be written in utf-8
3298+
3299+ gst-libav
3300+
3301+ - Only allocate extradata while decoding
31753302
3176- Our next major feature release will be 1.26, and 1.25 will be the unstable development version leading up to the stable 1.26
3177- release. The development of 1.25/1.25 will happen in the git main branch of the GStreamer mono repository.
3303+ gst-rtsp-server
3304+
3305+ - Media: Fix locking in gst_rtsp_media_get_dscp_qos()
3306+ - Initial RTCP SR may contain incorrect RTP timestamp for streams with “irregular” frame rate
3307+
3308+ gstreamer-vaapi
3309+
3310+ - No changes
3311+
3312+ gstreamer-sharp
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3179- The schedule for 1.26 is yet to be decided.
3314+ - No changes
3315+
3316+ gst-omx
3317+
3318+ - No changes
3319+
3320+ gst-python
3321+
3322+ - Fix compatibility with PyGObject>=3.52.0
3323+
3324+ gst-editing-services
3325+
3326+ - Fix frame position for sources with par < 1
3327+ - Fix video position for sources with pixel-aspect-ratio > 1
3328+
3329+ gst-devtools, gst-validate + gst-integration-testsuites
3330+
3331+ - No changes
3332+
3333+ gst-examples
3334+
3335+ - No changes
3336+
3337+ Development build environment
3338+
3339+ - No changes
3340+
3341+ Cerbero build tool and packaging changes in 1.24.13
3342+
3343+ - Improve support for RHEL based distros
3344+ - Various fixes for bootstrapping and building on Windows
3345+ - Force-build our own cmake if it’s too new
3346+ - cdparanoia: configure.guess updated to the latest available version
3347+ - m4.recipe: Fix build on Fedora 42
3348+ - openh264: bump to 2.6.0 (1.24 branch)
3349+
3350+ Contributors to 1.24.13
3351+
3352+ Andoni Morales Alastruey, Biswapriyo Nath, Carlo Caione, Carlos Rafael Giani, Corentin Damman, David Smitmanis, Denis Yuji
3353+ Shimizu, Dongyun Seo, Doug Nazar, Edward Hervey, Eli Mallon, eri, Gang Zhao, Glyn Davies, Guillaume Desmottes, Jakub Adam, Jan
3354+ Schmidt, Jochen Henneberg, Jordan Petridis, Jordan Yelloz, Mart Raudsepp, Matteo Bruni, Nirbheek Chauhan, Ognyan Tonchev,
3355+ Olivier Blin, Olivier Crête, Philippe Normand, Piotr Brzeziński, Robert Mader, Ruben Gonzalez, Sebastian Dröge, Sergey Radionov,
3356+ Seungha Yang, Shengqi Yu (喻盛琪), Stefan Andersson, Thibault Saunier, Tim-Philipp Müller, Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Wilhelm
3357+ Bartel,
3358+
3359+ … and many others who have contributed bug reports, translations, sent suggestions or helped testing. Thank you all!
3360+
3361+ List of merge requests and issues fixed in 1.24.13
3362+
3363+ - List of Merge Requests applied in 1.24.13
3364+ - List of Issues fixed in 1.24.13
3365+
3366+ Schedule for 1.26
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3181- 1.26 will be backwards-compatible to the stable 1.24, 1.22, 1.20, 1.18, 1.16, 1.14, 1.12, 1.10, 1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2 and 1.0
3182- release series.
3368+ GStreamer 1.26 was released on 29 May 2025.
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