# GStreamer 1.26.5 stable bug-fix release
**URL:** https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/gstreamer-1-26-5-stable-bug-fix-release/4944
**Category:** News and Announcements
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/gstreamer-1-26-5-stable-bug-fix-release/4944 "2025-08-07T23:01:47Z")
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### Author:  [@tpm](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/tpm)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/gstreamer-1-26-5-stable-bug-fix-release/4944/1 "2025-08-07T23:01:47Z")
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.26 release series.
This release contains mostly bug fixes, and it should be safe to upgrade from 1.26.x.
# Highlights:
- audioconvert: Fix caps negotiation regression when using a mix matrix
- ~~aws: Add support for brevity in awstranslate and add option to partition speakers in the transcription output of awstranscriber2~~
- ~~speechmatics speech-to-text: Expose mask-profanities property~~
- ~~cea708mux: Add support for discarding select services on each input~~
- cea608overlay, cea708overlay: Accept GPU memory buffers if downstream supports the overlay composition meta
- d3d12screencapture source element and device provider fixes
- decodebin3: Don’t error on an incoming ONVIF metadata stream
- uridecodebin3: Fix potential crash when adding URIs to messages, e.g. if no decoder is available
- v4l2: Fix memory leak for dynamic resolution change
- VA encoder fixes
- videorate, imagefreeze: Add support for JPEG XS
- Vulkan integration fixes
- wasapi2 audio device monitor improvements
- ~~webrtc: Add WHEP client signaller and add whepclientsrc element on top of webrtcsrc using that~~
- threadshare: Many improvements and fixes to the generic threadshare and RTP threadshare elements
- rtpbin2 improvements and fixes
- gst-device-monitor-1.0 command line tool improvements
- Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements
Release notes with details about changes and fixed bugs can be found at:
> **[GStreamer 1.26 release notes](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/#1.26.5)**
Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows should be available soon.
As always, please let us know of any issues you run into by filing an issue or Merge Request in [GitLab](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/).
Thanks!
> **Source tarball download and checksums**
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> | sha256sum | tarball |
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> | 0a7edb0e7b42dbe6b575fce61a4808a3f6b20e085a1eaecbc025d0ec21f1e774 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | f0c0e26cbedaa57732cb6a578e8cc13a1164bf18d737d55c333061c52f0c48d7 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | eb0862e93404b073e98ec50350ece7e6685ea2936cab8118c2b8e938e2cbea8b | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 3dfc43435be97e110816bac6d602b0f206a038546279683d9d25372ff127db52 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 9890f262f3b2a9564dcb629e9eb697d77b93d1f71897eda1a8170b7dcfe73294 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | d6de05884ef42376dd8cde89940f7b50ced96f4f6f52888e764cd8233e74f052 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 328dff2457419683f2a4f06ca119cfd22beb632cee1ad6830591213325353c44 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-rtsp-server/gst-rtsp-server-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 734900944f90ece5e2f3983c335178fda50023fe342aa75ecd9d8a9c38b64d9e | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-editing-services/gst-editing-services-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 86e2fe2b1bba7ffc18b1d4abe1035fe1c33b20fe4e077cce2f90dbfa445b2341 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python/gst-python-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python/gst-python-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | b42d44db63f3195a6f33296e1ead32c14d01ef27452b7068f1a2d86624f55ea9 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 63d46a8effa8a225e25a464ba7538ace853fe0dc1e70366b27c208135e5401ce | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-devtools/gst-devtools-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-devtools/gst-devtools-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 2dc66e98ee28fadf0382246fcb285690daf2725970e4aabeebf451171513b6f9 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-sharp/gstreamer-sharp-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-sharp/gstreamer-sharp-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
> | 14b444e4832459f6e69ac7ea4250f8fd47269ea3ddc6d5a3db3daedc39f1f3e0 | [https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-docs/gstreamer-docs-1.26.5.tar.xz](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer-docs/gstreamer-docs-1.26.5.tar.xz) |
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### Author:  [@tpm](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/tpm)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/gstreamer-1-26-5-stable-bug-fix-release/4944/2 "2025-08-08T13:11:39Z")
Note: the highlights list has been updated, since some MRs from the gst-plugins-rs main branch got picked up by accident, since cerbero now targets the 0.14 branch for our 1.26 packages.
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### Author:  [@tpm](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/u/tpm)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/gstreamer-1-26-5-stable-bug-fix-release/4944/3 "2025-08-08T18:41:21Z")
GStreamer 1.26.5 binary packages for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android are also available now at:
> **[Download GStreamer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/)**