The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.26 release series.
This release mostly contains bug fixes. It should be safe to upgrade from 1.26.x,
and we recommend you update at your earliest convenience.
Highlights:
- playback: playbin3 and decodebin3 stability fixes
- Ancillary metadata handling fixes for AJA playout and Blackmagic Decklink capture cards
- HLS and DASH adaptive streaming clients stability improvements
- gst-play-1.0 will now print details of any missing plugins again
- gtk4paintablesink: Add property to fine-tune reconfiguration behaviour on window-resize
- macOS device monitoring: fix potential crash when probing for audio devices
- macOS video decoder stability improvements
- NDI source: fix audio corruption for non-interleaved audio with stride padding
- Add SMPTE ST291-1 ancillary metadata RTP payloader and depayloader
- Add ST-2038 metadata combiner and extractor
- webrtcsink: support hardware-accelerated encoders from the
vaVA-API plugin - spotifysrc: fix the Spotify integration by using Spotify’s extended metadata endpoint
- Python bindings cross compilation fixes
- cerbero: add Visual Studio 2026 support, fix building on drives other than C:, and ship svtjpegxs plugin on Windows
- 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:
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.
Thanks!