Hi all,
The Multimedia SIG has been working on rebasing GStreamer from 1.22 to 1.24 in Fedora 40.
We requested an exception to the Updates Policy, which was granted by FESCo: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3204
This ticket also has more background why updating from 1.22 to 1.24 is desirable.
The builds for GStreamer 1.24 itself are already done in a side-tag, and I will handle the necessary rebuilds (apparently things need to be rebuilt for the gstreamer-plugins-bad 1.22 -> 1.24 update):
- caja-extensions - cheese - fractal - gnome-sound-recorder - gnome-subtitles - gtk4 - libva-nvidia-driver - nheko - pitivi - qt5-qtmultimedia - qt5-qtwebkit - qt6-qtmultimedia - snapshot - webkit2gtk4.0 - webkitgtk - wxGTK
Fabio
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM Fabio Valentini decathorpe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
The Multimedia SIG has been working on rebasing GStreamer from 1.22 to 1.24 in Fedora 40.
The update has now been submitted to bodhi: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-2aa4a3bbf0
I've set high limits for stable karma to make sure the update doesn't get pushed to stable too quickly. Please let us know if there are any GStreamer-related issues.
The Multimedia SIG and some GStreamer upstream devs are in #multimedia:fedoraproject.org on matrix.
Fabio
Fabio Valentini wrote:
We requested an exception to the Updates Policy, which was granted by FESCo: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3204
Quoting from there:
Now the Multimedia SIG has been approached by GStreamer upstream developers - why Fedora 40 is shipping without the latest version of GStreamer (missing out on new features, big performance improvements for GTK4-based video players, etc.).
Uh, the last time an upstream has complained about "Fedora 40 is shipping without the latest version of" their software and "missing out on new features", it turned out that said "new features" mainly consisted of a dangerous backdoor (xz CVE-2024-3094)…
Kevin Kofler