The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.28 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

This release only contains bug fixes as well as a number of security fixes. It should be safe to update from 1.28.x, and we recommend you do so at your earliest convenience.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• Various security fixes and playback fixes
• audioencoder: allow change of channel configuration with avenc_aac
• audioinvert: fix float format handling
• h264parse, h265parse, baseparse: Preserve upstream buffer duration if possible
• compositor: fix segfault with force-live=true and no sink pads (regression)
• fallbacksrc: send select-streams event to collection source element directly
• hlsdemux2: fix seekable range for live HLS streams
• glupload: Fix linking glupload with restrictive caps filter
• nvcodec: Add capability caching to speed up plugin initialization
• RTP and RTCP packet handling fixes
• RTSP server fixes for clean-up of timed out play requests
• video-converter: fix I420/A420 BGRA/ARGB output on big-endian
• qtdemux: fix invalid WebVTT timestamps, and other fixes
• qmlgl6sink: Qt6GLVideoItem caps update handling fixes
• threadshare udp sink and source fixes
• transcriberbin and speechmatics text-to-speech fixes and improvements
• videorate: Fix wrong caps in case of PTS going backward
• vtdec: more Apple VideoToolbox decoder fixes
• wavparse: Fix parsing of RF64 wave files
• wasapi2sink: Ignore transient device errors from default device
• waylandsink: various fixes and improvements
• WebRTC DTLS robustness/stability improvements
• Cerbero: Various inno Windows installer fixes and improvements; new 'gstreamer_bundle' wheels meta-package
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.28.2 release notes for more details.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly and will be published on the Downloads page.