The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.24 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

This release only contains bugfixes and security fixes and it should be safe to update from 1.24.x.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• audioconvert: support more than 64 audio channels
• avvidec: fix dropped frames when doing multi-threaded decoding of I-frame codecs such as DV Video
• mpegtsmux: Correctly time out in live pipelines, esp. for sparse streams like KLV and DVB subtitles
• vtdec deadlock fixes on shutdown and format/resolution changes (as might happen with e.g. HLS/DASH)
• fmp4mux, isomp4mux: Add support for adding AV1 header OBUs into the MP4 headers, and add language from tags
• gtk4paintablesink improvements: fullscreen mode and gst-play-1.0 support
• webrtcsink: add support for insecure TLS and imrpove error handling and VP9 handling
• vah264enc, vah265enc: timestamp handling fixes; generate IDR frames on force-keyunit-requests, not I frames
• v4l2codecs: decoder: Reorder caps to prefer `DMA_DRM` ones, fixes issues with playbin3
• Visualizer plugins fixes
• Avoid using private APIs on iOS
• various bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.24.4 release notes for more details.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly.