v1.24.8

Summary

The eigth 1.24 bug-fix release (1.24.8) was released on 19 September 2024.

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

Highlighted bugfixes in 1.24.8

decodebin3: collection handling fixes
encodebin: Fix pad removal (and smart rendering in gst-editing-services)
glimagesink: Fix cannot resize viewport when video size changed in caps
matroskamux, webmmux: fix firefox compatibility issue with Opus audio streams
mpegtsmux: Wait for data on all pads before deciding on a best pad unless timing out
splitmuxsink: Override LATENCY query to pretend to downstream that we're not live
video: QoS event handling improvements
voamrwbenc: fix list of bitrates
vtenc: Restart encoding session when certain errors are detected
wayland: Fix ABI break in WL context type name
webrtcbin: Prevent crash when attempting to set answer on invalid SDP
cerbero: ship vp8/vp9 software encoders again, which went missing in 1.24.7; ship transcode plugin
Various bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

For a complete list of changes, please go to:
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.24/#1.24.8