GPAC v26.07.0

We are happy to announce the release of GPAC v26.07.0.

ABI version of this release is 16.21.

General

• Clean up of remaining test mode and old arch

MPEG-DASH & HLS

• Improved support of discontinuities in packager and client
• Add sfrag tolerance to generate segments with a fixed number of fragments but variable-duration fragments
• Add dashif.ingest profile for DASH-IF Live Ingest
• SCTE35 and MPD inband and out-of-band events + HLS (wiki)
• Improved DASH-L3D and LL-HLS
• Support for cleanup of timeshift buffer in manifest in multi-period cases

Encryption

• EVP support in encryption for hardware AES
• AV1 scalable ID (temporal a/o spatial) filtering

Filters

• Discontinuity detection in reframer and in dasher
• Improve mediaserver MABR repair option
• SourceID matching by prefix now possible
• Add option to switch Periods when new encryption key is encountered
• Allow DREF URL override in mp4dmx
• Raw IAMF mux to/demux from MP4
• Accept empty initial playlist in flist
• Allow source loading to use custom source filters other than JS
• Improved GHI demuxer for manifest regeneration
• Allow ffavf to be used as source
• Added tolerance for sfrag mode in mp4mx to align to sap frames

Other

• Added MP4Box option for automatic track reordering
• Test modes for GF_Blob and gfio from mem in gpac cli
• Remote monitoring web app now supports inspecting from logs (use -rmt -rmt-log to start recording)
• Added light formatting syntax to filter status
• Switch to QJS 26-06
• Refined gfio from mem to allow multiple concurrent users, needed by some demuxers
• More configuration options for H2 and H3, improved QUIC support
• Many bug fixes and security patches

Installers are available at gpac.io

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