GStreamer 1.8 released

Version 1.8 of the GStreamer multimedia framework is nowavailable. New is support for hardware-accelerated zero-copyvideo decoding on Android, a new tracing system that will support moreadvanced debugging tools, initial support for the Vulkan API, and thedebut of the new, simplified GstPlayer playback API (which we looked at in October). There are manyother additions and improvement; see the release notes for full details.