Warning

Kurento is a low-level platform to create WebRTC applications from scratch. You will be responsible of managing STUN/TURN servers, networking, scalability, etc. If you are new to WebRTC, we recommend using OpenVidu instead.

Acknowledgements

Kurento team gives credit to Signicat for their support that allows us to make it possible continue evolving and developing Kurento Media Server Project.

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Kurento 7.1 Release Notes

Kurento 7.1.0 is a minor version release over last 7.0.0 version. This new release updates Ubuntu base system to latest stable version 24.04 (noble) thus also updating GStreamer base pacakge to 1.24 version. It also provide some other updates and to the Kurento components.

Kurento 7.1.0 was originally released on september 2024.

See https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/project/relnotes/7.1.html for the latest version of this document.

To install Kurento Media Server: Installation Guide.

This release has been made possible thanks to the support of Signicat. It is a company that develops leading technology products in the field of identity proofing, authentication and electronic signing. They make use of Kurento to benefit or real time video on those fields.

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Table of Contents

Added

  • Update to Ubuntu 24.04. Base OS system has been updated to latest stabe version noble (24.04). This includes several base packages updates, including GStreamer, libnice and libsoup.

  • Update to GStreamer 1.24.2, GStreamer is updated to 1.24.04 which benefits the stability and performance of all the underying system. This includes some annoying bug recording H264 from iOS and safari

  • Update to libnice 0.1.21

  • UPdate to libSoup 3.4.4,

  • Added DTLS state, On WebRTCEndpoint, now DTLS state is reflected on a status property and changes are communicated to application throough Kurento events

  • Added VP9 support, Thanks to the update to GStreamer we hae been able to add VP9 support to Kurento, including WebRTC VP9 support

  • Initial AV1 support, Initial AV1 support has been added to Kurento, however it is ot yet functional for WebRTC