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 7.2 Release Notes

Kurento 7.2.0 is a minor version release over last 7.1.0 version. This new release brings some general updates on codec support and some bug fixing and several pending PRs that have been incorporated.

Kurento 7.1.0 was originally released on september 2024.

See https://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/latest/project/relnotes/7.2.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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Added

  • parse username and passwrod form URLS. RecorderEndpoint was not able to push to a basic auth-protected HTTP server, because the GSTreamer element curlhttpsink doesn’t parse them from the URL, instead it expects them to be set as properties.

  • Parametrized Composite Mixer. The previous implementation had fixed values for width, height, and framerate within the compositor’s C class, which limited flexibility and required code changes for adjustment.

  • AV1 codec. Adds AV1 video codec support to Kurento including WebRTC and RTP communications

  • H265 codec. provide H.265 video codec support to Kurento including WebRTC and RTP services (not enabled by default, enabling it is solely reposnability of the user).

  • Add serverside dump Gstreamer. allows the server to write the dump dot files directly in theserver filesystem without size limitations

  • Stand alone docker image. Provide a script that generates a local docker image for Kurento media server. This is useful for local testing and debugging..

  • Added Audio PCMA support. Adds the audio PCMA codec to the available ones in SDP negotiation.

Fixed

  • x264 bitrate. Encoder bitrate was not correctly set for x264 and x265 encoders

  • Updated github actions. New versions for upload-artifact and download-artifact has been integrated.

  • Added backpressure on Java client. Java clients can be wrongly disconnected under high load conditions, a backpressure behaviour has been added to avoid disocnnections.

  • Adapted to apt-key deprecation. apt-key has been deprectated, so the scripts have adapted to that, Mind about new installing isntructions.