GTK 4.0.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Better Media Acceleration

Following last month's release of the big GTK 4.0 toolkit, GTK 4.0.1 is out as the first stable point release for this free software toolkit.

Naturally following a big release such as GTK4, the first point release is predominantly made up of many little bug fixes throughout the code-base. There is a wide assortment of bug fixes in GTK 4.0.1 as well as updates to the theme and documentations.

Significant to GTK 4.0.1 is the GStreamer media back-end now makes use of OpenGL textures. With making use of OpenGL textures, there is better efficiency when leveraging GPU-based hardware decoding like VA-API to avoid excess GPU/CPU copies. The situation though isn't yet optimal as ideally there would be a GStreamer plugin with a sink to expose video frames as GdkPaintable objects but such code currently does not exist.

More details on the GTK 4.0.1 toolkit update via the GTK.org blog.