14 DAY TRIAL // David King announced the release of the first Beta build for the upcoming Cheese 3.18 open-source webcam viewer software for the anticipated GNOME 3.18 desktop environment.
According to the announcement, Cheese 3.18 Beta 1 has been ported to use the new GstDeviceMonitor API (Application Programming Interface), which can be used to monitor GStreamer devices, as well as the clutter-gst 3.0 library.
Additionally, the ABI (Application Binary Interface) has been updated for the new GstDeviceMonitor API and clutter-gst 3.0 ports, which means that the SONAME was updated too.
"Porting to use the new GstDeviceMonitor API, and clutter-gst-3.0. The API and ABI have changed with this release, the last before the 3.17 development freeze," says David King, the Cheese app maintainer and lead developer.
After the porting to the GstDeviceMonitor API, the documentation tests got broken, so Cheese 3.18 Beta fixes that. Also, confusing error messages are now avoided for the camera component, which will only report information about the missing element's name.
The Occitan, Portuguese, and Tajik language translations have been updated. You can download Cheese 3.18 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia, where it is distributed as a source code, but please try to keep in mind that it's a pre-release software, not suitable for production use.