The GStreamer team has announced
a major feature release of GStreamer. “The 1.18 release series adds
new features on top of the previous 1.16 series and is part of the API and
ABI-stable 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia
framework.” There is a lengthy list of highlights in the announcement
and more details in the release notes.

Source: LWN.net – GStreamer 1.18.0 released