Merge remote-tracking branch 'qatar/master'

* qatar/master:
  vp3dec: Check coefficient index in vp3_dequant()
  svq1dec: call avcodec_set_dimensions() after dimensions changed.
  Prepare for 0.8_beta1 snapshot release
  threads: check defines before using them in automatic thread detection
  pthread: include sys/types.h before sys/sysctl.h
  4xm: remove unused variables.
  h264: Fix a possible overread in decode_nal_units()
  allfilters: fix type of avfilter_vsrc_buffer.
  w32thread: call ResetEvent() in pthread_cond_broadcast().

Conflicts:
	Changelog
	RELEASE
	doc/RELEASE_NOTES
	libavcodec/pthread.c
	libavcodec/vp3.c

Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
index 7861bfd4bc..1c86f44b61 100644
--- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -8,19 +8,17 @@ Release Notes
 General notes
 -------------
 
-This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs,
-including theora, huffyuv, VP8, H.263, mpeg4 and H.264. Additionally, there has
-been a major cleanup of
-both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all
-libraries except libpostproc have been bumped. This means that 0.8 can be installed
-side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand applications need to be
-recompiled to use 0.8.
-
-Other important changes are more than 200 bugfixes, known regressions were fixed
-w.r.t 0.5 and 0.6, additions of decoders including, but not limited to,
-AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder
-and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple
-HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added.
+This release is binary compatible with 0.8.
+
+Our work on the 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has resulted in
+extensions to its command line interface, its also compatible with
+both our 0.8 ffmpeg and a tool called avconv
+
+Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
+such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
+and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
+H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
+wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.
 
 See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.
 
@@ -30,36 +28,19 @@ FFmpeg, please try git master to check if the issue still exists. If it does,
 make your report against the development code following the usual bug reporting
 guidelines.
 
-Note, if you have difficulty building for mingw, try --disable-outdev=sdl
-
 
 API changes
 -----------
 
-Please see git log of the public headers or the file doc/APIchanges for
-programmer-centric information. Note that some long-time deprecated APIs have
-been removed. Also, a number of additional APIs have been deprecated and might
-be removed in the next release.
+A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing
+functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next
+release. Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
+similar programmer-centric information.
+
 
 
 Other notable changes
 ---------------------
 
-- high quality dithering in swscale to fix banding issues
-- ffmpeg is now interactive and various information can be turned on/off while its running
-- resolution changing support in ffmpeg
-- sdl output device
-- optimizations in libavfilter that make it much faster
-- split, buffer, select, lut, negate filters amongth others
-- more than 50 new video filters from mplayers libmpcodecs
-- many ARM NEON optimizations
-- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed
-- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding
-- 9/10bit H.264 decoding
-- Win64 Assembler support
-- native MMSH/MMST support
-- Windows TV demuxing
-- native AMR-WB decoding
-- native GSM-MS decoding
-- SMPTE 302M decoding
-- AVS encoding
+
+Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.