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@@ -37,3 +37,48 @@ The deprecated APIs to be removed are: If at all possible, do not use the deprecated APIs. All notes on API changes should appear in doc/APIchanges. + +* 0.5.1 + +General notes +------------- + +This point release includes some minor updates to make the 0.5 release series +usable for users that need to retain the existing behavior as closely as +possible. The changes follow below: + + +Security fixes +-------------- + +Various programming errors in container and codec implementations +may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code +if the user is tricked into opening a malformed media file or stream. + +Affected and updated have been the implementations of the following +codecs and container formats: + + - the Vorbis audio codec + - the FF Video 1 codec + - the MPEG audio codec + - the H264 video codec + - the MLP codec + - the HuffYUV codec + - the ASF demuxer + - the Ogg container implementation + - the MOV container implementation + +Symbol Versioning enabled +------------------------- + +The backported symbol versioning change is enabled on platforms that support +it. This allows users to upgrade from 0.5.1 to the upcoming 0.6 release +without having to recompile their applications. Please note that distributors +have to recompile applications against 0.5.1 before upgrading to 0.6. + + +libx264.c backport +------------------ + +This release includes a backport to the libx264 wrapper that allows FFmpeg to +be compiled against newer versions of libx264 up to API version 85. |