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| -rw-r--r-- | Changelog | 3 | ||||
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@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release, releases are sorted from youngest to oldest. -version <next>: +version 0.8_beta1: + - BWF muxer - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder - ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver @@ -1 +1 @@ -0.7 +0.8_beta1 diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES index 97875e9360..f857a183fd 100644 --- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,22 +1,29 @@ Release Notes ============= -* 0.7 "The Big Bump" June, 2011 +* 0.8 "Forbidden Fruit" General notes ------------- -This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs, -including VP8, H.263 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 have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.7 can be installed -side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit -from the new features, applications need to be recompiled. - -Other important changes are 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 continues the API cleanups that have begun with the +previous release. While it is binary compatible with 0.7, many parts of +the public API were deprecated and will be removed in the git master and +later releases. Please consult the doc/APIchanges file to see intended +replacements for the deprecated APIs. + +Furthermore, our work on the 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has resulted in +major revisions to its interface. In order to not break existing scripts +and applications, we have chosen to introduce a new tool called +'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for end-user's +convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how 'avconv' +differs from 'ffmpeg'. + +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. @@ -30,23 +37,14 @@ report against the development code following the usual bug reporting guidelines API changes ----------- -Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. Note that a -lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional -APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal 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 --------------------- -- many ARM NEON optimizations -- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future -- 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. |