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+ ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
+ │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr"    │
+ └────────────────────────────────────────┘
+
+   The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.5 "Bohr", just 2.5 months
+   after the release of 2.4. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog
+   is a bit short this time.
+
+   As usual, if you have any question on this release or any FFmpeg related
+   topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on
+   irc.freenode.net).
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ 🔨  API Information         │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+     FFmpeg 2.5 includes the following library versions:
+
+       • libavutil      54.15.100
+       • libavcodec     56.13.100
+       • libavformat    56.15.102
+       • libavdevice    56. 3.100
+       • libavfilter     5. 2.103
+       • libswscale      3. 1.101
+       • libswresample   1. 1.100
+       • libpostproc    53. 3.100
+
+     Important API changes since 2.4:
+
+       • avpriv_dv_frame_profile2() has been deprecated
+
+
+     Please refer to the doc/APIchanges file for more information.
+
+ ┌────────────────────────────┐
+ │ ★  List of New Features    │
+ └────────────────────────────┘
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ ffprobe                    │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • -show_pixel_formats option
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ ffserver                   │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • codec private options support
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libavcodec                 │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • STL subtitle decoder
+    • libutvideo YUV 4:2:2 10bit support
+    • animated WebP decoding support
+    • zygoaudio decoding support
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libavdevice                │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • XCB-based screen-grabber
+    • AVFoundation screen capturing support
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libavformat                │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format (draft v6) packetizer
+    • SUP/PGS subtitle demuxer
+    • STL subtitle demuxer
+    • UDP-Lite support (RFC 3828)
+    • creating DASH compatible fragmented MP4, MPEG-DASH segmenting muxer
+    • WebP muxer
+    • APNG demuxer
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libavfilter                │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • xBR scaling filter
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libavutil                  │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode
+
+   ┌────────────────────────────┐
+   │ libpostproc                │
+   └────────────────────────────┘
+
+    • visualization support
+
+ ┌────────────────────────────┐
+ │ ⚠  Behaviour changes       │
+ └────────────────────────────┘
+    • XMP metadata is not exported by default anymore as it can be huge.
+      see the export_xmp option