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diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES index 97875e9360..7861bfd4bc 100644 --- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,45 +1,58 @@ Release Notes ============= -* 0.7 "The Big Bump" June, 2011 +* 0.8 "Love" June, 2011 +* 0.7 "Peace" June, 2011 (identical to 0.8 but using 0.6 ABI/API) + 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 +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 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. +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 additions of decoders including, but not limited to, +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. See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes. -Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still only accept -bug reports against HEAD of the Libav trunk repository. If you are experiencing -issues with any formally released version of Libav, please try a current version -of the development code to check if the issue still exists. If it does, make your -report against the development code following the usual bug reporting guidelines. +Bugreports against FFmpeg git master or the most recent FFmpeg release are +accepted. If you are experiencing issues with any formally released version of +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 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. +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. 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 -- 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 |