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From: Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:17:37 +0000
Subject: Add a part explaining that API should be considered unstable after
 major version changes and list dates of last major version increase.

Originally committed as revision 17878 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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 doc/APIchanges | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index 18ad9dae2c..e46c977358 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Never assume the API of libav* to be stable unless at least 1 week has passed since
+the last major version increase.
+The last version increases were:
+libavcodec:  ?
+libavdevice: ?
+libavfilter: ?
+libavformat: ?
+libpostproc: ?
+libswscale:  ?
+libavutil:   2009-03-08
+
+
+API changes, most recent first:
+
 20090308 - r17869 - lavu 50.0.0  - AVFifoBuffer
   av_fifo_init, av_fifo_read, av_fifo_write and av_fifo_realloc were dropped and replaced
   by av_fifo_alloc, av_fifo_generic_read, av_fifo_generic_write and av_fifo_realloc2.
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