Module: libav Branch: release/0.7 Commit: 72da9888b0f1c0f6a74f6fdfa5f5f31d20bb0099
Author: Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> Committer: Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> Date: Sun Jun 19 19:45:36 2011 +0200 Add Release Notes --- doc/RELEASE_NOTES | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97875e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Release Notes +============= + +* 0.7 "The Big Bump" June, 2011 + +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. + +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. + + +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. + + +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 _______________________________________________ libav-commits mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-commits
