---
 Changelog         |    3 ++-
 RELEASE           |    2 +-
 doc/RELEASE_NOTES |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index b9b5f26..de652f3 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -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
diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index eb49d7c..8e0f8bc 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7
+0.8_beta1
diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
index 97875e9..fffa120 100644
--- a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
 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.
+This release continues the API cleanups that have begun with the
+previous release. This time, our work on the command-line frontend has
+resulted has seen major revisions to its interface. In order to not
+interfere with existing scripts and applications, we have chosen to
+introduce 'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for
+end-user's convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how
+'avconv' differs from 'ffmpeg'.
 
-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.
+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 has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material.
 
 See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.
 
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ 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.
 
@@ -38,15 +39,10 @@ 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
+- All codecs and formats now support private options, see the
+  documentation for details
+- because of the above, the .ffpreset files have been dropped. the
+  libx264 wrapper supports the private options -presets, -tune and
+  -profile private options as replacement
+- many additional ARM NEON, MMX and AVX optimizations
+- libswscale clenaups continue
-- 
1.7.5.4

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