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This is my first shot at the news site entry. Please revise and push at your will. Reinhard diff --git a/src/download b/src/download index 0e88eaa..9039cbd 100644 --- a/src/download +++ b/src/download @@ -203,6 +203,28 @@ selected changes from the development branch, which therefore receives much more and much faster bug fixes such as additional features and security patches. </p> +<a name="release_9"></a><h2>Libav 9 "plain 9"</h2> +<p> +While <b>9 is not released yet</b>, we already provide you with a +preview beta release. Please accept this opportunity to test and provide +us with feedback about your impressions with this release and use our +new Bugzilla for filing bugs: +<a href="https://bugzilla.libav.org";>https://bugzilla.libav.org/</a> +</p> + +<p> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.xz">Download bzip2 tarball</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.xz.md5">MD5</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.xz.sha1">SHA1</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.xz.asc">PGP signature</a><br /> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.gz">Download gzip tarball</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.gz.md5">MD5</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.gz.sha1">SHA1</a> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.tar.gz.asc">PGP signature</a><br /> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.changelog">Changelog</a><br /> +<a href="releases/libav-9_beta1.release">Release Notes</a> +</p> + <a name="release_0.8"></a><h2>Libav 0.8.3 "Forbidden Fruit"</h2> <p> 0.8.3 was released on 2012-06-09. It is the latest point release from diff --git a/src/news b/src/news index 673672a..e532057 100644 --- a/src/news +++ b/src/news @@ -1,5 +1,87 @@ <h1>News</h1> +<a name="9beta1"></a><h3>October 11, 2012</h3> +<p> +With the next upcoming release, we change our versioning scheme to +follow our workflow better. This means that major releases will update +the major component of the version number, stable releases the minor +component. With this in mind, we are happy to provide a first preview of +our next release <b>version 9</b>. +</p> + +<p> +A new library arrived in Libav during this development cycle -- its name is +<b>libavresample</b> and it handles audio conversion and mixing. All +users are encouraged to use it instead of the old, now deprecated, audio +conversion API in libavcodec. +</p> + +<p> +The <b>libpostproc</b> library now resides in a separate tree. It was fully +independent of the other Libav libraries, not used by any of the tools +and saw very little development. For these reasons we decided that it +has no place in Libav. A standalone Git tree is available +at <a href="http://git.videolan.org/?p=libpostproc.git";>videolan</a> for +people wishing to use libpostproc. +</p> + +<p> +The major versions of the <b>libavcodec</b>, <b>libavformat</b> +and <b>libavfilter</b> libraries have been bumped, so they are not API +or ABI compatible with the 0.8 release. The ffmpeg transcoding tool, +kept for compatibility in 0.8, has also been dropped. +</p> + +<p> +This release brings a number of significant changes in +the <b>libavfilter</b> library. Firstly, all the API dealing with +filter internals is no longer public. The result is that creating +user-side filters will not be supported until libavfilter is more +mature. Secondly, full audio filtering support is now available along +with a set of basic audio filters. We hope that their number will soon +grow significantly. The avconv transcoding tool has of course been +extended to handle audio filtering as well. There were a number of +other API changes, most importantly the addition of the buffer sink +public API. +</p> + +<p> +In the <b>libavcodec</b> library, one of the most notable changes is +added support for planar audio (i.e. not interleaved). Many decoders and +encoders, that previously did inefficient (de)interleaving internally, +now only work with planar audio formats. Libavresample can be used for +optimized conversion between interleaved and planar formats. +</p> + +<p> +As usual, this release also contains support for some new formats, many +smaller new features and countless bug fixes. We can highlight Opus +decoding / encoding through libopus, encoders for Apple ProRes and Ut +Video, WMA Lossless and RealAudio Lossless decoders, fragmented MOV/MP4 +and ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxers, a large number of RTMP improvements +and support for cover art in ID3v2, WMA, MP4 and FLAC. +</p> + +<p> +See +the <a href="http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob_plain;f=Changelog;h=b4b5294755d7f67f0bf3b091112f688ae8df886d;hb=e578f8f4680f7ad290de64270dc152fb1adb6e6a";>Changelog</a> +file for a list of significant changes. +</p> + +<p> +Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still +only accept bug reports against <b>HEAD</b> 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. +</p> + +<p> +You can download the new release, as usual, +from <a href="download.html#release9">our download page</a> +</p> + <a name="lavr_stable"></a><h3>October 05, 2012</h3> <p> The <b>libavresample</b> library is now declared stable. There will be no more -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list libav-devel@libav.org https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
