@@ -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

@@ -1 +1 @@

-0.7

+0.8_beta1

@@ -1,22 +1,29 @@

 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.

-

-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.

+This release continues the API cleanups that have begun with the

+previous release. While it is binary compatible with 0.7, many parts of

+the public API were deprecated and will be removed in the git master and

+later releases. Please consult the doc/APIchanges file to see intended

+replacements for the deprecated APIs.

+

+Furthermore, our work on the 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has resulted in

+major revisions to its interface. In order to not break existing scripts

+and applications, we have chosen to introduce a new tool called

+'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for end-user's

+convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how 'avconv'

+differs from 'ffmpeg'.

+

+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 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264

+wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.

 See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.

@@ -30,23 +37,14 @@ 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.

+A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing

+functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next

+release. Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with

+similar programmer-centric information.

+

 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

+Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.