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Never assume the API of libav* to be stable unless at least 1 month has passed
since the last major version increase or the API was added.
libavcodec:    2014-08-09
libavdevice:   2014-08-09
libavfilter:   2014-08-09
libavformat:   2014-08-09
libavresample: 2014-08-09
libpostproc:   2014-08-09
libswresample: 2014-08-09
libswscale:    2014-08-09
libavutil:     2014-08-09
2014-11-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.6.0 - vorbis_parser.h
  Add a public API for parsing vorbis packets.

2014-10-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.5.0 - avcodec.h
  Replace AVCodecContext.time_base used for decoding
  with AVCodecContext.framerate.

2014-10-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.4.0 - avcodec.h
  Add AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_IGNORE_LEVEL flag to av_vdpau_bind_context().

2014-10-13 - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.03.0 - avcodec.h
  Add AVCodecContext.initial_padding. Deprecate the use of AVCodecContext.delay
  for audio encoding.

2014-09-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.04.0 - pixdesc.h
  Add API to return the name of frame and context color properties.

2014-09-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.2.0 - vdpau.h
  Add av_vdpau_bind_context(). This function should now be used for creating
  (or resetting) a AVVDPAUContext instead of av_vdpau_alloc_context().

2014-10-02 - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.2.100 - avcodec.h
2014-10-02 - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.9.100 - frame.h
  Add AV_FRAME_DATA_SKIP_SAMPLES. Add lavc CODEC_FLAG2_SKIP_MANUAL and
  AVOption "skip_manual", which makes lavc export skip information via
  AV_FRAME_DATA_SKIP_SAMPLES AVFrame side data, instead of skipping and
  discarding samples automatically.

2014-10-02 - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.8.100 - avstring.h
  Add av_match_list()

2014-09-24 - xxxxxxx - libpostproc 53.1.100
  Add visualization support
2014-09-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.1.101 - dv_profile.h
  deprecate avpriv_dv_frame_profile2(), which was made public by accident.


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2014-08-28 - f30a815 / 9301486 - lavc 56.1.100 / 56.1.0 - avcodec.h
  Add AV_PKT_DATA_STEREO3D to export container-level stereo3d information.

2014-08-25 - 215db29 / b263f8f - lavf 56.3.100 / 56.3.0 - avformat.h
  Add AVFormatContext.max_ts_probe.

2014-08-23 - 8fc9bd0 - lavu 54.7.100 - dict.h
  AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_KEY and AV_DICT_DONT_STRDUP_VAL arguments are now
  freed even on error. This is consistent with the behaviour all users
  of it we could find expect.

2014-08-21 - 980a5b0 - lavu 54.6.100 - frame.h motion_vector.h
  Add AV_FRAME_DATA_MOTION_VECTORS side data and AVMotionVector structure

2014-08-16 - b7d5e01 - lswr 1.1.100 - swresample.h
  Add AVFrame based API

2014-08-16 - c2829dc - lavu 54.4.100 - dict.h
  Add av_dict_set_int helper function.

2014-08-13 - c8571c6 / 8ddc326 - lavu 54.3.100 / 54.3.0 - mem.h
2014-08-13 - 2ba4577 / a8c104a - lavu 54.2.100 / 54.2.0 - opt.h
  Add av_opt_get_dict_val/set_dict_val with AV_OPT_TYPE_DICT to support
  dictionary types being set as options.

2014-08-13 - afbd4b8 - lavf 56.01.0 - avformat.h
  Add AVFormatContext.event_flags and AVStream.event_flags for signaling to
  the user when events happen in the file/stream.

2014-08-10 - 78eaaa8 / fb1ddcd - lavr 2.1.0 - avresample.h
  Add avresample_convert_frame() and avresample_config().

2014-08-10 - 78eaaa8 / fb1ddcd - lavu 54.1.100 / 54.1.0 - error.h
  Add AVERROR_INPUT_CHANGED and AVERROR_OUTPUT_CHANGED.

2014-08-08 - 3841f2a / d35b94f - lavc 55.73.102 / 55.57.4 - avcodec.h
  Deprecate FF_IDCT_XVIDMMX define and xvidmmx idct option.
  Replaced by FF_IDCT_XVID and xvid respectively.

2014-08-08 - 5c3c671 - lavf 55.53.100 - avio.h
  Add avio_feof() and deprecate url_feof().

2014-08-07 - bb78903 - lsws 2.1.3 - swscale.h
  sws_getContext is not going to be removed in the future.
2014-08-07 - a561662 / ad1ee5f - lavc 55.73.101 / 55.57.3 - avcodec.h
  reordered_opaque is not going to be removed in the future.

2014-08-02 - 28a2107 - lavu 52.98.100 - pixelutils.h
  Add pixelutils API with SAD functions

2014-08-04 - 6017c98 / e9abafc - lavu 52.97.100 / 53.22.0 - pixfmt.h
  Add AV_PIX_FMT_YA16 pixel format for 16 bit packed gray with alpha.

2014-08-04 - 4c8bc6f / e96c3b8 - lavu 52.96.101 / 53.21.1 - avstring.h
  Rename AV_PIX_FMT_Y400A to AV_PIX_FMT_YA8 to better identify the format.
  An alias pixel format and color space name are provided for compatibility.

2014-08-04 - 073c074 / d2962e9 - lavu 52.96.100 / 53.21.0 - pixdesc.h
  Support name aliases for pixel formats.

2014-08-03 - 71d008e / 1ef9e83 - lavc 55.72.101 / 55.57.2 - avcodec.h
2014-08-03 - 71d008e / 1ef9e83 - lavu 52.95.100 / 53.20.0 - frame.h
  Deprecate AVCodecContext.dtg_active_format and use side-data instead.
2014-08-03 - e680c73 - lavc 55.72.100 - avcodec.h
  Add get_pixels() to AVDCT

2014-08-03 - 9400603 / 9f17685 - lavc 55.71.101 / 55.57.1 - avcodec.h
  Deprecate unused FF_IDCT_IPP define and ipp avcodec option.
  Deprecate unused FF_DEBUG_PTS define and pts avcodec option.
  Deprecate unused FF_CODER_TYPE_DEFLATE define and deflate avcodec option.
  Deprecate unused FF_DCT_INT define and int avcodec option.
  Deprecate unused avcodec option scenechange_factor.

2014-07-30 - ba3e331 - lavu 52.94.100 - frame.h
  Add av_frame_side_data_name()

2014-07-29 - 80a3a66 / 3a19405 - lavf 56.01.100 / 56.01.0 - avformat.h
  Add mime_type field to AVProbeData, which now MUST be initialized in
  order to avoid uninitialized reads of the mime_type pointer, likely
  leading to crashes.
  Typically, this means you will do 'AVProbeData pd = { 0 };' instead of
  'AVProbeData pd;'.

2014-07-29 - 31e0b5d / 69e7336 - lavu 52.92.100 / 53.19.0 - avstring.h
  Make name matching function from lavf public as av_match_name().

2014-07-28 - 2e5c8b0 / c5fca01 - lavc 55.71.100 / 55.57.0 - avcodec.h
  Add AV_CODEC_PROP_REORDER to mark codecs supporting frame reordering.

2014-07-27 - ff9a154 - lavf 55.50.100 - avformat.h
  New field int64_t probesize2 instead of deprecated
  field int probesize.

2014-07-27 - 932ff70 - lavc 55.70.100 - avdct.h
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  Add AVDCT / avcodec_dct_alloc() / avcodec_dct_init().

2014-07-23 - 8a4c086 - lavf 55.49.100 - avio.h

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2014-07-14 - 62227a7 - lavf 55.47.100 - avformat.h
2014-07-09 - c67690f / a54f03b - lavu 52.92.100 / 53.18.0 - display.h
  Add av_display_matrix_flip() to flip the transformation matrix.

2014-07-09 - 1b58f13 / f6ee61f - lavc 55.69.100 / 55.56.0 - dv_profile.h
  Add a public API for DV profile handling.

2014-06-20 - 0dceefc / 9e500ef - lavu 52.90.100 / 53.17.0 - imgutils.h
2014-06-20 - 4a99333 / 874390e - lavc 55.68.100 / 55.55.0 - avcodec.h
  Add av_packet_rescale_ts() to simplify timestamp conversion.

2014-06-18 - ac293b6 / 194be1f - lavf 55.44.100 / 55.20.0 - avformat.h
  The proper way for providing a hint about the desired timebase to the muxers
  is now setting AVStream.time_base, instead of AVStream.codec.time_base as was
  done previously. The old method is now deprecated.

2014-06-11 - 67d29da - lavc 55.66.101 - avcodec.h
  Increase FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE to 32 due to some corner cases needing
  it

2014-06-10 - xxxxxxx - lavf 55.43.100 - avformat.h
  New field int64_t max_analyze_duration2 instead of deprecated
  int max_analyze_duration.

2014-05-30 - 00759d7 - lavu 52.89.100 - opt.h
  Add av_opt_copy()

2014-06-01 - 03bb99a / 0957b27 - lavc 55.66.100 / 55.54.0 - avcodec.h
  Add AVCodecContext.side_data_only_packets to allow encoders to output packets
  with only side data. This option may become mandatory in the future, so all
  users are recommended to update their code and enable this option.

2014-06-01 - 6e8e9f1 / 8c02adc - lavu 52.88.100 / 53.16.0 - frame.h, pixfmt.h
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