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- Release Notes
- =============
- * 0.6 "Works with HTML5" June, 2010
- General notes
- -------------
- This release focuses on improvements for the new multimedia elements in HTML5.
- The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster, the Vorbis decoder
- has seen important updates and this release supports Google's newly released
- libvpx library for the VP8 codec and WebM container.
- Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to,
- Intel Indeo 5, WMA Pro, WMA Voice and HE-AAC.
- 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 FFmpeg trunk repository. If you are experiencing
- any issues with any formally released version of FFmpeg, 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 and other notable Changes
- -----------------------------
- Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information.
- Notable changes:
- - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
- - deprecated old scaler removed
- - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
- - RTMP support in libavformat
- - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
- - ffprobe tool
- - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
- - CODEC_CAP_EXPERIMENTAL added
- Added Codecs:
- -------------
- - VQF demuxer
- - PCX encoder
- - CorePNG decoding support
- - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
- - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
- - V210 decoder and encoder
- - QCP demuxer
- - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
- - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
- - DPX image decoder
- - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
- - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
- - experimental AAC encoder
- - Wave64 demuxer
- - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
- - TwinVQ decoder
- - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
- - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
- - WMA Pro decoder
- - Core Audio Format demuxer
- - Atrac1 decoder
- - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
- - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
- - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
- - IV8 demuxer
- - CDG demuxer and decoder
- - R210 decoder
- - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
- - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
- - SIPR decoder
- - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
- - RTP packetization and depacketization of H.263 and AMR
- - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
- - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
- - Indeo 5 decoder
- - WMA Voice decoder
- - AMR-NB decoder
- - RTSP muxer
- - HE-AAC v1 decoder
- - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
- - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
- - RTP hinting in the mov/3gp/mp4 muxer
- - VP8 decoding via libvpx
- Notable license related changes
- -------------------------------
- - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
- - libswscale can now be compiled in LGPL mode
- * 0.6.1
- General notes
- -------------
- This point release includes some updates to make the 0.6 release series usable
- for users that need to retain the existing behavior as closely as possible.
- The changes follow below:
- Bugfixes
- --------
- - fix autodetection of E-AC-3 substream samples
- - performance fix for seekable HTTP
- - add missing VP80 fourcc code for the VP8 codec
- - small documentation fixes
- - fix several potentially exploitable issues in the FLIC decoder
- (addresses CVE-2010-3429)
- HE-AAC v2 backport
- ------------------
- This release includes a backport of the AAC decoder from trunk, which
- enables proper playback of HE-AAC v2 media.
- * 0.6.2
- General notes
- -------------
- This is a maintenance-only release that addresses a small number of security
- and portability issues. Distributors and system integrators are encouraged
- to update and share their patches against this branch.
- Security fixes
- --------------
- Programming errors in container and codec implementations may lead to
- denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if the user is
- tricked into opening a malformed media file or stream.
- Affected and updated have been the implementations of the following
- codecs and container formats:
- - VC1 decoder (Change related to CVE-2011-0723)
- - APE decoder (cf. http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/1103-exploits/vlc105-dos.txt)
- * 0.6.3
- General notes
- -------------
- This is a mostly maintenance-only release that addresses a small number
- of bugs such as security and compilation issues. Moreover, this release
- has been updated to work with gcc-4.6 and the VisualOn AAC encoder has
- been backported from the Libav 0.7.2 release. Distributors and system
- integrators are encouraged to update and share their patches against
- this branch.
- For a full list of changes please see the Changelog file.
- * 0.6.4
- General notes
- -------------
- This mostly maintenance-only release that addresses a number a number of
- bugs such as security and compilation issues that have been brought to
- our attention. Among other (rather minor) fixes, this release features
- fixes for the QDM2 decoder (CVE-2011-4351), vp3 decoder (CVE-2011-4352),
- DoS in the VP5/VP6 decoders (CVE-2011-4353), a buffer overflow in the
- Sierra VMD decoder CVE-2011-4364, and a safety fix in the svq1 decoder
- (CVE-2011-4579).
- Distributors and system integrators are encouraged
- to update and share their patches against this branch. For a full list
- of changes please see the Changelog file.
- * 0.6.5
- General notes
- -------------
- This mostly maintenance-only release that addresses a number a number of
- bugs such as security and compilation issues that have been brought to
- our attention. Among other (rather minor) fixes, this release features
- fixes for the VP3 decoder (CVE-2011-3892), vorbis decoder, and matroska
- demuxer (CVE-2011-3893 and CVE-2011-3895).
- Distributors and system integrators are encouraged
- to update and share their patches against this branch. For a full list
- of changes please see the Changelog file.
- * 0.6.6
- General notes
- -------------
- This mostly maintenance-only release that addresses a number a number of
- bugs such as security and compilation issues that have been brought to
- our attention. Among other fixes, this release features includes
- security updates for the, DV decoder (CVE-2011-3929 and CVE-2011-3936),
- VQA Video Decoder (CVE-2012-0947), DPCM codecs (CVE-2011-3951), AAC SBR
- (CVE-2012-0850), H.264 (CVE-2012-0851), ADPCM (CVE-2012-0852), Shorten
- (CVE-2012-0858), and the KMVC decoder (CVE-2011-3952).
- Distributors and system integrators are encouraged
- to update and share their patches against this branch. For a full list
- of changes please see the Changelog file or the git commit history.
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