[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: add a news entry for 7.0

[James Almer]

On 4/1/2024 3:07 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> ---
> Now mentioning that vvcdec is experimental, as suggested by Martin on
> IRC.
> ---
>   src/index | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> index 1eb5524..2deb6af 100644
> --- a/src/index
> +++ b/src/index
> @@ -35,6 +35,34 @@
>       News
>     </h1>
>   
> +  <h3 id="pr7.0">April xxth, 2024, FFmpeg 7.0 "XXX"</h3>
> +  <p>
> +  A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_7.0">FFmpeg 7.0 "XXX"</a>,
> +  is now available for download. The most noteworthy changes for most users are
> +  a <a href="#vvcdec">native VVC decoder</a> (currently experimental, until more
> +  fuzzing is done), <a href="#iamf">IAMF support</a>, or a
> +  <a href="#cli_threading">multi-threaded <code>ffmpeg</code> CLI tool</a>.
> +  </p>
> +
> +  <p>
> +  This release is <em>not</em> backwards compatible, removing APIs deprecated before 6.0.
> +  The biggest change for most library callers will be the removal of the old bitmask-based
> +  channel layout API, replaced by the <code>AVChannelLayout</code> API allowing such
> +  features as custom channel ordering, or Ambisonics. Certain deprecated <code>ffmpeg</code>
> +  CLI options were also removed, and a C11-compliant compiler is now required to build
> +  the code.
> +  </p>
> +
> +  <p>
> +  As usual, there is also a number of new supported formats and codecs, new filters, APIs,
> +  and countless smaller features and bugfixes. Compared to 6.0, the <code>git</code> repository
> +  contains almost ∼2000 new commits by ∼100 authors, touching >100000 lines in
> +  ∼2000 files — thanks to everyone who contributed. See the
> +  <a href="https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=Changelog;hb=n7.0">Changelog</a>,
> +  <a href="https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/APIchanges;hb=n7.0">APIchanges</a>,
> +  and the git log for more comprehensive lists of changes.
> +  </p>
> +
>     <h3 id="vvcdec">January 3rd, 2024, native VVC decoder</h3>
>     <p>
>     The <code>libavcodec</code> library now contains a native VVC (Versatile Video Coding)

Will apply now that 7.0 was tagged.