[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Announce FFmpeg 8.0

[Lynne]

On 22/08/2025 06:56, Frank Plowman via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 21/08/2025 06:47, Lynne via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>> ---
>>   src/index | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
>> index 52829e1..a07f4b8 100644
>> --- a/src/index
>> +++ b/src/index
>> @@ -35,6 +35,48 @@
>>       News
>>     </h1>
>>   
>> +  <h3 id="pr8.0">August 23nd, 2025, FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A. Huffman">"Huffman"</span></h3>
>> +  <p>
>> +  A new major release, <a href="download.html#release_8.0">FFmpeg 8.0 <span title="David A. Huffman">"Huffman"</span></a>,
>> +  is now available for download.
>> +  Thanks to several delays, and modernization of our entire infrastructure, this release ended up
>> +  being one of our largest releases to date. In short, its new features are:
>> +  <ul>
>> +    <li>Native decoders: <span title="Advanced Professional Video">APV</span>, ProRes RAW, RealVideo 6.0, Sanyo LD-ADPCM, and others</li>
>> +    <li>VVC decoder improvements: <span title="Inter Block Copy">IBC</span>,
> 
> Should be "Intra Block Copy"
> 
>> +                                  <span title="Screen Content Coding">SSC</span>,
> 
> SCC isn't really a new tool/feature but rather a use case.  The new
> SCC-specific tools are IBC and Palette (and arguably the ACT is most
> relevant for SCC but I digress), so it seems strange to list SCC
> separately.  Perhaps it can be removed?

I copied the changelog, but I guess its wrong.
Done.