[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Announce FFmpeg 8.0

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, 19:47 Lynne via ffmpeg-devel, <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
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>,
> +                                  <span title="Screen Content
> Coding">SSC</span>,
> +                                  <span title="Adaptive Color
> Transform">ACT</span>,
> +                                  Palette Mode</li>
> +    <li>Vulkan compute-based codecs: FFv1 (encode and decode), ProRes RAW
> (decode only)</li>
> +    <li>Hardware accelerated decoding: Vulkan VP9, VAAPI VVC, OpenHarmony
> H264/5</li>
> +    <li>Hardware accelerated encoding: Vulkan AV1, OpenHarmony H264/5</li>
> +    <li>Filters: colordetect, pad_cuda, scale_d3d11, Whisper, and
> others</li>
> +  </ul>
> +  </p>
> +  <p>
> +  A new class of decoders and encoders based on pure Vulkan compute
> implementation have been added.
> +  Rather than using a custom hardware accelerator present, they are based
> on compute shaders, and work
> +  on any implementation of Vulkan 1.3.
>

If you want to write several paragraphs about Vulkan, you should explain
what Vulkan is.

Kieran

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