2026-01-06 v1.16.0 "Xenonetta Duck"
  This release includes Arm SVE2 and Neon optimizations for 12-tap filters,
  AVX512 implementations for SAD, support for per-frame and per-spatial-layer
  PSNR calculation, and numerous bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.

    Unit tests require C++17 to build.

    Support for 32-bit iOS targets (armv7, armv7s, and i386) has been removed.

  - Enhancement:
    Optimized Arm SVE2 and Neon implementations for 12-tap convolution filters.
    Optimized Neon High Bitdepth (HBD) SAD and sad_avg functions.
    Added Arm Neon DotProd and I8MM implementations for vpx_convolve12.
    Added AVX512 implementations for SAD64 and sad_skip functions.
    Added SSSE3 and AVX2 implementations for 12-tap temporal filter prediction.
    Added support for per-frame and per-spatial-layer PSNR calculation.

    Adjusted temporal filter strength to improve visual quality and reduce block
    artifacts.

    Added support for darwin24 (macOS 15) and darwin25 (macOS 26).
    libwebm is upgraded to commit b4f01ea.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to heap buffer overflow in vp9_deblock, vp9_post_proc_frame, and
    vp9_pack_bitstream.

    Fix to integer overflow in vp9_highbd_post_proc, vp9_rc_regulate_q,
    tiny_ssim, and vp9_calc_pframe_target_size_one_pass_cbr.

    Fix to use-of-uninitialized-value in vp9_highbd_post_proc, mfqe, and
    vp8_datarate_test.

    Fix to out-of-bounds in log_tile_cols_from_picsize_level.
    Fix to double free on initialization failure in vpx_codec_enc_init_multi.
    Fix to division-by-zero crash in vpxenc with 0 FPS numerator input.

    Fix to various build failures for Arm/SVE2, macOS cross-compilation, and
    Xcode 16.

2025-05-28 v1.15.2 "Wigeon Duck"
  This release fixes CVE-2025-5283 (bug webm:413411335), and is ABI compatible
  with the previous release.

2025-01-09 v1.15.1 "Wigeon Duck"
  This release bumps up the SO major version and fixes the language about ABI
  compatibility in the previous release changelog.

2024-10-22 v1.15.0 "Wigeon Duck"
  This release includes new codec control for key frame filtering, more Neon
  optimizations, improvements to RTC encoding and bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.

    It is strongly recommended to skip this release and upgrade to v1.15.1 since
    the shared object was versioned incorrectly, as shown in
    https://issues.webmproject.org/issues/384672478.

    Temporal filtering improvement that can be turned on with the new codec
    control VP9E_SET_KEY_FRAME_FILTERING, which gives 1+% BD-rate saving with
    minimal encoder time increase.

    libwebm is upgraded to libwebm-1.0.0.31-10-g3b63004

  - Enhancement:
    Neon optimization speed up
      1-3% speed up across speed 5 to 10 for RTC
      3% speed up for speed 0 and 1 for VoD in standard bitdepth
      3% and 7% speed up for speed 0 and 1 respectively for VoD in high bitdepth
    Scene detection is allowed for all RTC speeds (>=5)
    Support profile guided optimizations

    Delta quantization parameters for UV channels for vp8 is supported in RTC
    rate control library

    Rate control parameters are reset and maximum QP is enforced on scene
    changes in SVC when there is no inter-layer prediction

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to Uninitialized scalar variable in `vp9_rd_pick_inter_mode_sb()`
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `resize_multistep`
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `vpx_sad64x64_avx2`
    Fix to Crash in `vpx_sad8x8_sse2`
    Fix to Assertion in `write_modes`
    Support profile guided optimizations
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `encode_frame_to_data_rate`
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `vp9_svc_check_reset_layer_rc_flag`
    Fix to core dump error from /usr/bin/tools/tiny_ssim --help
    Fix to use-of-uninitialized-value in `vp9_setup_tpl_stats`
    Fix to Undefined-shift in `vp9_cyclic_refresh_setup`
    Fix to redundant `&& __GNUC__` preproc check
    Fix to valgrind warning in EncodeAPI.OssFuzz69906
    Fix to Index-out-of-bounds in `vp8_rd_pick_inter_mode`
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `vp8_pick_frame_size`
    Fix to Use-of-uninitialized-value in `vpx_codec_peek_stream_info`
    Fix to log clutters with the message "Warning: Desired height too large"
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `vp9_svc_adjust_avg_frame_qindex`

    Fix to integer overflows caused by huge target bitrate, frame rate, or
    g_timebase numerator or denominator

    Fix to missing license headers
    Fix to build failure for Android Armv7
    Fix to integer overflows in image helpers
    Fix to Integer-overflow in `vp9_calc_iframe_target_size_one_pass_cbr`
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `vp9_pick_inter_mode`
    Fix to Segv in `vp9_multi_thread_tile_init`
    Fix to Use-of-uninitialized-value in `vp9_row_mt_sync_mem_dealloc`
    Fix to Crash in `mbloop_filter_vertical_edge_c`
    Fix to Check failed in CheckUnwind
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `write_modes_b` and `vpx_write`
    Fix to Possible signed integer overflow found in `vpx_codec_encode`
    Fix to build conflicts between Abseil and libaom/libvpx in Win ARM64 builds
    Fix to build failures on aarch64
    Fix to Data race in libvpx ARM NEON
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `scale_plane_1_to_2_phase_0`
    Fix to integer overflow in `encode_mb_row`
    Fix to Floating-point-exception in `vp8_pick_frame_size`
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `vp9_enc_setup_mi`
    Fix to build failure with --target=arm64-win64-vs17
    Fix to heap-buffer-overflow write in `vpx_img_read()`
    Fix to C vs armv8-linux-gcc encode mismatches for `y4m_360p_10bit_input`
    Fix to Null-dereference READ in `ml_predict_var_rd_partitioning`
    Fix to Heap-buffer-overflow in `vpx_scaled_2d_ssse3`
    Fix to Crash in `convolve_horiz`
    Fix to Ill in `vpx_scaled_2d_ssse3`
    Fix to Global-buffer-overflow in `cost_coeffs`

2024-05-21 v1.14.1 "Venetian Duck"
  This release includes enhancements and bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.

  - Enhancement:
    Improved the detection of compiler support for AArch64 extensions,
    particularly SVE.

    Added vpx_codec_get_global_headers() support for VP9.

  - Bug fixes:
    Added buffer bounds checks to vpx_writer and vpx_write_bit_buffer.
    Fix to GetSegmentationData() crash in aq_mode=0 for RTC rate control.
    Fix to alloc for row_base_thresh_freq_fac.
    Free row mt memory before freeing cpi->tile_data.
    Fix to buffer alloc for vp9_bitstream_worker_data.
    Fix to VP8 race issue for multi-thread with pnsr_calc.
    Fix to uv width/height in vp9_scale_and_extend_frame_ssse3.
    Fix to integer division by zero and overflow in calc_pframe_target_size().
    Fix to integer overflow in vpx_img_alloc() & vpx_img_wrap()(CVE-2024-5197).
    Fix to UBSan error in vp9_rc_update_framerate().
    Fix to UBSan errors in vp8_new_framerate().
    Fix to integer overflow in vp8 encodeframe.c.
    Handle EINTR from sem_wait().

2024-01-02 v1.14.0 "Venetian Duck"
  This release drops support for old C compilers, such as Visual Studio 2012
  and older, that disallow mixing variable declarations and statements (a C99
  feature). It adds support for run-time CPU feature detection for Arm
  platforms, as well as support for darwin23 (macOS 14).

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.

    Various new features for rate control library for real-time: SVC parallel
    encoding, loopfilter level, support for frame dropping, and screen content.

    New callback function send_tpl_gop_stats for vp9 external rate control
    library, which can be used to transmit TPL stats for a group of pictures. A
    public header vpx_tpl.h is added for the definition of TPL stats used in
    this callback.

    libwebm is upgraded to libwebm-1.0.0.29-9-g1930e3c.

  - Enhancement:
    Improvements on Neon optimizations: VoD: 12-35% speed up for bitdepth 8,
    68%-151% speed up for high bitdepth.

    Improvements on AVX2 and SSE optimizations.
    Improvements on LSX optimizations for LoongArch.
    42-49% speedup on speed 0 VoD encoding.
    Android API level predicates.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to missing prototypes from the rtcd header.
    Fix to segfault when total size is enlarged but width is smaller.
    Fix to the build for arm64ec using MSVC.
    Fix to copy BLOCK_8X8's mi to PICK_MODE_CONTEXT::mic.
    Fix to -Wshadow warnings.
    Fix to heap overflow in vpx_get4x4sse_cs_neon.
    Fix to buffer overrun in highbd Neon subpel variance filters.
    Added bitexact encode test script.
    Fix to -Wl,-z,defs with Clang's sanitizers.
    Fix to decoder stability after error & continued decoding.
    Fix to mismatch of VP9 encode with NEON intrinsics with C only version.
    Fix to Arm64 MSVC compile vpx_highbd_fdct4x4_neon.
    Fix to fragments count before use.
    Fix to a case where target bandwidth is 0 for SVC.
    Fix mask in vp9_quantize_avx2,highbd_get_max_lane_eob.
    Fix to int overflow in vp9_calc_pframe_target_size_one_pass_cbr.
    Fix to integer overflow in vp8,ratectrl.c.
    Fix to integer overflow in vp9 svc.
    Fix to avg_frame_bandwidth overflow.
    Fix to per frame qp for temporal layers.
    Fix to unsigned integer overflow in sse computation.
    Fix to uninitialized mesh feature for BEST mode.
    Fix to overflow in highbd temporal_filter.
    Fix to unaligned loads w/w==4 in vpx_convolve_copy_neon.
    Skip arm64_neon.h workaround w/VS >= 2019.
    Fix to c vs avx mismatch of diamond_search_sad().
    Fix to c vs intrinsic mismatch of vpx_hadamard_32x32() function.
    Fix to a bug in vpx_hadamard_32x32_neon().
    Fix to Clang -Wunreachable-code-aggressive warnings.
    Fix to a bug in vpx_highbd_hadamard_32x32_neon().
    Fix to -Wunreachable-code in mfqe_partition.
    Force mode search on 64x64 if no mode is selected.
    Fix to ubsan failure caused by left shift of negative.
    Fix to integer overflow in calc_pframe_target_size.
    Fix to float-cast-overflow in vp8_change_config().
    Fix to a null ptr before use.
    Conditionally skip using inter frames in speed features.
    Remove invalid reference frames.
    Disable intra mode search speed features conditionally.
    Set nonrd keyframe under dynamic change of deadline for rtc.
    Fix to scaled reference offsets.
    Set skip_recode=0 in nonrd_pick_sb_modes.
    Fix to an edge case when downsizing to one.
    Fix to a bug in frame scaling.
    Fix to pred buffer stride.
    Fix to a bug in simple motion search.
    Update frame size in actual encoding.

2023-09-29 v1.13.1 "Ugly Duckling"
  This release contains two security related fixes. One each for VP8 and VP9.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.

  - Bug fixes:
    https://crbug.com/1486441 (CVE-2023-5217)
    Fix to a crash related to VP9 encoding (#1642, CVE-2023-6349)

2023-01-31 v1.13.0 "Ugly Duckling"
  This release includes more Neon and AVX2 optimizations, adds a new codec
  control to set per frame QP, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.12.1, and includes
  numerous bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.

    New codec control VP9E_SET_QUANTIZER_ONE_PASS to set per frame QP.

    GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.12.1.

    .clang-format is upgraded to clang-format-11.

    VPX_EXT_RATECTRL_ABI_VERSION was bumped due to incompatible changes to the
    feature of using external rate control models for vp9.

  - Enhancement:
    Numerous improvements on Neon optimizations.
    Numerous improvements on AVX2 optimizations.
    Additional ARM targets added for Visual Studio.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to calculating internal stats when frame dropped.
    Fix to segfault for external resize test in vp9.
    Fix to build system with replacing egrep with grep -E.
    Fix to a few bugs with external RTC rate control library.
    Fix to make SVC work with VBR.
    Fix to key frame setting in VP9 external RC.
    Fix to -Wimplicit-int (Clang 16).
    Fix to VP8 external RC for buffer levels.
    Fix to VP8 external RC for dynamic update of layers.
    Fix to VP9 auto level.
    Fix to off-by-one error of max w/h in validate_config.
    Fix to make SVC work for Profile 1.

2022-06-17 v1.12.0 "Torrent Duck"
  This release adds optimizations for Loongarch, adds support for vp8 in the
  real-time rate control library, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.11.0, updates
  libwebm to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268, and includes numerous bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.

    vp8 support in the real-time rate control library.
    New codec control VP8E_SET_RTC_EXTERNAL_RATECTRL is added.

    Configure support for darwin21 is added.

    GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.11.0.

    libwebm is updated to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268.

    Allow SimpleEncode environment to take target level as input to match
    the level conformance in vp9.

  - Enhancement:
    Numerous improvements on checking memory allocations.
    Optimizations for Loongarch.
    Code clean-up.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to a crash related to {vp8/vp9}_set_roi_map.
    Fix to compiling failure with -Wformat-nonliteral.
    Fix to integer overflow with vp9 with high resolution content.
    Fix to AddNoiseTest failure with ARMv7.
    Fix to libvpx Null-dereference READ in vp8.

2021-09-27 v1.11.0 "Smew Duck"
  This maintenance release adds support for VBR mode in VP9 rate control
  interface, new codec controls to get quantization parameters and loop filter
  levels, and includes several improvements to NEON and numerous bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.
    New codec control is added to get quantization parameters and loop filter
    levels.

    VBR mode is supported in VP9 rate control library.

  - Enhancement:
    Numerous improvements for Neon optimizations.
    Code clean-up and refactoring.
    Calculation of rd multiplier is changed with BDRATE gains.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix to overflow on duration.
    Fix to several instances of -Wunused-but-set-variable.
    Fix to avoid chroma resampling for 420mpeg2 input.
    Fix to overflow in calc_iframe_target_size.
    Fix to disallow skipping transform and quantization.
    Fix some -Wsign-compare warnings in simple_encode.
    Fix input file path in simple_encode_test.
    Fix valid range for under/over_shoot pct.

2021-03-09 v1.10.0 "Ruddy Duck"
  This maintenance release adds support for darwin20 and new codec controls, as
  well as numerous bug fixes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.
    New codec control is added to disable loopfilter for VP9.

    New encoder control is added to disable feature to increase Q on overshoot
    detection for CBR.

    Configure support for darwin20 is added.

    New codec control is added for VP9 rate control. The control ID of this
    interface is VP9E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL. To make VP9 use a customized
    external rate control model, users will have to implement each callback
    function in vpx_rc_funcs_t and register them using libvpx API
    vpx_codec_control_() with the control ID.

  - Enhancement:
    Use -std=gnu++11 instead of -std=c++11 for c++ files.

  - Bug fixes:
    Override assembler with --as option of configure for MSVS.
    Fix several compilation issues with gcc 4.8.5.
    Fix to resetting rate control for temporal layers.
    Fix to the rate control stats of SVC example encoder when number of spatial
    layers is 1.
    Fix to reusing motion vectors from the base spatial layer in SVC.
    2 pass related flags removed from SVC example encoder.

2020-07-29 v1.9.0 "Quacking Duck"
  This release adds support for NV12, a separate library for rate control, as
  well as incremental improvements.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.
    NV12 support is added to this release.
    A new interface is added for VP9 rate control. The new library libvp9rc.a
    must be linked by applications.
    Googletest is updated to v1.10.0.
    simple_encode.cc is compiled into a new library libsimple_encode.a with
    CONFIG_RATE_CTRL.

  - Enhancement:
    Various changes to improve VP9 SVC, rate control, quality and speed to real
    time encoding.

  - Bug fixes:
    Fix key frame update refresh simulcast flexible svc.
    Fix to disable_16x16part speed feature for real time encoding.
    Fix some signed integer overflows for VP9 rate control.
    Fix initialization of delta_q_uv.
    Fix condition in regulate_q for cyclic refresh.
    Various fixes to dynamic resizing for VP9 SVC.

2019-12-09 v1.8.2 "Pekin Duck"
  This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with the previous release.
    ARCH_* defines have been removed in favor of VPX_ARCH_*.

2019-07-15 v1.8.1 "Orpington Duck"
  This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.
    VP8E_SET_CPUUSED now accepts values up to 9 for vp9.
    VPX_CTRL_VP9E_SET_MAX_INTER_BITRATE_PCT had a spelling fix (was VP8E).
    The --sdk-path option has been removed. If you were using it to build for
      Android please read build/make/Android.mk for alternatives.
    All PPC optimizations have been disabled:
      https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1522.

  - Enhancements:
    Various changes to improve encoder rate control, quality and speed
      for practically every use case.

  - Bug fixes:
    vp9-rtc: Fix color artifacts for speed >= 8.

2019-01-31 v1.8.0 "Northern Shoveler Duck"
  This release focused on encoding performance for realtime and VOD use cases.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release. This adds and
    improves several vp9 controls. Most are related to SVC:
      VP9E_SET_SVC_FRAME_DROP_LAYER:
        - Frame dropping in SVC.
      VP9E_SET_SVC_INTER_LAYER_PRED:
        - Inter-layer prediction in SVC.
      VP9E_SET_SVC_GF_TEMPORAL_REF:
        - Enable long term temporal reference in SVC.
      VP9E_SET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG/VP9E_GET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG:
        - Extend and improve this control for better flexibility in setting SVC
          pattern dynamically.
      VP9E_SET_POSTENCODE_DROP:
        - Allow for post-encode frame dropping (applies to non-SVC too).
      VP9E_SET_SVC_SPATIAL_LAYER_SYNC:
        - Enable spatial layer sync frames.
      VP9E_SET_SVC_LAYER_ID:
        - Extend api to specify temporal id for each spatial layers.
      VP9E_SET_ROI_MAP:
        - Extend Region of Interest functionality to VP9.

  - Enhancements:
    2 pass vp9 encoding has improved substantially. When using --auto-alt-ref=6,
    we see approximately 8% for VBR and 10% for CQ. When using --auto-alt-ref=1,
    the gains are approximately 4% for VBR and 5% for CQ.

    For real-time encoding, speed 7 has improved by ~5-10%. Encodes targeted at
    screen sharing have improved when the content changes significantly (slide
    sharing) or scrolls. There is a new speed 9 setting for mobile devices which
    is about 10-20% faster than speed 8.

  - Bug fixes:
    VP9 denoiser issue.
    VP9 partition issue for 1080p.
    VP9 rate control improvments.
    Postprocessing Multi Frame Quality Enhancement (MFQE) issue.
    VP8 multithread decoder issues.
    A variety of fuzzing issues.

2018-01-04 v1.7.0 "Mandarin Duck"
  This release focused on high bit depth performance (10/12 bit) and vp9
  encoding improvements.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible due to new vp9 encoder features.

    Frame parallel decoding for vp9 has been removed.

  - Enhancements:
    vp9 encoding supports additional threads with --row-mt. This can be greater
    than the number of tiles.

    Two new vp9 encoder options have been added:
      --corpus-complexity
      --tune-content=film

    Additional tooling for respecting the vp9 "level" profiles has been added.

  - Bug fixes:
    A variety of fuzzing issues.
    vp8 threading fix for ARM.
    Codec control VP9_SET_SKIP_LOOP_FILTER fixed.
    Reject invalid multi resolution configurations.

2017-01-09 v1.6.1 "Long Tailed Duck"
  This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
  decoding processes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI compatible with 1.6.0.

  - Enhancements:
    Faster VP9 encoding and decoding.
    High bit depth builds now provide similar speed for 8 bit encode and decode
    for x86 targets. Other platforms and higher bit depth improvements are in
    progress.

  - Bug Fixes:
    A variety of fuzzing issues.

2016-07-20 v1.6.0 "Khaki Campbell Duck"
  This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
  decoding processes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with 1.5.0 due to a new 'color_range' enum
    in vpx_image and some minor changes to the VP8_COMP structure.

    The default key frame interval for VP9 has changed from 128 to 9999.

  - Enhancement:
    A core focus has been performance for low end Intel processors. SSSE3
    instructions such as 'pshufb' have been avoided and instructions have been
    reordered to better accommodate the more constrained pipelines.

    As a result, devices based on Celeron processors have seen substantial
    decoding improvements. From Indian Runner Duck to Javan Whistling Duck,
    decoding speed improved between 10 and 30%. Between Javan Whistling Duck
    and Khaki Campbell Duck, it improved another 10 to 15%.

    While Celeron benefited most, Core-i5 also improved 5% and 10% between the
    respective releases.

    Realtime performance for WebRTC for both speed and quality has received a
    lot of attention.

  - Bug Fixes:
    A number of fuzzing issues, found variously by Mozilla, Chromium and others,
    have been fixed and we strongly recommend updating.

2015-11-09 v1.5.0 "Javan Whistling Duck"
  This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
  decoding processes.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with 1.4.0. It drops deprecated VP8
    controls and adds a variety of VP9 controls for testing.

    The vpxenc utility now prefers VP9 by default.

  - Enhancements:
    Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
    Smaller library size by combining functions used by VP8 and VP9

  - Bug Fixes:
    A variety of fuzzing issues

2015-04-03 v1.4.0 "Indian Runner Duck"
  This release includes significant improvements to the VP9 codec.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible with 1.3.0. It drops the compatibility
    layer, requiring VPX_IMG_FMT_* instead of IMG_FMT_*, and adds several codec
    controls for VP9.

  - Enhancements:
    Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
    Multithreaded VP9 decoding (tile and frame-based)
    Multithreaded VP9 encoding - on by default
    YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support in VP9
    10 and 12bit support in VP9
    64bit ARM support by replacing ARM assembly with intrinsics

  - Bug Fixes:
    Fixes a VP9 bitstream issue in Profile 1. This only affected non-YUV 4:2:0
    files.

  - Known Issues:
    Frame Parallel decoding fails for segmented and non-420 files.

2013-11-15 v1.3.0 "Forest"
  This release introduces the VP9 codec in a backward-compatible way.
  All existing users of VP8 can continue to use the library without
  modification. However, some VP8 options do not map to VP9 in the same manner.

  The VP9 encoder in this release is not feature complete. Users interested in
  the encoder are advised to use the git master branch and discuss issues on
  libvpx mailing lists.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
    of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this document
    for that release.

  - Enhancements:
      Get rid of bashisms in the main build scripts
      Added usage info on command line options
      Add lossless compression mode
      Dll build of libvpx
      Add additional Mac OS X targets: 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 (darwin11-13)
      Add option to disable documentation
      configure: add --enable-external-build support
      make: support V=1 as short form of verbose=yes
      configure: support mingw-w64
      configure: support hardfloat armv7 CHOSTS
      configure: add support for android x86
      Add estimated completion time to vpxenc
      Don't exit on decode errors in vpxenc
      vpxenc: support scaling prior to encoding
      vpxdec: support scaling output
      vpxenc: improve progress indicators with --skip
      msvs: Don't link to winmm.lib
      Add a new script for producing vcxproj files
      Produce Visual Studio 10 and 11 project files
      Produce Windows Phone project files
      msvs-build: use msbuild for vs >= 2005
      configure: default configure log to config.log
      Add encoding option --static-thresh

  - Speed:
      Miscellaneous speed optimizations for VP8 and VP9.

  - Quality:
      In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release.

  - Bug Fixes:
      This release represents approximately a year of engineering effort,
      and contains multiple bug fixes. Please refer to git history for details.


2012-12-21 v1.2.0
  This release acts as a checkpoint for a large amount of internal refactoring
  and testing. It also contains a number of small bugfixes, so all users are
  encouraged to upgrade.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
    of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    document for that release.

  - Enhancements:
      VP8 optimizations for MIPS dspr2
      vpxenc: add -quiet option

  - Speed:
      Encoder and decoder speed is consistent with the Eider release.

  - Quality:
      In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release.

      Minor tweaks to ARNR filtering
      Minor improvements to real time encoding with multiple temporal layers

  - Bug Fixes:
      Fixes multithreaded encoder race condition in loopfilter
      Fixes multi-resolution threaded encoding
      Fix potential encoder dead-lock after picture resize


2012-05-09 v1.1.0 "Eider"
  This introduces a number of enhancements, mostly focused on real-time
  encoding. In addition, it fixes a decoder bug (first introduced in
  Duclair) so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
    of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    document for that release.

    This release introduces a new temporal denoiser, controlled by the
    VP8E_SET_NOISE_SENSITIVITY control. The temporal denoiser does not
    currently take a strength parameter, so the control is effectively
    a boolean - zero (off) or non-zero (on). For compatibility with
    existing applications, the values accepted are the same as those
    for the spatial denoiser (0-6). The temporal denoiser is enabled
    by default, and the older spatial denoiser may be restored by
    configuring with --disable-temporal-denoising. The temporal denoiser
    is more computationally intensive than the spatial one.

    This release removes support for a legacy, decode only API that was
    supported, but deprecated, at the initial release of libvpx
    (v0.9.0). This is not expected to have any impact. If you are
    impacted, you can apply a reversion to commit 2bf8fb58 locally.
    Please update to the latest libvpx API if you are affected.

  - Enhancements:
      Adds a motion compensated temporal denoiser to the encoder, which
      gives higher quality than the older spatial denoiser. (See above
      for notes on upgrading).

      In addition, support for new compilers and platforms were added,
      including:
        improved support for XCode
        Android x86 NDK build
        OS/2 support
        SunCC support

      Changing resolution with vpx_codec_enc_config_set() is now
      supported. Previously, reinitializing the codec was required to
      change the input resolution.

      The vpxenc application has initial support for producing multiple
      encodes from the same input in one call. Resizing is not yet
      supported, but varying other codec parameters is. Use -- to
      delineate output streams. Options persist from one stream to the
      next.

      Also, the vpxenc application will now use a keyframe interval of
      5 seconds by default. Use the --kf-max-dist option to override.

  - Speed:
      Decoder performance improved 2.5% versus Duclair. Encoder speed is
      consistent with Duclair for most material. Two pass encoding of
      slideshow-like material will see significant improvements.

      Large realtime encoding speed gains at a small quality expense are
      possible by configuring the on-the-fly bitpacking experiment with
      --enable-onthefly-bitpacking. Realtime encoder can be up to 13%
      faster (ARM) depending on the number of threads and bitrate
      settings. This technique sees constant gain over the 5-16 speed
      range. For VC style input the loss seen is up to 0.2dB. See commit
      52cf4dca for further details.

  - Quality:
      On the whole, quality is consistent with the Duclair release. Some
      tweaks:

        Reduced blockiness in easy sections by applying a penalty to
        intra modes.

        Improved quality of static sections (like slideshows) with
        two pass encoding.

        Improved keyframe sizing with multiple temporal layers

  - Bug Fixes:
      Corrected alt-ref contribution to frame rate for visible updates
      to the alt-ref buffer. This affected applications making manual
      usage of the frame reference flags, or temporal layers.

      Additional constraints were added to disable multi-frame quality
      enhancement (MFQE) in sections of the frame where there is motion.
      (#392)

      Fixed corruption issues when vpx_codec_enc_config_set() was called
      with spatial resampling enabled.

      Fixed a decoder error introduced in Duclair where the segmentation
      map was not being reinitialized on keyframes (#378)


2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair"
  Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to
  real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in
  v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.

  - Upgrading:
      This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the
      "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your
      applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The
      API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most
      applications.

  - Enhancements:
      This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder,
      of particular interest to real time streaming applications.

      Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can
      be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targeting
      for each substream.

      Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality
      more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially
      different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal
      scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios.

      Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the
      same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them
      separately.

  - Speed:
      Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real-
      time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with
      this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3
      improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved
      1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the
      Cayuga release.

  - Quality:
      Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga
      release.

  - Bug Fixes:
      This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7
      related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This
      behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting
      decoding from a P-frame.


2011-08-15 v0.9.7-p1 "Cayuga" patch 1
  This is an incremental bugfix release against Cayuga. All users of that
  release are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

    - Fix potential OOB reads (cdae03a)

          An unbounded out of bounds read was discovered when the
          decoder was requested to perform error concealment (new in
          Cayuga) given a frame with corrupt partition sizes.

          A bounded out of bounds read was discovered affecting all
          versions of libvpx. Given an multipartition input frame that
          is truncated between the mode/mv partition and the first
          residiual paritition (in the block of partition offsets), up
          to 3 extra bytes could have been read from the source buffer.
          The code will not take any action regardless of the contents
          of these undefined bytes, as the truncated buffer is detected
          immediately following the read based on the calculated
          starting position of the coefficient partition.

    - Fix potential error concealment crash when the very first frame
      is missing or corrupt (a609be5)

    - Fix significant artifacts in error concealment (a4c2211, 99d870a)

    - Revert 1-pass CBR rate control changes (e961317)
      Further testing showed this change produced undesirable visual
      artifacts, rolling back for now.


2011-08-02 v0.9.7 "Cayuga"
  Our third named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5) and
    Bali (v0.9.6). Users of older releases should refer to the Upgrading
    notes in this document for that release.

  - Enhancements:
          Stereo 3D format support for vpxenc
          Runtime detection of available processor cores.
          Allow specifying --end-usage by enum name
          vpxdec: test for frame corruption
          vpxenc: add quantizer histogram display
          vpxenc: add rate histogram display
          Set VPX_FRAME_IS_DROPPABLE
          update configure for ios sdk 4.3
          Avoid text relocations in ARM vp8 decoder
          Generate a vpx.pc file for pkg-config.
          New ways of passing encoded data between encoder and decoder.

  - Speed:
      This release includes across-the-board speed improvements to the
      encoder. On x86, these measure at approximately 11.5% in Best mode,
      21.5% in Good mode (speed 0), and 22.5% in Realtime mode (speed 6).
      On ARM Cortex A9 with Neon extensions, real-time encoding of video
      telephony content is 35% faster than Bali on single core and 48%
      faster on multi-core. On the NVidia Tegra2 platform, real time
      encoding is 40% faster than Bali.

      Decoder speed was not a priority for this release, but improved
      approximately 8.4% on x86.

          Reduce motion vector search on alt-ref frame.
          Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread
          Reworked loopfilter to precalculate more parameters
          SSE2/SSSE3 optimizations for build_predictors_mbuv{,_s}().
          Make hor UV predict ~2x faster (73 vs 132 cycles) using SSSE3.
          Removed redundant checks
          Reduced structure sizes
          utilize preload in ARMv6 MC/LPF/Copy routines
          ARM optimized quantization, dfct, variance, subtract
          Increase chrow row alignment to 16 bytes.
          disable trellis optimization for first pass
          Write SSSE3 sub-pixel filter function
          Improve SSE2 half-pixel filter funtions
          Add vp8_sub_pixel_variance16x8_ssse3 function
          Reduce unnecessary distortion computation
          Use diamond search to replace full search
          Preload reference area in sub-pixel motion search (real-time mode)

  - Quality:
      This release focused primarily on one-pass use cases, including
      video conferencing. Low latency data rate control was significantly
      improved, improving streamability over bandwidth constrained links.
      Added support for error concealment, allowing frames to maintain
      visual quality in the presence of substantial packet loss.

          Add rc_max_intra_bitrate_pct control
          Limit size of initial keyframe in one-pass.
          Improve framerate adaptation
          Improved 1-pass CBR rate control
          Improved KF insertion after fades to still.
          Improved key frame detection.
          Improved activity masking (lower PSNR impact for same SSIM boost)
          Improved interaction between GF and ARFs
          Adding error-concealment to the decoder.
          Adding support for independent partitions
          Adjusted rate-distortion constants


  - Bug Fixes:
          Removed firstpass motion map
          Fix parallel make install
          Fix multithreaded encoding for 1 MB wide frame
          Fixed iwalsh_neon build problems with RVDS4.1
          Fix semaphore emulation, spin-wait intrinsics on Windows
          Fix build with xcode4 and simplify GLOBAL.
          Mark ARM asm objects as allowing a non-executable stack.
          Fix vpxenc encoding incorrect webm file header on big endian


2011-03-07 v0.9.6 "Bali"
  Our second named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5). Users
    of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    document for that release.

  - Enhancements:
      vpxenc --psnr shows a summary when encode completes
      --tune=ssim option to enable activity masking
      improved postproc visualizations for development
      updated support for Apple iOS to SDK 4.2
      query decoder to determine which reference frames were updated
      implemented error tracking in the decoder
      fix pipe support on windows

  - Speed:
      Primary focus was on good quality mode, speed 0. Average improvement
      on x86 about 40%, up to 100% on user-generated content at that speed.
      Best quality mode speed improved 35%, and realtime speed 10-20%. This
      release also saw significant improvement in realtime encoding speed
      on ARM platforms.

        Improved encoder threading
        Dont pick encoder filter level when loopfilter is disabled.
        Avoid double copying of key frames into alt and golden buffer
        FDCT optimizations.
        x86 sse2 temporal filter
        SSSE3 version of fast quantizer
        vp8_rd_pick_best_mbsegmentation code restructure
        Adjusted breakout RD for SPLITMV
        Changed segmentation check order
        Improved rd_pick_intra4x4block
        Adds armv6 optimized variance calculation
        ARMv6 optimized sad16x16
        ARMv6 optimized half pixel variance calculations
        Full search SAD function optimization in SSE4.1
        Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain
        Improve MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3

  - Quality:
      Best quality mode improved PSNR 6.3%, and SSIM 6.1%. This release
      also includes support for "activity masking," which greatly improves
      SSIM at the expense of PSNR. For now, this feature is available with
      the --tune=ssim option. Further experimentation in this area
      is ongoing. This release also introduces a new rate control mode
      called "CQ," which changes the allocation of bits within a clip to
      the sections where they will have the most visual impact.

        Tuning for the more exact quantizer.
        Relax rate control for last few frames
        CQ Mode
        Limit key frame quantizer for forced key frames.
        KF/GF Pulsing
        Add simple version of activity masking.
        make rdmult adaptive for intra in quantizer RDO
        cap the best quantizer for 2nd order DC
        change the threshold of DC check for encode breakout

  - Bug Fixes:
      Fix crash on Sparc Solaris.
      Fix counter of fixed keyframe distance
      ARNR filter pointer update bug fix
      Fixed use of motion percentage in KF/GF group calc
      Changed condition for using RD in Intra Mode
      Fix encoder real-time only configuration.
      Fix ARM encoder crash with multiple token partitions
      Fixed bug first cluster timecode of webm file is wrong.
      Fixed various encoder bugs with odd-sized images
      vp8e_get_preview fixed when spatial resampling enabled
      quantizer: fix assertion in fast quantizer path
      Allocate source buffers to be multiples of 16
      Fix for manual Golden frame frequency
      Fix drastic undershoot in long form content


2010-10-28 v0.9.5 "Aylesbury"
  Our first named release, focused on a faster decoder, and a better encoder.

  - Upgrading:
    This release incorporates backwards-incompatible changes to the
    ivfenc and ivfdec tools. These tools are now called vpxenc and vpxdec.

    vpxdec
      * the -q (quiet) option has been removed, and replaced with
        -v (verbose). the output is quiet by default. Use -v to see
        the version number of the binary.

      * The default behavior is now to write output to a single file
        instead of individual frames. The -y option has been removed.
        Y4M output is the default.
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