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+version 0.7:
+- many many things we forgot because we rather write code than changelogs
+- libmpcodecs video filter support (3 times as many filters than before)
+- mpeg2 aspect ratio dection fixed
+- libxvid aspect pickiness fixed
+- Frame multithreaded decoding
- E-AC-3 audio encoder
+- ac3enc: add channel coupling support
+- floating-point sample format support to the ac3, eac3, dca, aac, and vorbis decoders.
+- H264/MPEG frame-level multi-threading
+- All av_metadata_* functions renamed to av_dict_* and moved to libavutil
+- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding support
+- 10-bit H.264 optimizations for x86
+- lut, lutrgb, and lutyuv filters added
+- buffersink libavfilter sink added
+- Bump libswscale for recently reported ABI break
version 0.7_beta2:
+- VP8 frame-multithreading
+- NEON optimizations for VP8
- Lots of deprecated API cruft removed
- fft and imdct optimizations for AVX (Sandy Bridge) processors
+- showinfo filter added
- DPX image encoder
- SMPTE 302M AES3 audio decoder
-- Remove support for quitting ffmpeg with 'q', ctrl+c should be used.
-- 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the h264 decoder
+- Apple Core Audio Format muxer
+- 9bit and 10bit per sample support in the H.264 decoder
+- 9bit and 10bit FFV1 encoding / decoding
+- split filter added
+- select filter added
+- sdl output device added
version 0.7_beta1:
- RTP depacketization of QDM2
- ANSI/ASCII art playback system
- Lego Mindstorms RSO de/muxer
+- libavcore added
- SubRip subtitle file muxer and demuxer
- Chinese AVS encoding via libxavs
- ffprobe -show_packets option added
- replace the ocv_smooth filter with a more generic ocv filter
- Windows Televison (WTV) demuxer
- FFmpeg metadata format muxer and demuxer
-- SubRip (srt) subtitle decoder
+- SubRip (srt) subtitle encoder and decoder
- floating-point AC-3 encoder added
- Lagarith decoder
- ffmpeg -copytb option added
- sndio support for playback and record
- Linux framebuffer input device added
- Chronomaster DFA decoder
-- Mobotix MxPEG decoder
+- DPX image encoder
+- MicroDVD subtitle file muxer and demuxer
+- Playstation Portable PMP format demuxer
+- fieldorder video filter added
- AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc
- AMR-WB encoding via libvo-amrwbenc
- xWMA demuxer
-- fieldorder video filter added
+- Mobotix MxPEG decoder
version 0.6:
- Gopher client support
- MXF D-10 muxer
- generic metadata API
+- flash ScreenVideo2 encoder
version 0.4.9-pre1: