The last version increases were:
libavcodec: 2012-01-27
libavdevice: 2011-04-18
-libavfilter: 2011-04-18
+libavfilter: 2012-06-22
libavformat: 2012-01-27
libavresample: 2012-04-24
libswscale: 2011-06-20
API changes, most recent first:
-2012-06-22 - xxxxxxx - lavu 51.34.0
+2012-09-12 - xxxxxxx - lavu 51.41.0 - audioconvert.h
+ Added AV_CH_LOW_FREQUENCY_2 channel mask value.
+
+2012-09-04 - xxxxxxx - lavu 51.40.0 - opt.h
+ Reordered the fields in default_val in AVOption, changed which
+ default_val field is used for which AVOptionType.
+
+2012-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 54.26.1 - avcodec.h
+ Add codec descriptor properties AV_CODEC_PROP_LOSSY and
+ AV_CODEC_PROP_LOSSLESS.
+
+2012-08-18 - lavc 54.26 - avcodec.h
+ Add codec descriptors for accessing codec properties without having
+ to refer to a specific decoder or encoder.
+
+ c223d79 - Add an AVCodecDescriptor struct and functions
+ avcodec_descriptor_get() and avcodec_descriptor_next().
+ 51efed1 - Add AVCodecDescriptor.props and AV_CODEC_PROP_INTRA_ONLY.
+ 91e59fe - Add avcodec_descriptor_get_by_name().
+
+
+2012-08-08 - 1d9c2dc - lavu 51.39 - avutil.h
+ Don't implicitly include libavutil/common.h in avutil.h
+
+2012-08-08 - 987170c - lavu 51.38 - dict.h
+ Add av_dict_count().
+
+2012-08-07 - 104e10f - lavc 54.25 - avcodec.h
+ Rename CodecID to AVCodecID and all CODEC_ID_* to AV_CODEC_ID_*.
+ To provide backwards compatibility, CodecID is now #defined as AVCodecID.
+ Note that this can break user code that includes avcodec.h and uses the
+ 'CodecID' identifier. Such code should either #undef CodecID or stop using the
+ CodecID name.
+
+2012-08-03 - 239fdf1 - lavu 51.37.1 - cpu.h
+ lsws 2.1.1 - swscale.h
+ Rename AV_CPU_FLAG_MMX2 ---> AV_CPU_FLAG_MMXEXT.
+ Rename SWS_CPU_CAPS_MMX2 ---> SWS_CPU_CAPS_MMXEXT.
+
+2012-07-29 - 681ed00 - lavf 54.13.0 - avformat.h
+ Add AVFMT_FLAG_NOBUFFER for low latency use cases.
+
+2012-07-20 - b70d89a - lavfi 3.0.0 - avfilter.h
+ Add avfilter_unref_bufferp().
+
+2012-07-10 - 5fade8a - lavu 51.37.0
+ Add av_malloc_array() and av_mallocz_array()
+
+2012-06-22 - d3d3a32 - lavu 51.34.0
Add av_usleep()
2012-06-20 - ae0a301 - lavu 51.33.0
Move av_gettime() to libavutil, add libavutil/time.h
-2012-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavr 0.0.3
+2012-06-09 - 3971be0 - lavr 0.0.3
Add a parameter to avresample_build_matrix() for Dolby/DPLII downmixing.
-2012-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavfi 2.23.0 - avfilter.h
+2012-06-12 - 9baeff9 - lavfi 2.23.0 - avfilter.h
Add AVFilterContext.nb_inputs/outputs. Deprecate
AVFilterContext.input/output_count.
-2012-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavfi 2.22.0 - avfilter.h
+2012-06-12 - 84b9fbe - lavfi 2.22.0 - avfilter.h
Add avfilter_pad_get_type() and avfilter_pad_get_name(). Those
should now be used instead of accessing AVFilterPad members
directly.
-2012-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 51.32.0 - audioconvert.h
+2012-06-12 - b0f0dfc - lavu 51.32.0 - audioconvert.h
Add av_get_channel_layout_channel_index(), av_get_channel_name()
and av_channel_layout_extract_channel().
-2012-05-25 - e0e0793 - lavu 51.31.0 - opt.h
+2012-05-25 - 154486f - lavu 51.31.0 - opt.h
Add av_opt_set_bin()
-2012-05-xx - xxxxxxx - lavf 54.3.0
+2012-05-26 - e9cef89 - lavf 54.3.0
Add AVFMT_TS_NONSTRICT format flag to indicate that a muxer supports
non-increasing monotone timestamps.