since the last major version increase.
The last version increases were:
-libavcodec: 2014-08-09
-libavdevice: 2014-08-09
-libavfilter: 2014-08-09
-libavformat: 2014-08-09
-libavresample: 2014-08-09
-libswscale: 2014-08-09
-libavutil: 2014-08-09
+libavcodec: 2015-08-28
+libavdevice: 2015-08-28
+libavfilter: 2015-08-28
+libavformat: 2015-08-28
+libavresample: 2015-08-28
+libswscale: 2015-08-28
+libavutil: 2015-08-28
API changes, most recent first:
-2014-09-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 54.04.0 - pixdesc.h
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.11.0 - avcodec.h
+ xxxxxxx - Add av_packet_add_side_data().
+ xxxxxxx - Add AVCodecContext.coded_side_data.
+ xxxxxxx - Add AVCPBProperties API.
+
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.9.1 - avcodec.h
+ Deprecate rtp_callback without replacement, i.e. it won't be possible to
+ get image slices before the full frame is encoded any more. The libavformat
+ rtpenc muxer can still be used for RFC-2190 packetization.
+
+2015-11-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.9.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AV_PKT_DATA_FALLBACK_TRACK for making fallback associations between
+ streams.
+
+2015-11-xx - xxxxxxx - lavf 57.1.0 - avformat.h
+ Add av_stream_new_side_data().
+
+2015-11-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 55.3.0 - xtea.h
+ Add av_xtea_le_init and av_xtea_le_crypt
+
+2015-11-xx - xxxxxxx - lavfi 6.1.0 - avfilter.h
+ Add a frame_rate field to AVFilterLink
+
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.6.0 - avcodec.h
+
+2015-xx-xx - lavc 57.7.0 - avcodec.h
+ xxxxxx - Deprecate av_free_packet(). Use av_packet_unref() as replacement,
+ it resets the packet in a more consistent way.
+ xxxxxx - Deprecate av_dup_packet(), it is a no-op for most cases.
+ Use av_packet_ref() to make a non-refcounted AVPacket refcounted.
+ xxxxxx - Add av_packet_alloc(), av_packet_clone(), av_packet_free().
+ They match the AVFrame functions with the same name.
+
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.5.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add data and linesize array to AVSubtitleRect, to be used instead of
+ the ones from the embedded AVPicture.
+
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.0.0 - qsv.h
+ Add an API for allocating opaque surfaces.
+
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 55.2.0 - dict.h
+ Change return type of av_dict_copy() from void to int, so that a proper
+ error code can be reported.
+
+2015-09-29 - 948f3c1 - lavc 57.0.0 - avcodec.h
+ Change type of AVPacket.duration from int to int64_t.
+
+2015-09-18 - e3d4784 - lavc 57.2.0 - d3d11va.h
+ Add av_d3d11va_alloc_context(). This function must from now on be used for
+ allocating AVD3D11VAContext.
+
+2015-09-07 - lavu 55.0.0
+ b8b5d82 - Change type of AVPixFmtDescriptor.flags from uint8_t to uint64_t.
+ 6b3ef7f - Change type of AVComponentDescriptor fields from uint16_t to int
+ and drop bit packing.
+ 2268db2 - Add step, offset, and depth to AVComponentDescriptor to replace
+ the deprecated step_minus1, offset_plus1, and depth_minus1.
+
+2015-07-31 - lavu 54.17.0
+ 7a7df34 - Add av_blowfish_alloc().
+ ae36545 - Add av_rc4_alloc().
+ 5d8bea3 - Add av_xtea_alloc().
+ d9e8b47 - Add av_des_alloc().
+
+2015-07-29 - 7e38340 - lavu 54.16.0 - hmac.h
+ Add AV_HMAC_SHA224 and AV_HMAC_SHA256.
+
+2015-07-27 - lavc 56.35.0 - avcodec.h
+ 7c6eb0a - Rename CODEC_FLAG* defines to AV_CODEC_FLAG*.
+ def9785 - Rename CODEC_CAP_* defines to AV_CODEC_CAP_*.
+ 059a934 - Rename FF_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE and FF_MIN_BUFFER_SIZE
+ to AV_INPUT_BUFFER_PADDING_SIZE and AV_INPUT_BUFFER_MIN_SIZE.
+
+2015-07-20 - 5d3addb - lavc 56.33.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AV_PKT_DATA_QUALITY_FACTOR to export the quality value of an AVPacket.
+
+2015-07-02 - 1316df7 - lavu 56.15.0
+ Add av_version_info().
+
+2015-07-01 - 0d449c8 - lavfi 5.1.0 - version.h
+ 0f87f9b - lavd 55.2.0 - version.h
+ Add library identification symbols, LIBAVFILTER_IDENT and LIBAVDEVICE_IDENT.
+
+2015-06-07 - 252d620 - lavf 56.20.0 - avio.h
+ Add avio_put_str16be.
+
+2015-05-13 - f7cafb5 - lavu 54.14.0 - cpu.h
+ Add AV_CPU_FLAG_AVXSLOW.
+
+2015-05-13 - e7c5e17 - lavc 56.23.0
+ Add av_vda_default_init2.
+
+2015-04-19 - c253340 - lavu 54.12.0
+ Add AV_LOG_TRACE for extremely verbose debugging.
+
+2015-04-07 - 27f2746 - lavu 54.11.0
+ Add av_small_strptime().
+
+2015-03-29 - 6fe2641 - lavc 56.22.0
+ Add FF_PROFILE_DTS_EXPRESS.
+
+2015-03-29 - c484561 - lavu 54.10.0
+ Add AV_PIX_FMT_MMAL for MMAL hardware acceleration.
+
+2015-02-19 - 31d2039 - lavc 56.13
+ Add width, height, coded_width, coded_height and format to
+ AVCodecParserContext.
+
+2015-02-19 - 5b1d9ce - lavu 54.9.0
+ Add AV_PIX_FMT_QSV for QSV hardware acceleration.
+
+2015-01-27 - 728685f - lavc 56.12.0, lavu 54.8.0 - avcodec.h, frame.h
+ Add AV_PKT_DATA_AUDIO_SERVICE_TYPE and AV_FRAME_DATA_AUDIO_SERVICE_TYPE for
+ storing the audio service type as side data.
+
+2015-01-14 - e2ad0b6 - lavu 54.6.0 - imgutils.h
+ Add utility functions for image manipulation: av_image_get_buffer_size()
+ av_image_fill_arrays() and av_image_copy_to_buffer().
+
+2014-12-25 - c220a60 - lavc 56.10.0 - vdpau.h
+ Add av_vdpau_get_surface_parameters().
+
+2014-12-25 - 6c99c92 - lavc 56.9.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_HIGH_DEPTH flag to av_vdpau_bind_context().
+
+2014-12-25 - 57b6704 - lavc 56.8.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AVCodecContext.sw_pix_fmt.
+
+2014-11-07 - 1384df6 - lavf 56.06.3 - avformat.h
+ Add AVFormatContext.avoid_negative_ts.
+
+2014-11-06 - 5e80fb7 - lavc 56.6.0 - vorbis_parser.h
+ Add a public API for parsing vorbis packets.
+
+2014-10-24 - 1bd0bdc - lavu 54.5.0 - time.h
+ Add av_gettime_relative().
+
+2014-10-15 - 7ea1b34 - lavc 56.5.0 - avcodec.h
+ Replace AVCodecContext.time_base used for decoding
+ with AVCodecContext.framerate.
+
+2014-10-15 - d565fef1- lavc 56.4.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_IGNORE_LEVEL flag to av_vdpau_bind_context().
+
+2014-10-13 - 2df0c32 - lavc 56.03.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AVCodecContext.initial_padding. Deprecate the use of AVCodecContext.delay
+ for audio encoding.
+
+2014-10-08 - 5a419b2 - lavu 54.04.0 - pixdesc.h
Add API to return the name of frame and context color properties.
-2014-09-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.2.0 - vdpau.h
+2014-10-06 - e3e158e - lavc 56.2.0 - vdpau.h
Add av_vdpau_bind_context(). This function should now be used for creating
(or resetting) a AVVDPAUContext instead of av_vdpau_alloc_context().
-2014-08-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 56.1.0 - avcodec.h
- Add AV_PKT_DATA_STEREO3D to export container-level stereo3d information.
-
-2014-08-xx - xxxxxxx - lavf 56.03.0 - avformat.h
+2014-08-25 - b263f8f - lavf 56.03.0 - avformat.h
Add AVFormatContext.max_ts_probe.
+------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
+ 11 branch was cut here
+----------------------------->8--------------------------------------
+
+2014-08-28 - 9301486 - lavc 56.1.0 - avcodec.h
+ Add AV_PKT_DATA_STEREO3D to export container-level stereo3d information.
+
2014-08-13 - 8ddc326 - lavu 54.03.0 - mem.h
Add av_strndup().