since the last major version increase.
The last version increases were:
-libavcodec: 2012-01-27
-libavdevice: 2011-04-18
+libavcodec: 2013-03-xx
+libavdevice: 2013-03-xx
libavfilter: 2012-06-22
-libavformat: 2012-01-27
+libavformat: 2013-03-xx
libavresample: 2012-10-05
libswscale: 2011-06-20
libavutil: 2012-10-22
API changes, most recent first:
+2013-xx-xx - lavu 52.9.0 - pixdesc.h
+ Add av_pix_fmt_count_planes() function for counting planes in a pixel format.
+
+2013-xx-xx - lavfi 3.6.0
+ Add AVFilterGraph.nb_filters, deprecate AVFilterGraph.filter_count.
+
+2013-03-xx - Reference counted buffers - lavu 52.8.0, lavc 55.0.0, lavf 55.0.0,
+lavd 54.0.0, lavfi 3.5.0
+ xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx - add a new API for reference counted buffers and buffer
+ pools (new header libavutil/buffer.h).
+ xxxxxxx - add AVPacket.buf to allow reference counting for the AVPacket data.
+ Add av_packet_from_data() function for constructing packets from
+ av_malloc()ed data.
+ xxxxxxx - move AVFrame from lavc to lavu (new header libavutil/frame.h), add
+ AVFrame.buf/extended_buf to allow reference counting for the AVFrame
+ data. Add new API for working with reference-counted AVFrames.
+ xxxxxxx - add the refcounted_frames field to AVCodecContext to make audio and
+ video decoders return reference-counted frames. Add get_buffer2()
+ callback to AVCodecContext which allocates reference-counted frames.
+ Add avcodec_default_get_buffer2() as the default get_buffer2()
+ implementation.
+ Deprecate AVCodecContext.get_buffer() / release_buffer() /
+ reget_buffer(), avcodec_default_get_buffer(),
+ avcodec_default_reget_buffer(), avcodec_default_release_buffer().
+ Remove avcodec_default_free_buffers(), which should not have ever
+ been called from outside of lavc.
+ Deprecate the following AVFrame fields:
+ * base -- is now stored in AVBufferRef
+ * reference, type, buffer_hints -- are unnecessary in the new API
+ * hwaccel_picture_private, owner, thread_opaque -- should not
+ have been acessed from outside of lavc
+ * qscale_table, qstride, qscale_type, mbskip_table, motion_val,
+ mb_type, dct_coeff, ref_index -- mpegvideo-specific tables,
+ which are not exported anymore.
+ xxxxxxx - switch libavfilter to use AVFrame instead of AVFilterBufferRef. Add
+ av_buffersrc_add_frame(), deprecate av_buffersrc_buffer().
+ Add av_buffersink_get_frame() and av_buffersink_get_samples(),
+ deprecate av_buffersink_read() and av_buffersink_read_samples().
+ Deprecate AVFilterBufferRef and all functions for working with it.
+
+2013-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 52.8.0 - avstring.h
+ Add av_isdigit, av_isgraph, av_isspace, av_isxdigit.
+
+2013-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavfi 3.4.0 - avfiltergraph.h
+ Add resample_lavr_opts to AVFilterGraph for setting libavresample options
+ for auto-inserted resample filters.
+
+2013-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 52.7.0 - dict.h
+ Add av_dict_parse_string() to set multiple key/value pairs at once from a
+ string.
+
+2013-01-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 52.6.0 - avstring.h
+ Add av_strnstr()
+
+2013-01-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 52.5.0 - hmac.h
+ Add AVHMAC.
+
2013-01-13 - xxxxxxx - lavc 54.36.0 - vdpau.h
Add AVVDPAUContext struct for VDPAU hardware-accelerated decoding.