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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index eb73e8890b1..14513a7948e 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
  └───────────────────────────────────────────┘
 
    The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg <next> "FIXME", ...
+   FFmpeg 2.4 is API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
+   This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but no
+   source changes should be required.
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
    │ *  API Information         │
@@ -30,6 +33,7 @@
    └────────────────────────────┘
 
     • Icecast protocol
+    • API for live metadata updates through event flags.
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
    │ libavfilter                │
@@ -37,6 +41,8 @@
 
     • ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
     • large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
+    • added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs
+    • added silenceremove filter
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
    │ libavutil                  │
@@ -48,4 +54,11 @@
  │ ⚠  Behaviour changes       │
  └────────────────────────────┘
 
+  • IMPORTANT: The new field mime_type was added to AVProbeData.
+    To avoid crashes, make sure to always initialize AVProbeData, e.g. use
+    'AVProbeData pd = { 0 };' instead of 'AVProbeData pd;'.
   • dctdnoiz filter now uses a block size of 8x8 instead of 16x16 by default
+  • -vismv option is deprecated in favor of the codecview filter
+  • libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
+  • HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
+    favor of makeinfo/texi2any