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News
</h1>
+ <h3 id="pr7.1">October 1st, 2024, FFmpeg 7.1 <span title="Rózsa
Péter">"Péter"</span></h3>
+ <p>
+ <a href="download.html#release_7.1">FFmpeg 7.1 "Péter"</a>, a new
+ major release, is now available! A full list of changes can be found in
the release
+ <a
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/7.1:/Changelog";>changelog</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The more important highlights of the release are that the VVC decoder,
merged as experimental in version 7.0,
+ has had enough time to mature and be optimized enough to be declared as
stable. The coded is starting to gain
+ traction with broadcast standardization bodies.<br>
+ Support has been added for a native AAC USAC (part of the xHE-AAC coding
system) decoder, with the format starting
+ to be adopted by streaming websites, due to its extensive volume
normalization metadata.<br>
+ MV-HEVC is now able to be natively decoded. This is a stereoscopic coding
tool that begun to be shipped and generated
+ by recent phones and VR headsets.<br>
+ LC-EVC decoding, an enhancement metadata layer to attempt to improve the
quality of codecs, is now supported via an
+ external library.<br>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Support for Vulkan encoding, with H264 and HEVC was merged. This finally
completes the loop with a consumer for
+ Vulkan frames being output by filters, decoders and users. The encoders
have feature-parity with their VAAPI
+ implementation counterparts. Khronos has announced that support for AV1
encoding is also coming soon to Vulkan,
+ and FFmpeg is aiming to have day-one support.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As well as important features, this release has had a lot of work done
internally. By far the standout highlight here
+ are the improvements made for full-range images. Previously, color range
data had two paths, no negotiation,
+ and was unreliably forwarded to filters, encoders, muxers. Work on
cleaning the system up started more than 10
+ years ago, however this stalled due to how fragile the system was, and
that breaking behaviour would be unacceptable.
+ The new system fixes this, so now color range is forwarded correctly and
consistently everywhere needed, and also
+ laid the path for more advanced forms of negotiation.<br>
+ Cropping metadata is now supported with Matroska and MP4 formats. This
metadata is important not only for archival,
+ but also with AV1, as hardware encoders require its signalling due to the
codec not natively supporting one.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As usual, we recommend that users, distributors, and system integrators to
upgrade unless they use current git master.
+ </p>
+
<h3 id="coverity">September 11th, 2024, Coverity</h3>
<p>
The number of issues FFmpeg has in <a
href="https://scan.coverity.com/projects/ffmpeg";>Coverity (a static
analyzer)</a> is now lower than it has been since 2016.
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