libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes. 2015-12-15
Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Intel Corporation
Version 1.6.2 - 15.Dec.2015
* Bump VA API version to 0.38.1
* Add new RT format for 16 bits per channel memory layout(P010,P016): VA_RT_FORMAT_YUV420_10BPP
* Add new fourcc codes: VA_FOURCC_P010, VA_FOURCC_P016, VA_FOURCC_YV16
* Fix crash if user doesn't have right to access the DRI device
* Fix uninitialized x11_screen driver context member for X11 output
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61603
* Fix the issue of not to use LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72822
* Fix build issue with wayland
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79478
* vainfo: Add option '--display'
Version 1.6.1 - 09.Sep.2015
* Add support for VP9 decode and HEVC encode in VA trace module
* Add VP9 profile to vainfo
* Enhance VA trace to dump VP8 encode parameters
Version 1.6.0 - 01.Jul.2015
* Bump VA API version to 0.38
* Add support for HEVC encode API
* Add support for VP9 decode API
* Add API (vaSetDriverName()) to allow the user to specify the loaded backend driver
* Add VAConfigAttribEncSkipFrame and corresponding structures to support
sending skip frame parameters to the backend driver.
* Add support for querying slice decoding mode supported by the backend driver
* Fix quality issue in the JPEG encode demo
Version 1.5.1 - DD.Mar.2015
* API: correct the comment for num_token_partitions in struct _VAEncPictureParameterBufferVP8
* VA/x11: fix double Unlocks/SyncHandle to avoid segmentation fault
Version 1.5.0 - 28.Dec.2014
* API: add support for HEVC decoding
* API: extend JPEG encoding data structures and add configuration attribute for JPEG encoding
* Add a unit test for JPEG encoding (Sirisha Muppavarapu)
* Add support for HEVC decoding and JPEG encoding in VA trace utility
* Fix out of tree builds (Emil Velikov)
* VA/X11: fix BadDrawable issue when calling vaTerminate() after the pixmaps have been destroyed (Lionel Landwerlin)
Version 1.4.1 - 24.Oct.2014
* Add support for DRM Render-Nodes (Andrey Larionov)
Version 1.4.0 - 30.Sep.2014
* API: add support for VP8 encoding
* API: add H.264 MVC profiles for decoding and encoding
* API: add buffer export interfaces for interop with 3rdparty APIs (EGL, OCL)
* API: add suppor for encoder quality level
* API: add attribute usage hint flag
* Fix build on 64-bit versions of Android (Qiming Shi)
* Assorted fixes to the VA fool and trace modules (Austin Yuan)
Version 1.3.1 - 09.May.2014
* API: fix VA_ENC_PACKED_HEADER_RAW_DATA value
* API: add STE filter to the VPP pipeline
* Update doxygen tags in libva
* Fix doc/Makefile.am
* A workaround for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76755
Version 1.3.0 - 24.Mar.2014
* API: add support for VP8 decoding
* API: drop VAEntrypointMax enumeration
* Enhancement for VA trace utility
Version 1.2.1 - 27.Jun.2013
* Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66221
* Add back VA_DRIVER_INIT_FUNC definition for testing
Version 1.2.0 - 25.Jun.2013
* API: new H.264 encoding API for Main and High profiles
* API: add support for MPEG-2 encoding
* API: add video processing interfaces
* API: add vaQuerySurfaceAttributes() to query surface attributes supported by the underlying drivers.
* API: new version of vaCreateSurfaces()
* API: add new surface attributes to enable VA surface creation from external buffer
* API: add new RT formats and fourcc codes
* Refine VA trace utility
* Refine H.264 encoding test cases {avcenc, h264enc}
* A new test case for MPEG-2 encoding
* A lot of bug fixes
Version 1.1.1 - 19.Mar.2013
* Support wayland 1.0 protocol (Rob Bradford)
* Automake 1.13 fixups (Armin K)
Version 1.1.0 - 04.Oct.2012
* API: add Wayland support
* API: add raw DRM support for headless pipelines
* Fix generic VA/GLX implementation for newer cluttersink versions
* Fix threading issues in VA objects reference code (+Krzysztof Kotlenga)
* Fix build on Android Ice Cream Sandwich (+Haitao Huang, Daniel Charles)
Version 1.0.16 - 02.Aug.2012
* API: data structures for JPEG Baseline decoding
* API: clarify the definition of slice_data_bit_offset
* Add a simple test case for JPEG decoding
Version 1.0.15 - 28.Oct.2011
* API: make {Top,Bottom}FieldOrderCnt signed (Yi Wang)
* Add auto-generated Debian packaging
* Refine VA trace & VA fool utilities
* Move i965 driver to a specific repository (vaapi/intel-driver)
* Fix DSO link issue in tests
* Fix fglrx driver name detection
* Fix API vs. DSO vs. package versioning
Version 1.0.14 - 28.Jul.2011
* API: rename VA_DECODE_ERROR_TYPE to VADecodeErrorType
* Fix memory leaks (Edgar Hucek)
* Fix VA trace logs (Alexander Osin)
* Fix vaTerminate() with some applications, e.g. GStreamer
Version 1.0.13 - 30.May.2011
* API: fix VA_ROTATION_270 definition
* Add a simple H.264 encoder "avcenc" (Chang Zhou)
* Fix VA tracer (Alexander Osin)
* Fix vaBufferInfo() interface (Alexander Osin)
Version 1.0.12 - 01.Apr.2011
* API: add VARenderMode interface to select overlay or GPU rendering mode
* API: add VARenderDevice interface to allow rendering to an external device
* API: add VADisplayAttribOverlay{ColorKey,AutoPaintColorKey} interface
* Fix build issues on Android 2.3
Changes for older versions can be found in git log or previously
released packages.