libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes. 2017-10-xx Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Intel Corporation Version 2.0.0 - DD.Oct.2017 * Bump VA-API version to 1.0.0 and libva to 2.0.0 * Add new API for H264 FEI support * Add definition of VA_FOURCC_I420 * Add functions for converting common enums to strings * Deprecate H.264 baseline profile and FMO support * Deprecate packed misc packed header flag * Delete libva-tpi and libva-egl backends * Refine VASliceParameterBufferHEVC, VAEncMiscParameterBuffer * Fix errors in VAConfigAttribValEncROI, VAEncMacroblockParameterBufferH264 * Fix race condition in wayland support * Rename vaMessageCallback to VAMessageCallback * Make logging callbacks library-safe Version 1.8.3 - 28.Jun.2017 * Bump libva to 1.8.3 * Fix build issue on Android * Remove the dummy driver * Add traces for MB rate control / temporal layer * Set verbosity level between {0, 1, 2} by setting the variable LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL in /etc/libva.conf or by setting the environment variable LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL. Version 1.8.2 - 22.May.2017 * Bump libva to 1.8.2 Version 1.8.1 - 10.Apr.2017 * Bump libva to 1.8.1 Version 1.8.0 - 31.March.2017 * Bump VA API version to 0.40 * API: Change vaRenderPicture semantics that vaRenderPicture no longer deletes the passed buffer automatically. * API: Add VA_FOURCC_I010 for 10bit surface * API: Add vaSetErrorCallback and vaSetInfoCallback for error and info message. * va/drm: Update the support for Mesa Gallium driver * va/drm: Fix authentication check for /dev/dri/card0 * Move all utilities and tests to libva-utils (https://github.com/01org/libva-utils) Version 1.7.3 - DD.Nov.2016 * Bump VA API version to 0.39.4 * API: add support for bitrate control per temporal layer * API: update the usage for framerate in VAEncMiscParameterFrameRate to support non-integer frame-rate * Add has_prime_sharing flag in VADriverVTableWayland to indicate if buffer sharing with prime fd can be used in the backend driver Version 1.7.2 - 05.Sep.2016 * Bump VA API version to 0.39.3 * API: add support for ROI * Add support for VP9 encoder in VA tracer * Refine test cases * Fix the issue of not properly terminating the parsed environment values with '\0' https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96677 Version 1.7.1 - 21.Jun.2016 * Bump VA API version to 0.39.2 * API: add support for VP9 8bit encode * API: add support for low power/high performance encode * API: add support for encoding ROI attribute * API: add support for macroblock based rate control * Fix VA tracer to support multiple contexts in one instance Version 1.7.0 - 15.Mar.2016 * Bump VA API version to 0.39 * Add support for VP9 10bit decode API * Allow libva to load the vaapi driver provided by Mesa Gallium for nouveau and radeon * Fix libva-glx against OpenGL 3.1 or above 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.