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Ideas and suggestions concerning FFmpeg software releases.

==Things that need doing==
* Fix SVQ3 regression test?
* Approximately 95% test coverage in FATE.
* AAC Conformance sweep
* Make sure API/ABI changelog is up-to-date

=== Release 0.6 "Works with HTML5" ===

Pending features that would be nice to have in 0.6

* LATM demuxing support
* Theora speedup work

==Release Criteria==
* make test passes.
* FATE test coverage passes for all platforms of interest.
* All 'important' bugs reported in roundup fixed/closed.
:Except 46, 127 and possibly 192 and 452 --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 05:36, 3 February 2010 (EST)
* No half-implemented functionality that may break existing user apps.
* Endurance/memleak testing on film-length files.

==Rationale for releases==
* Provide endorsed snapshots for external software developers to develop against
* Avoid situation where external software developers using SVN head when head has transient limitations.
* Discourage external software developers using ancient snapshots that we don't support.

==Release Process==
* Create a branch in Subversion.
* Add VERSION file that hardcodes 0.6.
* Create release tarballs (repeat the process for gzip compression)
** svn export svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/tags/0.6/ ffmpeg-0.6
** tar -cjf ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 ffmpeg-0.6
** md5sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.md5
** sha1sum ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2 > ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2.sha
** signatures from the release managers (concatenate all signatures into one file)
*** gpg --armor --detach-sign ffmpeg-0.6.tar.bz2
* Upload to ffmpeg.org
* Update website
* Who needs to be notified?
** Major dependent projects, major distribution package maintainers --[[User:Rathann|Rathann]] 09:43, 29 January 2009 (EST)


==Release Notes/Press release English version==

* To start with just the changelog. To be transformed into something nice.
* Group things in old and new technology and related areas.
* Remove uninteresting changelog items, ie deprecation stuff.
* Amount of added/changed/removed code lines since last release.
* Amount of people involved
* Time since last release
* Arm optimizations

   7 - PB-frame decoding for H.263
   8 - deprecated vhook subsystem removed
   9 - deprecated old scaler removed
  10 - VQF demuxer
  11 - Alpha channel scaler
  12 - PCX encoder
  13 - RTP packetization of H.263
  14 - RTP packetization of AMR
  15 - RTP depacketization of Vorbis
  16 - CorePNG decoding support
  17 - Cook multichannel decoding support
  18 - introduced avlanguage helpers in libavformat
  19 - 8088flex TMV demuxer and decoder
  20 - per-stream language-tags extraction in asfdec
  21 - V210 decoder and encoder
  22 - remaining GPL parts in AC-3 decoder converted to LGPL
  23 - QCP demuxer
  24 - SoX native format muxer and demuxer
  25 - AMR-NB decoding/encoding, AMR-WB decoding via OpenCORE libraries
  26 - DPX image decoder
  27 - Electronic Arts Madcow decoder
  28 - DivX (XSUB) subtitle encoder
  29 - nonfree libamr support for AMR-NB/WB decoding/encoding removed
  30 - experimental AAC encoder
  31 - RTP depacketization of ASF and RTSP from WMS servers
  32 - RTMP support in libavformat
  33 - noX handling for OPT_BOOL X options
  34 - Wave64 demuxer
  35 - IEC-61937 compatible Muxer
  36 - TwinVQ decoder
  37 - Bluray (PGS) subtitle decoder
  38 - LPCM support in MPEG-TS (HDMV RID as found on Blu-ray disks)
  39 - WMA Pro decoder
  40 - Core Audio Format demuxer
  41 - Atrac1 decoder
  42 - MD STUDIO audio demuxer
  43 - RF64 support in WAV demuxer
  44 - MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) decoder
  45 - -formats option split into -formats, -codecs, -bsfs, and -protocols
  46 - IV8 demuxer
  47 - CDG demuxer and decoder
  48 - R210 decoder
  49 - Auravision Aura 1 and 2 decoders
  50 - Deluxe Paint Animation playback system
  51 - SIPR decoder
  52 - Adobe Filmstrip muxer and demuxer
  53 - RTP depacketization of H.263
  54 - Bink demuxer and audio/video decoders
  55 - enable symbol versioning by default for linkers that support it
  56 - IFF PBM/ILBM bitmap decoder
  57 - concat protocol
  58 - Indeo 5 decoder
  59 - RTP depacketization of AMR
  60 - WMA Voice decoder
  61 - ffprobe tool
  62 - AMR-NB decoder
  63 - RTSP muxer
  64 - HE-AAC v1 decoder
  65 - Kega Game Video (KGV1) decoder
  66 - VorbisComment writing for FLAC, Ogg FLAC and Ogg Speex files
  67 - RTP depacketization of Theora
  68 - HTTP Digest authentication
  69 - RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE protocol support via librtmp
  70 - Psygnosis YOP demuxer and video decoder
  71 - spectral extension support in the E-AC-3 decoder
  72 - unsharp video filter


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