libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes.  2019-07-05

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version 2.5.0 - 05.Jul.2019

* Correct the comment of color_range.

* Add VA_FOURCC_A2B10G10R10 for format a2b10g10r10.

* Adjust VAEncMiscParameterQuantization structure to be align with VAEncMiscParameterBuffer(possible to impact BC)

* Add attribute for max frame size

* Add va_footer.html into distribution build

* va_trace: hevc profiles added

* Add new definition for input/output surface flag

* va/va_trace: add trace support for VAEncMiscParameterTypeSkipFrame structure.

* va/va_trace: add MPEG2 trace support for MiscParam and SequenceParam

* va_openDriver: check strdup return value

* Mark some duplicated field as deprecated

* Add return value into logs

* va/va_trace: add trace support for VAEncMiscParameterEncQuality structure.

* Add newformat foucc defination

* va_backend: remove unneeded linux/videodev2.h include

* va_trace: add missing <sys/time.h> include

* configure: don't build glx if VA/X11 isn't built

* va/va_trace: unbreak with C89 after b3694671c784

* [common] Add A2RGB10 fourcc definition

* build: meson: enables va messaging and visibility

* va/va_trace: add trace support for RIR(rolling intra refresh).

* va/va_trace: add trace support for ROI(region of interest).

version 2.4.0 - 25.Jan.2019

* va_TraceSurface support for VA_FOURCC_P010

* Add pointer to struct wl_interface for driver to use

* (integrate) va: fix new line symbol in error message

* av: avoid driver path truncation

* Fix compilation warning (uninit and wrong variable types) for Android O MR1

* Allow import of the DRM PRIME 2 memory type

* android: ignore unimportant compile warnnings

* compile: fix sign/unsign compare in va_trace.c

* android: replace utils/Log.h with log/log.h

* High Dynamic Range Tone Mapping: Add a new filter for input metadata and some comments.

* Remove restrictions on vaSetDriverName()

version 2.3.0 - 30.Sep.2018

* Bump VA-API version to 1.3.0 and libva to 2.3.0

* Add max frame size parameters for multiple pass case in legacy mode

* Add new BRC mode AVBR

* Add new interface for High Dynamic Range tone mapping

* Add missing enum to string conversions

* Add hevc subsets parameters structure

* Add Customized Noise Reduction (HVS) interfaces

* Add new BRC mode definition QVBR

* Add more complete colour properties for use in VPP

Version 2.2.0 - 12.July.2018

* Bump VA-API version to 1.2.0 and libva to 2.2.0

* Add support for hevc range extension decoding

* Add support for fast intra prediction in HEVC FEI

* Add 10/12-bit YUV render target formats

* Add fourcc code for Y210/Y216/Y410/Y416/RGB565/BGR565

* Add VA_STATUS_ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_BUFFER

* Add VA_SURFACE_ATTRIB_USAGE_HINT_EXPORT

* Improve documentation

Version 2.1.0 - 12.Feb.2018

* Bump VA-API version to 1.1.0 and libva to 2.1.0

* Add API for multi-frame processing

* Add entrypoint VAEntrypointStats for Statistics

* Add data structures for HEVC FEI support

* Add new attributes for decoding/encoding/video processing

* Add new VPP filter for Total Color Correction

* Add blending interface in VPP

* Add rotation interface in VPP

* Add mirroring interface in VPP

* Add Chroma siting flags in VPP

* Add new color standard definitions

* Add new interface for exporting surface

* Add message callbacks for drivers to use

Version 2.0.0 - 21.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.