April 20th, 2018, FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu"

FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

Bitstream filters for editing metadata in H.264, HEVC and MPEG-2 streams

Experimental MagicYUV encoder

TiVo ty/ty+ demuxer

Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding

native aptX and aptX HD encoder and decoder

NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding

Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter

mcompand audio filter

acontrast audio filter

OpenCL overlay filter

video mix filter

video normalize filter

audio lv2 wrapper filter

VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding

AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders

video fillborders filter

video setrange filter

support LibreSSL (via libtls)

Dropped support for building for Windows XP. The minimum supported Windows version is Windows Vista.

deconvolve video filter

entropy video filter

hilbert audio filter source

aiir audio filter

Removed the ffserver program

Removed the ffmenc and ffmdec muxer and demuxer

VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel

VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters

Add android_camera indev

codec2 en/decoding via libcodec2

native SBC encoder and decoder

drmeter audio filter

hapqa_extract bitstream filter

filter_units bitstream filter

AV1 Support through libaom

E-AC-3 dependent frames support

bitstream filter for extracting E-AC-3 core

Haivision SRT protocol via libsrt

vfrdet filter

We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.