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diff --git a/NEWS.markdown b/NEWS.markdown index 1bbf16648..4873ff494 100644 --- a/NEWS.markdown +++ b/NEWS.markdown @@ -6,51 +6,139 @@ #### General +- Added project Code of Conduct and Contributing guide + - See [HandBrake on GitHub](https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake) +- Switched core decoding library from Libav to FFmpeg + - Fixes numerous sources previously unreadable or otherwise broken + - Facilitates a number of the improvements and features in this release and planned for the future +- Removed deprecated Legacy presets + - See the [list of compatible replacements on GitHub](https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake-docs/blob/efb51cc2cd7d0c30fa5e9ee88366233ca34757a4/source/docs/en/latest/technical/official-presets.markdown#legacy-010x-presets) +- Updated official presets descriptions to revise compatibility and mention recently released devices +- Updated official presets to rename Fire TV to Amazon Fire and added Amazon Fire 720p30 preset +- Updated official presets to use stereo instead of DPL2 mixdown + - Avoids potential spatial positioning issues with the current DPL2 algorithm and wide pans in source material + - Limited in impact since DPL2 decoding has not been in widespread use for years +- Added `{creation-date}`, `{creation-time}`, and `{source-path}` to automatic file naming + - `{source-path}` is not yet available on Mac + #### Video -- Added Support for Nvidia NVENC encoder. (Windows Only. Linux Coming Soon) -- Added Support for AMD VCE encoder. (Windows Only) +- Fixed an issue decoding Blu-ray titles where the aspect ratio is unknown (assume 16:9) +- Fixed an issue encoding video with very short frame durations (less than 0.00285s or greater than 350 FPS) +- Improved extradata handling to accommodate all codecs +- Added support for decoding TIFF/LZMA video ### Audio -- Improved AAC Encoder. This encoder is no longer considered beta. -- Allow E-AC3 Muxing in MP4 +- Fixed potential decoding issue for audio lacking an explicit channel layout (intelligently guess the layout) +- Fixed a potential crash during audio probe +- Improved resampling to allow dithering for all codecs (only where necessary) +- Improved quality of the default AAC encoder on non-Mac platforms (FFmpeg AAC), no longer experimental +- Improved bit rate constraints to allow Opus as low as 6 kbit/s per channel +- Added support for up to 7.1 channel AAC encoding (note that FDK AAC/HE-AAC do not support 6.1) +- Added support for E-AC3 audio in MP4 container +- Added Speex audio decoder + +#### Subtitles + +- Fixed a potential crash where an SRT file cannot be opened +- Added support for SRT files using periods instead of commas to delineate fractions #### Command line interface +- Fixed inability to override preset subtitles burn setting (`native` and `none` are now valid values for `--subtitle-burned`) + #### Build system -- Mac Toolchain script is now more robust against outages on 3rd party servers. -- Removed --enable-local-autotools and --enable-local-pkgconfig and associated contribs +- Fixed Linux packaging with an out-of-tree build directory +- Fixed Windows graphical interface build script signing tool location +- Removed `--enable-local-*` and associated contrib libraries; please see the [documentation](https://handbrake.fr/docs/) for dependencies help +- Updated to mingw-w64-build 4.1.0 with gcc 7.3.0, continuous output (keep alive), and miscellaneous improvements +- Improved support for building with Xcode 10 +- Improved support for building on FreeBSD 11, 12, and 13 +- Improved Flatpak packaging for Linux (numerous fixes and improvements, no longer experimental) +- Improved `configure.py` to always use the Python executable found by `configure` +- Added script for creating Flatpak manifests +- Added support for selecting a compiler via the CC environment variable +- Added initial support for Travis CI +- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements #### Third-party libraries -- FFmpeg 4.0 (Previously libav 12.3) -- x265 2.8 +- Removed libraries + - Libav 12.3 (decoding and filters) + - yasm 1.3.0 +- Updated libraries + - libopus 1.3 (Opus audio encoding) + - x264 157 r2935 (H.264/AVC video encoding) + - x265 2.9 (H.265/HEVC video encoding) +- New libraries + - FFmpeg 4.1 (decoding and filters) + - liblzma (xz) 5.2.4 (LZMA video decoding, e.g. TIFF) + - libspeex 1.2.0 (Speex audio decoding) ### Linux -- Initial support for GTK 4 -- Bug Fixes: Multi-instance queues +- Fixed Blu-ray title name being set to device name (e.g. sr0) when scanning raw devices +- Fixed Blu-ray default destination file names to no longer include MPLS number +- Fixed an issue with queue state not being updated properly on reload +- Fixed various issues importing presets +- Updated most translations +- Added initial support for GTK 4 +- Added ability to customize activity window font size and increased default from 7 to 8 +- Added destination overwrite protection (append number to file name on conflict) - Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements ### Mac -- macOS 10.10 Yosemite is now the minimum supported version. -- Initial Localisation Support. - - Supported Languages: German -- Updated Sparkle to 0.19.0 -- Removed Growl support in favour of macOS built-in notifications. -- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements including many small tweaks to auto-layout to better support localisation. +- HandBrake now requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later +- Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal) +- Fixed minor display issues on macOS 10.14 Mojave +- Fixed closing add category dialog when presented as a modal +- Fixed queue toolbar icon not updating +- Removed Growl in favor of native system notifications +- Updated Sparkle automatic update library +- Improved handling of invalid presets +- Improved layout to better support localization +- Improved preview border alignment on high density displays +- Improved automatic naming to avoid updating when unrelated settings change +- Improved criteria for showing destination overwrite warnings +- Improved stop encoding confirmation dialog +- Improved notifications to no longer play sounds when alerts are disabled +- Added initial localization support and German translation +- Added initial support for VideoToolbox (hardware-accelerated) encoding +- Added support for Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 Mojave (new Dark Mode toolbar icons require building with Xcode 10 on Mojave) +- Added Touch Bar support to various windows and dialogs +- Added Finder progress bar to files currently encoding +- Added Show Source in Finder to queue contextual menu (renamed Show in Finder to Show Destination in Finder) +- Added validation for custom filter parameters +- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements ### Windows -- Portable Mode: - - You can now disable start-up update checking. - - Fixed an issue that created a "HandBrake Team" folder in Roaming. -- Audio Behaviours: Now supports setting of: Mixdown, Bitrate, Sample Rate, Gain and DRC for the fallback encoder. -- GUI CLI: New start-up options: --recover-queue-ids=<comma separated id list> to load only specific queue recovery files if desired. -- Improved the Multi-instance queue recovery handler. Should avoid any instances where the wrong queue files are loaded up from a 2nd instance. +- HandBrake now requires .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later (installer offers download if missing) +- Fixed mixdown selection where the specified mixdown in the selected preset is not available +- Fixed audio sample rate of 48 kHz being selected where Auto was the specified behavior +- Removed preferences option to show the advanced tab (deprecated and slated for removal) +- Removed options menu from queue in favor of contextual menu +- Updated German translation +- Improved layout to better support localization +- Improved error handling when adding items to the queue +- Improved multi-instance queue recovery to avoid loading queue files from the wrong instance +- Improved filters layout and controls +- Improved video quality slider by allowing it to grow with window size and setting x264/x265 granularity to 0.5 +- Improved SRT import default browse location (open source video location) +- Improved keyboard shortcuts by making Ctrl-S open the destination save dialog (start encode is now Ctrl-E) +- Added additional keyboard shortcuts for various actions +- Added support for AMD VCE and Nvidia NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders +- Added automatic queue archiving and option to select an archived queue for recovery (archives are removed after 7 days) +- Added support for recovering specific queue files on start using `--recover-queue-ids=<id1,id2,...>` +- Added additional controls to passthru audio tracks to configure audio fallback parameters +- Added ability to drag and drop SRT subtitles files onto the main window +- Added option to disable preview image on summary tab +- Added option to disable checking for update on start in portable mode +- Added stop encoding confirmation dialog +- Added initial NuGet packaging support - Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements |