-libva-intel-driver NEWS -- summary of changes. 2013-06-26
-Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Intel Corporation
+intel-vaapi-driver NEWS -- summary of changes. 2017-03-xx
+Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Intel Corporation
+
+Version 1.8.0 - DD.Mar.2017
+* Improve the quality of the H.264 encoder on SKL and BXT for CQP and CBR mode
+* Improve the quality of the VP8 encoder on BSW+ for CQP and CBR mode
+* Add support for H.264 VBR mode on SKL and BXT
+* Add support for VP8 VBR mode on BSW+
+* Add support for low-power H.264 encoder on BXT and KBL
+* Add support for CBR / VBR with low-power H.264 encoder on SKL+
+* Add support for CSC and scaling with 10bit P010/I010 surface
+* Optimize CSC and scaling with 8bit NV12 and I420 surface
+* Fix the wrong memory object cache setting on SKL+
+* Fix the EU number in media pipeline
+* Fix the wrong bit shift in H.264 encoder
+* Fix the 48bit graphics address on BSW+
+* Fix building on NetBSD
+
+Version 1.7.3 - 10.Nov.2016
+* Add support for HEVC 10bit encoding on KBL
+* Integrate the Google Test Framework for unit testing
+* Add support for bitrate control per temporal layer for SVC-T
+* Fix VA_STATUS_ERROR_UNIMPLEMENTED when sharpening with I420 surface
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96987)
+* Fix crop issue when sharpening with NV12 surface
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96988)
+* Fix GPU hang issue when using encoding with low power on SKL GT3+
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97872)
+
+Version 1.7.2 - 05.Sep.2016
+* Update PCI IDs for KBL
+* Allow up to 8K JPEG decoding/encoding on SKL+
+* Add support for ROI on IVB+
+* Support I420/YV12 input surface for VP9 encoding
+* Fix assertion failure when decoding stream through VLC
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94007)
+* Fix image corruption in ColorBalance and STDE on BDW+
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95349)
+* Fix run2run issue in H.264 encoder
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96703)
+* Fix video rendering corruption when using VAAPI postproc denoise on 1080p videos
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96739)
+* Fix image corruption in ColorBalance with hue=-180
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96744)
+* Fix memory leak in VP8 encoding
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97272)
+
+Version 1.7.1 - 21.Jun.2016
+* Add support VP9 8bit encoding on KBL
+* Add support for low-power/high-performance H.264 encoder on SKL
+* Fix incorrect color space conversion in driver
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94845)
+* Fix FPS caculation for HEVC encoder
+* Fix VP9 10bit decoding issue on KBL
+* Fix the noise issue when VA_FILTER_SCALING_HQ upscaling from 1280x720 to 1920x1080 with YUY2 format on BDW+
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94765)
+
+Version 1.7.0 - 15.Mar.2016
+* Add support for Kabylake
+ - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC/HEVC 10-bit/VP9/VP9 10-bit
+ - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
+ - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
+* Add new SKL and BXT PCI IDs
+* Fix lots of VP9 decoding issues on BXT
+
+Version 1.6.2 - 15.Dec.2015
+* Add support for Broxton
+ - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC/HEVC 10-bit/VP9
+ - Encoding: H.264/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
+ - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
+* Add support for HEVC CBR on SKL
+* Fix the broken VA_FILTER_SCALING_HQ on SKL
+* Fix the incorrect loading of GPU shaders on GEN8/GEN9
+* Fix the wrong address relocation in VPP on GEN8/GEN9
+* Fix the wrong VAImage foramt
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92088)
+* Fix YUV to RGB conversion on GEN7/GEN8/GEN9
+* Fix the segmentation fault causing by NULL buffer object on SNB
+ (The issue mentioned in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92811)
+* Fix the wrong coordinate used in VPP
+ (The issue mentioned in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92811)
+
+Version 1.6.1 - 09.Sep.2015
+* Wrapper other backend driver to support VP9 hybrid decoding on BDW/BSW/SKL (--enable-hybrid-codec)
+* Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
+* Fix HEVC encoding on SKL GT3
+* Fix GPU hang issue when decoding H.264 MBAFF clips
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91207)
+* Fix issues detected by klockwork scan
+* Combine csc/scaling together to optimize the performance
+
+Version 1.6.0 - 01.Jul.2015
+* Add support for VP8 encoding (CQP, CBR) on BSW/SKL
+* Add support for HEVC decoding on BSW
+* Add support for HEVC encoding (CQP) on SKL
+* Add support for low-power mode (VA_PROC_PIPELINE_FAST) in VPP to discard
+ any complex operation that would consume too many HW resources
+* Fix memory leak issue for JPEG decoding
+* Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
+* Fix GPU hang issue caused by VP8 decoding on BDW/BSW
+* Fix MADI/MCDI issues on SNB/IVB
+* Improve the JPEG encoding quality
+* Optimize MPEG-2 start code search on IVB
+
+Version 1.5.1 - DD.03.2015
+* Fix forward reference requirement for Bob deinterlacing
+* Fix a lot of potential rendering issues on GEN8+
+* Fix scaling of NV12 surfaces when no output_region is set
+* Fix the broken attribute setting of i965_GetConfigAttrib
+* Fix the GetConfigAttributes() for JPEGBaseline profile
+* Fix the wrong overlap setting for VC-1 decoding on GEN6+
+* Fix VP8 decoding issue on GEN8+, HW needs 1 extra byte for each partition
+* Fix JPEG encoding issue.
+* Add support for aub dump
+* Enhance STD on GEN8+
+* Implement max width and height in QuerySurfaceAttributes
+* Add new SKL PCI ids
+
+Version 1.5.0 - 28.Dec.2014
+* Add support for Skylake
+ - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8/HEVC
+ - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2/JPEG
+ - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/ColorBalance/STD
+* Add support for JPEG encoding on Braswell
+* Add enhancement for video post/pre processing
+* Fix out of tree builds (Emil Velikov)
+
+Version 1.4.1 - 24.Oct.2014
+* Use a new method to detect encoding capabilitiy on Haswell
+
+Version 1.4.0 - 30.Sep.2014
+* Add support for exporting VA buffer
+* Add support for MVC decoding/encoding
+* Add support for encoding quality level on Sandybride and newer
+* Add support of inserting packed slice header & raw data for encoding
+* Add support for Cherryview
+* Fix the GPU hang issue on Ivybridge when using the gstreamer and mplayer to play back one H264 clip
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80720)
+* Fix the GPU hang issue on Sandybride and newer when playing back one H264 clip
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76363)
+* Fix the GPU hang issue on Haswell when using XBMC to play back one H264 clip
+ (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81447)
+
+Version 1.3.2 - 16.Jun.2014
+* Export JPEG format by vaDeriveImage()
+* Add support for MADI on SNB
+* H.264: fix the support for grayscale format (Y800)
+* Fix vaGetConfigAttributes() to validate the profile/entrypoint pair
+* Fix vaCreateConfig() to not override user chroma format
+* Fix the scaling issue on IVB/HSW/BDW
+* Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73424
+* Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72522
+* Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77041
+* Quality improvement for H.264 encoding on BDW
+
+Version 1.3.1 - 09.May.2014
+* Add support for STE on Broadwell
+* Add support for YV16
+* Add support for user specified tiling and stride
+* Fix VP8 decoding on Broadwell
+* Fix the wrong alpha when convert NV12 into RGBA
+* Fix https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77386
+
+Version 1.3.0 - 24.Mar.2014
+* Add support for Broadwell
+ - Decoding: H.264/MPEG-2/VC-1/JPEG/VP8
+ - Encoding: H.264/MPEG-2
+ - VPP: CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob, MotionAdaptive, MotionCompensated}/Sharpening/ColorBalance
+* Fix the wrong setting in MI_BATCH_BATCH_START
+
+Version 1.2.2 - 16.Dec.2013
+* Motion compensation DI on HSW
+* Optimization of FPS for H.264 encoding on HSW
+* Add brightness/contrast/hue/saturation support for rendering.
+* Support BT601/BT709/SMPTE240 in vaPutSurface()
+* Expose Constrained Baseline Profile instead of Baseline Profile for H.264
+* Bug fixes
+
+Version 1.2.1 - 23.Sep.2013
+* Add PCI IDs for Bay Trail
+* Performance improvement for MPEG-2 Encoding on IVB/HSW
+* Add basic processing support for packed YUV to packed YUV on ILK+
+* Check the underlying OS support for VEBOX on HSW
+* Quality improvement for BobDI on SNB/IVB
+* Add support for Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing on IVB
+* vaDeriveImage() works for UYVY formats
+* Fix thread safety issue
+* Fix GPU hang issue when decoding some videos on SNB
+* Fix output filter count from QueryVideoProcFilters()
Version 1.2.0 - 26.Jun.2013
* The new H.264 encoding API on SNB/IVB/HSW