-libva-intel-driver NEWS -- summary of changes. 2013-03-19
-Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Intel Corporation
+libva-intel-driver NEWS -- summary of changes. 2015-07-01
+Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Intel Corporation
+
+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
+ - Profile: BP/MP/HP
+ - Entropy Coding: CAVLC/CABAC
+ - Rate Control: CQP, CBR
+ - Progressive frame
+ - Multi Slice encoding
+ - Configurable GOP Structure
+* MPEG-2 encoding on IVB/HSW
+ - Profile: SP/MP
+ - Progressive frame
+ - Configurable GOP Structure
+* Video process on ILK/SNB/IVB/HSW
+ - CSC/scaling on ILK
+ - CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob} on SNB/IVB
+ - CSC/scaling/NoiseReduction/Deinterlacing{Bob,MotionAdaptive}/Sharpening/ColorBalance on HSW
+* Implement vaQuerySurfaceAttributes()
+* Implement the new version of vaCreateSurfaces()
+ - Create VA surface with specified fourcc
+ - Create VA surface from external buffer
+ . flinked GEM buffer
+ . prime/dma buffer
+* Optimize H.264 encoding on IVB/HSW
+* More reserved PCI IDs for HSW
+* A lot of bug fixes
Version 1.0.20 - 19.Mar.2013
* Add support for wayland 1.0 protocol (Rob Bradford)