[flac-dev] FLAC 1.2.0 backwards-compatibility break not in changelog?

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Fri May 3 00:46:10 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:31:25PM +0200, Martijn van Beurden wrote:
> I don't know why this isn't on the changelog, but it is probably still a 
> good idea to add it. This only breaks compatibility for 24-bit streams. 
> (So: decoders older than 1.2.0 might not be able to decode 24-bit FLAC 
> files made by libFLAC 1.2.0 or newer)

Interesting, I remember there were some problems with 24-bit encoding,
but I wasn't sure if/how it was fixed. It seems the encoding support
was actually added later in 1.2.1, so there was a short time for
adoption of the new decoder. It should be added to the changelog.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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