[opus] Opus 1.3-rc released

[Varun Nair]

Thanks for all the amazing work with ambisonics Drew et al. We're looking forward to the 1.3 final release and have already been successfully using the ambisonic work in production code.
Varun

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    Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 13:02:18 +0100
    From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
    To: Jean-Marc Valin <jmvalin at jmvalin.ca>
    Cc: "opus at xiph.org" <opus at xiph.org>
    Subject: Re: [opus] Opus 1.3-rc released
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    On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Jean-Marc Valin <jmvalin at jmvalin.ca> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I just released Opus 1.3-rc. This is a release candidate for the
    > upcoming Opus 1.3. Changes include:
    > - Making it possible to use SILK down to bitrates around 5 kb/s
    > - Using wideband encoding down to 9 kb/s
    > - Improving security (including a new --enable-hardening option)
    > - Minor quality improvement on tones
    > - Improving Ambisonics support (still experimental)
    > - Minor bug fixes
    >
    > It's likely that both hardening (--enable-hardening) and ambisonics
    > (--enable-ambisonics) will be enabled by default in 1.3-final, so please
    > give those a try.
    >
    
    I've pushed these to F28 and rawhide with hardening and ambisonics enabled.
    
    Peter