[theora-dev] Theora 1.2.0beta1 is released (Was: Time for a new theora release)

[Brooke Vibber]

Testing v1.2.0beta1 with my wasm build for ogv.js real quick... build is
fine, playback is fine. Haven't hooked up encoding yet to test. So far so
good!

-- brooke

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>
wrote:

>
> The new theora relase has been tagged in master, and an update of the
> xiph.org web site is requiested in
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/xiph-website/-/merge_requests/15 >.
> I still have no idea how to update <URL: https://theora.org/ >,
> given that its content do not match
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora-website >.
>
> As soon as the release tarball has been copied from
> <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/jobs/30795/artifacts/browse >
> to <URL: https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/ > I will announce
> the new version on my blog.  It would be great if someone able to post
> to the theora at xiph.org mailing list could announce it there.
>
> I decided to go with the version number 1.2.0beta1 and not 1.2.0 because
> the issues raised in <URL:
> https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/issues/2325 >
> and <URL: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/theora/-/issues/2327 > are still
> not solved.  I plan to wrap up the 1.2.0 release in two weeks and hope
> someone figured out what is going on there by then.
>
> This is the release entry from CHANGES in the source:
>
> libteora 1.2.0beta1 (2025 March 15)
> - Bumped minor SONAME versions as <codec.h> methods changed constness
>   of arguments.
> - Updated libogg dependency to version 1.3.4 for ogg_uint64_t.
> - Updated doxygen setup.
> - Updated autotools setup and support scripts (#1467 #1800 #1987 #2318
>   #2320).
> - Added support for RISC OS.
> - Fixed mingw build (#2141).
> - Improved ARM support.
> - Converted SCons setup to work with Python 3.
> - Introduced new configure options --enable-mem-constraint and
>   --enable-gcc-sanitizers.
> - Fixed all known compiler warnings and errors from gcc and clang.
> - Improved examples for stability and correctness.
> - Variuos speed, bug fixes and code quality improvements.
>   - Fixed build problem with Visual Studio (#2317).
>   - Avoids undefined bit shift of signed numbers (#2321, #2322).
>   - Avoids example encoder crash on bogus audio input (#2305).
>   - Fixed musl linking issue with asm enabled (#2287).
>   - Fixed some broken clamping in rate control (#2229).
>   - Added NULL check _tc and _setup even for data packets (#2279).
>   - Fixed mismatched oc_mb_fill_cmapping11 signature (#2068).
>   - Updated the documentation for theora_encode_comment() (#726).
>   - Adjusted build to Only link libcompat with dump_video (#1587).
>   - Corrected an operator precedence error in the visualization
>     code (#1751).
>   - Fixed two spelling errors in the comments (#1804).
>   - Avoid negative bit shift operation in huffdec.c (CVE-2024-56431).
> - Improved library documentation and specification text.
> - Adjusted library dependencies so libtheoraenc do not depend on
>   libtheoradec.
> - Handle fallout from CVE-2017-14633 in libvorbis, check return value
>   in encoder_example and transcoder_example.
>
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
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