[0.8.5] - 2020-09-04

Relicensing notice

• Change the outbound license from BSD+Patent to the AOM license / patent

Encoder

• Added tpl support to adaptively change lambda and quantization parameters within the frame
• Added multi staged hme support
• Quality speed trade-offs tuned to VOD use cases
• Added first level non-optimized support for 2pass VBR and CRF
• Added combined cli two pass support with options for stats being written to a memory buffer and a specified file
• Added non square partitioning optimizations
• Improved lambda generation

Build and Testing

• Bug fixes
• Improve CI
• Improve Unit Test Coverage
• Address C vs asm mismatches
• Fix static analysis warnings / errors
• Add address sanitizer
• Fix symbol conflicts with libaom and libvpx when staticly lined to ffmpeg

All binaries can be accessed through the testing framework following the links below: https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1/actions/runs/242603268 https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1/actions/runs/242603265 https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1/actions/runs/242603260