Re: [BLFS Trac] #23342: libaom-3.14.1

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#23342: libaom-3.14.1
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  blfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  elevated     |   Milestone:  13.1
Component:  BOOK         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Changes (by zeckma):

 * priority:  normal => elevated

Comment:

 {{{
 Release v3.14.0 Pinkie Pie

 2026-05-12 v3.14.0
   This release is ABI compatible with the last release.

   This release includes significant compression efficiency and
   perceptual quality improvements for layered image encoding, in
   addition to bug fixes.

   The `build` directory in the source tree was removed and the original
   build/cmake directory was moved up one level. If you use the CMake
   toolchain files in the original build/cmake/toolchains directory,
   they are now in the cmake/toolchains directory.

   The unsupported aom_img_fmt_t enum constants AOM_IMG_FMT_AOMYV12 and
   AOM_IMG_FMT_AOMI420 are deprecated and will be removed in a future
   release. Do not use them.

   The new codec controls AV1E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL (including the
   new aom_rc_funcs_t struct and the new "aom/aom_ext_ratectrl.h" and
   "aom/aom_tpl.h" headers) and AV1E_GET_GOP_INFO (including the new
   aom_gop_info_t struct) have the experimental API status and are NOT
   part of the stable API. Applications that need the backward
   compatibility of the stable API must not use
   AV1E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL and AV1E_GET_GOP_INFO.

   - New Features
     * Tuning modes AOM_TUNE_IQ and AOM_TUNE_SSIMULACRA2 now work with
       inter-frame encoding modes (good-quality and realtime), enabling
       efficient layered image encoding.
     * Variance Boost (deltaq-mode 6) support has been extended to
       include good-quality and realtime modes.
     * New value 2 for use_fixed_qp_offsets: disallow the application of
       per-frame QP offsets, enabling full control of each frame's QP, by
       adjusting rc_cfg.cq_level between each encoded frame.
     * Low complexity decode mode (the encoder optimizations that produce
       encoded bitstreams that can be decoded at low computational
       complexity) now supports good-quality encoding (speed 1 to 3) for
       not only vertical videos (608p to 1080p) but also horizontal
       videos (720p to 1080p).
     * Realtime encoding with non-zero lookahead is supported, for
       !REALTME_ONLY_CONFIG.
     * New AOM_EFLAG_FREEZE_INTERNAL_STATE flag for aom_codec_encode() to
       encode a frame without updating encoder state such as reference
       buffers, CDF tables, and rate control state. Useful for
       speculative encoding.
     * New aom_matrix_coefficients_t enum constants:
       - AOM_CICP_MC_IPT_C2 (15): IPT-C2
       - AOM_CICP_MC_YCGCO_RE (16): YCgCo-Re
       - AOM_CICP_MC_YCGCO_RO (17): YCgCo-Ro
     * New aom_metadata_insert_flags_t enum constants for adding
       layer-specific metadata OBUs:
       - AOM_MIF_NON_KEY_FRAME_LAYER_SPECIFIC: Adds layer-specific
         metadata if it's not a keyframe
       - AOM_MIF_KEY_FRAME_LAYER_SPECIFIC: Adds layer-specific metadata
         only if it's a keyframe
       - AOM_MIF_ANY_FRAME_LAYER_SPECIFIC: Adds layer-specific metadata
         to any type of frame
     * Experimental: New codec control AV1E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL to
       enable an external rate control library. Not part of the stable
       API.
     * Experimental: New codec control AV1E_GET_GOP_INFO to get the GOP
       structure from the encoder. Not part of the stable API.
     * New codec control AOME_SET_VALIDATE_HBD_INPUT to validate high
       bitdepth (HBD) input and ensure that every pixel is within the
       valid range. The corresponding option for aom_codec_set_option()
       is "validate-hbd-input".
     * New codec control AOMD_SET_FRAME_SIZE_LIMIT to set the maximum
       frame size for a decoder

   - Compression Efficiency Improvements
     * When encoding 2-layered images with AOM_TUNE_IQ vs. AOM_TUNE_SSIM:
       - Good-quality mode: up to 15% gains at similar SSIMULACRA 2
         scores.
       - Realtime mode: up to 30% gains at similar SSIMULACRA 2 scores.
     * Enable screen detection mode 2 (anti-aliased text and graphics
       aware) in all-intra mode.
     * Some minor quantization matrix formula and delta chroma q tweaks
       for the AOM_TUNE_SSIMULACRA2 tuning mode, with up to 0.2%
       SSIMULACRA 2 score efficiency gains.
     * Re-tune and re-work encoder features, achieving coding gains at
       each speed level and better coding efficiency vs complexity
       tradeoff (an estimated 20-30% encoder time reduction with about
       1-5% vmaf gains).
     * RTC screen: improvements to quality and scroll detection for high
       resolutions.

   - Perceptual Quality Improvements
     * AOM_TUNE_IQ improves the visual quality of layered image encoding
       compared to AOM_TUNE_SSIM.
     * Adaptive sharpness: tweak loop filter sharpness threshold to
       improve visual quality at QPs 29 and 30.
     * Improve encoder algorithms in loop restoration, CDEF, temporal
       filter and rate control, delivering better visual quality.

   - Speedups
     * Make Adaptive CDEF more decoder friendly by limiting CDEF
       application to only regions where high filter strengths are
       needed.
     * Encoder complexity is reduced significantly, especially at speed
       1 to 3.
     * Further AArch64 SIMD optimization of filtering algorithms,
       particularly using Armv8.6 Neon I8MM.
     * Additional tweaks to AArch64 Neon paths for quantization, SAD,
       subpel variance and intra-predictors.

   - Bug Fixes
     * Commit 4cc0867f: fix multithreading crashes when loop restoration
       filtering is used by the encoder.
     * Commit 74aaa1ef: fix AOM_SCALING_MODE crashes when compound mask
       prediction modes are used by the encoder.
     * b:502030569: Avoid assertion failure in `read_uncompressed_header`
       triggered by fuzzed input
     * b:503197490: Fix an integer overflow in target bits calculation
     * b:503691210: Avoid reference to uninitialized member variables for
       multi workers.
     * b:504317456: Handle buffer pointer in LAP mode to avoid overflow
     * b:502133197: Avoid a bitread assertion failure in
       get_av1config_from_obu()
 }}}

 This fixes an integer overflow, avoids references to uninitialized
 members, multithreading crashes, and a potential buffer overflow. So I'm
 going to mark this as a security fix release. Marking as elevated, but
 maybe should be high.
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