February 15th, 2016, FFmpeg 3.0 "Einstein"

FFmpeg 3.0 "Einstein", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

The native FFmpeg AAC encoder has seen extensive improvements and is no longer considered experimental

Removed support for libvo-aacenc and libaacplus

Over 30 new filters have been added

Many ASM optimizations

VP9 Hardware Acceleration (DXVA2 and VA-API)

Cineform HD decoder

New DCA decoder based on libdcadec with full support for DTS-HD extensions

As with all major releases expect major backward incompatible API/ABI changes

See the Changelog for a list of more updates

We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.