Changes for 1.5.0 ‘Sonic’:

1.5.0 is a major release of dav1d, that:

  • WARNING: we removed some of the SSE2 optimizations, so if you care about systems without SSSE3, you should be careful when updating!
  • Add Arm OpenBSD run-time CPU feature
  • Optimize index offset calculations for decode_coefs
  • picture: copy HDR10+ and T35 metadata only to visible frames
  • SSSE3 new optimizations for 6-tap (8bit and hbd)
  • AArch64/SVE: Add HBD subpel filters using 128-bit SVE2
  • AArch64: Add USMMLA implempentation for 6-tap H/HV
  • AArch64: Optimize Armv8.0 NEON for HBD horizontal filters and 6-tap filters
  • Power9: Optimized ITX till 16x4.
  • Loongarch: numerous optimizations
  • RISC-V optimizations for pal, cdef_filter, ipred, mc_blend, mc_bdir, itx
  • Allow playing videos in full-screen mode in dav1dplay