The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.3 "Mandelbrot", a major
release with all the great features committed during the three-month period
since the release of FFmpeg 2.2.

In this release, there are lots of internal overhauls that make FFmpeg a
more accessible project for new developers. Many important new
optimizations and features like QTKit and AVFoundation input devices are
committed. Contributions done by Libav such as a new native Opus decoder
are also merged.

Because of the increasing difficulty to maintain and lack of maintainers,
we are very sorry to say that we have removed all Blackfin and SPARC
architecture assembly optimizations with the cleanups done. If you are
interested in maintaining optimization for these two architecture, feel
free to contact us and we will restore the code!

Oh, and since this release, this modern-looking release note is provided in
addition to the old-style Changelog file, to make it easier for you to
focus on the most important features in this release.

Enjoy!

(adam)