libvpx v1.13.0 Ugly Duckling Finalized

[Jerome Jiang]

Hello everyone,

libvpx v1.13.0 Ugly Duckling is finalized.

Here's the release note.

Thanks.

Release Note

  This release includes more Neon and AVX2 optimizations, adds a new codec
  control to set per frame QP, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.12.1, and includes
  numerous bug fixes.

  This release is available from the git repository and the v1.13.0 tarball, along with the asc file.

• Upgrading:
• This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release.
• New codec control VP9E_SET_QUANTIZER_ONE_PASS to set per frame QP.
• GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.12.1.
• .clang-format is upgraded to clang-format-11.
• VPX_EXT_RATECTRL_ABI_VERSION was bumped due to incompatible changes to the feature of using external rate control models for vp9.
• Enhancement:
• Numerous improvements on Neon optimizations.
• Numerous improvements on AVX2 optimizations.
• Additional ARM targets added for Visual Studio.
• Bug fixes:
• Fix to calculating internal stats when frame dropped.
• Fix to segfault for external resize test in vp9.
• Fix to build system with replacing egrep with grep -E.
• Fix to a few bugs with external RTC rate control library.
• Fix to make SVC work with VBR.
• Fix to key frame setting in VP9 external RC.
• Fix to -Wimplicit-int (Clang 16).
• Fix to VP8 external RC for buffer levels.
• Fix to VP8 external RC for dynamic update of layers.
• Fix to VP9 auto level.
• Fix to off-by-one error of max w/h in validate_config.
• Fix to make SVC work for Profile 1.