[ANN] libwebp 1.5.0 release candidate

[James Zern]

Hi,

Source and binary archives are available [1].

Everyone is encouraged to update. This release will be finalized in the next
week if there aren't any regressions.

Changelog:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+log/v1.4.0..v1.5.0-rc1
- 12/13/2024 version 1.5.0
  This is a binary compatible release.
  * minor lossless encoder speed and compression improvements
  * lossless encoding does not use floats anymore
  * additional Arm optimizations for lossy & lossless + general code generation
    improvements
  * improvements to WASM performance (#643)
  * improvements and corrections in webp-container-spec.txt and
    webp-lossless-bitstream-spec.txt (#646, #355607636)
  * further security related hardening and increased fuzzing coverage w/fuzztest
    (oss-fuzz: #382816119, #70112, #70102, #69873, #69825, #69508, #69208)
  * miscellaneous warning, bug & build fixes (#499, #562, #381372617,
    #381109771, #42340561, #375011696, #372109644, chromium: #334120888)
  Tool updates:
    * gif2webp: add -sharp_yuv & -near_lossless
    * img2webp: add -exact & -noexact
    * exit codes normalized; running an example program with no
      arguments will output its help and exit with an error (#42340557,
      #381372617)

[1]:
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-ios-framework.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-linux-x86-64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-linux-aarch64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-linux-aarch64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-ios-framework.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-mac-x86-64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-windows-x64-no-wic.zip.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-mac-arm64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-windows-x64.zip
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-linux-x86-64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-mac-arm64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-windows-x64-no-wic.zip
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-windows-x64.zip.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1-mac-x86-64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-rc1.tar.gz

[James Zern]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:42 PM James Zern <jz...@google.com> wrote:

Hi,

Source and binary archives are available [1].

Everyone is encouraged to update. This release will be finalized in the next
week if there aren't any regressions.

The release has been finalized. The only changes after rc1 were to some minor build fixes for the fuzzers and one additional entry to the NEWS file:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+log/v1.5.0-rc1..v1.5.0

  API changes:
    - `cross_color_transform_bits` added to WebPAuxStats

[2]:
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-ios-framework.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-linux-x86-64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-ios-framework.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-mac-x86-64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-windows-x64-no-wic.zip.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-mac-arm64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-windows-x64.zip
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-linux-x86-64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-mac-arm64.tar.gz.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-windows-x64-no-wic.zip
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-windows-x64.zip.asc
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0-mac-x86-64.tar.gz
https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.5.0.tar.gz