[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