[Libva] [ANNOUNCE] libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.1.pre1

[Xiang, Haihao]

Hi all,

We are planning for libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.0,
libva/libva-intel-driver 1.6.0 will bring some new features and fix some
critical issues. Below are the testing packages

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/testing/libva/libva-1.6.0.pre1.tar.bz2

* Bump VA API version to 0.38
* Add support for HEVC encode API
* Add support for VP9 decode API
* Add API (vaSetDriverName()) to allow the user to specify the loaded
backend driver
* Add VAConfigAttribEncSkipFrame and corresponding structures to support
  sending skip frame parameters to the backend driver.
* Add support for querying slice decoding mode supported by the backend
driver
* Fix quality issue in the JPEG encode demo


http://www.freedesktop.org/software/vaapi/testing/libva-intel-driver/libva-intel-driver-1.6.0.pre1.tar.bz2

* Add support for VP8 encoding (CQP, CBR) on BSW/SKL
* Add support for HEVC decoding on BSW
* Add support for HEVC encoding (CQP) on SKL
* Add support for low-power mode (VA_PROC_PIPELINE_FAST) in VPP to
discard any complex operation that would consume too many HW resources
* Fix memory leak issue for JPEG decoding
* Fix HEVC decoding issue on BSW/SKL
* Fix GPU hang issue caused by VP8 decoding on BDW/BSW
* Fix MADI/MCDI issues on SNB/IVB
* Improve the JPEG encoding quality
* Optimize MPEG-2 start code search on IVB

Please report any critical issue with the above packages

Thanks
Haihao