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This Opus 1.2 major release brings many quality improvements, new features, and bug fixes. You can read all the details in this release demo page. Changes since 1.1.x include:

• Speech quality improvements especially in the 12-20 kbit/s range
• Improved VBR encoding for hybrid mode
• More aggressive use of wider speech bandwidth, including fullband speech starting at 14 kbit/s
• Music quality improvements in the 32-48 kb/s range
• Generic and SSE CELT optimizations
• Support for directly encoding packets up to 120 ms
• DTX support for CELT mode
• SILK CBR improvements
• Support for all of the fixes in draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-06 (the mono downmix and the folding fixes need --enable-update-draft)
• Many bug fixes, including integer wrap-arounds discovered through fuzzing (no security implications)

There are no known regressions compared to the latest stable release (1.1.5). Please report any problems.

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After 4 years of development, version 3.14 of the open source digital audio player operating system Rockbox has been released. 

Some new things since version 3.13:

• Ipod Nano 2G, Sansa Fuze+, Sony NWZ E360/E370/E380, Creative Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi 3, Zen X-Fi Style, Samsung YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925 are now stable
• Greatly improved USB support on the Ipod Nano 2G, Ipod Classic, Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2
• Battery life on Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2 is approximately doubled
• New DSP effects including Haas effect surround sound, perceptual bass enhancement, and fatigue reduction
• Configurable master sampling rate and new resampler
• Improved Opus and SPC performance and compatibility
• Improved file browser and music database performance
• Several new games and plugins

See full release notes: 3.14 

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FLAC 1.3.2 released - 1 Jan 2017
Code improvements and hardening and many minor bug fixes. See the changelog for more information.

https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html
https://xiph.org/flac/download.html