Release 0.18.0

Build System Changes

• build: Do not link to libGL for egl-drm
• build: also use the iconv check on FreeBSD
• build: don't install tests, only build them
• build: re-enable encoding mode by default
• vo_opengl: hwdec: remove build-dependency on dxva2 (#3150)
• wscript: make at least 1 OpenGL output mandatory

Features

New

• csputils: add SMPTE ST2084 support
• demux_mkv: support Matroska webvtt (#3247)
• demux_playlist: read directories recursively
• stream_memory: add hex:// protocol
• vf_crop: support opaque hardware decoding formats
• vf_d3d11vpp: add a D3D11 video processor filter
• vo_opengl: D3D11VA + ANGLE interop
• vo_opengl: add an angle-es2 backend
• vo_opengl: angle: dynamically load ANGLE
• vo_opengl: d3d11egl: native NV12 sampling support
• vo_opengl: enable color management on GLES
• vo_opengl: implement HDR (SMPTE ST2084)
• vo_opengl: implement tone mapping algorithms
• vo_opengl: make PBOs work on GLES 3.x
• vo_opengl: support external user hooks, enhancing the flexibility of user shaders
• vo_opengl: vdpau interop without RGB conversion
• wayland: implement HIDPI support

Removed

• vo_opengl: remove nnedi3 prescaler (replaced by user shaders)
• vo_opengl: remove prescaling framework with superxbr prescaler (replaced by user shaders)

Options and Commands

Added

• Windows: make taskbar progress indication optional (#2535)
• af_lavcac3enc: make encoder configurable
• command: add playlist-pos-1 property (#2828)
• command: introduce hwdec-current and hwdec-interop properties.
• options: add --fit-border video option (currently Windows only)
• video: add --hwdec=auto-copy mode
• vo_opengl: always autoselect ANGLE as backend if available
• vo_opengl: expose performance timers as properties
• x11: add --x11-bypass-compositor=never
• x11: extend --x11-bypass-compositor with fs-only option (#2582)

Changed

• command: allow setting panscan etc. properties if no video is active
• command: don't seek immediately when setting a-b loop while paused
• command: if only ab-loop-b is set, loop from start of file
• options: --geometry: center window position after applying size (#2397)
• player: loop on end of file if ab-loop-b is unset
• sd_add: replace --sub-ass=no with --ass-style-override=strip

Removed

• vo_opengl: remove non-working rgb/rgba FBO formats

Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• TOOLS/zsh.pl: add .f4v extension in zsh completions
• TOOLS/zsh.pl: complete --audio-device
• Windows: center window on original window center on resize to fit screen
• Windows: fix size calculations for window resize (#2935)
• Windows: fix wrong behavior with window-scale when window size exceeds screen size
• Windows: make VOCTRL_SET_UNFS_WINDOW_SIZE resize the window around its center (#3164)
• af_lavcac3enc: fix custom bitrates
• ao_alsa: add more workarounds for hardware with broken drivers (e.g. ODROID-C2)
• ao_opensles: remove 32-bit audio formats (not supported by Android)
• cocoa: fix actual display refresh rate retrieval
• cocoa: use displaylink without manually tracking the display id (#2392)
• command: improve playlist* properties change notifications (#3267)
• command: slightly nicer OSD list formatting
• compatibility with recent FFmpeg APIs
• d3d: fix hardware decoding of most MPEG2 things
• d3dva: move Intel_H264_NoFGT_ClearVideo to lower priority (#3059)
• demux_mkv: better resync behavior for broken google-created webms
• demux_mkv: fix seeking with files that miss the first index entry
• demux_playlist: recognize m3u8 as playlist extension (#3154)
• input: fix parsing multiple input command prefixes
• lcms: don't warn/error on 3dlut cache misses
• lcms: improve black point handling (especially BT.1886)
• macOS: handle multiple dropped files on the window (#3076)
• player: always show the first frame in DS mode
• player: assume video forwards timestamps jumps only with some formats (#3027)
• player: do not update OSD all the time when paused
• player: eagerly redraw OSD when seeking with coverart
• player: fix use-after-free with --screenshot-directory (#3049)
• player: force VO reconfig when unselecting video track
• player: really start audio only once video is ready
• sd_lavc: work around bug in older FFmpeg releases (#3109)
• stream_cdda: enable cache by default
• sub: fix --sub-gauss
• vd_lavc: better hwdec wrapper decoder selection
• vo_opengl: EGL: fix hwdec probing
• vo_opengl: angle: avoid fullscreen FBO copy for flipping
• vo_opengl: angle: enable DirectComposition (lowers vsync jitter)
• vo_opengl: angle: prevent DXGI hooking Alt+Enter
• vo_opengl: avoid outputting ultra-wide-gamut by default
• vo_opengl: correctly disable interpolation if tscale can't be used
• vo_opengl: fix bicubic_fast in ES mode
• vo_opengl: fix d3d11 hardware decoding probing on Windows 7
• vo_opengl: improve scale=oversample performance
• vo_opengl: make the screen blue on shader errors
• vo_opengl: partially fix 0bgr format support
• vo_opengl: possibly update icc profile after changing options
• vo_opengl: request core profile on X11/EGL too
• vo_opengl: require at least ES 3.0 for float textures
• vo_opengl: vdpau: fix certain cases of preemption recovery failures
• vo_rpi: attempt to survive display mode changes
• vo_rpi: fix destroying overlays (#3100)
• vo_rpi: wait for vsync with a timeout
• vo_sdl: fix pixel formats.
• vo_xv: Handle incorrect size returned by Xv(Shm)CreateImage (#320)
• wayland: correctly report display refresh rate
• wayland: use the advertised size in fullscreen (#3021, #2657)
• x11: tell GNOME to use dark window decorations
• ytdl_hook: fix brightcove urls
• ytdl_hook: just check if protocol is rtmp (#3090)
• ytdl_hook: support multi-arc subtitles

This listing is not complete. Check DOCS/client-api-changes.rst for a history of changes to the client API, and DOCS/interface-changes.rst for a history of changes to other user-visible interfaces.

A complete changelog can be seen by running git log v0.17.0..v0.18.0 in the git repository or by visiting either https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/compare/v0.17.0...v0.18.0 or https://git.srsfckn.biz/mpv/log/?qt=range&q=v0.17.0..v0.18.0