Prepare for 0.8_beta1 snapshot release

Changelog

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Entries are sorted chronologically from oldest to youngest within each release,
 releases are sorted from youngest to oldest.
 
 
-version <next>:
+version 0.8_beta1:
+
 - BWF muxer
 - Flash Screen Video 2 decoder
 - ffplay/ffprobe/ffserver renamed to avplay/avprobe/avserver

RELEASE

-0.7
+0.8_beta1

doc/RELEASE_NOTES

 Release Notes
 =============
 
-* 0.7 "The Big Bump" June, 2011
+* 0.8 "Forbidden Fruit"
 
 General notes
 -------------
 
-This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs,
-including VP8, H.263 and H.264. Additionally, there has been a major cleanup of
-both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all
-libraries have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.7 can be installed
-side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit
-from the new features, applications need to be recompiled.
-
-Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to,
-AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder
-and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple
-HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added.
+This release continues the API cleanups that have begun with the
+previous release. While it is binary compatible with 0.7, many parts of
+the public API were deprecated and will be removed in the git master and
+later releases. Please consult the doc/APIchanges file to see intended
+replacements for the deprecated APIs.
+
+Furthermore, our work on the 'ffmpeg' command-line tool has resulted in
+major revisions to its interface. In order to not break existing scripts
+and applications, we have chosen to introduce a new tool called
+'avconv', and keep the traditional 'ffmpeg' frontend for end-user's
+convenience. Please see the Changelog file for details how 'avconv'
+differs from 'ffmpeg'.
+
+Additionally, this release introduces a number of new interesting codecs
+such as the Apple Prores, Flash Screen Video 2 and Windows Media Image,
+and muxers such as LATM or CELT in Ogg, among many others. Moreover, our
+H.264 decoder has been improved to decode 4:2:2 material and our libx264
+wrapper now allows to produce 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 video.
 
 See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.
 
@@ -30,23 +37,14 @@ report against the development code following the usual bug reporting guidelines
 API changes
 -----------
 
-Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. Note that a
-lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional
-APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release.
+A number of additional APIs have been introduced and some existing
+functions have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next
+release. Please see the file doc/APIchanges for details along with
+similar programmer-centric information.
+
 
 
 Other notable changes
 ---------------------
 
-- many ARM NEON optimizations
-- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future
-- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed
-- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding
-- 9/10bit H.264 decoding
-- Win64 Assembler support
-- native MMSH/MMST support
-- Windows TV demuxing
-- native AMR-WB decoding
-- native GSM-MS decoding
-- SMPTE 302M decoding
-- AVS encoding
+Please see the Changelog file for a more detailed list of changes.