faac-1.40

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

Probably should wait a day or two to see if faad is also updated.

[Bruce Dubbs]

1.40 (Mar 17, 2026)

• Fix compilation with Visual Studio
• Fix SIMD calls
• Add meson as build system
• Meson: Install faac executable
• CI: fix artifact path
• Remove autoconf/automake build system
• Remove plugins stuff, unmaintained for decades
• Remove MSVC projects, deprecated in favour of meson
• Do not check for unused headers
• Generalize OS check in CI rule
• Remove redundant defines
• Make faacgui usable again
• Report library version on version mismatch
• Maintain library SONAME version 0.0.0
• Build both static and shared library by default
• Properly declare symbol visibility as hidden
• Add options to disable DRM and opt for single floating-point precision
• CI: add native MSVC build and fix Windows compatibility
• Remove dead code
• Optimize FFT reordering by combining real and imaginary passes
• Optimize FFT performance
• CI: update GitHub Actions and add Dependabot configuration
• Refactor quantizer for portable C and extensible SIMD dispatch
• Optimize memory allocation and unify MDCT implementation
• Optimize MDCT by removing conditional branches and hoisting logic
• Rrefactor the hot path for writing bits to the output stream
• Remove Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) support

[Joe Locash]

The static library gets built and installed by default now. Override that with -D default_library=shared:

meson setup .. --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -D default_library=shared

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

f6580c60ca Update to xfsprogs-6.19.0.
1b29fce25a Update to btrfs-progs-v6.19.1.
24454de7d5 Update to faac-1.40.