[p]\[ X-Ray Scanner ][/p]

• [p]Players in Germany and Netherlands will have an X-Ray Scanner tab in their Inventory. For those players, containers can only be opened via X-ray Scanner. The X-Ray Scanner will come preloaded with a one-time exclusive non-tradable "Genuine P250 | X-ray", which must be claimed before using the X-Ray Scanner to reveal items in other containers.[/p][/*]
• [p]Keyless Containers, like Souvenir Packages, can be opened without the X-Ray Scanner.[/p][/*]

New features:

• SFTP support is now based on the fzssh library

Bugfixes and minor changes:

• Fix detection of OTP requests from FileZilla Pro Enterprise Server if using non-default FTP encryption options
• MSW: Improve handling of volumes mounted as path instead of as drive letter
• *nix, macOS: Remove custom send buffer option, rely on operating system auto-tuning

A new minor release, FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare", is now available for download. Here are some of the highlights:

• Decoders: xHE-AAC Mps212 (experimental) MPEG-H decoding via libmpeghdec
• EXIF Metadata Parsing
• LCEVC: support for parsing and forwarding metadata
• Vulkan compute-based codecs: ProRes encoding and decoding, DPX decoding
• D3D12: D3D12 H.264/AV1 encoding, scale_d3d12, mestimate_d3d12, deinterlace_d3d12 filters
• Rockchip H.264/HEVC hardware encoding
• IAMF: Projection mode Ambisonic Audio Elements muxing and demuxing
• Formats: hxvs demuxer
• Filters: drawvg, vpp_amf

This release features a lot of internal changes and bugfixes. The groundwork for the upcoming swscale rewrite is progressing. The Vulkan compute-based codecs, and a few filters, no longer depend on runtime GLSL compilation, which speeds up their initialization.

A companion post about the Vulkan Compute-based codec implementations has been published on the Khronos blog, featuring technical details on the implementations and future plans.

We recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

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