The development for this release focused on the tools, flac and metaflac, whereas the previous few releases had the focus on libFLAC. The main improvement in flac is its handling of foreign metad...
Like the last release, this release only has a few changes. A problem with FLAC playback in GStreamer (and possibly other libFLAC users) was the reason for the short time since the last release.
This release mostly fixes a few build system changes compared to FLAC 1.4.0. The reason this release follows 1.4.0 so quickly is because the 1.4.0 release tarball had emtpy man pages in it, which...
This release brings many small improvements and a few large ones. Here are the most important for end-users:
Besides the libraries and tools provided here, there are many independently implemented encoders and decoders of the FLAC format. To help developers of FLAC decoders to improve their product, a s...
Various security, robustness fixes, and build system improvements. Minor bug fixes. See the changelog for more information.
Minor code and build system improvements. Minor bug fixes. See the changelog for more information.
Code improvements and hardening and many minor bug fixes. See the changelog for more information.
A new release after 18 months of improvements, triggered by a security issue. Faster encoding and decoding, slightly better compression. Many small code and build improvements. See the changelog ...
Technics announced that it will open a download store, serving high-resolution FLAC files. This will start January 2015 and will be available to people in the UK and Germany.
https://xiph.org/flac/2014/11/21/technics-announces-flac-store.html