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Apparently the WIP warning was also removed from the site lately[1]. Can we infer that the format is being finalized?

[1] https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF-hub.github.io/commit/2b9c81...

The bitstream is kind of finalized as "FLIF16" now, just like GIF87 was finalized in 1987. Future bitstream-changing stuff will go in a new branch, which will eventually become the "FLIF17" or "FLIF18" format (whatever the year will be). Future decoders will decode both FLIF16 and FLIF1x.

It looks like they had a non-alpha release within the last 2 weeks.

https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF/releases

On September 19, 2016 Jon Sneyers wrote "I'm going to drop the "rc" and tag what we have now as v0.2. This will be FLIF16 and all bitstream-breaking changes will have to be in a new branch, which will become FLIF17 or FLIF18 or whatever. " (https://gitter.im/FLIF-hub/FLIF?at=57df798133c63ba01a135f0d)

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