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I think a more relevant front page link/summary would be that the open-source AV-1 codec has reached the v1.0.0 milestone (18 days ago).

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/releases/tag/v1.0.0

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For clarity: this is one encoder, not the codec itself.

AV1 v1 happened 4 years ago, not 18 days ago. SVT is Intel's AV1 encoder.

https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/refs/tags/v1.0.0

https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/av1-spec/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Complicating matters slightly more, the AOM recently adopted the SVT codebase as their official implementation for future work.

Though obviously other encoders (and decoders) are available for the AV1 format. I think for individual encode enthusiasts the old libaom codebase is still the goto, but if you are Facebook or Netflix you probably want to be looking at SVT-AV1.

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