Dear Free Audio Tool Lovers, I am very pleased to announce the first official release of FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, in over 6 years. FLAC is not dead! It is however a mature software product that is now being maintained by a team working under the auscpices of the Xiph.Org Foundation. The executive summary of changes in this new version: * Nothing major. * Source tree is now hosted in Xiph.org git: git clone git://git.xiph.org/flac.git * Read and write appropriate channel masks for 6.1 and 7.1 surround input WAV files. * Added support for encoding from and decoding to the RF64 format. * Lots of build system fixes for your building enjoyment. The full changelog is here: https://www.xiph.org/flac/changelog.html Happy lossless encoding and decoding. Cheers, The FLAC project contribitors