Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora's libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library.

Coming not too long after the recent libtheora 1.2 beta release is now the official libtheora 1.2.0 milestone. This is a rather quick turnaround after the beta considering the prior libtheora 1.2 alpha had been worked on in 2018. Libtheora 1.1 was released in 2009 and since then there hasn't been any major stable updates.

The Theora 1.2 library update brings better ARM support, initial RISC OS support, various library changes, MinGW build fixes, performance improvements, and other code clean-ups/enhancements over the past many years.

Those interested in the Theora 1.2 libtheora release can grab it via the Xiph.Org GitLab .