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-libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes.  2016-03-15
-Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Intel Corporation
+libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes.  2016-06-xx
+Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Intel Corporation
+
+Version 1.7.1 - DD.Jun.2016
+* Bump VA API version to 0.39.2
+* API: add support for VP9 8bit encode
+* API: add support for low power/high performance encode
+* API: add support for encoding ROI attribute
+* API: add support for macroblock based rate control
+* Fix VA tracer to support multiple contexts in one instance
 
 Version 1.7.0 - 15.Mar.2016
 * Bump VA API version to 0.39