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 Changes for 1.4.1 'Road Runner':
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+1.4.1 is a small release of dav1d, improving notably ARM and RISC-V speed
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 - Optimizations for 6tap filters for NEON (ARM)
 - More RISC-V optimizations for itx (4x8, 8x4, 4x16, 16x4, 8x16, 16x8)
 - Reduction of binary size on ARM64, ARM32 and RISC-V