diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb49d7c7fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0.7
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 552c8e0a82..84d8feba1b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2100,6 +2100,7 @@ elif $cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q 'PathScale\|Path64'; then
     AS_DEPFLAGS='-MMD -MF $(@:.o=.d) -MT $@'
     speed_cflags='-O2'
     size_cflags='-Os'
+    filter_cflags='filter_out -Wdisabled-optimization'
 elif $cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q Open64; then
     cc_type=open64
     cc_version=__OPEN64__
@@ -2108,6 +2109,7 @@ elif $cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q Open64; then
     AS_DEPFLAGS='-MMD -MF $(@:.o=.d) -MT $@'
     speed_cflags='-O2'
     size_cflags='-Os'
+    filter_cflags='filter_out -Wdisabled-optimization|-Wtype-limits|-fno-signed-zeros'
 fi
 
 test -n "$cc_type" && enable $cc_type ||
diff --git a/doc/RELEASE_NOTES b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db3864d0e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+Release Notes
+=============
+
+* 0.7 "Love and Peace" June, 2011
+
+General notes
+-------------
+
+This release enables frame-based multithreaded decoding for a number of codecs,
+including VP8, H.263 and H.264. Additionally, there has been a major cleanup of
+both internal and external APIs. For this reason, the major versions of all
+libraries have been bumped. On the one hand, this means that 0.7 can be installed
+side-by-side with previous releases, on the other hand, in order to benefit
+from the new features, applications need to be recompiled.
+
+Other important changes are additions of decoders including, but not limited to,
+AMR-WB, single stream LATM/LOAS, G.722 ADPCM, a native VP8 decoder
+and HE-AACv2. Additionally, many new de/muxers such as WebM in Matroska, Apple
+HTTP Live Streaming, SAP, IEC 61937 (S/PDIF) have been added.
+
+See the Changelog file for a list of significant changes.
+
+Please note that our policy on bug reports has not changed. We still only accept
+bug reports against HEAD of the FFmpeg trunk repository. If you are experiencing
+issues with any formally released version of FFmpeg, please try a current version
+of the development code to check if the issue still exists. If it does, make your
+report against the development code following the usual bug reporting guidelines.
+
+
+API changes
+-----------
+
+Please see the file doc/APIchanges for programmer-centric information. Note that a
+lot of long-time deprecated APIs have been removed. Also, a number of additional
+APIs have been deprecated and are scheduled for removal in the next release.
+
+
+Other notable changes
+---------------------
+
+- many ARM NEON optimizations
+- libswscale cleanup started, optimizations should become easier in the future
+- nonfree libfaad support for AAC decoding removed
+- 4:4:4 H.264 decoding
+- 9/10bit H.264 decoding
+- Win64 Assembler support
+- native MMSH/MMST support
+- Windows TV demuxing
+- native AMR-WB decoding
+- native GSM-MS decoding
+- SMPTE 302M decoding
+- AVS encoding
diff --git a/libavcodec/h264.c b/libavcodec/h264.c
index ca7867e11c..b22d5e2938 100644
--- a/libavcodec/h264.c
+++ b/libavcodec/h264.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ int ff_h264_decode_extradata(H264Context *h)
 {
     AVCodecContext *avctx = h->s.avctx;
 
-    if(*(char *)avctx->extradata == 1){
+    if(avctx->extradata[0] == 1){
         int i, cnt, nalsize;
         unsigned char *p = avctx->extradata;
 
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ int ff_h264_decode_extradata(H264Context *h)
             p += nalsize;
         }
         // Now store right nal length size, that will be use to parse all other nals
-        h->nal_length_size = ((*(((char*)(avctx->extradata))+4))&0x03)+1;
+        h->nal_length_size = (avctx->extradata[4] & 0x03) + 1;
     } else {
         h->is_avc = 0;
         if(decode_nal_units(h, avctx->extradata, avctx->extradata_size) < 0)
diff --git a/libavcodec/sipr.c b/libavcodec/sipr.c
index b96e3b9024..9befe8a158 100644
--- a/libavcodec/sipr.c
+++ b/libavcodec/sipr.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <math.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 #include "libavutil/mathematics.h"
 #include "avcodec.h"
@@ -461,7 +462,7 @@ static void decode_frame(SiprContext *ctx, SiprParameters *params,
         memcpy(ctx->postfilter_syn5k0, ctx->postfilter_syn5k0 + frame_size,
                LP_FILTER_ORDER*sizeof(float));
     }
-    memcpy(ctx->excitation, excitation - PITCH_DELAY_MAX - L_INTERPOL,
+    memmove(ctx->excitation, excitation - PITCH_DELAY_MAX - L_INTERPOL,
            (PITCH_DELAY_MAX + L_INTERPOL) * sizeof(float));
 
     ff_acelp_apply_order_2_transfer_function(out_data, synth,
@@ -495,8 +496,6 @@ static av_cold int sipr_decoder_init(AVCodecContext * avctx)
 
     avctx->sample_fmt = AV_SAMPLE_FMT_FLT;
 
-    dsputil_init(&ctx->dsp, avctx);
-
     return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/libavcodec/sipr.h b/libavcodec/sipr.h
index 66e7696466..3bb0b37016 100644
--- a/libavcodec/sipr.h
+++ b/libavcodec/sipr.h
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ typedef enum {
 
 typedef struct {
     AVCodecContext *avctx;
-    DSPContext dsp;
 
     SiprMode mode;
 
diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 51bca4f21a..41ae520ecc 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@
 # check for git short hash
 if ! test "$revision"; then
     revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --tags --match N 2> /dev/null)
-    test "$revision" && revision=git-$revision
 fi
 
 # no revision number found
-test "$revision" || revision=UNKNOWN
+test "$revision" || revision=$(cd "$1" && cat RELEASE 2> /dev/null)
 
 # releases extract the version number from the VERSION file
 version=$(cd "$1" && cat VERSION 2> /dev/null)