The libam7xxx-0.1.7 release is out; it's a maintenance release with no big new features. libam7xxx is a library to communicate with USB pico-projectors like, for instance, the Philips/Sagemcom PicoPix devices; you can read more about it in some of the previous stories:
One notable change in this release is that FFMpeg 3.1+ is now required to build one of the example programs.
Building for Windows has also been improved.
Here is an overview from the NEWS file of the changes accumulated since the previous release:
News for v0.1.7: ================ * Fix FFMpeg deprecation warnings, the code now depends on FFMpeg 3.1+ * Fix compilation on Windows * Update the Windows build instructions in HACKING.asciidoc * Add a HOWTO for new users in contrib/howto-picopix.asciidoc * Add a patch to contrib/ to allow compiling libam7xxx on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS * Make sure am7xxx_get_device_info() always returns sensible values * Fix warnings about _BSD_SOURCE deprecation * Misc code and build system cleanups
The Debian packages have been kindly uploaded to Unstable by Gregor Herrmann.