# ATTENTION:  Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 is Now Live!

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/attention-wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-0-is-now-live/54687>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/attention-wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-0-is-now-live/54687 "2020-02-19T18:48:54Z")\
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Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 contains several fixes and enhancements that help to improve the functionality of the media server software.

**New in 4.8.0:**

- All the enhancements from beta build 4.7.8.01, including fixes for DASH memory leaks, security enhancements, and enhancements to LL-HLS

- Full support for h.265 / HEVC including NVIDIA decoding and editing encoding profiles in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager

- Transcoding improvements including updates to the NVIDIA transcoder decoding pipeline to fix stream corruption issues and updating the libvpx library to version 1.8.1 to improve VP8 and VP9 transcoding

- Added support for SSL Mediacaster connections

- Enhancements to WebRTC session timeouts  
**New Features since our last major version release 4.7.0**

- Use WebRTC for end-to-end real-time streaming or simple browser-based encoding for source acquisition.

- Ingest SRT sources and use a generic stream target for point-to-point stream publishing.

- Support for CMAF to enable efficient streaming with HLS and DASH protocols.

**Download 4.8.0**

**To get started, download the updater from the “My Downloads” tab after you log into your Wowza Account or download the installer from the** [Downloads page](https://www.wowza.com/pricing/installer) **.**

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Full 4.8.0 release notes can be found here:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-0-release-notes](https://www.wowza.com/docs/wowza-streaming-engine-4-8-0-release-notes)