Editing FLAC (section)

== History ==
Development was started in 2000 by Josh Coalson. The [[bitstream]] format was frozen with the release of version 0.9 of the reference implementation on 31 March 2001. Version 1.0 was released on 20 July 2001.<ref name="news">{{cite web |url=https://xiph.org/flac/news.html |title=Features |access-date=2023-11-23 |publisher=[[Xiph.Org Foundation]]}}</ref>

On 29 January 2003, the [[Xiph.Org Foundation]] and the FLAC project announced the incorporation of FLAC under the Xiph.org banner. Xiph.org is home to other free compression formats such as [[Vorbis]], [[Theora]], [[Speex]] and [[Opus (codec)|Opus]].<ref name="news" /><ref name="xiph-press-flac">{{cite web |website=Xiph.org Foundation |url=https://www.xiph.org/press/2003/flac/ |title=FLAC Joins Xiph.org |date=29 January 2003 |access-date=31 August 2009}}</ref><ref name="xiph-flac">{{cite web |first=Emmett |last=Plant |website=Xiph.org Foundation |url=http://xiph.org/ogg/flac.html |title=FLAC Joins Xiph! |access-date=31 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529055542/http://xiph.org/ogg/flac.html |archive-date=29 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Version 1.3.0 was released on 26 May 2013, at which point development was moved to the Xiph.org git repository.<ref name="xiph-change">{{cite web |website=Xiph.org Foundation  |url=https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html |title=FLAC – changelog |access-date=15 October 2013}}</ref>

In 2019, FLAC was proposed as an IETF standard.<ref>{{cite IETF|first1=Martijn|last1=van Beurden|first2=Andrew|last2=Weaver|title=Free Lossless Audio Codec|draft=draft-ietf-cellar-flac|access-date=2023-05-14}}</ref> 

In December 2024, FLAC was formally specified in and published as {{IETF RFC|9639}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coalson |first=Josh |title=FLAC - FLAC is now formally specified in RFC 9639 |url=https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=xiph.org |language=en}}</ref>