[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 5.0

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 02:29:56PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 2:23 PM Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > According to our
> > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams
> >
> > Noone and nothing is using 5.0
> > should i make another release of 5.0 ?
> > should i move 5.0 to olddownloads ?
> >
> > does anyone use it ? plan to use it or know of someone using it ?
> >
> 
> Fedora 36 still uses FFmpeg 5.0 as I discovered there was an ABI break
> that made upgrading to FFmpeg 5.1 not possible for F36. FFmpeg 5.1 is
> used for Fedora 37, though.
> 
> This had apparently been also discovered by openSUSE some time ago:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/multimedia:libs/ffmpeg-5/work-around-abi-break.patch?expand=1
> 

> Fedora 36 will still be supported until June, so I would appreciate it
> if another release of 5.0 would be made.

In absence of objections, i will make another 5.0 release but i will not make
one after that if there is no solid evidence of a need for one.
dont want to have users stuck on a buggy version while this is resolved

thx

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