[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[James Almer]

On 12/22/2021 11:03 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 07:05:07PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, at 16:25, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> If you know of any major issues which need to be done before the release do them
>>> now. If you know of any issues which are release-blocking list them in a reply
>>> here please.
>>
>> Maybe the audio channel layout would be nice to settle before?
> 
> iam not sure we will achieve a december 2021 release if we want to
> include that
> 
> anyone has an opinion if we should wait with the release until this
> is in ?
> 
> thx

Is the December target to get into the feature freeze schedule from 
distros? If so, then IMO better make the release now. The channel layout 
API is unlikely to be committed before the end of the year.