[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 5.0

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 29.10.2022 20:29, 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.

Adding new functions does not break ABI, we've been over this in the past.
There is no guarantees made, and cannot be made, about running something 
against an older set of libraries than at compile time.