[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Release 6.1

[Lynne]

Oct 28, 2023, 18:49 by michael at niedermayer.cc:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:04:41PM +0200, Lynne wrote:
>
>> It's been a while since we've had a release, and we've had
>> a lot of new features in.
>> We did say we would make releases more often, and I think
>> it's about time we have a new release.
>>
>> Anything anyone wants to have merged or should we branch
>> off 6.1 in a few days?
>>
>
> Whats the status of this ?
> I can branch 6.1 anytime
>
> It was just that jb told me
> "6.1 opportunity is gone.
>  We're too late on the schedule, and noone had time to work on it, so it is wiser to target 7.0 in January"
>
> but now i see on IRC
> <Lynne> make a damn release already
> <durandal_1707> j-b: drop MiNi from release maintership and nominate Lynne
> <Lynne> I pledge to bring back /slap IRC messages to those who fail to push the patches they want for release!
> <j-b> durandal_1707: good point, we should look at doing another 5.1.x release and a 6.0.x release.
>
> noone mentioned 5.1.x and 6.0.x to me before
>
> anyway, ill try to make releases from all maintained branches,
>
> and will branch 6.1 as soon as Lynne or others say everything is ready.
>
> thx
>

It's never too late to make a release. If we do a release now, nothing's stopping
us from doing a 7.0 and getting back on track with releases every two months or so,
like the plan was.

7.0 is likely to be a pretty big release, with YUVJ removal, (xHE) AAC+fixes, D3D12 hwdec,
Vulkan encode and Vulkan AV1, and VVC, and IAMF, and MLP work, so it's a good idea to
have a release before all this lands.

I think the tree is in a pretty good state ATM, you should go ahead and branch if you're
comfortable with it as well.
Let's aim for a release by Sunday next week. That should give everyone enough time to
backport fixes they want in.