[FFmpeg-devel] about ffmpeg 2.8.16

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 01:25:51AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 06:37:55PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > On 4/15/2020 6:10 PM, 曾经的梦 wrote:
> > > Because I added many custom features in ffmpeg 2.8 and upgrading ffmpeg to the latest version is a difficult task,
> > > but I really need the security patchs, so  questions are:
> > > 1. When to release 2.8.16  and it can be downloaded from ffmpeg.org?
> > 
> > I can't answer this one but...
> > 
> > > 2. When will maintenance on ffmpeg 2.8 be stopped?
> > 
> > ...looking at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams, I'd say that
> > realistically speaking, 2.8 will become completely unmaintained one year
> > from now, once Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ends.
> > But even today support is pretty limited, seeing how the last release
> > was nearly two years ago.
> 
> ill do a new release from 2.8 
> thanks for reminding me

will do the release in the next days, feel free to test release/2.8 before
for regressions

Thanks

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