[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 4.4

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Sat Mar 20 02:17:53 EET 2021


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 05:07:00PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:23:50PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > On 3/13/2021 8:29 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:06:49AM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > > > On 3/10/2021 7:37 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 05:55:55PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > > > > > On 3/9/2021 5:47 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi all
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I will branch release/4.4 soon
> > > > > > > then like always leave some time for testing, bugfixes, ... and then
> > > > > > > make FFmeg 4.4 from release/4.4, its too long since 4.3
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I have three API changes/additions/deprecations on the ml, some for months
> > > > > > now, that i want in 4.4 in order for them to be present in the last release
> > > > > > using the current major library versions. This is so users have a good
> > > > > > amount of time to notice them and adapt their code.
> > > > > > It's not be as nice if they start noticing any new deprecations introduced
> > > > > > today in a release made several months from now.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > These are "deprecate av_init_packet() and sizeof(AVPacket) as part of the
> > > > > > ABI",
> > > 
> > > It seems this is still missing
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > > "avutil/buffer: change public function and struct size parameter types
> > > > > > to size_t", and
> > > 
> > > I see several 4 "size parameter type to size_t" commits in git now so these
> > > seem applied
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > > "avcodec: add a get_encoder_buffer() callback to
> > > > > > AVCodecContext".
> > > 
> > > This was applied as 6e7e3a3820f0888ff92d6be44f40ff733bcce874
> > > 
> > > So it seems only one blocker is left for making the release branch
> > > 
> > > If thats incorrect someone please correct me!
> > > 
> > > thx
> > 
> > All three sets were pushed, so nothing else from me.
> 
> ok so i will make the branch soon.
> bug fixes can be backported anyway ...

release/4.4 branched
please backport all security relevant bugfixes which you push to master!
and feel free to backport any other bugfixes

I plan to make the 4.4 release in about a week but that time might slip 
due to there being new malloc failure related bugs reported by cispa daily

Thanks

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