[FFmpeg-devel] Re: FFmpeg 8.1 and 9.0

[James Almer via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

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On 11/26/2025 10:57 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi James
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 08:01:11PM -0300, James Almer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>> On 11/26/2025 7:44 PM, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I plan to branch and make 8.1 in February
>>> and 9.0 in May
>>
>> Is 8.1 meant to be LTS?
> 
> yes, iam kind of trying to maintain the last of each major version
> but sometimes distros ship others and i maintain these then too
> 
> 
>> I forgot how the plan was in regards to that.
> 
> same here, i cant remember either.
> I do need an assistent who enjoys keeping track of these things and reminding me
> 
> 
>> I
>> recall 5.1 and 7.1 are considered LTS (Probably because of Debian).
>> Ubuntu will probably feature freeze 26.04, their LTS, around February. It
>> would be best if we align with them (They will most likely use either 8.0 or
>> 8.1 if done in time, and I'd prefer them using the latter).
> 
> Do you know till when we need to make 8.1 then so its in ubuntu LTS ?

I don't know when feature freeze is for Ubuntu, but i assume it will be 
January or February. We would need to make 8.1 before that happens to 
give their maintainer time to actually pull the tarball and build an 
initial package for it.

Someone more familiar with Canonical should chime in.


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