[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg 3.2

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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 04:24:40 +0200
Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 06:01:54PM -0400, Helmut K. C. Tessarek wrote:
> > On 2016-09-27 09:30, Michael Niedermayer wrote:  
> > > Its long since FFmpeg 3.1, so its time to make 3.2
> > > ill branch release/3.2 off master and make 3.2 in maybe about a week or
> > > 2 unless something delays it  
> > 
> > What happened to 3.2?  
> 
> the AVFrame.pts field has been changed in master redefining ABI/API
> without soname bump.
> 
> this complicates the 3.2 release.
> ATM we have 3.0 and 3.1 releases with the same sonames as git master
> but they are not fully compatible due to the AVFrame.pts change
> (on top of that i was a bit more busy with random stuff than i
>  expected)
> 
> the obvious solution is to bump major version of all libs. (this is
> not wanted i belive though)
> 
> the alternative is to remove the (useless) use of AVFrame.pts from
> 3.0 and 3.1 and make new releases
> then document in release notes that the 3.2 release cannot co-exist
> with 3.0 or 3.1 prior to the last release and assume no other
> application use AVFrame.pts
> 
> Ill look at making the 3.0 and 3.1 release without AVFrame.pts use in
> ffmpeg ASAP. These wont do any harm either way
> 
> Maybe someone can write the release notes ?
> 
> [...]
> 

The change was backwards-compatible, as nobody should have used the pts
field for decoding before. The fact that ffmpeg.c couldn't use its own
API correctly is not of matter.