FFmpeg Lifecycle policy

FFmpeg is tracked by BlackTree as a software framework or development platform. Its lifecycle page separates release identity, maintenance and security boundaries using the publisher's registered source.

Evidence status

This record passed BlackTree's automatic primary-source checks with a confidence score of 82. It is returned for operational research without requiring routine manual approval. Confirm edition and deployment applicability before acting.

Product overview

Main capabilities

Application development components
Versioned runtime or build interfaces
Security and compatibility maintenance

Typical use

Used by software teams to build, run or maintain applications.

Deployment

Included in source projects, application dependencies, build systems or managed runtimes.

This category-level context is generated from the registered product identity. Confirm exact product capabilities on the publisher's page .

Collected lifecycle data

Product	FFmpeg
Release	Lifecycle policy
Start or release	Not extracted
Lifecycle boundary	Continuous or not dated in the source
Date precision	Unknown

Known exploited vulnerabilities

Catalogue updated 11 Sep 2026

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No CISA known-exploited entries currently match this mapped product family.

This does not mean the product has no vulnerabilities.

Package vulnerability advisories

Checked 9 Sep 2026

OSV advisories are matched through the registered package URL. A package-family match does not prove that the installed release is affected. Check the affected and fixed versions before remediation.

No package advisories have been linked for this product identity.

This is not evidence that the product has no vulnerabilities.

Source evidence

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FFmpeg official lifecycle source

The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintainance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday. | April 5th, 2024, FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra" | A new major release, FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra" , is now available for download. The most noteworthy changes for most users are a native VVC decoder (currently experimental, until more fuzzing is done), IAMF support , or a multi-threaded ffmpeg CLI tool . | This release is not backwards compatible, removing APIs deprecated before 6.0. The biggest change for most library callers will be the removal of the old bitmask-based channel layout API, replaced by the AVChannelLayout API allowing such features as custom channel ordering, or Ambisonics. Certain deprecated ffmpeg CLI options were also removed, and a C11-compliant compiler is now required to build the code. | As usual, there is also a number of new supported formats and codecs, new filters, APIs, and countless smaller features and bugfixes. Compared to 6.1, the git repository contains almost ∼2000 new commits by ∼100 authors, touching >100000 lines in ∼2000 files — thanks to everyone who contributed. See the Changelog , APIchanges , and the git log for more comprehensive lists of changes. | January 3rd, 2024, native VVC decoder | The libavcodec library now contains a native VVC (Versatile Video Coding) decoder, supporting a large subset of the codec's features. Further optimizations and support for more features are coming soon. The code was written by Nuo Mi, Xu Mu, Frank Plowman, Shaun Loo, and Wu Jianhua.

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First collected 12 Sep 2026 · Last collected 12 Sep 2026 · Review state accepted

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