It already branched changelog says: version 7.0: - DXV DXT1 encoder - LEAD MCMP decoder - EVC decoding using external library libxevd - EVC encoding using external library libxeve - QOA decoder and demuxer - aap filter - demuxing, decoding, filtering, encoding, and muxing in the ffmpeg CLI now all run in parallel - enable gdigrab device to grab a window using the hwnd=HANDLER syntax - IAMF raw demuxer and muxer - D3D12VA hardware accelerated H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and VC1 decoding - tiltandshift filter - qrencode filter and qrencodesrc source - quirc filter - lavu/eval: introduce randomi() function in expressions - VVC decoder - fsync filter - Raw Captions with Time (RCWT) closed caption muxer - ffmpeg CLI -bsf option may now be used for input as well as output - ffmpeg CLI options may now be used as -/opt <path>, which is equivalent to -opt <contents of file <path>> - showinfo bitstream filter - *a C11-compliant compiler is now required; note that this requirement* * will be bumped to C17 in the near future, so consider updating your* * build environment if it lacks C17 support* - Change the default bitrate control method from VBR to CQP for QSV encoders. - removed deprecated ffmpeg CLI options -psnr and -map_channel - DVD-Video demuxer, powered by libdvdnav and libdvdread - ffprobe -show_stream_groups option - ffprobe (with -export_side_data film_grain) now prints film grain metadata - AEA muxer - ffmpeg CLI loopback decoders - Support PacketTypeMetadata of PacketType in enhanced flv format - ffplay with hwaccel decoding support (depends on vulkan renderer via libplacebo) - dnn filter libtorch backend - Android content URIs protocol ==== I also smell more breakage :) not sure if I want/will able to catch up with them, may be we should stick to some branch instead of chasing latest.