Oh no; since it is a major release we had better wait awhile to update to maybe 5.1 instead.  I hope it works for us and I am sure Andrew will get all the patches we have figured out.
I wonder why "RELEASE_NOTES: Based on the version from 4.3" instead of 4.4 -- maybe there weren't any for 4.4.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 1:11 PM Andrea paz via Cin <cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:
Ffmpeg 5 is out:
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/ce4d459db186a7d8ac842685cd6256c9ac1b7f25/Changelog
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