PR #1 opened by michaelni
URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/web/pulls/1
Patch URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/web/pulls/1.patch

If you need them updated, do it yourself or check our consulting page
The amount of work for this has goon steeply up with the raise of AI 
vulnerability scanning and AI security reports
And ffmpeg-security ATM is basically 1 man and not enough resources to hire any 
employees nor volunteers



>From 63fdf8598609c088dc60bdad81a856572d43c29f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:17:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] web: End of life 2.8, 3.4, 4.2, 4.3

If you need them updated, do it yourself or check our consulting page
The amount of work for this has goon steeply up with the raise of AI 
vulnerability scanning and AI security reports
And ffmpeg-security ATM is basically 1 man and not enough resources to hire any 
employees nor volunteers

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
---
 src/download    | 153 ------------------------------------------------
 src/olddownload | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/download b/src/download
index 6928997..8e7a5b2 100644
--- a/src/download
+++ b/src/download
@@ -556,159 +556,6 @@ libpostproc    55.  9.100</pre>
     </div> <!-- col -->
   </div> <!-- row -->
 
-  <h3 id="release_4.3">FFmpeg 4.3.9 "4:3"</h3>
-
-  <p>
-    4.3.9 was released on 2025-03-12. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
-    from the 4.3 release branch, which was cut from master on 2020-06-08.
-  </p>
-  <p>It includes the following library versions:
-  </p>
-  <pre>
-libavutil      56. 51.100
-libavcodec     58. 91.100
-libavformat    58. 45.100
-libavdevice    58. 10.100
-libavfilter     7. 85.100
-libswscale      5.  7.100
-libswresample   3.  7.100
-libpostproc    55.  7.100</pre>
-  <div class="row">
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.bz2">Download 
bzip2 tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
-      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.3.9";>Changelog</a></small>
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/4.3:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-  </div> <!-- row -->
-
-  <h3 id="release_4.2">FFmpeg 4.2.11 "Ada"</h3>
-
-  <p>
-    4.2.11 was released on 2025-05-17. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
-    from the 4.2 release branch, which was cut from master on 2019-07-21.
-  </p>
-  <p>It includes the following library versions:
-  </p>
-  <pre>
-libavutil      56. 31.100
-libavcodec     58. 54.100
-libavformat    58. 29.100
-libavdevice    58.  8.100
-libavfilter     7. 57.100
-libswscale      5.  5.100
-libswresample   3.  5.100
-libpostproc    55.  5.100</pre>
-
-  <div class="row">
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
-      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.2.11";>Changelog</a></small>
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/4.2:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-  </div> <!-- row -->
-
-  <h3 id="release_3.4">FFmpeg 3.4.14 "Cantor"</h3>
-
-  <p>
-    3.4.14 was released on 2025-03-12. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
-    from the 3.4 release branch, which was cut from master on 2017-10-11.
-  </p>
-  <p>It includes the following library versions:
-  </p>
-  <pre>
-libavutil      55. 78.100
-libavcodec     57.107.100
-libavformat    57. 83.100
-libavdevice    57. 10.100
-libavfilter     6.107.100
-libavresample   3.  7.  0
-libswscale      4.  8.100
-libswresample   2.  9.100
-libpostproc    54.  7.100</pre>
-
-  <div class="row">
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
-      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n3.4.14";>Changelog</a></small>
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/3.4:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-  </div> <!-- row -->
-
-  <h3 id="release_2.8">FFmpeg 2.8.22 "Feynman"</h3>
-
-  <p>
-    2.8.22 was released on 2023-10-29. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
-    from the 2.8 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-09-05.
-    Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from
-    ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-08-28, libav 11 as of 2015-08-28.
-  </p>
-  <p>It includes the following library versions:
-  </p>
-  <pre>
-libavutil      54. 31.100
-libavcodec     56. 60.100
-libavformat    56. 40.101
-libavdevice    56.  4.100
-libavfilter     5. 40.101
-libavresample   2.  1.  0
-libswscale      3.  1.101
-libswresample   1.  2.101
-libpostproc    53.  3.100</pre>
-
-  <div class="row">
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3">
-      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
-      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
-      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n2.8.22";>Changelog</a></small>
-      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/2.8:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
-    </div> <!-- col -->
-  </div> <!-- row -->
-
-
-
   <h3 id="old_releases">Old Releases</h3>
   <p>
     Older versions are available at the <a href="olddownload.html">Old
diff --git a/src/olddownload b/src/olddownload
index 0f1575b..823828a 100644
--- a/src/olddownload
+++ b/src/olddownload
@@ -77,6 +77,78 @@ libpostproc    56.  3.100</pre>
       <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/5.0:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
     </div> <!-- col -->
   </div> <!-- row -->
+  <h3 id="release_4.3">FFmpeg 4.3.9 "4:3"</h3>
+
+  <p>
+    4.3.9 was released on 2025-03-12. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
+    from the 4.3 release branch, which was cut from master on 2020-06-08.
+  </p>
+  <p>It includes the following library versions:
+  </p>
+  <pre>
+libavutil      56. 51.100
+libavcodec     58. 91.100
+libavformat    58. 45.100
+libavdevice    58. 10.100
+libavfilter     7. 85.100
+libswscale      5.  7.100
+libswresample   3.  7.100
+libpostproc    55.  7.100</pre>
+  <div class="row">
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.bz2">Download 
bzip2 tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.3.9.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
+      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.3.9";>Changelog</a></small>
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/4.3:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+  </div> <!-- row -->
+
+  <h3 id="release_4.2">FFmpeg 4.2.11 "Ada"</h3>
+
+  <p>
+    4.2.11 was released on 2025-05-17. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
+    from the 4.2 release branch, which was cut from master on 2019-07-21.
+  </p>
+  <p>It includes the following library versions:
+  </p>
+  <pre>
+libavutil      56. 31.100
+libavcodec     58. 54.100
+libavformat    58. 29.100
+libavdevice    58.  8.100
+libavfilter     7. 57.100
+libswscale      5.  5.100
+libswresample   3.  5.100
+libpostproc    55.  5.100</pre>
+
+  <div class="row">
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-4.2.11.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
+      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.2.11";>Changelog</a></small>
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/4.2:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+  </div> <!-- row -->
 
   <h3 id="release_4.1">FFmpeg 4.1.11 "al-Khwarizmi"</h3>
 
@@ -152,6 +224,44 @@ libpostproc    55.  1.100</pre>
     </div> <!-- col -->
   </div> <!-- row -->
 
+  <h3 id="release_3.4">FFmpeg 3.4.14 "Cantor"</h3>
+
+  <p>
+    3.4.14 was released on 2025-03-12. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
+    from the 3.4 release branch, which was cut from master on 2017-10-11.
+  </p>
+  <p>It includes the following library versions:
+  </p>
+  <pre>
+libavutil      55. 78.100
+libavcodec     57.107.100
+libavformat    57. 83.100
+libavdevice    57. 10.100
+libavfilter     6.107.100
+libavresample   3.  7.  0
+libswscale      4.  8.100
+libswresample   2.  9.100
+libpostproc    54.  7.100</pre>
+
+  <div class="row">
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-3.4.14.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
+      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n3.4.14";>Changelog</a></small>
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/3.4:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+  </div> <!-- row -->
+
   <h3 id="release_3.3">FFmpeg 3.3.9 "Hilbert"</h3>
 
   <p>
@@ -304,6 +414,46 @@ libpostproc    54.  0.100</pre>
     </div> <!-- col -->
   </div> <!-- row -->
 
+  <h3 id="release_2.8">FFmpeg 2.8.22 "Feynman"</h3>
+
+  <p>
+    2.8.22 was released on 2023-10-29. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release
+    from the 2.8 release branch, which was cut from master on 2015-09-05.
+    Amongst lots of other changes, it includes all changes from
+    ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2015-08-28, libav 11 as of 2015-08-28.
+  </p>
+  <p>It includes the following library versions:
+  </p>
+  <pre>
+libavutil      54. 31.100
+libavcodec     56. 60.100
+libavformat    56. 40.101
+libavdevice    56.  4.100
+libavfilter     5. 40.101
+libavresample   2.  1.  0
+libswscale      3.  1.101
+libswresample   1.  2.101
+libpostproc    53.  3.100</pre>
+
+  <div class="row">
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.xz">Download 
xz tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.xz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.bz2.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3">
+      <a class="btn btn-success" href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.gz">Download 
gzip tarball</a>
+      <small><a href="releases/ffmpeg-2.8.22.tar.gz.asc">PGP 
signature</a></small>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+    <div class="col-md-3 text-right">
+      <small><a 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n2.8.22";>Changelog</a></small>
+      <a class="btn btn-success" 
href="https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/blob/refs/heads/release/2.8:/RELEASE_NOTES";>Release
 Notes</a>
+    </div> <!-- col -->
+  </div> <!-- row -->
+
   <h3 id="release_2.7">FFmpeg 2.7.7 "Nash"</h3>
 
   <p>
-- 
2.52.0


>From a73450c5f3efcec07bc7fde0cecf57983ac1b699 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:50:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] web/olddownload: point to the consulting page

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <[email protected]>
---
 src/olddownload | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/olddownload b/src/olddownload
index 823828a..732347c 100644
--- a/src/olddownload
+++ b/src/olddownload
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 <div class="with-icon">
-  <span class="pull-left"><i class="fa fa-3x fa-warning"></i></span>
-  These releases are not actively maintained and thus we
-  discourage their use.<br>
-  <a href="contact.html">Contact us</a> if you are interested in
-  maintaining an old release.
+  <span class="pull-left">
+    <i class="fa fa-3x fa-warning" aria-hidden="true"></i>
+  </span>
+  These releases are not actively maintained, and their use is discouraged.<br>
+  If you are interested in volunteering to maintain an old release branch, 
please
+  <a href="contact.html">contact us</a>.<br>
+  If you need fixes or paid maintenance for an old release branch for 
commercial
+  or product use, please consider hiring a developer listed on the
+  <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/consulting.html";>consulting page</a>.
 </div>
 
   <h3 id="release_6.0">FFmpeg 6.0.1 "Von Neumann"</h3>
-- 
2.52.0

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