FFmpeg end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for FFmpeg, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- 4.4, security support to no end date announced
- Next end date
- none announced in the record
- Editions and channels
- LTS marks a long-term support version, with longer dates than the standard versions beside it.
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for FFmpeg, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- FFmpeg
- Kind
- framework or library
- Versions in the record
- 38
- Versions past vendor support
- 31
- Essential Eight class
- an application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- Source
- endoflife.date/ffmpeg, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
FFmpeg versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | 4 Aug 2026 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 8.1 | 16 Mar 2026 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 8.0 | 22 Aug 2025 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 7.1 LTS | 30 Sep 2024 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 7.0 | 5 Apr 2024 | not given separately | 22 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 6.1 | 11 Nov 2023 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 6.0 | 27 Feb 2023 | not given separately | 11 Jul 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.1 LTS | 22 Jul 2022 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 5.0 | 14 Jan 2022 | not given separately | 2 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.4 | 8 Apr 2021 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 4.3 | 15 Jun 2020 | not given separately | 21 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.2 | 5 Aug 2019 | not given separately | 21 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.1 | 6 Nov 2018 | not given separately | 21 Jul 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.0 | 20 Apr 2018 | not given separately | 3 Jul 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.4 | 15 Oct 2017 | not given separately | 21 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.3 | 13 Apr 2017 | not given separately | 18 Nov 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.2 | 27 Oct 2016 | not given separately | 28 Oct 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.1 | 27 Jun 2016 | not given separately | 25 Sep 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.0 | 15 Feb 2016 | not given separately | 28 Oct 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.8 | 9 Sep 2015 | not given separately | 21 Jun 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.7 | 10 Jun 2015 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.6 | 7 Mar 2015 | not given separately | 3 May 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.5 | 4 Dec 2014 | not given separately | 2 Feb 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.4 | 14 Sep 2014 | not given separately | 31 Dec 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.3 | 16 Jul 2014 | not given separately | 6 Jan 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.2 | 23 Mar 2014 | not given separately | 18 Jun 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.1 | 28 Oct 2013 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.0 | 10 Jul 2013 | not given separately | 10 Jun 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.2 | 15 Mar 2013 | not given separately | 12 Feb 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.1 | 6 Jan 2013 | not given separately | 13 Mar 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.0 | 28 Sep 2012 | not given separately | 20 Jul 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.11 | 25 May 2012 | not given separately | 10 Mar 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.10 | 26 Jan 2012 | not given separately | 12 Mar 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.9 | 11 Dec 2011 | not given separately | 21 Mar 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.8 | 21 Jun 2011 | not given separately | 6 Oct 2013 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.7 | 21 Jun 2011 | not given separately | 12 Mar 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.6 | 4 May 2010 | not given separately | 23 Sep 2013 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.5 | 2 Mar 2009 | not given separately | 29 Nov 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.