This is a pre-release build
A description of the various files is in the README
Important changes
- Beginning with this release, yt-dlp's Python dependencies must be installed using the
defaultgroup
If you're installing yt-dlp with pip/pipx or requiring yt-dlp in your own Python project, you'll need to specifyyt-dlp[default]if you want to also install yt-dlp's optional dependencies (which were previously included by default). Read more - The minimum required Python version has been raised to 3.9
Python 3.8 reached its end-of-life on 2024.10.07, and yt-dlp has now removed support for it. As an unfortunate side effect, the officialyt-dlp.exeandyt-dlp_x86.exebinaries are no longer supported on Windows 7. Read more
Changelog
Core changes
- Allow thumbnails with
.jpeextension (#11408) by bashonly - Expand paths in
--plugin-dirs(#11334) by bashonly - Fix
--netrcempty string parsing for Python <=3.10 (#11414) by bashonly, Grub4K - Populate format sorting fields before dependent fields (#11353) by Grub4K
- Remove Python 3.8 support (#11321) by bashonly
- wip by bashonly
- utils
Extractor changes
- Resolve
languageto ISO639-2 for ISM formats (#11359) by bashonly - ccma: Support new 3cat.cat domain (#11222) by JoseAngelB
- cnn: Fix extractor (#10185) by kylegustavo, seproDev
- facebook: Fix formats extraction (#11343) by kclauhk
- generic: Do not impersonate by default (#11336) by bashonly
- niconicouser: Fix extractor (#11324) by Wesley107772
- soundcloud: Extract artists (#11377) by seproDev
- twitter: Remove cookies migration workaround (#11392) by bashonly
- vimeo: Fix API retries (#11351) by bashonly
- youtube: Adjust OAuth refresh token handling (#11414) by bashonly
Misc. changes
- build
- cleanup
- devscripts:
make_changelog: Parse full commit message for fixes (#11366) by bashonly, Grub4K