I haven't checked and Brad will know more but from past major updates to 
FFmpeg I'd expect dependencies are a big part of it. You may have seen some 
commits over the months about adding/backporting support to various ports 
for newer versions. As there are a lot of ports depending on it, and often 
they're fairly complex, this can take a while to work through.

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On 30 July 2024 06:55:10 Mihai Popescu <mihscu@gmail.com> wrote:

> I see ffmpeg is on version 7 as a release. If I may ask, why ports are
> not jumping higher than 4.4.5 with ffmpeg version?
> Is it because it won't compile on OpenBSD?
> Is it because some dependencies will not support a higher version of ffmpeg 
> yet?
>
> Thanks.