What is the new "support" branch? (2017.04.13)

[mm0359]

What is the new "support" branch?

https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2/tree/support

http://www.avidemux.org/nightly/win32_support/
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http://www.avidemux.org/nightly/win64_support/
avidemux_2.6.19_r170413_win64.exe    Windows Executable    19.6 MB    Apr 13 2017 8:34 AM
avidemux_r170413_win64Qt5_1.zip    ZIP Archive    29.4 MB    Apr 13 2017 8:35 AM

[eumagga0x2a]

This is the release branch for 2.6.20.

[mm0359]

Ah.
Is it a one shot?
Or does it mean support=2.6.x (stable) and master=2.7.x (dev) from now on?

[mm0359]

Is v2.6.20/21 the end of v2.6.x? Or will back-ports from v2.7.x continue?

[eumagga0x2a]

Backports are not a big deal. Should any grave new issues surface up before regressions from switching to ffmpeg 3.3 and from updating the cross-build environment are sorted out, the support branch can be revived anytime.