yt-dlp 2026.10.26

     

A description of the various files is in the README

The zipimport Unix executable and release tarball contain code licensed under ISC and MIT. The PyInstaller-bundled executables are subject to these and other licenses, all of which are compiled in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt

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Important changes

• **The minimum *required* Python version has been raised to 3.11**
• Python 3.10 has reached its end-of-life as of October 2026, and yt-dlp has now removed support for it. Read more
• The official Windows release binaries now require Windows 10 or later. Read more
• Security: The recent brotli and certifi vulnerabilities have now been fully addressed in the executables
• The brotli package bundled with the executables has been upgraded to version 1.2.1, and the curl-cffi package has been upgraded to version 0.17.0. These upgrades address the recent brotli security vulnerability
• curl-cffi 0.17.0 also fully addresses the recent certifi security vulnerability that was already partially addressed by upgrading the certifi package bundled with the executables

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Core changes

• Remove Python 3.10 support (#17160) by bashonly, doe1080, Grub4K

Extractor changes

• odnoklassniki: Fix boosty direct link extraction (#17749) by bashonly

Networking changes

• Request Handler: curl_cffi: Support curl_cffi 0.17.x (#17929) by bashonly (With fixes in 15262b0)

Misc. changes

• build
• Always use latest Python version on Windows (#17901) by bashonly
• Update 13 dependencies (#17924) by bashonly, dlp-bot
• Update 3 dependencies (#17933) by dlp-bot
• ci
• Test with PyPy 3.12 (#17926) by gamer191
• Update 7 actions in 9 workflows (#17925) by bashonly, dlp-bot
• cleanup: Miscellaneous: 7e3644c by bashonly, doe1080
• docs: Add changelog entries for dropping Py3.10 & Win8 support (#17889) by bashonly

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