Video October 21, 2024 2 min read OBS Project Blog EN

Our Plan to Stop Confusing Everyone with OBS Studio Versioning

OBS Studio is simplifying its versioning system to reduce confusion. This change aims to bring clarity to its release process after a decade of growth.

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With OBS Studio 31 on the horizon, it’s a good time to reflect on how our release process works and how we’ve been handling versioning. Over the years, we've experienced a lot of growth, and it’s been a journey to find the right balance between new features, stability, and clarity in how we label our releases. A Decade of Growth OBS has been around for over ten years now, and in that time, it has grown significantly in terms of functionality, code complexity, and community size. With this growth came challenges, both in development and organization. While it’s a great problem to have, figuring out how to manage these growing pains hasn’t always been easy. One of the areas that needed attention was our release process and versioning methods. Up until recently, we lacked a clear, consistent approach to how we numbered our releases. But with version 30, we’ve started to follow proper Semant

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