Especially for multimedia manipulation. Our project FreeSWITCH http://freeswitch.org/ needed most of the updates in jessie to be able to run properly. All the libraries like libavcodec, libavformat and vlc etc. it's harder than it looks to swap out libraries because you need harmony among all the software it supports. Sometimes changing one library can cause a lot of issues that are not always immediately visible. New releases, even if not exciting on the outside, often have a lot going on behind the scenes.
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Especially for multimedia manipulation. Our project FreeSWITCH http://freeswitch.org/ needed most of the updates in jessie to be able to run properly. All the libraries like libavcodec, libavformat and vlc etc. it's harder than it looks to swap out libraries because you need harmony among all the software it supports. Sometimes changing one library can cause a lot of issues that are not always immediately visible. New releases, even if not exciting on the outside, often have a lot going on behind the scenes.