2024.10.25.074828

A description of the various files is in the README

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Important changes

• Beginning with this release, yt-dlp's Python dependencies must be installed using the default group
  If you're installing yt-dlp with pip/pipx or requiring yt-dlp in your own Python project, you'll need to specify yt-dlp[default] if you want to also install yt-dlp's optional dependencies (which were previously included by default). Read more
• The minimum required Python version has been raised to 3.9
  Python 3.8 reached its end-of-life on 2024.10.07, and yt-dlp has now removed support for it. As an unfortunate side effect, the official yt-dlp.exe and yt-dlp_x86.exe binaries are no longer supported on Windows 7. Read more

Changelog

Core changes

• Expand paths in --plugin-dirs (fix 0f593dca9fa995d88eb763170a932da61c8f24dc) (#11334) by bashonly
• Merge branch 'yt-dlp-master' by pukkandan
• Merge branch 'yt-dlp:master' into master by pukkandan
• Remove Python 3.8 support (#11321) by bashonly
• resolve conflict in readme.md by pukkandan

Extractor changes

• facebook: Fix formats extraction (#11343) by kclauhk
• generic: Do not impersonate by default (fix edfd095b1917701c5046bd51f9542897c17d41a7) (#11336) by bashonly

Misc. changes

• build
  • Move optional dependencies to the default group (#11255) by bashonly
  • Use Ubuntu 20.04 and Python 3.9 for Linux ARM builds (#8638) by bashonly
• cleanup
  • Miscellaneous
    • ea9e35d by bashonly
    • c998238 by bashonly, KBelmin