From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:59:25 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: DEPRECATE: remove RTMP support in April 2026
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DEPRECATE: remove RTMP support in April 2026

URL: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2025-11/0008.html
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 We remove the OpenSSL-QUIC backend in March 2026.
 
+## RTMP
+
+RTMP in curl is powered by the 3rd party library librtmp.
+
+ - RTMP is barely used by curl users (2.2% in the 2025 survey)
+ - librtmp has no test cases, makes no proper releases and has not had a single
+   commit within the last year
+ - librtmp parses the URL itself and requires non-compliant URLs for this
+ - we have no RTMP tests
+
+Support for RTMP in libcurl gets removed in April 2026.
+
 ## Past removals
 
  - axTLS (removed in 7.63.0)