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FFmpeg and Tesseract join OSS Scanner

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OSS Scanner picked up two long-lived C/C++ projects in the last day, FFmpeg as three parallel sanitizer builds and Tesseract with a maintainer-signed enrollment, extending continuous fuzzing coverage to a codec stack and an OCR engine that ship inside a great many other programs.

Add FFmpeg anthropics/oss-scanner

by michaelni

The enrollment builds FFmpeg master three ways under clang-19 with ASan+UBSan: the tree without assembly, the same with assembly in build-asm, and an --enable-ossfuzz build in build-fuzz from which libFuzzer targets for any decoder, encoder, demuxer, or bitstream filter link on demand. Reports route to the ffmpeg-security address published at ffmpeg.org/security.html, and the FATE samples plus ...

Merge pull request #1277 from michaelni/ffmpeg anthropics/oss-scanner

by srxzr-ant

The FFmpeg enrollment landed as a merge from michaelni's branch, so it is in the tree rather than pending review.

Enroll Tesseract anthropics/oss-scanner

by stweil

Tesseract's own maintainer filed the enrollment for projects/tesseract, checking off the core-maintainer, terms, and inclusion-criteria boxes; the PR notes it was prepared with OpenCode running qwen3.8-27b-thinking.

Enroll Signal-Android anthropics/oss-scanner

by jimio-signal

Signal-Android's enrollment is still in review and sets the scanner to use the project's own Gradle heap size, a detail that decides whether the Android build actually completes inside the sandbox.

Quick answers

What shipped in Anthropic on November 2, 2026?
OSS Scanner picked up two long-lived C/C++ projects in the last day, FFmpeg as three parallel sanitizer builds and Tesseract with a maintainer-signed enrollment, extending continuous fuzzing coverage to a codec stack and an OCR engine that ship inside a great many other programs. In total, 5 commits and 4 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Anthropic on November 2, 2026?
4 developers shipped this update, including Michael Niedermayer, stweil, jimio-signal, and srxzr-ant.
What were the notable Anthropic updates?
Add FFmpeg, Merge pull request #1277 from michaelni/ffmpeg, and Enroll Tesseract.