diff --git a/manifest.example.json b/manifest.example.json
index ae371a2..a760de0 100644
--- a/manifest.example.json
+++ b/manifest.example.json
@@ -54,21 +54,21 @@
         {
           "platform": { "os": "linux", "arch": "x86_64", "libc": "glibc" },
           "asset": {
-            "filename": "linux_x64_glibc217.zip",
+            "filename": "linux_x64.zip",
             "sha256": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
             "size_bytes": 0,
             "media_type": "application/zip",
-            "urls": ["https://<cdn>/ffmpeg/8.0.0/linux_x64_glibc217.zip"]
+            "urls": ["https://<cdn>/ffmpeg/8.0.0/linux_x64.zip"]
           }
         },
         {
           "platform": { "os": "linux", "arch": "arm64", "libc": "glibc" },
           "asset": {
-            "filename": "linux_arm64_glibc217.zip",
+            "filename": "linux_arm64.zip",
             "sha256": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
             "size_bytes": 0,
             "media_type": "application/zip",
-            "urls": ["https://<cdn>/ffmpeg/8.0.0/linux_arm64_glibc217.zip"]
+            "urls": ["https://<cdn>/ffmpeg/8.0.0/linux_arm64.zip"]
           }
         },
         {
diff --git a/static_ffmpeg/manifest.py b/static_ffmpeg/manifest.py
index 547ec8a..948e967 100644
--- a/static_ffmpeg/manifest.py
+++ b/static_ffmpeg/manifest.py
@@ -34,10 +34,13 @@
 
 import requests  # type: ignore
 
-# Empty by default: current/legacy behaviour is preserved byte-for-byte until
-# ffmpeg-bins2 + CDN are live. Override via the environment for early adopters
-# and tests, or set this constant once the catalog is published.
-DEFAULT_MANIFEST_URL = ""
+# Published ffmpeg-bins2 catalog. Resolution is still best-effort: platforms not
+# listed here (currently Windows and musl -- pending forge build fixes) and any
+# fetch/parse failure fall back to the legacy hard-coded URLs, so existing and
+# unlisted-platform installs are never broken. Override via the environment.
+DEFAULT_MANIFEST_URL = (
+    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zackees/ffmpeg-bins2/main/manifest.json"
+)
 
 # The channel a fresh install pulls from. Existing installs pin their resolved
 # version in installed.crumb and are never silently upgraded.
diff --git a/tests/test_manifest.py b/tests/test_manifest.py
index 32f2378..24debf9 100644
--- a/tests/test_manifest.py
+++ b/tests/test_manifest.py
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ def test_disabled_manifest_returns_none(self) -> None:
         # An empty manifest URL means resolution is disabled: it must be a
         # no-op that returns None so the caller falls back to the legacy URL.
         self.assertIsNone(manifest.resolve_asset(url=""))
-        self.assertEqual(manifest.DEFAULT_MANIFEST_URL, "")
+
+    def test_default_manifest_url_points_at_ffmpeg_bins2(self) -> None:
+        # The published catalog is the ffmpeg-bins2 manifest.
+        self.assertIn("ffmpeg-bins2", manifest.DEFAULT_MANIFEST_URL)
+        self.assertTrue(manifest.DEFAULT_MANIFEST_URL.endswith("manifest.json"))
 
     def test_example_manifest_resolves_all_eight_targets(self) -> None:
         # The shipped example manifest documents the client contract; every one