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Changes for v2.0.6 - v2.0.7

  • Fix track selection for PowerPC machines.
  • Fix audio decoding for WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4.
  • Fix audio encoding for MP3 and AAC.
  • Numerous translations updates and new Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.
  • Fix a memory leak when creating AVI files
  • Fix two XSS vulnerabilities in the Web UI
  • Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability in some playlist files
  • Fix a libVLC crash in MacOS X port



Changes for v2.0.5 - v2.0.6

  • Access:
  • Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
  • Audio Output:
  • Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
  • Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
  • Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
  • Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
  • Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
  • Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
  • Decoders:
  • Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
  • Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
  • Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
  • 3rd party codecs updates
  • Mac OS X:
  • Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
  • Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
  • Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
  • Fix spatializer audio filter panel
  • Fix crash within the video output code
  • Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
  • Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
  • Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller, lua extensions, ...)
  • Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
  • Qt:
  • Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
  • GNU/Linux:
  • Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
  • Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
  • Windows:
  • Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
  • Translations:
  • Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
  • New Gujarati, Aragonese translations



Changes for v2.0.4 - v2.0.5

  • Notable changes include improved reliability for MKV file playback, fixed MPEG2 audio and video encoding, pulseaudio synchronization, Mac OS interface, and other fixes. It also resolves potential security issues in HTML subtitle parser, freetype renderer, AIFF demuxer and SWF demuxer.



Changes for v2.0.3 - v2.0.4

  • is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
  • introduces an important number of fixes and improvements for all playback, notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud.
  • adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams, and MSS playback through DMO libraries.
  • fixes numerous issues, including audio device selection, Qt and Mac OS interface, security issues and Windows wallpaper mode...
  • With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
  • fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 300 commits on top of 2.0.3.



Changes for v2.0.2 - v2.0.3

  • VideoLAN and the VLC development are proud to present a minor update adding support for OS X Mountain Lion as well as improving VLC's overall stability on OS X. Additionally, this version includes updates for 18 translations and adds support for Uzbek and Marathi. For MS Windows, VLC 2.0.2 remains the latest release.



Changes for v2.0.1 - v2.0.2

  • 2.0.2 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
  • 2.0.2 introduces an important number of features for the MacOS platform, notably improving the interface, to be on-par with the classic VLC interface, better performance, removal of font cache and Retina display support.
  • 2.0.2 fixes playback on older platforms, like old drivers on Windows XP, PowerPC on OSX or GMA950 on Intel OSX.
  • With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
  • 2.0.2 fixes a couple of hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 500 commits on top of 2.0.1.



Changes for v2.0.0 - v2.0.1

  • Support for MxPEG files and streams
  • New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
  • Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
  • Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
  • Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
  • Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
  • Numerous fixes for MKV support.
  • Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
  • Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
  • Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.



Changes for v1.1.12 - v2.0.0

  • After 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 2.0.0 "Twoflower", a major new release.
  • With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
  • Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
  • It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
  • It features a completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.
  • Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
  • http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html



Changes for v1.1.10.1 - v1.1.11

  • VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.11, a security release with some other improvements.
  • This release was necessary due to two security issues in the real and avi demuxers. It also contains improvements in the fullscreen mode of the Win32 mozilla plugin, the MacOSX Media Key handling and Auhal audio output as well as bug fixes in GUI, decoders and demuxers..



Changes for v1.1.9 - v1.1.10

  • Two months after VLC 1.1.9, we present you a minor release of VLC.
  • Fixing important bugs and security issues, here is VLC 1.1.10.
  • Security update regarding an integer overflow in xspf demuxer
  • Rewrite of the pulseaudio audio output module
  • Update of libmodplug for security reasons in Windows and Mac versions
  • Major updates in most language translations



Changes for v1.1.8 - v1.1.9

  • # Windows and Mac OS X:
  • - Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
  • # Demuxers:
  • - mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
  • # Mac OS X Interface:
  • - Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
  • - Improve Apple Remote handling
  • - Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
  • - Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
  • - Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
  • - Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
  • # Mac OS X Port:
  • - Fix Growl local notification plugin
  • - VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
  • - Fixes for eyeTV
  • # Translations:
  • - Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
  • - New Luganda Translation



Changes for v1.1.7 - v1.1.8

  • Two months after VLC 1.1.8, and after more than 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.7, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.8.
  • Introducing small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues, here is VLC 1.1.8.
  • Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
  • Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
  • Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
  • Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
  • Major updates in most language translations
  • Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins
  • Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
  • Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
  • Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
  • Codecs updates
  • Many miscellaneous fixes



Changes for v1.1.6 - v1.1.7

  • VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.7, a small security update on 1.1.6.
  • Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration.



Changes for v1.1.5 - v1.1.6

  • Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues are making this release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualisation and platform integration.



Changes for v1.1.4.1 - v1.1.5

  • Two and a half months after VLC 1.1.4, and after almost 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.4, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.5.
  • Introducing small features and fixing important bug and a security issue, here is VLC 1.1.5.
  • 1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC's playlist, provided by Channels.com
  • New Game Music Emu (GME) support
  • Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006
  • Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek
  • Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1
  • live .webm streams support
  • GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2
  • Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules
  • Codecs updates



Changes for v1.1.2 - v1.1.3

  • A bit after the 1.1.2, we had to fix some important crashing bugs and you deserve a new release!
  • Taglib crash (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004)
  • Fixes for FTP relative paths and directories
  • Fixes for Podcast and DVD modules
  • ... and many other crashes and errors fixed
  • Extensions and scripts updates
  • Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
  • Updated translations



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