VideoLAN (VLC) -> Version History

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Index:

• Version 1.1.11 (Jul 16, 2011)
• Version 1.1.10 (Jun 6, 2011)
• Version 1.1.9 (Apr 13, 2011)
• Version 1.1.8 (Mar 24, 2011)
• Version 1.1.7 (Feb 2, 2011)
• Version 1.1.6 (Jan 24, 2011)
• Version 1.1.5 (Nov 14, 2010)
• Version 1.1.4 (Aug 27, 2010)
• Version 1.1.3 (Aug 19, 2010)
• Version 1.1.2 (Jul 30, 2010)
• Version 1.1.1 (Jul 22, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 (Jun 22, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 RC4 (Jun 16, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 RC3 (Jun 11, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 RC1 (May 26, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 Pre4 (May 10, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 Pre3 (May 2, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 Pre2 (Apr 22, 2010)
• Version 1.1.0 Pre1 (Apr 14, 2010)
• Version 1.0.5 (Jan 31, 2010)
• Version 1.0.3 (Oct 31, 2009)
• Version 1.0.3 RC (Oct 23, 2009)
• Version 1.0.2 (Sep 23, 2009)
• Version 1.0.1 (Jul 28, 2009)
• Version 1.0.0 (Jul 7, 2009)
• Version 1.0.0 RC4 (Jun 18, 2009)
• Version 1.0.0 RC3 (Jun 8, 2009)
• Version 1.0.0 RC2 (May 28, 2009)
• Version 1.0.0 RC1 (May 13, 2009)
• Version 0.9.9 (Apr 2, 2009)
• Version 0.9.8a (Dec 9, 2008)
• Version 0.9.8 (Dec 5, 2008)
• Version 0.9.7 (Dec 1, 2008)
• Version 0.9.6 (Nov 9, 2008)
• Version 0.9.5 (Oct 24, 2008)
• Version 0.9.4 (Oct 8, 2008)
• Version 0.9.3 (Sep 28, 2008)
• Version 0.9.2 (Sep 15, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6i (Jul 12, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6h (Jun 5, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6g (Jun 2, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6f (Apr 3, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6e (Feb 28, 2008)
• Version 0.8.6d (Nov 29, 2007)
• Version 0.8.6c (Jun 17, 2007)
• Version 0.8.6b (Apr 19, 2007)
• Version 0.8.6b test1 (Apr 14, 2007)
• Version 0.8.6a (Jan 5, 2007)
• Version 0.8.6 (Dec 11, 2006)
• Version 0.8.6 RC1 (Dec 2, 2006)
• Version 0.8.6 test2a (Nov 22, 2006)
• Version 0.8.6 test2 (Nov 17, 2006)
• Version 0.8.6 test1 (Oct 26, 2006)
• Version 0.8.5 (May 7, 2006)
• Version 0.8.5 test4 (May 2, 2006)
• Version 0.8.5 test3 (Apr 21, 2006)
• Version 0.8.5 test2 (Apr 3, 2006)
• Version 0.8.5 test1 (Mar 13, 2006)
• Version 0.8.4 (Nov 27, 2005)

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Version 1.1.11

• Release Date: Jul 16, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.11-win32.exe
• Security:
  • Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
• Mac OS X:
  • Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
  • Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
  • Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
  • Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
  • Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
• Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
  • Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
  • Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
• Demuxers/Meta Readers:
  • Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
• Muxers/Output:
  • Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
• Extensions:
  • Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
• Qt Interface:
  • Fix quitting on Linux
  • Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
  • Miscellaneous
• Win32 port:
  • Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
• Translations:
  • Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian

Version 1.1.10

• Release Date: Jun 6, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.10-win32.exe
• Windows and Mac OS X:
  • Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
• Mac OS X Interface:
  • Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
  • Fix for various crashes and small issues
• Demuxer:
  • Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
• Audio output:
  • PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
• Win32 port:
  • Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
• Miscellaneous fixes in:
  • Windows 7 taskbar buttons
  • Qt interface
  • asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
  • RTP output and XML export
  • Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
  • v4l2 access
• Translations:
  • Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
  • Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations

Version 1.1.9

• Release Date: Apr 13, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe
• 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

Version 1.1.8

• Release Date: Mar 24, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.8-win32.exe
• Mac OS X Interface:
  • New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
• Interfaces:
  • Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
  • Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
  • Qt and Mac OS X fixes
  • numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
• Encoder:
  • new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
• Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
  • Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
  • vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
  • mp4 demuxer improvements
  • ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
  • taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
  • vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
  • fix a crash in malformed ape files
• Miscellaneous fixes in:
  • Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
  • Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
  • Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons See CORE-2011-0208
  • Configure and build system improvements
  • DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
• Translations:
  • Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
  • New icelandic translation

Version 1.1.7

• Release Date: Feb 2, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.7-win32.exe
• Linux port:
  • Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs #234484 and #260719.
• Mac OS X port:
  • Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
  • Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed and stability reasons
• Demuxers:
  • Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. VideoLAN-SA-1102
• Translations:
  • Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations

Version 1.1.6

• Release Date: Jan 24, 2011
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.6-win32.exe
• Audio output:
  • Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
• Access:
  • Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
• Decoders:
  • Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
  • Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
  • Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
• Demuxers:
  • Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
  • Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
  • Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
• Subtitles and renderer:
  • Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
  • Mark more freetype options as safe
  • Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
  • Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi
• Visualization:
  • Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
  • Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
  • Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
  • Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
• Interfaces:
  • Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
  • Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
  • KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository
• Miscellaneous fixes:
  • KDE device solid actions
  • XDG screensaver
  • Transcode integer overflow
  • HTTP Icy metadata reading
  • Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish

Version 1.1.5

• Release Date: Nov 14, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.5-win32.exe
• Security:
  • Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,VideoLAN-SA-1006
• Access:
  • Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
• Services Discovery:
  • Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
• Demuxers:
  • Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
  • DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
  • Playback of live http .Webm streams
  • Taglib thread-safety fix
• Decoders:
  • Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from "Puget Systems"
• Skins:
  • Add an icon to VLC on Linux
• Video Output:
  • fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
• Interfaces:
  • fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
  • fixes on luatelnet and luarc
• Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and TS-mux, Qt)
• libLVC:
  • add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
  • Miscellaneous fixes
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, French and Ukrainian
  • Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
  • New Asturian translation

Version 1.1.4

• Release Date: Aug 27, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.4-win32.exe
• Win32:
  • Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, See VideoLAN-SA-1005
  • Fix folders opening from the interface
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician

Version 1.1.3

• Release Date: Aug 19, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.3-win32.exe
• Access and demuxers:
  • fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
  • fix for podcasts parsing
  • DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
• Taglib:
  • fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab, CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
• Playlist:
  • fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
  • fix m3u playlists exports
• Skins2:
  • fix video autoresize behaviour
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
• Windows and Mac:
  • Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
• Mac:
  • architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
• BSD:
  • Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc

Version 1.1.2

• Release Date: Jul 30, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.2-win32.exe
• Demuxers:
  • Avformat fps displaying fix
  • TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
• Audio filters:
  • fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback of mono streams, especially on Windows
• Windows:
  • fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
  • fix console output encoding
• Interface and extensions:
  • Youtube and other scripts updates
  • Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface

Version 1.1.1

• Release Date: Jul 22, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.1-win32.exe
• libVLC:
  • New capabilities for libVLC: * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereaslibvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it. * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for someprotocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent andthe former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters. * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbingvideo frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace theugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example. * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delaybetween audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
  • Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were called early
• Decoders/Demuxers:
  • Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
  • Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
  • Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
  • Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
• Stream output:
  • Fix h264 streaming in ts
• Interfaces:
  • Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
  • Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
  • Http: fix fullscreen toggle
• Linux:
  • Fix pulse closing
  • VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
• MacOS:
  • Multiple interface and crash fixes
  • Deinterlace selection is repaired
  • Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
• Windows:
  • Activation of DEP on XP SP3
  • Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
  • Fix crash when My Document isn't available
  • Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician

Version 1.1.0

• Release Date: Jun 22, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-win32.exe
• Please refer to http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 RC4

• Release Date: Jun 16, 2010
• Please refer to http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 RC3

• Release Date: Jun 11, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-rc3-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 RC1

• Release Date: May 26, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-rc-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 Pre4

• Release Date: May 10, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-pre4-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 Pre3

• Release Date: May 2, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-pre3-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 Pre2

• Release Date: Apr 22, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-pre2-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.1.0 Pre1

• Release Date: Apr 14, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.1.0-pre1-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.5

• Release Date: Jan 31, 2010
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.5-win32.exe
• Decoders:
  • SubRip extra styles improvements
  • Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
• Mac OS X Interface:
  • Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
• Windows port:
  • Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues
• Translations:
  • Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
  • New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations

Version 1.0.3

• Release Date: Oct 31, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.3-win32.exe
• Video outputs:
  • Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
  • New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
• Decoders:
  • Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
  • Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
• Encoders:
  • x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
• Input:
  • Update for appletrailers lua script
  • Fixes on the RAR stream filter
  • Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
  • Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
  • Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
• Service discovery:
  • New udev module for linux
• Qt4 interface:
  • Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
• Translations:
  • French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

Version 1.0.3 RC

• Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.3-rc-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.2

• Release Date: Sep 23, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.2-win32.exe
• Please refer to http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.1

• Release Date: Jul 28, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.1-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.0

• Release Date: Jul 7, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.0-win32.exe
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.0 RC4

• Release Date: Jun 18, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.0-rc4-win32.exe

Version 1.0.0 RC3

• Release Date: Jun 8, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.0-rc3-win32.exe

Version 1.0.0 RC2

• Release Date: May 28, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.0-rc2-win32.exe

Version 1.0.0 RC1

• Release Date: May 13, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-1.0.0-rc1-win32.exe

Version 0.9.9

• Release Date: Apr 2, 2009
• Download(s):
  vlc-0.9.9-win32.exe
• Decoders:
  • Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
• Demuxers:
  • Various fixes related to real demuxer
• Mac OS X Interface:
  • Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
  • Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the main controller window.
  • Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
• Mac OS X Port:
  • Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
• New Localizations:
  • Indonesian
  • Bengali
  • Updates of other localizations
• Various bugfixes:
  • Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
  • Lots of small bugfixes.
  • Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
  • Telnet fixes on Windows
  • Resampling fixes when transcoding

Version 0.9.8a

• Release Date: Dec 9, 2008
• Download(s):
  vlc-0.9.8a-win32.exe
• Fixes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Version 0.9.8

• Release Date: Dec 5, 2008
• Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Version 0.9.7

• Release Date: Dec 1, 2008
• Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Version 0.9.6

• Release Date: Nov 9, 2008
• New Localizations:
  • Ukranian
• Security updates:
  • Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
  • Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)

Version 0.9.5

• Release Date: Oct 24, 2008
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 0.9.4

• Release Date: Oct 8, 2008
• Various bugfixes:
  • Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
  • Fixes several memory leaks.
• Mac OS X port:
  • Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
  • Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
  • Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
• Windows port:
  • Stability fix for the video output.

Version 0.9.3

• Release Date: Sep 28, 2008
• Various bugfixes:
  • Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
  • Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
  • Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
  • Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
  • Fixed update system bugs
  • Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...)
• Mac OS X port:
  • Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
  • Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
  • Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
  • Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
  • Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
  • Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
  • Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
  • Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
  • Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on modern Mac OS X versions
• Windows port:
  • Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
  • Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled before installation
  • Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
  • Multiple directory and path location fixes.
• Qt4 interface:
  • Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
  • Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
  • Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
  • Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
  • Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
  • Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)

Version 0.9.2

• Release Date: Sep 15, 2008
• New Qt4 interface for Windows and Linux
• Support for many new codecs (Dirac, Atrac3, APE, ...) and demuxers
• Vastly improved subtitles support
• Media library, Live playlist search, Last.FM support
• Album art support
• Improved metadata support
• Video for Linux 2 support (v4l2)
• DVB support on Windows (BDA)
• Simplified libvlc and Mac OS X development framework
• New localization to Finnish, Persian, Polish, Punjabi and Bulgarian
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 0.8.6i

• Release Date: Jul 12, 2008
• Security updates:
  • Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
• Various bugfixes:
  • Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
  • Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, SAP services discovery, http control interface)
  • Updated Polish translation

Version 0.8.6h

• Release Date: Jun 5, 2008
• Security updates:
  • Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
  • Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
  Goodies:
  • Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
  • Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
  • More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
  • Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could leadto an unexpected application termination
  • New Serbian translation
  • Updated Romanian translation

Version 0.8.6g

• Release Date: Jun 2, 2008
• Security updates:
  • Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
  • Removed loading plugins from the current directory (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
  • Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
  • Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
  • Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
  • Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
• Various bugfixes:
  • Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
  • Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
  • Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
  • Fixed AAC resampling
  • The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.

Version 0.8.6f

• Release Date: Apr 3, 2008
• Security updates:
  • Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
  • Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
  • Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
  • Fixed cinepak integer overflow
• Various bugfixes:
  • The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
  • Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
  • Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
  • Close MMS access on network timeout
  • Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer

Version 0.8.6e

• Release Date: Feb 28, 2008
• This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer which affect VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier.
• Improvements in this release include H.264 encoding compatibility,DTS to S/PDIF and 5.1 audio fixes on ALSA. The behavior of the Preferences panel on Mac OS X has been corrected.
• Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 0.8.6d

• Release Date: Nov 29, 2007
• This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the Active X plugin and the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) library which affect VLC media player 0.8.6c and lower. For more technical details see our ADVISORY (http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html).
• Improvements in this release include better Video Output compatibility on Mac OS X and Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Please note that Mac OS X 10.3.9 is no longer supported.

Version 0.8.6c

• Release Date: Jun 17, 2007
• Various bugfixes, notably:
  • Windows Vista compatibility
  • Cropping in Direct3D
  • Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
  • RSS filter string overflow
  • Few memory leaks
  • MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
• CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
  • Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
• Demuxers:
  • Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
• Decoders:
  • Updated FLAC API compatibility
• Input:
  • Support for new v4l2 encoder API
  Localisation:
  • New localisation: Arabic, Persian

Version 0.8.6b

• Release Date: Apr 19, 2007

Version 0.8.6b test1

• Release Date: Apr 14, 2007
• Various bugfixes notably:
  • out-of-bound read in demuxers
  • demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
  • Mac OS X Interface crashes
  • VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
• Decoders:
  • Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
  • Teletext subtitles (telx) support
• Webbrowser plugins:
  • rectified behaviour and improved usability
• Mac OS X Interface & Port:
  • diverse usability improvements
  • new wizard option to include subtitles
  • screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
  • Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

Version 0.8.6a

• Release Date: Jan 5, 2007
• Fixes security vulnerability which can lead to arbitrary code execution (Security Advisory 0701)
• Improves the usability of the Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X

Version 0.8.6

• Release Date: Dec 11, 2006
• Support for Windows Media Video 9 and VC-1
• Support for VP5/VP6 and Flash video
• Support for TTA and WavPack Lossless audio
• Much improved H.264 support
• Preliminary DVR-ms, MXF support
• Shoutcast TV support
• Windows unicode fixes
• Apple Remote support
• Apple Fullscreen controller
• Universal Binary

Version 0.8.6 RC1

• Release Date: Dec 2, 2006
• Please refer to this page for more information

Version 0.8.6 test2a

• Release Date: Nov 22, 2006
• Please refer to this page for more information

Version 0.8.6 test2

• Release Date: Nov 17, 2006
• Support for Windows Media Video 9
• Support for VP5/VP6 video
• Support for TTA and Wavpack Lossless audio
• Improved H264 support
• Preliminary DVR-ms, MXF support
• Apple Remote support
• Please refer to this page for more information

Version 0.8.6 test1

• Release Date: Oct 26, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.5

• Release Date: May 7, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.5 test4

• Release Date: May 2, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.5 test3

• Release Date: Apr 21, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.5 test2

• Release Date: Apr 3, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.5 test1

• Release Date: Mar 13, 2006
• Please refer to this page

Version 0.8.4

• Release Date: Nov 27, 2005
• Please refer to this page