Version history for VLC for Linux

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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 - 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 v1.1.3 - v1.1.4

• A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!
• Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules - VideoLAN-SA-1005
• Fix for folders opening issue on Windows
• Updated translations

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

Changes for v1.0.2 - v1.0.3

• 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 updatesVideo 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

Changes for v1.0.1 - v1.0.2

• This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules and security issues. It also introduces the port to 64bits for Mac OS platform and 2 new languages (Kazakh and Croatian).
• Because of the security issues, we strongly recommand everybody to update its version of VLC.

Changes for v1.0.0 - v1.0.1

• Demuxers
• Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
• Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
• Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
• Fix Dailymotion access script
• Fix crashes in xspf files handler
• Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
• Access
• Add extra caching for files on network shares
• Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
• Decoders
• Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
• Improve SSA subtitles rendering
• Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
• Muxers
• Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
• Qt Interface
• Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
• Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
• Mac OS X Interface
• Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
• Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
• Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
• Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
• More reliable Information and Messages panels
• Fix various crashes
• Windows port
• The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
• Translation updates
• Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian

Changes for v0.9.9a - v1.0.0

• Important notes:
• Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info.
• Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
• Playback:
• Instantaneous pausing
• Frame-by-Frame playback
• Finer speed control
• On-the-fly recording for all medias
• Timeshift for most medias
• RTSP trickplay support
• Subtitles core improvements and fixes
• Decoders:
• New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
• New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
• New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
• New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
• New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
• Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
• New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
• Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
• Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
• Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
• Demuxers:
• Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
• Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
• Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
• Metadata for mod files are supported
• GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
• New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
• New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
• Encoders:
• Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
• Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
• Access:
• RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
• On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
• Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
• DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
• New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
• DVB scanning on linux
• EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
• On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
• Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
• MTP device access on Unix
• CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
• :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
• Inputs:
• Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
• Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on Windows and Mac OS X.
• Playlist:
• Export the playlist in HTML
• Lua script for BBC radio playback
• Better metadata handling and reading
• Linux/Windows interface:
• Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
• Various fixes for skins2 interface
• Recently played items list
• Interface toolbar customizations
• Various Improvements on the Qt interface: - More menus actions - Finer speed slider - Improvements on many dialogs - New dialog for plugins listing - Fixed-size mode for videos - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
• Better integration in GTK environments
• Mac OS X Interface:
• Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
• Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
• Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
• Additional usability improvements
• Stream output:
• Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
• Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
• bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
• Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
• Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
• Maemo Port:
• New Maemo port with: - an interface based on Hildon framework. - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
• Windows CE Port:
• EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
• Mac OS X Port:
• Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
• New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
• Support for latest iSight models
• Audio output:
• Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
• Surround support for PulseAudio
• Video output:
• Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
• Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
• Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
• Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
• Miscellaneous:
• Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

Changes for v0.9.0 Test 2 - v0.9.3

• Fixed sensitivity of the Windows Fullscreen controller
• Major performance improvements for Mac OS X (both Intel and PPC)
• Fixed DTS channel order
• Fixed passthrough of digital audio
• Improved pure text subtitle rendering on Mac OS X
• Many fixes for the Qt4 Linux and Windows interface
• Fixes for various crashes (PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype)
• and more...

Changes for v0.8.6c - v0.8.6d

• Various bugfixes:
• Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
• Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
• Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
• Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
• Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
• Windows and Mac OS Binaries:
• FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
• Active X plugin:
• Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
• Mac OS X Interface & Port:
• Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
• Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
• Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
• Support for current Ogg file formats
• NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
• Encoders:
• Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
• Other changes:
• The automatic updating facility was removed
• You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
• EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

Changes for v0.8.6b - v0.8.6c

• Fix: Windows Vista compatibility
• Fix: Cropping in Direct3D
• Fix: Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
• Fix: RSS filter string overflow
• Fix: Few memory leaks
• Fix: MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
• Fix: Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
• Fix: Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
• Update: Updated FLAC API compatibility
• New: Support for new v4l2 encoder API
• New: New localisation: Arabic, Persian

Changes for v0.8.6 RC1 - v0.8.6b Test 1

• Fix: out-of-bound read in demuxers
• Fix: demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
• Fix: Mac OS X Interface crashes
• Fix: VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
• Fix: Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
• Fix: correct behaviour for feeding streams to icecast or shoutcast servers
• Decoder: Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
• Decoder: Teletext subtitles support
• Webbrowser plugin: Rectified behaviour and improved usability
• Mac OS X: Diverse usability improvements
• Mac OS X: New wizard option to include subtitles
• Mac OS X: Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
• Mac OS X: Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

Changes for v1.0.0 - v1.0.1

• Demuxers
• Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
• Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
• Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
• Fix Dailymotion access script
• Fix crashes in xspf files handler
• Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
• Access
• Add extra caching for files on network shares
• Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
• Decoders
• Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
• Improve SSA subtitles rendering
• Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
• Muxers
• Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
• Qt Interface
• Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
• Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
• Mac OS X Interface
• Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
• Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
• Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
• Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
• More reliable Information and Messages panels
• Fix various crashes
• Windows port
• The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
• Translation updates
• Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian

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