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Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
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Platform support changes:
 * 4.0.x requires:
     - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
     - macOS 10.10 or later
     - iOS 9 or later
     - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
     - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)

Demuxer:
 * Support for HEIF format

Codecs:
 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
 * WebVTT encoder
 * Remove iomx support for Android
 * WebP image decoding

Video output:
 * Remove aa plugin
 * Remove evas plugin
 * Remove omxil_vout plugin

macOS:
 * Remove Growl notification support


Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
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Platform support changes:
 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
   that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.

   Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
     - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
     - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
     - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
     - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent

 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
   * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
     it should work, but not without limitations.
     libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
     You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
   * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
   * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
   * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
   * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.

Core:
 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
   and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
   protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
 * Support wayland surface type
 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
 * Refactor preparsing input
 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
   es category single only or multiple es behavior
 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
 * Support subtitles size live adjustments

Access:
 * New NFS access module using libnfs
 * New SMB access module using libdsm
 * Adaptive streaming:
   * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
     MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
   * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
   * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
   * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
     stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
   * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
   domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
   by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
 * Improvements on DVB scanning
 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
 * Support for DVD ISO over network
 * New SRT access module using libsrt

Hardware Decoder:
 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
   and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
   and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
   supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV

Decoders:
 * Support for experimental AV1 video
 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
 * Support for experimental Daala video
 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
   can now decode up to 8 channels
 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
 * Support VPX high bit depth support
 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
 * CEA-708 decoder
 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
   without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts

Demuxers:
 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
    * Support for fragmented MP4
    * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
    * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
    * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
    * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
    * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
    * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
    * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
    * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
    * Add new metadata fields
 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
    * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
    * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
    * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
    * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
    * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
    * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
    * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
    * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
    * Improvements for scrambled state detection
 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
    * HEVC support
    * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
    * Partial support of PSMF
    * Fix broken SCR samples
    * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
 * Improvements on MKV:
    * Rewrite MKV seeking
    * Support FFv1 inside MKV
    * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
    * Improve DVD-menus support
 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
 * Support Daala in Ogg
 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
 * Support WMV extended content metadata
 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
 * Support SBV subtitles
 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
 * Support for isofLaC
 * Improve fLaC seeking
 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
   channels.conf digital TV channel list files

Stream filter:
 * Add an ADF stream filter
 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags

Demux filter:
 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)

Audio output:
 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
   module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
   5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
 * Add Tizen audio module
 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes

Audio filters:
 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
   this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
    * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
    * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
   headphones effects
 * Add a pitch shifting module

Video output:
 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
 * OpenGL:
    * New OpenGL provider for Windows
    * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
    * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
    * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
    * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
    * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
    * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
    * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
 * Wayland shell surface window provider
 * Wayland shared memory video output
 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
   NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
   supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support

Video filter:
 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11

Text renderer:
 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708

Stream Output:
 * Chromecast output module
 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization

Encoder:
 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx

Muxers:
 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
 * Daala in Ogg

Service Discovery:
 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery

Mac OS X Interface
 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
 * Improve and simplify preferences window
 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead

iOS:
 * Drop support for iOS 6.x

Qt interface:
 * Batch convert support
 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog

Skins2:
 * Support key accelerators

libVLC:
 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
   libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
   This allows to attach media events between create and start
 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
   identifier (if there is one available)
 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
   and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
   and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
   libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
   libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
   libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
   libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
   from a libvlc_media
 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
   working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
   and removes vlc_epg_Merge

Logging
 * Support for the SystemD Journal
 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
   messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
 * New Android module for logging

Misc
 * remove langfromtelx
 * remove ZPL playlist format
 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
 * Add a memory keystore
 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS

Removed modules
 * Atmo video filter
 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
 * BD access module (use libbluray)
 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
 * EyeTV access module
 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
 * VDA decoder: use VT
 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
 * SDL video output module
 * DirectFB video output module
 * RAOP stream output module


Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
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Demuxers:
 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences

Translations updates


Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
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Decoders:
 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection

Demuxers:
 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
 * Fix AVI read/write overflow

Mac OS X:
 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
   update to the newest version.

Video Output:
 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets

Misc:
 * Fix crash in MTP
 * Support libupnp 1.8

Translations updates


Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
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Video output:
 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling

Demuxer:
 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)

Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
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Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments

Translations updates

Misc:
 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes


Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
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Decoder:
 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
 * Fix SCTE-27 colors

Demuxer:
 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks

Video output:
 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
 * Fix screenshots size

Access:
 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
 * Fix FTP scan string injection
 * Fix HTTP size handling

Mux:
 * Fix mp4 drift

Lua:
 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
   soundcloud scripts

Audio filter:
 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter

Windows:
 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
   Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
 * Fix uninstaller path handling
 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior

MacOS:
 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
   recent items


Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
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Decoder:
 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)

Qt:
 * Fix resizing issues

Win32:
 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output

Misc:
 * Build fixes for Hurd

Translations:
 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
   Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
   Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations


Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
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Demux:
 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
 * Fix WMV regression

Decoder:
 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
 * Fix crashes with libvpx
 * Use libass without caching dialog

Video Output:
 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output

Skins2:
 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context

Qt:
 * Fix resume where you left off
 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed

MacOS X:
 * Fix crashes in media information panel
 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option

Win32:
 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer

Translations:
 * Update of most translations


Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
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Access:
 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation

Demux:
 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files

Decoders:
 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps

Audio output:
 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
   be set manually by the user)
 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
 * Fix alsa default device selection

Skins2:
 * Fix video control that fails to show up
 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers

OS X:
 * Support for OS X El Capitan
 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops

Qt:
 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
 * Fix memory leaks

Video Output:
 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing

Misc:
 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
 * Improve PNG encoding time
 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
   read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
   TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126

Translations:
 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
 * Update of most translations

libVLC:
 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
   libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
   libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event

Translations:
 * Update of most translations


Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
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Codec:
 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
 * Fix some VP9 decoding
 * Fix flac crashes
 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
 * Fix AAC samplerate

Demuxers:
 * Fix MP4 chapters
 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
 * Revert to older ASX code
 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio

Access:
 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows

Audio output:
 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files

OS X:
 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line

Qt:
 * Fix recent items behaviour
 * Fix rotation filter activation
 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard

Win32:
 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
 * Fix extensions registration during install
 * Fix extensions dialog crash
 * Default to no DxVA decoding

libVLC:
 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats

Translations:
 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
   Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
   Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
   Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
   Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations


Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
--------------------------------

Important changes:
 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
   notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules

Core:
 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples

Access:
 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
   New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
   and BD-J navigation
 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data

Decoder:
 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
   supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
   Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
 * New jpeg image decoder
 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
 * New SVG image decoder
 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments

Encoder:
 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
 * New png image encoder using libpng

Demuxer:
 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
   streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
   synchronization and tracks exclusion
 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
   and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
 * Support Opus in MKV
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Basic support for WebVTT
 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
 * Support HDPR TS files
 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files

Video Output:
 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
 * New Android native window provider module
 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi

Video Filter:
 * New Oldmovie effect filter
 * New VHS effect filter
 * New Freeze effect filter
 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage

Audio Output:
 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules

Muxers:
 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS

Streaming:
 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
    vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout  '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
    :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
    with --no-sout-all
 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
    --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP

libVLC:
 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function

Visualizations:
 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum

Interfaces:
 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
 * Add record button in Qt menus
 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Support for OS X Yosemite
 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
 * Fixes for advanced preferences
 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
 * Option to increase playlist font size
 * Improved crash log reporting

Misc:
 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts

Security:
 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers

Removed modules:
 * iOS video output: use ios2
 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger

Translations:
 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
   Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
 * Update of all translations:
   Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
   Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
   Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
   Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
   Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
   Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
   Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian


Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
--------------------------------

Audio output:
 * Fix OSS stuttering

Security:
 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
 * Fix potential crash in zip access
 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)

Win32 installer:
 * Update translations and greek encoding


Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
--------------------------------

Core:
 * Fix compilation on OS/2

Access:
 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module

Mac OS X audio output:
 * Fix channel ordering
 * Increase the buffersize

Decoders:
 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV

Qt Interface:
 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Correctly support video-on-top
 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side

Streaming:
 * Fix transcode when audio format changes

Security contents:
 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)

Translations:
 * Update British English


Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
--------------------------------

Demuxers:
 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads

Video Output:
 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows

Mac OS X:
 * Fix DVD playback regression
 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks


Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
--------------------------------

Core:
 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir

Access:
 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion

Decoders:
 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
   by updating codec libraries
 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
 * Fix teletext crash on Windows

Demuxers:
 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing

Audio output:
 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X