NEWS

 * 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:
 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
 * 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

New Localization:
 * Khmer
 * Mongolian
 * Sorani


Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
--------------------------------------

HTTP Interface:
 * Fixed default ACL

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi

Various fixes to the following modules:
 * access:
   - HTTP, SMB
   - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
   - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
     DZCORE Labs, Algeria
 * stream out:
   - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
 * decoder:
   - TSCC


Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
---------------------------------

Mac OS X:
 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs


Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
---------------------------------

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


Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
---------------------------------

Security update:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.


Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
--------------------------------
New Localizations:
 * Ukrainian

Security updates:
 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)


Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
--------------------------------
Security updates:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
 * Various fixed in playlist

Access:
 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation


Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
------------------------------------
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.


Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
--------------------------------

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...)


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
--------------------------------

 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
 * Multiple bugfixes.


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
--------------------------------

 * Multiple bug fixes.


Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
---------------------------------

Important notes:
----------------
 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
   recent to work correctly
 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
   If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
   edit the ".hosts" file.
   - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
     If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
     /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
   - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
     C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
   - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
     and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
   This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
   This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
   0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
   now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
   vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
   You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
   If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
   plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
   These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
   Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
     Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
     New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
   EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
   of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
   with some file names. Use access://url instead.
    E.g.:  vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
           udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
   avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
   and postproc modules.
 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
   following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
   STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
   BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
   functional atm.
 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
   filter. For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
   For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
 * Glide video output module has been removed.

Changes:
--------

Security updates:
 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
   CVE-2008-1807)
 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )

Playlist:
 * Vastly improved playlist support:
    * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
    * "Live search"
    * Shoutcast TV listings
    * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
 * Album art support
 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
   (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
   lots of other URLs)
 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt

Inputs:
 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
 * JACK audio input support
 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
   using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
 * Experimental EyeTV access module
   This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
   (available as a separate download).
 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
 * RTMP input support
 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
   taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
   Authentication.
 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
   frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)

Demuxers:
 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
 * AAC tags support
 * APEv1/2 tags support
 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
 * Raw video support
 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
 * TiVo Series 2 support
 * CD+G karaoke Files support
 * MXF files support
 * OMA support

Decoders:
 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
 * Flash Screen Video support
 * CamStudio Screen Video support
 * DosBox Capture support
 * Karl Morton's Video support
 * limited atrac3 support
 * Fraps support
 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
   Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
 * H.264 PAFF support
 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
 * NellyMoser ASAO support
 * APE (Monkey audio) support
 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger

Subtitles:
 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
 * AQTitle subtitles support
 * MKV USF subtitles support
 * HTML-based subtitles support
 * MPSub subtitles support
 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
 * MPL2 subtitles support
 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
 * Realtext subtitle support
 * DKS subtitle support
 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support

Encoders:
 * Flash Screen Video support
 * Improved H.264 encoding speed

Video outputs and filters:
 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
   Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
 * New puzzle video output filter
 * Re-written motion detection video filter
 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
   video)
 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
   (Google Summer of Code Student project)
 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
   The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
   This was previously part of the mosaic module.
 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.

Audio outputs and filters:
 * Replay gain support
 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
   new scaletempo audio filter)
 * New spatializer audio filter
 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF

Stream output:
 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
 * New RTP payload formats:
   * Speex voice audio codec
   * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
   * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
 * DCCP transport for RTP
 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
 * RTMP output

Interfaces:
 * All
   * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
     end-user suitable way.
   * Improved user interaction
   * Improved mouse gestures
   * Vastly improved Update checker
   * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
 * Windows/Linux
   * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
   * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
 * Mac OS X
   * Improved video output features
   * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
   * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
   * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
   * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
   * Simplified Extended Controls panel
 * Ncurses:
   * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
     if libncursesw is available.
   * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
   share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
 * Unix
   * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
   * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
     (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
     interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
     finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
   * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
   * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux

Linux Port:
 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
   http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
   (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)

Mac OS X Port:
 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
   applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
   * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.

LibVLC:
 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
   (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)

New Localizations:
 * Finnish
 * Persian
 * Polish
 * Punjabi
 * Bulgarian

Developers:
  * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
    A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
  * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.


Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
----------------------------------

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


Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
----------------------------------

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 lead
   to an unexpected application termination
 * New Serbian translation
 * Updated Romanian translation


Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
----------------------------------

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.


Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
----------------------------------

Security updates:
 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.

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


Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
----------------------------------

Various bugfixes:
 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:
 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
   VideoLAN-SA-0801)
 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
   VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter:
 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:
 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access:
 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output:
 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders:
 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
   encoding on multi-cpu systems
    - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
    - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing

Localization:
 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations


Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
----------------------------------

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, CVE-2007-6262)

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.
 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).


Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
----------------------------------

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, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)

Demuxers:
 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)

Decoders:
 * Updated FLAC API compatibility

Input:
 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API

Localisation:
 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian


Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
----------------------------------

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
 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

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 embed subtitles
 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script


Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
---------------------------------

CDDA / VCDX plugins:
 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fullscreen controller improvements


Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
--------------------------------

Playlist:
 * Shoutcast TV listings support

Input:
 * Support for RTSP authentication
 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
 * ATSC support for DVB input
 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
 * Improved support for Flash Video files

Decoders:
 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
 * Matroska WavPack support
 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:
 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
 * Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:
 * All
   * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
   * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
 * Windows
   * Systray support in skins
 * OS X
   * Support for Apple Remote control
   * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
   * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
   * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
   * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
 * Linux
   * Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port:
 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
   Windows 9x/ME users:
     - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
     - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
       Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
       http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
       Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
       C:\Windows\System
 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)

Localization:
 * Add Czech
 * Add Slovak
 * Add Malay
 * Add Slovenian

Developers:
 * Updates to the libvlc API
 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins


Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
--------------------------------

Core support:
 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
 * Support for downloading updates
 * Updated strings

Input:
 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
     - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
     - Support for CDDB
 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
 * Improved subtitles encoding support
 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

Decoders:
 * Cook (Real audio) support

Playlist / Services discovery:
 * XSPF playlist support
 * Podcast support
 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

Audio output:
 * New JACK audio output

Video output:
 * New video filters:
    - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
    - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
    - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering

Stream output:
 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

Interfaces:
 * System to inform the user and request information
    - HTTP authentication
    - Fatal errors
    - ...
 * wxWidgets
    - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
    - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
    - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
 * Skins2
    - New default skin
    - Support for Winamp 2 skins
    - Improved playlist handling
    - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
 * OS X
    - Embedded Video output
    - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
    - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
    - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
    - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
    - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
 * HTTP
    - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
    - A bunch of new RPN functions

Windows Port:
 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support

OS X Port:
 * Mac-Intel compatibility
 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
 * Growl "Now playing" support

*Nix port:
 * Ability to log to syslog
 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root

Developers:
 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
 * Java bindings
 * A bit more automatic testing


Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------

Audio output:
 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.

Decoder:
 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263

Demux:
 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks

Services Discovery:
 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
 * UPnP fixes
 * Avahi 0.6 support

Interfaces:
 * Mac OS X
    - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard


Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------

Core support:
 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
 * New OSD system

Video output:
 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:
 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
 * GnomeVFS input module
 * Support for RTP packet reordering
 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:
 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Services discovery:
 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

Video filters:
 * RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
  Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:
 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:
- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
 * Mac OS X
    - New streaming and transcoding wizard
    - New extended controls panel
    - New bookmarks window
    - Fixed playlist sorting
    - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
 * wxWidgets
    - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
    - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
    - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
    - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
 * Skins2
    - Tree playlist
 * HTTP
    - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
    - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
      the names of files
    - Include macro to include other files
    - CGI 1.0 support

ActiveX plugin:
* Should now work outside IE as well

Mac OS X port:
* New script to delete the preferences automatically

Windows port:
* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output

Translations:
 The following languages were added:
 * Galician
 * Korean
 * Romanian