Release changes

To see the current changes under development, read Next changes.

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, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
• Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073, VideoLAN-SA-0803)
• Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768, VideoLAN-SA-0803)
• Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769, VideoLAN-SA-0803)

Various bugfixes

• The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
• Improved 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 (CVE-2007-6683)
• 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

• 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

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