|11 May 2021|Auto update issues and explanations|Windows users might encounter issues when trying to auto update VLC from version 3.0.12 and 3.0.13. More details on <a href="/vlc/releases/3.0.12-update.html">the release page</a>.
|10 May 2021|VLC 3.0.13|VideoLAN is now publishing 3.0.13 release, which improves the network shares and adaptive streaming support, fixes some MP4 audio regressions, fixes some crashes on Windows and macOS and fixes security issues. More details on <a href="/vlc/releases/3.0.13.html">the release page</a>.
|05 April 2021|libbluray 1.3.0|A new release of libbluray was pushed today, adding new APIs, to improve the control of the library, improve platforms support, and fix some bugs. See our <a href="/developers/libbluray.html">libbluray</a> page.
<li>versions 3.0.12 to 3.0.13 are <b>not</b> able to update automatically anymore, and will <b>require</b> user action<li>
<li>versions 3.0.11 and earlier should update automatically using 3.0.14</li>
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<h3>Description:</h3>
<p>This notice applies to VLC 3.0.13 and VLC 3.0.12 users.<br/>
Due to an incorrect change in the automatic updater code, updates will be downloaded, verified for integrity, but will not be installed. This is bad and we're sorry.</p>
<h3>Instructions:</h3>
In order to update to 3.0.14, you will need to either:<br/>
<ul>
<li>go to <ahref="https://www.videolan.org/vlc">https://www.videolan.org/vlc</a> to download and install VLC manually, or</li>
<li>run the downloaded installer yourself by opening a file explorer (Windows key + E, or just click the explorer icon) and enter «%TEMP%» as the location.
You'll see the installer there. It will be named «vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe» or «vlc-3.0.14-win64.exe» respectively depending on whether you're using a 32bits or 64bits version of Windows.</li>
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<h3>Post mortem explanation:</h3>
On May 10<sup>th</sup> 2021, the VideoLAN organization released VLC 3.0.13, and enabled the auto updates.<br/>
Usually, this is straightforward, you'd see an update available prompt, click download and install, and all is good. However this time, things are going to be different and a bit more tedious if not painful.<br/>
The issue was introduced in 3.0.12, but it didn't become obvious until we started rolling out 3.0.13.<br/>
While the issue was fixed for 3.0.14, we can't rely on that fix for people who've installed 3.0.12 already.<br/>
<ahref="https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-3.0/-/commit/d456994213b98933664bd6aee2e8f09d5dea5628">The commit that fixed the bug for future releases</a><br/>