|5 December 2017|VLC 2.2.8|VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.8 of VLC media player today.<br />This release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2.2.7: This release fixes compatibility with macOS High Sierra and fixes SSA subtitles rendering on macOS. This release also fixes a few security issues, in the flac and the libavcodec modules (heap write overflow), in the avi module and a few crashes.
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|5 December 2017|VLC 2.2.8|VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.8 of VLC media player today.<br />This release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2.2.7: This release fixes compatibility with macOS High Sierra and fixes SSA subtitles rendering on macOS. This release also fixes a few security issues, in the flac and the libavcodec modules (heap write overflow), in the avi module and a few crashes.<br />For macOS users, please note: A bug was fixed in VLC 2.2.7 concerning the update mechanism on macOS. In rare circumstances, an auto-update from older versions of VLC to VLC 2.2.8 might not be possible. Please download the update manually from our website in this case.
|16 May 2017|VideoLAN joins the Alliance for Open Media|The <a href="/videolan/">VideoLAN</a> non-profit organization is joining the <a href="http://aomedia.org">Alliance for Open Media</a>, to help developing open and royalty-free codecs and other video technologies!<br /> More information in our press release: <a href="https://www.videolan.org/press/aomedia.html">VideoLAN joins Alliance for Open Media</a>.