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VLC media player 3.0.21 'Vetinari'

This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:
 - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU
 - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation
 - support for Opus Ambisonic
 - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)
 - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS
 - improvements for MP4 and Opus support
 - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter
 - 3rd party libraries updates
 - fixes for VAAPI, HLS, UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes
 - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels
 - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)

VLC media player 3.0.20 'Vetinari'

VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release, fixing major regressions that
appeared in 3.0.19.
It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU, a green line in fullscreen on Windows,
a crash with AV1 hw acceleration, a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential
security issue.

VLC media player 3.0.19 'Vetinari'

This is the twentieth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This update contains numerous fixes and improvements, notably:
- a fix for a major FLAC regression,
- a fix for next-frame freezing the app,
- hardware decoding for AV1 and other improvements for AV1,
- improvements for Wav (RIFF INFO), MP4, AVI (Qnap, GBRP), RealVideo,
- Super Resolution scaling with Intel and nVidia hwardware,
- mumerous fixes for various files support,
- fixes for hardware decoding on Windows, Android and macOS,
- other fixes and security updates.

VLC media player 3.0.18 'Vetinari'

This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming update
- Codec updates
- Fix seeking for some formats
- Many updates of third party libraries
- Numerous crash fixes

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.18-rc2 'Vetinari'

This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming update
- Codec updates
- Fix seeking for some formats
- Many updates of third party libraries
- Numerous crash fixes

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.18-rc 'Vetinari'

This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming update
- Codec updates
- Fix seeking for some formats
- Many updates of third party libraries
- Numerous crash fixes

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.17.4 'Vetinari'

This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This is a hotfix release to fix a UPnP regression on Windows.
Other platforms are *not* affected by this release and can stay
on 3.0.17.3

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
- Major codec updates
- Many third party libraries update
- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
- Better notch support for new macbooks
- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
- Improve AV1 live streaming support
- Several SRT support improvements
- Numerous crash fixes
- Update youtube script

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.17.3 'Vetinari'

This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This is a fixup release which fixes a regression that could cause a
lack of audio for adaptive streaming playback.
It is identical to 3.0.17.2 otherwise.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
- Major codec updates
- Many third party libraries update
- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
- Better notch support for new macbooks
- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
- Improve AV1 live streaming support
- Several SRT support improvements
- Numerous crash fixes
- Update youtube script

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.17.2 'Vetinari'

This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This is a fixup release which fixes youtube playback and contextual
menus on integrated video for the Qt interface.
It is identical to 3.0.17-1 otherwise.

Please note that the patch version is now specified as `.X` instead of
`-X` as it was for the previous 3.0.17 fixup release, as it was
requested by some Linux distributions packagers.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
- Major codec updates
- Many third party libraries update
- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
- Better notch support for new macbooks
- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
- Improve AV1 live streaming support
- Several SRT support improvements
- Numerous crash fixes
- Update youtube script

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.17-1 'Vetinari'

This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This is a fixup release which bumps libflac to 1.3.4 in order to fix
CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561 on platforms for which we provide
binary releases.
It is identical to 3.0.17 otherwise.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
- Major codec updates
- Many third party libraries update
- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
- Better notch support for new macbooks
- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
- Improve AV1 live streaming support
- Several SRT support improvements
- Numerous crash fixes
- Update youtube script

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.17 'Vetinari'

This is the eighteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul
- Major codec updates
- Many third party libraries update
- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs
- Better notch support for new macbooks
- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats
- Improve AV1 live streaming support
- Several SRT support improvements
- Numerous crash fixes
- Update youtube script

And many more! Check our news file for more details!

VLC media player 3.0.16 'Vetinari'

This is the seventeenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.
This release fixes a regression in the Direct3D11 module on Windows 8 &
8.1.
It also:
- Adds touchbar support
- Fixes the RTSP server timeout handling

Along with a few other improvements!

VLC media player 3.0.15 'Vetinari'

This is the sixteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Fix delays when seeking with D3D11
- Fix opening DVD folders with non ascii characters
- Fix ASF regressions with brodcast streams
- Fix dropping audio on seek with MP4 content
- Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles
- Improve freetype fonts outlining
- Fix HTTPS support on Windows XP

VLC media player 3.0.14 'Vetinari'

This is the fifteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This update focuses on fixing a critial issue with the auto updater on
Windows, causing the new installer to be downloaded, but without
launching the installation.
Unfortunately windows users will have to manually update from 3.0.12
to a newer version.

VLC media player 3.0.13 'Vetinari'

This is the fourteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This updates contains various fixes and improvements:
- Fix artifacts in HLS streams
- Fix MP4 audio support regressions
- Add SSA text scaling support
- Add NFSv4 support
- Improve SMB2 integration
- Improve Direct3D11 rendering smoothness
- Add mousewheel horizontal axis support
- Security fixes

And many more, check our NEWS file for more details!