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Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
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Platform support changes:
 * 4.0.x requires:
     - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
     - macOS 10.11 or later
     - iOS 9 or later
     - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
     - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
 * Windows on ARM is now supported
 * Universal Windows is only supported for Windows 10 (not Windows 8 anymore)
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 * New output clock (internal):
     - The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
     - By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
       resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
 * New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
 * New player (vlc_player.h):
     - Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
     - One instance is used to play subsequent medias
     - Allow multiple track selection
     - Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
 * New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
     - Browse local network and service discoveries
 * New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
     - Replace the previous one
     - Flat, new random implementation
     - Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
 * Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
Audio output:
 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
   Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.

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 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
 * Support for DASH WebM
 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
 * Support for DAV video files
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 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
 * Support chapters in mp3 files
 * Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
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Codecs:
 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
 * WebVTT encoder
 * Remove iomx support for Android
 * WebP image decoding
 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
 * Support IMM4 decoder
 * Improve 708 decoder
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 * Support AGM decoder
 * Support VP4 decoder
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 * Add NVDEC hardware decoder
 * Remove SDL_image support
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Access:
 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
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 * Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol
 * Added support for the Gopher Protocol
 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
 * Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
 * Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
 * Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
 * Support for YoutubeDL (where available).
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Access output:
 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
 * Added support for HTTP PUT (HTTP upload)
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Video output:
 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
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 * Remove aa plugin
 * Remove evas plugin
 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
 * Fix washed out black on NVIDIA cards with Direct3D9
 * On-Screen-Display is off by default in libvlc
Audio filter:
 * Add RNNoise recurrent neural network denoiser

Video filter:
 * Update yadif
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 * Remove remote OSD plugin
Stream output:
 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
   Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
 * The "udp" access output module has been removed.
   Please use the UDP stream output instead, e.g.:
     Old: '#std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:1234,sap}'
     New: '#udp{dst=239.255.1.2:1234,sap}'
Muxers:
 * MP4 files are no longer faststart by default

Service discovery:
 * Support Renderer discovery with avahi

macOS:
 * Remove Growl notification support
 * Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
Changes between 3.0.12.1 and 3.0.13:
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Demux:
 * Adaptive: fix artefacts in HLS streams with wrong profiles/levels
 * Fix regression on some MP4 files for the audio track
 * Fix MPGA and ADTS probing in TS files
 * Fix Flac inside AVI files
 * Fix VP9/Webm artefacts when seeking

Codec:
 * Support SSA text scaling
 * Fix rotation on Android rotation
 * Fix WebVTT subtitles that start at 00:00

Access:
 * Update libnfs to support NFSv4
 * Improve SMB2 integration
 * Fix Blu-ray files using Unicode names on Windows
 * Disable mcast lookups on Android for RTSP playback

Video Output:
 * Rework the D3D11 rendering wait, to fix choppiness on display

Interfaces:
 * Fix VLC getting stuck on close on X11 (#21875)
 * Improve RTL on preferences on macOS
 * Add mousewheel horizontal axis control
 * Fix crash on exit on macOS
 * Fix sizing of the fullscreen controls on macOS

Windows:
 * Fix subtitles/OSD under Windows XP

Misc:
 * Update translations
 * Improve MIDI fonts search on Linux
 * Update Soundcloud, Youtube, liveleak
 * Fix compilation with GCC11
 * Fix input-slave option for subtitles
Changes between 3.0.12 and 3.0.12.1:
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macOS:
 * 3.0.12.1 is the first release for Apple Silicon macs
 * Version bump to allow an automatic upgrade path

Changes between 3.0.11.1 and 3.0.12:
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Access:
 * Add new RIST access module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)

Access Output:
 * Add new RIST access output module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)

Demux:
 * Fixed adaptive's handling of resolution settings
 * Improve Bluray tracks support
 * Improve WMV seeking and DASH support
 * Fix crashes in AVI, MKV modules

Audio output:
 * Fix audio distortion on macOS during start of playback

Video Output:
 * Direct3D11: Fix some potential crashes when using video filters

macOS:
 * Add native support for Apple Silicon / ARM-64
 * Visual UI adaptations for macOS Big Sur
 * Fix displaying EQ bands in the UI depending on which frequency
   presets are set for the EQ in advanced preferences
 * Fix UI issues in bookmarks window

Misc:
 * Several fixes in the web interface, including privacy and security
   improvements
 * Update YouTube and Vocaroo scripts
 * Fix rotation filter mouse handling
 * Update translations


Changes between 3.0.11 and 3.0.11.1:
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Demux:
 * Fixed HLS playlist update mechanism, unable to start
   in some cases.
 * Because of broken HLS servers, adaptive no longer
   considers Content-Type as authoritative.
 * Fixed handling of WEBM WebVTT subtitles
 * Workaround invalid ADTS in TS from Makito encoders
 * Fixed Opus when using avformat demuxer

Decoders:
 * Fixed inverted explicit start/end positioning

Service Discovery:
 * Fix listing of media on certain Panasonic recorders discovered via UPnP

macOS:
 * Fix automatic playback resume with "Music" app
 * Fix possible freeze after pause, seek, unpause

Contribs:
 * Updated gnutls to 3.6.14
 * Updated libebml to 1.4.0
 * Updated libmatroska to 1.6.0
 * Updated mpg123 to 1.26.2

Changes between 3.0.10 and 3.0.11:
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Access:
 * rtp descriptor leak on error fix

Demux:
 * Fixed regression with some encrypted HLS streams
 * Live HLS delay until first update fix
 * HLS rendition switch regression fix
 * Fix imprecise m4a seek

Decoder:
 * Fixed missing captions with some capture cards

Audio filters:
 * soxr resampling fixes

Contribs:
 * Updated libfaad to 2.9.2 (Parametric Stereo regression)
 * Updated libarchive to 3.4.2

macOS:
 * Fixed moving video window with mouse
 * Fixed UI issue showing "permissions warning" unnecessarily often
 * Fixed stack buffer overflow listing bluray mount points
 * Fixed potential crashes at startup

Audio Output:
 * Fix sound not coming back after a pause with CoreAudio (macOS/iOS)

Misc:
 * Update Youtube script


Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:
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Misc:
 * Update Twitch & VLSub scripts


Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
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Misc:
 * Properly bump the version in configure.ac


Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
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Misc:
 * Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request


Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
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Core:
 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM

Access:
 * Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
 * Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
 * Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
   unwanted glitches
 * Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
 * Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares

Demux:
 * Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
 * Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
 * Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
 * Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
 * Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
 * Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
 * Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
 * Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
 * Enabled Live seeking for HLS
 * Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
 * Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
 * Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
 * Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options

Packetizers:
 * Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
 * packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
 * Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
   last frame or audio
 * Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops

Decoder:
 * avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
 * avcodec: support Codec 2 decoding
 * spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
   on some DVD
 * Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
 * Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
 * Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
 * Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
 * Update libfaad to 2.9.1
 * Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
 * Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices

Audio output:
 * Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
 * Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz

Video output:
 * Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
 * Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
 * YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
 * Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm

Text renderer:
 * Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
 * Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding

Mux:
 * Fixed some YUV mappings

macOS:
 * Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should
   fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between
   a wrong size and the correct size.
   Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a
   dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole
   OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option
   is used
 * Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
 * Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
 * Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
 * Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
 * Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
 * Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
 * Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
 * Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration
   in digital mode

Service Discovery:
 * Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2

Misc:
 * Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
   playback of YouTube URLs.
 * Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
 * Improved chromecast audio quality


Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:
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Core:
 * Fix stuttering for low framerate videos

Demux:
 * Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
 * Fix glitches in TS over HLS
 * Add real probing of HLS streams
 * Fix HLS MIME type fallback

Decoder:
 * Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering

Stream filter:
 * Improve network buffering

Misc:
 * Update Youtube script

Audio Output:
 * macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
   external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
 * macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices

Video Output:
 * Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers

Stream output:
 * Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma

Security:
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
 * Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
 * Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
 * Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
 * Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
 * Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
 * Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
 * Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
 * Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)

Contribs:
 * Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)


Changes between 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1:
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Access:
 * Update libbluray to 1.1.2

macOS:
 * Fix bluray java menu playback regression in 3.0.7

Video Output:
 * Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers
 * Improve direct3d11 HDR support


Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
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Access:
 * Improve Blu-ray support
 * Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1

Audio output:
 * Fix pass-through on Android-23
 * Fix DirectSound drain

Demux:
 * Improve MP4 support

Video Output:
 * Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
 * Fix crash on iOS
 * Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
 * Fix HLG display with Direct3D11

Stream Output:
 * Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps

macOS:
 * Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
   active network interface now
 * Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave

 * Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled

Translations:
 * Update of most translations

Security:
 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
 * Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
 * Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
 * Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
 * Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
 * Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
 * Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
 * Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
 * Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
 * Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
 * Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
 * Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
 * Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
 * Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer


Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
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Core:
 * Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures

Codec:
 * Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
 * Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata


Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
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Access:
 * Improve RTSP playback
 * BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
 * Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue

Codec:
 * Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
 * Enable libaom decoder by default
 * Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding

Demux:
 * MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
 * Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
 * Fix CAF integer-underflow
 * Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones

Packetizer:
 * Add an AV1 packetizer

macOS:
 * Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
   enabled on macOS Mojave.
   All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
   to continue working with the official VLC package.
 * Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
 * Fix convert & save panel stream option

Audio output:
 * Fix corking when the playback state is paused
 * Improve corking on Android

Video Output:
 * Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
 * More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
 * Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
 * Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
 * Misc Direct3D11 fixes

Miscellaneaous:
 * Improve ChromeCast
 * Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
 * Update Youtube support
 * Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance


Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
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Decoder:
 * Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
 * Decode AV1 streams
 * Fix playback of low-fps files
 * Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
 * Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
 * Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
 * Fix crashes with LPCM streams
 * Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
 * Fix MediaCodec rotation handling

Demux:
 * Improve FLV fps detection
 * Fix some ogg/flac
 * Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
 * Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
 * Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
 * Fixes for MKV seeking
 * Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
 * Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)

Audio Output:
 * Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
 * Improve macOS audio performance
 * Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
 * Fix crashes on DirectSound output

Video Output:
 * Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
 * Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
 * Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
 * Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
 * Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
 * Fix potential green screen on Windows XP

Text renderer:
 * Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
 * Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
 * Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
 * Fix some RTL rendering

Misc:
 * Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
 * Change the extension registration names on Windows
 * Fix VLM 'now' date
 * Fixes on the HTTPD server
 * Fix on the NTservice registration
 * Fix --stop-time option
 * Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
 * Fix subtitles alignment
 * Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
 * Fix detection SAT>IP servers

Qt:
 * Fix tooltip display when using Wayland

macOS:
 * macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
 * Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
 * Modernized and improved support for media keys
 * Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
 * Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
 * Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel

Translations:
 * Update of most translations


Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
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Core:
 * Update subtitles display while paused

Access:
 * Enable srt support on binary builds

Decoders:
 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
 * Fix subsdec wide character support
 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux:
 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
 * Fix forced tracks selection
 * Fix Topfield files
 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS:
 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output:
 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt:
 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc:
 * Fix amem output
 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
 * Fix audioscrobbling
 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

Translations:
 * Update of most languages


Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
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Core:
 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd

Decoders:
 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
   supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
   and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ

Demux:
 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
 * Fix TTML inside MP4
 * Improve MP4 read of color information
 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc

Access:
 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking

Audio output:
 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
 * Passthrough is now disabled by default

Audio filters:
 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences

Video output:
 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
   and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11

macOS:
 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
 * Fix crash on exit
 * Fix remember playback position
 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
 * Fix localization issues

Qt:
 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
 * Fix jump size not being configurable
 * Fix missing time labels updates
 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
 * Fix raw input dump
 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback

Misc:
 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
 * Improve support for NetBSD
 * Fix MSI script for Windows
 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
 * Various VLSub improvements
 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths


Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
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Core:
 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
 * Fix crash on exit on Windows

Video output:
 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
 * Fix pink screen on Windows

Decoder:
 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec

Hardware Decoder:
 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage

Demux:
 * Improve MKV seeking speed
 * Fix xspf base URL handling
 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
 * Fix adaptive http redirections
 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes

Packetizer:
 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video

Stream Output:
 * Improve chromecast loading speed
 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
 * Fix casting to VP9

macOS Interface:
 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
 * Auto-layout improvements
 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
 * Fix MKV files association
 * Fix chromecast audio detection

Qt Interface:
 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays

Snap:
 * Improve interface look and feel.


Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
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Platform support changes:
 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
   that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
   Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
     - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
     - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
     - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
     - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent

 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
   * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
     it should work, but not without limitations.
     libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
     You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
   * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
   * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
   * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
   * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
   and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
   protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
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 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
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 * Support wayland surface type
 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
 * Refactor preparsing input
 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
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   es category single only or multiple es behavior
 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
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 * New NFS access module using libnfs
 * New SMB access module using libdsm
 * Adaptive streaming:
   * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
     MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
   * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
   * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
   * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
     stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
   * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
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 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
   domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
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 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
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 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
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 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
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 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
   by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
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 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
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 * Improvements on DVB scanning
 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
 * Support for DVD ISO over network
 * New SRT access module using libsrt
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Hardware Decoder:
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 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
   and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
   and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
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 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
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 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
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 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
   supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV

Decoders:
 * Support for experimental AV1 video
 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
 * Support for experimental Daala video
 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
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 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
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 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
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 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
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 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
   can now decode up to 8 channels
 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
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 * Support VPX high bit depth support
 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
 * CEA-708 decoder
 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
   without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
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 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
    * Support for fragmented MP4
    * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
    * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
    * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
    * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
    * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
    * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
    * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
    * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
    * Add new metadata fields
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 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
    * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
    * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
    * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
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    * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
    * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
    * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
    * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
    * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
    * Improvements for scrambled state detection
 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
    * HEVC support
    * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
    * Partial support of PSMF
    * Fix broken SCR samples
    * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
 * Improvements on MKV:
    * Rewrite MKV seeking
    * Support FFv1 inside MKV
    * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV