VLC media player 2.2.8 "WeatherWax"

This quick release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer, in
addition to the fixes for 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.

VLC media player 2.2.7 "Umbrella"

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.

VLC media player 2.2.6 "Umbrella"

This release fixes 2 subtitle security issues (when parsing JSS
subtitles) and improves the direct3d video output, mostly for nvidia
cards, but not only.

VLC media player 2.2.5.1 "Umbrella"

This is mostly focused on Windows, to limit some DLL hijacking
techniques.
It also fixes various issues & crashes in demuxers and video output
modules.

VLC media player 2.2.5 "WeatherWax"

This release fixes several security issues (ADPCM, LPCM, ASF, MP4, FLAC,
Ogg), several crashes and minor regressions.
It also fixes some green lines on Windows, some MP3 playback on macOS
and the size of the screenshots

VLC media player 2.2.4 "WeatherWax"

This small release fixes 2 security issues (one in VLC, one in libmad),
an important crash on the G.711 codec and a regression on Windows XP

VLC media player 2.2.3 'WeatherWax'

This is the third update of the branch 2.2. of VLC, named 'Weatherwax'.

This release brings mostly security fixes and minor improvements and fixes, see NEWS

VLC media player 2.2.2 'Weatherwax'

This is the second minor update of the 2.2.x branch.

This release fixes numerous crashes and security issues. Everyone should update now.

VLC media player 2.2.1 'Terry Pratchett'

This is the first fixed up release of the 'Weatherwax' branch of VLC

This fixes numerous crashes, and fixes regressions from 2.1.x

VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax'

This is the final version of VLC 2.2.0, named 'Weatherwax', first release of the 2.2.0 branch.

There has been more than 4000 commits and 1000 bugs squashed for this release.

This release brings numerous features and changes, see NEWS

VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax' - Release Canditate 2

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
- Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
  Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
- Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
- New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
- Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
- Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
- VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
- HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
- Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
- Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
- Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
- OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
- AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax' - Release Canditate 1

This is the first release candidate of VLC media player 2.2.0

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
- Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
  Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
- Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
- New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
- Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
- Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
- VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
- HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
- Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
- Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
- Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
- OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
- AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0-pre4 'Weatherwax'

This is the fourth pre-release of VLC media player 2.2.0

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
 - Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
   Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
 - Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
 - New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
 - Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
 - Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
 - VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
 - HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
 - Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
 - Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
 - Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
 - OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
 - AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer
 - Heap overflows in demuxers

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0-pre3 'Weatherwax'

This is the third pre-release of VLC media player 2.2.0

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
 - Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
   Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
 - Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
 - New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
 - Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
 - Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
 - VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
 - HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
 - Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
 - Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
 - Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
 - OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
 - AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0-pre2 'Weatherwax'

This is the second pre-release of VLC media player 2.2.0

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
 - Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
   Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
 - Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
 - New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
 - Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
 - Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
 - VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
 - HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
 - Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
 - Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
 - Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
 - OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
 - AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0-pre1 'Weatherwax'

This is the first pre-release of VLC media player 2.2.0

This is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
 - Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
   Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
 - Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
 - New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
 - Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
 - Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
 - VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
 - HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
 - Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
 - Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
 - Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
 - OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
 - AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.

VLC media player 2.2.0-git

Splitting the repository of VLC 2.2.0 and VLC.git master

VLC media player 2.1.0-git

Splitting the repository of VLC 2.1.0 and VLC.git master

VLC media player 1.3.0-git
Opening the master for development again

VLC media player 'Twoflower' 1.2.0-pre1
This is the first pre-version of VLC 1.2.0, aka 'Twoflower'.
This version is intended to developers, packagers and power-users to report important issues and regressions.
It isn't for the average user (yet).

Listing here the number of changes would be quite long, see the NEWS file.
Thanks for the hard work.