NEWS

Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
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Access:
 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
 * Support for the sftp protocol
 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams

Decoders:
 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
 * Invmem module improvements
 * Support for Atrac1 codec
 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components

Demuxers:
 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
   (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
 * Various EGP improvements
 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files

Playlist:
 * WPL playlist support
 * ZPL playlist support
 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
 * Podcast images are now displayed

Video Output:
 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
     Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)

Extensions:
 * new content extensions lua framework
 * imdb extension

Audio filters:
 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
   linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
   A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
 * NEON assembly audio converter module
 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input

Visualisation:
 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries

Service discovery:
 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
 * Service discovery based on libudev

Encoders:
 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
   uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required

Stream output:
 * New smem module, streaming to memory
 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
   --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"

Interfaces:
 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
   and oldhttp.
 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)

Mac OS X Port:
 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
   by Andy Matuschak et al.
 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer

Windows port:
 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module

Maemo port:
 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900

Misc:
 * new sqlite module
 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.

Bindings:
 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp

Removed modules:
 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
 * transrate
 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
 * opie, qte and qte_main
 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
 * opengllayer
 * cddax. Use cdda instead
 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem


Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
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Decoders:
 * SubRip extra styles improvements
 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
   increase performance and fix x264 issues

Translations:
 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
   Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
   Russian, Slovak translation updates
 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations


Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
--------------------------------

Audio outputs:
 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video outputs:
 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:
 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)

Playlist:
 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)

Unix:
 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD

Qt4 interface:
 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard

Translations:
  * New Walloon translation
  * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates


Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
--------------------------------

Video outputs:
 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
   regressions in most popular drivers
 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms

Decoders:
 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
   didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks

Encoders:
 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}

Input:
 * Update for appletrailers lua script
 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer

Service discovery:
 * New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:
 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

Translations:
 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates


Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
--------------------------------

Decoders:
 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
 * Various fixes on theora and ogg

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

Access:
 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning

Qt Interface:
 * Fix some playlist sorting issues

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature

Mac OS X Port:
 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
   with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
   - no support for Goom and SDL
   - limited text rendering support
   - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.

Encoders:
 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
   - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
   - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
   - otherwise ABR-mode is used
 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
   - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
   - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)


Playlist:
 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback

Unix builds:
 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD

Translations:
 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
   Arabic and French translation updates


Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
--------------------------------

Demuxers:
 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
 * Fix Dailymotion access script
 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version

Access:
 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria

Decoders:
 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version

Muxers:
 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio

Qt Interface:
 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
 * Fix various crashes

Windows port:
 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support

Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian


Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
---------------------------------

Important notes:
----------------
 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
   See 'Access:' for more info.
 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:
 * Instantaneous pausing
 * Frame-by-Frame playback
 * Finer speed control
 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
 * Timeshift for most medias
 * RTSP trickplay support
 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:
 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:
 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams

Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
 * DVB scanning on linux
 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
   zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
   zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
   Windows and Mac OS X.

Playlist:
 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
 * Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
 * Recently played items list
 * Interface toolbar customizations
 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
    - More menus actions
    - Finer speed slider
    - Improvements on many dialogs
    - New dialog for plugins listing
    - Fixed-size mode for videos
    - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
 * Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
 * Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   - an interface based on Hildon framework.
   - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
 * Support for latest iSight models

Audio output:
 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
 * Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
   (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
   The old image video output has been removed.
 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
   withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellaneous:
 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

New Localization:
 * Khmer
 * Mongolian
 * Sorani


Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
--------------------------------------

HTTP Interface:
 * Fixed default ACL

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi

Various fixes to the following modules:
 * access:
   - HTTP, SMB
   - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
   - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
     DZCORE Labs, Algeria
 * stream out:
   - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
 * decoder:
   - TSCC


Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
---------------------------------

Mac OS X:
 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs


Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
---------------------------------

Decoders:
 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes related to real demuxer

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
   - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item 
     instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
     main controller window.
 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard

Mac OS X Port:
 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs

New Localizations:
 * Indonesian
 * Bengali
 * Updates of other localizations

Various bugfixes:
 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
 * Lots of small bugfixes.
 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
 * Telnet fixes on Windows
 * Resampling fixes when transcoding


Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
---------------------------------

Security update:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.


Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
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New Localizations:
 * Ukranian

Security updates:
 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)


Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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Security updates:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
 * Various fixed in playlist

Access:
 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation


Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
------------------------------------
Various bugfixes:
 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
 * Fixes several memory leaks.

Mac OS X port:
 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

Windows port:
 * Stability fix for the video output.


Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
--------------------------------

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
 * Fixed update system bugs
 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)

Mac OS X port:
 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
   modern Mac OS X versions

Windows port:
 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
   before installation
 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.

Qt4 interface:
 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
--------------------------------

 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
 * Multiple bugfixes.


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
--------------------------------

 * Multiple bug fixes.


Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
---------------------------------

Important notes:
----------------
 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
   recent to work correctly
 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
   If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
   edit the ".hosts" file.
   - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
     If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
     /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
   - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
     C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
   - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
     and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
   This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
   This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
   0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
   now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
   vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
   You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
   If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
   plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
   These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
   Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
     Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
     New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
   EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
   of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
   with some file names. Use access://url instead.
    E.g.:  vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
           udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
   avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
   and postproc modules.
 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
   following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
   STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
   BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
   functional atm.
 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
   filter. For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
   For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
 * Glide video output module has been removed.

Changes:
--------

Security updates:
 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
   CVE-2008-1807)
 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )

Playlist:
 * Vastly improved playlist support:
    * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
    * "Live search"
    * Shoutcast TV listings
    * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
 * Album art support
 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
   (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
   lots of other URLs)
 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt

Inputs:
 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
 * JACK audio input support
 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X 
   using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
 * Experimental EyeTV access module
   This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
   (available as a separate download).
 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
 * RTMP input support
 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
   taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
   Authentication.
 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
   frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)

Demuxers:
 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
 * AAC tags support
 * APEv1/2 tags support
 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
 * Raw video support
 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
 * TiVo Series 2 support
 * CD+G karaoke Files support
 * MXF files support
 * OMA support

Decoders:
 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
 * Flash Screen Video support
 * CamStudio Screen Video support
 * DosBox Capture support
 * Karl Morton's Video support
 * limited atrac3 support
 * Fraps support
 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
   Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
 * H.264 PAFF support
 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
 * NellyMoser ASAO support
 * APE (Monkey audio) support
 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger

Subtitles:
 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
 * AQTitle subtitles support
 * MKV USF subtitles support
 * HTML-based subtitles support
 * MPSub subtitles support
 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
 * MPL2 subtitles support
 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
 * Realtext subtitle support
 * DKS subtitle support
 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support

Encoders:
 * Flash Screen Video support
 * Improved H.264 encoding speed

Video outputs and filters:
 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
   Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
 * New puzzle video output filter
 * Re-written motion detection video filter
 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
   video)
 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
   (Google Summer of Code Student project)
 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
   The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). 
   This was previously part of the mosaic module.
 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.

Audio outputs and filters:
 * Replay gain support
 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
   new scaletempo audio filter)
 * New spatializer audio filter
 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF

Stream output:
 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
 * New RTP payload formats:
   * Speex voice audio codec
   * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
   * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
 * DCCP transport for RTP
 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
 * RTMP output

Interfaces:
 * All
   * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
     end-user suitable way.
   * Improved user interaction
   * Improved mouse gestures
   * Vastly improved Update checker
   * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
 * Windows/Linux
   * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
   * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
 * Mac OS X
   * Improved video output features
   * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
   * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
   * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
   * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
   * Simplified Extended Controls panel
 * Ncurses:
   * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, 
     if libncursesw is available.
   * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
   share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
 * Unix
   * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
   * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS 
     (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control 
     interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when 
     finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
   * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
   * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux

Linux Port:
 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
   http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
   (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)

Mac OS X Port:
 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
   applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
   * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.

LibVLC:
 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
   (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)

New Localizations:
 * Finnish
 * Persian
 * Polish
 * Punjabi
 * Bulgarian

Developers:
  * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
    A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
  * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.


Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
----------------------------------

Security updates:
 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD 
 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
   (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, 
    SAP services discovery, http control interface)
 * Updated Polish translation


Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
----------------------------------

Security updates:
 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, 
   CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)

Goodies:
 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
   (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface, 
    playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
   to an unexpected application termination
 * New Serbian translation
 * Updated Romanian translation


Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
----------------------------------

Security updates:
 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX 
   (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory 
   (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
 * Fixed AAC resampling
 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, 
   if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.


Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
----------------------------------

Security updates:
 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.

Various bugfixes:
 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
 * Close MMS access on network timeout
 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer


Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
----------------------------------

Various bugfixes:
 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:
 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
   VideoLAN-SA-0801)
 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, 
   VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter:
 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:
 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access:
 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output:
 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders: