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-Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
+Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:

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+Core:
+ * Support wayland surface type
+

 Access:
 Access:

- * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
-   New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
+ * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
+ * New SMB access module using libdsm
+ * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
+   MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
+ * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
+ * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
+ * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
+ * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
+   domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
+ * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
+ * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
+ * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
+ * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
+ * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows

 
 

-Decoders:
+Decoder:
+ * 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
+ * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
+ * Support for Daala video
+ * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
+ * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
+ * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
+ * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
+ * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
+ * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
+ * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
+ * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
+ * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Support Daala in Ogg
+ * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
+ * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
+ * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
+ * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
+ * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
+ * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
+ * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
+ * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
+ * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
+
+Stream filter:
+ * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
+
+Audio output:
+ * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
+   It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
+
+Video ouput:
+ * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
+ * Wayland shell surface window provider
+ * Wayland shared memory video output
+ * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
+   NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
+ * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
+ * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
+ * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
+
+Video filter:
+ * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
+ * New video filter to convert between fps rates
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Chromecast output module
+ * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
+
+Encoder:
+ * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
+
+Muxers:
+ * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
+ * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Daala in Ogg
+
+Service Discovery:
+ * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
+ * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
+
+Mac OS X Interface
+ * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
+ * Port to Yosemite X.10
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Batch convert support
+
+Skins2:
+ * Support key accelerators
+
+libVLC:
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
+ * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
+   libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
+   This allows to attach media events between create and start.
+ * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
+ * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
+ * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
+   identifier (if there is one available)
+
+Logging
+ * Support for the SystemD Journal
+ * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
+   messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
+ * New Android module for logging
+
+Misc
+ * remove langfromtelx
+ * remove ZPL playlist format
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
+--------------------------------
+
+Important changes:
+ * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
+   notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
+
+Core:
+ * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
+ * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
+ * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
+ * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
+
+Access:
+ * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
+   New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
+ * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
+ * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
+   and BD-J navigation
+ * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
+ * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
+ * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
+
+Decoder:
+ * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
+ * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
+ * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
+ * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
+ * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
+   supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display

  * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
  * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
  * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
  * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9

+ * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
+   Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
+ * Teletext subtitles display improvements
+ * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
+ * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
+ * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
+ * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
+ * New jpeg image decoder
+ * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
+ * New SVG image decoder
+ * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
+ * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
+ * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments

 
 Encoder:
  * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
  * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
  * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
 
 Encoder:
  * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
  * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
  * Support for Opus encoding using libopus

+ * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
+ * New png image encoder using libpng

 
 Demuxer:
 
 Demuxer:

- * New CAF format module
-
-Streaming:
- * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
-    vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout  '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
-    :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
+ * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
+ * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
+   streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
+ * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
+   synchronization and tracks exclusion
+ * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
+ * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
+ * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
+   and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
+ * Support Opus in MKV
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * Basic support for WebVTT
+ * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
+ * Support HDPR TS files
+ * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
+ * FLAC packets validation using CRC
+ * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
+ * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
+ * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
+ * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
+ * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
+ * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
+ * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
+ * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
+ * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
+ * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files

 
 Video Output:
  * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
 
 Video Output:
  * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration

- * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
+ * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins

  * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
  * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android

+ * New Android native window provider module
+ * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
+ * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
+ * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi

 
 Video Filter:
  * New Oldmovie effect filter
  * New VHS effect filter
  * New Freeze effect filter
 
 Video Filter:
  * New Oldmovie effect filter
  * New VHS effect filter
  * New Freeze effect filter

+ * Support I422 and J422 in transform
+ * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
+ * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
+ * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
+ * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
+ * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
+ * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
+ * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
+
+Muxers:
+ * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
+ * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
+
+Streaming:
+ * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
+ * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
+    vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout  '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
+    :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
+ * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
+ * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
+ * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
+ * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
+ * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
+    with --no-sout-all
+ * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
+    --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
+ * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP

 
 libVLC:
  * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
 
 libVLC:
  * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions

+ * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function

 
 Visualizations:
  * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
 
 Visualizations:
  * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.

+ * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
+ * Add record button in Qt menus
+ * New module for core dialogs on iOS
+ * New layout for Qt buttons customization
+ * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Support for OS X Yosemite
+ * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
+ * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
+ * Fixes for advanced preferences
+ * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
+ * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
+ * Option to increase playlist font size
+ * Improved crash log reporting
+
+Misc:
+ * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
+ * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
+ * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
+ * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
+
+Security:
+ * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers

 
 Removed modules:
 
 Removed modules:

- * ios video output: use ios2
+ * iOS video output: use ios2

  * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
  * OpenMash H.261 video decoder

+ * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
+
+Translations:
+ * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
+   Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
+ * Update of all translations:
+   Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
+   Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
+   Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
+   Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
+   Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
+   Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
+   Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix OSS stuttering
+
+Security:
+ * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
+ * Fix buffer overflow in updater
+ * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
+ * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
+ * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
+ * Fix SRTP integer overflow
+ * Fix potential crash in zip access
+ * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Update translations and greek encoding
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix compilation on OS/2
+
+Access:
+ * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
+
+Mac OS X audio output:
+ * Fix channel ordering
+ * Increase the buffersize
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
+ * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
+ * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Correctly support video-on-top
+ * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
+ * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
+
+Streaming:
+ * Fix transcode when audio format changes
+
+Security contents:
+ * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
+ * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update British English
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
+
+Video Output:
+ * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix DVD playback regression
+ * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
+ * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
+ * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
+ * Fix encrypted DVD playback
+ * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
+   by updating codec libraries
+ * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
+ * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
+ * Fix teletext crash on Windows
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
+ * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
+ * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
+ * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
+ * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
+
+Video Output:
+ * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
+ * Fix transform off-by-one issue
+ * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
+ * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
+ * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
+ * Fix record file names
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix minimal size possible on start
+ * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
+ * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
+ * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
+ * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
+
+HTTP interface:
+ * Fix album art display on Windows
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
+   Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
+   Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
+   Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
+   Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
+   and Simplified Chinese translations
+ * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
+ * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
+ * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
+   audio devices on OS X
+ * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
+ * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
+ * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
+ * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
+ * Improve A-B loop control
+ * Fix album art update when changing media
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * Add a language option in the interface
+ * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
+ * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
+ * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
+ * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
+ * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
+ * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
+ * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
+   French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
+   Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
+   Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
+

 
 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
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 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
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@@ -102,7 +535,7 @@ Mac OS X interface:
 
 Translations:
  * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
 
 Translations:
  * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,

-   Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
+   Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,

    Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
    Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
    Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
    Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
    Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
    Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek