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-Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
+Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
 --------------------------------
 
+Core:
+ * Support wayland surface type
+ * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
+
 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)
+ * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
+
+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
+ * 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
+ * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
+ * New png image encoder using libpng
 
-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}'
+Demuxer:
+ * 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
- * 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 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
+ * 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
+ * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
 
 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:
- * ios video output: use ios2
+ * iOS video output: use ios2
  * 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 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
+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:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
+ * Fix recording
+ * Fix some subtitles track selection
+
+Decoders:
+ * VP9 support in WebM
+ * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
+ * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
+ * Support Speex in ogg files
+ * Fix some .mov playlists support
+ * Support Alac in mkv
+ * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
+ * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB options parsing
+ * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
+ * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
+ * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
+ * Fix D-Bus volume setting
+
+Qt:
+ * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
+ * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
+ * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
+ * Fix play after drag'n drop
+ * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
+
+Stream out:
+ * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
+ * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
+ * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
+ * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
+ * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
+ * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
+ * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
+ * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
+ * Improves interface resizings
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
+   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
+   translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
 --------------------------------
 
 Important changes:
  * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
-   VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
- * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
-   compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+ * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
+   Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
+ * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
+   compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
 
 3rd party libraries (contrib):
- * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
 
 Core:
- * Audio core rewrite
+ * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
+   better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
  * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
  * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
- * Partial support for Windows Store App
- * Removed SQL support
- * Add an audio fingerprinter
- * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
+ * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
+ * Port to Android
+ * Port to iOS
+ * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
+ * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
+ * Remove SQL support
 
 Decoders:
- * Support for OPUS via libopus.
- * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
- * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
+ * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
+ * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
  * Support for Ulead DV audio
  * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
    Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
  * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
  * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
  * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
+ * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
  * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
- * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
  * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
+ * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
+ * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
 
 Encoders:
  * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
  * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
+ * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
 
 Access:
  * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
@@ -89,7 +602,8 @@ Access:
  * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
  * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
    vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
- * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
+ * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
+ * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
 
 Demuxers:
  * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
@@ -103,22 +617,21 @@ Demuxers:
  * Support for more MJPEG streams
  * Add support for liveleak streams
  * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
- * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the 
-   program to terminate.
- * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
+ * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
+ * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
 
 Audio output:
  * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
  * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
  * Android AudioTrack audio output support
  * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
  * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
  * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
    This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
    distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
- * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
- * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
+ * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
+ * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
 
 Audio Filters:
  * New remapping channel filter
@@ -126,20 +639,22 @@ Audio Filters:
  * New VSXu visualization plugin
  * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
  * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
+ * New gain audio filter
 
 Video Outputs:
- * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
- * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
+ * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
+ * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
  * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
  * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
- * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
-   Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
+ * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
+ * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
  * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
  * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
+ * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
 
 Video Filters:
  * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
-   anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
+   anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
  * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
    and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
  * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
@@ -159,12 +674,14 @@ Fingerprinters:
  * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
 
 Interfaces:
- * configurable password for the HTTP server.
- * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
- * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
+ * configurable password for the HTTP server
+ * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
+ * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
  * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
  * Hotkey support for TS program selection
  * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
+ * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
+   rotate mode into the rotate video filter
 
 Services discovery:
  * UPnP A/V subtitles
@@ -176,8 +693,8 @@ OS X Interface:
    controller
  * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
  * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
- * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
-   - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
+ * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
+   - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
  * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
  * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
    VLC's internal volume level
@@ -210,7 +727,7 @@ OS X Interface:
  * Add support for the Video Title option
  * Add support for the Boss Key
  * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
-   deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
+   deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
 
 Qt:
  * Partial support for Qt5.0
@@ -224,11 +741,9 @@ Qt:
  * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
  * Display playlist total duration
  * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
- * Numerous fixes
  * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
- * Remove language preference
- * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
-   Added new profiles.
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
+ * Numerous fixes
 
 Skins2:
  * Port to OS/2
@@ -269,6 +784,46 @@ Removed modules:
  * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
  * htcpcp :)
 
+Translations:
+ * Update of all translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demux:
+ * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
+ * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
+
+Contribs:
+ * Fix modplug security issues
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix ISDB-S tuning
+ * Fix crash in QTsound
+ * Fix screen mouse file location
+ * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix use after free in sgimb
+ * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix interface crashes
+ * Fix autostart playback option
+ * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
+
+Translations:
+ * update Welsh translation
+ * New Kannada translation
+
 
 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
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