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-Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
+Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
 --------------------------------
 
-Important changes for packagers:
- * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
-   compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+Core:
+ * Support wayland surface type
+
+Access:
+ * 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
+
+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
+ * 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
+
+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 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
+ * 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:
+--------------------------------
+
+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 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 better 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
+ * 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 in 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)
+   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,
@@ -38,6 +595,12 @@ Access:
  * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
  * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
  * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
+ * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
+ * 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, named AVcapture
+ * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
 
 Demuxers:
  * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
@@ -50,37 +613,50 @@ Demuxers:
  * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
  * Support for more MJPEG streams
  * Add support for liveleak streams
+ * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
+ * 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 and 7.1 playback and layouts
+ * 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)
+ * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
+ * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
 
 Audio Filters:
- * new remapping channel filter
- * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
- * new VSXu visualization plugin
+ * New remapping channel filter
+ * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
+ * New VSXu visualization plugin
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
+ * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
+ * New gain audio filter
 
 Video Outputs:
- * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
+ * 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 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.
+ * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
+   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
  * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
 
 Stream Output:
  * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
@@ -88,73 +664,102 @@ Stream Output:
  * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
  * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
  * Livehttp stream encryption support
+ * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
+ * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
+
+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
  * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
 
-OS X Port:
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
- * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
-
 OS X Interface:
- * add support for multiple video outputs
- * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
+ * Add support for multiple video outputs
+ * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
    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 to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
- * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
+ * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
+ * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
+ * 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
- * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
+ * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
+   playback
+ * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
    selection and to manage the list of presets
- * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
+ * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
    multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
- * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
- * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
- * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
- * add an option to show next / previous buttons
- * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
- * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
+ * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
+ * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
+ * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
+ * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
+ * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
+ * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
+ * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
    date and language
- * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
- * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
- * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
+ * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
+ * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
+ * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
  * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
  * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
- * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
+ * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
    when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
    3rd party applications
- * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
+ * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
    handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
+   (system-wide settings)
+ * 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
+   deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
 
 Qt:
  * Partial support for Qt5.0
  * Menus modifications and improvements
  * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
  * Streaming output wizard rewrite
+ * Add bitrate graph in information panels
+ * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
+ * EPG display fixes and improvements
+ * Add SD pixmap sources
+ * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
+ * Display playlist total duration
+ * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
+ * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
  * Numerous fixes
 
+Skins2:
+ * Port to OS/2
+ * Extend sliders, offsets options
+ * New bitmaps caching mechanism
+ * Numerous fixes and improvements
+ * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
+
 libVLC:
  * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
    to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
    and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
  * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
- * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
  * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
    media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
+ * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
+ * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
+   libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
+ * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
 
 Removed modules:
  * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
@@ -167,6 +772,143 @@ Removed modules:
  * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
  * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
  * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
+ * Broken crop video filter
+ * Switcher module
+ * OSD parser and menu
+ * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
+ * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
+ * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
+ * 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:
+--------------------------------
+
+Input:
+ * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
+ * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
+   playlist files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
+
+Video output:
+ * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
+
+Mac OS X Interface
+ * Minor improvements
+ * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
+
+HTTP Interface
+ * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
+   Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
+ * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
+ * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
+ * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
+ * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
+ * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
+ * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
+ * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
+ * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
+ * 3rd party codecs updates
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
+ * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
+ * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
+   in the advanced preferences panel
+ * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
+ * Fix crash within the video output code
+ * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
+   folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
+ * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
+ * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
+   lua extensions, ...)
+ * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
+
+GNU/Linux:
+ * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
+ * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
+   Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
+   Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
+   Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
+   Dutch, Danish, translations
+ * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
 
 
 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5: