X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9b9e86064aaa621a0ba1f61f20f3b11e92a0f9f9;hb=a9d32139325cf55d784c0804a4be96c1db687d73;hp=aff0ad236a30f91ca0cf4e4d363ec7d902357012;hpb=51bc2433fa00a655542741f32967e4490014a06a;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aff0ad236a..9b9e86064a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ -Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git: +Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. + Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. + * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment + variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git @@ -14,6 +17,7 @@ Access * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices * DVB-S scanning support + * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray @@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ Interfaces Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) * New video output for iOS platform - * New video output using EGL + * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 * Various vmem improvements @@ -80,8 +84,15 @@ Stream output: dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora * Major rework of VoD support - * New delay module, to introduce delays - * New setlang, setid and langfromtelx modules + * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: + #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... + * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: + #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... + * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on + a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... + * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track + #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} + #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} Services Discovery: * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces @@ -95,16 +106,96 @@ libVLC: Removed modules: * asademux: use libass only * fake: use the new image demuxers - * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules + * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules * id3tag: use taglib * upnp: use upnp_intel +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7: +-------------------------------- + +Linux port: + * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs + #234484 and #260719. + +Mac OS X port: + * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams + * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed + and stability reasons + +Demuxers: + * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. + VideoLAN-SA-1102 + +Translations: + * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1: +---------------------------------- + +Source: + * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux + + +Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output + PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. + Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) + and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin. + +Access: + * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows + +Decoders: + * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working) + * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X + * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries + * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101 + +Demuxers: + * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007 + * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe + * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) + +Subtitles and renderer: + * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles + * Mark more freetype options as safe + * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation + * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, + discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522 + +Visualization: + * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales + * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows + * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now + * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X + +Interfaces: + * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes + * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements + +Miscellaneous fixes: + * KDE device solid actions + * XDG screensaver + * Transcode integer overflow + * HTTP Icy metadata reading + * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers + +Translations: + * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, + Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, + Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish + + Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: ---------------------------------- Security: - * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, + * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, VideoLAN-SA-1006 Access: