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-Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
-------------------------------------
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
+--------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+3rd party libraries (contrib):
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
+
+Core:
+ * Audio core rewrite
+ * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
+ * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
+ * Partial support for Windows Store App
+ * Removed SQL support
+ * Added audio fingerprinter support
+ * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
+
+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 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
+ * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
+ * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
+ * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
+
+Encoders:
+ * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
+ * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
+
+Access:
+ * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
+           remove support for previous OS X releases
+ * Major improvements in DASH support
+ * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
+ * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
+ * 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
+
+Demuxers:
+ * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
+ * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
+ * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
+ * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
+ * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
+ * Support for total number of tracks in major container
+ * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
+ * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
+ * Support for more MJPEG streams
+ * Add support for liveleak streams
+ * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
+
+Audio output:
+ * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
+ * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
+ * 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
+
+Audio Filters:
+ * 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
+
+Video Outputs:
+ * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
+ * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
+ * 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 the power management issue on Windows for standby management
+ * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
+
+Video Filters:
+ * 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
+ * Options support for AVIO output module
+ * 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:
+ * Added 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.
+ * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
+ * Hotkey support for TS program selection
+ * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
+
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP A/V subtitles
+ * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
+
+OS X Interface:
+ * 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
+   VLC's internal volume level
+ * 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
+   multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
+ * 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
+ * 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
+   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
+   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 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
+ * Numerous fixes
+ * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
+ * Removed language preference
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
+   Added new profiles.
+
+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.
+
+Removed modules:
+ * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
+ * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
+ * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
+ * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
+ * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
+ * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
+ * Hildon GUI
+ * 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)
+
+
+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:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
+   (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
+ * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
+ * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
+ * Fix koreus lua parser
+ * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
+ * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
+ * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
+ * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
+ * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
+ * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
+ * Fix Time counter UI look
+ * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix https streaming
+
+libVLC:
+ * Fix audio and video track selection:
+   The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
+   incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
+   Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
+   Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
+   Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
+ * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
+ * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
+ * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
+ * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
+ * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
+   during playback on Mac OS X
+
+Access:
+ * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
+ * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
+ * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
+ * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
+ * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
+ * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
+ * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
+ * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
+ * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
+ * Support Youtube live streams
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix media info dialog update
+ * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
+ * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
+ * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
+ * Fix album art display at start
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
+ * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
+ * Fix menus display and behavior
+ * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
+   streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
+ * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
+ * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
+   allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
+ * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
+ * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
+ * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
+ * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
+ * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
+ * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
+ * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
+ * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
+ * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
+ * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
+   Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
+   Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
+   Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
+ * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
+ * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Add GateKeeper support
+ * Fix handling for some hotkeys
+ * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
+ * Minor bugfixes and improvements
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix Windows 8 interface style
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
+   Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
+   Thai, Turkish and Walloon
+ * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
+ * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Video Output:
+ * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
+   There were too many errors with broken drivers.
+ * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
+ * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
+ * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
+ * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
+ * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
+   an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
+ * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
+   with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
+ * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
+   Retina Displays.
+
+Access:
+ * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
+ * Fixes for RAR compressed files
+ * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
+ * Improve PulseAudio input latency
+ * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
+ * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
+ * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
+ * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
+ * Accept more extensions for DVD images
+ * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
+ * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
+ * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
+
+Codec:
+ * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
+ * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
+ * Fix G726 support
+ * Fix MP3 free format support
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
+ * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
+ * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
+ * Fix for DVB channels file support
+ * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
+ * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
+
+Audio filters and output:
+ * Limitation of spatializer volume output
+ * Fix DirectSound device selection
+ * Correct PulseAudio volume control
+ * Do not apply volume in file output
+ * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
+ * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
+   the persistant media library
+ * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
+   to the media library or the temporary playlist
+ * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
+   This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
+   manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
+ * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
+   press on the Play/Pause button
+ * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
+   This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
+ * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
+ * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
+ * Many Fullscreen fixes
+ * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
+ * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
+   Synchronization panel
+ * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
+ * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
+ * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
+ * Fix crashes on exit
+ * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
+   VLC is running
+ * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
+ * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
+   Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
+   automatically reset on the first launch.
+   - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
+ * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
+ * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
+
+Lua Scripts:
+ * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
+ * Fixes for icecast SD
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
+ * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
+ * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
+ * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
+ * Fix tags and file names display
+ * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
+
+Skins2:
+ * Fix mousewheel on Windows
+ * Fix for key events and focus loss
+
+Web interface:
+ * Fix display of some buttons
+ * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
+ * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
+
+Security:
+ * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
+ * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
+ * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
+
+Translation:
+ * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
+   Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
+   Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
+   Thai translations update
+ * New Scottish Gaelic translation
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
+ * fix the samba module compilation
+ * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
+ * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
+ * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
+ * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for MXPEG files
+ * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
+ * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
+ * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
+ * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix ogm header creation
+
+Audio filters:
+ * limit spatializer filter distortions
+ * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
+ * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
+   The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
+ * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
+ * allow to hide the sidebar
+ * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
+   - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
+ * noticebly faster launch time
+ * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
+ * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
+ * improve track synchronization panel
+ * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
+ * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
+
+Qt interface:
+ * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
+ * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
+   the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
+ * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
+
+Skins interface:
+ * fix for menus display
+ * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
+ * documentation update
+
+Web interface:
+ * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
+ * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
+
+Service discovery:
+ * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
+ * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
+ * Update Jamendo selections
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * fix DBus crash
+ * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
+ * fix a crash on VLM close
+
+Security:
+ * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
+ * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
+ * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
+ * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+ * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
+   conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
+   from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
+   title:  vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
+ * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
+   - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
+   - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
+   - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
+   - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
+   All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
+ * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
+   - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
+     By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
+   - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
+     By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
+   - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
+     --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
+     --http-crl (optional CRL).
+ * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
+   Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
+ * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
+   output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
+ * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
+   Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
+ * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
 
 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
+ * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
    variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
- * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
+ * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
+ * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
+   configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
+ * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
 
- * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
- * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
+Core:
+ * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
+   Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
+   x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
+ * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
+ * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
+ * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
+ * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
 
-Access
+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
+ * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
+ * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
+ * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
+ * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
  * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
- * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
+ * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
  * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
  * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
  * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
- * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
+ * PulseAudio audio input support
+ * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
    in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
+ * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
+ * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
+ * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
+ * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
+ * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
+ * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
 
-Codecs
- * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+Codecs:
+ * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
+   on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
+   are notably concerned.
  * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
  * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
+ * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
+ * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
+ * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
  * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
    The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
-
-Core:
- * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
- * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
- * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
+ * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
+ * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
+ * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
+ * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
+ * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
+ * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
+ * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
+ * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
 
 Demuxers:
- * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
- * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * Ogg seeking improvements
- * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
+ * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
+ * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
+ * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
+ * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
+ * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
+ * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
+ * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
+ * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
+ * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
+ * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
+ * Improved support of tracker files
+ * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
 
-Interfaces
- * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
- * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+Interfaces:
  * Qt: effects dialogs rework
  * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
  * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+ * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
  * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
    and important cleanups and optimisations
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
+   It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
+ * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
+ * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
+ * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
+ * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
+ * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
+ * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
+ * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
+ * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
+   -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
  * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
+ * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
+ * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
+ * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
+ * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
+ * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
+ * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
+ * Qt: preferences are now searchable
+ * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
 
 Video Output:
  * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
@@ -61,20 +802,42 @@ Video Output:
  * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
  * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
  * Various vmem improvements
+ * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
+   chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
+ * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
+ * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
+ * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
+ * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
+
+Audio Output and Filters:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+ * New audio output in memory (amem)
+ * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
+ * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
+ * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
+ * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New simplistic Karaoke filter
+ * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
+ * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
 
 Video Filter:
  * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
  * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
  * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
- * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
+ * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
  * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
  * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
-
-Audio Output:
- * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
-
-Audio Filter:
- * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
+ * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
+ * New anti-flickering filter
+ * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
+ * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
+ * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
+   blackbox and customizable shadow.
+   NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
+   the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
+   The Win32 font selection was improved too.
 
 Stream output:
  * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
@@ -83,7 +846,7 @@ Stream output:
     access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
     index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
     dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
- * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
+ * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
  * Major rework of VoD support
  * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
        #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
@@ -92,24 +855,189 @@ Stream output:
  * 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{...}
+   #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{...}
+ * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
 
 Services Discovery:
  * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
+ * Upnp module was ported to Win32
 
 libVLC:
  * New capabilities for libVLC:
   ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
   ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
      list of available audio and video filters
+  ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
+     libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
+     allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
 
 Removed modules:
- * asademux: use libass only
+ * asademux, subsass: use libass
  * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
  * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
  * id3tag: use taglib
  * upnp: use upnp_intel
+ * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
+ * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
+ * removal of the noise filter
+ * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
+ * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
+              removed in Growl's next release, too.
+ * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of translations for most languages.
+ * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
+ * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
+ * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
+
+Video outputs:
+ * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
+ * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
+ * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
+
+Decoders:
+ * Camtasia decoding fix.
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
+ * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
+----------------------------------
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
+                     including support for OS X Lion
+ * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
+ * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
+
+Unix port:
+ * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
+
+Misc:
+ * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
+ * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
+ * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
+   and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
+ * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
+ * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
+ * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
+ * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
+
+Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
+ * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
+ * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
+
+Demuxers/Meta Readers:
+ * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
+
+Muxers/Output:
+ * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
+
+Extensions:
+ * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Fix quitting on Linux
+ * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
+ * Miscellaneous
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
+---------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
+ * Fix for various crashes and small issues
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
+
+Audio output:
+ * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
+ * Qt interface
+ * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
+ * RTP output and XML export
+ * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
+ * v4l2 access
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
+   Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
+   Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
+ * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
+--------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
+
+Demuxers:
+ * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
+ * Improve Apple Remote handling
+ * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
+ * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
+ * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
+ * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Fix Growl local notification plugin
+ * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
+ * Fixes for eyeTV
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
+   German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
+ * New Luganda Translation
 
 
 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
@@ -308,7 +1236,7 @@ Win32:
  * Fix folders opening from the interface
 
 Translations:
- * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
+ * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
    Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
 
 
@@ -506,8 +1434,8 @@ Extensions:
 Audio filters:
  * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
  * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
- * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited 
-   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF 
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
+   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
    and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
  * NEON assembly audio converter module
  * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
@@ -781,7 +1709,8 @@ Demuxers:
 
 Access:
  * Add extra caching for files on network shares
- * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+ * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
+   DZCORE Labs, Algeria
 
 Decoders:
  * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
@@ -806,7 +1735,8 @@ Mac OS X Interface:
 Windows port:
  * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
 
-Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
+Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
+Lithuanian
 
 
 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
@@ -988,7 +1918,7 @@ Demuxers:
 
 Mac OS X Interface:
  * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
-   - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item 
+   - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
      instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
      main controller window.
  * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
@@ -1021,7 +1951,7 @@ Bunch of small bugfixes.
 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
 --------------------------------
 New Localizations:
- * Ukranian
+ * Ukrainian
 
 Security updates:
  * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
@@ -1210,7 +2140,7 @@ Inputs:
  * JACK audio input support
  * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
  * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X 
+ * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
    using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
  * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
  * Experimental EyeTV access module
@@ -1295,7 +2225,7 @@ Video outputs and filters:
  * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
    The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
  * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
- * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). 
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
    This was previously part of the mosaic module.
  * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
  * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
@@ -1340,16 +2270,16 @@ Interfaces:
    * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
    * Simplified Extended Controls panel
  * Ncurses:
-   * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, 
+   * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
      if libncursesw is available.
    * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
  * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
    share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
  * Unix
    * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
-   * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS 
-     (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control 
-     interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when 
+   * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
+     (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+     interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
      finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
    * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
    * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
@@ -1393,9 +2323,9 @@ Security updates:
 
 Various bugfixes:
  * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
- * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD 
+ * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
  * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
-   (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, 
+   (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
     SAP services discovery, http control interface)
  * Updated Polish translation
 
@@ -1404,14 +2334,14 @@ Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
 ----------------------------------
 
 Security updates:
- * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, 
+ * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
    CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
  * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
 
 Goodies:
  * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
  * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
-   (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface, 
+   (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
     playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
  * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
  * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
@@ -1425,9 +2355,9 @@ Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
 ----------------------------------
 
 Security updates:
- * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX 
+ * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
    (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
- * Removed loading plugins from the current directory 
+ * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
    (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
  * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
  * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
@@ -1439,7 +2369,7 @@ Various bugfixes:
  * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
  * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
  * Fixed AAC resampling
- * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, 
+ * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
    if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
 
 
@@ -1474,7 +2404,7 @@ Security updates:
  * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
  * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
    VideoLAN-SA-0801)
- * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, 
+ * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
    VideoLAN-SA-0802)
 
 Audio filter:
@@ -1491,7 +2421,7 @@ Stream output:
 
 Encoders:
  * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
- * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 
+ * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
    encoding on multi-cpu systems
     - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
     - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
@@ -1517,20 +2447,20 @@ Various bugfixes:
  * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
 
 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
- * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows 
+ * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
 
 Active X plugin:
  * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
- 
+
 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
  * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
  * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between 
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
    Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of 
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
    two different movies
  * Support for current Ogg file formats
- NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. 
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
        Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
 
 Encoders:
@@ -1630,7 +2560,7 @@ Decoders:
  * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
  * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
  * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
- 
+
 Video output:
  * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
  * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
@@ -1653,7 +2583,7 @@ Interfaces:
 
 Windows port:
  * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
-   Windows 9x/ME users: 
+   Windows 9x/ME users:
      - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
      - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
        Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
@@ -1686,8 +2616,8 @@ Input:
  * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
  * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
  * Improvements to the Audio CD input
-     - Separate playlist entries for the tracks 
-     - Support for CDDB 
+     - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
+     - Support for CDDB
  * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
  * Improved subtitles encoding support
  * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
@@ -1704,7 +2634,7 @@ Audio output:
  * New JACK audio output
 
 Video output:
- * New video filters: 
+ * New video filters:
     - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
     - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
     - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
@@ -1716,7 +2646,7 @@ Stream output:
  * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
 
 Interfaces:
- * System to inform the user and request information 
+ * System to inform the user and request information
     - HTTP authentication
     - Fatal errors
     - ...
@@ -1724,7 +2654,7 @@ Interfaces:
     - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
     - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
     - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
- * Skins2 
+ * Skins2
     - New default skin
     - Support for Winamp 2 skins
     - Improved playlist handling
@@ -1745,7 +2675,7 @@ Windows Port:
 
 OS X Port:
  * Mac-Intel compatibility
- * Enhanced support of various audio output devices 
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
  * Growl "Now playing" support
 
 *Nix port:
@@ -1777,10 +2707,10 @@ Services Discovery:
  * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
  * UPnP fixes
  * Avahi 0.6 support
- 
+
 Interfaces:
  * Mac OS X
-    - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard 
+    - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
 
 
 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
@@ -1823,7 +2753,7 @@ Stream output:
  * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
  * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
  * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
- 
+
 Interfaces:
 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
  * Mac OS X
@@ -1873,8 +2803,8 @@ Core support:
  * Rewrite of the playlist
     - Tree structure
     - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
-    - Grouping (by artist, ...) support 
- * Preferences improvements: 
+    - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
     - New organization, designed to improve usability
     - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
  * XML parsers
@@ -1920,7 +2850,7 @@ Access filters:
 Services discovery:
  * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
  * Brand new SAP module
-     * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in 
+     * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
        the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
      ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
      * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
@@ -2044,14 +2974,14 @@ Core support:
  * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
 
 Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X 
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
     (Stream your desktop)
  * Improved DVD support:
     - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
     - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
  * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
  * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
- * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access 
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
     (selection of titles/chapters).
 
 Demuxers:
@@ -2084,7 +3014,7 @@ Stream Output:
   * DVB subtitles encoder
   * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
   * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
- Muxers: 
+ Muxers:
   * Text track muxing for mp4
   * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
   * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
@@ -2110,10 +3040,10 @@ Video Output:
    with support for effects.
  * Improved filter and subpictures support :
     - New filters can be streamed.
-    - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video 
+    - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
     - Centralized scaling and blending
- * New filters : 
-    - "time", to display current time 
+ * New filters :
+    - "time", to display current time
     - "marq", to display a marquee
 
 Interfaces:
@@ -2176,7 +3106,7 @@ Codecs:
  * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
 
 Input:
- * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a 
+ * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
    file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
    fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
  * Improved directory access module.
@@ -2316,7 +3246,7 @@ Core support:
 
 Playlist:
  * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Playlist sorting 
+ * Playlist sorting
 
 Input:
  * RTP/RTSP support.
@@ -2404,7 +3334,7 @@ Linux port:
  * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
  * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
 
-iPaq port: 
+iPaq port:
  * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
 
 Miscellaneous:
@@ -2530,7 +3460,8 @@ Core Support:
  * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
 
 Input access:
- * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
+ * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
+   (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
  * Fixed large file support on Windows
  * Video 4 Linux support
  * CD Digital Audio support
@@ -2556,7 +3487,8 @@ Interfaces:
  * New HTTP remote control interface
 
 Stream output:
- * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
+ * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
+   allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
  * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
  * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
  * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)