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)
* Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
# Translations:
* Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations

2.0.0
· With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
· Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
· It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
· Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.
· Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.

Video:
· Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
· Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
· New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
· New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
· New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.

Audio:
· New resamplers for higher quality audio.
· New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
· Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
· New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

Formats:
· Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
· Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
· Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
· Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
· CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

Input and Devices:
· Experimental support for BluRay discs: Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon), AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
· Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
· Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.

For Mac Users:
· Completely new, single window interface: available in 2 colors (Lion grey and QTX black), and extensions support and better Lion integration.
· Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
· Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).

For Anime Fans:
· Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
· Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
· Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
· Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
· Various ASS subtitles improvements.

For professional Users:
· Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
· Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
· Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
· SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
· New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.

For Developers:
· libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
· New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
· New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
· Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
· VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

2.0.0 RC 1
· 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. 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.

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 overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
· The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
· The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git

Core:
· Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video 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:
· Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
· BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
· DVB-S scanning support on Unix
· DVB-C scanning on Unix 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
· HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
· PulseAudio audio input support
· RTP: support for 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
· QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
· QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
· X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
· MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support

Codecs:
· You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
· 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
· 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
· 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:
· 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

Interfaces:
· Qt: effects dialogs rework
· Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
· Qt: small look improvements
· Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
· Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations
· 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: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
· dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
· 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

Video Output:
· New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
· New video output for iOS platform
· 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
· 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
· New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
· New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
· 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 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ 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
· Major rework of VoD support
· 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{...}
· 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
· 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

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

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

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

1.1.8
# Mac OS X Interface:
* New UI graphics by Damien Erambert

# Interfaces:
* Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
* Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
* Qt and Mac OS X fixes
* numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins

# Encoder:
* new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one

# Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
* Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
* vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
* mp4 demuxer improvements
* ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
* taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
* vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
* fix a crash in malformed ape files

# Miscellaneous fixes in:
* Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
* Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
* Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
* Configure and build system improvements
* DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated

# Translations:
* Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
* New icelandic translation

1.1.7
# Linux port:
- Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs

# 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


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

# 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

# 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
* KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository

# 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