- Codecs : Use FFmpeg 8.1 (upgraded from 4.4).
- Codecs : Support APV decoder (FFmpeg 8).
- Codecs : Support Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding.
- Codecs : Remove schroedinger support for dirac in favor of avcodec.
- Codecs : Fix Speex leaks and packetization issues.
- Codecs : Fix WebVTT CSS parsing and error handling.
- Codecs : Fix FLAC and HEVC packetizer edge cases.
- Demuxers : Add support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4.
- Demuxers : Expose ID3v2 metadata in MPEG demuxer.
- Demuxers : Improve subtitle language detection from filenames and SSA/ASS metadata.
- Demuxers : Fix several MKV crashes, leaks, hangs and malformed file handling issues.
- Demuxers : Fix AVI hang with zero-sized strd chunks.
- Demuxers : Fix MP4, MPEG-TS, Ogg, RealAudio and subtitle demuxing edge cases.
- Access : Switch RIST input and output to librist, with main and simple profile support.
- Access : Add SRT listener mode support.
- Access : Add SFTP public key authentication options and ED25519 hostkey support.
- Access : - Contrib : Update SMB2 share enumeration.
- Access : Don't ship RealRTSP plugin (build disabled for all configurations).
- Service Discovery : Include Chromecast model in mDNS renderer names.
- Service Discovery : Fix IPv6 addresses in Bonjour service URLs.
- Video Output : Fix Direct3D11 adjust filter and texture leaks.
- Video Output : Fix MediaCodec crop validation.
- Video Output : Super Resolution scaling with Moore Threads GPUs.
- Windows : Support NV12 DirectShow capture.
- Windows : Improve UWP build and runtime compatibility.
- Windows : Fix mmdevice crashes, leaks and deadlocks.
- Windows : Generate debug symbols by default for Windows packages.
- Interface : Qt: Fix default open dialog location.
- Interface : Qt: Fix effects window geometry saving.
- Interface : Qt: Improve hotkeys dialog strings.
- Stream Output : Disable HEVC for original Chromecast devices.
- Security : Switch to a new RSA-4096 key for - Contrib : Update verification.
- Security : Fix multiple OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues.
- Security : See
https://www.videolan.org/security/- Misc : Add Flatpak build support.
- Misc : Fix Audio EQ filter High Frequency parameter.
- Misc : Fix artwork preparser crash when artwork title is null.
- Misc : Fix LibVLC media list player race.
- Misc : Remove NPAPI browser plugin.
- Lua : Remove broken youtube.lua plugin.
- Windows : Fix slow startup on Windows when Daylight Saving Time changes.
- Contrib : Update libarchive to 3.8.8.
- Contrib : Update libass to 0.17.5.
- Contrib : Update aom to 3.15.0.
- Contrib : Update amf to 1.5.2.
- Contrib : Update asdcp to 2_13_2.
- Contrib : Update chromaprint to 1.6.0.
- Contrib : Update dav1d to 1.5.4.
- Contrib : Update faad to 2.11.2.
- Contrib : Update flac to 1.4.2.
- Contrib : Update FFmpeg to 8.1.2.
- Contrib : Update freetype to 2.14.3.
- Contrib : Update gcrypt to 1.12.2.
- Contrib : Update glew to 2.3.1.
- Contrib : Update gme to 0.6.5.
- Contrib : Update gnutls to 3.8.13.
- Contrib : Update gpg-error to 1.61.
- Contrib : Update harfbuzz to 14.2.1.
- Contrib : Update jpeg to v9f.
- Contrib : Update libbluray to 1.4.1.
- Contrib : Update libebml to 1.4.6.
- Contrib : Update libmad to 0.16.14.
- Contrib : Update libmicrodns to 0.2.0.
- Contrib : Update libtasn1 to 4.21.0.
- Contrib : Update libxml2 to 2.15.3.
- Contrib : Update matroska to 1.7.2.
- Contrib : Update mpg123 to 1.33.6.
- Contrib : Update mysofa to 1.2.1.
- Contrib : Update nettle to 3.10.2.
- Contrib : Update nfs to 6.0.2.
- Contrib : Update openjpeg to 2.5.4.
- Contrib : Update png to 1.6.58.
- Contrib : Update protobuf to 3.4.1.
- Contrib : Update opus to 1.6.1.
- Contrib : Update shout to 2.4.6.
- Contrib : Update SDL to 3.4.10.
- Contrib : Update SDL_image to 3.4.4.
- Contrib : Update smb2 to 6.1.
- Contrib : Update srt to 1.5.6.
- Contrib : Update ssh2 to 1.11.1.
- Contrib : Update upnp to 1.14.20.
- Contrib : Update vncclient to 0.9.15.
- Contrib : Update vorbis to 1.3.7.
- Contrib : Update x265 to 4.1.
- Contrib : Update zlib to 1.3.2.
- Contrib : Update zvbi to 0.2.45.
- Contrib : Add librist 0.2.20.
- Contrib : Switch mfx Library to Intel's vpl 2.13.0.