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jbkempf committed Feb 18, 2019
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- iOS 9 or later
- Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
- GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
* Windows on ARM is now supported

Core:
* new medialibrary

Audio output:
* ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
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* Support for DASH WebM
* Support for DVBSUB in mkv
* Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
* Support chapters in mp3 files

Codecs:
* Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
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* Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
* Support for 16-bit greyscale
* Support IMM4 decoder
* Improve 708 decoder

Access:
* Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
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* Remove RealRTSP plugin
* Remove Real demuxer plugin

Video filter:
* Update yadif

Stream output:
* New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
* Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers

Service discovery:
* Support Renderer discovery with avahi

macOS:
* Remove Growl notification support

appleOS:
* Improved proxy configuration handling


Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
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Access:
* Improve Blu-ray support

Audio output:
* Fix pass-through on Android-23

Video Output:
* Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
* Fix crash on iOS

Stream Output:
* Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps

Misc:
* Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo scripts


Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
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Core:
* Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures

Codec:
* Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
* Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata


Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
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Access:
* Improve RTSP playback
* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue

Codec:
* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
* Enable libaom decoder by default
* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding

Demux:
* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
* Fix CAF integer-underflow
* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones

Packetizer:
* Add an AV1 packetizer

macOS:
* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
* Fix convert & save panel stream option

Audio output:
* Fix corking when the playback state is paused
* Improve corking on Android

Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
* Misc Direct3D11 fixes

Miscellaneaous:
* Improve ChromeCast
* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
* Update Youtube support
* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance


Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
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Decoder:
* Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
* Decode AV1 streams
* Fix playback of low-fps files
* Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
* Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
* Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
* Fix crashes with LPCM streams
* Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
* Fix MediaCodec rotation handling

Demux:
* Improve FLV fps detection
* Fix some ogg/flac
* Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
* Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
* Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
* Fixes for MKV seeking
* Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
* Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)

Audio Output:
* Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
* Improve macOS audio performance
* Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
* Fix crashes on DirectSound output

Video Output:
* Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
* Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
* Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
* Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
* Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
* Fix potential green screen on Windows XP

Text renderer:
* Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
* Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
* Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
* Fix some RTL rendering

Misc:
* Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
* Change the extension registration names on Windows
* Fix VLM 'now' date
* Fixes on the HTTPD server
* Fix on the NTservice registration
* Fix --stop-time option
* Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
* Fix subtitles alignment
* Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
* Fix detection SAT>IP servers

Qt:
* Fix tooltip display when using Wayland

macOS:
* macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
* Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
* Modernized and improved support for media keys
* Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
* Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
* Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel

Translations:
* Update of most translations


Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
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