Download VLC Media Player 0.9.5

VLC Media Player is an open source and cross platform media player that can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having to install the appropriate codec. Version 0.9.5 has recently been released for Linux and Mac OS X, but not yet for Windows due to the lack of a developer for this platform. This release fixes some bugs from the previous version and includes the following announcement and list of changes:

VLC media player 0.9.5

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bug fix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. More technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to fix its security issue (CVE-2008-3964).

This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, Qt interface usability as well as fixing few more other bugs. Full list of changes can be found here. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binaries might arrive at a later time.

Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• the documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• the forums
• the mailing list
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We’d like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:

Security updates:

• Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
• Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:

• Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bug fixes:

• Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
• Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:

• Fix bug where interface was “eating” some media keys
• Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:

• Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn’t reset the dialog states
• Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
• Various fixed in playlist

Access:

• MMAP module is now deactivated by default

translation:

• Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation

End of support for VLC 0.8.6 series

The VideoLAN team ceases all form of support for VLC media player the 0.8.6-bugfix tree. Due to lack of interest from the developers community, source code maintenance efforts for the VLC media player 0.8.6-bugfix branch will be stopped. This is effective immediately; there will be no more security and critical fixes for VLC 0.8.6. Binary releases of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch had already stopped as of July 2008. The VideoLAN team will continue to provide major or security-related bug fixes for the VLC media player 0.9-bugfix branch. If you have not already upgraded to VLC version 0.9.5, please do so now.