2.7.0:

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* Dropped support for iOS 6.1. VLC requires iOS 7.0 now

* Added support for SMB file sharing (#8879)

* Added support for music albums with more than 1 disk (#14650)

* Re-wrote Apple Watch extension for watchOS 2

* Reworked networking UI

* Added hardware accelerated video decoding for H264 on iOS 8 & later (#8505)

* Added support for system-wide search "CoreSpotlight"

* Added improved UI support for Right-to-Left languages

* Added support for the split-screen appearance in iOS 9 (#14840)

* Added support for Touch ID to unlock app (#13378)

* Added option to configure playback continuation (#14340, #14590)

* Added option to configure gestures (#15449)

* Added support for music albums with more than 1 disk (#14650)

* Display chapter duration in playback UI (#14718)

* Recently played network stream URL are not shared across all devices

2.6.6:

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* Desktop quality SSA subtitles rendering (finally!, #11297, #13365, #14112)

* Stability improvements

* New translations to Lao and Kabyle

2.6.5:

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* Fixed playback of streams opened through the legacy vlc:// pseudo protocol

* Minor improvements (#14080, #14836, #14881, #15118)

* New translation to Norwegian Bokmål

* Updated translations to Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, English (GB),

Spanish (Mexico), Persian, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),

Portuguese (Portugal), Slovenian, Turkish and Traditional Chinese

2.6.4:

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* Fixed playback of UPnP streams broken in previous update

2.6.3:

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* Stability improvements and minor bug fixes (#13601, #14154, #14611, #14852, #14860, #14864)

* Fixed video playback for URLs open via third party apps (#15075)

2.6.2:

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* Improved playback reliability (#15000 et al)

* Added minimize button to fullscreen playback so 'Done' stops playback again

* Added option to always play video in fullscreen, on by default (#14985)

* Fixed subtitles rendering which produced incorrect umlauts or pixelated fonts (#14978 et al.,

#14883, #14919, #14929)

* Fixed major playback issue on iOS 7 on iPad (#14977)

* Fixed remove control events on iOS 6 (#14996)

* Fixed x-callback-url on playback close (#14984)

* Improved accessibility (#15012)

2.6.1:

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* Reduced Apple Watch extension file size by 90%

* Minor bug fix (#14942)

2.6.0:

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* Added support for Apple Watch - control VLC from your watch!

- playback control

- media info

- library browsing

* Added mini-player to browse the library during playback (#13367)

* Added support for looping playlists

* New ingest mechanism for audio files

* Improved remote command support

* Improved thumbnail generation

* Improved thumbnail and web interface performance on devices with A5 CPU and above

* Fixed crash when playing media from a folder or music album on iPad (#14394, #14706)

* Fixed crash when app goes to background while a video is playing (#14643)

* Fixed privacy leak when using a passcode to protect the library (#14159, #14615)

* Removed stray popup announcing VLC's crash all the time while it actually

didn't crash before, but terminated by the user (#13194)

* Added support for the PLEX Web API

* Thumbnails displayed in the media library are updated to the last playback position (#14462)

* Improved reliability when sharing media library on the local network

* Improved media library search delivering more accurate results (#14593)

* Fixed 'crop to fill screen' on iPad (#14575)

* Fixed issue which prevented downloading of a few files via UPnP (#11123)

* Fixed crash when screen is being locked during playback (#14610)

* A large number of bug fixes affecting most parts of the app (#13194, #14056,

#14270, #14284, #14355, #14477, #14588, #14589, #14609, #14623, #14624,

#14628, #14629, #14635, #14638, #14641, #14642, #14654, #14663, #14687,

#14688, #14713, #14715, #14716, #14733, #14736, #14795, #14800, #14801, #14829)

2.5.1:

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* Fixed playback on iOS 6.1

2.5:

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* Added support for iCloud Drive (#8688)

* Added support for box.com (#11301)

* Added support for OneDrive (#13413)

* Added a lock button to the playback view, supporting both orientation and

controls (#11293, #11292)

* Added 10-band equalizer (#9032)

* Added sharing of the media library between multiple iOS devices

on the local network

* Added support for chapters and titles to the playback dialog (#11560)

* Cleaned-up playback view appearance with more features and less clutter

* Added enhanced media information to the library view (#13564)

* Added notifications about missing storage space when syncing media (#11474)

* Added timer to automatically stop playback (#8640)

* Improved WiFi sharing reliability with web browsers on Linux (#14083)

* Improved Plex support with optional direct connections if detection fails

* x-callback-url: added support for the x-error parameter (#14092)

* A few minor UI improvements (#13892)

* New translations to Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Khmer,

Faroese, Belarusian, Serbian (Latin), Tamil and Afrikaans

2.4.1:

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* Fixed subtitles downloading in some corner cases

* Appearance fixes for playback speed selector and download view on iPhone

* Improved WiFi Sharing reliability by disabling IPv6 support by default

* Improved UPnP reliability and speed

* Various minor UI improvements

* Fixed regression leading to incomplete library listings on iPad

* Improved decoding reliability by deploying FFmpeg instead of libav

2.4:

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* Added support for iPhone 6 and 6+

* Download of currently stored media via WiFi in addition to upload (#11289)

* Detection of external subtitles when streaming media via http or ftp (#10668)

* Folder support for GDrive (#11019)

* Support for streaming from GDrive

* Native support for Plex media servers

* Support for file sharing with further apps installed on device (#11302)

* Option to download media from http/ftp/https instead of direct playback when

requested through third-party app (#11147)

* Folders synced through iTunes are correctly parsed now (#9158)

* Option to set text encoding used for FTP connections (#10611)

* Option to set default playback speed (#10595)

* Media library search (#11303)

* Improved reliability when a call comes in during playback

* Improved subtitles playback reliability (#11225)

* Support for redirected downloads via HTTP (#10639)

* Support for audio playback and subtitles delay for manual sync (#11236)

* Added improved interaction with third party apps through a x-callback-url

based mechanism

URL scheme: vlc-x-callback://x-callback-url/stream?url=...&x-success=...

The 'stream' path component overwrites the "Download or Stream?" dialog

displayed when third party URLs are being opened.

* Media Library is no longer reset on upgrade (#11330)

- no further thumbnail mismatch (#9158 et al)

- playback states are retained

- improved first launch after upgrade reliability

* Fix browsing of a number of UPnP devices such as HDHomeRun without sorting

capabilities (#11667)

* Fix pseudo-random playback starts (#11993)

* Improved passcode lock appearance (#13166)

* Minor UI improvements (#11296, #11637, #13165, #13169)

* Network stream history allows copying URLs

* Improved reliability when syncing media via WiFi or iTunes (#13128)

* Stability improvements for iOS 6.1

* New translation to Traditional Chinese

2.3:

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* New ability to organize media in folders (#9043)

* Support for password protected HTTP streams (#9028)

* WiFi uploads and HTTP downloads continue in the background

(2 min on iOS 7, 10 min on iOS 6)

* Added option to disable playback control gestures (#10592)

* Added option to use bold subtitles (#10882)

* Modified behavior: when passcode lock is enabled, playback will be stopped

when VLC enters the background state (#10630, #10747)

* Fixed serial ftp downloads

* Fixed downloads from Twonky UPnP servers (#10631)

* Fixed playback control through lock screen, headphones or multi-tasking view

(#10932)

* Playback is paused when headphones are unplugged (#11041)

* Improved UPnP discovery speed with some servers (#10811)

* Improved memory consumption (#9505)

* Added support for m4b, caf, oma, w64 audio and mxg video files

* Caches for WiFi upload and HTTP downloads are emptied more often to

keep storage impact reasonable

* Stability improvements and UX tweaks (amongst others #10601, #10518)

* New translations to Latvian, Romanian and British English

2.2.2:

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* Fixed audio playback regression introduced in previous update (#10597)

* Updated translations to Arabic, Chinese (Hans), Dutch, Galician, Hungarian,

Portuguese

2.2.1:

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* Added initial support for ARM64 aka AArch64 aka ARMv8

* Improved reliability for Dropbox streaming (#10489)

* Added option to adapt network caching (#10388)

* Compatibility fixes for multiple UPnP servers (notably Twonky 7, Serviio 1.4,

XBMC 12)

* Fixed an issue where always the same file in a UPnP folder was played (#10441)

* Fixed a ftp streaming issue from connected servers if file name contains

non-ASCII characters or the path contains spaces (#10469)

* Improved meta data readability within the iPad library view (#10471)

* Improved stability on iOS 6

* Improved Thumbnails

* Misc stability improvements (#10490)

2.2.0:

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NB: This release removes support for iOS 5 and therefore the first generation

iPad. iOS 6 and the iPhone 3GS remain supported.

Interface:

* New Interface for iOS 7

* Add tutorial to introduce the user to the app

* Improved feedback for media download progress including data bitrate,

procentual progress and estimated remaining download time

* Opening network streams no longer leads to a collapsed file system hierachy

on the remote system. After playback, you can continue where you left off.

* Added bookmarks for FTP servers

* Added support for multi-touch gestures based upon the VLC Gestures haxie

- horizontal swipe for playback position

- tap with 2 fingers to play/pause

- vertical swipe in the right half of the video to adapt volume

- vertical swipe in the left half of the video to adapt screen brightness

* Previously removed episodes and tracks no longer show up in the respective

group listings (#9705)

* Improved privacy by requesting the passcode immediately after leaving the

app and by obfuscating playback metadata if passcode lock is enabled

* Added support to endlessly repeat the currently playing item (#9793)

* Added option to disable file name display optimizations (#10050)

* TV Shows are sorted by Season number / Episode number and Music Albums

respectively by track number

* Added ability to rename any media item in the library view

* Added deletion of multiple media items in one step

* If your media was recognized as part of a music album, the next track

will automatically start playing afterwards

* New translations to Czech, Malay, Persian, Spanish (Mexico)

Cloud interaction:

* Added support for downloads from Google Drive (#8690)

* Added support for streaming files from Dropbox in addition to download

to device (#9784)

Local network:

* Added support for downloading from UPnP multimedia servers

* Added cover-art and duration to UPnP server item lists

* UPnP stability improvements

* Fix incorrect displayed size for files stored on UPnP multimedia servers

larger than 2147.48 MB (#9641)

* Improved WiFi Upload reliability, especially when uploading multiple

items at the same time

Global networks:

* Added support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) (#9174)

* Added support for https playback

* Added support for system-wide HTTP proxy settings

* Added support for m3u streams

Misc:

* Improved audio playback performance and reliability

* Improved metadata detection

* Improved vlc:// handling (#9542)

* Improved TV show handling for shows with more than 100 episodes

2.1.3:

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* Fixed crashes with files whose names are less than 6 characters long after

removing the file extension

2.1.2:

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* Stability improvements (#9393, #9431, #9432, #9433, #9434, #9435, #9556)

* Improved Closed Caption rendering (#9369)

* Minor UI fixes (#9454)

* New translations to Hungarian and Swedish

2.1.1:

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* Stability improvements

* Improved UPnP handling

* Improved interaction with third party apps

* Improved visual appearance on iPad

* Added support for Teletext-based DVB subtitles

* New translations to Arabic, Polish, and Korean

2.1:

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* Improved overall stability (#8989, #9031, #9048, #9089, #9092)

* Add support for subtitles in non-western languages (#8991)

* Improved Subtitles support with options to choose font, size, and color

* Add UPnP discovery and streaming (#8880)

* Add FTP server discovery, streaming and downloading (#9064)

* Add Bonjour announcements for the WiFi Uploader's website (#8741)

* Add playback of audio-only media (#9044)

* Newly implemented menu and application flow (#9045)

* Improved VoiceOver and accessibility support (#9017)

* Add Deinterlace option (off by default, #8813)

* Device no longer goes to sleep during media downloads (#9062)

* Improved video output on external screens (#9055, #9079)

* Improved Passcode Lock behavior (#9252)

* Minor usability improvements (#9122, #9125, #9225)

* New translations to Bosnian, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Marathi, Portuguese,

Slovenian

2.0.2:

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* Fix MP2 and MP3 decoding (#8986)

* Add vlc:// protocol handler (#8988)

- vlc://anyprotocol:// allows you to force any URL to open in VLC

- vlc://server/path will assume http://

* Fix Dropbox hierarchy navigation (#8993)

* Fix major leak of data when opening files in VLC from other apps (#9011)

* Retain last audio and subtitles tracks when for played media (#8987)

* Fix CSS rendering issue in the WiFi Uploader's web interface

* Switch Default Subtitles Font from SourceSans-Pro to Open Sans

to support Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese (#8991)

* Shake device to create a bug report (#7788)

* Export meta data about current playback item to multitasking view (#8883)

* Fix crash when opening network streams from within third party apps while

playing content local to VLC (#9013)

* Fix VoiceOver support for Dropbox login (#8997)

* Fix dialog rotation on iOS 5 (#8992)

* New translations to Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Slovak, Turkish,

Ukrainian, Vietnamese

2.0.1:

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* Update of Russian and Spanish translations.

* Minor crash fix (#8739) and interface fix for iPhone 4.

* Add option for skipping loop filtering (#8814)

2.0.0:

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First project release.