[videolan-announce] VLC 3.0.5 is out!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Dear VLC community,

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing today VLC 3.0.5,
named "Vetinari".

This is the fifth update of the "Vetinari" version of VLC.
It fixes numerous small issues and adds complete AV1 support and macOS mojave support.

It also fixes quite a few regressions, issues about hardware decoding, and HDR support.
It should be also faster on Windows.

Binaries are available for Win32, Win64, macOS and Linux:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.5.html

VLC 3.0.0 was a major release, who added important new features:
 - hardware decoding is activated everywhere to support 4K or even 8K,
 - support for HDR videos,
 - 360 videos are now supported,
 - rewritten Audio output for pass-through and HD Audio codecs,
 - convergence between all mobile and desktop versions of VLC.
We hope you like it as much as us!

Thanks a lot.


Detailed 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

-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf -  President
+33 672 704 734