[vlc] VLC media player 0.8.6h release
Felix Paul Kühne
fkuehne.videolan at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 6 18:22:20 CEST 2008
Dear VideoLAN users,
The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media
player 0.8.6h.
This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the
GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries which affect VLC media player
0.8.6g and lower.
This release includes the security updates for version 0.8.6g (a
source code release) aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the
Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis
libraries and in the Speex codec affecting VLC media player 0.8.6f and
lower.
Technical details are available in our advisories:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0804.html and
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0805.html
This updates also includes reliability updates in multiple modules,
plus updated libebml and libmatroska libraries on Mac OS X.
Please have a look at the release notes for VLC media player 0.8.6g
and 0.8.6h for the complete list of changes:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6g
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6h
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version and as
always to only download from the main VideoLAN website.
Enjoy this release,
The VideoLAN Team
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