VLC media player 0.9.5

2008-10-24

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to address a separate security issue (CVE-2008-3964). This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, Qt4 interface usability, and fixes a few extra bugs. Full list of changes can be found here. We utmostly recommend all users upgrade to this new version. Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binary release is indefinitely postponed pending volunteers taking over the Windows port. Help is available, as usual, in many places:

The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
The forums
The mailing lists
IRC: #videolan on Libera Chat

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

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