** Summary changed: - [SRU] Update to bugfix release 2.2.6 in Xenial + [SRU] Update to bugfix release 2.2.6
** Description changed: [Impact] VLC has received many bug fixes on the stable 2.2.x branch since 2.2.2 was released. I think 16.04 LTS should get these fixes. [Test Case] Install vlc from xenial-proposed and test it for at least one week. Play - different video formats to catch any regressions. + different video formats to catch any regressions, and use it as you + normally would. [Regression Potential] The 2.2.x branch receives only bug fixes, which are cherry-picked from the master branch where the main development takes place. So, I think the regression potential is low. [Other Info] VLC 2.2 maintenance branch. http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=summary Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6: ---------------------------------- Video output: * Fix systematic green line on nvidia * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling Demuxer: * Fix heap buffer overflows Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1: ---------------------------------- Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments Translations updates Misc: * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5: -------------------------------- Decoder: * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad * Fix video scaling in VDPAU * Fix playback of palettized codecs * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067) Demuxer: * Fix possible ASF integer overflow * Fix MP4 divide-by-zero Video output: * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers Access: * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows * Fix FTP scan string injection Mux: * Fix mp4 drift Windows: * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely. * Fix uninstaller path handling MacOS: * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4: -------------------------------- Decoder: * Fix crash in G.711 wav files * Fix mp3 crash in libmad * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108) Qt: * Fix resizing issues Win32: * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output Misc: * Build fixes for Hurd Translations: * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3: -------------------------------- Demux: * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support * Fix WMV regression Decoder: * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl * Fix crashes with libvpx * Use libass without caching dialog Video Ouptut: * Fix green lines on Direct3D output Skins2: * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context Qt: * Fix resume where you left off * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed MacOS X: * Fix crashes in media information panel * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option Win32: * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer Translations: * Update of most translations -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579935 Title: [SRU] Update to bugfix release 2.2.6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1579935/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs