We are pleased to announce dav2d, a small, fast and portable decoder for the new AV2 codec, the successor to AV1 and the latest royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media.
dav2d is the continuation of the work we started with [dav1d](/developers/dav1d.html), our AV1 decoder, and is developed by members of the VideoLAN community under the same BSD-style license.

This first version is a feature-complete AVM v15 decoder, supporting 8-bit and 10-bit decoding, with optimizations for x86 (AVX2), ARM (AArch64 NEON) and RISC-V. This is still early work, and our focus remains on correctness, conformance, optimization and platform support.
You can find more information in this blog post.

We are pleased to release version 3.7.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform.
It comes with a completely new equalizer and an improved settings backup. See our Android page.

This weekend, VideoLAN is present at FOSDEM in Bruxelles, Belgium with a booth at the K building on Level 1. Throw balls, win rare prices and see our latest work on VLC including our AI based live subtitles generator!

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.23 release of VLC today, which is the 24th update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds a dark mode option on Windows and Linux, support for Windows ARM64 and improves support for Windows XP SP3. This is the largest bug fix release ever with a large number of stability and security improvements to demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others) and updates to most third party libraries. Additional details on the release page. The security impact of this release is detailed here.
The major maintenance effort of this release to strengthen VLC's overall stability as well as the compatibility with old releases of Windows and macOS was made possible by a generous sponsorship of the Sovereign Tech Fund by Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation.

Alongside the 3.0.23 release for desktop, VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing a larger update for Apple's mobile platforms to include the latest improvements of VLC's 3.0 branch plus important bug fixes and amendments for the 26 versions of the OS. Previously, we added pCloud as a European choice for cloud storage allowing direct streaming and downloads within the app.

We are pleased to release versions 1.6 of biTStream, 3.5 of DVBlast and 2.4 of multicat.
DVBlast and multicat had major improvements and new features.

New releases of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss have been published today.
The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption.

We are pleased to release version 3.6.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform.
It comes with the new Remote Access feature, a parental control and a lot of fixes. See our Android page.

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.21 release of VLC today, which is the 22nd update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds Super Resolution and VQ Enhancement filtering with AMD GPUs, NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate a HDR representation from SDR sources with NVIDIA GPUs and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering notably on macOS with Asian languages. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes a security issue, which is detailed here.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding playback history, A to B playback, Siri integration, support for external subtitles and audio tracks, a way to favorite folders on local network servers, improved CarPlay integration and many small improvements.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.20 release of VLC, which is a medium update to VLC's 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, fixes a FLAC quality issue and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering. It also fixes a freeze when using frame-by-frame actions. On macOS, audio layout problems are resolved. Finally, we update the user interface translations and add support for more. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes two security issues, which are detailed here and there.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new audio playback interface, CarPlay integration, various improvements to the local media library and iterations to existing features such as WiFi Sharing. Notably, we also added maintenance improvements to the port to tvOS including support for the Apple Remote's single click mode. See the press release for details.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.18 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page. This release also fixes multiple security issues, which are detailed here.

VideoLAN is a de-facto pacifist organization and cares about cross-countries cooperations, and believes in the power of knowledge and sharing. War goes against those ideals. As a response Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we decided to financially support the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and their work on aiding and protecting forcibly displaced people and communities, in the places where they are necessary. See our press statement.

VideoLAN is proud to release the new major version of VLC for Android. It comes with new widgets, network media indexation, a better tablet and foldable support, design improvements in the audio screen, improved accessibility and performance improvements.