VLC media player Version 3.0.23
Release Date
1/8/2026
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
Multimedia player
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/31/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x86 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$
VLC Media player MSI x86 Version 3.0.23.0
Release Date
12/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$Many thanks to the Sovereign Tech Agency (https://www.sovereign.tech/); and$$$especially their Sovereign Tech Fund program; for helping VLC sustainability and safety.$$$Thanks to oss-fuzz as well for their help and resources to find issues.$$$Thanks to their support; 3.0.22 becomes the VLC release with the most security fixes ever!
VLC Media player MSI x64 Version 3.0.23.0
Release Date
12/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-fourth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$3.0.23 is just a small fixup release compared to 3.0.22; fixing issues$$$mostly on Windows for image display; security warnings; OpenGL.$$$It also adds a small feature on audio codec information; and fixes extra$$$security issues compared to the numerous we fixed in 3.0.22.$$$$$$3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file$$$$$$
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.23
Release Date
12/19/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.22 was large; here is what we wrote for the 3.0.22 release:$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some important fixes:$$$- Add option to use dark palette on Qt interface (Windows & Linux)$$$- Add Windows ARM64 builds$$$- Fix support for Windows XP SP3 and some older macOS versions$$$- Allow renaming/moving/deleting of playing file on Windows$$$- Add A_ATRAC/AT1 support in matroska$$$- Add AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler (Direct3D11)$$$- And a very large number of security issues fixed thanks to STF and oss-fuzz$$$$$$and:$$$- Add compilation support for Qt6 and newer versions of Qt5$$$- Prevent FLAC seeking logic get stuck$$$- Handle pictures in FLAC$$$- Fix VOB/AOB LPCM/MLP detection failing occasionally$$$- Cut QNap title on first invalid character$$$- Fix display of certain JPEG files$$$- Fix playback of very short ASF files (duration less than 1s)$$$- Fix crashes in multiple demuxers (reported by rub.de; oss-fuzz and others)$$$- Fix SFTP seeking for large files on 32-bit OS$$$- Fix Opus channel mapping$$$- Fix hardware decoding with VideoToolbox of XVID MPEG-4 video$$$- Fix DVD CEA-608 captions parsing$$$- Fix ProRes 4:4:4:4$$$- Disable decoding using libdca; libmpeg2 and liba52 by default in favor of libavcodec$$$- Add dav1d-all-layers option$$$- Restrict SystemParametersInfo calls to Windows XP$$$- Handle mkv-use-chapter-codec option$$$- UPnP: remove SAT>IP channel list fallback$$$- Use a better stretch mode in wingdi$$$- Fetch missing device information when running in UWP$$$- Qt: Add option to use dark palette$$$- Qt: Add compilation support for newer versions of Qt5$$$- Qt: Fix scrolling on volume slider$$$- macOS: fix crashes when dragn drop items in the playlist$$$- KDE: fix MPRIS state when started from file
VLC media player Version 3.0.21
Release Date
2/17/2025
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
Multimedia player
VLC media player Version 3.0.21
Release Date
2/17/2025
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
Multimedia player
VLC media player Version 3.0.21
Release Date
2/17/2025
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
Multimedia player
VLC media player Version 3.0.21
Release Date
2/17/2025
Bug Fix?
No
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
Multimedia player
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.21
Release Date
6/8/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.21-1 $$$protected$$$9c476829 · d3d11_tonemap: log when the TrueHDR feature is not available · 7 months ago$$$Mini Tag to fix release build issues of 3.0.21 on Windows.$$$ 3.0.21 $$$protected$$$dd8bfdba · Update NEWS for 3.0.21 · 7 months ago$$$VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:$$$ - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU$$$ - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation$$$ - support for Opus Ambisonic$$$ - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)$$$ - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS$$$ - improvements for MP4 and Opus support$$$ - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter$$$ - 3rd party libraries updates$$$ - fixes for VAAPI; HLS; UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes$$$ - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels$$$ - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)
VLC Media player EXE x86 Version 3.0.21
Release Date
6/8/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.21-1 $$$protected$$$9c476829 · d3d11_tonemap: log when the TrueHDR feature is not available · 7 months ago$$$Mini Tag to fix release build issues of 3.0.21 on Windows.$$$ 3.0.21 $$$protected$$$dd8bfdba · Update NEWS for 3.0.21 · 7 months ago$$$VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:$$$ - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU$$$ - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation$$$ - support for Opus Ambisonic$$$ - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)$$$ - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS$$$ - improvements for MP4 and Opus support$$$ - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter$$$ - 3rd party libraries updates$$$ - fixes for VAAPI; HLS; UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes$$$ - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels$$$ - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)
VLC Media player EXE x64 Version 3.0.21
Release Date
6/8/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
3.0.21-1 $$$protected$$$9c476829 · d3d11_tonemap: log when the TrueHDR feature is not available · 7 months ago$$$Mini Tag to fix release build issues of 3.0.21 on Windows.$$$ 3.0.21 $$$protected$$$dd8bfdba · Update NEWS for 3.0.21 · 7 months ago$$$VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the twenty-second release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This update contains a few improvements and some fixes:$$$ - Super Resolution scaling with AMD GPU$$$ - nVidia TrueHDR filter for SDR->HDR generation$$$ - support for Opus Ambisonic$$$ - support for HTTP content range (RFC 9110)$$$ - better subtitles generation for Complex Text Layout on macOS$$$ - improvements for MP4 and Opus support$$$ - new AMD VQ Enhancer filter$$$ - 3rd party libraries updates$$$ - fixes for VAAPI; HLS; UPNP modules and reduction of warnings and crashes$$$ - fix for the crash on macOS with devices with more than 9 channels$$$ - fix a potential security issue on MMS (heap buffer overflow)
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
10/30/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
10/30/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
10/30/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.20.0
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
No
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari$$$$$$VLC 3.0.20 is an emergency release; fixing major regressions that$$$appeared in 3.0.19.$$$It notably fixes a crash with AMD GPU; a green line in fullscreen on Windows;$$$a crash with AV1 hw acceleration; a bug in the fullscreen panel and a potential$$$security issue.
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.18.0
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming update$$$- Codec updates$$$- Fix seeking for some formats$$$- Many updates of third party libraries$$$- Numerous crash fixes
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.18.0
Release Date
11/8/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari$$$$$$This is the nineteenth release of VLC 3.0 branch; named Vetinari;$$$in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.$$$$$$This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming update$$$- Codec updates$$$- Fix seeking for some formats$$$- Many updates of third party libraries$$$- Numerous crash fixes
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.17.0
Release Date
3/24/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul$$$- Major codec updates$$$- Many third party libraries update$$$- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs$$$- Better notch support for new macbooks$$$- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats$$$- Improve AV1 live streaming support$$$- Several SRT support improvements$$$- Numerous crash fixes$$$- Update youtube script
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.17.0
Release Date
3/24/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul$$$- Major codec updates$$$- Many third party libraries update$$$- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs$$$- Better notch support for new macbooks$$$- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats$$$- Improve AV1 live streaming support$$$- Several SRT support improvements$$$- Numerous crash fixes$$$- Update youtube script
VLC Media player x86 Version 3.0.17.0
Release Date
3/24/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul$$$- Major codec updates$$$- Many third party libraries update$$$- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs$$$- Better notch support for new macbooks$$$- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats$$$- Improve AV1 live streaming support$$$- Several SRT support improvements$$$- Numerous crash fixes$$$- Update youtube script
VLC Media player x64 Version 3.0.17.0
Release Date
3/24/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes
This updates contains various fixes and improvements:$$$- Major adaptive streaming stack overhaul$$$- Major codec updates$$$- Many third party libraries update$$$- Allow brackets in the path section of URLs$$$- Better notch support for new macbooks$$$- Add support for DAV video and Webp image formats$$$- Improve AV1 live streaming support$$$- Several SRT support improvements$$$- Numerous crash fixes$$$- Update youtube script
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