vlc-ios/NEWS

iOS 2.8.0:
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* Added support for NFS shares
* Added Bonjour discovery for SMB shares

iOS 2.7.7:
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* Updated decoders
* Added ability to rename network streams

tvOS 1.0.6:
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* Updated decoders
* Added repeat mode for playback

iOS 2.7.6:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixes
* Fix hue video filter
* Improved stability when unlocking app using Touch ID
* Improved Dropbox stability
* Prevent ghosting of media downloaded from UPnP servers
* Prevent playing the wrong file on some UPnP, PLEX or FTP shares

tvOS 1.0.5:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixes
* Prevent ghosting of media downloaded from UPnP servers
* Prevent playing the wrong file on some UPnP, PLEX or FTP shares

iOS 2.7.5:
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* Improved SMB reliability
* Stability improvements for iOS 7

tvOS 1.0.4:
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* Improved SMB reliability

iOS 2.7.3:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixes
* Added 3D Touch Quick Actions for iPhone 6S
* Added 'Play all' feature to OneDrive
* Added 'Play all' feature to local network shares
* Added automatic finding of external subtitles on HTTP, FTP, PLEX and UPnP
  - Note that SMB shares are not supported yet.
* Added filtering of files found on FTP servers to only show playable media
* Improved SMB reliability
* Fixed contrast video filter
* Fixed downloads from certain UPnP, PLEX and ftp servers
* Fixed switching library display modes on iPad

tvOS 1.0.3:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixes
* Added S/PDIF pass-through option
* Added option to disable artwork retrieval
* Added automatic finding of external subtitles on HTTP, FTP, PLEX and UPnP
  - Note that SMB shares are not supported yet.
* Added filtering of files found on FTP servers to only show playable media

tvOS 1.0.2:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixe
* Improved SMB reliability

tvOS 1.0.1:
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* General stability improvements and bug fixes
* Improved UPnP reliability, notably with Twonky, KooRaRoo, PlayOn

tvOS 1.0.0:
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* Initial release

2.7.2:
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* Stability improvements
* Improved HTTP connectivity
* Improved UPnP reliability, notably with Twonky
* Fixed issues unlocking the app when a passcode was never set
* Fixed custom subtitles font sizes
* Fixed UPnP playback on iOS 7
* Note: when installing this update, a potentially configured passcode is reset.

2.7.1:
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* Stability improvements
* Fixed issues unlocking the app when a passcode was never set
* Fixed repeat one / repeat list
* Fixed saving playback progress for files whose names contain spaces or umlauts
* Fixed multiplying music album listings
* Show music albums with 1 track correctly in the music album's list
* Improved SMB compatibility
* UPnP reliability improvements, notably with Kodi

2.7.0:
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* Added new app for the 4th gen. Apple TV
* Dropped support for iOS 6.1. VLC requires iOS 7.0 now
* Added support for SMB file sharing (#8879)
* Added support for music albums with more than 1 disk (#14650)
* Re-wrote Apple Watch extension for watchOS 2
* Media stored in folders on remote servers is now played as a list
* Reworked networking UI
* Added support for system-wide search "CoreSpotlight"
* Added improved UI support for Right-to-Left languages
* Added support for the split-screen appearance in iOS 9 (#14840)
* Added support for Touch ID to unlock app (#13378)
* Added support for WiFi sharing using a personal hotspot (#14865)
* Added option to configure playback continuation (#14340, #14590)
* Added option to configure gestures (#15449) 
* Added support for music albums with more than 1 disk (#14650)
* Display chapter duration in playback UI (#14718)
* Recently played network stream URL are now shared across all devices
* Stored login information is now shared across all devices
* Cloud login credentials are now shared across all devices

2.6.6:
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* Desktop quality SSA subtitles rendering (finally!, #11297, #13365, #14112)
* Stability improvements
* New translations to Lao and Kabyle

2.6.5:
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* Fixed playback of streams opened through the legacy vlc:// pseudo protocol
* Minor improvements (#14080, #14836, #14881, #15118)
* New translation to Norwegian Bokmål
* Updated translations to Afrikaans, Arabic, Bosnian, Czech, Danish, English (GB),
  Spanish (Mexico), Persian, Hungarian, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),
  Portuguese (Portugal), Slovenian, Turkish and Traditional Chinese

2.6.4:
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* Fixed playback of UPnP streams broken in previous update

2.6.3:
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* Stability improvements and minor bug fixes (#13601, #14154, #14611, #14852, #14860, #14864)
* Fixed video playback for URLs open via third party apps (#15075)

2.6.2:
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* Improved playback reliability (#15000 et al)
* Added minimize button to fullscreen playback so 'Done' stops playback again
* Added option to always play video in fullscreen, on by default (#14985)
* Fixed subtitles rendering which produced incorrect umlauts or pixelated fonts (#14978 et al.,
  #14883, #14919, #14929)
* Fixed major playback issue on iOS 7 on iPad (#14977)
* Fixed remove control events on iOS 6 (#14996)
* Fixed x-callback-url on playback close (#14984)
* Improved accessibility (#15012)

2.6.1:
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* Reduced Apple Watch extension file size by 90%
* Minor bug fix (#14942)

2.6.0:
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* Added support for Apple Watch - control VLC from your watch!
  - playback control
  - media info
  - library browsing
* Added mini-player to browse the library during playback (#13367)
* Added support for looping playlists
* New ingest mechanism for audio files
* Improved remote command support
* Improved thumbnail generation
* Improved thumbnail and web interface performance on devices with A5 CPU and above
* Fixed crash when playing media from a folder or music album on iPad (#14394, #14706)
* Fixed crash when app goes to background while a video is playing (#14643)
* Fixed privacy leak when using a passcode to protect the library (#14159, #14615)
* Removed stray popup announcing VLC's crash all the time while it actually
  didn't crash before, but terminated by the user (#13194)
* Added support for the PLEX Web API
* Thumbnails displayed in the media library are updated to the last playback position (#14462)
* Improved reliability when sharing media library on the local network
* Improved media library search delivering more accurate results (#14593)
* Fixed 'crop to fill screen' on iPad (#14575)
* Fixed issue which prevented downloading of a few files via UPnP (#11123)
* Fixed crash when screen is being locked during playback (#14610)
* A large number of bug fixes affecting most parts of the app (#13194, #14056,
  #14270, #14284, #14355, #14477, #14588, #14589, #14609, #14623, #14624,
  #14628, #14629, #14635, #14638, #14641, #14642, #14654, #14663, #14687,
  #14688, #14713, #14715, #14716, #14733, #14736, #14795, #14800, #14801, #14829)

2.5.1:
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* Fixed playback on iOS 6.1

2.5:
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* Added support for iCloud Drive (#8688)
* Added support for box.com (#11301)
* Added support for OneDrive (#13413)
* Added a lock button to the playback view, supporting both orientation and
  controls (#11293, #11292)
* Added 10-band equalizer (#9032)
* Added sharing of the media library between multiple iOS devices
  on the local network
* Added support for chapters and titles to the playback dialog (#11560)
* Cleaned-up playback view appearance with more features and less clutter
* Added enhanced media information to the library view (#13564)
* Added notifications about missing storage space when syncing media (#11474)
* Added timer to automatically stop playback (#8640)
* Improved WiFi sharing reliability with web browsers on Linux (#14083)
* Improved Plex support with optional direct connections if detection fails
* x-callback-url: added support for the x-error parameter (#14092)
* A few minor UI improvements (#13892)
* New translations to Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Khmer,
  Faroese, Belarusian, Serbian (Latin), Tamil and Afrikaans

2.4.1:
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* Fixed subtitles downloading in some corner cases
* Appearance fixes for playback speed selector and download view on iPhone
* Improved WiFi Sharing reliability by disabling IPv6 support by default
* Improved UPnP reliability and speed
* Various minor UI improvements
* Fixed regression leading to incomplete library listings on iPad
* Improved decoding reliability by deploying FFmpeg instead of libav

2.4:
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* Added support for iPhone 6 and 6+
* Download of currently stored media via WiFi in addition to upload (#11289)
* Detection of external subtitles when streaming media via http or ftp (#10668)
* Folder support for GDrive (#11019)
* Support for streaming from GDrive
* Native support for Plex media servers
* Support for file sharing with further apps installed on device (#11302)
* Option to download media from http/ftp/https instead of direct playback when
  requested through third-party app (#11147)
* Folders synced through iTunes are correctly parsed now (#9158)
* Option to set text encoding used for FTP connections (#10611)
* Option to set default playback speed (#10595)
* Media library search (#11303)
* Improved reliability when a call comes in during playback
* Improved subtitles playback reliability (#11225)
* Support for redirected downloads via HTTP (#10639)
* Support for audio playback and subtitles delay for manual sync (#11236)
* Added improved interaction with third party apps through a x-callback-url
  based mechanism
  URL scheme: vlc-x-callback://x-callback-url/stream?url=...&x-success=...
  The 'stream' path component overwrites the "Download or Stream?" dialog
  displayed when third party URLs are being opened.
* Media Library is no longer reset on upgrade (#11330)
  - no further thumbnail mismatch (#9158 et al)
  - playback states are retained
  - improved first launch after upgrade reliability
* Fix browsing of a number of UPnP devices such as HDHomeRun without sorting
  capabilities (#11667)
* Fix pseudo-random playback starts (#11993)
* Improved passcode lock appearance (#13166)
* Minor UI improvements (#11296, #11637, #13165, #13169)
* Network stream history allows copying URLs
* Improved reliability when syncing media via WiFi or iTunes (#13128)
* Stability improvements for iOS 6.1
* New translation to Traditional Chinese

2.3:
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* New ability to organize media in folders (#9043)
* Support for password protected HTTP streams (#9028)
* WiFi uploads and HTTP downloads continue in the background
  (2 min on iOS 7, 10 min on iOS 6)
* Added option to disable playback control gestures (#10592)
* Added option to use bold subtitles (#10882)
* Modified behavior: when passcode lock is enabled, playback will be stopped
  when VLC enters the background state (#10630, #10747)
* Fixed serial ftp downloads
* Fixed downloads from Twonky UPnP servers (#10631)
* Fixed playback control through lock screen, headphones or multi-tasking view
  (#10932)
* Playback is paused when headphones are unplugged (#11041)
* Improved UPnP discovery speed with some servers (#10811)
* Improved memory consumption (#9505)
* Added support for m4b, caf, oma, w64 audio and mxg video files
* Caches for WiFi upload and HTTP downloads are emptied more often to
  keep storage impact reasonable
* Stability improvements and UX tweaks (amongst others #10601, #10518)
* New translations to Latvian, Romanian and British English

2.2.2:
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* Fixed audio playback regression introduced in previous update (#10597)
* Updated translations to Arabic, Chinese (Hans), Dutch, Galician, Hungarian,
  Portuguese

2.2.1:
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* Added initial support for ARM64 aka AArch64 aka ARMv8
* Improved reliability for Dropbox streaming (#10489)
* Added option to adapt network caching (#10388)
* Compatibility fixes for multiple UPnP servers (notably Twonky 7, Serviio 1.4,
  XBMC 12)
* Fixed an issue where always the same file in a UPnP folder was played (#10441)
* Fixed a ftp streaming issue from connected servers if file name contains
  non-ASCII characters or the path contains spaces (#10469)
* Improved meta data readability within the iPad library view (#10471)
* Improved stability on iOS 6
* Improved Thumbnails
* Misc stability improvements (#10490)

2.2.0:
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NB: This release removes support for iOS 5 and therefore the first generation
iPad. iOS 6 and the iPhone 3GS remain supported.

Interface:
* New Interface for iOS 7
* Add tutorial to introduce the user to the app
* Improved feedback for media download progress including data bitrate,
  procentual progress and estimated remaining download time
* Opening network streams no longer leads to a collapsed file system hierachy
  on the remote system. After playback, you can continue where you left off.
* Added bookmarks for FTP servers
* Added support for multi-touch gestures based upon the VLC Gestures haxie
  - horizontal swipe for playback position
  - tap with 2 fingers to play/pause
  - vertical swipe in the right half of the video to adapt volume
  - vertical swipe in the left half of the video to adapt screen brightness
* Previously removed episodes and tracks no longer show up in the respective
  group listings (#9705)
* Improved privacy by requesting the passcode immediately after leaving the
  app and by obfuscating playback metadata if passcode lock is enabled
* Added support to endlessly repeat the currently playing item (#9793)
* Added option to disable file name display optimizations (#10050)
* TV Shows are sorted by Season number / Episode number and Music Albums
  respectively by track number
* Added ability to rename any media item in the library view
* Added deletion of multiple media items in one step
* If your media was recognized as part of a music album, the next track
  will automatically start playing afterwards
* New translations to Czech, Malay, Persian, Spanish (Mexico)

Cloud interaction:
* Added support for downloads from Google Drive (#8690)
* Added support for streaming files from Dropbox in addition to download
  to device (#9784)

Local network:
* Added support for downloading from UPnP multimedia servers
* Added cover-art and duration to UPnP server item lists
* UPnP stability improvements
* Fix incorrect displayed size for files stored on UPnP multimedia servers
  larger than 2147.48 MB (#9641)
* Improved WiFi Upload reliability, especially when uploading multiple
  items at the same time

Global networks:
* Added support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) (#9174)
* Added support for https playback
* Added support for system-wide HTTP proxy settings
* Added support for m3u streams

Misc:
* Improved audio playback performance and reliability
* Improved metadata detection
* Improved vlc:// handling (#9542)
* Improved TV show handling for shows with more than 100 episodes

2.1.3:
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* Fixed crashes with files whose names are less than 6 characters long after
  removing the file extension

2.1.2:
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* Stability improvements (#9393, #9431, #9432, #9433, #9434, #9435, #9556)
* Improved Closed Caption rendering (#9369)
* Minor UI fixes (#9454)
* New translations to Hungarian and Swedish

2.1.1:
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* Stability improvements
* Improved UPnP handling
* Improved interaction with third party apps
* Improved visual appearance on iPad
* Added support for Teletext-based DVB subtitles
* New translations to Arabic, Polish, and Korean

2.1:
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* Improved overall stability (#8989, #9031, #9048, #9089, #9092)
* Add support for subtitles in non-western languages (#8991)
* Improved Subtitles support with options to choose font, size, and color
* Add UPnP discovery and streaming (#8880)
* Add FTP server discovery, streaming and downloading (#9064)
* Add Bonjour announcements for the WiFi Uploader's website (#8741)
* Add playback of audio-only media (#9044)
* Newly implemented menu and application flow (#9045)
* Improved VoiceOver and accessibility support (#9017)
* Add Deinterlace option (off by default, #8813)
* Device no longer goes to sleep during media downloads (#9062)
* Improved video output on external screens (#9055, #9079)
* Improved Passcode Lock behavior (#9252)
* Minor usability improvements (#9122, #9125, #9225)
* New translations to Bosnian, Catalan, Galician, Greek, Marathi, Portuguese,
  Slovenian

2.0.2:
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* Fix MP2 and MP3 decoding (#8986)
* Add vlc:// protocol handler (#8988)
  - vlc://anyprotocol:// allows you to force any URL to open in VLC
  - vlc://server/path will assume http://
* Fix Dropbox hierarchy navigation (#8993)
* Fix major leak of data when opening files in VLC from other apps (#9011)
* Retain last audio and subtitles tracks when for played media (#8987)
* Fix CSS rendering issue in the WiFi Uploader's web interface
* Switch Default Subtitles Font from SourceSans-Pro to Open Sans
  to support Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese (#8991)
* Shake device to create a bug report (#7788)
* Export meta data about current playback item to multitasking view (#8883)
* Fix crash when opening network streams from within third party apps while
  playing content local to VLC (#9013)
* Fix VoiceOver support for Dropbox login (#8997)
* Fix dialog rotation on iOS 5 (#8992)
* New translations to Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Slovak, Turkish,
  Ukrainian, Vietnamese

2.0.1:
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* Update of Russian and Spanish translations.
* Minor crash fix (#8739) and interface fix for iPhone 4.
* Add option for skipping loop filtering (#8814)

2.0.0:
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First project release.