What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Important changes for users:
· On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
· Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audiooutput plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).

Important changes for packagers:
· The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking ‘vlc-cache-gen’. If the module cache is not present and vlc can’t write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses:
· – xproto,
· – xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
· – xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
· – x11-xcb (from libx11) – only for GLX support.
· On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
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