Between yesterday and Tuesday there was some controversy related to a VLC bug that got a score of 9.8 out of 10 in dangerousness. From what it seems, and according to the version of VideoLan, the bug was not VLC, but a third-party library, not to mention that it was fixed in the latest versions of the player. The version that was in the official repositories was not affected but, coincidences of life, today VLC 3.0.7.1 has arrived in the Ubuntu repositories.
The version that was available until a few hours ago was v3.0.6, and that the 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1 were released a few weeks ago to correct several bugs. As we will explain below, the version that introduced the most new features was v3.0.7, with 3.0.7.1 being released a few days later to solve one more bug. Taking into account that they are maintenance versions and that VLC 3.0.7 fixed a serious security bugIt is surprising that we have not had a new version in the official repositories until today.
Combined What's New in VLC 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1
- Improvements to HDR support on Windows, including HLG streams.
- Blue-ray support improvements.
- Fixed some 10bit and 12bit renderings in Windows 10.
- Fixes for UPnP on MacBooks with TouchBar.
- Many security enhancements: 21 severe, 20 medium urgent, and XNUMX minor.
- Fixed in VLC 3.0.7.1, the bug that during the playback of an MPEG video a green flicker was shown.
The new version is already available from the different software centers, so to update it will be enough to open these centers or the software update application and apply the updates. For a few weeks, it was already available from the download web page official for Linux, Windows and macOS. Although I trust VideoLan, considering what we have read these weeks, it is best to update right now.
Hello
You say "The version that was available until a few hours ago was v3.0.6", but, at least in KDE Neon, it was 3.0.4