Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories.
Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible.
The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules.
It is also the first non-beta release on Android.
This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV.
On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design.
On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.
Experimental support of Interactive Menus of Blu-Rays: BD-J.
Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.
Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4 and WMV.
Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs.
Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox.
New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi.
Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.
Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for quite some time, it is now available on the desktop. This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.
Fight the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible platforms)!.