{"id":7351,"date":"2017-12-06T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:54:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:54:18","slug":"vlc-media-player-2-2-8-released-with-security-fixes-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/vlc-media-player-2-2-8-released-with-security-fixes-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC Media Player 2.2.8 Released with Security Fixes (PPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VideoLAN finally announced the release of VLC media player 2.2.8. <\/p>\n

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.8 of VLC media player today.<\/p>\n

This release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2.2.7: This release fixes compatibility with macOS High Sierra and fixes SSA subtitles rendering on macOS. This release also fixes a few security issues, in the flac and the libavcodec modules (heap write overflow), in the avi module and a few crashes.<\/p>\n

For macOS users, please note: A bug was fixed in VLC 2.2.7 concerning the update mechanism on macOS. In rare circumstances, an auto-update from older versions of VLC to VLC 2.2.8 might not be possible. Please download the update manually from our website in this case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The source tarball was available more than a week ago. It’s been made into main repository of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.<\/p>\n

For Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, I’ve wrote about how to install VLC 2.2.7 via PPA<\/a>, which now contains VLC 2.2.8<\/b>.<\/p>\n

VLC is also available as Flatpak for Ubuntu 16.04 and higher. Install latest Flatpak via PPA<\/a>, then open terminal and run command to install VLC via Flatpak:<\/p>\n

flatpak install --from https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.videolan.VLC.flatpakref<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VideoLAN finally announced the release of VLC media player 2.2.8. VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.8 of VLC media player today. This release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2.2.7: This release fixes compatibility with macOS High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-vlc-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}