As I've appended to my VLC Trac ticket, I submitted a bug report to libass directly, and someone there seems to have already diagnosed the problem and submitted a patch to their own repo clone . I hope this works its way into the main branch in the forseeable future. :D EDIT: Since this indeed was a...
I imagine it takes a few hours for them to update the relevant parts of the servers. I just updated myself, it's worth noting that the installer will handle the uninstallation of the previous version for you, so you don't have to do that in advance.
I've noticed a rendering issue with a handful of files with SSA/ASS (embedded) subtitles. Subtitle lines with special characters in (e.g. ♥ ) render perfectly up to and including said character, but the remainder of the line loses any custom formatting it otherwise had. Example in VLC 2.0.7 win32 on...