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Hello,

I have suggestions to make the verification of the Vetinari 3.0.14 release easier.
Because of the high quality of VLC development, I never encountered the manual installation message that is present right now [1].
So I had my doubts if the Update ist authentic and wanted to verify that the release exists officially.

I found the mailinglist entry [2] and the website change [3] from different trustful authors. So I assume the release is really from the VLC developers.

I think some of the following points could be helpful to make verification easier:
.) create the release page for 3.0.14 like 3.0.13 [4].
.) Mention 3.0.14 in the videolan news [5].
.) Mention 3.0.14 in the git NEWS [6].
.) Maybe mention the manual update requirement on download pages [7, 8].

Bonus for less advanced users: maybe an explaination where to find the installation file, already answered in forumpost [9].

Thank you for your great work for so many years and still ongoing!


[1] VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 3.0.14 "Vetinari". Please READ! ...
[2] https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/ ... 65204.html
[3] https://code.videolan.org/VideoLAN.org/ ... 3f91c14e95
[4] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.13.html
[5] https://www.videolan.org/news.html
[6] https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/ ... aster/NEWS
[7] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.de.html
[8] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.de.html
[9] https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=157215

The manual installation requirement is there due to a bug in 3.0.12 which failed to update automatically to 3.0.13 even though the update downloaded successfully. That's been fixed in 3.0.14. More details here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3 ... pdate.html

Thank you very much for the clarification! Also thanks to Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen for updating the website.
This topic is [Solved] in my opinion.