[ANNOUNCE] VLC 1.1.7

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC 1.1.7 is out now:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.6.html

It is a security update of the current stable version.

Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
Demuxers:
* Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
VideoLAN-SA-1102

Translations:
* Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations

Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:

Audio output:
* Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output

Access:
* Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows

Decoders:
* Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
* Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
* Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries

Demuxers:
* Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
* Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
* Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)

Subtitles and renderer:
* Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
* Mark more freetype options as safe
* Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
* Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi

Visualization:
* Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
* Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
* Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
* Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X

Interfaces:
* Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
* Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
* KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository

Miscellaneous fixes:
* KDE device solid actions
* XDG screensaver
* Transcode integer overflow
* HTTP Icy metadata reading
* Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers

Translations:
* Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish

[vilaboa]

i'm installing it now! thank for the announce.

[fkuehne]

Just FYI: This update also fixes potential playback issues of RTSP streams and Freebox contents on Mac OS X.