What's New in This Release:
Core:
* Support wayland surface type
* Allow to start the video paused on the first frame

Access:
* Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
* New SMB access module using libdsm
* Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
* Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
* Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
* Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
* Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
* Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
* Support depayloading Opus from RTP
* Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
* New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
* New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows

Decoder:
* OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
* Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
* Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
* Support for Daala video
* Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
* Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
* Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
* New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
* New BPG decoder based on libbpg
* Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
* Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
* Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
* Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2

Demuxers:
* Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
* Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
* Support Daala in Ogg
* Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
* Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
* Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
* Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
* Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
* Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
* Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
* Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
* Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
* Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB

Stream filter:
* Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder

Audio output:
* Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.

Video ouput:
* Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
* Wayland shell surface window provider
* Wayland shared memory video output
* Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
* Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
* Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
* Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.

Video filter:
* Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
* New video filter to convert between fps rates

Stream Output:
* Chromecast output module
* RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization

Encoder:
* Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4

Muxers:
* Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
* Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
* Daala in Ogg

Service Discovery:
* New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
* Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery

Mac OS X Interface
* new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
* Port to Yosemite X.10

Qt interface:
* Batch convert support

Skins2:
* Support key accelerators

libVLC:
* Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
* Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
* Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
This allows to attach media events between create and start.
* Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
* Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
* Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
* Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
identifier (if there is one available)
* Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media

Logging
* Support for the SystemD Journal
* Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
* New Android module for logging

Misc
* remove langfromtelx
* remove ZPL playlist format