VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” but adds that not all of them are ‘harmless’. He encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive in this update to the open-source media player, but improvements do. VLC 3.0.24 supports ATRAC3 and ATRAC9 decoding (the former used by Sony MiniDiscs the latter for PSP-era audio), CEA-708 closed captions in MP4 files and, by […]

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