While Slackware contains a ‘qt4’ package, it does not contain ‘qt5’ and therefore, the vlc-3.x package introduces some new external dependencies, all related to the Qt5 GUI: SDL_sound, OpenAL, libxkbcommon, qt5. But there are some caveats with the new release: most importantly, its interface has switched from Qt4 to Qt5. This makes for a minimal dependency on external libraries/packages. My Slackware packages for VLC are mostly self-contained with all of the supporting libraries compiled into the package. A note about dependencies for the VLC 3.x packages: Chrome/Chromium always only supported PPAPI based plugins anyway. Modern browsers are all moving away from NPAPI plugin support, and relying on HTML5 instead. I decided to retire this VLC based NPAPI webbrowser plugin from my repository. You will also probably note that there is no “npapi-vlc” package. I used the opportunity to update the following internal libraries as well: bluray, dav1d, ebml, and matroska. I have the new packages available (for Slackware 14.2 and -current) in my repository since a couple of days. Meaning that it’s prudent to upgrade your VLC to 3.0.8 soonest. The Release Notes state that this releases provides fixes for several security issues among wich 11 which are CVE-worthy. Also during my holiday, the VideoLAN developers released version 3.0.8 of their VLC media player.

What is new in vlc media player 3.0.8