What’s going on with VLC updates?

snap
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Is it normal that VideoLAN is no longer updating its VLC software?

www.videolan.org/news.html –> snapcraft.io/vlc

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Please post topics regarding a particular snap in the snap topic category. I’ve fixed it for you.

You should also contact the snap publisher for issues regarding a certain snap:

$ snap info vlc | grep ^contact:
contact:   https://www.videolan.org/support/
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Already done, twice.

And a post on: forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=167481

But, nothing moves!

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Unless you specifically paid the developers for the updates, that’s normal for an FOSS project(no one is responsible for any state of the software, it’s written in the license terms).

I’d suggest either:

  • Switch to the edge channel after considering the risk of unstable updates.
  • Help with whatever blockers that prevent stable releases.
  • Switch to a different distribution that is up-to-date (e.g., Flatpak).
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You clearly didn’t understand what I was saying. All the versions of the main operating systems have been updated: www.videolan.org/vlc/#download

And this creates a security problem: www.videolan.org/security

Moreover, I fear that this is political: itsfoss.com/opinion/why-hate-ubuntu

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Can you clarify the outcome you are hoping to see ?

As far as I understand, you have made the publisher aware of the issue. They have - to date - not updated the snap.

I am assuming that you have offered to help them update the snap and either not received a reply or the publisher has declined.

Are you hoping / requesting that this particular snap be de-listed or are you hoping that the publisher would be more inclined to accept help from someone on this list (or a canonical employee ?) .

Regards A

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The funny thing is that the Edge channel is up to date with VLC 4.0. I read that they were having issues with the stable build, but they haven’t addressed it yet due to time constraints. I don’t think there’s a political motive here. In fact, if I remember correctly, the Flatpak isn’t official; it’s community-maintained.

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues?sort=created_date&state=opened&search=snap&first_page_size=20&show=eyJpaWQiOiIyOTUxNSIsImZ1bGxfcGF0aCI6InZpZGVvbGFuL3ZsYyIsImlkIjo0ODM5OTB9

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@andrew

Only one person needs to do something.

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The release in snap channels are quite recent (stable in 26th March)

$ snap info vlc | sed -n '/^channels:/,$p'
channels:
  latest/stable:    3.0.20-1-g2617de71b6        2024-03-26 (3777) 336MB -
  latest/candidate: 3.0.20-1-g2617de71b6        2024-03-26 (3777) 336MB -
  latest/beta:      3.0.21-1-74-g47e6c1b726     2024-09-30 (4252) 336MB -
  latest/edge:      4.0.0-dev-36523-g989833b120 2026-04-11 (4335) 334MB -

While I see @merinos that for Windows there is 3.0.23, it might be because the changes are relevant to this specific release.

I understand it might be surprising as in Debian repo there’s 3.0.23 package

I think the best you can do is to open an issue in the VLC issue tracker https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/

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We are in 2026, not 2024.

It seems that he has a problem with Qt 6 and the Snap system. And they are working on resolving the issue.

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MPC-QT is Qt6, it’s a video player just like VLC, and so far it seems to be working correctly in Snapd.

The problem seems to be something else.

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