VLC: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for VLC from VideoLAN

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is VLC?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementVLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
 

The entire lifecycle of VLC

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of VLC. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
VLC (VideoLAN) release, version and end-of-life information
XVLC (VideoLAN) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product VLC (VideoLAN)
 

Facts and figures about VLC

Product
VLC
Vendor
VideoLAN
Latest version
3.0.21
Number of releases
5
Number of versions
74
Number of unstable versions
10
Number of versions affected by CVE
31
Licence
GPL-2.0 + LGPL-2.1
Licence details
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/COPYING
 
 

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