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Version 18.5:

(2018-05-20)
 * Add "opus" to the list of audio extensions and "part" to the list of
   video extensions.

(2018-05-19)
 * The cursor keys work now in the playlist (as long as the playlist
   is in a window and not docked).

(2018-05-17)
 * Fix compiling with Qt 5.11.

(2018-05-15)
 * Now it's possible to select which multimedia keys should be used as
   global shortcuts.

(2018-05-01)
 * (Windows) It seems on some systems the multimedia key events are sent
   twice by Qt, making some keys (like volume mute or play/pause) unusable.
   Added code to try to detect this and ignore the second event.

(2018-04-30)
 * (Windows) Use the Windows GetCommandLine function to get the command line
   arguments because it seems the Qt arguments function is not reliable to
   get unicode characters.


Version 18.4:

(2018-04-22)
 * Report errors in the status bar if the option to display a dialog for
   errors is disabled.
 * Set the option report_player_crashes to false by default on Windows.

(2018-04-21)
 * Remove the default shortcut key for the subtitle visibility action,
   since it usually causes problems when the user accidentally presses it.

(2018-04-08)
 * Add an option in Preferences -> Advanced to set the OSD bar position.

(2018-04-03)
 * Fix accuracy of the tooltip in the timeslider.

(2018-03-30)
 * Add the option 'Use the system native file dialog' in
   Preferences -> Interface.


Version 18.3:

(2018-03-16)
 * (mpv) Prevent to show subtitles in the images created by the thumbnail
   generator.

(2018-03-03)
 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the hash and filename methods
   at the same time.

(2018-02-23)
 * Fix a bug which prevented to play some YouTube URLs.


Version 18.2.2:

(2018-02-15)
 * The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists.

(2018-02-08)
 * Prevent the skins to be added to the themes combobox if the user folder
   and the config folder are the same (happens in the portable version).
 * Disable the screenshot actions if the screenshot folder is set to an
   empty string.

(2018-02-05)
 * Add an option in Preferences -> Subtitles to select the opacity of the
   background of the subtitles.

(2018-02-02)
 * The options to select the preferred number of track for audio and subtitles
   are back.

(2018-02-01)
 * (mpv) Use direct3d as default video output since some users are having
   troubles with the gpu output.


Version 18.2:

(2018-01-21)
 * Add option osd_show_filename_duration for smplayer.ini which specifies
   the time (in milliseconds) that the filename would be displayed on screen.

(2018-01-16)
 * Add support for YouTube playlists. In the playlist window, click in the
   Load/save icon, select "Load playlist from URL" and paste the URL of
   the YouTube playlist.

(2018-01-15)
 * (mpv) Don't use --video-stereo-mode since it's deprecated.
 * Add option emulate_mplayer_ab_section for smplayer.ini.

(2018-01-03 - 2018-01-16)
 * The initialization of the audio and subtitle tracks has been simplified
   and now it's possible to use a priority list of languages (it uses the
   mplayer/mpv alang and slang options).


Version 18.1:

(2018-01-09)
 * Fix Youtube.

(2017-12-27)
 * Prevent to display the OSD in fullscreen during initialization of playback.

(2017-12-26)
 * Use video/x-ogm+ogg in smplayer.desktop.


Version 17.12:

(2017-12-18)
 * New action which displays the filename in the OSD for 2 seconds. Assigned
   by default to Shift+O.
 * Disable the internal/own handling of stereo3d when using mpv.

(2017-12-10)
 * The option to record a stream has been temporary removed.
   It's currently broken.

(2017-12-07)
 * New option osd_bar_pos for smplayer.ini. It specifies the position of
   the OSD bar (0 = top, 100 = bottom).

(2017-12-03)
 * Two new actions to take screenshots with or without subtitles (they only
   work with mpv). Assigned by default to Ctrl+Shift+S and Ctrl+Alt+S.

(2017-11-30)
 * The support for DVD menus has been removed. It never worked well and also
   mpv already removed support for it a long time ago.

(2017-11-23)
 * The option to open an informative page after an upgrade has been removed.


Version 17.11.2:

(2017-11-15)
 * Allow wordwrap in the title in the thumbnail generator.

(2017-11-13)
 * Fix seek in MPRIS2 (fix function SetPosition).

(2017-11-12)
 * Prevent SMPlayer to cancel logout in KDE. (Bug #843)

(2017-11-11)
 * Fix a crash that may happen on KDE when the global menus
   are activated. (Bug #839)


Version 17.11:

(2017-10-30)
 * Cosmetic changes in the thumbnail generator.

(2017-10-27)
 * Add more precision in the thumbnail generator.

(2017-10-25)
 * (mpv) Improve the firequalizer filter.

(2017-10-22)
 * (mpv) Fix the option "AC3/DTS passthrough".

(2017-10-21)
 * Fix the option "add black borders on fullscreen".

(2017-10-20)
 * (mpv) Fix the software video equalizer.


Version 17.10.2:

(2017-10-14)
 * Bug fix: display the time in the thumbnail generator pictures when SMPlayer
   is compiled with Qt 5.

(2017-10-13)
 * (Windows) Enable HDPI support in the portable version.

(2017-10-12)
 * Fix subtitles not disappearing when using the letterbox filter with mplayer.

(2017-10-03)
 * Add an option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality
   to be used with streaming sites handled by youtube-dl.

(2017-10-02)
 * Use mplayer on Windows Vista, since it seems mpv is not longer compatible
   with that version.

(2017-10-01)
 * (Linux) Don't use the audio equalizer by default.
 * (Windows) Fix letterbox with vertical videos.


Version 17.10:

(2017-09-22)
 * (mpv) Use firequalizer.

(2017-09-21)
 * (mpv) Use lavfi for stereo3d.

(2017-09-18)
 * (mpv) Use lavfi for rotate, yadif and pan.
 * (mpv) Don't restart the process when changing the stereo mode option.

(2017-09-16)
 * (mpv) Use lavfi for hqdn3d, kerndeint, phase, noise, blur, sharpen,
   lb, l5, deblock, dering, postprocessing, extrastereo, earwax and volnorm.
 * Enable the karaoke filter with mpv.

(2017-09-15)
 * (mpv) Use lavfi for flip and mirror.

(2017-09-14)
 * (mpv) Use the pad filter instead of expand.


Version 17.9:

(2017-08-23)
 * Increase the time to kill the external player process to try to 
   avoid a crash message.

(2017-08-21)
 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the filename as query.

(2017-08-12)
 * Fix OSD when using mpv 0.26.


Version 17.8:

(2017-07-22)
 * Add a "default" option for the audio channels menu.

(2017-07-13)
 * Add the earwax audio filter.


Version 17.7:

(2017-06-16)
 * (Playlist) Fix a crash when trying to delete selected items but there's none
   selected.

(2017-06-09)
 * Add subtitles configuration options in preferences -> network -> chromecast.


Version 17.6:

(2017-05-23)
 * (Add bookmark) Set focus on the name field.
 * Save bookmarks just after edit.

(2017-05-16)
 * Add an option in preferences -> network -> chromecast to convert automatically
   SRT subtitles to VTT.

(2017-05-11)
 * Possibility to pass options to the acompressor filter (in smplayer.ini).


Version 17.5:

(2017-05-03)
 * Fix when dragging a URL to the main window.

(2017-05-03)
 * Fix youtube.


Version 17.4.2:

(2017-04-22)
 * Add play_next and play_prev to the list of actions for the mouse buttons.

(2017-04-21)
 * Bugfix: remember the position of the video when it's opened by
   drag & drop.

(2017-04-17)
 * Fix the audio normalization filter when using mpv > 0.24.

(2017-04-16)
 * Fix for the thumbnail generator when using old versions of mpv.

(2017-04-14)
 * Disallow mpv installation on XP.
 * Add option for ffhevcvdpau.

(2017-04-09)
 * Add option View -> OSD -> Show times with milliseconds (requires mpv >= 0.21).

(2017-04-06)
 * (mpv) Be sure the suboptions for vo and ao aren't used.


Version 17.4:

(2017-03-16)
 * The H2O icon theme is now included in the smplayer binary and is the default
   theme. The old theme is still available with the name "classic".

(2017-03-11)
 * The thumbnail generator works now with recent versions of mpv.


Version 17.3:

(2017-02-26)
 * (mpv) Add more options for hardware decoding.

(2017-02-20)
 * (Playlist) Try to use numberofentries if NumberOfEntries returns 0 when
   loading pls files.

(2017-02-14)
 * (Windows) Try to run youtube-dl when mpv fails to use it to check if
   the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is needed.

(2017-02-07)
 * Fix some of the subtitles' options when using mpv.


Version 17.2:

(2017-01-31)
 * Fix youtube.

(2017-01-30)
 * Use 'simple_web_server' on Linux as well instead of webfs.
 * Move some of the options in Preferences -> Playlist to the 'Misc' tab.

(2017-01-28)
 * Add vtt to the list of extensions for subtitles.

(2017-01-24)
 * Add the option 'Enable the option to delete files from disk' in
   Preferences -> Playlist.

(2017-01-22)
 * Add translation for Norwegian Bokmål.


Version 17.1:

(2017-01-05)
 * (Playlist) Add an option in context menu to open the current item on chromecast.

(2017-01-02)
 * Remove the option to delete files from the playlist.

(2016-12-30)
 * (mpv) Add support for the wasapi devices.

(2016-12-26)
 * Add the option "Play on Chromecast" in the Play menu.

(2016-12-20)
 * Add an option to display the current time with milliseconds in the status bar.

(2016-12-17)
 * Add an option to display the bitrate info in the status bar.

(2016-11-30)
 * (Playlist) Add option to open the source folder of the video in the context menu.

(2016-11-29)
 * (Playlist) Add a "copy URL to clipboard" option in the context menu.

(2016-11-28)
 * Parse the option #EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer and #EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent from m3u
   playlists. This may allow you to play playlists intended for VLC.

(2016-11-21)
 * The option to add black borders in fullscreen is back.


Version 16.11:

(2016-10-20)
 * Pass the alpha component of the subtitles' colors to mpv.

(2016-10-11)
 * New option 'Show info on OSD' in View -> OSD (key shortcut Shift + I).
   It displays info about the current media (resolution, bitrate...) on the
   OSD.
 * (Playlist) If a playlist file is dropped to the playlist window, load it.

(2016-10-01)
 * Remove the option to add black borders on fullscreen.
 * New option 'Add black borders for subtitles by default' in
   Preferences -> General.

(2016-09-29)
 * Add option 'Case sensitive search' in Preferences -> Playlist.

(2016-09-26)
 * Add the option 'Auto sort' in Preferences -> Playlist.
 * Fix when the additional options for mpv contain quotes.

(2016-09-23)
 * Add the option 'Start playback after loading a playlist' in
   Preferences -> Playlist.

(2016-09-22)
 * Add an option in Preferences -> Interface to play the next file
   automatically or not.

(2016-09-18)
 * (Playlist) Add a 'save as' button.

(2016-09-16)
 * Store the playlist filename and display "*" in the title when the
   playlist is modified and not saved.

(2016-09-15)
 * (Playlist) Add a popup menu with the load/save options.


Version 16.9:

(2016-09-02)
 * Get the list of the pulseaudio output devices using the
   pulseaudio library (libpulse-dev is now a build dependency).

(2016-09-01)
 * Set the default font with the stylesheet.

(2016-08-29)
 * (Playlist) Scroll to current item after clearing the search field.

(2016-08-28)
 *  Build the deb package by default with Qt 4 since Qt 5 still
    has many problems.

(2016-08-26)
 * Fix alsa:device with mpv.
 * (Windows) Use the directx libraries to get info about the sound
   and display devices instead of running dxlist.exe.

(2016-08-25)
 * Add a submenu in the audio menu to send the audio to a device.

(2016-08-15)
 * (Playlist) Add actions to hide the columns.
 * (Playlist) Add a button to show/hide the search field.

(2016-08-14)
 * Don't disable the screenshot's actions and don't check if the
   screenshot path is a directory.
 * (Experimental) Don't use starting_time (affects seeking in ts files).
 * (Playlist) Disable wordwrap.
 * If maximized show normal before hiding the panel.

(2016-08-11)
 * Display 'Development version' in the about dialog when using a
   development version.


Version 16.8:

(2016-07-23)
 * Ignore the buffering state in checkStayOnTop.

(2016-07-20)
 * Don't try to resize the main window when it's maximized.

(2016-07-19)
 * (Playlist) Display an animation when loading.

(2016-07-18)
 * Possibility to download playlists from internet.

(2016-07-16)
 * The playlist settings are now saved to its own ini file (playlist.ini).

(2016-07-14)
 * Use the mpv ab-loop options.

(2016-07-11)
 * Don't use softvol and softvol-max with mpv 0.18.1.

(2016-07-10)
 * Possibility to search (filter) in  the playlist.

(2016-07-08)
 * Lots of internal changes in the playlist.


Version 16.7:

(2016-06-29)
 * The find subtitles window has a close button in the title bar.

(2016-06-23)
 * Fix youtube.

(2016-06-22)
 * (mpv) Don't pass the URL to youtube-dl if it contains a multimedia extension.

(2016-06-21)
 * The names in the playlist are not replaced with the title from metadata.

(2016-06-19)
 * Save the hdpi config in the smplayer config dir.

(2016-06-17)
 * Selecting the 'default' style in preferences selects the system's
   default style, instead of Fusion.

(2016-06-15)
 * Bugfix: (Qt 5) the playlist can be resized when docked to the main window.
 * Don't change the style's palette on linux.

(2016-06-14)
 * (mpv) Update the current position in the seek bar on pause.
 * In Qt 5 on linux accelerators in the numeric keypad don't work due
   to a bug in Qt 5. Added a workaround.


Version 16.6:

(2016-06-05)
 * Add option "remember settings for streams" in Preferences -> General.

(2016-05-27)
 * Use the mplayer/mpv default video and audio output.

(2016-05-25)
 * Disable the global shortcuts when opening the preferences dialog.

(2016-05-23)
 * Add an option to display the format info in the status bar.

(2016-05-17)
 * Add a quick access menu.

(2016-05-15)
 * Don't use a border in the style of the tooltip. For some reason the
   text is cut off with it.

(2016-05-13)
 * Add options in Preferences -> Interface to configure the high DPI
   support.

(2016-05-12)
 * Possibility to display the section area in the preferences dialog in
   icon mode.

(2016-05-10)
 * Add an option to set the cache to auto in Preferences -> Performance.
 * Don't change the playlist to floating state when entering fullscreen,
   if using Qt5 on linux. Seems to fix a problem when using Compiz.

(2016-05-09)
 * Increase the height of the audio equalizer.
 * Set the OSD to Seek as default.
 * Set the drag function to MoveWindow as default.

(2016-05-08)
 * Change the default values for outline and shadow of the ASS style.
 * Use mpv as default if available.
 * Remove the border of the tooltips. Otherwise, for some reason, the
   text is not shown complete.

(2016-05-06)
 * Use the style 'fusion' as default with Qt 5.

(2016-05-05)
 * Improve drag & drop on the main window. Now it allows to drop several
   folders and files.

(2016-05-02)
 * (Windows) Use the 'normal' priority by default.
 * Possibility to use the media keys as global shortcurts (option in
   Prefences -> Keyboard).

(2016-04-28)
 * Don't use the language toolbar.
 * Add the audio and subtitle track menus to the toolbar and increase the
   default size of the toolbar icons.

(2016-04-27)
 * Add close buttons to the audio and video equalizers.

(2016-04-26)
 * Disable the secondary subtitles and frame step back when using mplayer,
   and the karaoke filter when using mpv.

(2016-04-24)
 * Don't use a dockable playlist on linux with Qt 5 because the
   dockable one causes trouble when compiz is enabled.

(2016-04-23)
 * Ask the user if SMPlayer should change the tablet mode if the
   system (Windows 10) has changed to tablet mode.

(2016-04-22)
 * New option 'Send video to screen' in the video menu.
   This option allows to display the video (in fullscreen) on a
   second screen while controlling the player in the computer's
   screen.
 * Add an option to show information about the connected screens
   (menu View).

(2016-04-17)
 * Hide some options from menus in tablet mode.
 * Now it's possible to add the recents menu to a toolbar.

(2016-04-16)
 * Add a tablet mode (menu Options).
   When enabled, it changes some elements of the GUI so that's easy
   to use it on a touch screen.

(2016-04-15)
 * (Videopreview) Fix show duration with Qt 5.
 * Move the OSD menu to the view menu.

(2016-04-14)
 * Add new menu 'view'.

(2016-04-12)
 * Fixes for Qt 5.

(2016-04-10)
 * Better support for touch screens.

(2016-04-06)
 * Support for high DPI (requires Qt 5.4 or greater).

(2016-04-04)
 * Settings for streams can also be remembered.

(2016-04-01)
 * The mpcgui works now with Qt 5 as well.


Version 16.4:

(2016-03-25)
 * Add translations for Amharic and Persian (unfinished).

(2016-03-25)
 * A new layout is used to display the media information (Options -> View
  info and properties).

(2016-03-16)
 * Update the system tray icon when changing themes.

(2016-03-15)
 * Possibility to compile without mplayer2 support.
   (Support for mplayer2 will be removed soon).

(2016-03-14)
 * Add an animated icon for buffering.

(2016-03-07)
 * The option to support streaming sites in Preferences -> Network is
   different now, and allows these values:
     Disabled: support for video sites is turned off
     Auto: enables internal support for YouTube and uses mpv + youtube-dl
           for the rest of the sites
     YouTube: only the internal support for YouTube will be used
     mpv + youtube-dl: uses mpv + youtube-dl for all sites

(2016-03-04)
 * A fix for saving bookmarks.
 * (Linux) Look for the smtube executable in the system path.

(2016-02-26)
 * New smplayer.spec (works for Fedora and openSUSE).

(2016-02-20)
 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" in
   Preferences -> Interface has been removed.
 * New option in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse to specify the
   function to use when the mouse is dragged.

(2016-02-19)
 * Possibility to compile SMPlayer without the mini GUI and the default GUI.

(2016-02-12)
 * (Experimental) Mouse gestures. When the mouse is dragged up or down in the
   video window it changes the volume. If dragged left or right it changes
   the time position.

(2016-02-09)
 * Add vlc.keys.

(2016-02-02)
 * Allow to read the shortcut's file using spaces as separators.

(2016-01-19)
 * Add a combobox in preferences -> general to choose mplayer or mpv.

(2016-01-17)
 * Include mpv in the Windows installer.

(2016-01-16)
 * Add a function to save XSPF files.
 * (mpv) Add the extrastereo filter.

(2016-01-15)
 * Remove the fast_audio_change option since it's obsolete.


Version 16.1:

(2016-01-07)
 * (mpv) Allow screenshots to work with hardware acceleration enabled.

(2016-01-06)
 * Add a shortcut for the add_bookmark action.
 * Add icons for the bookmarks actions.

(2015-12-29)
 * (Qt5) Try to fix a problem when exiting from fullscreen and the option
   to stay on top is set to "while playing".

(2015-12-23)
 * (Experimental) Simplify changing style and stylesheet.

(2015-12-22)
 * (Screenshots) Keep compatibility with older versions of mplayer.

(2015-12-18)
 * Fix for Youtube.

(2015-12-16)
 * (mpv) If the option --screenshot-directory is not available change
   the working directory so that screenshots work.

(2015-12-14)
 * Add option 'Prevent window to get outside of screen' in
   Preferences -> Interface.

(2015-12-12)
 * Update stayontop after entering and exiting the fullscreen mode.

(2015-12-04)
 * Don't auto center the window if there's no video.
 * (mpv) Fix playback with -v

(2015-12-03)
 * Add the option 'Pass the -playlist option to MPlayer' to
   Preferences -> Advanced.

(2015-11-29)
 * Simplify the code for previous and next chapter.
 * Enable bookmarks.