It's been just over two months since VideoLAN published the Release Candidate for VLC 3.0.22. While it might be surprising, that was the RC for the first version of 2025, since 3.0.21 arrived in mid-2024 and there haven't been any releases this year. Until now. Although they still have to make it official and offer it on their platform. Official Site, VLC 3.0.22 It is now available for download and installation on supported systems.
If you search for information about VLC 3.0.22, you might find confusing results. Search engines show results from September, but that release was a Release Candidate. In fact, you might even find... our article from back thenBut the stable version of VLC 3.0.22 has arrived, and my mini PC with Windows 11 "told me" by installing the new version a few hours ago.
How to install VLC 3.0.22 on Linux
Short answer: you can't. A slightly longer answer: You can't do it in a simple way that's really worthwhile.On Windows, it can be downloaded from Winget, the command-line tool that allows downloads from official sources. For Linux users, the distributions are responsible for compiling the software and uploading it to the official repositories, something that almost none have done yet. And the Flatpak and Snap packages are still at versions 3.0.21 and 3.0.20, respectively. It's advisable to wait; it shouldn't take long, and no significant improvements are included.
And speaking of new features, the most notable is the Official support for dark modeThis is something KDE users have had for a long time, but users of other desktop environments or Windows users haven't. Otherwise, it could be said that they've taken the opportunity to fix bugs.
Everything seems to indicate that the project has focused entirely on VLC 4.0, a version that was announced in early 2019 and whose release doesn't even seem to be close.