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Mosu
25th August 2026, 09:11
Hey y'all!

The first release after the milestone round version v100 is here, v101. It's pretty small, but I still suggest everyone update due to the inclusion of updated underlying libraries libEBML & libMatroska. Both are updated to their respective releases from a couple of weeks ago which fix several potential invalid memory access cases that could be triggered by reading files broken in very rare, specific ways. Basically they're potentially security-relevant.

Here are the usual links: the MKVToolNix home page (https://mkvtoolnix.download/), the downloads section (https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html) and the source code (https://mkvtoolnix.download/source.html).

The Windows packages and Linux AppImage are available already. The other Linux packages & the macOS disk image are still being built and will be available over the course of the next couple of hours.

Here are the NEWS (https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/NEWS.md) since the previous release:

Version 101.0 "Time To Turn" 2026-08-24
New features and enhancements

translations: substantial extension of the Czech translation by Michal Várady.

Bug fixes

mkvmerge: TrueHD parser: fixed mkvmerge dropping the last TrueHD frame if its size was smaller than 12 bytes. Fixes #6296 (https://codeberg.org/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/issues/6296).
MKVToolNix GUI: job runner: the variable "<MTX_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY>" will be replaed in the executable position of the command-line for the program to execute again. Fixes #6299 (https://codeberg.org/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/issues/6299).
Windows: fixed converting the scalable SVG icons into the bitmap ".ico" ones used on Windows so that the grey background remains uniform & doesn't get garbled. Fixes #6280 (https://codeberg.org/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/issues/6280).

Build system changes

The bundled libraries libEBML & libMatroska were updated to v1.4.7 & v1.7.2 respectively. Those versions fix various possible invalid memory accesses when reading data broken in certain, very specific ways, making them security sensitive.
libEBML v1.4.7 & libMatroska v1.7.2 are now required.
The meta info file "org.bunkus.mkvtoolnix-gui.appdata.xml" was renamed to "org.bunkus.mkvtoolnix-gui.metainfo.xml".


Have fun! 💝😁


PS: posting in a new thread as it's that time of the decade again — the previous post's title cannot be edited anymore. This has happened before, after roughly eight years of thread age the title refuses to be updated.

oniiz86
25th August 2026, 10:57
@Mosu Ah, I'm sorry I didn't realise it was that time, I thought the thread title limit was longer than 8 years, normally you can get a mod like @tebasuna51 to remove the release version from the thread title just like what was done with the Subtitle Edit thread, anyway :thanks:for the new release!

SeeMoreDigital
25th August 2026, 12:05
Nice one... A brand new thread ;)

Mosu
25th August 2026, 16:50
@Mosu Ah, I'm sorry I didn't realise it was that time, I thought the thread title limit was longer than 8 years, normally you can get a mod like @tebasuna51 to remove the release version from the thread title just like what was done with the Subtitle Edit thread, anyway :thanks:for the new release!

Oh, hadn't been aware of the possibility! Thanks for the info. Eight years ago this wasn't mentioned & I started the old new thread, leading to me not knowing & starting the new new thread 😁