According to the VLC updater this release has a few notable features. The updater is still rather new, and did not work for me, but it's easy enough to just download it off the site.
:software:Download(Multi Platform)This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules and security issues. It also introduces the port to 64bits for Mac OS platform and 2 new languages (Kazakh and Croatian).