MKVToolNix v93.0 released

2025-06-14 — mosu

Heyo.

It’s been a pretty quiet last eight weeks, but let’s do a release anyway. Couple of smaller fixes, nothing major.

An important note to my macOS users:

I’m aware that Apple has announced the upcoming end of their Rosetta x86/x64 emulation layer with macOS 28 (release likely in Autumn 2027). My MKVToolNix binaries are x86/x64 binaries, not ARM ones, therefore this impacts y’all. Unfortunately I do not have an ARM-based mac and do not plan on ever getting one. Therefore I will discountinue offering macOS binaries when Rosetta support ends.

I would very much welcome others to provide macOS ARM binaries in my stead and would gladly link to their efforts from MKVToolNix’ homepage. So far no one has stepped up to do so. The closest you get is probably the Homebrew project which offers MKVToolNix for ARM, too, with the important caveat that they only build the CLI tools, not the GUI. I do not know why; please ask them or offer your help getting their builds to build the GUI, too.

If you want to compile for macOS ARM yourself: good news, this is pretty easy. MKVToolNix contains my scripts that I use for building the x64 binaries, and those same scripts work for ARM macs, too. Please see this forum post for details. There a user & I discuss requirements & small issues they encountered, and the succeeds in building ARM binaries.

You can download the source code or one of the packages. The Windows packages as well as the 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 since the previous release:

Version 93.0 “Goblu” 2025-06-14

New features and enhancements

• all: updated the various lists that go into IETF/BCP 47 language tags: ISO 639 languages; ISO 3166 countries; ISO 15924 regions; IANA subtag registries.
• translations: added a Hungarian translation of the programs & man pages by Viktor György, John Fowler & Attila Zsigus (see AUTHORS).
• mkvextract: tags extraction: added an option --no-track-tags (short: -T) for not extracting tags associated with tracks.
• MKVToolNix GUI: multiplexer: the default regular expression for deriving the “forced display” track flag from file names for subtitles was extended to also match on the term signs. Implements #6094.
• MKVToolNix GUI: preferences: the revert buttons for the various “default regex for…” will only be enabled when the current text differs from the default, in other words: when reverting would actually change the text. Part of the implementation of #6099.
• MKVToolNix GUI: preferences: the GUI will now auto-upgrade the “default regex for…” to their respective current default values if they’re still set to one of the previous default values. Part of the implementation of #6099.

Have fun 😁