A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download.
HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes encoder support, and an AMD VCN AV1 10-bit encoder compatible with the company’s 9000 series GPUs and newer.
This update is focused on fixes and finesse. A pair of bugs affecting 2-pass operations are resolved: a crash during 2-pass lossless x265 encodes, and a memory leak that occurred during 2-pass MPEG-4, MPEG-2, VP9 and FFV1 encodes.
On Linux, HandBrake adds WebM to its .desktop file’s list of supported MIME types. This lets you open videos in HandBrake from the right-click menu in your filer manager. The software could already work with WebM files on Linux. This just adds extra integration.
Windows and macOS builds improve their handling of unsupported presets, and the former sees issues with automatic audio track name generation resolved.
Other changes:
- Updated list of supported dither and encoder combinations
- Core Audio AAC encoder 7.1 channel layout fixed
- VobSub palette creation in MP4 fixed
It also bundles in FFmpeg 8.0.2 and SVT-AV1 4.1.0 libraries, so your media jobs with this version also benefit from any bug fixes and fine-tuning offered by the underlying library bumps (albeit minor ones – FFmpeg 8.1 was released back in May).
How to get this version of HandBrake
HandBrake is free, open-source software available for macOS (Apple Silicon only; older builds for Intel-based devices), Windows and Linux.
Download the latest release from GitHub or the official website. Linux users can also get HandBrake on Flathub (this update will land there in the coming days).
If you’re on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, you can install v1.11.1 (not this update) from the repos. If installing that via the App Center make sure to use the Deb filter or it will default to an unofficial Snap package that hasn’t been updated since 2019!