VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
same thing for linux. their repo’s latest version is 1.16 while their github version is 2.4.
Edit: my version numbers are wrong but you get the idea. The repo’s version is like 20 releases behind
Gentoo has version 3.0.x available