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border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits 11 to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.4: May 23 2016</h3><ul> 12 <li>Security:<br /> 13 More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer),<br /> 14 Avoid building recursive entities (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 15 Heap-based buffer overread in htmlCurrentChar (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 16 Heap-based buffer-underreads due to xmlParseName (David Kilzer),<br /> 17 Heap use-after-free in xmlSAX2AttributeNs (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 18 Heap use-after-free in htmlParsePubidLiteral and htmlParseSystemiteral (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 19 Fix some format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer),<br /> 20 Detect change of encoding when parsing HTML names (Hugh Davenport),<br /> 21 Fix inappropriate fetch of entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 22 Bug 759398: Heap use-after-free in xmlDictComputeFastKey <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759398> (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 23 Bug 758605: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlDictAddString <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758605> (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 24 Bug 758588: Heap-based buffer overread in xmlParserPrintFileContextInternal <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758588> (David Kilzer),<br /> 25 Bug 757711: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757711> (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 26 Add missing increments of recursion depth counter to XML parser. (Peter Simons)<br /> 27 </li> 28 29 <li>Documentation:<br /> 30 Fix typo: s{ ec -> cr }cipt (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 31 Fix typos: dictio{ nn -> n }ar{y,ies} (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 32 Fix typos: PATH_{ SEAPARATOR -> SEPARATOR } (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 33 Correct a typo. (Shlomi Fish)<br /> 34 </li> 35 36 <li>Portability:<br /> 37 Correct the usage of LDFLAGS (Mattias Hansson),<br /> 38 Revert the use of SAVE_LDFLAGS in configure.ac (Mattias Hansson),<br /> 39 libxml2 hardcodes -L/lib in zlib/lzma tests which breaks cross-compiles (Mike Frysinger),<br /> 40 Fix apibuild for a recently added construct (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 41 Use pkg-config to locate zlib when possible (Stewart Brodie),<br /> 42 Use pkg-config to locate ICU when possible (Stewart Brodie),<br /> 43 Portability to non C99 compliant compilers (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 44 dict.h: Move xmlDictPtr definition before includes to allow direct inclusion. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 45 os400: tell about xmllint and xmlcatalog in README400. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 46 os400: properly process SGML add in XMLCATALOG command. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 47 os400: implement CL command XMLCATALOG. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 48 os400: compile and install program xmlcatalog (qshell-only). (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 49 os400: expand tabs in sources, strip trailing blanks. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 50 os400: implement CL command XMLLINT. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 51 os400: compile and install program xmllint (qshell-only). (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 52 os400: initscript make_module(): Use options instead of positional parameters. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 53 os400: c14n.rpgle: allow *omit for nullable reference parameters. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 54 os400: use like() for double type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 55 os400: use like() for int type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 56 os400: use like() for unsigned int type. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 57 os400: use like() for enum types. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 58 Add xz to xml2-config --libs output (Baruch Siach),<br /> 59 Bug 760190: configure.ac should be able to build --with-icu without icu-config tool <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760190> (David Kilzer),<br /> 60 win32\VC10\config.h and VS 2015 (Bruce Dawson),<br /> 61 Add configure maintainer mode (orzen)<br /> 62 </li> 63 64 <li>Bug Fixes:<br /> 65 Avoid an out of bound access when serializing malformed strings (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 66 Unsigned addition may overflow in xmlMallocAtomicLoc() (David Kilzer),<br /> 67 Integer signed/unsigned type mismatch in xmlParserInputGrow() (David Kilzer),<br /> 68 Bug 763071: heap-buffer-overflow in xmlStrncat <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763071> (Pranjal Jumde),<br /> 69 Integer overflow parsing port number in URI (Michael Paddon),<br /> 70 Fix an error with regexp on nullable counted char transition (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 71 Fix memory leak with XPath namespace nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 72 Fix namespace axis traversal (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 73 Fix null pointer deref in docs with no root element (Hugh Davenport),<br /> 74 Fix XSD validation of URIs with ampersands (Alex Henrie),<br /> 75 xmlschemastypes.c: accept endOfDayFrag Times set to "24:00:00" mean "end of day" and should not cause an error. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 76 xmlcatalog: flush stdout before interactive shell input. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 77 xmllint: flush stdout before interactive shell input. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 78 Don't recurse into OP_VALUEs in xmlXPathOptimizeExpression (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 79 Fix namespace::node() XPath expression (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 80 Fix OOB write in xmlXPathEmptyNodeSet (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 81 Fix parsing of NCNames in XPath (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 82 Fix OOB read with invalid UTF-8 in xmlUTF8Strsize (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 83 Do normalize string-based datatype value in RelaxNG facet checking (Audric Schiltknecht),<br /> 84 Bug 760921: REGRESSION (8eb55d78): doc/examples/io1 test fails after fix for "xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths" <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760921> (David Kilzer),<br /> 85 Bug 760861: REGRESSION (bf9c1dad): Missing results for test/schemas/regexp-char-ref_[01].xsd <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760861> (David Kilzer),<br /> 86 error.c: *input->cur == 0 does not mean no error (Pavel Raiskup),<br /> 87 Add missing RNG test files (David Kilzer),<br /> 88 Bug 760183: REGRESSION (v2.9.3): XML push parser fails with bogus UTF-8 encoding error when multi-byte character in large CDATA section is split across buffer <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760183> (David Kilzer),<br /> 89 Bug 758572: ASAN crash in make check <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758572> (David Kilzer),<br /> 90 Bug 721158: Missing ICU string when doing --version on xmllint <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721158> (David Kilzer),<br /> 91 python 3: libxml2.c wrappers create Unicode str already (Michael Stahl),<br /> 92 Add autogen.sh to distrib (orzen),<br /> 93 Heap-based buffer overread in xmlNextChar (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 94 </li> 95 96 <li>Improvements:<br /> 97 Add more debugging info to runtest (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 98 Implement "runtest -u" mode (David Kilzer),<br /> 99 Add a make rule to rebuild for ASAN (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 100 </li> 101 </ul><h3>v2.9.3: Nov 20 2015</h3><ul> 102 <li>Security:<br /> 103 CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode (Hugh Davenport),<br /> 104 CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 105 CVE-2015-7499-2 Detect incoherency on GROW (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 106 CVE-2015-7499-1 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 107 CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue (David Drysdale),<br /> 108 CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey (David Drysdale),<br /> 109 CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 110 CVE-2015-8035 Fix XZ compression support loop (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 111 CVE-2015-7942-2 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 112 CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 113 CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 114 CVE-2015-7941_2 Cleanup conditional section error handling (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 115 CVE-2015-7941_1 Stop parsing on entities boundaries errors (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 116 </li> 117 118 <li>Documentation:<br /> 119 Correct spelling of "calling" (Alex Henrie),<br /> 120 Fix a small error in xmllint --format description (Fabien Degomme),<br /> 121 Avoid XSS on the search of xmlsoft.org (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 122 </li> 123 124 <li>Portability:<br /> 125 threads: use forward declarations only for glibc (Michael Heimpold),<br /> 126 Update Win32 configure.js to search for configure.ac (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 127 </li> 128 129 <li>Bug Fixes:<br /> 130 Bug on creating new stream from entity (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 131 Fix some loop issues embedding NEXT (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 132 Do not print error context when there is none (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 133 Avoid extra processing of MarkupDecl when EOF (Hugh Davenport),<br /> 134 Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 135 Add missing Null check in xmlParseExternalEntityPrivate (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 136 Fix a bug in CData error handling in the push parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 137 Fix a bug on name parsing at the end of current input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 138 Fix the spurious ID already defined error (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 139 Fix previous change to node sort order (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 140 Fix a self assignment issue raised by clang (Scott Graham),<br /> 141 Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 142 Do not process encoding values if the declaration if broken (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 143 Silence clang's -Wunknown-attribute (Michael Catanzaro),<br /> 144 xmlMemUsed is not thread-safe (Martin von Gagern),<br /> 145 Fix support for except in nameclasses (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 146 Fix order of root nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 147 Allow attributes on descendant-or-self axis (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 148 Fix the fix to Windows locking (Steve Nairn),<br /> 149 Fix timsort invariant loop re: Envisage article (Christopher Swenson),<br /> 150 Don't add IDs in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 151 Account for ID attributes in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 152 Remove various unused value assignments (Philip Withnall),<br /> 153 Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 154 Revert "Missing initialization for the catalog module" (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 155 </li> 156 157 <li>Improvements:<br /> 158 Reuse xmlHaltParser() where it makes sense (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 159 xmlStopParser reset errNo (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 160 Reenable xz support by default (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 161 Recover unescaped less-than character in HTML recovery parsing (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 162 Allow HTML serializer to output HTML5 DOCTYPE (Shaun McCance),<br /> 163 Regression test for bug #695699 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 164 Add a couple of XPath tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 165 Add Python 3 rpm subpackage (Tomas Radej),<br /> 166 libxml2-config.cmake.in: update include directories (Samuel Martin),<br /> 167 Adding example from bugs 738805 to regression tests (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 168 </li> 169 170 <li>Cleanups:<br /> 171 </li> 172 </ul><h3>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3><ul> 173 <li>Security:<br /> 174 Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 175 CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 176 </li> 177 178 <li>Bug Fixes:<br /> 179 fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),<br /> 180 xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),<br /> 181 Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 182 Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 183 Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing &lt; (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 184 xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 185 Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 186 parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),<br /> 187 Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 188 Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 189 Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 190 python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),<br /> 191 Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 192 xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),<br /> 193 Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 194 wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),<br /> 195 wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),<br /> 196 no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),<br /> 197 Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 198 Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 199 xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),<br /> 200 runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),<br /> 201 xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),<br /> 202 xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),<br /> 203 HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),<br /> 204 Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),<br /> 205 Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 206 Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 207 XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 208 Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 209 Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 210 Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 211 Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 212 Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 213 xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),<br /> 214 Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br /> 215 Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 216 Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 217 erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 218 xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),<br /> 219 Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),<br /> 220 Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),<br /> 221 Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 222 Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 223 Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),<br /> 224 Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 225 Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 226 fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 227 Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 228 Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 229 Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 230 Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br /> 231 Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),<br /> 232 Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),<br /> 233 Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),<br /> 234 Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),<br /> 235 Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),<br /> 236 Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),<br /> 237 Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 238 run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),<br /> 239 Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),<br /> 240 Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 241 Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),<br /> 242 xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),<br /> 243 Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 244 Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 245 Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 246 Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),<br /> 247 Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 248 Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 249 Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 250 Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 251 missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),<br /> 252 Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 253 Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 254 properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),<br /> 255 Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),<br /> 256 Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),<br /> 257 Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),<br /> 258 Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)<br /> 259 </li> 260 261 <li>Documentation:<br /> 262 typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 263 Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 264 Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 265 Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 266 Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 267 Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 268 Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 269 Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 270 Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 271 </li> 272 273 <li>Portability:<br /> 274 AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 275 remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 276 fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 277 Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),<br /> 278 OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 279 OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 280 os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 281 OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 282 OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 283 OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 284 OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 285 OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 286 OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 287 OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 288 OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 289 OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 290 OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 291 OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 292 OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 293 Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 294 configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),<br /> 295 Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br /> 296 Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br /> 297 Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br /> 298 Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),<br /> 299 Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br /> 300 Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),<br /> 301 Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),<br /> 302 Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 303 Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 304 Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 305 Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 306 Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 307 Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 308 Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 309 Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 310 Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 311 build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),<br /> 312 build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),<br /> 313 fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 314 add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),<br /> 315 Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br /> 316 python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),<br /> 317 python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),<br /> 318 Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)<br /> 319 </li> 320 321 <li>Improvements:<br /> 322 win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 323 elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 324 elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 325 Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),<br /> 326 Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 327 Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),<br /> 328 Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 329 Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),<br /> 330 wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),<br /> 331 doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),<br /> 332 Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),<br /> 333 Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),<br /> 334 xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),<br /> 335 Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),<br /> 336 adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 337 Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),<br /> 338 Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),<br /> 339 Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 340 xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 341 Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)<br /> 342 </li> 343 344 <li>Cleanups:<br /> 345 Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 346 Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 347 Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),<br /> 348 Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),<br /> 349 Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),<br /> 350 Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 351 </li> 352 </ul><h3>2.9.1: Apr 19 2013</h3><ul> 353 <li> Features:<br /> 354 Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 355 Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)<br /> 356 </li> 357 358 <li> Documentation:<br /> 359 Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 360 Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 361 Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)<br /> 362 </li> 363 364 <li> Portability:<br /> 365 Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 366 rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 367 elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 368 elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 369 Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 370 Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),<br /> 371 Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),<br /> 372 Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),<br /> 373 Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 374 Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 375 Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),<br /> 376 Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),<br /> 377 Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 378 </li> 379 380 <li> Bug Fixes:<br /> 381 Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 382 Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),<br /> 383 Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),<br /> 384 Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 385 Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 386 Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 387 Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),<br /> 388 Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),<br /> 389 Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),<br /> 390 fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 391 xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),<br /> 392 Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),<br /> 393 Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 394 Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,<br /> 395 Veillard),<br /> 396 Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 397 When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,<br /> 398 Veillard),<br /> 399 Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),<br /> 400 xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,<br /> 401 Veillard),<br /> 402 Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),<br /> 403 Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 404 Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 405 Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 406 Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,<br /> 407 Veillard),<br /> 408 Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 409 </li> 410 411 <li> Improvements:<br /> 412 Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 413 Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 414 update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 415 A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 416 Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 417 Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 418 First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 419 updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 420 Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),<br /> 421 Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 422 Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 423 Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 424 Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),<br /> 425 Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),<br /> 426 Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),<br /> 427 Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 428 Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 429 </li> 430 431 <li> Cleanups:<br /> 432 Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 433 Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 434 Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),<br /> 435 Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 436 Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 437 Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,<br /> 438 Gansterer),<br /> 439 Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 440 Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 441 Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 442 rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),<br /> 443 Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)<br /> 444 </li> 445 </ul><h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3><ul> 446 <li> Features:<br /> 447 A few new API entry points,<br /> 448 More resilient push parser mode,<br /> 449 A lot of portability improvement,<br /> 450 Faster XPath evaluation<br /> 451 </li> 452 453 <li> Documentation:<br /> 454 xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),<br /> 455 libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),<br /> 456 More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)<br /> 457 </li> 458 459 <li> Portability:<br /> 460 Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),<br /> 461 fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),<br /> 462 GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 463 More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),<br /> 464 More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),<br /> 465 Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),<br /> 466 Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),<br /> 467 Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),<br /> 468 Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),<br /> 469 Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),<br /> 470 clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 471 use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 472 fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),<br /> 473 Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),<br /> 474 Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),<br /> 475 Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 476 </li> 477 478 <li> Bug Fixes:<br /> 479 Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 480 Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 481 Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 482 initialize var (Rob Richards),<br /> 483 Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 484 Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),<br /> 485 Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 486 Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 487 Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),<br /> 488 Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 489 Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 490 Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 491 Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 492 Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 493 Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 494 More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 495 Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 496 Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 497 Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 498 Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 499 Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),<br /> 500 Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 501 Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 502 Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 503 </li> 504 505 <li> Improvements:<br /> 506 Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 507 Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),<br /> 508 Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 509 Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 510 Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),<br /> 511 Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 512 Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br /> 513 Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),<br /> 514 Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),<br /> 515 Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 516 Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),<br /> 517 Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 518 Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 519 minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 520 fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),<br /> 521 Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 522 Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 523 Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 524 Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 525 Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 526 Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 527 Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 528 Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 529 Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 530 Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 531 Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 532 Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 533 Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 534 More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 535 Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 536 first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 537 Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 538 Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 539 Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 540 Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 541 More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 542 Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),<br /> to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard) 543 Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 544 Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 545 Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 546 Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 547 Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 548 New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 549 Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 550 Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 551 Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 552 Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 553 Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 554 Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 555 Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 556 Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 557 Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 558 Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 559 Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 560 Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 561 </li> 562 563 <li> Cleanups:<br /> 564 Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 565 Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 566 Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 567 Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),<br /> 568 Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 569 Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 570 Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 571 Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 572 Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 573 Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 574 Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 575 Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 576 Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),<br /> 577 Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)<br /> 578 </li> 579 </ul><h3>2.8.0: May 23 2012</h3><ul> 580 <li>Features: 581 add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund) 582 </li> 583 584 <li>Documentation: 585 xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä), 586 Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard), 587 URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard), 588 Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard), 589 Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles), 590 Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel), 591 add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund), 592 Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard), 593 Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard), 594 Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard) 595 </li> 596 597 <li>Portability: 598 Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard), 599 Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan), 600 xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer), 601 remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein), 602 undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer), 603 Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth), 604 fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards), 605 prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield), 606 Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm), 607 Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales), 608 fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner), 609 Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard), 610 Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards), 611 autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters), 612 Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth), 613 634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard), 614 599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko), 615 fix win build (Rob Richards) 616 </li> 617 618 <li>Bug fixes: 619 Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard), 620 Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard), 621 Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos), 622 Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard), 623 Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam), 624 Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard), 625 Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard), 626 Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard), 627 HTML parser error with <noscript> in the <head> (Denis Pauk), 628 XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne), 629 Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard), 630 Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard), 631 Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard), 632 Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack), 633 Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard), 634 xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance), 635 Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk), 636 Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder), 637 Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li), 638 Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott), 639 xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott), 640 HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs), 641 Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla), 642 Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard), 643 Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard), 644 Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles), 645 Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi), 646 Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber), 647 Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard), 648 Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard), 649 fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan), 650 fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard), 651 Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard), 652 Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans), 653 Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng), 654 Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard), 655 Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard), 656 Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard), 657 Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard), 658 Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard), 659 Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance), 660 Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi), 661 Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans), 662 __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin), 663 __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin), 664 Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards), 665 Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard), 666 Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard), 667 Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard), 668 Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard) 669 </li> 670 671 <li>Improvements: 672 use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov), 673 New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard), 674 xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski), 675 Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin), 676 Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin), 677 Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk), 678 wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson), 679 Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard), 680 Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan), 681 Improve xmllint shell (Ryan), 682 add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky), 683 Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard), 684 Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard), 685 included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund), 686 move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund), 687 add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund), 688 add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund), 689 autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters), 690 Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard), 691 Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard), 692 Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard), 693 testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost), 694 various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost), 695 testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost), 696 runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost), 697 configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost), 698 configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost), 699 xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost), 700 __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin), 701 __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin) 702 </li> 703 704 <li>Cleanups: 705 Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard), 706 Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard), 707 Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón), 708 autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón), 709 Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard), 710 Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard), 711 Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber), 712 Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard), 713 Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard), 714 python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost), 715 python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost), 716 configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost), 717 xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost) 718 </li> 719 </ul><h3>2.7.8: Nov 4 2010</h3><ul> 720 <li> Features: 721 480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano), 722 Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg) 723 </li> 724 <li> Documentation: 725 Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey), 726 Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard), 727 Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day), 728 Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard) 729 </li> 730 <li> Portability: 731 607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN), 732 614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer), 733 Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast), 734 Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards) 735 </li> 736 <li> Bug Fixes: 737 595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard), 738 617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk), 739 616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz), 740 614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile), 741 627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta), 742 629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer), 743 630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard), 744 make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard), 745 Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard), 746 Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey), 747 Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard), 748 Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard), 749 Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini), 750 Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler), 751 Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard), 752 Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly), 753 Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard), 754 xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards), 755 Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards) 756 </li> 757 <li> Improvements: 758 606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard), 759 Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey), 760 Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard) 761 </li> 762 <li> Cleanups: 763 618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk), 764 Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk), 765 Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard), 766 Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg), 767 Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg), 768 Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov), 769 Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard) 770 </li> 771 </ul><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul> 772 <li> Improvements: 773 Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard), 774 Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov) 775 </li> 776 <li> Portability: 777 relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton), 778 Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov), 779 use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard), 780 Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov), 781 Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard), 782 Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards), 783 Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel), 784 Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard), 785 Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard), 786 598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix) 787 </li> 788 <li> Bug Fixes: 789 libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler), 790 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard), 791 Fix missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch), 792 Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks), 793 fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith), 794 ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea), 795 htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov), 796 Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard), 797 Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard), 798 xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon), 799 608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard), 800 Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard), 801 Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards), 802 Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov), 803 Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov), 804 Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard), 805 Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin), 806 Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning), 807 Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard), 808 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard), 809 Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard), 810 xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard) 811 </li> 812 <li> Cleanups: 813 Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov) 814 </li> 815 </ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct 6 2009</h3><ul> 816 <li> Bug Fixes: 817 Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko), 818 URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard), 819 Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher) 820 </li> 821 </ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul> 822 <li> Bug Fixes: 823 Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko), 824 Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards), 825 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard), 826 Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard), 827 Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard), 828 link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat), 829 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard) 830 </li> 831 <li> Cleanup: 832 Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard) 833 </li> 834 </ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul> 835 <li>Improvements: 836 Switch to GIT (GNOME), 837 Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard) 838 </li> 839 <li>Portability: 840 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard), 841 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard), 842 Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards), 843 Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith), 844 Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard), 845 Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary), 846 Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice), 847 Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary), 848 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard), 849 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard), 850 Fix windows build (Rob Richards), 851 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard), 852 xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard), 853 Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard), 854 Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN), 855 Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard), 856 Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron), 857 fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey), 858 fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher) 859 </li> 860 <li>Documentation: 861 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov), 862 Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard), 863 Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard), 864 560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard), 865 Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard), 866 updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre), 867 more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard) 868 </li> 869 <li>Bug fixes: 870 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD), 871 Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard), 872 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard), 873 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard), 874 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard), 875 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard), 876 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard), 877 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard), 878 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard), 879 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard), 880 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard), 881 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard), 882 Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard), 883 Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann), 884 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel), 885 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull), 886 Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard), 887 Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam), 888 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler), 889 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard), 890 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard), 891 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard), 892 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard), 893 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost), 894 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard), 895 Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard), 896 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard), 897 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard), 898 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard), 899 Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard), 900 Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer), 901 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard), 902 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard), 903 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard), 904 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard), 905 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard), 906 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard), 907 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard), 908 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard), 909 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard), 910 574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer), 911 Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard), 912 585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen), 913 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs), 914 Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs), 915 Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos), 916 576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky), 917 Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre), 918 Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas), 919 Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk), 920 Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard), 921 potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering), 922 Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard), 923 Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard), 924 Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 925 Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 926 reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard), 927 use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards), 928 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch), 929 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev), 930 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson), 931 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner), 932 do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards), 933 564217 fix structured error handling problems, 934 reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards), 935 xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard), 936 add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker), 937 avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya) 938 </li> 939 <li>Cleanup: 940 Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard), 941 A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 942 Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 943 Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 944 Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard), 945 Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard), 946 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard), 947 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard), 948 Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard), 949 Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard), 950 Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard), 951 hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey), 952 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack), 953 cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya) 954 </li> 955 </ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul> 956 <li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li> 957 <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes, 958 indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards), 959 xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn), 960 xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker), 961 avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann), 962 deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li> 963 <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk), 964 limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal 965 APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards), 966 add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions 967 parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li> 968 </ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul> 969 <li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation 970 if XPath is not configured in</li> 971 <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour 972 when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing 973 bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat) 974 </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as 975 XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li> 976 </ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul> 977 <li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li> 978 <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner 979 case handking and leaks (Martin)</li> 980 <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li> 981 <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li> 982 </ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul> 983 <li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and 984 xmlParserCleanup docs</li> 985 <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC 986 porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg), 987 non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber) 988 </li> 989 <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free 990 (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob 991 Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML 992 parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader 993 tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix 994 (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown 995 when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li> 996 <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output 997 (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups, 998 serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li> 999 <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags 1000 for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986, 1001 add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer), 1002 new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work), 1003 improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better 1004 regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms 1005 to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make 1006 arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li> 1007 </ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul> 1008 <li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang), 1009 trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement 1010 (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation, 1011 XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li> 1012 <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with 1013 paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback 1014 patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack), 1015 SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan), 1016 regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the 1017 document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack), 1018 writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding 1019 detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari 1020 team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing 1021 (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily 1022 Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem, 1023 allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation 1024 problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in 1025 the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many 1026 out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes 1027 (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding 1028 conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName 1029 functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities 1030 (Mark Rowe)</li> 1031 <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless 1032 mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo 1033 Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need 1034 a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon), 1035 cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build 1036 fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards), 1037 duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports 1038 (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li> 1039 <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling 1040 (Tobias Minich)</li> 1041 </ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul> 1042 <li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li> 1043 <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix 1044 xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash 1045 (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel), 1046 XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in 1047 xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type 1048 parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if 1049 deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt), 1050 HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib 1051 output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 1052 (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars. 1053 </li> 1054 <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste 1055 copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder), 1056 some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li> 1057 <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack), 1058 testURI --debug option, </li> 1059 </ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul> 1060 <li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes 1061 (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li> 1062 <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when 1063 reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas 1064 xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem 1065 (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment 1066 detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata 1067 generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import 1068 problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling 1069 (William Brack)</li> 1070 </ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul> 1071 <li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi, 1072 fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X 1073 (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading 1074 improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions, 1075 new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li> 1076 <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li> 1077 <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind' 1078 flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \, 1079 htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in 1080 typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix 1081 (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack), 1082 nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo), 1083 xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon), 1084 XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set 1085 sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl 1086 dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding 1087 error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash, 1088 workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes, 1089 invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 1090 internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in 1091 the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. MannsÃ¥ker) </li> 1092 <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones), 1093 embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li> 1094 </ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul> 1095 <li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too 1096 (James Dennett)</li> 1097 <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage 1098 (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion 1099 on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath 1100 principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint 1101 (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day), 1102 standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut 1103 for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes 1104 (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William), 1105 concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char 1106 in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in 1107 python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error 1108 (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel), 1109 XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William), 1110 fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with 1111 min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li> 1112 <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li> 1113 <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William), 1114 __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib 1115 (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher), 1116 Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li> 1117 <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li> 1118 </ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul> 1119 <li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 1120 Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 1121 AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li> 1122 <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization 1123 (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node 1124 equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest 1125 improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 1126 support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs 1127 (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob 1128 Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring 1129 of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 1130 python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 1131 try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri, 1132 add --html --memory case to xmllint</li> 1133 <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 1134 const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen), 1135 portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter 1136 Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python 1137 shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds 1138 (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix 1139 --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li> 1140 <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and 1141 attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 1142 xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier), 1143 missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes 1144 (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style 1145 serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in 1146 xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate 1147 allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards), 1148 fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation 1149 crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation 1150 when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 1151 using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity 1152 context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content 1153 autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling, 1154 fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content 1155 validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 1156 XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug 1157 in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML 1158 meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 1159 HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values, 1160 htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in 1161 xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in 1162 htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer), 1163 bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot) 1164 </li> 1165 <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik), 1166 fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for 1167 xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few 1168 functions</li> 1169 </ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul> 1170 <li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation 1171 error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li> 1172 <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in 1173 xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), 1174 variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob 1175 Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath 1176 leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of 1177 selfdocument.</li> 1178 <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object 1179 cache(Kasimier)</li> 1180 </ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul> 1181 <li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows 1182 (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher), 1183 HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1 1184 cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on 1185 Windows (Roland Schwingel). 1186 </li> 1187 <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier 1188 Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li> 1189 <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext() 1190 on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming 1191 bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV & 1192 Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier), 1193 one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid, 1194 XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug 1195 left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole), 1196 xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large 1197 number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug 1198 in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas 1199 fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 1200 xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed 1201 code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady), 1202 line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li> 1203 <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li> 1204 <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li> 1205 </ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul> 1206 <li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows 1207 (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas), 1208 --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix 1209 on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by 1210 Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin), 1211 MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick 1212 Jones),</li> 1213 <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose 1214 (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring 1215 parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li> 1216 <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack), 1217 combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in 1218 xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo 1219 Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik), 1220 XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier), 1221 xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in 1222 xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of 1223 vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF 1224 split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in 1225 xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards), 1226 HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier), 1227 exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype 1228 totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an 1229 xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi 1230 Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix 1231 XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier), 1232 fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml 1233 (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of 1234 runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs 1235 (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair), 1236 compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on 1237 xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath 1238 pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li> 1239 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier 1240 Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted 1241 transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no 1242 standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors() 1243 (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API 1244 (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add 1245 htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li> 1246 <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save 1247 function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li> 1248 </ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul> 1249 <li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1250 <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i, 1251 CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc, 1252 XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some 1253 output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style 1254 XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD 1255 (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 1256 <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add 1257 XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for 1258 derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li> 1259 <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with 1260 devhelp.</li> 1261 </ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul> 1262 <li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling 1263 convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus' 1264 sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings 1265 on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the 1266 Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko), 1267 compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on 1268 Z/OS,</li> 1269 <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8 1270 bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack), 1271 htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64 1272 Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all, 1273 xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas 1274 foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov 1275 Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml: 1276 namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas 1277 (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William), 1278 xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error 1279 messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to 1280 fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob 1281 Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 1282 serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem, 1283 XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek 1284 Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas 1285 type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling, 1286 xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in 1287 error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), 1288 xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns 1289 bugs.</li> 1290 <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports 1291 (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing 1292 (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though 1293 not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match 1294 error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged 1295 yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option 1296 for text nodes allocation.</li> 1297 <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li> 1298 </ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul> 1299 <li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor 1300 Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and 1301 andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the 1302 pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling 1303 of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack), 1304 compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test 1305 distribution.</li> 1306 <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack), 1307 HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer 1308 overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup 1309 (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch 1310 (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup 1311 on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in 1312 exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob 1313 Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type 1314 QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug 1315 (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob 1316 Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James 1317 Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections, 1318 areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug 1319 (William).</li> 1320 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on 1321 conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik, 1322 Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent 1323 Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist 1324 (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of 1325 xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert), 1326 standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs 1327 xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and 1328 xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and 1329 Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too, 1330 ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the 1331 standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William), 1332 xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX 1333 Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li> 1334 </ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul> 1335 <li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William 1336 Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX 1337 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on 1338 Linux/ELF/gcc4</li> 1339 <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return 1340 code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY 1341 Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin), 1342 segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation 1343 (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards), 1344 HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers 1345 leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in 1346 encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if 1347 gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures, 1348 switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at 1349 serialization time</li> 1350 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets 1351 checking and also mixed handling.</li> 1352 <li></li> 1353 </ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul> 1354 <li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, 1355 Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed), 1356 some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li> 1357 <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and 1358 xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries 1359 reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL 1360 saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths 1361 fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix 1362 (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack), 1363 xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup 1364 FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William), 1365 xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being 1366 empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows 1367 (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent 1368 Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug 1369 (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack), 1370 xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li> 1371 <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionary support for 1372 hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath 1373 subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical 1374 values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron 1375 Stansvik),</li> 1376 <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li> 1377 </ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul> 1378 <li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 1379 maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory 1380 (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build 1381 (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan 1382 McNichol)</li> 1383 <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile() 1384 to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak, 1385 ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William), 1386 warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William), 1387 UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in 1388 push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey 1389 Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William), 1390 patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number 1391 sometimes missing.</li> 1392 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator 1393 (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings 1394 (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call 1395 serialize().</li> 1396 <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for 1397 the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel 1398 Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format 1399 (Phil Shafer)</li> 1400 <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries 1401 (William).</li> 1402 </ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul> 1403 <li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new 1404 automated regression testing</li> 1405 <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li> 1406 <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding 1407 conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by 1408 Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li> 1409 <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion 1410 were updated.</li> 1411 <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent 1412 Hendricks)</li> 1413 </ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul> 1414 <li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li> 1415 <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the 1416 source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li> 1417 <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python 1418 paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William), 1419 saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix 1420 (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build 1421 fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler 1422 on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported 1423 by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset, 1424 entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error 1425 (William).</li> 1426 <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging 1427 module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham 1428 Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li> 1429 </ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul> 1430 <li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation 1431 without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack & 1432 Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li> 1433 <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier 1434 Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x 1435 transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes 1436 (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc), 1437 handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas 1438 date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS 1439 E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li> 1440 <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add 1441 xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy 1442 (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm 1443 Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation, 1444 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 1445 </ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul> 1446 <li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc, 1447 Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li> 1448 <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs 1449 (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack 1450 and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace 1451 problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could 1452 genrate a serialization loop.</li> 1453 <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path 1454 and --load-trace options to xmllint</li> 1455 <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li> 1456 </ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul> 1457 <li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter 1458 Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert 1459 Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li> 1460 <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes 1461 (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P. 1462 Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support 1463 (Torkel Lyng)</li> 1464 <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li> 1465 <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory 1466 debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner), 1467 xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error 1468 handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows 1469 memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions 1470 handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug, 1471 htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base 1472 (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji), 1473 xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity 1474 (William)</li> 1475 <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool 1476 (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey), 1477 xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude 1478 to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS 1479 tag (William)</li> 1480 <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William) 1481 schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li> 1482 </ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul> 1483 <li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for 1484 attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li> 1485 <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup 1486 (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li> 1487 <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog 1488 path on Windows</li> 1489 <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code 1490 (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li> 1491 <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX 1492 properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath 1493 (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed 1494 by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug 1495 with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William), 1496 Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader 1497 streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William), 1498 libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on 1499 Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces 1500 improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to 1501 synchronous behaviour.</li> 1502 <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register 1503 namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression 1504 test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of 1505 XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine 1506 Parent and William)</li> 1507 <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint 1508 and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize 1509 the code generated in the RPM packages.</li> 1510 </ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul> 1511 <li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li> 1512 <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li> 1513 <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp 1514 vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not 1515 use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed 1516 Davis),</li> 1517 <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing 1518 (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add 1519 xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization 1520 escaping, added escaping customization</li> 1521 <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William 1522 Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader, 1523 URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp 1524 transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier 1525 Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD 1526 (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse 1527 xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li> 1528 </ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul> 1529 <li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li> 1530 <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave 1531 Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with 1532 William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with 1533 William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate 1534 fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD 1535 validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention 1536 schemas</li> 1537 <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting 1538 save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian 1539 Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM 1540 dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal 1541 clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li> 1542 <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new 1543 example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li> 1544 <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft 1545 compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li> 1546 </ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul> 1547 <li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li> 1548 <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam 1549 Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li> 1550 <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li> 1551 <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li> 1552 <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external 1553 reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> 1554 failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li> 1555 <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 1556 <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William 1557 Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to 1558 URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), 1559 XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug 1560 reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char 1561 groups '-' handling (William), dictionary reference counting problems, 1562 do not close stderr.</li> 1563 <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li> 1564 <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li> 1565 <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups 1566 (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation 1567 to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino 1568 Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li> 1569 </ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul> 1570 <li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li> 1571 <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li> 1572 <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li> 1573 <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li> 1574 <li>bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push 1575 mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix 1576 xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent 1577 handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li> 1578 <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 1579 <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li> 1580 </ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul> 1581 <li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and 1582 William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li> 1583 <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization 1584 (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation 1585 (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg 1586 Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), 1587 XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, 1588 isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter 1589 entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, 1590 <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li> 1591 <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal 1592 (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix 1593 --with-minimum configuration.</li> 1594 <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li> 1595 <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version 1596 dependancies (John Fleck)</li> 1597 <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li> 1598 <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function 1599 prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ 1600 patch</li> 1601 <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in 1602 input.</li> 1603 </ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul> 1604 <li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault 1605 (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes 1606 (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with 1607 namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes 1608 (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union 1609 evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), 1610 XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument 1611 callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li> 1612 <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John 1613 Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li> 1614 <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul), 1615 structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1616 <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionary 1617 references (William & me), recursion (William)</li> 1618 <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred 1619 Mickautsch),</li> 1620 <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li> 1621 <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li> 1622 <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li> 1623 <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionary APIs for future 1624 XSLT optimizations.</li> 1625 </ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul> 1626 <li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 1627 <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li> 1628 <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li> 1629 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix 1630 (Lucas Brasilino)</li> 1631 <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of 1632 NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from 1633 filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable 1634 again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William 1635 Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas 1636 double inclusion behaviour</li> 1637 </ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul> 1638 <li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li> 1639 <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji 1640 Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li> 1641 <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw 1642 (Kenneth Haley)</li> 1643 <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li> 1644 <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li> 1645 <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li> 1646 <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li> 1647 <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), 1648 xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser 1649 (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization 1650 cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William 1651 Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter 1652 (Daniel Schulman)</li> 1653 <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the 1654 namespace change.</li> 1655 <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and 1656 namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples 1657 based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li> 1658 <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas 1659 constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument 1660 when streaming.</li> 1661 <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li> 1662 </ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul> 1663 <li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li> 1664 <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li> 1665 <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li> 1666 <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 1667 <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li> 1668 <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li> 1669 <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li> 1670 <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li> 1671 <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li> 1672 <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li> 1673 <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx 1674 functions</li> 1675 <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li> 1676 <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li> 1677 <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li> 1678 <li>HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)</li> 1679 <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li> 1680 <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added 1681 --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML 1682 serializer)</li> 1683 </ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul> 1684 <li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li> 1685 <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup 1686 (William Brack)</li> 1687 <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor 1688 Zlatkovic)</li> 1689 <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 1690 <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li> 1691 <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham 1692 Bennett)</li> 1693 <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li> 1694 <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities 1695 (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 1696 <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li> 1697 <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li> 1698 <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li> 1699 <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li> 1700 <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing 1701 Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), 1702 XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li> 1703 </ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul> 1704 <li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot 1705 of change</li> 1706 <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, 1707 a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li> 1708 <li>Use per parser and per document dictionary, allocate names and small 1709 text nodes from the dictionary</li> 1710 <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, 1711 provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory 1712 allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, 1713 immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li> 1714 <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be 1715 intercepted at a structured level, with precise information 1716 available.</li> 1717 <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to 1718 easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple 1719 consecutive documents.</li> 1720 <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new 1721 functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python 1722 bindings</li> 1723 <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), 1724 Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, 1725 make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI 1726 extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster 1727 algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer 1728 access</li> 1729 <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li> 1730 <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li> 1731 <li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type 1732 and charset information if available.</li> 1733 <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and 1734 zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li> 1735 <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors 1736 output</li> 1737 <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling 1738 convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), 1739 Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), 1740 Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), 1741 warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin 1742 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 1743 <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), 1744 tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li> 1745 <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized 1746 mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection 1747 and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace 1748 on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), 1749 namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks 1750 (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter 1751 Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push 1752 mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug 1753 (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP 1754 error handling.</li> 1755 <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat 1756 testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionary, --nocdata to 1757 replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace 1758 declarations</li> 1759 <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li> 1760 <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for 1761 xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less 1762 allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked 1763 on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li> 1764 <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li> 1765 <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 1766 <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML 1767 parser instead.</li> 1768 </ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul> 1769 <li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li> 1770 <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li> 1771 </ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul> 1772 <li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li> 1773 <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li> 1774 <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw 1775 on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li> 1776 <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li> 1777 <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li> 1778 <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li> 1779 <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 1780 <li>and a couple other cleanup</li> 1781 </ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul> 1782 <li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build 1783 (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading 1784 (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), 1785 xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean 1786 Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed 1787 content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, 1788 progressive HTML parser</li> 1789 <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li> 1790 <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li> 1791 <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li> 1792 <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li> 1793 <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li> 1794 <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li> 1795 <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li> 1796 <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William 1797 Brack)</li> 1798 </ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul> 1799 <li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark 1800 Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), 1801 PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg 1802 Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, 1803 rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, 1804 xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 1805 <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li> 1806 <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li> 1807 <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li> 1808 <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane 1809 Bidoul)</li> 1810 <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li> 1811 <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li> 1812 <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class 1813 generator</li> 1814 <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li> 1815 <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li> 1816 </ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul> 1817 <li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the 1818 xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li> 1819 <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li> 1820 <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li> 1821 <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li> 1822 <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes 1823 (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser 1824 and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, 1825 behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" 1826 error conditions</li> 1827 <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory 1828 allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations 1829 accordingly.</li> 1830 <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and 1831 xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li> 1832 <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li> 1833 <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li> 1834 </ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul> 1835 <li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for 1836 binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li> 1837 <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and 1838 XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML 1839 Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li> 1840 <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li> 1841 <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li> 1842 <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG 1843 errors</li> 1844 </ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul> 1845 <li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including 1846 DocBook and TEI examples.</li> 1847 <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li> 1848 <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li> 1849 <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding 1850 conversion, line counting in the parser.</li> 1851 <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li> 1852 <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li> 1853 </ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul> 1854 <li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude 1855 implementation</li> 1856 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li> 1857 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on 1858 namespaces, 1859 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp 1860 generation problem.</p> 1861 </li> 1862 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li> 1863 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li> 1864 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 1865 </ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul> 1866 <li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first 1867 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li> 1868 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for 1869 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 1870 serialization</li> 1871 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li> 1872 </ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul> 1873 <li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li> 1874 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li> 1875 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, 1876 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul), 1877 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory 1878 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of 1879 namespaces</li> 1880 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li> 1881 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc 1882 patches (Stefan Kost)</li> 1883 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 1884 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting 1885 (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1886 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li> 1887 </ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul> 1888 <li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li> 1889 <li>documentation updates (John)</li> 1890 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li> 1891 </ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul> 1892 <li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C# 1893 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1894 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li> 1895 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li> 1896 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul), 1897 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup 1898 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li> 1899 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update 1900 (John)</li> 1901 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li> 1902 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li> 1903 <li>Entities handling fixes</li> 1904 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas 1905 Schroeder)</li> 1906 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li> 1907 </ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul> 1908 <li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li> 1909 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code 1910 fixes.</li> 1911 </ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul> 1912 <li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings 1913 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li> 1914 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li> 1915 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li> 1916 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 1917 dump</li> 1918 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li> 1919 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li> 1920 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li> 1921 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves 1922 more information needed for C# bindings</li> 1923 </ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul> 1924 <li>a couple of python binding fixes</li> 1925 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li> 1926 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li> 1927 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li> 1928 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li> 1929 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li> 1930 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li> 1931 </ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul> 1932 <li>fixes for the Python bindings</li> 1933 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), 1934 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support 1935 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, 1936 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr 1937 Pajas), entities processing</li> 1938 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li> 1939 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li> 1940 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), 1941 better thread support on Windows</li> 1942 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li> 1943 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li> 1944 </ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul> 1945 <li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li> 1946 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , 1947 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small 1948 problems</li> 1949 </ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul> 1950 <li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and 1951 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li> 1952 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li> 1953 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix 1954 and improvement of the regexp core</li> 1955 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li> 1956 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, 1957 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li> 1958 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp 1959 APIs</li> 1960 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li> 1961 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li> 1962 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe 1963 Merlet)</li> 1964 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li> 1965 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li> 1966 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li> 1967 </ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul> 1968 <li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li> 1969 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 1970 (fcrozat)</li> 1971 <li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li> 1972 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li> 1973 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li> 1974 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li> 1975 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li> 1976 </ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul> 1977 <li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li> 1978 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li> 1979 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li> 1980 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li> 1981 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from 1982 Peter Jacobi</li> 1983 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and 1984 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li> 1985 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li> 1986 </ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul> 1987 <li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory 1988 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), 1989 indentation, URI parsing</li> 1990 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network 1991 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li> 1992 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li> 1993 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas 1994 datatypes</li> 1995 </ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML 1996 Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all 1997 interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in 1998 progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, 1999 it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: 2000 </p><ul> 2001 <li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li> 2002 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li> 2003 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard 2004 Jinks</li> 2005 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li> 2006 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li> 2007 </ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul> 2008 <li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li> 2009 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li> 2010 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, 2011 libxml.m4</li> 2012 </ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul> 2013 <li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 2014 encoder</li> 2015 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li> 2016 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li> 2017 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li> 2018 </ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul> 2019 <li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, 2020 XPath</li> 2021 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li> 2022 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li> 2023 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li> 2024 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li> 2025 </ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul> 2026 <li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in 2027 XPath"</li> 2028 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more 2029 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li> 2030 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li> 2031 </ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul> 2032 <li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite 2033 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li> 2034 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li> 2035 </ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul> 2036 <li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li> 2037 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li> 2038 <li>Includes cleanup</li> 2039 </ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul> 2040 <li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT 2041 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing 2042 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li> 2043 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite 2044 complete</li> 2045 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree 2046 manipulations</li> 2047 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in 2048 XML</li> 2049 </ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul> 2050 <li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li> 2051 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li> 2052 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei 2053 Narojnyi</li> 2054 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li> 2055 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li> 2056 </ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul> 2057 <li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), 2058 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups 2059 (robert)</li> 2060 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li> 2061 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li> 2062 </ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul> 2063 <li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code 2064 cleanups</li> 2065 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li> 2066 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li> 2067 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li> 2068 </ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul> 2069 <li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li> 2070 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li> 2071 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li> 2072 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and 2073 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li> 2074 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li> 2075 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li> 2076 </ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul> 2077 <li>fixes more catalog bugs</li> 2078 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li> 2079 </ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul> 2080 <li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog 2081 tool</li> 2082 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li> 2083 </ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul> 2084 <li>exported some debugging interfaces</li> 2085 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li> 2086 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option 2087 and regression tests</li> 2088 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li> 2089 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li> 2090 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li> 2091 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li> 2092 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li> 2093 <li>general bug fixes</li> 2094 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li> 2095 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li> 2096 </ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul> 2097 <li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li> 2098 <li>portability and configure fixes</li> 2099 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li> 2100 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li> 2101 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li> 2102 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li> 2103 </ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul> 2104 <li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li> 2105 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some 2106 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li> 2107 </ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul> 2108 <li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and 2109 portability fixes</li> 2110 </ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul> 2111 <li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML 2112 Catalog</li> 2113 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li> 2114 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 2115 </ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul> 2116 <li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li> 2117 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li> 2118 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 2119 </ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul> 2120 <li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li> 2121 <li>lot of bug fixes</li> 2122 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li> 2123 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li> 2124 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li> 2125 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li> 2126 </ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul> 2127 <li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li> 2128 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li> 2129 <li>extension of the XPath API</li> 2130 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li> 2131 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li> 2132 </ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul> 2133 <li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li> 2134 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the 2135 regression tests</li> 2136 <li>A bit of cleanup</li> 2137 </ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul> 2138 <li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when 2139 substituting them</li> 2140 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be 2141 substantially faster</li> 2142 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li> 2143 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li> 2144 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li> 2145 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li> 2146 </ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul> 2147 <li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li> 2148 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li> 2149 </ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul> 2150 <li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li> 2151 <li>Small Makefile fix</li> 2152 </ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul> 2153 <li>lots of cleanup</li> 2154 <li>a couple of validation fix</li> 2155 <li>fixed line number counting</li> 2156 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li> 2157 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li> 2158 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 2159 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the 2160 optimizer on Tru64</li> 2161 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for 2162 compilation on Windows MSC</li> 2163 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li> 2164 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li> 2165 </ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul> 2166 <li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability 2167 problems (alpha)</li> 2168 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline 2169 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li> 2170 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li> 2171 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML 2172 parser</li> 2173 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces 2174 node selection)</li> 2175 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li> 2176 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li> 2177 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li> 2178 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li> 2179 </ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul> 2180 <li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li> 2181 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, 2182 XInclude processing</li> 2183 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li> 2184 </ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: 2185 </p><ul> 2186 <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom</li> 2187 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li> 2188 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 2189 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li> 2190 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li> 2191 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed 2192 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li> 2193 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li> 2194 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li> 2195 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li> 2196 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li> 2197 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li> 2198 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li> 2199 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li> 2200 </ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul> 2201 <li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li> 2202 </ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul> 2203 <li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li> 2204 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li> 2205 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating 2206 point portability issue</li> 2207 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for 2208 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li> 2209 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li> 2210 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li> 2211 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li> 2212 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li> 2213 </ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul> 2214 <li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li> 2215 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li> 2216 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li> 2217 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li> 2218 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li> 2219 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li> 2220 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li> 2221 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li> 2222 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li> 2223 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li> 2224 </ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul> 2225 <li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and 2226 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li> 2227 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li> 2228 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the 2229 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing 2230 them</li> 2231 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation 2232 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems 2233 broken ...</li> 2234 </ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul> 2235 <li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, 2236 there is some new APIs for this too</li> 2237 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, 2238 52299)</li> 2239 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li> 2240 </ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul> 2241 <li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li> 2242 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer 2243 size to be application tunable.</li> 2244 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part 2245 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li> 2246 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 2247 parser</li> 2248 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li> 2249 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li> 2250 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li> 2251 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they 2252 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li> 2253 </ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul> 2254 <li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li> 2255 <li>documentation cleanups</li> 2256 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li> 2257 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li> 2258 </ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul> 2259 <li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li> 2260 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li> 2261 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li> 2262 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li> 2263 </ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul> 2264 <li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li> 2265 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 2266 implementation</li> 2267 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 2268 </ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul> 2269 <li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li> 2270 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for 2271 XSLT</li> 2272 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li> 2273 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li> 2274 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li> 2275 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li> 2276 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and 2277 libxml2-devel</li> 2278 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li> 2279 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li> 2280 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li> 2281 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li> 2282 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li> 2283 </ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul> 2284 <li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li> 2285 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li> 2286 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li> 2287 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li> 2288 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li> 2289 </ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul> 2290 <li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li> 2291 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li> 2292 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li> 2293 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li> 2294 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li> 2295 </ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul> 2296 <li>erroneous release :-(</li> 2297 </ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul> 2298 <li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> 2299 support</li> 2300 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li> 2301 <li>updated MS compiler project</li> 2302 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li> 2303 <li>added an URI escaping function</li> 2304 <li>some other bug fixes</li> 2305 </ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul> 2306 <li>added message redirection</li> 2307 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li> 2308 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li> 2309 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li> 2310 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li> 2311 </ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul> 2312 <li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to 2313 those</li> 2314 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li> 2315 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li> 2316 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute 2317 normalization)</li> 2318 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li> 2319 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li> 2320 </ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul> 2321 <li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li> 2322 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more 2323 tests</li> 2324 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build 2325 and release</li> 2326 <li>Late validation fixes</li> 2327 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li> 2328 <li>added memory management docs</li> 2329 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li> 2330 </ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul> 2331 <li>main XPath problem fixed</li> 2332 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li> 2333 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li> 2334 </ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul> 2335 <li>bug fixes</li> 2336 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li> 2337 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been 2338 checked too</li> 2339 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd 2340 works smoothly now.</li> 2341 </ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul> 2342 <li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li> 2343 </ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul> 2344 <li>mostly bug fixes</li> 2345 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li> 2346 </ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul> 2347 <li>a purely bug fixes release</li> 2348 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li> 2349 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li> 2350 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory 2351 allocation routines</li> 2352 </ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul> 2353 <li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li> 2354 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always 2355 encoded in UTF-8)</li> 2356 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li> 2357 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li> 2358 <li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li> 2359 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li> 2360 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li> 2361 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization 2362 support</a></li> 2363 </ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul> 2364 <li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li> 2365 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve 2366 rpmfind users problem</li> 2367 </ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul> 2368 <li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li> 2369 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li> 2370 </ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul> 2371 <li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according 2372 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem 2373 about &#38; charref parsing</li> 2374 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it 2375 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: 2376 <ul> 2377 <li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li> 2378 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li> 2379 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li> 2380 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace 2381 related problems</li> 2382 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li> 2383 <li>lot of various fixes</li> 2384 </ul> 2385 </li> 2386 </ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul> 2387 <li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good 2388 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially 2389 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive 2390 workload.</li> 2391 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of 2392 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by 2393 <pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre> 2394 <p>instead of</p> 2395 <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre> 2396 </li> 2397 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li> 2398 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded 2399 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li> 2400 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed 2401 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2 2402 package</li> 2403 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in 2404 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using 2405 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a 2406 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li> 2407 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version 2408 number of the libxml module in use</li> 2409 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at 2410 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li> 2411 </ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul> 2412 <li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li> 2413 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org 2414 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and 2415 RPMs</li> 2416 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is 2417 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li> 2418 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point 2419 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the 2420 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li> 2421 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li> 2422 <li>the updates includes: 2423 <ul> 2424 <li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly 2425 handled now</li> 2426 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking 2427 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li> 2428 <li>DTD conditional sections</li> 2429 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li> 2430 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change 2431 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li> 2432 </ul> 2433 </li> 2434 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the 2435 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that 2436 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS 2437 head version.</li> 2438 </ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul> 2439 <li>This is a bug fix release:</li> 2440 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by 2441 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note 2442 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by 2443 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for 2444 old code.</li> 2445 <li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, 2446 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li> 2447 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 2448 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li> 2449 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing 2450 URIs</li> 2451 </ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul> 2452 <li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use 2453 it without troubles</li> 2454 </ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul> 2455 <li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the 2456 XML spec)</li> 2457 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li> 2458 <li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying 2459 to solve the zlib checks problems</li> 2460 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with 2461 gnumeric soon</li> 2462 </ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul> 2463 <li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li> 2464 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li> 2465 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li> 2466 <li>added newDocFragment()</li> 2467 </ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul> 2468 <li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li> 2469 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li> 2470 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li> 2471 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li> 2472 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li> 2473 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li> 2474 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses 2475 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li> 2476 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li> 2477 </ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul> 2478 <li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed 2479 for good this time</li> 2480 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, 2481 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and 2482 xmlDocSetRootElement</li> 2483 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li> 2484 </ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul> 2485 <li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers 2486 the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li> 2487 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li> 2488 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, 2489 and more specifically the Dia application</li> 2490 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a 2491 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li> 2492 <li>fixed a bug in</li> 2493 </ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul> 2494 <li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li> 2495 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should 2496 not crash, whatever the input !</li> 2497 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large 2498 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>, 2499 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li> 2500 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li> 2501 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now 2502 does entities escaping by default.</li> 2503 </ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul> 2504 <li>Lots of HTML improvement</li> 2505 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li> 2506 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li> 2507 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li> 2508 </ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul> 2509 <li>portability problems fixed</li> 2510 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system 2511 were it's not available, fixed</li> 2512 </ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul> 2513 <li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in 2514 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason 2515 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However 2516 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a 2517 <strong>#define </strong>.</li> 2518 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and 2519 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li> 2520 </ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul> 2521 <li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li> 2522 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf 2523 like callback</li> 2524 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li> 2525 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li> 2526 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a> 2527 implementation</li> 2528 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li> 2529 </ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>