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1: 2: NEWS file for libxml2 3: 4: Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at: 5: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html 6: 7: Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want 8: to help those - More testing on RelaxNG 9: - Finishing up XML 10: Schemas 11: 12: The change log at 13: ChangeLog.html 14: describes the recents commits 15: to the SVN at 16: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/ 17: code base.Here is the list of public releases: 18: 2.7.6: Oct 6 2009: 19: - Bug Fixes: 20: Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko), 21: URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard), 22: Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher) 23: 24: 25: 26: 2.7.5: Sep 24 2009: 27: - Bug Fixes: 28: Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko), 29: Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards), 30: 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard), 31: Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard), 32: Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard), 33: link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat), 34: 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard) 35: 36: - Cleanup: 37: Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard) 38: 39: 40: 41: 2.7.4: Sep 10 2009: 42: - Improvements: 43: Switch to GIT (GNOME), 44: Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard) 45: 46: - Portability: 47: 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard), 48: 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard), 49: Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards), 50: Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith), 51: Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard), 52: Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary), 53: Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice), 54: Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary), 55: 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard), 56: 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard), 57: Fix windows build (Rob Richards), 58: 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard), 59: xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard), 60: Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard), 61: Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN), 62: Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard), 63: Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron), 64: fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey), 65: fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher) 66: 67: - Documentation: 68: 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov), 69: Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard), 70: Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard), 71: 560524 Â¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard), 72: Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard), 73: updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre), 74: more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard) 75: 76: - Bug fixes: 77: 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD), 78: Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard), 79: 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard), 80: 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard), 81: 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard), 82: 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard), 83: 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard), 84: 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard), 85: 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard), 86: 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard), 87: 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard), 88: 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard), 89: Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard), 90: Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann), 91: 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel), 92: 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull), 93: Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard), 94: Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam), 95: 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler), 96: 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard), 97: 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard), 98: 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard), 99: 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard), 100: 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost), 101: 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard), 102: Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard), 103: 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard), 104: 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard), 105: 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard), 106: Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard), 107: Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer), 108: 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard), 109: 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard), 110: 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard), 111: 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard), 112: 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard), 113: 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard), 114: 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard), 115: 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard), 116: 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard), 117: 574393 Â¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer), 118: Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard), 119: 585505 Â¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen), 120: 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs), 121: Bug 582887 Â¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs), 122: Bug 579729 Â¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos), 123: 576368 Â¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky), 124: Bug 565747 Â¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre), 125: Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas), 126: Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk), 127: Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard), 128: potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering), 129: Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard), 130: Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard), 131: Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 132: Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 133: reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard), 134: use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards), 135: 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch), 136: 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev), 137: 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson), 138: 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner), 139: do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards), 140: 564217 fix structured error handling problems, 141: reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards), 142: xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard), 143: add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker), 144: avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya) 145: 146: - Cleanup: 147: Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard), 148: A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 149: Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 150: Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 151: Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard), 152: Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard), 153: 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard), 154: 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard), 155: Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard), 156: Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard), 157: Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard), 158: hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey), 159: 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack), 160: cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya) 161: 162: 163: 164: 2.7.3: Jan 18 2009: 165: - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included. 166: - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes, 167: indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards), 168: xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn), 169: xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker), 170: avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann), 171: deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott). 172: - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk), 173: limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal 174: APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards), 175: add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions 176: parameters checking (Marcus Meissner). 177: 178: 179: 2.7.2: Oct 3 2008: 180: - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation 181: if XPath is not configured in 182: - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour 183: when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing 184: bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat) 185: 186: - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as 187: XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents 188: 189: 190: 2.7.1: Sep 1 2008: 191: - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both) 192: - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner 193: case handking and leaks (Martin) 194: - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees 195: - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers 196: 197: 198: 2.7.0: Aug 30 2008: 199: - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and 200: xmlParserCleanup docs 201: - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC 202: porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg), 203: non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas FÃ¤rber) 204: 205: - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free 206: (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob 207: Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML 208: parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader 209: tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix 210: (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown 211: when encoder cant serialize characters on output 212: - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output 213: (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups, 214: serious cleanup of the entity handling code 215: - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags 216: for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986, 217: add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer), 218: new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work), 219: improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better 220: regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms 221: to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make 222: arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option 223: 224: 225: 2.6.32: Apr 8 2008: 226: - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang), 227: trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement 228: (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation, 229: XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts) 230: - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with 231: paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback 232: patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack), 233: SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan), 234: regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the 235: document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack), 236: writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding 237: detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari 238: team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing 239: (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily 240: Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem, 241: allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation 242: problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in 243: the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many 244: out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes 245: (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding 246: conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName 247: functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities 248: (Mark Rowe) 249: - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless 250: mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo 251: Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need 252: a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon), 253: cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build 254: fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards), 255: duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports 256: (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst) 257: - improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling 258: (Tobias Minich) 259: 260: 261: 2.6.31: Jan 11 2008: 262: - Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing 263: - Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix 264: xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash 265: (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel), 266: XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in 267: xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type 268: parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if 269: deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt), 270: HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib 271: output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 272: (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars. 273: 274: - Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste 275: copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder), 276: some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr) 277: - Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack), 278: testURI --debug option, 279: 280: 281: 2.6.30: Aug 23 2007: 282: - Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes 283: (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz) 284: - Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when 285: reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas 286: xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem 287: (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment 288: detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata 289: generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import 290: problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling 291: (William Brack) 292: 293: 294: 2.6.29: Jun 12 2007: 295: - Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi, 296: fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X 297: (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading 298: improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions, 299: new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill) 300: - Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, 301: - Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind' 302: flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \, 303: htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in 304: typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix 305: (Georges-AndrÃ© Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack), 306: nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo), 307: xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (FranÃ§ois Delyon), 308: XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set 309: sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl 310: dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding 311: error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash, 312: workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes, 313: invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 314: internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in 315: the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. MannsÃ¥ker) 316: - Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones), 317: embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) 318: 319: 320: 2.6.28: Apr 17 2007: 321: - Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too 322: (James Dennett) 323: - Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage 324: (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion 325: on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath 326: principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint 327: (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day), 328: standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut 329: for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes 330: (StÃ©phane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William), 331: concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char 332: in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in 333: python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error 334: (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel), 335: XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William), 336: fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with 337: min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day) 338: - Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public 339: - Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William), 340: __ss_familly on AIX again (BjÃ¶rn Wiberg), compilation without zlib 341: (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher), 342: Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke) 343: - Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes 344: 345: 346: 2.6.27: Oct 25 2006: 347: - Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 348: Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 349: AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive 350: - improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization 351: (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node 352: equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest 353: improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 354: support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs 355: (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob 356: Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring 357: of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 358: python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 359: try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri, 360: add --html --memory case to xmllint 361: - building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 362: const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen), 363: portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter 364: Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python 365: shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds 366: (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix 367: --with-minimum --with-schemas builds 368: - bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and 369: attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 370: xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier), 371: missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes 372: (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style 373: serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in 374: xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate 375: allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards), 376: fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation 377: crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation 378: when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 379: using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity 380: context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content 381: autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling, 382: fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content 383: validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 384: XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug 385: in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML 386: meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 387: HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values, 388: htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in 389: xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in 390: htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer), 391: bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot) 392: 393: - documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik), 394: fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for 395: xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few 396: functions 397: 398: 399: 2.6.26: Jun 6 2006: 400: - portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation 401: error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia) 402: - bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in 403: xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), 404: variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob 405: Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath 406: leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of 407: selfdocument. 408: - improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object 409: cache(Kasimier) 410: 411: 412: 2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:: 413: Do not use or package 2.6.25 414: 2.6.24: Apr 28 2006: 415: - Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows 416: (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher), 417: HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1 418: cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on 419: Windows (Roland Schwingel). 420: 421: - Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier 422: Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01. 423: - Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext() 424: on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming 425: bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV & 426: Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier), 427: one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid, 428: XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug 429: left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole), 430: xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large 431: number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug 432: in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas 433: fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 434: xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed 435: code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady), 436: line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). 437: - Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert). 438: - New features: Relax NG structure error handlers. 439: 440: 441: 2.6.23: Jan 5 2006: 442: - portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows 443: (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas), 444: --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix 445: on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by 446: Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin), 447: MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick 448: Jones), 449: - code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose 450: (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring 451: parsing code (Bjorn Reese) 452: - bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack), 453: combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in 454: xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo 455: Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik), 456: XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier), 457: xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in 458: xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of 459: vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF 460: split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in 461: xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards), 462: HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier), 463: exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype 464: totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an 465: xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi 466: Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix 467: XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier), 468: fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml 469: (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of 470: runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs 471: (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair), 472: compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on 473: xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath 474: pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier) 475: - improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier 476: Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted 477: transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no 478: standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors() 479: (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API 480: (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add 481: htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards), 482: - documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save 483: function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik), 484: 485: 486: 2.6.22: Sep 12 2005: 487: - build fixes: compile without schematron (StÃ©phane Bidoul) 488: - bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i, 489: CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc, 490: XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some 491: output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style 492: XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD 493: (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik) 494: - improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add 495: XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for 496: derive (Kasimier Buchcik). 497: - documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with 498: devhelp. 499: 500: 501: 2.6.21: Sep 4 2005: 502: - build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling 503: convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus' 504: sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings 505: on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the 506: Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko), 507: compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on 508: Z/OS, 509: - bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8 510: bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack), 511: htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64 512: Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all, 513: xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas 514: foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov 515: Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml: 516: namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas 517: (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William), 518: xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error 519: messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to 520: fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob 521: Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 522: serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem, 523: XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek 524: Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas 525: type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling, 526: xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in 527: error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), 528: xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns 529: bugs. 530: - improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports 531: (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing 532: (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though 533: not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match 534: error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged 535: yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option 536: for text nodes allocation. 537: - documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated 538: 539: 540: 2.6.20: Jul 10 2005: 541: - build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor 542: Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and 543: andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the 544: pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling 545: of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack), 546: compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test 547: distribution. 548: - bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack), 549: HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer 550: overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup 551: (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch 552: (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup 553: on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in 554: exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob 555: Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type 556: QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug 557: (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob 558: Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James 559: Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections, 560: areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug 561: (William). 562: - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on 563: conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik, 564: Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent 565: Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist 566: (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of 567: xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert), 568: standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs 569: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and 570: xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and 571: Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too, 572: ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the 573: standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William), 574: xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX 575: Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support. 576: 577: 578: 2.6.19: Apr 02 2005: 579: - build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William 580: Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX 581: 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on 582: Linux/ELF/gcc4 583: - bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return 584: code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY 585: Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin), 586: segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation 587: (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards), 588: HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers 589: leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in 590: encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if 591: gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures, 592: switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at 593: serialization time 594: - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets 595: checking and also mixed handling. 596: - 597: 598: 599: 2.6.18: Mar 13 2005: 600: - build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, 601: Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed), 602: some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones). 603: - bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and 604: xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries 605: reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL 606: saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths 607: fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix 608: (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack), 609: xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup 610: FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William), 611: xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being 612: empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows 613: (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent 614: Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug 615: (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack), 616: xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer). 617: - improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for 618: hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath 619: subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical 620: values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron 621: Stansvik), 622: - Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed) 623: 624: 625: 2.6.17: Jan 16 2005: 626: - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 627: maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory 628: (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build 629: (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan 630: McNichol) 631: - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile() 632: to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak, 633: ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William), 634: warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William), 635: UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in 636: push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey 637: Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William), 638: patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number 639: sometimes missing. 640: - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator 641: (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings 642: (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call 643: serialize(). 644: - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for 645: the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel 646: Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format 647: (Phil Shafer) 648: - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries 649: (William). 650: 651: 652: 2.6.16: Nov 10 2004: 653: - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new 654: automated regression testing 655: - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli) 656: - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding 657: conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by 658: Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack) 659: - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion 660: were updated. 661: - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent 662: Hendricks) 663: 664: 665: 2.6.15: Oct 27 2004: 666: - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules 667: - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the 668: source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons) 669: - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python 670: paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William), 671: saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix 672: (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build 673: fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler 674: on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported 675: by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset, 676: entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error 677: (William). 678: - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging 679: module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham 680: Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser. 681: 682: 683: 2.6.14: Sep 29 2004: 684: - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation 685: without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack & 686: Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry), 687: - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier 688: Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x 689: transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes 690: (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc), 691: handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas 692: date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS 693: E20 validation fix (Malcolm), 694: - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add 695: xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy 696: (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm 697: Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation, 698: xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik) 699: 700: 701: 2.6.13: Aug 31 2004: 702: - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc, 703: Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires, 704: - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs 705: (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack 706: and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace 707: problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could 708: genrate a serialization loop. 709: - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path 710: and --load-trace options to xmllint 711: - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck) 712: 713: 714: 2.6.12: Aug 22 2004: 715: - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter 716: Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert 717: Chin), some 64bits cleanups. 718: - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes 719: (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P. 720: Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support 721: (Torkel Lyng) 722: - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik 723: - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory 724: debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner), 725: xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error 726: handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows 727: memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions 728: handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug, 729: htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base 730: (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji), 731: xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity 732: (William) 733: - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool 734: (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey), 735: xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude 736: to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS 737: tag (William) 738: - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William) 739: schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck) 740: 741: 742: 2.6.11: July 5 2004: 743: - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for 744: attributes, namespaces and simple types. 745: - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup 746: (William), --with-thread-alloc (William) 747: - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog 748: path on Windows 749: - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code 750: (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta), 751: - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX 752: properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath 753: (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed 754: by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug 755: with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William), 756: Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader 757: streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William), 758: libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on 759: Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces 760: improvement (with StÃ©phane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to 761: synchronous behaviour. 762: - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register 763: namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression 764: test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of 765: XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine 766: Parent and William) 767: - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint 768: and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize 769: the code generated in the RPM packages. 770: 771: 772: 2.6.10: May 17 2004: 773: - Web page generated for ChangeLog 774: - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all 775: - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp 776: vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not 777: use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed 778: Davis), 779: - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing 780: (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add 781: xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization 782: escaping, added escaping customization 783: - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William 784: Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader, 785: URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp 786: transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier 787: Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD 788: (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse 789: xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"' 790: 791: 792: 2.6.9: Apr 18 2004: 793: - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking 794: - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave 795: Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with 796: William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with 797: William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate 798: fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD 799: validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention 800: schemas 801: - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting 802: save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian 803: Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM 804: dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal 805: clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs 806: - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new 807: example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments, 808: - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft 809: compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc) 810: 811: 812: 2.6.8: Mar 23 2004: 813: - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs 814: - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam 815: Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte) 816: - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico) 817: - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William) 818: - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external 819: reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> 820: failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets. 821: - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch) 822: - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William 823: Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to 824: URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), 825: XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug 826: reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char 827: groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems, 828: do not close stderr. 829: - performance patches from Petr Pajas 830: - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey) 831: - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups 832: (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation 833: to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino 834: Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher) 835: 836: 837: 2.6.7: Feb 23 2004: 838: - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results 839: - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino) 840: - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas) 841: - DTD ID handling optimization 842: - bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push 843: mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix 844: xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent 845: handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface. 846: - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick) 847: - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell 848: 849: 850: 2.6.6: Feb 12 2004: 851: - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and 852: William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi 853: - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization 854: (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation 855: (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg 856: Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), 857: XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, 858: isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter 859: entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, 860: <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev) 861: - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal 862: (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix 863: --with-minimum configuration. 864: - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning. 865: - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version 866: dependancies (John Fleck) 867: - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball) 868: - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function 869: prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ 870: patch 871: - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in 872: input. 873: 874: 875: 2.6.5: Jan 25 2004: 876: - Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault 877: (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes 878: (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with 879: namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes 880: (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union 881: evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), 882: XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument 883: callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters) 884: - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John 885: Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example. 886: - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (StÃ©phane Bidoul), 887: structured error reporting (StÃ©phane Bidoul) 888: - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary 889: references (William & me), recursion (William) 890: - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred 891: Mickautsch), 892: - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte) 893: - code cleanup for strings functions (William) 894: - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc) 895: - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future 896: XSLT optimizations. 897: 898: 899: 2.6.4: Dec 24 2003: 900: - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic) 901: - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and 902: - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack, 903: - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix 904: (Lucas Brasilino) 905: - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of 906: NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from 907: filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable 908: again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William 909: Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas 910: double inclusion behaviour 911: 912: 913: 2.6.3: Dec 10 2003: 914: - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck) 915: - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji 916: Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch 917: - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw 918: (Kenneth Haley) 919: - Unicode range checking (William Brack) 920: - code cleanup (William Brack) 921: - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes 922: - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack) 923: - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), 924: xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser 925: (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization 926: cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William 927: Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter 928: (Daniel Schulman) 929: - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the 930: namespace change. 931: - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and 932: namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples 933: based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes 934: - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas 935: constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument 936: when streaming. 937: - various fixes in the structured error handling 938: 939: 940: 2.6.2: Nov 4 2003: 941: - XPath context unregistration fixes 942: - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback) 943: - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball) 944: - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki) 945: - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin) 946: - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc) 947: - stdin parsing fix (William Brack) 948: - a posteriori DTD validation fixes 949: - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings 950: - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors 951: - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx 952: functions 953: - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface 954: - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option 955: - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed 956: - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me) 957: - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors 958: - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added 959: --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML 960: serializer) 961: 962: 963: 2.6.1: Oct 28 2003: 964: - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes 965: - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup 966: (William Brack) 967: - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor 968: Zlatkovic) 969: - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch) 970: - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul 971: - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham 972: Bennett) 973: - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable 974: - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities 975: (Stephane Bidoul) 976: - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack) 977: - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0 978: - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field 979: - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara) 980: - general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing 981: Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), 982: XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents. 983: 984: 985: 2.6.0: Oct 20 2003: 986: - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot 987: of change 988: - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, 989: a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes 990: - Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small 991: text nodes from the dictionnary 992: - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, 993: provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory 994: allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, 995: immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc... 996: - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be 997: intercepted at a structured level, with precise information 998: available. 999: - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to 1000: easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple 1001: consecutive documents. 1002: - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new 1003: functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python 1004: bindings 1005: - a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), 1006: Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, 1007: make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI 1008: extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster 1009: algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer 1010: access 1011: - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch 1012: - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico 1013: - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type 1014: and charset information if available. 1015: - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and 1016: zeroOrMore, better error reporting. 1017: - Python bindings (StÃ©phane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors 1018: output 1019: - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling 1020: convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), 1021: Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), 1022: Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), 1023: warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin 1024: 'Shard' Konicki) 1025: - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), 1026: tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost) 1027: - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized 1028: mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection 1029: and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace 1030: on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), 1031: namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks 1032: (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter 1033: Derr), high codepoint charref like 􏿿, buffer access in push 1034: mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug 1035: (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP 1036: error handling. 1037: - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat 1038: testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to 1039: replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace 1040: declarations 1041: - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming 1042: - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for 1043: xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less 1044: allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked 1045: on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code. 1046: - cleanup of "make tests" 1047: - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick 1048: - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML 1049: parser instead. 1050: 1051: 1052: 2.5.11: Sep 9 2003: 1053: A bugfix only release: - risk of crash in Relax-NG 1054: - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs 1055: 1056: 1057: 2.5.10: Aug 15 2003: 1058: A bugfixes only release - Windows Makefiles (William Brack) 1059: - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz) 1060: - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw 1061: on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy) 1062: - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg) 1063: - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe 1064: - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale 1065: - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick 1066: - and a couple other cleanup 1067: 1068: 1069: 2.5.9: Aug 9 2003: 1070: - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build 1071: (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading 1072: (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), 1073: xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean 1074: Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed 1075: content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, 1076: progressive HTML parser 1077: - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, ) 1078: - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree 1079: - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck) 1080: - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++ 1081: - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack) 1082: - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi) 1083: - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese) 1084: - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William 1085: Brack) 1086: 1087: 1088: 2.5.8: Jul 6 2003: 1089: - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark 1090: Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), 1091: PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg 1092: Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, 1093: rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, 1094: xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick) 1095: - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry) 1096: - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems 1097: - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro) 1098: - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (StÃ©phane 1099: Bidoul) 1100: - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements 1101: - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman) 1102: - Python bindings for thread globals (StÃ©phane Bidoul), and method/class 1103: generator 1104: - added --nonet option to xmllint 1105: - documentation improvements (John Fleck) 1106: 1107: 1108: 2.5.7: Apr 25 2003: 1109: - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the 1110: xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream 1111: - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes 1112: - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance 1113: - Thread support is now configured in by default 1114: - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes 1115: (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser 1116: and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, 1117: behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" 1118: error conditions 1119: - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory 1120: allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations 1121: accordingly. 1122: - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and 1123: xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking 1124: - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation 1125: - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks) 1126: 1127: 1128: 2.5.6: Apr 1 2003: 1129: - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for 1130: binHex and base64 which are not supported yet. 1131: - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and 1132: XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML 1133: Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa) 1134: - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings 1135: - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John) 1136: - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG 1137: errors 1138: 1139: 1140: 2.5.5: Mar 24 2003: 1141: - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including 1142: DocBook and TEI examples. 1143: - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype 1144: - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer 1145: - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding 1146: conversion, line counting in the parser. 1147: - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete 1148: - Fixed the RPM spec file name 1149: 1150: 1151: 2.5.4: Feb 20 2003: 1152: - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude 1153: implementation 1154: - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme 1155: - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on 1156: namespaces, 1157: 2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp 1158: generation problem. 1159: 1160: - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor) 1161: - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas) 1162: - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul) 1163: 1164: 1165: 2.5.3: Feb 10 2003: 1166: - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first 1167: version of RelaxNG Python bindings 1168: - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for 1169: serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 1170: serialization 1171: - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file 1172: 1173: 1174: 2.5.2: Feb 5 2003: 1175: - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint 1176: - Schemas support now compiled in by default. 1177: - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, 1178: delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (StÃ©phane Bidoul), 1179: XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory 1180: consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of 1181: namespaces 1182: - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes. 1183: - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc 1184: patches (Stefan Kost) 1185: - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic) 1186: - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting 1187: (StÃ©phane Bidoul) 1188: - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli) 1189: 1190: 1191: 2.5.1: Jan 8 2003: 1192: - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0 1193: - documentation updates (John) 1194: - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes 1195: 1196: 1197: 2.5.0: Jan 6 2003: 1198: - New XmltextReader interface based on C# 1199: API (with help of StÃ©phane Bidoul) 1200: - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor) 1201: - XInclude fallback fix 1202: - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (StÃ©phane Bidoul), 1203: drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (StÃ©phane Bidoul), fixes, speedup 1204: and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing) 1205: - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update 1206: (John) 1207: - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura 1208: - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry) 1209: - Entities handling fixes 1210: - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas 1211: Schroeder) 1212: - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines 1213: 1214: 1215: 2.4.30: Dec 12 2002: 1216: - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing 1217: - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code 1218: fixes. 1219: 1220: 1221: 2.4.29: Dec 11 2002: 1222: - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings 1223: (StÃ©phane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates 1224: - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo) 1225: - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke) 1226: - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 1227: dump 1228: - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers 1229: - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem 1230: - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress) 1231: - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves 1232: more information needed for C# bindings 1233: 1234: 1235: 2.4.28: Nov 22 2002: 1236: - a couple of python binding fixes 1237: - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser 1238: - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov) 1239: - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos) 1240: - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text" 1241: - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added 1242: - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack) 1243: 1244: 1245: 2.4.27: Nov 17 2002: 1246: - fixes for the Python bindings 1247: - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), 1248: HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support 1249: (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, 1250: xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr 1251: Pajas), entities processing 1252: - added grep to xmllint --shell 1253: - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry 1254: - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), 1255: better thread support on Windows 1256: - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file 1257: - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck) 1258: 1259: 1260: 2.4.26: Oct 18 2002: 1261: - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling 1262: - Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , 1263: HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small 1264: problems 1265: 1266: 1267: 2.4.25: Sep 26 2002: 1268: - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and 1269: tree, xmlI/O, Html 1270: - Serious rewrite of XInclude 1271: - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix 1272: and improvement of the regexp core 1273: - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs 1274: - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, 1275: Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc) 1276: - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp 1277: APIs 1278: - New logos from Marc Liyanage 1279: - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris 1280: - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe 1281: Merlet) 1282: - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting 1283: - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation 1284: - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese) 1285: 1286: 2.4.24: Aug 22 2002 - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra) 1287: - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 1288: (fcrozat) 1289: - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes 1290: - C14N improvements by Aleksey 1291: - doc cleanups: Rick Jones 1292: - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham 1293: - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added 1294: 1295: 1296: 2.4.23: July 6 2002: 1297: - performances patches: Peter Jacobi 1298: - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin 1299: - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio 1300: - new tutorial: John Fleck 1301: - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from 1302: Peter Jacobi 1303: - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and 1304: HTML parsers, ID lookup function 1305: - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin 1306: 1307: 1308: 2.4.22: May 27 2002: 1309: - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory 1310: usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), 1311: indentation, URI parsing 1312: - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network 1313: protocol handlers (Aleksey) 1314: - performance patch from Gary Pennington 1315: - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas 1316: datatypes 1317: 1318: 1319: 2.4.21: Apr 29 2002: 1320: This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML 1321: Schemas structures at 1322: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ 1323: and datatypes at 1324: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ 1325: code, beware, all 1326: interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in 1327: progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, 1328: it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20 1329: - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor 1330: - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard 1331: Jinks 1332: - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification 1333: - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn 1334: 1335: 1336: 2.4.20: Apr 15 2002: 1337: - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation 1338: - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks 1339: - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, 1340: libxml.m4 1341: 1342: 1343: 2.4.19: Mar 25 2002: 1344: - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 1345: encoder 1346: - portability fixes in the HTTP code 1347: - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests 1348: - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles 1349: 1350: 1351: 2.4.18: Mar 18 2002: 1352: - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, 1353: XPath 1354: - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable 1355: - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles 1356: - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets 1357: - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation 1358: 1359: 1360: 2.4.17: Mar 8 2002: 1361: - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in 1362: XPath" 1363: - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more 1364: regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets 1365: - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin 1366: 1367: 1368: 2.4.16: Feb 20 2002: 1369: - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite 1370: from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved. 1371: - a couple of portability fixes too. 1372: 1373: 1374: 2.4.15: Feb 11 2002: 1375: - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones 1376: - A few bug fixes and cleanup 1377: - Includes cleanup 1378: 1379: 1380: 2.4.14: Feb 8 2002: 1381: - Change of License to the MIT 1382: License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing 1383: confusion around the previous dual-licensing 1384: - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite 1385: complete 1386: - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree 1387: manipulations 1388: - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in 1389: XML 1390: 1391: 1392: 2.4.13: Jan 14 2002: 1393: - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman 1394: - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher 1395: - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei 1396: Narojnyi 1397: - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins 1398: - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg 1399: 1400: 1401: 2.4.12: Dec 7 2001: 1402: - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), 1403: XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups 1404: (robert) 1405: - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS 1406: - some makefiles cleanups 1407: 1408: 1409: 2.4.11: Nov 26 2001: 1410: - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code 1411: cleanups 1412: - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp 1413: - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham 1414: - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor 1415: 1416: 1417: 2.4.10: Nov 10 2001: 1418: - URI escaping fix (Joel Young) 1419: - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation) 1420: - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation 1421: - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and 1422: --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell 1423: - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao 1424: - fixes to the HTML parser 1425: 1426: 1427: 2.4.9: Nov 6 2001: 1428: - fixes more catalog bugs 1429: - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo() 1430: 1431: 1432: 2.4.8: Nov 4 2001: 1433: - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog 1434: tool 1435: - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles. 1436: 1437: 1438: 2.4.7: Oct 30 2001: 1439: - exported some debugging interfaces 1440: - serious rewrite of the catalog code 1441: - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option 1442: and regression tests 1443: - removed an HTML parser bug 1444: - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs 1445: - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint 1446: - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd 1447: - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper 1448: - general bug fixes 1449: - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck 1450: - some VMS and Windows updates 1451: 1452: 1453: 2.4.6: Oct 10 2001: 1454: - added an updated man pages by John Fleck 1455: - portability and configure fixes 1456: - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William) 1457: - Windows makefile patches from Igor 1458: - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt 1459: - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs 1460: 1461: 1462: 2.4.5: Sep 14 2001: 1463: - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4 1464: - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some 1465: version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones 1466: 1467: 1468: 1.8.16: Sep 14 2001: 1469: - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and 1470: portability fixes 1471: 1472: 1473: 2.4.4: Sep 12 2001: 1474: - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML 1475: Catalog 1476: - a few bug fixes and some portability changes 1477: - some documentation cleanups 1478: 1479: 1480: 2.4.3: Aug 23 2001: 1481: - XML Catalog support see the doc 1482: - New NaN/Infinity floating point code 1483: - A few bug fixes 1484: 1485: 1486: 2.4.2: Aug 15 2001: 1487: - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation 1488: - lot of bug fixes 1489: - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date 1490: - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes 1491: - fixes a serious potential security bug 1492: - added a --format option to xmllint 1493: 1494: 1495: 2.4.1: July 24 2001: 1496: - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree 1497: - some computation NaN fixes 1498: - extension of the XPath API 1499: - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets 1500: - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST 1501: 1502: 1503: 2.4.0: July 10 2001: 1504: - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling. 1505: - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the 1506: regression tests 1507: - A bit of cleanup 1508: 1509: 1510: 2.3.14: July 5 2001: 1511: - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when 1512: substituting them 1513: - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be 1514: substantially faster 1515: - Makefiles and configure cleanups 1516: - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set 1517: - HTML tag closing bug fixed 1518: - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating 1519: 1520: 1521: 2.3.13: June 28 2001: 1522: - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser 1523: - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek 1524: 1525: 1526: 1.8.14: June 28 2001: 1527: - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode 1528: - Small Makefile fix 1529: 1530: 1531: 2.3.12: June 26 2001: 1532: - lots of cleanup 1533: - a couple of validation fix 1534: - fixed line number counting 1535: - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing 1536: - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities 1537: - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 1538: miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the 1539: optimizer on Tru64 1540: - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for 1541: compilation on Windows MSC 1542: - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter) 1543: - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code 1544: 1545: 1546: 2.3.11: June 17 2001: 1547: - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability 1548: problems (alpha) 1549: - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline 1550: handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code 1551: - added xmlHasNsProp() 1552: - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML 1553: parser 1554: - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces 1555: node selection) 1556: - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code 1557: - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour 1558: - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice 1559: - added --version to xmllint for bug reports 1560: 1561: 1562: 2.3.10: June 1 2001: 1563: - fixed the SGML catalog support 1564: - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, 1565: XInclude processing 1566: - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly 1567: 1568: 1569: 2.3.9: May 19 2001: 1570: Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas BorgstrÃ¶m 1571: - some serious speed optimization again 1572: - some documentation cleanups 1573: - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R) 1574: - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer 1575: - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed 1576: xmlValidGetValidElements() 1577: - Added an INSTALL file 1578: - Attribute removal added to API: #54433 1579: - added a basic support for SGML catalogs 1580: - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API 1581: - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang() 1582: - fixed a small configure portability problem 1583: - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document 1584: 1585: 1586: 1.8.13: May 14 2001: 1587: - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome 1588: 1589: 1590: 2.3.8: May 3 2001: 1591: - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project 1592: - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser 1593: - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating 1594: point portability issue 1595: - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for 1596: DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron). 1597: - incorporated more Windows cleanup 1598: - added xmlSaveFormatFile() 1599: - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome) 1600: - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module 1601: 1602: 1603: 2.3.7: April 22 2001: 1604: - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer 1605: - Non deterministic content model validation support 1606: - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2 1607: - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags 1608: - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting 1609: - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation 1610: - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack 1611: - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook 1612: - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities 1613: - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese 1614: 1615: 1616: 2.3.6: April 8 2001: 1617: - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and 1618: cleared half a dozen potential problem 1619: - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug 1620: - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the 1621: trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing 1622: them 1623: - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation 1624: problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems 1625: broken ... 1626: 1627: 1628: 2.3.5: Mar 23 2001: 1629: - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, 1630: there is some new APIs for this too 1631: - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, 1632: 52299) 1633: - Fixed some portability issues 1634: 1635: 1636: 2.3.4: Mar 10 2001: 1637: - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861 1638: - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer 1639: size to be application tunable. 1640: - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part 1641: should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\ 1642: - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 1643: parser 1644: - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent() 1645: - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting 1646: - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing 1647: - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they 1648: are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance 1649: 1650: 1651: 2.3.3: Mar 1 2001: 1652: - small change in XPath for XSLT 1653: - documentation cleanups 1654: - fix in validation by Gary Pennington 1655: - serious parsing performances improvements 1656: 1657: 1658: 2.3.2: Feb 24 2001: 1659: - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO 1660: - fixed a Dtd parsing bug 1661: - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent 1662: - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington 1663: 1664: 1665: 2.3.1: Feb 15 2001: 1666: - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT 1667: - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 1668: implementation 1669: - A few bug fixes 1670: 1671: 1672: 2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track): 1673: - Lots of XPath bug fixes 1674: - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for 1675: XSLT 1676: - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT) 1677: - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename 1678: - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington 1679: - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization 1680: - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and 1681: libxml2-devel 1682: - the example Makefile is now fixed 1683: - added HTML to the RPM packages 1684: - tree copying bugfixes 1685: - updates to Windows makefiles 1686: - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese 1687: 1688: 1689: 2.2.11: Jan 4 2001: 1690: - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...) 1691: - added htmlHandleOmittedElem() 1692: - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch 1693: - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results 1694: - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support 1695: 1696: 1697: 2.2.10: Nov 25 2000: 1698: - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8 1699: - integrate OpenVMS patches 1700: - better handling of some nasty HTML input 1701: - Improved the XPointer implementation 1702: - integrate a number of provided patches 1703: 1704: 1705: 2.2.9: Nov 25 2000: 1706: - erroneous release :-( 1707: 1708: 1709: 2.2.8: Nov 13 2000: 1710: - First version of XInclude 1711: support 1712: - Patch in conditional section handling 1713: - updated MS compiler project 1714: - fixed some XPath problems 1715: - added an URI escaping function 1716: - some other bug fixes 1717: 1718: 1719: 2.2.7: Oct 31 2000: 1720: - added message redirection 1721: - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !) 1722: - xmlIOParseDTD() added 1723: - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support 1724: - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content 1725: 1726: 1727: 2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:: 1728: - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to 1729: those 1730: - Fixed a posteriori validation problems 1731: - HTTP module cleanups 1732: - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute 1733: normalization) 1734: - coalescing of adjacent text nodes 1735: - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API 1736: 1737: 1738: 2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:: 1739: - XPointer implementation and testsuite 1740: - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more 1741: tests 1742: - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build 1743: and release 1744: - Late validation fixes 1745: - Integrated a lot of contributed patches 1746: - added memory management docs 1747: - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed 1748: 1749: 1750: 2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:: 1751: - main XPath problem fixed 1752: - Integrated portability patches for Windows 1753: - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code 1754: 1755: 1756: 2.2.3: Sep 17 2000: 1757: - bug fixes 1758: - cleanup of entity handling code 1759: - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been 1760: checked too 1761: - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd 1762: works smoothly now. 1763: 1764: 1765: 1.8.10: Sep 6 2000: 1766: - bug fix release for some Gnome projects 1767: 1768: 1769: 2.2.2: August 12 2000: 1770: - mostly bug fixes 1771: - started adding routines to access xml parser context options 1772: 1773: 1774: 2.2.1: July 21 2000: 1775: - a purely bug fixes release 1776: - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block 1777: - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem 1778: - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory 1779: allocation routines 1780: 1781: 1782: 2.2.0: July 14 2000: 1783: - applied a lot of portability fixes 1784: - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always 1785: encoded in UTF-8) 1786: - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings 1787: - added xmlHasProp() 1788: - fixed a serious problem with & 1789: - propagated the fix to FTP client 1790: - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ... 1791: - Added a page about libxml Internationalization 1792: support 1793: 1794: 1795: 1.8.9: July 9 2000: 1796: - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better 1797: - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve 1798: rpmfind users problem 1799: 1800: 1801: 2.1.1: July 1 2000: 1802: - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging 1803: - improvements on the HTML parser 1804: 1805: 1806: 2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000: 1807: - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according 1808: to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem 1809: about & charref parsing 1810: - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it 1811: also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: 1812: added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing 1813: improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs 1814: includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology 1815: tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace 1816: related problems 1817: output to a given encoding has been added/tested 1818: lot of various fixes 1819: 1820: - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing 1821: - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs 1822: - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology 1823: - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace 1824: related problems 1825: - output to a given encoding has been added/tested 1826: - lot of various fixes 1827: 1828: 1829: 2.0.0: Apr 12 2000: 1830: - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good 1831: idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially 1832: scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive 1833: workload. 1834: - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of 1835: $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by 1836: #include <libxml/xxx.h> 1837: instead of 1838: #include "xxx.h" 1839: 1840: - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396 1841: - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded 1842: dynamically by using xmlMemSetup() 1843: - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed 1844: xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2 1845: package 1846: - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in 1847: specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using 1848: xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a 1849: parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt() 1850: - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version 1851: number of the libxml module in use 1852: - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at 1853: configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug) 1854: 1855: 1856: 2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000: 1857: - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2 1858: - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org 1859: FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and 1860: RPMs 1861: - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is 1862: available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X 1863: - This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point 1864: of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the 1865: upgrade page 1866: - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding). 1867: - the updates includes: 1868: fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly 1869: handled now 1870: Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking 1871: and proper PEref extensions in external subsets 1872: DTD conditional sections 1873: Validation now correctly handle entities content 1874: change 1875: structures to accommodate DOM 1876: 1877: - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly 1878: handled now 1879: - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking 1880: and proper PEref extensions in external subsets 1881: - DTD conditional sections 1882: - Validation now correctly handle entities content 1883: - change 1884: structures to accommodate DOM 1885: - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the 1886: OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that 1887: encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS 1888: head version. 1889: 1890: 1891: 1.8.7: Mar 6 2000: 1892: - This is a bug fix release: 1893: - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by 1894: libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note 1895: that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by 1896: default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for 1897: old code. 1898: - Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, 1899: avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\ 1900: - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 1901: compilation on some platforms has been fixed 1902: - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing 1903: URIs 1904: 1905: 1906: 1.8.6: Jan 31 2000: 1907: - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use 1908: it without troubles 1909: 1910: 1911: 1.8.5: Jan 21 2000: 1912: - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the 1913: XML spec) 1914: - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no 1915: - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying 1916: to solve the zlib checks problems 1917: - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with 1918: gnumeric soon 1919: 1920: 1921: 1.8.4: Jan 13 2000: 1922: - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs() 1923: - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml 1924: - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform 1925: - added newDocFragment() 1926: 1927: 1928: 1.8.3: Jan 5 2000: 1929: - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers 1930: - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-) 1931: - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays 1932: - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD 1933: - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef() 1934: - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs() 1935: - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses 1936: xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added 1937: - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff 1938: 1939: 1940: 1.8.2: Dec 21 1999: 1941: - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed 1942: for good this time 1943: - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, 1944: xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and 1945: xmlDocSetRootElement 1946: - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey 1947: 1948: 1949: 1.8.1: Dec 18 1999: 1950: - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers 1951: the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files 1952: - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected 1953: - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, 1954: and more specifically the Dia application 1955: - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a 1956: Dtd not specified in the original document) 1957: - fixed a bug in 1958: 1959: 1960: 1.8.0: Dec 12 1999: 1961: - cleanup, especially memory wise 1962: - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should 1963: not crash, whatever the input ! 1964: - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large 1965: dataset from Carl Nygard, 1966: configure with --with-buffers to enable them. 1967: - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago ! 1968: - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now 1969: does entities escaping by default. 1970: 1971: 1972: 1.7.4: Oct 25 1999: 1973: - Lots of HTML improvement 1974: - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML 1975: - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean 1976: - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref 1977: 1978: 1979: 1.7.3: Sep 29 1999: 1980: - portability problems fixed 1981: - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system 1982: were it's not available, fixed 1983: 1984: 1985: 1.7.1: Sep 24 1999: 1986: - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in 1987: 1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason 1988: is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However 1989: on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a 1990: #define . 1991: - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and 1992: leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro 1993: 1994: 1995: 1.7.0: Sep 23 1999: 1996: - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module. 1997: - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf 1998: like callback 1999: - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation 2000: - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module) 2001: - Improvement of XPath 2002: implementation 2003: - Added an HTML parser front-end 2004: 2005: Daniel Veillard at 2006: bugs.html