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libxml2 2.9.1

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<xsa>
  <vendor>
    <name>Daniel Veillard</name>
    <email>daniel@veillard.com</email>
    <url>http://veillard.com/</url>
  </vendor>
  <product id="libxml2">
    <name>libxml2</name>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
    <last-release> May 23 2012</last-release>
    <info-url>http://xmlsoft.org/</info-url>
    <changes>   - Features:
  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
  
   - Documentation:
    xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),
    Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
    URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
    Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
    Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
    add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
    Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
    Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
  
   - Portability:
    Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
    Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
    xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
    remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
    undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
    Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
    fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
    prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
    Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
    Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
    fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
    Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
    autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
    Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
    634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
    599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
    fix win build (Rob Richards)
  
   - Bug fixes:
    Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
    Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
    Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
    Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
    HTML parser error with &lt;noscript&gt; in the &lt;head&gt; (Denis Pauk),
    XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
    Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
    Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
    xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
    Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
    Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),
    Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
    Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
    xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
    HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
    Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),
    Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
    Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
    Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
    Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
    fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
    fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
    Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
    Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
    Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
    Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
    __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
    __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
    Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
    Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
    Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
  
   - Improvements:
    use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
    New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
    xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
    Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
    Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
    Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
    wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
    Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
    Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
    Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
    add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
    Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
    Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
    included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
    move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
    autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
    Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
    Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
    Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
    testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
    various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
    testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
    runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
    configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
    configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
    xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
    __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
    __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
  
   - Cleanups:
    Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
    Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
    Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),
    autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),
    Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
    Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
    Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
    Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
    Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
    python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
    python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
    configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
    xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
  

</changes>
  </product>
</xsa>