The change log describes the recents commits
+to the GIT code base. Here is the list of public releases: 2.9.0: Sep 11 2012- Features:
+ A few new API entry points,
+ More resilient push parser mode,
+ A lot of portability improvement,
+ Faster XPath evaluation
+
+ - Documentation:
+ xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),
+ libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),
+ More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)
+
+ - Portability:
+ Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),
+ fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),
+ GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),
+ More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),
+ More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),
+ Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),
+ Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),
+ Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),
+ Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),
+ Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),
+ clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),
+ use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),
+ fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),
+ Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),
+ Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),
+ Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)
+
+ - Bug Fixes:
+ Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ initialize var (Rob Richards),
+ Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),
+ Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),
+ Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),
+ Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),
+ Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),
+ More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
+ Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),
+ Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),
+ Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)
+
+ - Improvements:
+ Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),
+ Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),
+ Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),
+ Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),
+ Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),
+ Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
+ Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),
+ Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),
+ Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),
+ Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),
+ Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),
+ minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),
+ fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),
+ Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),
+ Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),
+ Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),
+ More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),
+ first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),
+ Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),
+ More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),
to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
+ Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),
+ Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)
+
+ - Cleanups:
+ Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),
+ Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
+ Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),
+ Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),
+ Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),
+ Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),
+ Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),
+ Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),
+ Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),
+ Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),
+ Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)
+
2.8.0: May 23 2012- Features:
+ add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
- Documentation:
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