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                     10: </style><title>Releases</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Releases</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
                     11: to help those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
                     12:   <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
                     13:   Schemas</a></li>
                     14: </ul><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits
                     15: to the <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/">SVN</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.7.8: Nov 4 2010</h3><ul><li> Features:
                     16:     480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
                     17:     Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
                     18:   </li>
                     19:   <li> Documentation:
                     20:     Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
                     21:     Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
                     22:     Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
                     23:     Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
                     24:   </li>
                     25:   <li> Portability:
                     26:     607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
                     27:     614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
                     28:     Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
                     29:     Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
                     30:   </li>
                     31:   <li> Bug Fixes:
                     32:     595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
                     33:     617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
                     34:     616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
                     35:     614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
                     36:     627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
                     37:     629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
                     38:     630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
                     39:     make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
                     40:     Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
                     41:     Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
                     42:     Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
                     43:     Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
                     44:     Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
                     45:     Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
                     46:     Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
                     47:     Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
                     48:     Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
                     49:     xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
                     50:     Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
                     51:   </li>
                     52:   <li> Improvements:
                     53:     606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
                     54:     Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
                     55:     Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
                     56:   </li>
                     57:   <li> Cleanups:
                     58:     618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
                     59:     Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
                     60:     Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
                     61:     Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
                     62:     Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
                     63:     Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
                     64:     Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
                     65:   </li>
                     66: </ul><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul><li> Improvements:
                     67:     Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
                     68:     Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
                     69:   </li>
                     70:   <li> Portability:
                     71:     relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
                     72:     Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
                     73:     use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
                     74:     Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
                     75:     Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
                     76:     Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
                     77:     Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
                     78:     Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
                     79:     Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
                     80:     598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
                     81:   </li>
                     82:   <li> Bug Fixes:
                     83:     libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
                     84:     Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
                     85:     Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
                     86:     Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
                     87:     fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
                     88:     ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
                     89:     htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
                     90:     Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
                     91:     Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
                     92:     xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
                     93:     608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
                     94:     Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
                     95:     Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
                     96:     Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
                     97:     Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
                     98:     Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
                     99:     Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
                    100:     Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
                    101:     Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
                    102:     Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
                    103:     Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
                    104:     xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
                    105:   </li>
                    106:   <li> Cleanups:
                    107:     Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
                    108:   </li>
                    109: </ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct  6 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes:
                    110:      Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
                    111:      URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
                    112:      Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
                    113:   </li>
                    114: </ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes:
                    115:     Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
                    116:     Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
                    117:     595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
                    118:     Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
                    119:     Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
                    120:     link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
                    121:     594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
                    122:   </li>
                    123:   <li> Cleanup:
                    124:     Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
                    125:   </li>
                    126: </ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul><li>Improvements:
                    127:     Switch to GIT (GNOME),
                    128:     Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
                    129:   </li>
                    130:   <li>Portability:
                    131:     593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
                    132:     594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
                    133:     Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
                    134:     Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
                    135:     Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
                    136:     Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
                    137:     Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
                    138:     Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
                    139:     584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
                    140:     574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
                    141:     Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
                    142:     545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
                    143:     xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
                    144:     Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
                    145:     Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
                    146:     Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
                    147:     Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
                    148:     fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
                    149:     fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
                    150:   </li>
                    151:   <li>Documentation:
                    152:     544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
                    153:     Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
                    154:     Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
                    155:     560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
                    156:     Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
                    157:     updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
                    158:     more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
                    159:   </li>
                    160:   <li>Bug fixes:
                    161:     594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
                    162:     Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
                    163:     492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
                    164:     558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
                    165:     558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
                    166:     579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
                    167:     502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
                    168:     566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
                    169:     566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
                    170:     584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
                    171:     587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
                    172:     444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with &lt;&gt; (Daniel Veillard),
                    173:     Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
                    174:     Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
                    175:     440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
                    176:     572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
                    177:     Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
                    178:     Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
                    179:     566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
                    180:     541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
                    181:     541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
                    182:     583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
                    183:     587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
                    184:     559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
                    185:     559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
                    186:     Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
                    187:     592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
                    188:     447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
                    189:     446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
                    190:     Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
                    191:     Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
                    192:     512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
                    193:     512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
                    194:     588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
                    195:     582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
                    196:     579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
                    197:     575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
                    198:     571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
                    199:     570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
                    200:     567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
                    201:     574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
                    202:     Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
                    203:     585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
                    204:     582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
                    205:     Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
                    206:     Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
                    207:     576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
                    208:     Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
                    209:     Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
                    210:     Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
                    211:     Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
                    212:     potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
                    213:     Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
                    214:     Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
                    215:     Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
                    216:     Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
                    217:     reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
                    218:     use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
                    219:     581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
                    220:     584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
                    221:     580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
                    222:     581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
                    223:     do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
                    224:     564217 fix structured error handling problems,
                    225:     reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
                    226:     xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
                    227:     add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
                    228:     avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
                    229:   </li>
                    230:   <li>Cleanup:
                    231:     Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
                    232:     A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
                    233:     Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
                    234:     Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
                    235:     Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
                    236:     Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
                    237:     555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
                    238:     542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
                    239:     Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
                    240:     Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
                    241:     Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
                    242:     hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
                    243:     570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
                    244:     cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
                    245:   </li>
                    246: </ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul><li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li>
                    247:   <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
                    248:       indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
                    249:       xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
                    250:       xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
                    251:       avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
                    252:       deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li>
                    253:   <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
                    254:       limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
                    255:       APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
                    256:       add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
                    257:       parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li>
                    258: </ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
                    259:         if XPath is not configured in</li>
                    260:     <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
                    261:         when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
                    262:         bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
                    263:     </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
                    264:         XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li>
                    265: </ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li>
                    266:     <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
                    267:         case handking and leaks (Martin)</li>
                    268:     <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li>
                    269:     <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li>
                    270: </ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
                    271:       xmlParserCleanup docs</li>
                    272:   <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
                    273:       porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
                    274:       non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
                    275:       </li>
                    276:   <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
                    277:       (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
                    278:       Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
                    279:       parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
                    280:       tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
                    281:       (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
                    282:       when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li>
                    283:   <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
                    284:       (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
                    285:       serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li>
                    286:   <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
                    287:       for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
                    288:       add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
                    289:       new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
                    290:       improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
                    291:       regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
                    292:       to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
                    293:       arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li>
                    294: </ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
                    295:       trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
                    296:       (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
                    297:       XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li>
                    298:   <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
                    299:       paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
                    300:       patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
                    301:       SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
                    302:       regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
                    303:       document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
                    304:       writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
                    305:       detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
                    306:       team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
                    307:       (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
                    308:       Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
                    309:       allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
                    310:       problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
                    311:       the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
                    312:       out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
                    313:       (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
                    314:       conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
                    315:       functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
                    316:       (Mark Rowe)</li>
                    317:   <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
                    318:       mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
                    319:       Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
                    320:       a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
                    321:       cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
                    322:       fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
                    323:       duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
                    324:       (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li>
                    325:   <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
                    326:       (Tobias Minich)</li>
                    327: </ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul><li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li>
                    328:   <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
                    329:       xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
                    330:       (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
                    331:       XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
                    332:       xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
                    333:       parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
                    334:       deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
                    335:       HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
                    336:       output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 
                    337:       (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
                    338:       </li>
                    339:   <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
                    340:       copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
                    341:       some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li>
                    342:   <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
                    343:       testURI --debug option, </li>
                    344: </ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
                    345:       (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li>
                    346:   <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
                    347:       reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
                    348:       xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
                    349:       (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
                    350:       detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
                    351:       generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
                    352:       problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
                    353:       (William Brack)</li>
                    354: </ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
                    355:       fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
                    356:       (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
                    357:       improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
                    358:       new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li>
                    359:   <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li>
                    360:   <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
                    361:       flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
                    362:       htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
                    363:       typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
                    364:       (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
                    365:       nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
                    366:       xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
                    367:       XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
                    368:       sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
                    369:       dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
                    370:       error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
                    371:       workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
                    372:       invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 
                    373:       internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
                    374:       the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. MannsÃ¥ker) </li>
                    375:   <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
                    376:       embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li>
                    377: </ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul><li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
                    378:       (James Dennett)</li>
                    379:   <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
                    380:       (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
                    381:       on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
                    382:       principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
                    383:       (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
                    384:       standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
                    385:       for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
                    386:       (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
                    387:       concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
                    388:       in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
                    389:       python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
                    390:       (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
                    391:       XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
                    392:       fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
                    393:       min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li>
                    394:   <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li>
                    395:   <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
                    396:       __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
                    397:       (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
                    398:       Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li>
                    399:   <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li>
                    400: </ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 
                    401:       Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 
                    402:       AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li>
                    403:   <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
                    404:       (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
                    405:       equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
                    406:       improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 
                    407:       support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
                    408:       (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
                    409:       Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
                    410:       of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 
                    411:       python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 
                    412:       try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
                    413:       add --html --memory case to xmllint</li>
                    414:   <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 
                    415:       const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
                    416:       portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
                    417:       Breitenlohner),  remove the build path recorded in the python
                    418:       shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
                    419:       (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
                    420:       --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li>
                    421:   <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
                    422:       attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 
                    423:       xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
                    424:       missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
                    425:       (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
                    426:       serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
                    427:       xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
                    428:       allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
                    429:       fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
                    430:       crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
                    431:       when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 
                    432:       using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
                    433:       context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
                    434:       autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
                    435:       fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
                    436:       validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 
                    437:       XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
                    438:       in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
                    439:       meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 
                    440:       HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
                    441:       htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
                    442:       xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
                    443:       htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
                    444:       bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
                    445:       </li>
                    446:   <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
                    447:       fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
                    448:       xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
                    449:       functions</li>
                    450: </ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
                    451:     error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li>
                    452:   <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
                    453:     xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
                    454:     variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
                    455:     Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
                    456:     leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
                    457:     selfdocument.</li>
                    458:   <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
                    459:     cache(Kasimier)</li>
                    460: </ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
                    461:       (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
                    462:       HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
                    463:       cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
                    464:       Windows (Roland Schwingel).
                    465:       </li>
                    466:   <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
                    467:       Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li>
                    468:   <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
                    469:       on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
                    470:       bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &amp;
                    471:       Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
                    472:       one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
                    473:       XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
                    474:       left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
                    475:       xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
                    476:       number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
                    477:       in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
                    478:       fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 
                    479:       xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
                    480:       code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
                    481:       line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li>
                    482:   <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li>
                    483:   <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li>
                    484: </ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
                    485:     (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
                    486:     --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
                    487:     on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
                    488:     Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
                    489:     MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
                    490:   Jones),</li>
                    491:   <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
                    492:     (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
                    493:     parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
                    494:   <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
                    495:     combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
                    496:     xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
                    497:     Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
                    498:     XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV &amp; Kasimier),
                    499:     xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
                    500:     xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
                    501:     vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
                    502:     split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
                    503:     xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
                    504:     HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
                    505:     exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
                    506:     totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
                    507:     xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
                    508:     Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
                    509:     XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
                    510:     fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
                    511:     (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
                    512:     runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
                    513:     (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
                    514:     compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
                    515:     xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, more XPath
                    516:     pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
                    517:   <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
                    518:     Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
                    519:     transition bug in regexps, ctxt-&gt;standalone = -2 to indicate no
                    520:     standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
                    521:     (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
                    522:     (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
                    523:     htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li>
                    524:   <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
                    525:     function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li>
                    526: </ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
                    527:   <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
                    528:     CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
                    529:     XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
                    530:     output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
                    531:     XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
                    532:     (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
                    533:   <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
                    534:     XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
                    535:     derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
                    536:   <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
                    537:     devhelp.</li>
                    538: </ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
                    539:     convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
                    540:     sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
                    541:     on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
                    542:     Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
                    543:     compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
                    544:     Z/OS,</li>
                    545:   <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
                    546:     bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
                    547:     htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
                    548:     Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
                    549:     xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
                    550:     foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
                    551:     Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
                    552:     namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
                    553:     (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
                    554:     xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
                    555:     messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
                    556:     fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
                    557:     Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
                    558:     serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
                    559:     XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
                    560:     Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
                    561:     type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
                    562:     xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
                    563:     error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
                    564:     xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
                    565:   bugs.</li>
                    566:   <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
                    567:     (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
                    568:     (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
                    569:     not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
                    570:     error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
                    571:     yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
                    572:     for text nodes allocation.</li>
                    573:   <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
                    574: </ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
                    575:     Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
                    576:     andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
                    577:     pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
                    578:     of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
                    579:     compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
                    580:     distribution.</li>
                    581:   <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
                    582:     HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
                    583:     overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
                    584:     (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
                    585:     (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
                    586:     on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
                    587:     exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
                    588:     Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
                    589:     QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
                    590:     (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
                    591:     Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
                    592:     Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
                    593:     areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
                    594:   (William).</li>
                    595:   <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
                    596:     conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
                    597:     Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
                    598:     Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
                    599:     (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
                    600:     xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
                    601:     standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
                    602:     xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
                    603:     xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
                    604:     Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
                    605:     ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
                    606:     standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
                    607:     xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
                    608:     Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
                    609: </ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
                    610:     Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
                    611:     5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
                    612:     Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
                    613:   <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
                    614:     code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
                    615:     Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
                    616:     segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
                    617:     (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
                    618:     HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
                    619:     leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
                    620:     encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
                    621:     gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
                    622:     switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
                    623:     serialization time</li>
                    624:   <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
                    625:     checking and also mixed handling.</li>
                    626:   <li></li>
                    627: </ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
                    628:     Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
                    629:     some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
                    630:   <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
                    631:     xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
                    632:     reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
                    633:     saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
                    634:     fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
                    635:     (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
                    636:     xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
                    637:     FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
                    638:     xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
                    639:     empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
                    640:     (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
                    641:     Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
                    642:     (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
                    643:     xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
                    644:   <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
                    645:     hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
                    646:     subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
                    647:     values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
                    648:   Stansvik),</li>
                    649:   <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
                    650: </ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
                    651:     maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
                    652:     (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
                    653:     (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
                    654:     McNichol)</li>
                    655:   <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
                    656:     to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
                    657:     ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
                    658:     warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
                    659:     UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
                    660:     push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
                    661:     Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
                    662:     patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
                    663:     sometimes missing.</li>
                    664:   <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
                    665:     (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
                    666:     (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
                    667:     serialize().</li>
                    668:   <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
                    669:     the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
                    670:     Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
                    671:     (Phil Shafer)</li>
                    672:   <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
                    673:   (William).</li>
                    674: </ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
                    675:     automated regression testing</li>
                    676:   <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
                    677:   <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
                    678:     conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
                    679:     Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
                    680:   <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
                    681:     were updated.</li>
                    682:   <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
                    683:     Hendricks)</li>
                    684: </ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul><li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
                    685:   <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
                    686:     source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
                    687:   <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
                    688:     paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
                    689:     saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
                    690:     (Malcolm), save back &lt;group&gt; in catalogs (William), tree build
                    691:     fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
                    692:     on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
                    693:     by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
                    694:     entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
                    695:     (William).</li>
                    696:   <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
                    697:     module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
                    698:     Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
                    699: </ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
                    700:     without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &amp;
                    701:     Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
                    702:   <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
                    703:     Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
                    704:     transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
                    705:     (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
                    706:     handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
                    707:     date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
                    708:     E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
                    709:   <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
                    710:     xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
                    711:     (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
                    712:     Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
                    713:     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
                    714: </ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
                    715:     Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
                    716:   <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
                    717:     (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
                    718:     and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
                    719:     problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
                    720:     genrate a serialization loop.</li>
                    721:   <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
                    722:     and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
                    723:   <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
                    724: </ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
                    725:     Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
                    726:     Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
                    727:   <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
                    728:     (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
                    729:     Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
                    730:     (Torkel Lyng)</li>
                    731:   <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
                    732:   <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
                    733:     debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
                    734:     xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
                    735:     handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
                    736:     memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
                    737:     handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
                    738:     htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
                    739:     (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
                    740:     xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
                    741:   (William)</li>
                    742:   <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
                    743:     (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
                    744:     xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
                    745:     to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
                    746:     tag (William)</li>
                    747:   <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
                    748:     schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
                    749: </ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
                    750:     attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
                    751:   <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
                    752:     (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
                    753:   <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
                    754:     path on Windows</li>
                    755:   <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
                    756:     (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
                    757:   <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
                    758:     properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
                    759:     (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
                    760:     by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
                    761:     with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
                    762:     Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
                    763:     streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
                    764:     libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
                    765:     Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
                    766:     improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
                    767:     synchronous behaviour.</li>
                    768:   <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
                    769:     namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
                    770:     test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
                    771:     XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
                    772:     Parent and William)</li>
                    773:   <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
                    774:     and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
                    775:     the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
                    776: </ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
                    777:   <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
                    778:   <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
                    779:     vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
                    780:     use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
                    781:   Davis),</li>
                    782:   <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
                    783:     (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
                    784:     xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
                    785:     escaping, added escaping customization</li>
                    786:   <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
                    787:     Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
                    788:     URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
                    789:     transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
                    790:     Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
                    791:     (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
                    792:     xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
                    793: </ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
                    794:   <li>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</li>
                    801:   <li>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</li>
                    806:   <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
                    807:     example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
                    808:   <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
                    809:     compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
                    810: </ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
                    811:   <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
                    812:     Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
                    813:   <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
                    814:   <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
                    815:   <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
                    816:     reference in interleave (William), missing error on &lt;choice&gt;
                    817:     failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
                    818:   <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
                    819:   <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
                    820:     Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
                    821:     URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
                    822:     XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
                    823:     reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
                    824:     groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
                    825:     do not close stderr.</li>
                    826:   <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
                    827:   <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
                    828:   <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
                    829:     (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
                    830:     to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
                    831:     Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
                    832: </ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
                    833:   <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
                    834:   <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
                    835:   <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
                    836:   <li>bugfixes: xpath number with  &gt; 19 fractional (William Brack), push
                    837:     mode with unescaped '&gt;' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
                    838:     xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
                    839:     handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
                    840:   <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
                    841:   <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
                    842: </ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
                    843:     William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
                    844:   <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
                    845:     (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
                    846:     (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
                    847:     Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
                    848:     XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
                    849:     isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
                    850:     entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
                    851:     &lt;xs:all&gt; fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
                    852:   <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
                    853:     (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
                    854:     --with-minimum configuration.</li>
                    855:   <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
                    856:   <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
                    857:     dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
                    858:   <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
                    859:   <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
                    860:     prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
                    861:   patch</li>
                    862:   <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
                    863:     input.</li>
                    864: </ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
                    865:     (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
                    866:     (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
                    867:     namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
                    868:     (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
                    869:     evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
                    870:     XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
                    871:     callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
                    872:   <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
                    873:     Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
                    874:   <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
                    875:     structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
                    876:   <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
                    877:     references (William &amp; me), recursion (William)</li>
                    878:   <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
                    879:     Mickautsch),</li>
                    880:   <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
                    881:   <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
                    882:   <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
                    883:   <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
                    884:     XSLT optimizations.</li>
                    885: </ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
                    886:   <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
                    887:   <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
                    888:   <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
                    889:     (Lucas Brasilino)</li>
                    890:   <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
                    891:     NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
                    892:     filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
                    893:     again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
                    894:     Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
                    895:     double inclusion behaviour</li>
                    896: </ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
                    897:   <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
                    898:     Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
                    899:   <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
                    900:     (Kenneth Haley)</li>
                    901:   <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
                    902:   <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
                    903:   <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixes</li>
                    904:   <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
                    905:   <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
                    906:     xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
                    907:     (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
                    908:     cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
                    909:     Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
                    910:     (Daniel Schulman)</li>
                    911:   <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
                    912:     namespace change.</li>
                    913:   <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
                    914:     namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
                    915:     based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
                    916:   <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
                    917:     constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
                    918:     when streaming.</li>
                    919:   <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
                    920: </ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
                    921:   <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
                    922:   <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li>
                    923:   <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
                    924:   <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li>
                    925:   <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
                    926:   <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li>
                    927:   <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
                    928:   <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
                    929:   <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
                    930:   <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
                    931:   functions</li>
                    932:   <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
                    933:   <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
                    934:   <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
                    935:   <li>HTML serialization for &lt;p&gt; elements (William Brack and me)</li>
                    936:   <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
                    937:   <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
                    938:     --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
                    939:     serializer)</li>
                    940: </ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul><li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
                    941:   <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
                    942:     (William Brack)</li>
                    943:   <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
                    944:     Zlatkovic)</li>
                    945:   <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
                    946:   <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
                    947:   <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
                    948:   Bennett)</li>
                    949:   <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
                    950:   <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
                    951:     (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
                    952:   <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
                    953:   <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
                    954:   <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
                    955:   <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
                    956:   <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
                    957:     Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
                    958:     XPath errors not reported,  slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
                    959: </ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
                    960:     of change</li>
                    961:   <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
                    962:     a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
                    963:   <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
                    964:     text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
                    965:   <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
                    966:     provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
                    967:     allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
                    968:     immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
                    969:   <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
                    970:     intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
                    971:   available.</li>
                    972:   <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
                    973:     easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
                    974:     consecutive documents.</li>
                    975:   <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
                    976:     functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
                    977:   bindings</li>
                    978:   <li>a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
                    979:     Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
                    980:     make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
                    981:     extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
                    982:     algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
                    983:     access</li>
                    984:   <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
                    985:   <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
                    986:   <li>Parser&lt;-&gt;HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
                    987:     and charset information if available.</li>
                    988:   <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
                    989:     zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
                    990:   <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
                    991:   output</li>
                    992:   <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
                    993:     convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
                    994:     Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
                    995:     Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
                    996:     warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
                    997:     'Shard' Konicki)</li>
                    998:   <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
                    999:     tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
                   1000:   <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
                   1001:     mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
                   1002:     and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
                   1003:     on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
                   1004:     namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
                   1005:     (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
                   1006:     Derr), high codepoint charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
                   1007:     mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
                   1008:     (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
                   1009:     error handling.</li>
                   1010:   <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
                   1011:     testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
                   1012:     replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
                   1013:     declarations</li>
                   1014:   <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
                   1015:   <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
                   1016:     xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
                   1017:     allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
                   1018:     on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
                   1019:   <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
                   1020:   <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
                   1021:   <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
                   1022:     parser instead.</li>
                   1023: </ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
                   1024:   <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
                   1025: </ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
                   1026:   <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
                   1027:   <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
                   1028:     on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
                   1029:   <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
                   1030:   <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
                   1031:   <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
                   1032:   <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
                   1033:   <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
                   1034: </ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
                   1035:     (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
                   1036:     (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
                   1037:     xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
                   1038:     Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
                   1039:     content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
                   1040:     progressive HTML parser</li>
                   1041:   <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
                   1042:   <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
                   1043:   <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
                   1044:   <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
                   1045:   <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
                   1046:   <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
                   1047:   <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
                   1048:   <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
                   1049:   Brack)</li>
                   1050: </ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
                   1051:     Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
                   1052:     PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
                   1053:     Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
                   1054:     rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
                   1055:     xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
                   1056:   <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
                   1057:   <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
                   1058:   <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
                   1059:   <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
                   1060:     Bidoul)</li>
                   1061:   <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
                   1062:   <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
                   1063:   <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
                   1064:     generator</li>
                   1065:   <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
                   1066:   <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
                   1067: </ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
                   1068:     xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
                   1069:   <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
                   1070:   <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
                   1071:   <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
                   1072:   <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
                   1073:     (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
                   1074:     and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
                   1075:     behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
                   1076:     error conditions</li>
                   1077:   <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
                   1078:     allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
                   1079:     accordingly.</li>
                   1080:   <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
                   1081:     xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
                   1082:   <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
                   1083:   <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
                   1084: </ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
                   1085:     binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
                   1086:   <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
                   1087:     XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
                   1088:     Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
                   1089:   <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
                   1090:   <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
                   1091:   <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
                   1092:     errors</li>
                   1093: </ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
                   1094:     DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
                   1095:   <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
                   1096:   <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
                   1097:   <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
                   1098:     conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
                   1099:   <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
                   1100:   <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
                   1101: </ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
                   1102:     implementation</li>
                   1103:   <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
                   1104:   <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
                   1105:     namespaces,
                   1106:     <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
                   1107:     generation problem.</p>
                   1108:   </li>
                   1109:   <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
                   1110:   <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
                   1111:   <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
                   1112: </ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
                   1113:     version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
                   1114:   <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
                   1115:     serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
                   1116:   serialization</li>
                   1117:   <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
                   1118: </ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
                   1119:   <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
                   1120:   <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
                   1121:     delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
                   1122:     XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
                   1123:     consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
                   1124:   namespaces</li>
                   1125:   <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
                   1126:   <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
                   1127:     patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
                   1128:   <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
                   1129:   <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
                   1130:     (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
                   1131:   <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
                   1132: </ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
                   1133:   <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
                   1134:   <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
                   1135: </ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
                   1136:     API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
                   1137:   <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
                   1138:   <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
                   1139:   <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
                   1140:     drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
                   1141:     and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
                   1142:   <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
                   1143:   (John)</li>
                   1144:   <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
                   1145:   <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
                   1146:   <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
                   1147:   <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
                   1148:   Schroeder)</li>
                   1149:   <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
                   1150: </ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
                   1151:   <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
                   1152:     fixes.</li>
                   1153: </ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
                   1154:     (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
                   1155:   <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
                   1156:   <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
                   1157:   <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
                   1158:     dump</li>
                   1159:   <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
                   1160:   <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
                   1161:   <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
                   1162:   <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
                   1163:     more information needed for C# bindings</li>
                   1164: </ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
                   1165:   <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
                   1166:   <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
                   1167:   <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
                   1168:   <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
                   1169:   <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
                   1170:   <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
                   1171: </ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
                   1172:   <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
                   1173:     HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
                   1174:     (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
                   1175:     xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
                   1176:     Pajas), entities processing</li>
                   1177:   <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
                   1178:   <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
                   1179:   <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
                   1180:     better thread support on Windows</li>
                   1181:   <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
                   1182:   <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
                   1183: </ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
                   1184:   <li>Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
                   1185:     HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
                   1186:   problems</li>
                   1187: </ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
                   1188:     tree, xmlI/O,  Html</li>
                   1189:   <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
                   1190:   <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
                   1191:     and improvement of the regexp core</li>
                   1192:   <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
                   1193:   <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
                   1194:     Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
                   1195:   <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
                   1196:     APIs</li>
                   1197:   <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
                   1198:   <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
                   1199:   <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
                   1200:   Merlet)</li>
                   1201:   <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
                   1202:   <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
                   1203:   <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
                   1204: </ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
                   1205:   <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
                   1206:     (fcrozat)</li>
                   1207:   <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
                   1208:   <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
                   1209:   <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
                   1210:   <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
                   1211:   <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
                   1212: </ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
                   1213:   <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
                   1214:   <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
                   1215:   <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
                   1216:   <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
                   1217:     Peter Jacobi</li>
                   1218:   <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
                   1219:     HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
                   1220:   <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
                   1221: </ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
                   1222:     usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
                   1223:     indentation, URI parsing</li>
                   1224:   <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
                   1225:     protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
                   1226:   <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
                   1227:   <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
                   1228:   datatypes</li>
                   1229: </ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
                   1230: Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
                   1231: interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
                   1232: progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
                   1233: it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
                   1234:   <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
                   1235:   <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
                   1236:   Jinks</li>
                   1237:   <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
                   1238:   <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
                   1239: </ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
                   1240:   <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
                   1241:   <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
                   1242:     libxml.m4</li>
                   1243: </ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
                   1244:     encoder</li>
                   1245:   <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
                   1246:   <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
                   1247:   <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
                   1248: </ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
                   1249:   XPath</li>
                   1250:   <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
                   1251:   <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
                   1252:   <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
                   1253:   <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
                   1254: </ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
                   1255:   XPath"</li>
                   1256:   <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
                   1257:     regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
                   1258:   <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
                   1259: </ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
                   1260:     from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
                   1261:   <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
                   1262: </ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
                   1263:   <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
                   1264:   <li>Includes cleanup</li>
                   1265: </ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
                   1266:     License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
                   1267:     confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
                   1268:   <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
                   1269:     complete</li>
                   1270:   <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
                   1271:     manipulations</li>
                   1272:   <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
                   1273:   XML</li>
                   1274: </ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
                   1275:   <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
                   1276:   <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
                   1277:     Narojnyi</li>
                   1278:   <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
                   1279:   <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
                   1280: </ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
                   1281:     XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
                   1282:   (robert)</li>
                   1283:   <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
                   1284:   <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
                   1285: </ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
                   1286:     cleanups</li>
                   1287:   <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
                   1288:   <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
                   1289:   <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
                   1290: </ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
                   1291:   <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
                   1292:   <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
                   1293:   <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
                   1294:     --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
                   1295:   <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
                   1296:   <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
                   1297: </ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
                   1298:   <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
                   1299: </ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
                   1300:   tool</li>
                   1301:   <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
                   1302: </ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
                   1303:   <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
                   1304:   <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
                   1305:     and regression tests</li>
                   1306:   <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
                   1307:   <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
                   1308:   <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
                   1309:   <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
                   1310:   <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
                   1311:   <li>general bug fixes</li>
                   1312:   <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
                   1313:   <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
                   1314: </ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
                   1315:   <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
                   1316:   <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
                   1317:   <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
                   1318:   <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
                   1319:   <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
                   1320: </ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
                   1321:   <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
                   1322:     version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
                   1323: </ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
                   1324:     portability fixes</li>
                   1325: </ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
                   1326:   Catalog</li>
                   1327:   <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
                   1328:   <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
                   1329: </ul><h3>2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
                   1330:   <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
                   1331:   <li>A few bug fixes</li>
                   1332: </ul><h3>2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
                   1333:   <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
                   1334:   <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
                   1335:   <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
                   1336:   <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
                   1337:   <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
                   1338: </ul><h3>2.4.1:  July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
                   1339:   <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
                   1340:   <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
                   1341:   <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
                   1342:   <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
                   1343: </ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
                   1344:   <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
                   1345:     regression tests</li>
                   1346:   <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
                   1347: </ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
                   1348:     substituting them</li>
                   1349:   <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
                   1350:     substantially faster</li>
                   1351:   <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
                   1352:   <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
                   1353:   <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
                   1354:   <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
                   1355: </ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
                   1356:   <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
                   1357: </ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
                   1358:   <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
                   1359: </ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li>
                   1360:   <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
                   1361:   <li>fixed line number counting</li>
                   1362:   <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
                   1363:   <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
                   1364:   <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
                   1365:     miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
                   1366:     optimizer on Tru64</li>
                   1367:   <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
                   1368:     compilation on Windows MSC</li>
                   1369:   <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
                   1370:   <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
                   1371: </ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
                   1372:     problems (alpha)</li>
                   1373:   <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
                   1374:     handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
                   1375:   <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
                   1376:   <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
                   1377:     parser</li>
                   1378:   <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
                   1379:     node selection)</li>
                   1380:   <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
                   1381:   <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
                   1382:   <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
                   1383:   <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
                   1384: </ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
                   1385:   <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
                   1386:     XInclude processing</li>
                   1387:   <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
                   1388: </ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p><ul><li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
                   1389:   <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
                   1390:   <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
                   1391:   <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
                   1392:   <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
                   1393:   <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
                   1394:     xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
                   1395:   <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
                   1396:   <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
                   1397:   <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
                   1398:   <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
                   1399:   <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
                   1400:   <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
                   1401:   <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
                   1402: </ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
                   1403: </ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
                   1404:   <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
                   1405:   <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
                   1406:     point portability issue</li>
                   1407:   <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
                   1408:     DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
                   1409:   <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
                   1410:   <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
                   1411:   <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
                   1412:   <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
                   1413: </ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
                   1414:   <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
                   1415:   <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
                   1416:   <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
                   1417:   <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
                   1418:   <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
                   1419:   <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
                   1420:   <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
                   1421:   <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
                   1422:   <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
                   1423: </ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
                   1424:     cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
                   1425:   <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
                   1426:   <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
                   1427:     trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
                   1428:     them</li>
                   1429:   <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
                   1430:     problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
                   1431:     broken ...</li>
                   1432: </ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
                   1433:     there is some new APIs for this too</li>
                   1434:   <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
                   1435:   52299)</li>
                   1436:   <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
                   1437: </ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
                   1438:   <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
                   1439:     size to be application tunable.</li>
                   1440:   <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
                   1441:     should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
                   1442:   <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
                   1443:     parser</li>
                   1444:   <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
                   1445:   <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
                   1446:   <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
                   1447:   <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
                   1448:     are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
                   1449: </ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
                   1450:   <li>documentation cleanups</li>
                   1451:   <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
                   1452:   <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
                   1453: </ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
                   1454:   <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
                   1455:   <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
                   1456:   <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
                   1457: </ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
                   1458:   <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
                   1459:     implementation</li>
                   1460:   <li>A few bug fixes</li>
                   1461: </ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul><li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
                   1462:   <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
                   1463:     XSLT</li>
                   1464:   <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
                   1465:   <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
                   1466:   <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
                   1467:   <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
                   1468:   <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
                   1469:   libxml2-devel</li>
                   1470:   <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
                   1471:   <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
                   1472:   <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
                   1473:   <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
                   1474:   <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
                   1475: </ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
                   1476:   <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
                   1477:   <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
                   1478:   <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
                   1479:   <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
                   1480: </ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
                   1481:   <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
                   1482:   <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
                   1483:   <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
                   1484:   <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
                   1485: </ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li>
                   1486: </ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
                   1487:     support</li>
                   1488:   <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
                   1489:   <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
                   1490:   <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
                   1491:   <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
                   1492:   <li>some other bug fixes</li>
                   1493: </ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li>
                   1494:   <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
                   1495:   <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
                   1496:   <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
                   1497:   <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
                   1498: </ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
                   1499:     those</li>
                   1500:   <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
                   1501:   <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
                   1502:   <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
                   1503:     normalization)</li>
                   1504:   <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
                   1505:   <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
                   1506: </ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
                   1507:   <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
                   1508:     tests</li>
                   1509:   <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
                   1510:     and release</li>
                   1511:   <li>Late validation fixes</li>
                   1512:   <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
                   1513:   <li>added memory management docs</li>
                   1514:   <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
                   1515: </ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
                   1516:   <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
                   1517:   <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
                   1518: </ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li>
                   1519:   <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
                   1520:   <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
                   1521:     checked too</li>
                   1522:   <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
                   1523:     works smoothly now.</li>
                   1524: </ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
                   1525: </ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li>
                   1526:   <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
                   1527: </ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
                   1528:   <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
                   1529:   <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
                   1530:   <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
                   1531:     allocation routines</li>
                   1532: </ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
                   1533:   <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
                   1534:     encoded in UTF-8)</li>
                   1535:   <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
                   1536:   <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
                   1537:   <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
                   1538:   <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
                   1539:   <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
                   1540:   <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
                   1541:     support</a></li>
                   1542: </ul><h3>1.8.9:  July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
                   1543:   <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
                   1544:     rpmfind users problem</li>
                   1545: </ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
                   1546:   <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
                   1547: </ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul><li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
                   1548:     to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
                   1549:     about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
                   1550:   <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
                   1551:     also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
                   1552:     <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
                   1553:       <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
                   1554:       <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
                   1555:       <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
                   1556:         related problems</li>
                   1557:       <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
                   1558:       <li>lot of various fixes</li>
                   1559:     </ul></li>
                   1560: </ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul><li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
                   1561:     idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
                   1562:     scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
                   1563:     workload.</li>
                   1564:   <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
                   1565:     $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
                   1566:     <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
                   1567:     <p>instead of</p>
                   1568:     <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
                   1569:   </li>
                   1570:   <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
                   1571:   <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
                   1572:     dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
                   1573:   <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
                   1574:     <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
                   1575:     package</li>
                   1576:   <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
                   1577:     specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
                   1578:     xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
                   1579:     parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
                   1580:   <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
                   1581:     number of the libxml module in use</li>
                   1582:   <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
                   1583:     configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
                   1584: </ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
                   1585:   <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org
                   1586:     FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
                   1587:   RPMs</li>
                   1588:   <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
                   1589:     available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
                   1590:   <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
                   1591:     of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
                   1592:     <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
                   1593:   <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
                   1594:   <li>the updates includes:
                   1595:     <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
                   1596:         handled now</li>
                   1597:       <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
                   1598:         and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
                   1599:       <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
                   1600:       <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
                   1601:       <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
                   1602:         structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
                   1603:     </ul></li>
                   1604:   <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
                   1605:     OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
                   1606:     encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
                   1607:     head version.</li>
                   1608: </ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
                   1609:   <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
                   1610:     libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
                   1611:     that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
                   1612:     default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
                   1613:     old code.</li>
                   1614:   <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt;  &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
                   1615:     avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
                   1616:   <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
                   1617:     compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
                   1618:   <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
                   1619:   URIs</li>
                   1620: </ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
                   1621:     it without troubles</li>
                   1622: </ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul><li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the
                   1623:     XML spec)</li>
                   1624:   <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
                   1625:   <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
                   1626:     to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
                   1627:   <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
                   1628:     gnumeric soon</li>
                   1629: </ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
                   1630:   <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
                   1631:   <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
                   1632:   <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
                   1633: </ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
                   1634:   <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
                   1635:   <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
                   1636:   <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
                   1637:   <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
                   1638:   <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
                   1639:   <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
                   1640:     xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
                   1641:   <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
                   1642: </ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul><li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
                   1643:     for good this time</li>
                   1644:   <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
                   1645:     xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
                   1646:     xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
                   1647:   <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
                   1648: </ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
                   1649:     the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
                   1650:   <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
                   1651:   <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
                   1652:     and more specifically the Dia application</li>
                   1653:   <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
                   1654:     Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
                   1655:   <li>fixed a bug in</li>
                   1656: </ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
                   1657:   <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
                   1658:     not crash, whatever the input !</li>
                   1659:   <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
                   1660:     dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
                   1661:     configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
                   1662:   <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
                   1663:   <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
                   1664:     does entities escaping by default.</li>
                   1665: </ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
                   1666:   <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
                   1667:   <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
                   1668:   <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
                   1669: </ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li>
                   1670:   <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
                   1671:     were it's not available, fixed</li>
                   1672: </ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
                   1673:     1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
                   1674:     is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
                   1675:     on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
                   1676:     <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
                   1677:   <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
                   1678:     leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
                   1679: </ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul><li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
                   1680:   <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
                   1681:     like callback</li>
                   1682:   <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
                   1683:   <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
                   1684:   <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
                   1685:     implementation</li>
                   1686:   <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
                   1687: </ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>

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