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