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-Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
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+The change log describes the recents commits
+to the GIT code base.
+
+Here is the list of public releases:
+
+2.9.0: Sep 11 2012
- - More testing on RelaxNG
- - Finishing up XML
- Schemas
+ - Features:
+ A few new API entry points,
+ More resilient push parser mode,
+ A lot of portability improvement,
+ Faster XPath evaluation
+
+
+ - Documentation:
+ xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),
+ libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),
+ More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)
+
+
+ - Portability:
+ Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),
+ fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),
+ GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),
+ More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),
+ More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),
+ Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),
+ Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),
+ Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),
+ Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),
+ Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),
+ clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),
+ use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),
+ fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),
+ Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),
+ Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),
+ Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)
+
+
+ - Bug Fixes:
+ Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ initialize var (Rob Richards),
+ Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),
+ Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),
+ Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),
+ Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),
+ Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),
+ More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
+ Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),
+ Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),
+ Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)
+
+
+ - Improvements:
+ Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),
+ Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),
+ Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),
+ Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),
+ Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),
+ Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
+ Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),
+ Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),
+ Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),
+ Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),
+ Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),
+ minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),
+ fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),
+ Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),
+ Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),
+ Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),
+ Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),
+ More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),
+ first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),
+ Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),
+ Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),
+ More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),
to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
+ Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),
+ Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),
+ Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),
+ Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),
+ Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)
+
+
+ - Cleanups:
+ Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),
+ Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
+ Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),
+ Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),
+ Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),
+ Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),
+ Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),
+ Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),
+ Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),
+ Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),
+ Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)
+
+2.8.0: May 23 2012
+
+ - Features:
+ add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
+
-The change log describes the recents commits
-to the SVN code base.
+ - Documentation:
+ xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),
+ Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
+ URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
+ Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
+ add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
+ Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
+ Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
+ Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
+
-Here is the list of public releases:
+ - Portability:
+ Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
+ xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
+ remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
+ undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
+ Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
+ fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
+ prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
+ Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
+ Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
+ fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
+ Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
+ autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
+ Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
+ 634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
+ 599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
+ fix win build (Rob Richards)
+
+ - Bug fixes:
+ Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
+ Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
+ Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
+ Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
+ HTML parser error with <noscript> in the <head> (Denis Pauk),
+ XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
+ Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
+ Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
+ xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
+ Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
+ Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),
+ Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
+ Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
+ xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
+ HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
+ Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),
+ Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
+ Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
+ Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
+ Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
+ fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
+ fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
+ Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
+ Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
+ Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
+ Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
+ Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
+ __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
+ __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
+ Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
+ Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
+ Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
+
+
+ - Improvements:
+ use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
+ New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
+ xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
+ Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
+ Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
+ Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
+ wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
+ Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
+ Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
+ add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
+ Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
+ included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
+ move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
+ add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
+ add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
+ autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
+ Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
+ Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
+ testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
+ various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
+ testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
+ runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
+ configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
+ configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
+ xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
+ __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
+ __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
+
+
+ - Cleanups:
+ Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
+ Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
+ Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),
+ autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),
+ Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
+ Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
+ Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
+ Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
+ Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
+ python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
+ python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
+ configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
+ xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
+
+
2.7.8: Nov 4 2010
-XPath is supposed to be thread safe now, but this wasn't tested
-seriously.
+XPath has been tested for threaded usage on non-modified document
+ for example when using libxslt, but make 100% sure the documents
+ are accessed read-only !