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author | Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> | 2004-03-25 06:59:32 +0000 |
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committer | Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> | 2004-03-25 06:59:32 +0000 |
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@@ -0,0 +1,1212 @@ + + NEWS file for libxml2 + + Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at: + http://xmlsoft.org/news.html + + +CVS only : check the Changelog at +http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog + file +for a really accurate description: +Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want +to test those - More testing on RelaxNG + - Finishing up XML + Schemas + + +2.6.8: Mar 23 2004: + - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs + - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam + Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte) + - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico) + - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William) + - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external + reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> + failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets. + - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch) + - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William + Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to + URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), + XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug + reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char + groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems, + do not close stderr. + - performance patches from Petr Pajas + - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey) + - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups + (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation + to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino + Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher) + + +2.6.7: Feb 23 2004: + - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results + - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino) + - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas) + - DTD ID handling optimization + - bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push + mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix + xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent + handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface. + - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick) + - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell + + +2.6.6: Feb 12 2004: + - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and + William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi + - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization + (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation + (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg + Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), + XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, + isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter + entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, + <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev) + - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal + (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix + --with-minimum configuration. + - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning. + - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version + dependancies (John Fleck) + - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball) + - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function + prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ + patch + - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in + input. + + +2.6.5: Jan 25 2004: + - Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault + (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes + (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with + namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes + (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union + evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), + XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument + callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters) + - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John + Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example. + - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul), + structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul) + - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary + references (William & me), recursion (William) + - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred + Mickautsch), + - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte) + - code cleanup for strings functions (William) + - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc) + - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future + XSLT optimizations. + + +2.6.4: Dec 24 2003: + - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic) + - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and + - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack, + - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix + (Lucas Brasilino) + - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of + NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from + filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable + again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William + Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas + double inclusion behaviour + + +2.6.3: Dec 10 2003: + - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck) + - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji + Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch + - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw + (Kenneth Haley) + - Unicode range checking (William Brack) + - code cleanup (William Brack) + - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes + - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack) + - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), + xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser + (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization + cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William + Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter + (Daniel Schulman) + - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the + namespace change. + - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and + namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples + based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes + - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas + constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument + when streaming. + - various fixes in the structured error handling + + +2.6.2: Nov 4 2003: + - XPath context unregistration fixes + - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback) + - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball) + - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki) + - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin) + - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc) + - stdin parsing fix (William Brack) + - a posteriori DTD validation fixes + - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings + - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors + - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx + functions + - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface + - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option + - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed + - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me) + - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors + - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added + --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML + serializer) + + +2.6.1: Oct 28 2003: + - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes + - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup + (William Brack) + - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor + Zlatkovic) + - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch) + - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul + - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham + Bennett) + - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable + - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities + (Stephane Bidoul) + - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack) + - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0 + - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field + - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara) + - general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing + Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), + XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents. + + +2.6.0: Oct 20 2003: + - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot + of change + - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, + a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes + - Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small + text nodes from the dictionnary + - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, + provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory + allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, + immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc... + - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be + intercepted at a structured level, with precise information + available. + - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to + easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple + consecutive documents. + - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new + functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python + bindings + - a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), + Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, + make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI + extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster + algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer + access + - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch + - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico + - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type + and charset informations if available. + - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and + zeroOrMore, better error reporting. + - Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors + output + - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling + convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), + Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), + Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), + warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin + 'Shard' Konicki) + - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), + tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost) + - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized + mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection + and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace + on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), + namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks + (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter + Derr), high codepoint charref like , buffer access in push + mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug + (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP + error handling. + - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat + testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to + replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace + declarations + - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming + - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for + xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less + allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked + on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code. + - cleanup of "make tests" + - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick + - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML + parser instead. + + +2.5.11: Sep 9 2003: +A bugfix only release: - risk of crash in Relax-NG + - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs + + +2.5.10: Aug 15 2003: +A bugfixes only release - Windows Makefiles (William Brack) + - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz) + - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw + on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy) + - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg) + - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe + - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale + - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick + - and a couple other cleanup + + +2.5.9: Aug 9 2003: + - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build + (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading + (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), + xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean + Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed + content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, + progressive HTML parser + - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, ) + - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree + - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck) + - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++ + - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack) + - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi) + - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese) + - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William + Brack) + + +2.5.8: Jul 6 2003: + - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark + Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), + PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg + Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, + rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, + xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick) + - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry) + - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems + - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro) + - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane + Bidoul) + - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements + - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman) + - Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class + generator + - added --nonet option to xmllint + - documentation improvements (John Fleck) + + +2.5.7: Apr 25 2003: + - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the + xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream + - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes + - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance + - Thread support is now configured in by default + - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes + (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser + and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, + behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" + error conditions + - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory + allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations + accordingly. + - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and + xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking + - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation + - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks) + + +2.5.6: Apr 1 2003: + - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for + binHex and base64 which are not supported yet. + - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and + XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML + Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa) + - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings + - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John) + - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG + errors + + +2.5.5: Mar 24 2003: + - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including + DocBook and TEI examples. + - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype + - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer + - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding + conversion, line counting in the parser. + - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete + - Fixed the RPM spec file name + + +2.5.4: Feb 20 2003: + - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude + implementation + - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme + - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on + namespaces, + 2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp + generation problem. + + - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor) + - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas) + - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul) + + +2.5.3: Feb 10 2003: + - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first + version of RelaxNG Python bindings + - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for + serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 + serialization + - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file + + +2.5.2: Feb 5 2003: + - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint + - Schemas support now compiled in by default. + - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, + delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul), + XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory + consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of + namespaces + - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes. + - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc + patches (Stefan Kost) + - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic) + - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting + (Stéphane Bidoul) + - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli) + + +2.5.1: Jan 8 2003: + - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0 + - documentation updates (John) + - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes + + +2.5.0: Jan 6 2003: + - New XmltextReader interface based on C# + API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul) + - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor) + - XInclude fallback fix + - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul), + drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup + and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing) + - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update + (John) + - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura + - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry) + - Entities handling fixes + - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas + Schroeder) + - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines + + +2.4.30: Dec 12 2002: + - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing + - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code + fixes. + + +2.4.29: Dec 11 2002: + - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings + (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates + - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo) + - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke) + - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 + dump + - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers + - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem + - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress) + - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves + more informations needed for C# bindings + + +2.4.28: Nov 22 2002: + - a couple of python binding fixes + - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser + - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov) + - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos) + - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text" + - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added + - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack) + + +2.4.27: Nov 17 2002: + - fixes for the Python bindings + - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), + HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support + (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, + xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr + Pajas), entities processing + - added grep to xmllint --shell + - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry + - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), + better thread support on Windows + - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file + - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck) + + +2.4.26: Oct 18 2002: + - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling + - Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , + HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small + problems + + +2.4.25: Sep 26 2002: + - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and + tree, xmlI/O, Html + - Serious rewrite of XInclude + - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix + and improvement of the regexp core + - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs + - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, + Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc) + - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp + APIs + - New logos from Marc Liyanage + - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris + - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe + Merlet) + - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting + - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation + - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese) + +2.4.24: Aug 22 2002 - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra) + - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 + (fcrozat) + - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes + - C14N improvements by Aleksey + - doc cleanups: Rick Jones + - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham + - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added + + +2.4.23: July 6 2002: + - performances patches: Peter Jacobi + - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin + - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio + - new tutorial: John Fleck + - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from + Peter Jacobi + - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and + HTML parsers, ID lookup function + - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin + + +2.4.22: May 27 2002: + - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory + usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), + indentation, URI parsing + - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network + protocol handlers (Aleksey) + - performance patch from Gary Pennington + - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas + datatypes + + +2.4.21: Apr 29 2002: +This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML +Schemas structures at +http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ + and datatypes at +http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ + code, beware, all +interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in +progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, +it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20 + - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor + - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard + Jinks + - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification + - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn + + +2.4.20: Apr 15 2002: + - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation + - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks + - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, + libxml.m4 + + +2.4.19: Mar 25 2002: + - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 + encoder + - portability fixes in the HTTP code + - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests + - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles + + +2.4.18: Mar 18 2002: + - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, + XPath + - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable + - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles + - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets + - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation + + +2.4.17: Mar 8 2002: + - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in + XPath" + - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more + regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets + - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin + + +2.4.16: Feb 20 2002: + - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite + from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved. + - a couple of portability fixes too. + + +2.4.15: Feb 11 2002: + - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones + - A few bug fixes and cleanup + - Includes cleanup + + +2.4.14: Feb 8 2002: + - Change of License to the MIT + License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing + confusion around the previous dual-licensing + - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite + complete + - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree + manipulations + - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in + XML + + +2.4.13: Jan 14 2002: + - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman + - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher + - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei + Narojnyi + - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins + - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg + + +2.4.12: Dec 7 2001: + - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), + XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups + (robert) + - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS + - some makefiles cleanups + + +2.4.11: Nov 26 2001: + - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code + cleanups + - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp + - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham + - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor + + +2.4.10: Nov 10 2001: + - URI escaping fix (Joel Young) + - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation) + - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation + - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and + --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell + - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao + - fixes to the HTML parser + + +2.4.9: Nov 6 2001: + - fixes more catalog bugs + - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo() + + +2.4.8: Nov 4 2001: + - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog + tool + - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles. + + +2.4.7: Oct 30 2001: + - exported some debugging interfaces + - serious rewrite of the catalog code + - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option + and regression tests + - removed an HTML parser bug + - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs + - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint + - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd + - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper + - general bug fixes + - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck + - some VMS and Windows updates + + +2.4.6: Oct 10 2001: + - added an updated man pages by John Fleck + - portability and configure fixes + - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William) + - Windows makefile patches from Igor + - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt + - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs + + +2.4.5: Sep 14 2001: + - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4 + - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some + version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones + + +1.8.16: Sep 14 2001: + - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and + portability fixes + + +2.4.4: Sep 12 2001: + - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML + Catalog + - a few bug fixes and some portability changes + - some documentation cleanups + + +2.4.3: Aug 23 2001: + - XML Catalog support see the doc + - New NaN/Infinity floating point code + - A few bug fixes + + +2.4.2: Aug 15 2001: + - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation + - lot of bug fixes + - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date + - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes + - fixes a serious potential security bug + - added a --format option to xmllint + + +2.4.1: July 24 2001: + - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree + - some computation NaN fixes + - extension of the XPath API + - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets + - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST + + +2.4.0: July 10 2001: + - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling. + - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the + regression tests + - A bit of cleanup + + +2.3.14: July 5 2001: + - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when + substituting them + - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be + substantially faster + - Makefiles and configure cleanups + - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set + - HTML tag closing bug fixed + - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating + + +2.3.13: June 28 2001: + - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser + - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek + + +1.8.14: June 28 2001: + - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode + - Small Makefile fix + + +2.3.12: June 26 2001: + - lots of cleanup + - a couple of validation fix + - fixed line number counting + - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing + - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities + - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 + miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the + optimizer on Tru64 + - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for + compilation on Windows MSC + - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter) + - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code + + +2.3.11: June 17 2001: + - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability + problems (alpha) + - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline + handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code + - added xmlHasNsProp() + - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML + parser + - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces + node selection) + - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code + - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour + - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice + - added --version to xmllint for bug reports + + +2.3.10: June 1 2001: + - fixed the SGML catalog support + - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, + XInclude processing + - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly + + +2.3.9: May 19 2001: +Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström + - some serious speed optimization again + - some documentation cleanups + - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R) + - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer + - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed + xmlValidGetValidElements() + - Added an INSTALL file + - Attribute removal added to API: #54433 + - added a basic support for SGML catalogs + - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API + - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang() + - fixed a small configure portability problem + - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document + + +1.8.13: May 14 2001: + - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome + + +2.3.8: May 3 2001: + - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project + - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser + - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating + point portability issue + - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for + DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron). + - incorporated more Windows cleanup + - added xmlSaveFormatFile() + - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome) + - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module + + +2.3.7: April 22 2001: + - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer + - Non deterministic content model validation support + - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2 + - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags + - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting + - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation + - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack + - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook + - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities + - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese + + +2.3.6: April 8 2001: + - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and + cleared half a dozen potential problem + - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug + - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the + trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing + them + - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation + problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems + broken ... + + +2.3.5: Mar 23 2001: + - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, + there is some new APIs for this too + - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, + 52299) + - Fixed some portability issues + + +2.3.4: Mar 10 2001: + - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861 + - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer + size to be application tunable. + - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part + should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\ + - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 + parser + - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent() + - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting + - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing + - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they + are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance + + +2.3.3: Mar 1 2001: + - small change in XPath for XSLT + - documentation cleanups + - fix in validation by Gary Pennington + - serious parsing performances improvements + + +2.3.2: Feb 24 2001: + - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO + - fixed a Dtd parsing bug + - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent + - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington + + +2.3.1: Feb 15 2001: + - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT + - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 + implementation + - A few bug fixes + + +2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track): + - Lots of XPath bug fixes + - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for + XSLT + - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT) + - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename + - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington + - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization + - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and + libxml2-devel + - the example Makefile is now fixed + - added HTML to the RPM packages + - tree copying bugfixes + - updates to Windows makefiles + - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese + + +2.2.11: Jan 4 2001: + - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...) + - added htmlHandleOmittedElem() + - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch + - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results + - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support + + +2.2.10: Nov 25 2000: + - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8 + - integrate OpenVMS patches + - better handling of some nasty HTML input + - Improved the XPointer implementation + - integrate a number of provided patches + + +2.2.9: Nov 25 2000: + - erroneous release :-( + + +2.2.8: Nov 13 2000: + - First version of XInclude + support + - Patch in conditional section handling + - updated MS compiler project + - fixed some XPath problems + - added an URI escaping function + - some other bug fixes + + +2.2.7: Oct 31 2000: + - added message redirection + - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !) + - xmlIOParseDTD() added + - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support + - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content + + +2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:: + - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to + those + - Fixed a posteriori validation problems + - HTTP module cleanups + - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute + normalization) + - coalescing of adjacent text nodes + - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API + + +2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:: + - XPointer implementation and testsuite + - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more + tests + - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build + and release + - Late validation fixes + - Integrated a lot of contributed patches + - added memory management docs + - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed + + +2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:: + - main XPath problem fixed + - Integrated portability patches for Windows + - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code + + +2.2.3: Sep 17 2000: + - bug fixes + - cleanup of entity handling code + - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been + checked too + - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd + works smoothly now. + + +1.8.10: Sep 6 2000: + - bug fix release for some Gnome projects + + +2.2.2: August 12 2000: + - mostly bug fixes + - started adding routines to access xml parser context options + + +2.2.1: July 21 2000: + - a purely bug fixes release + - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block + - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem + - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory + allocation routines + + +2.2.0: July 14 2000: + - applied a lot of portability fixes + - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always + encoded in UTF-8) + - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings + - added xmlHasProp() + - fixed a serious problem with & + - propagated the fix to FTP client + - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ... + - Added a page about libxml Internationalization + support + + +1.8.9: July 9 2000: + - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better + - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve + rpmfind users problem + + +2.1.1: July 1 2000: + - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging + - improvements on the HTML parser + + +2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000: + - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according + to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem + about & charref parsing + - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it + also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: + added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing + improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs + includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology + tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace + related problems + output to a given encoding has been added/tested + lot of various fixes + + - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing + - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs + - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology + - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace + related problems + - output to a given encoding has been added/tested + - lot of various fixes + + +2.0.0: Apr 12 2000: + - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good + idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially + scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive + workload. + - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of + $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by + #include <libxml/xxx.h> + instead of + #include "xxx.h" + + - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396 + - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded + dynamically by using xmlMemSetup() + - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed + xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2 + package + - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in + specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using + xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a + parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt() + - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version + number of the libxml module in use + - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at + configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug) + + +2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000: + - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2 + - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org + FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and + RPMs + - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is + available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X + - This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point + of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the + upgrade page + - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding). + - the updates includes: + fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly + handled now + Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking + and proper PEref extensions in external subsets + DTD conditional sections + Validation now correctly handle entities content + change + structures to accommodate DOM + + - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly + handled now + - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking + and proper PEref extensions in external subsets + - DTD conditional sections + - Validation now correctly handle entities content + - change + structures to accommodate DOM + - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the + OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that + encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS + head version. + + +1.8.7: Mar 6 2000: + - This is a bug fix release: + - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by + libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note + that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by + default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for + old code. + - Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, + avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\ + - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 + compilation on some platforms has been fixed + - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing + URIs + + +1.8.6: Jan 31 2000: + - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use + it without troubles + + +1.8.5: Jan 21 2000: + - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the + XML spec) + - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no + - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying + to solve the zlib checks problems + - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with + gnumeric soon + + +1.8.4: Jan 13 2000: + - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs() + - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml + - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform + - added newDocFragment() + + +1.8.3: Jan 5 2000: + - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers + - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-) + - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays + - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD + - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef() + - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs() + - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses + xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added + - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff + + +1.8.2: Dec 21 1999: + - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed + for good this time + - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, + xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and + xmlDocSetRootElement + - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey + + +1.8.1: Dec 18 1999: + - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers + the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files + - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected + - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, + and more specifically the Dia application + - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a + Dtd not specified in the original document) + - fixed a bug in + + +1.8.0: Dec 12 1999: + - cleanup, especially memory wise + - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should + not crash, whatever the input ! + - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large + dataset from Carl Nygard, + configure with --with-buffers to enable them. + - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago ! + - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now + does entities escaping by default. + + +1.7.4: Oct 25 1999: + - Lots of HTML improvement + - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML + - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean + - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref + + +1.7.3: Sep 29 1999: + - portability problems fixed + - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system + were it's not available, fixed + + +1.7.1: Sep 24 1999: + - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in + 1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason + is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However + on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a + #define . + - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and + leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro + + +1.7.0: Sep 23 1999: + - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module. + - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf + like callback + - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation + - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module) + - Improvement of XPath + implementation + - Added an HTML parser front-end + +Daniel Veillard at +bugs.html |