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   Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
        http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
 
+Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
+to help those   - More testing on RelaxNG
+   - Finishing up XML
+  Schemas
+
 The change log at 
 ChangeLog.html
  describes the recents commits
-to the GIT at 
-http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/
+to the SVN at 
+http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/
  code base.Here is the list of public releases:
-2.9.2: Oct 16 2014:
-   - Security:
-  Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),
-  CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   - Bug Fixes:
-  fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),
-  xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),
-  Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),
-  Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),
-  Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing < (Daniel Veillard),
-  xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),
-  parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),
-  Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),
-  Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),
-  python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),
-  Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),
-  xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),
-  Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),
-  wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),
-  wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),
-  no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),
-  Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),
-  xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),
-  runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),
-  xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),
-  xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),
-  HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),
-  Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),
-  Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),
-  XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
-  Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),
-  xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),
-  Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
-  Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),
-  erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),
-  xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),
-  Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),
-  Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),
-  Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),
-  Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),
-  Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),
-  Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),
-  fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),
-  Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),
-  Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),
-  Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
-  Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),
-  Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),
-  Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),
-  Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),
-  Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),
-  Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),
-  Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),
-  run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),
-  Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),
-  Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),
-  xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),
-  Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),
-  Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),
-  Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),
-  Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),
-  Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),
-  Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),
-  missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),
-  Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),
-  properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
-  Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),
-  Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),
-  Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),
-  Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)
-  
-   - Documentation:
-  typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),
-  Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),
-  Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),
-  Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),
-  Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   - Portability:
-  AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),
-  remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),
-  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),
-  Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),
-  OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),
-  configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),
-  Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),
-  Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
-  Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),
-  Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),
-  Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
-  Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),
-  Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),
-  Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),
-  build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),
-  build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),
-  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-  add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),
-  Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
-  python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),
-  python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),
-  Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)
-  
-   - Improvements:
-  win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
-  elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),
-  elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),
-  Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),
-  Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),
-  Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),
-  Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),
-  wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),
-  doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),
-  Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),
-  Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),
-  xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),
-  Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),
-  adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),
-  Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),
-  Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),
-  Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),
-  xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),
-  Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)
-  
-   - Cleanups:
-  Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),
-  Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),
-  Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),
-  Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),
-  Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-
-
-2.9.1: Apr 19 2013:
-   -  Features:
-    Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-    Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)
-  
-   -  Documentation:
-    Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)
-  
-   -  Portability:
-    Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),
-    rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),
-    elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
-    elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),
-    Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),
-    Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),
-    Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),
-    Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),
-    Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),
-    Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),
-    Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),
-    Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Bug Fixes:
-    Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),
-    Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),
-    Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),
-    Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),
-    Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),
-    Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),
-    Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),
-    fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),
-    xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),
-    Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),
-    Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,
-Veillard),
-    Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),
-    When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,
-Veillard),
-    Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),
-    xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,
-Veillard),
-    Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),
-    Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,
-Veillard),
-    Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Improvements:
-    Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),
-    update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),
-    A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-    Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-    First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-    updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),
-    Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),
-    Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),
-    Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),
-    Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),
-    Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),
-    Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),
-    Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),
-    Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Cleanups:
-    Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),
-    Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),
-    Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),
-    Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,
-Gansterer),
-    Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),
-    Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),
-    rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),
-    Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)
-  
-
-
-2.9.0: Sep 11 2012:
-   -  Features:
-    A few new API entry points,
-    More resilient push parser mode,
-    A lot of portability improvement,
-    Faster XPath evaluation
-  
-   -  Documentation:
-    xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),
-    libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),
-    More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)
-  
-   -  Portability:
-    Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),
-    fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),
-    GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),
-    More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),
-    More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),
-    Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),
-    Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),
-    Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),
-    Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),
-    Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),
-    clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),
-    use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),
-    fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),
-    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),
-    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),
-    Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Bug Fixes:
-    Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),
-    initialize var (Rob Richards),
-    Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),
-    Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),
-    Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),
-    Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),
-    Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),
-    Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),
-    Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),
-    More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
-    Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),
-    Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),
-    Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),
-    Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Improvements:
-    Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),
-    Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),
-    Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),
-    Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),
-    Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),
-    Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),
-    Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
-    Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),
-    Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),
-    Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),
-    Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),
-    Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),
-    minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),
-    fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),
-    Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),
-    Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),
-    Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
-    Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
-    Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),
-    Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),
-    Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),
-    Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),
-    Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),
-    Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),
-    More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
-    Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),
-    first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),
-    Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),
-    Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),
-    Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),
-    Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),
-    More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(), to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
-    Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),
-    Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),
-    Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),
-    Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),
-    Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Cleanups:
-    Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),
-    Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
-    Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),
-    Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),
-    Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),
-    Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),
-    Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),
-    Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),
-    Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),
-    Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),
-    Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),
-    Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-
-
-2.8.0: May 23 2012:
-   - Features:
-  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
-  
-   - Documentation:
-    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)
-  
-   - 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:
-   -  Features:
-    480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
-    Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
-  
-   -  Documentation:
-    Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
-    Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
-    Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Portability:
-    607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
-    614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
-    Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
-    Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
-  
-   -  Bug Fixes:
-    595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
-    617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
-    616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
-    614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
-    627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
-    629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
-    630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
-    make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
-    Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
-    Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
-    Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
-    Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
-    Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
-    xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
-    Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
-  
-   -  Improvements:
-    606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
-    Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
-    Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Cleanups:
-    618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
-    Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
-    Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
-    Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
-    Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
-    Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-
-
-2.7.7: Mar 15 2010:
-   -  Improvements:
-    Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
-    Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
-  
-   -  Portability:
-    relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
-    Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
-    use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
-    Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
-    Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
-    Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
-    Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
-    598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
-  
-   -  Bug Fixes:
-    libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
-    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
-    Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
-    fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
-    ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
-    htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
-    Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
-    xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
-    608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
-    Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
-    Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
-    Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
-    Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
-    Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
-    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
-    Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
-    xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
-  
-   -  Cleanups:
-    Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
-  
-
-
 2.7.6: Oct  6 2009:
    -  Bug Fixes:
      Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
@@ -1955,8 +1325,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -2198,8 +1567,7 @@ it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
 
 
 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 Borgstrom
+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)
@@ -2441,8 +1809,7 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
     about &#38; 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
+    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
@@ -2450,7 +1817,6 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
       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
@@ -2499,8 +1865,7 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
     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
+    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
@@ -2509,7 +1874,6 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
       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