Imported Upstream version 2.9.0upstream/2.9.0

author: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> 2012-09-18 01:15:22 +0800
committer: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> 2012-09-18 01:15:22 +0800
commit: f660f9d2924c7549bc87e7f9b4ece7c9727b3682 (patch)
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-</style><title>Releases</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Releases</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://lxml.de/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
-to help those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
-  <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
-  Schemas</a></li>
-</ul><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits
-to the <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/">SVN</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.8.0: May 23 2012</h3><ul><li>Features:
-- add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
+</style><title>Releases</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Releases</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://lxml.de/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits
+to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3><ul><li> Features:<br />
+    A few new API entry points,<br />
+    More resilient push parser mode,<br />
+    A lot of portability improvement,<br />
+    Faster XPath evaluation<br /></li>
+
+  <li> Documentation:<br />
+    xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),<br />
+    libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),<br />
+    More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)<br /></li>
+
+  <li> Portability:<br />
+    Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),<br />
+    fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),<br />
+    GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),<br />
+    More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),<br />
+    Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),<br />
+    Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),<br />
+    Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
+    Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
+    Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
+    clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),<br />
+    use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),<br />
+    fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),<br />
+    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),<br />
+    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),<br />
+    Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)<br /></li>
+
+  <li> Bug Fixes:<br />
+    Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    initialize var (Rob Richards),<br />
+    Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),<br />
+    Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),<br />
+    Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),<br />
+    Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)<br /></li>
+
+  <li> Improvements:<br />
+    Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),<br />
+    Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),<br />
+    Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br />
+    Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),<br />
+    Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+    Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),<br />
+    Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),<br />
+    fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),<br />
+    Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),<br /> to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
+    Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)<br /></li>
+
+  <li> Cleanups:<br />
+    Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),<br />
+    Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+    Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)<br /></li>
+</ul><h3>2.8.0: May 23 2012</h3><ul><li>Features:
+  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
   </li>
 
   <li>Documentation:
author	Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>	2012-09-18 01:15:22 +0800
committer	Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>	2012-09-18 01:15:22 +0800
commit	f660f9d2924c7549bc87e7f9b4ece7c9727b3682 (patch)
tree	816b3ef0e89d1601803b5dc1b90b50ade0567043 /doc/news.html
parent	d7372d053bbd1d58216fbb04d1771ffa4cc3e624 (diff)
download	libxml2-f660f9d2924c7549bc87e7f9b4ece7c9727b3682.tar.gz