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 <h2><a name="News">Releases</a></h2>
 
-<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>
+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)
+  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
   </li>
 
   <li>Documentation: