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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 SVN at
-http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/
+to the GIT at
+http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/
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),
@@ -1325,7 +1955,8 @@ 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
@@ -1567,7 +2198,8 @@ it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: - a couple of bu
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
+Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
+ - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom
- some serious speed optimization again
- some documentation cleanups
- trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
@@ -1809,7 +2441,8 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #
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
@@ -1817,6 +2450,7 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #
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
@@ -1865,7 +2499,8 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #
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
@@ -1874,6 +2509,7 @@ Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #
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