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diff --git a/doc/xml.html b/doc/xml.html index d6abd50..373285d 100644 --- a/doc/xml.html +++ b/doc/xml.html @@ -709,6 +709,283 @@ 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>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3> +<ul> + <li>Security:<br/> + Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> + + <li>Bug Fixes:<br/> + fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),<br/> + xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),<br/> + Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing &lt; (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),<br/> + Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),<br/> + Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),<br/> + Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),<br/> + wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),<br/> + no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),<br/> + Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),<br/> + runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),<br/> + xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),<br/> + xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),<br/> + HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),<br/> + Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),<br/> + Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),<br/> + Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br/> + Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),<br/> + Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),<br/> + Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),<br/> + Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/> + Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),<br/> + Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/> + Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br/> + Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),<br/> + Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),<br/> + Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),<br/> + Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),<br/> + Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),<br/> + Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),<br/> + Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),<br/> + Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),<br/> + Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),<br/> + xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),<br/> + Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/> + Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/> + Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),<br/> + Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),<br/> + Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),<br/> + Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),<br/> + Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),<br/> + Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),<br/> + Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)<br/> + </li> + + <li>Documentation:<br/> + typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/> + Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),<br/> + Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/> + Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),<br/> + Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> + + <li>Portability:<br/> + AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),<br/> + OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),<br/> + Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/> + Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/> + Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/> + Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/> + Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/> + Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),<br/> + Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),<br/> + Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),<br/> + build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),<br/> + fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),<br/> + Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br/> + python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),<br/> + python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),<br/> + Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)<br/> + </li> + + <li>Improvements:<br/> + win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),<br/> + Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),<br/> + Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),<br/> + wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),<br/> + doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/> + Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),<br/> + Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),<br/> + xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),<br/> + Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),<br/> + adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/> + Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),<br/> + Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)<br/> + </li> + + <li>Cleanups:<br/> + Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),<br/> + Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),<br/> + Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),<br/> + Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> +</ul> +<h3>2.9.1: Apr 19 2013</h3> +<ul> + <li> Features:<br/> + Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)<br/> + </li> + + <li> Documentation:<br/> + Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)<br/> + </li> + + <li> Portability:<br/> + Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),<br/> + Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),<br/> + Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),<br/> + Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),<br/> + Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),<br/> + Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),<br/> + Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> + + <li> Bug Fixes:<br/> + Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),<br/> + Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),<br/> + Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),<br/> + Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),<br/> + Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),<br/> + fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),<br/> + Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),<br/> + Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,<br/> +Veillard),<br/> + Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,<br/> +Veillard),<br/> + Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),<br/> + xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,<br/> +Veillard),<br/> + Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),<br/> + Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,<br/> +Veillard),<br/> + Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> + + <li> Improvements:<br/> + Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),<br/> + Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),<br/> + Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),<br/> + Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),<br/> + Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)<br/> + </li> + + <li> Cleanups:<br/> + Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),<br/> + Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,<br/> +Gansterer),<br/> + Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),<br/> + rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),<br/> + Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)<br/> + </li> +</ul> <h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3> <ul> <li> Features:<br/> @@ -2454,7 +2731,9 @@ Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> 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:</p> +it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: +</p> + <ul> <li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li> <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li> @@ -2728,9 +3007,10 @@ it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p> <h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3> -<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p> +<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: +</p> <ul> - <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li> + <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom</li> <li>some serious speed optimization again</li> <li>some documentation cleanups</li> <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li> @@ -3691,7 +3971,7 @@ called by the library as it progresses through the XML input.</p> <p>To get more detailed step-by-step guidance on using the SAX interface of libxml, see the <a -href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/xml-sax/xml-sax.html">nice +href="http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/libxml-sax/libxml-sax.html">nice documentation</a>.written by <a href="mailto:james@daa.com.au">James Henstridge</a>.</p> |