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2.6.26: Jun 6 2006

  • portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)
  • bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of selfdocument.
  • improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object cache(Kasimier)

2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:

Do not use or package 2.6.25

2.6.24: Apr 28 2006

  • Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile onwindows(Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (EricZurcher),HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix,gcc-4.1cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file pathsonWindows (Roland Schwingel).
  • Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode(KasimierBuchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode4.01.
  • Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()onHTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streamingbug,xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &YouriGolovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),one Relax-NGinterleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,XSD bugfixes (Kasimier),remove debugleft in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug(Martin Cole),xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (RobRichards), a largenumber of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverityreports, bugin character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans),schemasfix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse errordeallocation,xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling onunallowedcode point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (GaryCoady),line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers).
  • Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
  • New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.

2.6.23: Jan 5 2006

  • portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows(KoljaNowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),--with-minimumcompilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fixon Solaris(Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported bySamuel DiazGarcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),MinGW compilation(Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (RickJones),
  • code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), removexmlBufferClose(Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko),refactoringparsing code (Bjorn Reese)
  • bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (WilliamBrack),combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leakinxmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem(MassimoMorara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (KasimierBuchcik),XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV &Kasimier),xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potentialleak inxmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuseofvsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards),CRLFsplit problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributesinxmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (RobRichards),HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (NicFerrier),exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSDdataypetotalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing toanxmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported(HisashiFujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (AlbertChin), fixXSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal(Kasimier),fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak inxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml(Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas(Kasimier), configuration ofruntime debugging (Kasimier),xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs(Oleksandr Kononenko),xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),compilation and build fixes(Michael Day), removed dependancies onxmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bugwith <xml:foo/>, more XPathpattern based evaluation fixes(Kasimier)
  • improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (KasimierBuchcik),node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), countedtransitionbug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate nostandaloneattribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()(KasimierBuchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API(Kasimier), handlegzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), addhtmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (RobRichards),
  • documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin),savefunction to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (AronStansvik),

2.6.22: Sep 12 2005

  • build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)
  • bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,CDATApush parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,XML_FEATURE_xxxclash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix someoutput formattingfor meta element (Rob Richards), script and styleXHTML1 serialization(David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD(Kasimier Buchcik),better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
  • improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards),addXML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparingforderive (Kasimier Buchcik).
  • documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integrationwithdevhelp.

2.6.21: Sep 4 2005

  • build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase),callingconvention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based onLinus'sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), removewarningson Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detectionof thePython binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W.Nosenko),compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem byC370 onZ/OS,
  • bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8bug(Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),htmlParseScriptpotential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64Schemascomparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,xmlGetNodePath fornamespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemasforeign namespaceshandling, XML Schemas facet comparison (KupriyanovAnatolij),xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:namespaceahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas(Kasimier),wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),xs:anyType inSchemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting errormessages directly,Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying tofix the file path/URIconversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (RobRichards),xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8serialization, streamingXPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,XInclude bug, Schemascontext type (Dean Hill), validation fix (DerekPoon),xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemastype fix(Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encodinghandling,xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity nameextraction inerror handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags(Gary Coady),xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streamingpatternsbugs.
  • improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG errorreports(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loopparsing(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validationthoughnot finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyrefmatcherror reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code notpluggedyet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACToptionfor text nodes allocation.
  • documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated

2.6.20: Jul 10 2005

  • build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation(IgorZlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimierandandriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoidthepthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn),compilingof subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (WilliamBrack),compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalonetestdistribution.
  • bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),HTTPquery strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William),integeroverflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apthfixup(Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNodepatch(Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:basefixupon XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute buginexclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2(RobRichards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSDtypeQNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNGbug(Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID(RobRichards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug(JamesBursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATAsections,areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTDbug(William).
  • improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik bothonconformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (KasimierBuchcik,Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level(BrentHendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests fromW3C/Nist(Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementationofxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (JamesWert),standalone test framework and programs, new DOM importAPIsxmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode()andxmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAXandSchemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull modetoo,ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port ofthestandalone testing tools (Kasimier andWilliam),xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() andxmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAXSchemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.

2.6.19: Apr 02 2005

  • build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix(WilliamBrack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breakswith AIX5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reductioncode onLinux/ELF/gcc4
  • bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlintreturncode (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess andGUYFabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (AlekseySanin),segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attributevalidation(Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (RobRichards),HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Pythonerror handlersleaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitializedvariable inencoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crashifgnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDocsignatures,switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is givenatserialization time
  • improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik onfacetschecking and also mixed handling.

2.6.18: Mar 13 2005

  • build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.cgeneration,Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation(Joel Reed),some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
  • bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), pushandxmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support fordictionnariesreference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and pushproblem, URLsaved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier),Python pathsfixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces,xmlSetNsProp fix(Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (WilliamBrack),xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William),cleanupFTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6(William),xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards),XMLLINT_INDENT beingempty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards),multithreading on Windows(Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier),Python binding leak (BrentHendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 ons390, xmlTextReaderNext bug(Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes(William Brack),xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
  • improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary supportforhash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streamingXPathsubset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemascanonicalvalues handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed(AronStansvik),
  • Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)

2.6.17: Jan 16 2005

  • build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),maintainer-cleandependency(William), build in a different directory(William), fixing--with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build(Marcin Konicki),Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (DanMcNichol)
  • bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards),xmlCtxtReadFile()to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack),XPath memory leak,ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNodecrash (William),warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParserbug (William),UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on emptyelements inpush mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups(AlekseySanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range(William),patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization,line numbersometimes missing.
  • improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), pythongenerator(William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Pythonstrings(William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__callserialize().
  • new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumberforthe xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostlyJoelReed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option forformat(Phil Shafer)
  • documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries(William).

2.6.16: Nov 10 2004

  • general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based onnewautomated regression testing
  • build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
  • bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,encodingconversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPathreported byMarkus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (WilliamBrack)
  • documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API functiondescritpionwere updated.
  • improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level(BrentHendricks)

2.6.15: Oct 27 2004

  • security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
  • build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outsidethesource tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
  • bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William),Pythonpaths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace(William),saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookupfix(Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), treebuildfixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured errorhandleron Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leakreportedby Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internalsubset,entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURIerror(William).
  • improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), treedebuggingmodule and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API(GrahamBennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.

2.6.14: Sep 29 2004

  • build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc,compilationwithout HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (WilliamBrack &Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
  • bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization,UTF8ToISO8859xtranscoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanupand fixes(Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (MarkVakoc),handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing inSchemasdate handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick),NMTOKENSE20 validation fix (Malcolm),
  • improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik),addxmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exceptionhierearchy(Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement(MalcolmTredinnick), Schemas support forxsi:schemaLocation,xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (KasimierBuchcik)

2.6.13: Aug 31 2004

  • build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag withgcc,Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
  • fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reportsAPIs(Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (WilliamBrackand Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), defaultnamespaceproblem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encodingerror couldgenrate a serialization loop.
  • Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --pathand--load-trace options to xmllint
  • documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)

2.6.12: Aug 22 2004

  • build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes(PeterBreitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris(AlbertChin), some 64bits cleanups.
  • Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and spacemixes(William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (GerritP.Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemassupport(Torkel Lyng)
  • Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
  • fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William),memorydebug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (PeterBreitenlohner),xmlReader state after attribute reading (William),structured errorhandler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup(William), Windowsmemory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memoryconditionshandling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charsetbug,htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTDbase(William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath(Dodji),xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers onentity(William)
  • improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalogtool(Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (MikeHommey),xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allowXIncludeto not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version toinclude CVStag (William)
  • documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes(William)schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (JohnFleck)

2.6.11: July 5 2004

  • Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcikforattributes, namespaces and simple types.
  • build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcccleanup(William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
  • portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic),Catalogpath on Windows
  • documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint returncode(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
  • bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin),testSAXproperly initialize the library (William), empty node set inXPath(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problempointedby Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NGbugwith div processing (William), XPointer and xml:baseproblem(William),Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas(William), readerstreaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serializationproblem (William),libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not providedestructors as methods onPython classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Pythonbindings memory interfacesimprovement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed thepush parser to be back tosynchronous behaviour.
  • improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards),registernamespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python basedregressiontest for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase thenumber ofXPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak(Marc-AntoineParent and William)
  • performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprintandgenerated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimizethecode generated in the RPM packages.

2.6.10: May 17 2004

  • Web page generated for ChangeLog
  • build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
  • portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland),memcmpvs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ donotuse "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5(EdDavis),
  • improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffersresizing(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint,addxmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring ofserializationescaping, added escaping customization
  • bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs(WilliamBrack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration withreader,URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer),regexptransition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problemswith DTD(William), structured error handler callback context (William),reversexmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'

2.6.9: Apr 18 2004

  • implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
  • bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA(DaveBeckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches(withWilliam), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem(withWilliam), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XIncludeduplicatefallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), aDTDvalidation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusiveextentionschemas
  • improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc),indentingsave optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirectbehaviour (IanHummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-pythonRPMdependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warningremovalclanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing fromRPMs
  • documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck),newexample (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
  • Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work aroundMicrosoftcompiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)

2.6.8: Mar 23 2004

  • First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
  • XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes(AdamDickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
  • Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
  • xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
  • Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William),externalreference in interleave (William), missing error on<choice>failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatypefacets.
  • xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
  • bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey andWilliamBrack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalogfallbacks toURI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flagsinheritance (William),XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William),XML parser bugreported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),regexps chargroups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference countingproblems,do not close stderr.
  • performance patches from Petr Pajas
  • Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
  • compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalogcleanups(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel),cross-compilationto Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dirfixup (Julio MerinoVidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)

2.6.7: Feb 23 2004

  • documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
  • xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
  • XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
  • DTD ID handling optimization
  • bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack),pushmode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing,fixxmllint --memory --stream memory usage,xmlAttrSerializeTxtContenthandling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perlinterface.
  • python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
  • Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell

2.6.6: Feb 12 2004

  • nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (IgorandWilliam) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
  • bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attributeserialization(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemasvalidation(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (Williamand OlegParaschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings(William),XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespaceserialization,isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output ofparameterentities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug inpush mode,<xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
  • Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warningsremoval(Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard),fix--with-minimum configuration.
  • XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
  • Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck),versiondependancies (John Fleck)
  • reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
  • Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy),functionprototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings,_WINSOCKAPI_patch
  • Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offestininput.

2.6.5: Jan 25 2004

  • Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexpsegfault(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointerbugfixes(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problemwithnamespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal optionsfixes(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPathunionevaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (AlekseySanin),XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href,argumentcallbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
  • Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets(JohnFleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
  • Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (StéphaneBidoul),structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)
  • XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related todictionnaryreferences (William & me), recursion (William)
  • xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks(AlfredMickautsch),
  • xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
  • code cleanup for strings functions (William)
  • Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
  • Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs forfutureXSLT optimizations.

2.6.4: Dec 24 2003

  • Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
  • Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
  • Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
  • Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), examplefix(Lucas Brasilino)
  • bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handlingofNULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parserfromfiledescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to bestableagain (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)'(WilliamBrack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XMLSchemasdouble inclusion behaviour

2.6.3: Dec 10 2003

  • documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
  • added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin,DodjiSeketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
  • Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher,Mingw(Kenneth Haley)
  • Unicode range checking (William Brack)
  • code cleanup (William Brack)
  • Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes
  • UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
  • bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),xmlWriter(Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser(James Bursa),attribute defaulting and validation, some serializationcleanups,XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (WilliamBrack),serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter(DanielSchulman)
  • XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version includingthenamespace change.
  • XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), importandnamespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, addedexamplesbased on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
  • preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed forschemasconstraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collectsubdocumentwhen streaming.
  • various fixes in the structured error handling

2.6.2: Nov 4 2003

  • XPath context unregistration fixes
  • text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
  • API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
  • BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
  • xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
  • compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
  • stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
  • a posteriori DTD validation fixes
  • xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
  • fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
  • always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxxfunctions
  • added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
  • implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
  • DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
  • HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
  • XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
  • fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output(added--xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using theXMLserializer)

2.6.1: Oct 28 2003

  • Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
  • Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warningscleanup(William Brack)
  • Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul,IgorZlatkovic)
  • xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
  • chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
  • context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (GrahamBennett)
  • context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
  • defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities(StephaneBidoul)
  • Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
  • Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
  • xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
  • testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
  • general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializingDocumentFragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),XPath errorsnot reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.

2.6.0: Oct 20 2003

  • Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got alotof change
  • Increased the library modularity, far more options can be strippedout,a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
  • Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names andsmalltext nodes from the dictionnary
  • Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parsercore,provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimizememoryallocations and copies, namespace checking and specific errorhandling,immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures,etc...
  • rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors canbeintercepted at a structured level, with preciseinformationavailable.
  • New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowingtoeasilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context formultipleconsecutive documents.
  • Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, providednewfunctions to access content as const strings, use them forPythonbindings
  • a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (AlekseySanin),Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautschcode,make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and futurePSVIextensions, generation of character ranges to be checked withfasteralgorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant),bufferaccess
  • New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
  • Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
  • Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of theMime-Typeand charset informations if available.
  • Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn FaassenandzeroOrMore, better error reporting.
  • Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout forerrorsoutput
  • Portability: all the headers have macros for export andcallingconvention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A.Berry),Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,Igor),Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (StephaneBidoul),warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS(Marcin'Shard' Konicki)
  • Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix(William),tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)
  • Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threadinguninitializedmutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William),compression detectionand restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs(William), namespaceon attribute in HTML output (William), input filename(Rob Richards),namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland),I/O callbacks(Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance),xmlReader (PeterDerr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, bufferaccess in pushmode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (JessePelton), XPath bug(William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATAoutput (William), HTTPerror handling.
  • xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 forcompattesting, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdatatoreplace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluousnamespacedeclarations
  • added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming
  • a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patchforxmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do farlessallocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Andersonworkedon speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
  • cleanup of "make tests"
  • libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick
  • deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged theXMLparser instead.

2.5.11: Sep 9 2003

A bugfix only release:

  • risk of crash in Relax-NG
  • risk of crash when using multithreaded programs

2.5.10: Aug 15 2003

A bugfixes only release

  • Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
  • UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
  • Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, MingwonWindows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
  • HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
  • XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
  • XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
  • xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
  • and a couple other cleanup

2.5.9: Aug 9 2003

  • bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windowsbuild(Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch),threading(Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (DodjiSeketeli),xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,EXSLT (SeanGriffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validationfor mixedcontent + namespaces, HTML serialization, libraryinitialization,progressive HTML parser
  • better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )
  • adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
  • doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
  • configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
  • couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
  • general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
  • xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
  • general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/...(WilliamBrack)

2.5.8: Jul 6 2003

  • bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save(MarkItzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (WilliamBrack),PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath(JoergSchmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem withDTDs,rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from2.5.7,xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
  • portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)
  • William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems
  • IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)
  • Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading(StéphaneBidoul)
  • A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements
  • W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)
  • Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), andmethod/classgenerator
  • added --nonet option to xmllint
  • documentation improvements (John Fleck)

2.5.7: Apr 25 2003

  • Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top ofthexmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
  • xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes
  • Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance
  • Thread support is now configured in by default
  • Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Durationfixes(Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML pushparserand zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file pathconversions,behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "outof memory"error conditions
  • extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collectingmemoryallocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified theallocationsaccordingly.
  • Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the pushandxmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
  • Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation
  • Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)

2.5.6: Apr 1 2003

  • Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now exceptforbinHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
  • bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docsandXInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets,XMLSchemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
  • portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings
  • documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)
  • improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, RelaxNGerrors

2.5.5: Mar 24 2003

  • Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testingincludingDocBook and TEI examples.
  • Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype
  • Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer
  • Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath,encodingconversion, line counting in the parser.
  • Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete
  • Fixed the RPM spec file name

2.5.4: Feb 20 2003

  • Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG andXIncludeimplementation
  • Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
  • Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checkingonnamespaces,

    2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTDregexpgeneration problem.

  • Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
  • A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)

2.5.3: Feb 10 2003

  • RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added afirstversion of RelaxNG Python bindings
  • Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fixforserializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug,XHTML1serialization
  • Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file

2.5.2: Feb 5 2003

  • First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
  • Schemas support now compiled in by default.
  • Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude andentities,delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (StéphaneBidoul),XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XMLreader memoryconsumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presenceofnamespaces
  • added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
  • Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck),docpatches (Stefan Kost)
  • Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
  • Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting(StéphaneBidoul)
  • URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)

2.5.1: Jan 8 2003

  • Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
  • documentation updates (John)
  • a couple of XmlTextReader fixes

2.5.0: Jan 6 2003

  • New XmltextReader interfacebased on C#API(with help of Stéphane Bidoul)
  • Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
  • XInclude fallback fix
  • Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (StéphaneBidoul),drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes,speedupand iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
  • Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint manupdate(John)
  • Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
  • Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
  • Entities handling fixes
  • new API to optionally track node creation and deletion(LukasSchroeder)
  • Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines

2.4.30: Dec 12 2002

  • 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
  • Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minorcodefixes.

2.4.29: Dec 11 2002

  • Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, pythonbindings(Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export listupdates
  • Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
  • Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
  • Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixedXHTML1dump
  • Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
  • Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
  • added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
  • Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser andsavesmore informations needed for C# bindings

2.4.28: Nov 22 2002

  • a couple of python binding fixes
  • 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
  • potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
  • fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
  • added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
  • autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
  • nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)

2.4.27: Nov 17 2002

  • fixes for the Python bindings
  • a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs,xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman),document fragment support(Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (BrianStafford), XPointer,xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones),xmlGetNodePath (PetrPajas), entities processing
  • added grep to xmllint --shell
  • VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
  • cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers(Igor),better thread support on Windows
  • cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
  • Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)

2.4.26: Oct 18 2002

  • Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
  • Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,HTMLserialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of smallproblems

2.4.25: Sep 26 2002

  • A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM andtree,xmlI/O, Html
  • Serious rewrite of XInclude
  • Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, smallfixand improvement of the regexp core
  • Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs
  • Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles(Igor,Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
  • Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver andregexpAPIs
  • New logos from Marc Liyanage
  • Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris
  • Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR(ChristopheMerlet)
  • removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting
  • Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation
  • update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)

2.4.24: Aug 22 2002

  • XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
  • Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build,x86-64(fcrozat)
  • HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
  • C14N improvements by Aleksey
  • doc cleanups: Rick Jones
  • Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
  • XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added

2.4.23: July 6 2002

  • performances patches: Peter Jacobi
  • c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
  • added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
  • new tutorial: John Fleck
  • new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fixfromPeter Jacobi
  • a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XMLandHTML parsers, ID lookup function
  • removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin

2.4.22: May 27 2002

  • a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser,memoryusage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (ChristianCornelssen),indentation, URI parsing
  • Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of thenetworkprotocol handlers (Aleksey)
  • performance patch from Gary Pennington
  • Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XMLSchemasdatatypes

2.4.21: Apr 29 2002

This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the earlyXMLSchemas structuresand datatypescode, beware,allinterfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a workinprogress and don't even think of putting this code in a productionsystem,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 RichardJinks
  • patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification
  • OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn

2.4.20: Apr 15 2002

  • bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation
  • XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks
  • Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, pythonbindings,libxml.m4

2.4.19: Mar 25 2002

  • bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin toUTF8encoder
  • portability fixes in the HTTP code
  • memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests
  • revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles

2.4.18: Mar 18 2002

  • bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation,portability,XPath
  • removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable
  • serious cleanup of the Python makefiles
  • speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets
  • Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation

2.4.17: Mar 8 2002

  • a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parentsinXPath"
  • fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples andmoreregression tests, XPath extension functions can now returnnode-sets
  • added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin

2.4.16: Feb 20 2002

  • a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XMLTestsuitefrom OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantlyimproved.
  • a couple of portability fixes too.

2.4.15: Feb 11 2002

  • Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones
  • A few bug fixes and cleanup
  • Includes cleanup

2.4.14: Feb 8 2002

  • Change of License to the MITLicensebasicallyfor integration in XFree86 codebase, and removingconfusion around theprevious dual-licensing
  • added Python bindings, beta software but should already bequitecomplete
  • a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for alltreemanipulations
  • cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definitioninXML

2.4.13: Jan 14 2002

  • update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
  • cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
  • fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor andSergueiNarojnyi
  • Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
  • added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg

2.4.12: Dec 7 2001

  • a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (GeertKloosterman),XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/Ocleanups(robert)
  • Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
  • some makefiles cleanups

2.4.11: Nov 26 2001

  • fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, somecodecleanups
  • xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
  • updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
  • Windows Makefiles updates from Igor

2.4.10: Nov 10 2001

  • URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
  • added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
  • Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
  • improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and--encode,Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
  • fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
  • fixes to the HTML parser

2.4.9: Nov 6 2001

  • fixes more catalog bugs
  • avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()

2.4.8: Nov 4 2001

  • fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updatedxmlcatalogtool
  • fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.

2.4.7: Oct 30 2001

  • exported some debugging interfaces
  • serious rewrite of the catalog code
  • integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configureoptionand regression tests
  • removed an HTML parser bug
  • fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
  • integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
  • changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
  • some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
  • general bug fixes
  • updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
  • some VMS and Windows updates

2.4.6: Oct 10 2001

  • added an updated man pages by John Fleck
  • portability and configure fixes
  • an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
  • Windows makefile patches from Igor
  • fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt
  • updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs

2.4.5: Sep 14 2001

  • Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
  • forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since someversionof Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones

1.8.16: Sep 14 2001

  • maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bugandportability fixes

2.4.4: Sep 12 2001

  • added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XMLCatalog
  • a few bug fixes and some portability changes
  • some documentation cleanups

2.4.3: Aug 23 2001

  • XML Catalog support see the doc
  • New NaN/Infinity floating point code
  • A few bug fixes

2.4.2: Aug 15 2001

  • adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
  • lot of bug fixes
  • the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date
  • inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
  • fixes a serious potential security bug
  • added a --format option to xmllint

2.4.1: July 24 2001

  • possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
  • some computation NaN fixes
  • extension of the XPath API
  • cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
  • patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST

2.4.0: July 10 2001

  • Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
  • Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples totheregression tests
  • A bit of cleanup

2.3.14: July 5 2001

  • fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirementwhensubstituting them
  • lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter canbesubstantially faster
  • Makefiles and configure cleanups
  • Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
  • HTML tag closing bug fixed
  • Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating

2.3.13: June 28 2001

  • 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
  • a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek

1.8.14: June 28 2001

  • Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
  • Small Makefile fix

2.3.12: June 26 2001

  • lots of cleanup
  • a couple of validation fix
  • fixed line number counting
  • fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
  • added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
  • fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float,gcc-3.0miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix fortheoptimizer on Tru64
  • incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvementsforcompilation on Windows MSC
  • update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
  • fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code

2.3.11: June 17 2001

  • updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix someportabilityproblems (alpha)
  • fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, andblock/inlinehandling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of thiscode
  • added xmlHasNsProp()
  • implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBookSGMLparser
  • some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter andnamespacesnode selection)
  • fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
  • fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
  • fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
  • added --version to xmllint for bug reports

2.3.10: June 1 2001

  • fixed the SGML catalog support
  • a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,XIncludeprocessing
  • XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly

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
  • some serious speed optimization again
  • some documentation cleanups
  • trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
  • XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
  • Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington,fixedxmlValidGetValidElements()
  • Added an INSTALL file
  • Attribute removal added to API: #54433
  • added a basic support for SGML catalogs
  • fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
  • bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
  • fixed a small configure portability problem
  • fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document

1.8.13: May 14 2001

  • bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome

2.3.8: May 3 2001

  • Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
  • Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
  • Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix thefloatingpoint portability issue
  • Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s forDOM+validationusing the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
  • incorporated more Windows cleanup
  • added xmlSaveFormatFile()
  • fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
  • removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module

2.3.7: April 22 2001

  • lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
  • Non deterministic content model validation support
  • added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
  • revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
  • XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting
  • Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
  • HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
  • Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
  • fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
  • portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese

2.3.6: April 8 2001

  • Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, foundandcleared half a dozen potential problem
  • the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
  • cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. usedthetrio library code to provide the one needed when the platform ismissingthem
  • xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluationproblem,extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seemsbroken...

2.3.5: Mar 23 2001

  • Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPathexpressions,there is some new APIs for this too
  • included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876,notations,52299)
  • Fixed some portability issues

2.3.4: Mar 10 2001

  • Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
  • Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow defaultbuffersize to be application tunable.
  • Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and thispartshould probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model:-\
  • Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in2.3.3parser
  • Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
  • Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
  • Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
  • blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves thattheyare formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance

2.3.3: Mar 1 2001

  • small change in XPath for XSLT
  • documentation cleanups
  • fix in validation by Gary Pennington
  • serious parsing performances improvements

2.3.2: Feb 24 2001

  • chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
  • fixed a Dtd parsing bug
  • fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
  • ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington

2.3.1: Feb 15 2001

  • some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
  • small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOMgdome2implementation
  • A few bug fixes

2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)

  • Lots of XPath bug fixes
  • Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reportingforXSLT
  • Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
  • bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
  • validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
  • Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
  • Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-develandlibxml2-devel
  • the example Makefile is now fixed
  • added HTML to the RPM packages
  • tree copying bugfixes
  • updates to Windows makefiles
  • optimization patch from Bjorn Reese

2.2.11: Jan 4 2001

  • bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
  • added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
  • Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
  • Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
  • added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support

2.2.10: Nov 25 2000

  • Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
  • integrate OpenVMS patches
  • better handling of some nasty HTML input
  • Improved the XPointer implementation
  • integrate a number of provided patches

2.2.9: Nov 25 2000

  • erroneous release :-(

2.2.8: Nov 13 2000

  • First version of XIncludesupport
  • Patch in conditional section handling
  • updated MS compiler project
  • fixed some XPath problems
  • added an URI escaping function
  • some other bug fixes

2.2.7: Oct 31 2000

  • added message redirection
  • XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
  • xmlIOParseDTD() added
  • various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
  • some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content

2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:

  • Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structuretothose
  • Fixed a posteriori validation problems
  • HTTP module cleanups
  • HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling,attributenormalization)
  • coalescing of adjacent text nodes
  • couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API

2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:

  • XPointer implementation and testsuite
  • Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration,moretests
  • Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows buildandrelease
  • Late validation fixes
  • Integrated a lot of contributed patches
  • added memory management docs
  • a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed

2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:

  • main XPath problem fixed
  • Integrated portability patches for Windows
  • Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code

2.2.3: Sep 17 2000

  • bug fixes
  • cleanup of entity handling code
  • overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage hasbeenchecked too
  • Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XMLDtdworks smoothly now.

1.8.10: Sep 6 2000

  • bug fix release for some Gnome projects

2.2.2: August 12 2000

  • mostly bug fixes
  • started adding routines to access xml parser context options

2.2.1: July 21 2000

  • a purely bug fixes release
  • fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
  • fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
  • removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memoryallocationroutines

2.2.0: July 14 2000

  • applied a lot of portability fixes
  • better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is nowalwaysencoded in UTF-8)
  • the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
  • added xmlHasProp()
  • fixed a serious problem with &#38;
  • propagated the fix to FTP client
  • cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
  • Added a page about libxmlInternationalizationsupport

1.8.9: July 9 2000

  • fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
  • fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 tosolverpmfind users problem

2.1.1: July 1 2000

  • fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
  • improvements on the HTML parser

2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000

  • 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2accordingto new instructions. It fixes a nastyproblemabout &#38; charref parsing
  • 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version.italso contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
    • 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 andnamespacerelated problems
    • output to a given encoding has been added/tested
    • lot of various fixes

2.0.0: Apr 12 2000

  • First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's agoodidea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: whileinitiallyscheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due tomassiveworkload.
  • The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (insteadof$prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
    #include <libxml/xxx.h>

    instead of

    #include "xxx.h"
  • a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
  • the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now beoverloadeddynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
  • The previously CVS only tool tester has beenrenamedxmllintand is now installed as part of thelibxml2package
  • The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to pluginspecific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection levelusingxmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions whencreating aparser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
  • there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing theversionnumber of the libxml module in use
  • a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded atconfiguretime (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)

2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000

  • This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
  • It's available only fromxmlsoft.orgFTP, it's packaged aslibxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar andRPMs
  • This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old oneisavailable under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
  • This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic pointofview applications should not have to be modified too much, check theupgrade page
  • Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
  • the updates includes:
    • fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seemscorrectlyhandled now
    • Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checkingandproper PEref extensions in external subsets
    • DTD conditional sections
    • Validation now correctly handle entities content
    • changestructuresto accommodate DOM
  • Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the testagainsttheOASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't supportthatencoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using theCVShead version.

1.8.7: Mar 6 2000

  • This is a bug fix release:
  • It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic usedbylibxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this.Notethat for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabledbydefault in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibilityforold code.
  • Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignoredanymore,avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
  • The unchecked use of snprintf which was breakinglibxml-1.8.6compilation on some platforms has been fixed
  • nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping whenprocessingURIs

1.8.6: Jan 31 2000

  • added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfindcanuseit without troubles

1.8.5: Jan 21 2000

  • adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] contentof theXMLspec)
  • fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
  • Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patchtryingto solve the zlib checks problems
  • The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5withgnumeric soon

1.8.4: Jan 13 2000

  • bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
  • all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
  • fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
  • added newDocFragment()

1.8.3: Jan 5 2000

  • a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
  • a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
  • lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays
  • fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
  • added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
  • Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
  • External entity loading code has been revamped, now itusesxmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing wereadded
  • cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff

1.8.2: Dec 21 1999

  • I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue isfixedfor good this time
  • Added a few tree modification functions:xmlReplaceNode,xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetNameandxmlDocSetRootElement
  • Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey

1.8.1: Dec 18 1999

  • various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++compilersthe "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
  • a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
  • fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespaceprocessing,and more specifically the Dia application
  • fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by usingaDtd not specified in the original document)
  • fixed a bug in

1.8.0: Dec 12 1999

  • cleanup, especially memory wise
  • the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, itshouldnot crash, whatever the input !
  • Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement forlargedataset from CarlNygard,configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
  • attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
  • attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp()nowdoes entities escaping by default.

1.7.4: Oct 25 1999

  • Lots of HTML improvement
  • Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
  • More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
  • Fixed a bug with contiguous charref

1.7.3: Sep 29 1999

  • portability problems fixed
  • snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems onsystemwere it's not available, fixed

1.7.1: Sep 24 1999

  • The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamedin1.7.1 from CHARto xmlChar. Thereasonis that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows.Howeveron non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way ofa#define .
  • Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno,andleading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro

1.7.0: Sep 23 1999

  • Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttpmodule.
  • Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simpleprintflike callback
  • Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
  • Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrappermodule)
  • Improvement of XPathimplementation
  • Added an HTML parser front-end

Daniel Veillard