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11to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>v2.9.3: Nov 20 2015</h3><ul>
12  <li>Security:<br />
13  CVE-2015-8242 Buffer overead with HTML parser in push mode (Hugh Davenport),<br />
14  CVE-2015-7500 Fix memory access error due to incorrect entities boundaries (Daniel Veillard),<br />
15  CVE-2015-7499-2 Detect incoherency on GROW (Daniel Veillard),<br />
16  CVE-2015-7499-1 Add xmlHaltParser() to stop the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
17  CVE-2015-5312 Another entity expansion issue (David Drysdale),<br />
18  CVE-2015-7497 Avoid an heap buffer overflow in xmlDictComputeFastQKey (David Drysdale),<br />
19  CVE-2015-7498 Avoid processing entities after encoding conversion failures (Daniel Veillard),<br />
20  CVE-2015-8035 Fix XZ compression support loop (Daniel Veillard),<br />
21  CVE-2015-7942-2 Fix an error in previous Conditional section patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
22  CVE-2015-7942 Another variation of overflow in Conditional sections (Daniel Veillard),<br />
23  CVE-2015-1819 Enforce the reader to run in constant memory (Daniel Veillard)<br />
24  CVE-2015-7941_2 Cleanup conditional section error handling (Daniel Veillard),<br />
25  CVE-2015-7941_1 Stop parsing on entities boundaries errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
26  </li>
27
28  <li>Documentation:<br />
29  Correct spelling of "calling" (Alex Henrie),<br />
30  Fix a small error in xmllint --format description (Fabien Degomme),<br />
31  Avoid XSS on the search of xmlsoft.org (Daniel Veillard)<br />
32  </li>
33
34  <li>Portability:<br />
35  threads: use forward declarations only for glibc (Michael Heimpold),<br />
36  Update Win32 configure.js to search for configure.ac (Daniel Veillard)<br />
37  </li>
38
39  <li>Bug Fixes:<br />
40  Bug on creating new stream from entity (Daniel Veillard),<br />
41  Fix some loop issues embedding NEXT (Daniel Veillard),<br />
42  Do not print error context when there is none (Daniel Veillard),<br />
43  Avoid extra processing of MarkupDecl when EOF (Hugh Davenport),<br />
44  Fix parsing short unclosed comment uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br />
45  Add missing Null check in xmlParseExternalEntityPrivate (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
46  Fix a bug in CData error handling in the push parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
47  Fix a bug on name parsing at the end of current input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
48  Fix the spurious ID already defined error (Daniel Veillard),<br />
49  Fix previous change to node sort order (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
50  Fix a self assignment issue raised by clang (Scott Graham),<br />
51  Fail parsing early on if encoding conversion failed (Daniel Veillard),<br />
52  Do not process encoding values if the declaration if broken (Daniel Veillard),<br />
53  Silence clang's -Wunknown-attribute (Michael Catanzaro),<br />
54  xmlMemUsed is not thread-safe (Martin von Gagern),<br />
55  Fix support for except in nameclasses (Daniel Veillard),<br />
56  Fix order of root nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
57  Allow attributes on descendant-or-self axis (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
58  Fix the fix to Windows locking (Steve Nairn),<br />
59  Fix timsort invariant loop re: Envisage article (Christopher Swenson),<br />
60  Don't add IDs in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
61  Account for ID attributes in xmlSetTreeDoc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
62  Remove various unused value assignments (Philip Withnall),<br />
63  Fix missing entities after CVE-2014-3660 fix (Daniel Veillard),<br />
64  Revert "Missing initialization for the catalog module" (Daniel Veillard)<br />
65  </li>
66
67  <li>Improvements:<br />
68  Reuse xmlHaltParser() where it makes sense (Daniel Veillard),<br />
69  xmlStopParser reset errNo (Daniel Veillard),<br />
70  Reenable xz support by default (Daniel Veillard),<br />
71  Recover unescaped less-than character in HTML recovery parsing (Daniel Veillard),<br />
72  Allow HTML serializer to output HTML5 DOCTYPE (Shaun McCance),<br />
73  Regression test for bug #695699 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
74  Add a couple of XPath tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
75  Add Python 3 rpm subpackage (Tomas Radej),<br />
76  libxml2-config.cmake.in: update include directories (Samuel Martin),<br />
77  Adding example from bugs 738805 to regression tests (Daniel Veillard)<br />
78  </li>
79
80  <li>Cleanups:<br />
81  </li>
82</ul><h3>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3><ul>
83  <li>Security:<br />
84  Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),<br />
85  CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)<br />
86  </li>
87
88  <li>Bug Fixes:<br />
89  fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),<br />
90  xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),<br />
91  Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),<br />
92  Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),<br />
93  Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing &amp;lt; (Daniel Veillard),<br />
94  xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
95  Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
96  parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),<br />
97  Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),<br />
98  Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
99  Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
100  python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),<br />
101  Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
102  xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),<br />
103  Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),<br />
104  wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),<br />
105  wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),<br />
106  no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),<br />
107  Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
108  Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),<br />
109  xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),<br />
110  runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),<br />
111  xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),<br />
112  xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),<br />
113  HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),<br />
114  Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),<br />
115  Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
116  Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),<br />
117  XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),<br />
118  Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
119  Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br />
120  Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
121  Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
122  Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
123  xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),<br />
124  Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br />
125  Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),<br />
126  Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
127  erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),<br />
128  xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),<br />
129  Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),<br />
130  Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),<br />
131  Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
132  Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),<br />
133  Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),<br />
134  Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),<br />
135  Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),<br />
136  fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br />
137  Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),<br />
138  Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),<br />
139  Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
140  Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br />
141  Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),<br />
142  Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),<br />
143  Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),<br />
144  Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),<br />
145  Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),<br />
146  Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),<br />
147  Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
148  run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),<br />
149  Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),<br />
150  Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
151  Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),<br />
152  xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),<br />
153  Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
154  Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
155  Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br />
156  Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),<br />
157  Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),<br />
158  Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),<br />
159  Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
160  Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),<br />
161  missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),<br />
162  Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),<br />
163  Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),<br />
164  properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),<br />
165  Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),<br />
166  Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),<br />
167  Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),<br />
168  Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)<br />
169  </li>
170
171  <li>Documentation:<br />
172  typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),<br />
173  Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),<br />
174  Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),<br />
175  Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),<br />
176  Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),<br />
177  Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
178  Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),<br />
179  Fix incorrect spelling entites-&gt;entities (Jan Pokorný),<br />
180  Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)<br />
181  </li>
182
183  <li>Portability:<br />
184  AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),<br />
185  remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),<br />
186  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),<br />
187  Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),<br />
188  OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
189  OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
190  os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
191  OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
192  OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
193  OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
194  OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
195  OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
196  OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
197  OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
198  OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
199  OS400: UTF8&lt;--&gt;EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
200  OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
201  OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
202  OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
203  Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),<br />
204  configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),<br />
205  Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br />
206  Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br />
207  Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br />
208  Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),<br />
209  Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br />
210  Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),<br />
211  Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),<br />
212  Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
213  Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
214  Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
215  Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
216  Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
217  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
218  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
219  Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
220  Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
221  build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),<br />
222  build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),<br />
223  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
224  add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),<br />
225  Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br />
226  python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),<br />
227  python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),<br />
228  Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)<br />
229  </li>
230
231  <li>Improvements:<br />
232  win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br />
233  elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),<br />
234  elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),<br />
235  Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),<br />
236  Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),<br />
237  Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),<br />
238  Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
239  Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),<br />
240  wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),<br />
241  doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
242  Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),<br />
243  Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),<br />
244  xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),<br />
245  Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),<br />
246  adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),<br />
247  Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),<br />
248  Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),<br />
249  Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),<br />
250  xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
251  Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)<br />
252  </li>
253
254  <li>Cleanups:<br />
255  Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),<br />
256  Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
257  Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),<br />
258  Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),<br />
259  Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),<br />
260  Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)<br />
261  </li>
262</ul><h3>2.9.1: Apr 19 2013</h3><ul>
263  <li> Features:<br />
264    Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
265    Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)<br />
266  </li>
267
268  <li> Documentation:<br />
269    Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),<br />
270    Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),<br />
271    Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)<br />
272  </li>
273
274  <li> Portability:<br />
275    Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
276    rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),<br />
277    elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br />
278    elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),<br />
279    Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),<br />
280    Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),<br />
281    Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),<br />
282    Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),<br />
283    Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),<br />
284    Fix a portability issue for GCC &lt; 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
285    Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),<br />
286    Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),<br />
287    Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)<br />
288  </li>
289
290  <li> Bug Fixes:<br />
291    Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
292    Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),<br />
293    Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),<br />
294    Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),<br />
295    Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),<br />
296    Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),<br />
297    Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),<br />
298    Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),<br />
299    Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),<br />
300    fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),<br />
301    xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),<br />
302    Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),<br />
303    Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),<br />
304    Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,<br />
305Veillard),<br />
306    Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),<br />
307    When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,<br />
308Veillard),<br />
309    Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),<br />
310    xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,<br />
311Veillard),<br />
312    Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),<br />
313    Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),<br />
314    Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),<br />
315    Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
316    Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,<br />
317Veillard),<br />
318    Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)<br />
319  </li>
320
321  <li> Improvements:<br />
322    Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),<br />
323    Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),<br />
324    update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
325    A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),<br />
326    Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
327    Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
328    First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
329    updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
330    Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),<br />
331    Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),<br />
332    Cache presence of '&lt;' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br />
333    Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
334    Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),<br />
335    Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),<br />
336    Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),<br />
337    Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),<br />
338    Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)<br />
339  </li>
340
341  <li> Cleanups:<br />
342    Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),<br />
343    Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),<br />
344    Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),<br />
345    Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
346    Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),<br />
347    Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,<br />
348Gansterer),<br />
349    Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),<br />
350    Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),<br />
351    Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),<br />
352    rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),<br />
353    Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)<br />
354  </li>
355</ul><h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3><ul>
356  <li> Features:<br />
357    A few new API entry points,<br />
358    More resilient push parser mode,<br />
359    A lot of portability improvement,<br />
360    Faster XPath evaluation<br />
361  </li>
362
363  <li> Documentation:<br />
364    xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),<br />
365    libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),<br />
366    More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)<br />
367  </li>
368
369  <li> Portability:<br />
370    Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),<br />
371    fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),<br />
372    GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),<br />
373    More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),<br />
374    More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),<br />
375    Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),<br />
376    Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),<br />
377    Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
378    Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
379    Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
380    clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),<br />
381    use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),<br />
382    fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),<br />
383    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),<br />
384    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),<br />
385    Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)<br />
386  </li>
387
388  <li> Bug Fixes:<br />
389    Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
390    Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
391    Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
392    initialize var (Rob Richards),<br />
393    Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
394    Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),<br />
395    Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
396    Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),<br />
397    Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),<br />
398    Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),<br />
399    Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),<br />
400    Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),<br />
401    Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
402    Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),<br />
403    Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
404    More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
405    Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),<br />
406    Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
407    Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
408    Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
409    Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),<br />
410    Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
411    Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
412    Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)<br />
413  </li>
414
415  <li> Improvements:<br />
416    Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),<br />
417    Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),<br />
418    Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
419    Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),<br />
420    Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),<br />
421    Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),<br />
422    Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br />
423    Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),<br />
424    Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
425    Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
426    Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),<br />
427    Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),<br />
428    Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),<br />
429    minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),<br />
430    fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),<br />
431    Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),<br />
432    Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),<br />
433    Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
434    Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
435    Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),<br />
436    Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),<br />
437    Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
438    Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),<br />
439    Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
440    Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),<br />
441    Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
442    Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
443    Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
444    More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
445    Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
446    first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
447    Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),<br />
448    Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
449    Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
450    Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),<br />
451    More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
452    Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),<br /> to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
453    Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
454    Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
455    Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
456    Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),<br />
457    Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
458    New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
459    Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),<br />
460    Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
461    Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
462    Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
463    Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
464    Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
465    Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
466    Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),<br />
467    Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),<br />
468    Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
469    Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),<br />
470    Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)<br />
471  </li>
472
473  <li> Cleanups:<br />
474    Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
475    Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),<br />
476    Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
477    Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),<br />
478    Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),<br />
479    Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
480    Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),<br />
481    Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
482    Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
483    Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
484    Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
485    Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
486    Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
487    Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)<br />
488  </li>
489</ul><h3>2.8.0: May 23 2012</h3><ul>
490  <li>Features:
491  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
492  </li>
493
494  <li>Documentation:
495    xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),
496    Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
497    URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
498    Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
499    Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
500    Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
501    add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
502    Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
503    Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
504    Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
505  </li>
506
507  <li>Portability:
508    Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
509    Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
510    xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
511    remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
512    undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
513    Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
514    fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
515    prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
516    Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
517    Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
518    fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
519    Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
520    Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
521    autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
522    Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
523    634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
524    599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
525    fix win build (Rob Richards)
526  </li>
527
528  <li>Bug fixes:
529    Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
530    Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
531    Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
532    Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
533    Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
534    Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
535    Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
536    Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
537    HTML parser error with &lt;noscript&gt; in the &lt;head&gt; (Denis Pauk),
538    XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
539    Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
540    Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
541    Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
542    Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
543    Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
544    xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
545    Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
546    Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),
547    Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
548    Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
549    xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
550    HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
551    Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),
552    Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
553    Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
554    Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
555    Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
556    Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
557    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
558    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
559    fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
560    fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
561    Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
562    Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
563    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
564    Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
565    Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
566    Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
567    Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
568    Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
569    Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
570    Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
571    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
572    __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
573    __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
574    Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
575    Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
576    Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
577    Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
578    Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
579  </li>
580
581  <li>Improvements:
582    use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
583    New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
584    xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
585    Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
586    Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
587    Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
588    wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
589    Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
590    Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
591    Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
592    add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
593    Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
594    Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
595    included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
596    move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
597    add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
598    add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
599    autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
600    Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
601    Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
602    Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
603    testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
604    various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
605    testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
606    runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
607    configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
608    configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
609    xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
610    __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
611    __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
612  </li>
613
614  <li>Cleanups:
615    Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
616    Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
617    Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),
618    autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),
619    Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
620    Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
621    Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
622    Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
623    Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
624    python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
625    python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
626    configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
627    xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
628  </li>
629</ul><h3>2.7.8: Nov 4 2010</h3><ul>
630  <li> Features:
631    480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
632    Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
633  </li>
634  <li> Documentation:
635    Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
636    Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
637    Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
638    Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
639  </li>
640  <li> Portability:
641    607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
642    614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
643    Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
644    Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
645  </li>
646  <li> Bug Fixes:
647    595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
648    617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
649    616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
650    614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
651    627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
652    629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
653    630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
654    make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
655    Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
656    Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
657    Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
658    Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
659    Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
660    Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
661    Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
662    Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
663    Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
664    xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
665    Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
666  </li>
667  <li> Improvements:
668    606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
669    Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
670    Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
671  </li>
672  <li> Cleanups:
673    618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
674    Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
675    Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
676    Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
677    Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
678    Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
679    Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
680  </li>
681</ul><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul>
682  <li> Improvements:
683    Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
684    Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
685  </li>
686  <li> Portability:
687    relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
688    Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
689    use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
690    Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
691    Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
692    Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
693    Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
694    Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
695    Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
696    598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
697  </li>
698  <li> Bug Fixes:
699    libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
700    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
701    Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
702    Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
703    fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
704    ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
705    htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
706    Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
707    Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
708    xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
709    608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
710    Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
711    Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
712    Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
713    Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
714    Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
715    Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
716    Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
717    Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
718    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
719    Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
720    xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
721  </li>
722  <li> Cleanups:
723    Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
724  </li>
725</ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct  6 2009</h3><ul>
726  <li> Bug Fixes:
727     Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
728     URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
729     Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
730  </li>
731</ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul>
732  <li> Bug Fixes:
733    Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
734    Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
735    595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
736    Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
737    Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
738    link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
739    594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
740  </li>
741  <li> Cleanup:
742    Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
743  </li>
744</ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul>
745  <li>Improvements:
746    Switch to GIT (GNOME),
747    Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
748  </li>
749  <li>Portability:
750    593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
751    594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
752    Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
753    Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
754    Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
755    Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
756    Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
757    Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
758    584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
759    574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
760    Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
761    545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
762    xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
763    Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
764    Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
765    Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
766    Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
767    fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
768    fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
769  </li>
770  <li>Documentation:
771    544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
772    Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
773    Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
774    560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
775    Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
776    updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
777    more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
778  </li>
779  <li>Bug fixes:
780    594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
781    Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
782    492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
783    558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
784    558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
785    579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
786    502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
787    566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
788    566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
789    584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
790    587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
791    444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with &lt;&gt; (Daniel Veillard),
792    Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
793    Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
794    440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
795    572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
796    Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
797    Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
798    566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
799    541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
800    541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
801    583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
802    587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
803    559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
804    559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
805    Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
806    592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
807    447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
808    446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
809    Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
810    Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
811    512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
812    512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
813    588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
814    582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
815    579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
816    575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
817    571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
818    570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
819    567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
820    574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
821    Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
822    585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
823    582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
824    Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
825    Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
826    576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
827    Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
828    Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
829    Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
830    Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
831    potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
832    Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
833    Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
834    Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
835    Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
836    reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
837    use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
838    581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
839    584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
840    580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
841    581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
842    do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
843    564217 fix structured error handling problems,
844    reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
845    xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
846    add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
847    avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
848  </li>
849  <li>Cleanup:
850    Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
851    A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
852    Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
853    Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
854    Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
855    Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
856    555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
857    542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
858    Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
859    Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
860    Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
861    hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
862    570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
863    cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
864  </li>
865</ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul>
866  <li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li>
867  <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
868      indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
869      xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
870      xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
871      avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
872      deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li>
873  <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
874      limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
875      APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
876      add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
877      parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li>
878</ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul>
879    <li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
880        if XPath is not configured in</li>
881    <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
882        when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
883        bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
884    </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
885        XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li>
886</ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul>
887    <li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li>
888    <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
889        case handking and leaks (Martin)</li>
890    <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li>
891    <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li>
892</ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul>
893  <li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
894      xmlParserCleanup docs</li>
895  <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
896      porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
897      non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
898      </li>
899  <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
900      (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
901      Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
902      parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
903      tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
904      (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
905      when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li>
906  <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
907      (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
908      serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li>
909  <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
910      for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
911      add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
912      new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
913      improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
914      regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
915      to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
916      arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li>
917</ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul>
918  <li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
919      trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
920      (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
921      XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li>
922  <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
923      paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
924      patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
925      SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
926      regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
927      document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
928      writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
929      detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
930      team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
931      (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
932      Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
933      allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
934      problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
935      the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
936      out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
937      (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
938      conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
939      functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
940      (Mark Rowe)</li>
941  <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
942      mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
943      Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
944      a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
945      cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
946      fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
947      duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
948      (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li>
949  <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
950      (Tobias Minich)</li>
951</ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul>
952  <li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li>
953  <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
954      xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
955      (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
956      XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
957      xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
958      parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
959      deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
960      HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
961      output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash
962      (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
963      </li>
964  <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
965      copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
966      some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li>
967  <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
968      testURI --debug option, </li>
969</ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul>
970  <li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
971      (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li>
972  <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
973      reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
974      xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
975      (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
976      detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
977      generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
978      problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
979      (William Brack)</li>
980</ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul>
981  <li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
982      fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
983      (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
984      improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
985      new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li>
986  <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li>
987  <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
988      flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
989      htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
990      typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
991      (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
992      nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
993      xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
994      XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
995      sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
996      dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
997      error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
998      workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
999      invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before
1000      internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
1001      the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker) </li>
1002  <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
1003      embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li>
1004</ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul>
1005  <li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
1006      (James Dennett)</li>
1007  <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
1008      (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
1009      on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
1010      principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
1011      (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
1012      standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
1013      for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
1014      (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
1015      concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
1016      in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
1017      python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
1018      (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
1019      XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
1020      fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
1021      min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li>
1022  <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li>
1023  <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
1024      __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
1025      (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
1026      Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li>
1027  <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li>
1028</ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul>
1029  <li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel,
1030      Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards),
1031      AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li>
1032  <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
1033      (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
1034      equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
1035      improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib
1036      support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
1037      (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
1038      Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
1039      of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to
1040      python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca),
1041      try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
1042      add --html --memory case to xmllint</li>
1043  <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix,
1044      const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
1045      portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
1046      Breitenlohner),  remove the build path recorded in the python
1047      shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
1048      (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
1049      --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li>
1050  <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
1051      attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode,
1052      xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
1053      missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
1054      (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
1055      serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
1056      xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
1057      allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
1058      fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
1059      crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
1060      when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when
1061      using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
1062      context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
1063      autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
1064      fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
1065      validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute
1066      XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
1067      in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
1068      meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc,
1069      HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
1070      htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
1071      xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
1072      htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
1073      bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
1074      </li>
1075  <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
1076      fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
1077      xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
1078      functions</li>
1079</ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul>
1080  <li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
1081    error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li>
1082  <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
1083    xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
1084    variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
1085    Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
1086    leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
1087    selfdocument.</li>
1088  <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
1089    cache(Kasimier)</li>
1090</ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul>
1091  <li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
1092      (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
1093      HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
1094      cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
1095      Windows (Roland Schwingel).
1096      </li>
1097  <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
1098      Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li>
1099  <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
1100      on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
1101      bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &amp;
1102      Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
1103      one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
1104      XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
1105      left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
1106      xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
1107      number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
1108      in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
1109      fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation,
1110      xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
1111      code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
1112      line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li>
1113  <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li>
1114  <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li>
1115</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul>
1116  <li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
1117    (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
1118    --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
1119    on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
1120    Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
1121    MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
1122  Jones),</li>
1123  <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
1124    (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
1125    parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
1126  <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
1127    combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
1128    xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
1129    Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
1130    XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV &amp; Kasimier),
1131    xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
1132    xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
1133    vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
1134    split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
1135    xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
1136    HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
1137    exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
1138    totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
1139    xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
1140    Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
1141    XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
1142    fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
1143    (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
1144    runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
1145    (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
1146    compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
1147    xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, more XPath
1148    pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
1149  <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
1150    Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
1151    transition bug in regexps, ctxt-&gt;standalone = -2 to indicate no
1152    standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
1153    (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
1154    (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
1155    htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li>
1156  <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
1157    function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li>
1158</ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul>
1159  <li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
1160  <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
1161    CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
1162    XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
1163    output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
1164    XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
1165    (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
1166  <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
1167    XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
1168    derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
1169  <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
1170    devhelp.</li>
1171</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul>
1172  <li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
1173    convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
1174    sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
1175    on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
1176    Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
1177    compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
1178    Z/OS,</li>
1179  <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
1180    bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
1181    htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
1182    Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
1183    xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
1184    foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
1185    Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
1186    namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
1187    (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
1188    xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
1189    messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
1190    fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
1191    Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
1192    serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
1193    XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
1194    Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
1195    type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
1196    xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
1197    error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
1198    xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
1199  bugs.</li>
1200  <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
1201    (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
1202    (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
1203    not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
1204    error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
1205    yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
1206    for text nodes allocation.</li>
1207  <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
1208</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul>
1209  <li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
1210    Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
1211    andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
1212    pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
1213    of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
1214    compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
1215    distribution.</li>
1216  <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
1217    HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
1218    overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
1219    (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
1220    (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
1221    on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
1222    exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
1223    Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
1224    QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
1225    (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
1226    Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
1227    Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
1228    areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
1229  (William).</li>
1230  <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
1231    conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
1232    Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
1233    Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
1234    (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
1235    xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
1236    standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
1237    xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
1238    xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
1239    Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
1240    ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
1241    standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
1242    xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
1243    Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
1244</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul>
1245  <li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
1246    Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
1247    5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
1248    Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
1249  <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
1250    code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
1251    Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
1252    segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
1253    (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
1254    HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
1255    leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
1256    encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
1257    gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
1258    switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
1259    serialization time</li>
1260  <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
1261    checking and also mixed handling.</li>
1262  <li></li>
1263</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul>
1264  <li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
1265    Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
1266    some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
1267  <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
1268    xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
1269    reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
1270    saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
1271    fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
1272    (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
1273    xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
1274    FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
1275    xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
1276    empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
1277    (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
1278    Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
1279    (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
1280    xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
1281  <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
1282    hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
1283    subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
1284    values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
1285  Stansvik),</li>
1286  <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
1287</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul>
1288  <li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
1289    maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
1290    (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
1291    (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
1292    McNichol)</li>
1293  <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
1294    to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
1295    ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
1296    warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
1297    UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
1298    push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
1299    Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
1300    patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
1301    sometimes missing.</li>
1302  <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
1303    (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
1304    (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
1305    serialize().</li>
1306  <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
1307    the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
1308    Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
1309    (Phil Shafer)</li>
1310  <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
1311  (William).</li>
1312</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul>
1313  <li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
1314    automated regression testing</li>
1315  <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
1316  <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
1317    conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
1318    Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
1319  <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
1320    were updated.</li>
1321  <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
1322    Hendricks)</li>
1323</ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul>
1324  <li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
1325  <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
1326    source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
1327  <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
1328    paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
1329    saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
1330    (Malcolm), save back &lt;group&gt; in catalogs (William), tree build
1331    fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
1332    on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
1333    by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
1334    entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
1335    (William).</li>
1336  <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
1337    module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
1338    Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
1339</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul>
1340  <li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
1341    without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &amp;
1342    Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
1343  <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
1344    Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
1345    transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
1346    (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
1347    handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
1348    date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
1349    E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
1350  <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
1351    xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
1352    (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
1353    Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
1354    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
1355</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul>
1356  <li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
1357    Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
1358  <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
1359    (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
1360    and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
1361    problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
1362    genrate a serialization loop.</li>
1363  <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
1364    and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
1365  <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
1366</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul>
1367  <li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
1368    Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
1369    Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
1370  <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
1371    (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
1372    Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
1373    (Torkel Lyng)</li>
1374  <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
1375  <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
1376    debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
1377    xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
1378    handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
1379    memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
1380    handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
1381    htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
1382    (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
1383    xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
1384  (William)</li>
1385  <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
1386    (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
1387    xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
1388    to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
1389    tag (William)</li>
1390  <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
1391    schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
1392</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul>
1393  <li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
1394    attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
1395  <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
1396    (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
1397  <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
1398    path on Windows</li>
1399  <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
1400    (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
1401  <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
1402    properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
1403    (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
1404    by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
1405    with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
1406    Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
1407    streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
1408    libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
1409    Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
1410    improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
1411    synchronous behaviour.</li>
1412  <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
1413    namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
1414    test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
1415    XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
1416    Parent and William)</li>
1417  <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
1418    and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
1419    the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
1420</ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul>
1421  <li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
1422  <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
1423  <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
1424    vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
1425    use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
1426  Davis),</li>
1427  <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
1428    (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
1429    xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
1430    escaping, added escaping customization</li>
1431  <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
1432    Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
1433    URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
1434    transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
1435    Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
1436    (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
1437    xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
1438</ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul>
1439  <li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
1440  <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
1441    Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
1442    William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
1443    William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
1444    fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
1445    validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
1446    schemas</li>
1447  <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
1448    save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
1449    Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
1450    dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
1451    clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li>
1452  <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
1453    example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
1454  <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
1455    compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
1456</ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul>
1457  <li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
1458  <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
1459    Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
1460  <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
1461  <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
1462  <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
1463    reference in interleave (William), missing error on &lt;choice&gt;
1464    failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
1465  <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
1466  <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
1467    Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
1468    URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
1469    XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
1470    reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
1471    groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
1472    do not close stderr.</li>
1473  <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
1474  <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
1475  <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
1476    (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
1477    to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
1478    Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
1479</ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul>
1480  <li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
1481  <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
1482  <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
1483  <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
1484  <li>bugfixes: xpath number with  &gt; 19 fractional (William Brack), push
1485    mode with unescaped '&gt;' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
1486    xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
1487    handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
1488  <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
1489  <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
1490</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul>
1491  <li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
1492    William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
1493  <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
1494    (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
1495    (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
1496    Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
1497    XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
1498    isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
1499    entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
1500    &lt;xs:all&gt; fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
1501  <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
1502    (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
1503    --with-minimum configuration.</li>
1504  <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
1505  <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
1506    dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
1507  <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
1508  <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
1509    prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
1510  patch</li>
1511  <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
1512    input.</li>
1513</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul>
1514  <li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
1515    (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
1516    (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
1517    namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
1518    (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
1519    evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
1520    XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
1521    callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
1522  <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
1523    Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
1524  <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
1525    structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
1526  <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
1527    references (William &amp; me), recursion (William)</li>
1528  <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
1529    Mickautsch),</li>
1530  <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
1531  <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
1532  <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
1533  <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
1534    XSLT optimizations.</li>
1535</ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul>
1536  <li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
1537  <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
1538  <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
1539  <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
1540    (Lucas Brasilino)</li>
1541  <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
1542    NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
1543    filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
1544    again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
1545    Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
1546    double inclusion behaviour</li>
1547</ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul>
1548  <li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
1549  <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
1550    Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
1551  <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
1552    (Kenneth Haley)</li>
1553  <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
1554  <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
1555  <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixes</li>
1556  <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
1557  <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
1558    xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
1559    (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
1560    cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
1561    Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
1562    (Daniel Schulman)</li>
1563  <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
1564    namespace change.</li>
1565  <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
1566    namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
1567    based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
1568  <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
1569    constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
1570    when streaming.</li>
1571  <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
1572</ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul>
1573  <li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
1574  <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
1575  <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li>
1576  <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
1577  <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li>
1578  <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
1579  <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li>
1580  <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
1581  <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
1582  <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
1583  <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
1584  functions</li>
1585  <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
1586  <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
1587  <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
1588  <li>HTML serialization for &lt;p&gt; elements (William Brack and me)</li>
1589  <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
1590  <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
1591    --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
1592    serializer)</li>
1593</ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul>
1594  <li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
1595  <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
1596    (William Brack)</li>
1597  <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
1598    Zlatkovic)</li>
1599  <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
1600  <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
1601  <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
1602  Bennett)</li>
1603  <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
1604  <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
1605    (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
1606  <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
1607  <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
1608  <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
1609  <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
1610  <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
1611    Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
1612    XPath errors not reported,  slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
1613</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul>
1614  <li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
1615    of change</li>
1616  <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
1617    a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
1618  <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
1619    text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
1620  <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
1621    provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
1622    allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
1623    immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
1624  <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
1625    intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
1626  available.</li>
1627  <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
1628    easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
1629    consecutive documents.</li>
1630  <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
1631    functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
1632  bindings</li>
1633  <li>a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
1634    Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
1635    make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
1636    extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
1637    algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
1638    access</li>
1639  <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
1640  <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
1641  <li>Parser&lt;-&gt;HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
1642    and charset information if available.</li>
1643  <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
1644    zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
1645  <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
1646  output</li>
1647  <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
1648    convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
1649    Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
1650    Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
1651    warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
1652    'Shard' Konicki)</li>
1653  <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
1654    tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
1655  <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
1656    mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
1657    and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
1658    on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
1659    namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
1660    (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
1661    Derr), high codepoint charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
1662    mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
1663    (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
1664    error handling.</li>
1665  <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
1666    testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
1667    replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
1668    declarations</li>
1669  <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
1670  <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
1671    xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
1672    allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
1673    on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
1674  <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
1675  <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
1676  <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
1677    parser instead.</li>
1678</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul>
1679  <li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
1680  <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
1681</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul>
1682  <li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
1683  <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
1684  <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
1685    on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
1686  <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
1687  <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
1688  <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
1689  <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
1690  <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
1691</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul>
1692  <li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
1693    (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
1694    (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
1695    xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
1696    Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
1697    content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
1698    progressive HTML parser</li>
1699  <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
1700  <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
1701  <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
1702  <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
1703  <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
1704  <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
1705  <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
1706  <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
1707  Brack)</li>
1708</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul>
1709  <li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
1710    Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
1711    PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
1712    Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
1713    rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
1714    xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
1715  <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
1716  <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
1717  <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
1718  <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
1719    Bidoul)</li>
1720  <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
1721  <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
1722  <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
1723    generator</li>
1724  <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
1725  <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
1726</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul>
1727  <li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
1728    xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
1729  <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
1730  <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
1731  <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
1732  <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
1733    (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
1734    and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
1735    behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
1736    error conditions</li>
1737  <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
1738    allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
1739    accordingly.</li>
1740  <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
1741    xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
1742  <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
1743  <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
1744</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul>
1745  <li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
1746    binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
1747  <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
1748    XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
1749    Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
1750  <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
1751  <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
1752  <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
1753    errors</li>
1754</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul>
1755  <li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
1756    DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
1757  <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
1758  <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
1759  <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
1760    conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
1761  <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
1762  <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
1763</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul>
1764  <li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
1765    implementation</li>
1766  <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
1767  <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
1768    namespaces,
1769    <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
1770    generation problem.</p>
1771  </li>
1772  <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
1773  <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
1774  <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
1775</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul>
1776  <li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
1777    version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
1778  <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
1779    serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
1780  serialization</li>
1781  <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
1782</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul>
1783  <li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
1784  <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
1785  <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
1786    delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
1787    XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
1788    consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
1789  namespaces</li>
1790  <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
1791  <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
1792    patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
1793  <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
1794  <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
1795    (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
1796  <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
1797</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul>
1798  <li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
1799  <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
1800  <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
1801</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul>
1802  <li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
1803    API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
1804  <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
1805  <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
1806  <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
1807    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
1808    and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
1809  <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
1810  (John)</li>
1811  <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
1812  <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
1813  <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
1814  <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
1815  Schroeder)</li>
1816  <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
1817</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul>
1818  <li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
1819  <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
1820    fixes.</li>
1821</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul>
1822  <li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
1823    (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
1824  <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
1825  <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
1826  <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
1827    dump</li>
1828  <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
1829  <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
1830  <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
1831  <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
1832    more information needed for C# bindings</li>
1833</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul>
1834  <li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
1835  <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
1836  <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
1837  <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
1838  <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
1839  <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
1840  <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
1841</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul>
1842  <li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
1843  <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
1844    HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
1845    (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
1846    xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
1847    Pajas), entities processing</li>
1848  <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
1849  <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
1850  <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
1851    better thread support on Windows</li>
1852  <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
1853  <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
1854</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul>
1855  <li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
1856  <li>Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
1857    HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
1858  problems</li>
1859</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul>
1860  <li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
1861    tree, xmlI/O,  Html</li>
1862  <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
1863  <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
1864    and improvement of the regexp core</li>
1865  <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
1866  <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
1867    Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
1868  <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
1869    APIs</li>
1870  <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
1871  <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
1872  <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
1873  Merlet)</li>
1874  <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
1875  <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
1876  <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
1877</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul>
1878  <li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
1879  <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
1880    (fcrozat)</li>
1881  <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
1882  <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
1883  <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
1884  <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
1885  <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
1886</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul>
1887  <li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
1888  <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
1889  <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
1890  <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
1891  <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
1892    Peter Jacobi</li>
1893  <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
1894    HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
1895  <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
1896</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul>
1897  <li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
1898    usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
1899    indentation, URI parsing</li>
1900  <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
1901    protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
1902  <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
1903  <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
1904  datatypes</li>
1905</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
1906Schemas <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
1907interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
1908progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
1909it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
1910</p><ul>
1911  <li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
1912  <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
1913  <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
1914  Jinks</li>
1915  <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
1916  <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
1917</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul>
1918  <li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
1919  <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
1920  <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
1921    libxml.m4</li>
1922</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul>
1923  <li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
1924    encoder</li>
1925  <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
1926  <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
1927  <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
1928</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul>
1929  <li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
1930  XPath</li>
1931  <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
1932  <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
1933  <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
1934  <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
1935</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul>
1936  <li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
1937  XPath"</li>
1938  <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
1939    regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
1940  <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
1941</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul>
1942  <li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
1943    from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
1944  <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
1945</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul>
1946  <li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
1947  <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
1948  <li>Includes cleanup</li>
1949</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul>
1950  <li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
1951    License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
1952    confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
1953  <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
1954    complete</li>
1955  <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
1956    manipulations</li>
1957  <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
1958  XML</li>
1959</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul>
1960  <li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
1961  <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
1962  <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
1963    Narojnyi</li>
1964  <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
1965  <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
1966</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul>
1967  <li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
1968    XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
1969  (robert)</li>
1970  <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
1971  <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
1972</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul>
1973  <li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
1974    cleanups</li>
1975  <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
1976  <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
1977  <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
1978</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul>
1979  <li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
1980  <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
1981  <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
1982  <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
1983    --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
1984  <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
1985  <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
1986</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul>
1987  <li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
1988  <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
1989</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul>
1990  <li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
1991  tool</li>
1992  <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
1993</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul>
1994  <li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
1995  <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
1996  <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
1997    and regression tests</li>
1998  <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
1999  <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
2000  <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
2001  <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
2002  <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
2003  <li>general bug fixes</li>
2004  <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
2005  <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
2006</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul>
2007  <li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
2008  <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
2009  <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
2010  <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
2011  <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
2012  <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
2013</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul>
2014  <li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
2015  <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
2016    version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
2017</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul>
2018  <li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
2019    portability fixes</li>
2020</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul>
2021  <li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
2022  Catalog</li>
2023  <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
2024  <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
2025</ul><h3>2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001</h3><ul>
2026  <li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
2027  <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
2028  <li>A few bug fixes</li>
2029</ul><h3>2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001</h3><ul>
2030  <li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
2031  <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
2032  <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
2033  <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
2034  <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
2035  <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
2036</ul><h3>2.4.1:  July 24 2001</h3><ul>
2037  <li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
2038  <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
2039  <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
2040  <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
2041  <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
2042</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul>
2043  <li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
2044  <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
2045    regression tests</li>
2046  <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
2047</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul>
2048  <li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
2049    substituting them</li>
2050  <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
2051    substantially faster</li>
2052  <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
2053  <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
2054  <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
2055  <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
2056</ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul>
2057  <li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
2058  <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
2059</ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul>
2060  <li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
2061  <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
2062</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul>
2063  <li>lots of cleanup</li>
2064  <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
2065  <li>fixed line number counting</li>
2066  <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
2067  <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
2068  <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
2069    miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
2070    optimizer on Tru64</li>
2071  <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
2072    compilation on Windows MSC</li>
2073  <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
2074  <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
2075</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul>
2076  <li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
2077    problems (alpha)</li>
2078  <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
2079    handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
2080  <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
2081  <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
2082    parser</li>
2083  <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
2084    node selection)</li>
2085  <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
2086  <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
2087  <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
2088  <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
2089</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul>
2090  <li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
2091  <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
2092    XInclude processing</li>
2093  <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
2094</ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
2095</p><ul>
2096  <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom</li>
2097  <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
2098  <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
2099  <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
2100  <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
2101  <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
2102    xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
2103  <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
2104  <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
2105  <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
2106  <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
2107  <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
2108  <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
2109  <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
2110</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul>
2111  <li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
2112</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul>
2113  <li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
2114  <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
2115  <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
2116    point portability issue</li>
2117  <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
2118    DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
2119  <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
2120  <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
2121  <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
2122  <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
2123</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul>
2124  <li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
2125  <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
2126  <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
2127  <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
2128  <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
2129  <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
2130  <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
2131  <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
2132  <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
2133  <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
2134</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul>
2135  <li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
2136    cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
2137  <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
2138  <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
2139    trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
2140    them</li>
2141  <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
2142    problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
2143    broken ...</li>
2144</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul>
2145  <li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
2146    there is some new APIs for this too</li>
2147  <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
2148  52299)</li>
2149  <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
2150</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul>
2151  <li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
2152  <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
2153    size to be application tunable.</li>
2154  <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
2155    should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
2156  <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
2157    parser</li>
2158  <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
2159  <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
2160  <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
2161  <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
2162    are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
2163</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul>
2164  <li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
2165  <li>documentation cleanups</li>
2166  <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
2167  <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
2168</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul>
2169  <li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
2170  <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
2171  <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
2172  <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
2173</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul>
2174  <li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
2175  <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
2176    implementation</li>
2177  <li>A few bug fixes</li>
2178</ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul>
2179  <li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
2180  <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
2181    XSLT</li>
2182  <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
2183  <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
2184  <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
2185  <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
2186  <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
2187  libxml2-devel</li>
2188  <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
2189  <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
2190  <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
2191  <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
2192  <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
2193</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul>
2194  <li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
2195  <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
2196  <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
2197  <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
2198  <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
2199</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul>
2200  <li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
2201  <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
2202  <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
2203  <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
2204  <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
2205</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul>
2206  <li>erroneous release :-(</li>
2207</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul>
2208  <li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
2209    support</li>
2210  <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
2211  <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
2212  <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
2213  <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
2214  <li>some other bug fixes</li>
2215</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul>
2216  <li>added message redirection</li>
2217  <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
2218  <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
2219  <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
2220  <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
2221</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul>
2222  <li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
2223    those</li>
2224  <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
2225  <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
2226  <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
2227    normalization)</li>
2228  <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
2229  <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
2230</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul>
2231  <li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
2232  <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
2233    tests</li>
2234  <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
2235    and release</li>
2236  <li>Late validation fixes</li>
2237  <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
2238  <li>added memory management docs</li>
2239  <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
2240</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul>
2241  <li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
2242  <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
2243  <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
2244</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul>
2245  <li>bug fixes</li>
2246  <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
2247  <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
2248    checked too</li>
2249  <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
2250    works smoothly now.</li>
2251</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul>
2252  <li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
2253</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul>
2254  <li>mostly bug fixes</li>
2255  <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
2256</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul>
2257  <li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
2258  <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
2259  <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
2260  <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
2261    allocation routines</li>
2262</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul>
2263  <li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
2264  <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
2265    encoded in UTF-8)</li>
2266  <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
2267  <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
2268  <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
2269  <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
2270  <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
2271  <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
2272    support</a></li>
2273</ul><h3>1.8.9:  July 9 2000</h3><ul>
2274  <li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
2275  <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
2276    rpmfind users problem</li>
2277</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul>
2278  <li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
2279  <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
2280</ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul>
2281  <li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
2282    to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
2283    about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
2284  <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
2285    also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
2286    <ul>
2287      <li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
2288      <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
2289      <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
2290      <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
2291        related problems</li>
2292      <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
2293      <li>lot of various fixes</li>
2294    </ul>
2295  </li>
2296</ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul>
2297  <li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
2298    idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
2299    scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
2300    workload.</li>
2301  <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
2302    $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
2303    <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
2304    <p>instead of</p>
2305    <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
2306  </li>
2307  <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
2308  <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
2309    dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
2310  <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
2311    <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
2312    package</li>
2313  <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
2314    specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
2315    xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
2316    parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
2317  <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
2318    number of the libxml module in use</li>
2319  <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
2320    configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
2321</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul>
2322  <li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
2323  <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org
2324    FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
2325  RPMs</li>
2326  <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
2327    available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
2328  <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
2329    of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
2330    <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
2331  <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
2332  <li>the updates includes:
2333    <ul>
2334      <li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
2335        handled now</li>
2336      <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
2337        and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
2338      <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
2339      <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
2340      <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
2341        structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
2342    </ul>
2343  </li>
2344  <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
2345    OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
2346    encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
2347    head version.</li>
2348</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul>
2349  <li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
2350  <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
2351    libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
2352    that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
2353    default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
2354    old code.</li>
2355  <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt;  &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
2356    avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
2357  <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
2358    compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
2359  <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
2360  URIs</li>
2361</ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul>
2362  <li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
2363    it without troubles</li>
2364</ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul>
2365  <li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the
2366    XML spec)</li>
2367  <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
2368  <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
2369    to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
2370  <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
2371    gnumeric soon</li>
2372</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul>
2373  <li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
2374  <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
2375  <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
2376  <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
2377</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul>
2378  <li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
2379  <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
2380  <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
2381  <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
2382  <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
2383  <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
2384  <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
2385    xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
2386  <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
2387</ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul>
2388  <li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
2389    for good this time</li>
2390  <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
2391    xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
2392    xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
2393  <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
2394</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul>
2395  <li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
2396    the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
2397  <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
2398  <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
2399    and more specifically the Dia application</li>
2400  <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
2401    Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
2402  <li>fixed a bug in</li>
2403</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul>
2404  <li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
2405  <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
2406    not crash, whatever the input !</li>
2407  <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
2408    dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
2409    configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
2410  <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
2411  <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
2412    does entities escaping by default.</li>
2413</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul>
2414  <li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
2415  <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
2416  <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
2417  <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
2418</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul>
2419  <li>portability problems fixed</li>
2420  <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
2421    were it's not available, fixed</li>
2422</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul>
2423  <li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
2424    1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
2425    is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
2426    on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
2427    <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
2428  <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
2429    leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
2430</ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul>
2431  <li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
2432  <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
2433    like callback</li>
2434  <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
2435  <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
2436  <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
2437    implementation</li>
2438  <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
2439</ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
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