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diff --git a/third_party/libxml/src/NEWS b/third_party/libxml/src/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdfdda6 --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/libxml/src/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,2006 @@ + + NEWS file for libxml2 + + Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at: + http://xmlsoft.org/news.html + +Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want +to help those - More testing on RelaxNG + - Finishing up XML + Schemas + +The change log at +ChangeLog.html + describes the recents commits +to the SVN at +http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/ + code base.Here is the list of public releases: +2.7.6: Oct 6 2009: + - Bug Fixes: + Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko), + URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard), + Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher) + + + +2.7.5: Sep 24 2009: + - Bug Fixes: + Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko), + Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards), + 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard), + link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat), + 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard) + + - Cleanup: + Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard) + + + +2.7.4: Sep 10 2009: + - Improvements: + Switch to GIT (GNOME), + Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard) + + - Portability: + 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard), + 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard), + Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards), + Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith), + Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard), + Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary), + Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice), + Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary), + 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard), + 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard), + Fix windows build (Rob Richards), + 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard), + xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard), + Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard), + Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN), + Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard), + Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron), + fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey), + fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher) + + - Documentation: + 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov), + Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard), + Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard), + 560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard), + Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard), + updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre), + more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard) + + - Bug fixes: + 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD), + Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard), + 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard), + 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard), + 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard), + 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard), + 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard), + 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard), + 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard), + 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard), + 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard), + 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard), + Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard), + Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann), + 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel), + 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull), + Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard), + Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam), + 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler), + 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard), + 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard), + 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard), + 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard), + 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost), + 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard), + 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard), + 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard), + 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard), + Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard), + Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer), + 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard), + 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard), + 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard), + 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard), + 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard), + 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard), + 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard), + 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard), + 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard), + 574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer), + Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard), + 585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen), + 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs), + Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs), + Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos), + 576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky), + Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre), + Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas), + Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk), + Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard), + potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering), + Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), + Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), + reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard), + use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards), + 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch), + 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev), + 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson), + 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner), + do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards), + 564217 fix structured error handling problems, + reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards), + xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard), + add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker), + avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya) + + - Cleanup: + Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard), + A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), + Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), + Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), + Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard), + Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard), + 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard), + 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard), + Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard), + Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard), + Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard), + hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey), + 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack), + cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya) + + + +2.7.3: Jan 18 2009: + - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included. + - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes, + indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards), + xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn), + xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker), + avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann), + deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott). + - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk), + limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal + APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards), + add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions + parameters checking (Marcus Meissner). + + +2.7.2: Oct 3 2008: + - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation + if XPath is not configured in + - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour + when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing + bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat) + + - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as + XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents + + +2.7.1: Sep 1 2008: + - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both) + - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner + case handking and leaks (Martin) + - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees + - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers + + +2.7.0: Aug 30 2008: + - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and + xmlParserCleanup docs + - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC + porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg), + non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber) + + - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free + (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob + Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML + parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader + tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix + (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown + when encoder cant serialize characters on output + - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output + (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups, + serious cleanup of the entity handling code + - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags + for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986, + add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer), + new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work), + improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better + regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms + to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make + arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option + + +2.6.32: Apr 8 2008: + - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang), + trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement + (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation, + XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts) + - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with + paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback + patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack), + SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan), + regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the + document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack), + writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding + detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari + team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing + (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily + Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem, + allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation + problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in + the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many + out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes + (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding + conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName + functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities + (Mark Rowe) + - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless + mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo + Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need + a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon), + cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build + fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards), + duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports + (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst) + - improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling + (Tobias Minich) + + +2.6.31: Jan 11 2008: + - Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing + - Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix + xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash + (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel), + XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in + xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type + parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if + deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt), + HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib + output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash + (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars. + + - Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste + copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder), + some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr) + - Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack), + testURI --debug option, + + +2.6.30: Aug 23 2007: + - Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes + (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz) + - Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when + reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas + xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem + (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment + detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata + generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import + problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling + (William Brack) + + +2.6.29: Jun 12 2007: + - Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi, + fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X + (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading + improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions, + new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill) + - Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, + - Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind' + flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \, + htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in + typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix + (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack), + nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo), + xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon), + XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set + sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl + dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding + error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash, + workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes, + invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before + internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in + the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. MannsÃ¥ker) + - Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones), + embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) + + +2.6.28: Apr 17 2007: + - Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too + (James Dennett) + - Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage + (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion + on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath + principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint + (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day), + standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut + for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes + (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William), + concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char + in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in + python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error + (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel), + XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William), + fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with + min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day) + - Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public + - Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William), + __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib + (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher), + Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke) + - Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes + + +2.6.27: Oct 25 2006: + - Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, + Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), + AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive + - improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization + (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node + equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest + improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib + support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs + (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob + Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring + of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to + python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), + try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri, + add --html --memory case to xmllint + - building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, + const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen), + portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter + Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python + shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds + (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix + --with-minimum --with-schemas builds + - bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and + attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, + xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier), + missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes + (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style + serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in + xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate + allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards), + fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation + crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation + when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when + using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity + context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content + autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling, + fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content + validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute + XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug + in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML + meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, + HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values, + htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in + xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in + htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer), + bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot) + + - documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik), + fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for + xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few + functions + + +2.6.26: Jun 6 2006: + - portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation + error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia) + - bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in + xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), + variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob + Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath + leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of + selfdocument. + - improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object + cache(Kasimier) + + +2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:: +Do not use or package 2.6.25 +2.6.24: Apr 28 2006: + - Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows + (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher), + HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1 + cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on + Windows (Roland Schwingel). + + - Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier + Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01. + - Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext() + on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming + bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV & + Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier), + one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid, + XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug + left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole), + xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large + number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug + in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas + fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, + xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed + code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady), + line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). + - Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert). + - New features: Relax NG structure error handlers. + + +2.6.23: Jan 5 2006: + - portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows + (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas), + --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix + on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by + Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin), + MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick + Jones), + - code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose + (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring + parsing code (Bjorn Reese) + - bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack), + combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in + xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo + Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik), + XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier), + xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in + xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of + vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF + split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in + xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards), + HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier), + exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype + totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an + xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi + Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix + XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier), + fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml + (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of + runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs + (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair), + compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on + xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath + pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier) + - improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier + Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted + transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no + standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors() + (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API + (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add + htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards), + - documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save + function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik), + + +2.6.22: Sep 12 2005: + - build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul) + - bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i, + CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc, + XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some + output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style + XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD + (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik) + - improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add + XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for + derive (Kasimier Buchcik). + - documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with + devhelp. + + +2.6.21: Sep 4 2005: + - build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling + convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus' + sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings + on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the + Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko), + compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on + Z/OS, + - bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8 + bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack), + htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64 + Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all, + xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas + foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov + Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml: + namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas + (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William), + xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error + messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to + fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob + Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 + serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem, + XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek + Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas + type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling, + xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in + error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), + xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns + bugs. + - improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports + (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing + (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though + not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match + error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged + yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option + for text nodes allocation. + - documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated + + +2.6.20: Jul 10 2005: + - build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor + Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and + andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the + pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling + of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack), + compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test + distribution. + - bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack), + HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer + overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup + (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch + (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup + on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in + exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob + Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type + QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug + (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob + Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James + Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections, + areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug + (William). + - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on + conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik, + Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent + Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist + (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of + xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert), + standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs + xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and + xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and + Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too, + ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the + standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William), + xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX + Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support. + + +2.6.19: Apr 02 2005: + - build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William + Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX + 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on + Linux/ELF/gcc4 + - bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return + code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY + Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin), + segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation + (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards), + HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers + leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in + encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if + gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures, + switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at + serialization time + - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets + checking and also mixed handling. + - + + +2.6.18: Mar 13 2005: + - build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, + Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed), + some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones). + - bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and + xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries + reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL + saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths + fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix + (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack), + xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup + FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William), + xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being + empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows + (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent + Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug + (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack), + xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer). + - improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for + hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath + subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical + values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron + Stansvik), + - Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed) + + +2.6.17: Jan 16 2005: + - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), + maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory + (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build + (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan + McNichol) + - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile() + to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak, + ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William), + warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William), + UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in + push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey + Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William), + patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number + sometimes missing. + - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator + (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings + (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call + serialize(). + - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for + the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel + Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format + (Phil Shafer) + - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries + (William). + + +2.6.16: Nov 10 2004: + - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new + automated regression testing + - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli) + - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding + conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by + Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack) + - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion + were updated. + - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent + Hendricks) + + +2.6.15: Oct 27 2004: + - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules + - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the + source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons) + - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python + paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William), + saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix + (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build + fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler + on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported + by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset, + entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error + (William). + - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging + module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham + Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser. + + +2.6.14: Sep 29 2004: + - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation + without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack & + Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry), + - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier + Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x + transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes + (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc), + handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas + date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS + E20 validation fix (Malcolm), + - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add + xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy + (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm + Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation, + xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik) + + +2.6.13: Aug 31 2004: + - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc, + Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires, + - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs + (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack + and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace + problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could + genrate a serialization loop. + - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path + and --load-trace options to xmllint + - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck) + + +2.6.12: Aug 22 2004: + - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter + Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert + Chin), some 64bits cleanups. + - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes + (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P. + Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support + (Torkel Lyng) + - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik + - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory + debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner), + xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error + handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows + memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions + handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug, + htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base + (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji), + xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity + (William) + - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool + (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey), + xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude + to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS + tag (William) + - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William) + schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck) + + +2.6.11: July 5 2004: + - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for + attributes, namespaces and simple types. + - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup + (William), --with-thread-alloc (William) + - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog + path on Windows + - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code + (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta), + - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX + properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath + (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed + by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug + with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William), + Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader + streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William), + libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on + Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces + improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to + synchronous behaviour. + - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register + namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression + test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of + XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine + Parent and William) + - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint + and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize + the code generated in the RPM packages. + + +2.6.10: May 17 2004: + - Web page generated for ChangeLog + - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all + - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp + vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not + use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed + Davis), + - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing + (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add + xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization + escaping, added escaping customization + - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William + Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader, + URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp + transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier + Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD + (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse + xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"' + + +2.6.9: Apr 18 2004: + - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking + - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave + Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with + William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with + William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate + fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD + validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention + schemas + - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting + save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian + Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM + dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal + clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs + - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new + example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments, + - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft + compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc) + + +2.6.8: Mar 23 2004: + - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs + - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam + Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte) + - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico) + - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William) + - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external + reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> + failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets. + - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch) + - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William + Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to + URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), + XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug + reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char + groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems, + do not close stderr. + - performance patches from Petr Pajas + - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey) + - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups + (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation + to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino + Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher) + + +2.6.7: Feb 23 2004: + - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results + - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino) + - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas) + - DTD ID handling optimization + - bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push + mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix + xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent + handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface. + - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick) + - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell + + +2.6.6: Feb 12 2004: + - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and + William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi + - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization + (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation + (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg + Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), + XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, + isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter + entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, + <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev) + - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal + (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix + --with-minimum configuration. + - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning. + - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version + dependancies (John Fleck) + - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball) + - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function + prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ + patch + - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in + input. + + +2.6.5: Jan 25 2004: + - Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault + (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes + (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with + namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes + (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union + evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), + XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument + callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters) + - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John + Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example. + - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul), + structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul) + - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary + references (William & me), recursion (William) + - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred + Mickautsch), + - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte) + - code cleanup for strings functions (William) + - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc) + - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future + XSLT optimizations. + + +2.6.4: Dec 24 2003: + - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic) + - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and + - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack, + - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix + (Lucas Brasilino) + - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of + NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from + filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable + again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William + Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas + double inclusion behaviour + + +2.6.3: Dec 10 2003: + - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck) + - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji + Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch + - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw + (Kenneth Haley) + - Unicode range checking (William Brack) + - code cleanup (William Brack) + - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes + - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack) + - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), + xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser + (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization + cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William + Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter + (Daniel Schulman) + - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the + namespace change. + - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and + namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples + based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes + - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas + constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument + when streaming. + - various fixes in the structured error handling + + +2.6.2: Nov 4 2003: + - XPath context unregistration fixes + - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback) + - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball) + - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki) + - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin) + - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc) + - stdin parsing fix (William Brack) + - a posteriori DTD validation fixes + - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings + - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors + - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx + functions + - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface + - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option + - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed + - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me) + - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors + - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added + --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML + serializer) + + +2.6.1: Oct 28 2003: + - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes + - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup + (William Brack) + - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor + Zlatkovic) + - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch) + - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul + - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham + Bennett) + - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable + - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities + (Stephane Bidoul) + - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack) + - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0 + - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field + - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara) + - general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing + Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), + XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents. + + +2.6.0: Oct 20 2003: + - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot + of change + - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, + a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes + - Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small + text nodes from the dictionnary + - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, + provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory + allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, + immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc... + - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be + intercepted at a structured level, with precise information + available. + - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to + easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple + consecutive documents. + - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new + functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python + bindings + - a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), + Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, + make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI + extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster + algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer + access + - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch + - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico + - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type + and charset information if available. + - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and + zeroOrMore, better error reporting. + - Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors + output + - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling + convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), + Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), + Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), + warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin + 'Shard' Konicki) + - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), + tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost) + - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized + mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection + and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace + on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), + namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks + (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter + Derr), high codepoint charref like , buffer access in push + mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug + (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP + error handling. + - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat + testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to + replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace + declarations + - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming + - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for + xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less + allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked + on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code. + - cleanup of "make tests" + - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick + - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML + parser instead. + + +2.5.11: Sep 9 2003: +A bugfix only release: - risk of crash in Relax-NG + - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs + + +2.5.10: Aug 15 2003: +A bugfixes only release - Windows Makefiles (William Brack) + - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz) + - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw + on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy) + - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg) + - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe + - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale + - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick + - and a couple other cleanup + + +2.5.9: Aug 9 2003: + - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build + (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading + (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), + xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean + Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed + content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, + progressive HTML parser + - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, ) + - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree + - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck) + - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++ + - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack) + - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi) + - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese) + - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William + Brack) + + +2.5.8: Jul 6 2003: + - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark + Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), + PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg + Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, + rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, + xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick) + - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry) + - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems + - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro) + - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane + Bidoul) + - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements + - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman) + - Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class + generator + - added --nonet option to xmllint + - documentation improvements (John Fleck) + + +2.5.7: Apr 25 2003: + - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the + xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream + - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes + - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance + - Thread support is now configured in by default + - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes + (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser + and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, + behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" + error conditions + - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory + allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations + accordingly. + - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and + xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking + - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation + - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks) + + +2.5.6: Apr 1 2003: + - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for + binHex and base64 which are not supported yet. + - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and + XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML + Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa) + - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings + - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John) + - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG + errors + + +2.5.5: Mar 24 2003: + - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including + DocBook and TEI examples. + - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype + - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer + - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding + conversion, line counting in the parser. + - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete + - Fixed the RPM spec file name + + +2.5.4: Feb 20 2003: + - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude + implementation + - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme + - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on + namespaces, + 2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp + generation problem. + + - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor) + - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas) + - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul) + + +2.5.3: Feb 10 2003: + - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first + version of RelaxNG Python bindings + - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for + serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 + serialization + - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file + + +2.5.2: Feb 5 2003: + - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint + - Schemas support now compiled in by default. + - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, + delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul), + XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory + consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of + namespaces + - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes. + - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc + patches (Stefan Kost) + - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic) + - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting + (Stéphane Bidoul) + - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli) + + +2.5.1: Jan 8 2003: + - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0 + - documentation updates (John) + - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes + + +2.5.0: Jan 6 2003: + - New XmltextReader interface based on C# + API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul) + - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor) + - XInclude fallback fix + - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul), + drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup + and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing) + - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update + (John) + - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura + - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry) + - Entities handling fixes + - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas + Schroeder) + - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines + + +2.4.30: Dec 12 2002: + - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing + - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code + fixes. + + +2.4.29: Dec 11 2002: + - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings + (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates + - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo) + - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke) + - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 + dump + - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers + - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem + - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress) + - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves + more information needed for C# bindings + + +2.4.28: Nov 22 2002: + - a couple of python binding fixes + - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser + - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov) + - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos) + - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text" + - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added + - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack) + + +2.4.27: Nov 17 2002: + - fixes for the Python bindings + - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), + HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support + (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, + xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr + Pajas), entities processing + - added grep to xmllint --shell + - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry + - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), + better thread support on Windows + - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file + - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck) + + +2.4.26: Oct 18 2002: + - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling + - Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , + HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small + problems + + +2.4.25: Sep 26 2002: + - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and + tree, xmlI/O, Html + - Serious rewrite of XInclude + - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix + and improvement of the regexp core + - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs + - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, + Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc) + - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp + APIs + - New logos from Marc Liyanage + - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris + - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe + Merlet) + - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting + - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation + - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese) + +2.4.24: Aug 22 2002 - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra) + - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 + (fcrozat) + - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes + - C14N improvements by Aleksey + - doc cleanups: Rick Jones + - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham + - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added + + +2.4.23: July 6 2002: + - performances patches: Peter Jacobi + - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin + - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio + - new tutorial: John Fleck + - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from + Peter Jacobi + - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and + HTML parsers, ID lookup function + - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin + + +2.4.22: May 27 2002: + - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory + usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), + indentation, URI parsing + - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network + protocol handlers (Aleksey) + - performance patch from Gary Pennington + - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas + datatypes + + +2.4.21: Apr 29 2002: +This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML +Schemas structures at +http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ + and datatypes at +http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ + code, beware, all +interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in +progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, +it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are: - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20 + - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor + - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard + Jinks + - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification + - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn + + +2.4.20: Apr 15 2002: + - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation + - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks + - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, + libxml.m4 + + +2.4.19: Mar 25 2002: + - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 + encoder + - portability fixes in the HTTP code + - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests + - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles + + +2.4.18: Mar 18 2002: + - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, + XPath + - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable + - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles + - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets + - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation + + +2.4.17: Mar 8 2002: + - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in + XPath" + - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more + regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets + - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin + + +2.4.16: Feb 20 2002: + - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite + from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved. + - a couple of portability fixes too. + + +2.4.15: Feb 11 2002: + - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones + - A few bug fixes and cleanup + - Includes cleanup + + +2.4.14: Feb 8 2002: + - Change of License to the MIT + License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing + confusion around the previous dual-licensing + - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite + complete + - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree + manipulations + - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in + XML + + +2.4.13: Jan 14 2002: + - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman + - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher + - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei + Narojnyi + - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins + - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg + + +2.4.12: Dec 7 2001: + - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), + XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups + (robert) + - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS + - some makefiles cleanups + + +2.4.11: Nov 26 2001: + - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code + cleanups + - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp + - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham + - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor + + +2.4.10: Nov 10 2001: + - URI escaping fix (Joel Young) + - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation) + - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation + - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and + --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell + - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao + - fixes to the HTML parser + + +2.4.9: Nov 6 2001: + - fixes more catalog bugs + - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo() + + +2.4.8: Nov 4 2001: + - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog + tool + - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles. + + +2.4.7: Oct 30 2001: + - exported some debugging interfaces + - serious rewrite of the catalog code + - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option + and regression tests + - removed an HTML parser bug + - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs + - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint + - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd + - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper + - general bug fixes + - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck + - some VMS and Windows updates + + +2.4.6: Oct 10 2001: + - added an updated man pages by John Fleck + - portability and configure fixes + - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William) + - Windows makefile patches from Igor + - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt + - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs + + +2.4.5: Sep 14 2001: + - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4 + - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some + version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones + + +1.8.16: Sep 14 2001: + - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and + portability fixes + + +2.4.4: Sep 12 2001: + - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML + Catalog + - a few bug fixes and some portability changes + - some documentation cleanups + + +2.4.3: Aug 23 2001: + - XML Catalog support see the doc + - New NaN/Infinity floating point code + - A few bug fixes + + +2.4.2: Aug 15 2001: + - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation + - lot of bug fixes + - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date + - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes + - fixes a serious potential security bug + - added a --format option to xmllint + + +2.4.1: July 24 2001: + - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree + - some computation NaN fixes + - extension of the XPath API + - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets + - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST + + +2.4.0: July 10 2001: + - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling. + - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the + regression tests + - A bit of cleanup + + +2.3.14: July 5 2001: + - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when + substituting them + - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be + substantially faster + - Makefiles and configure cleanups + - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set + - HTML tag closing bug fixed + - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating + + +2.3.13: June 28 2001: + - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser + - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek + + +1.8.14: June 28 2001: + - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode + - Small Makefile fix + + +2.3.12: June 26 2001: + - lots of cleanup + - a couple of validation fix + - fixed line number counting + - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing + - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities + - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 + miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the + optimizer on Tru64 + - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for + compilation on Windows MSC + - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter) + - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code + + +2.3.11: June 17 2001: + - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability + problems (alpha) + - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline + handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code + - added xmlHasNsProp() + - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML + parser + - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces + node selection) + - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code + - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour + - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice + - added --version to xmllint for bug reports + + +2.3.10: June 1 2001: + - fixed the SGML catalog support + - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, + XInclude processing + - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly + + +2.3.9: May 19 2001: +Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström + - some serious speed optimization again + - some documentation cleanups + - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R) + - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer + - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed + xmlValidGetValidElements() + - Added an INSTALL file + - Attribute removal added to API: #54433 + - added a basic support for SGML catalogs + - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API + - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang() + - fixed a small configure portability problem + - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document + + +1.8.13: May 14 2001: + - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome + + +2.3.8: May 3 2001: + - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project + - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser + - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating + point portability issue + - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for + DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron). + - incorporated more Windows cleanup + - added xmlSaveFormatFile() + - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome) + - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module + + +2.3.7: April 22 2001: + - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer + - Non deterministic content model validation support + - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2 + - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags + - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting + - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation + - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack + - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook + - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities + - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese + + +2.3.6: April 8 2001: + - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and + cleared half a dozen potential problem + - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug + - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the + trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing + them + - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation + problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems + broken ... + + +2.3.5: Mar 23 2001: + - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, + there is some new APIs for this too + - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, + 52299) + - Fixed some portability issues + + +2.3.4: Mar 10 2001: + - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861 + - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer + size to be application tunable. + - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part + should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\ + - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 + parser + - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent() + - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting + - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing + - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they + are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance + + +2.3.3: Mar 1 2001: + - small change in XPath for XSLT + - documentation cleanups + - fix in validation by Gary Pennington + - serious parsing performances improvements + + +2.3.2: Feb 24 2001: + - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO + - fixed a Dtd parsing bug + - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent + - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington + + +2.3.1: Feb 15 2001: + - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT + - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 + implementation + - A few bug fixes + + +2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track): + - Lots of XPath bug fixes + - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for + XSLT + - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT) + - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename + - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington + - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization + - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and + libxml2-devel + - the example Makefile is now fixed + - added HTML to the RPM packages + - tree copying bugfixes + - updates to Windows makefiles + - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese + + +2.2.11: Jan 4 2001: + - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...) + - added htmlHandleOmittedElem() + - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch + - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results + - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support + + +2.2.10: Nov 25 2000: + - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8 + - integrate OpenVMS patches + - better handling of some nasty HTML input + - Improved the XPointer implementation + - integrate a number of provided patches + + +2.2.9: Nov 25 2000: + - erroneous release :-( + + +2.2.8: Nov 13 2000: + - First version of XInclude + support + - Patch in conditional section handling + - updated MS compiler project + - fixed some XPath problems + - added an URI escaping function + - some other bug fixes + + +2.2.7: Oct 31 2000: + - added message redirection + - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !) + - xmlIOParseDTD() added + - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support + - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content + + +2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:: + - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to + those + - Fixed a posteriori validation problems + - HTTP module cleanups + - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute + normalization) + - coalescing of adjacent text nodes + - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API + + +2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:: + - XPointer implementation and testsuite + - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more + tests + - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build + and release + - Late validation fixes + - Integrated a lot of contributed patches + - added memory management docs + - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed + + +2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:: + - main XPath problem fixed + - Integrated portability patches for Windows + - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code + + +2.2.3: Sep 17 2000: + - bug fixes + - cleanup of entity handling code + - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been + checked too + - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd + works smoothly now. + + +1.8.10: Sep 6 2000: + - bug fix release for some Gnome projects + + +2.2.2: August 12 2000: + - mostly bug fixes + - started adding routines to access xml parser context options + + +2.2.1: July 21 2000: + - a purely bug fixes release + - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block + - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem + - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory + allocation routines + + +2.2.0: July 14 2000: + - applied a lot of portability fixes + - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always + encoded in UTF-8) + - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings + - added xmlHasProp() + - fixed a serious problem with & + - propagated the fix to FTP client + - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ... + - Added a page about libxml Internationalization + support + + +1.8.9: July 9 2000: + - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better + - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve + rpmfind users problem + + +2.1.1: July 1 2000: + - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging + - improvements on the HTML parser + + +2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000: + - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according + to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem + about & charref parsing + - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it + also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: + added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing + improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs + includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology + tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace + related problems + output to a given encoding has been added/tested + lot of various fixes + + - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing + - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs + - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology + - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace + related problems + - output to a given encoding has been added/tested + - lot of various fixes + + +2.0.0: Apr 12 2000: + - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good + idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially + scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive + workload. + - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of + $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by + #include <libxml/xxx.h> + instead of + #include "xxx.h" + + - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396 + - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded + dynamically by using xmlMemSetup() + - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed + xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2 + package + - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in + specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using + xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a + parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt() + - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version + number of the libxml module in use + - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at + configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug) + + +2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000: + - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2 + - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org + FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and + RPMs + - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is + available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X + - This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point + of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the + upgrade page + - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding). + - the updates includes: + fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly + handled now + Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking + and proper PEref extensions in external subsets + DTD conditional sections + Validation now correctly handle entities content + change + structures to accommodate DOM + + - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly + handled now + - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking + and proper PEref extensions in external subsets + - DTD conditional sections + - Validation now correctly handle entities content + - change + structures to accommodate DOM + - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the + OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that + encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS + head version. + + +1.8.7: Mar 6 2000: + - This is a bug fix release: + - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by + libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note + that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by + default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for + old code. + - Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, + avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\ + - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 + compilation on some platforms has been fixed + - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing + URIs + + +1.8.6: Jan 31 2000: + - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use + it without troubles + + +1.8.5: Jan 21 2000: + - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the + XML spec) + - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no + - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying + to solve the zlib checks problems + - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with + gnumeric soon + + +1.8.4: Jan 13 2000: + - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs() + - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml + - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform + - added newDocFragment() + + +1.8.3: Jan 5 2000: + - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers + - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-) + - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays + - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD + - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef() + - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs() + - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses + xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added + - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff + + +1.8.2: Dec 21 1999: + - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed + for good this time + - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, + xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and + xmlDocSetRootElement + - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey + + +1.8.1: Dec 18 1999: + - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers + the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files + - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected + - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, + and more specifically the Dia application + - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a + Dtd not specified in the original document) + - fixed a bug in + + +1.8.0: Dec 12 1999: + - cleanup, especially memory wise + - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should + not crash, whatever the input ! + - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large + dataset from Carl Nygard, + configure with --with-buffers to enable them. + - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago ! + - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now + does entities escaping by default. + + +1.7.4: Oct 25 1999: + - Lots of HTML improvement + - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML + - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean + - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref + + +1.7.3: Sep 29 1999: + - portability problems fixed + - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system + were it's not available, fixed + + +1.7.1: Sep 24 1999: + - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in + 1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason + is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However + on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a + #define . + - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and + leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro + + +1.7.0: Sep 23 1999: + - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module. + - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf + like callback + - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation + - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module) + - Improvement of XPath + implementation + - Added an HTML parser front-end + +Daniel Veillard at +bugs.html |