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90<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
91for a really accurate description</h3>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +000092<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
93to test those</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +000094<ul><li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
95 Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +000096</li></ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +000097<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
98<ul>
99<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
100 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000101 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000102<li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
103 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
104<li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
105<li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
106 datatypes</li>
107</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000108<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
109<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
110Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
111interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
112progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000113it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000114<ul>
115<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
116<li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
117<li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
118 Jinks</li>
119<li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
120<li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
121</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000122<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
123<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000124<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000125<li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
126<li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
127 libxml.m4</li>
128</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000129<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
130<ul>
131<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
132 encoder</li>
133<li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
Daniel Veillardb2fb8ed2002-04-01 09:33:12 +0000134<li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000135<li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
136</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000137<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
138<ul>
139<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000140 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000141<li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
142<li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
143<li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
144<li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
145</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000146<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000147<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000148<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
149 XPath&quot;</li>
150<li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
151 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000152<li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000153</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000154<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
155<ul>
156<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
157 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
158<li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
159</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000160<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
161<ul>
162<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
163<li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
164<li>Includes cleanup</li>
165</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000166<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
167<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000168<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
169 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
170 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000171<li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
172 complete</li>
173<li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
174 manipulations</li>
175<li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
176 XML</li>
177</ul>
178<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000179<ul>
180<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
181<li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
182<li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
183 Narojnyi</li>
184<li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
185<li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
186</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000187<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
188<ul>
189<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
190 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
191 (robert)</li>
192<li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
193<li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
194</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000195<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
196<ul>
197<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
198 cleanups</li>
199<li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
200<li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
201<li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
202</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000203<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
204<ul>
205<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
206<li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
207<li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
208<li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
209 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
210<li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
211<li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
212</ul>
213<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
214<ul>
215<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
216<li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
217</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000218<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
219<ul>
220<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
221 tool</li>
222<li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
223</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000224<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
225<ul>
226<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
227<li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
228<li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
229 and regression tests</li>
230<li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
231<li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
232<li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
233<li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
234<li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
235<li>general bug fixes</li>
236<li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
237<li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
238</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000239<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
240<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000241<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000242<li>portability and configure fixes</li>
243<li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
244<li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000245<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000246<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
247</ul>
248<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
249<ul>
250<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
251<li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
252 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
253</ul>
254<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
255<ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
256 portability fixes</li></ul>
257<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
258<ul>
259<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
260 Catalog</li>
261<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
262<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
263</ul>
264<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
265<ul>
266<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
267<li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
268<li>A few bug fixes</li>
269</ul>
270<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
271<ul>
272<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
273<li>lot of bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000274<li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000275<li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
276<li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
277<li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
278</ul>
279<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
280<ul>
281<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
282<li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
283<li>extension of the XPath API</li>
284<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
285<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
286</ul>
287<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
288<ul>
289<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000290<li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000291 regression tests</li>
292<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
293</ul>
294<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
295<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000296<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
297 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000298<li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000299 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000300<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
301<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
302<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000303<li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000304</ul>
305<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
306<ul>
307<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
308<li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
309</ul>
310<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
311<ul>
312<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
313<li>Small Makefile fix</li>
314</ul>
315<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
316<ul>
317<li>lots of cleanup</li>
318<li>a couple of validation fix</li>
319<li>fixed line number counting</li>
320<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
321<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
322<li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
323 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
324 optimizer on Tru64</li>
325<li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
326 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
327<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
328<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
329</ul>
330<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
331<ul>
332<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
333 problems (alpha)</li>
334<li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
335 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
336<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
337<li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
338 parser</li>
339<li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
340 node selection)</li>
341<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
342<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
343<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
344<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
345</ul>
346<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
347<ul>
348<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
349<li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
350 XInclude processing</li>
351<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
352</ul>
353<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
354<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
355<ul>
356<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000357<li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000358<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000359<li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000360<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
361<li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
362 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
363<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
364<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
365<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
366<li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
367<li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
368<li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
369<li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
370</ul>
371<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
372<ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li></ul>
373<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
374<ul>
375<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
376<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
377<li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
378 point portability issue</li>
379<li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
380 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
381<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
382<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
383<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
384<li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
385</ul>
386<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
387<ul>
388<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000389<li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000390<li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
391<li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000392<li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000393<li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000394<li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000395<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
396<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
397<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
398</ul>
399<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
400<ul>
401<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
402 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
403<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
404<li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
405 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
406 them</li>
407<li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
408 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
409 broken ...</li>
410</ul>
411<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
412<ul>
413<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
414 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
415<li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
416 52299)</li>
417<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
418</ul>
419<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
420<ul>
421<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
422<li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
423 size to be application tunable.</li>
424<li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
425 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
426<li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
427 parser</li>
428<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
429<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
430<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
431<li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000432 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000433</ul>
434<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
435<ul>
436<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
437<li>documentation cleanups</li>
438<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
439<li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
440</ul>
441<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
442<ul>
443<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
444<li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
445<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
446<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
447</ul>
448<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
449<ul>
450<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
451<li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
452 implementation</li>
453<li>A few bug fixes</li>
454</ul>
455<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
456<ul>
457<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
458<li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
459 XSLT</li>
460<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
461<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
462<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
463<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
464<li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
465 libxml2-devel</li>
466<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
467<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
468<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
469<li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000470<li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000471</ul>
472<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
473<ul>
474<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
475<li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
476<li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
477<li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
478<li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
479</ul>
480<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
481<ul>
482<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
483<li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
484<li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
485<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
486<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
487</ul>
488<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
489<ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li></ul>
490<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
491<ul>
492<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
493 support</li>
494<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
495<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
496<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
497<li>added an URI escaping function</li>
498<li>some other bug fixes</li>
499</ul>
500<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
501<ul>
502<li>added message redirection</li>
503<li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
504<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
505<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
506<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
507</ul>
508<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
509<ul>
510<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
511 those</li>
512<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
513<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
514<li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
515 normalization)</li>
516<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
517<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
518</ul>
519<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
520<ul>
521<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
522<li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
523 tests</li>
524<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
525 and release</li>
526<li>Late validation fixes</li>
527<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
528<li>added memory management docs</li>
529<li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
530</ul>
531<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
532<ul>
533<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
534<li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
535<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
536</ul>
537<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
538<ul>
539<li>bug fixes</li>
540<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
541<li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
542 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000543<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000544 works smoothly now.</li>
545</ul>
546<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
547<ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li></ul>
548<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
549<ul>
550<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
551<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
552</ul>
553<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
554<ul>
555<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
556<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
557<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
558<li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
559 allocation routines</li>
560</ul>
561<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
562<ul>
563<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
564<li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
565 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
566<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
567<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
568<li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
569<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
570<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
571<li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
572 support</a>
573</li>
574</ul>
575<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
576<ul>
577<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
578<li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
579 rpmfind users problem</li>
580</ul>
581<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
582<ul>
583<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
584<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
585</ul>
586<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
587<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000588<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
589 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000590 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
591<li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
592 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
593 <ul>
594<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
595<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
596<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000597<li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000598 related problems</li>
599<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
600<li>lot of various fixes</li>
601</ul>
602</li>
603</ul>
604<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
605<ul>
606<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000607 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
608 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000609 workload.</li>
610<li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
611 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
612 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
613<p>instead of</p>
614<pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
615</li>
616<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
617<li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
618 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
619<li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
620 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
621 package</li>
622<li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
623 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
624 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
625 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
626<li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
627 number of the libxml module in use</li>
628<li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
629 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
630</ul>
631<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
632<ul>
633<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
634<li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
635 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
636 RPMs</li>
637<li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
638 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000639<li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
640 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
641 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000642</li>
643<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
644<li>the updates includes:
645 <ul>
646<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
647 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000648<li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000649 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
650<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000651<li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000652<li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000653 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000654</ul>
655</li>
656<li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000657 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000658 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
659 head version.</li>
660</ul>
661<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
662<ul>
663<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
664<li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
665 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
666 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
667 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
668 old code.</li>
669<li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
670 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
671<li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
672 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
673<li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
674 URIs</li>
675</ul>
676<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
677<ul><li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
678 it without troubles</li></ul>
679<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
680<ul>
681<li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the
682 XML spec)</li>
683<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
684<li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
685 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
686<li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
687 gnumeric soon</li>
688</ul>
689<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
690<ul>
691<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
692<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
693<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
694<li>added newDocFragment()</li>
695</ul>
696<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
697<ul>
698<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
699<li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000700<li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000701<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
702<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
703<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
704<li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
705 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
706<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
707</ul>
708<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
709<ul>
710<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
711 for good this time</li>
712<li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
713 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
714 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
715<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
716</li>
717</ul>
718<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
719<ul>
720<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
721 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
722<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
723<li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
724 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
725<li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
726 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
727<li>fixed a bug in</li>
728</ul>
729<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
730<ul>
731<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
732<li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
733 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
734<li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
735 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
736 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
737<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000738<li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
739 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000740</ul>
741<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
742<ul>
743<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
744<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
745<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
746<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
747</ul>
748<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
749<ul>
750<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000751<li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000752 were it's not available, fixed</li>
753</ul>
754<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
755<ul>
756<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
757 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
758 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
759 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
760 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
761<li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
762 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
763</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000764<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000765<ul>
766<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
767<li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
768 like callback</li>
769<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
770<li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
771<li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
772 implementation</li>
773<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
774</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000775<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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