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Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +080011to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.1: Apr 19 2013</h3><ul>
12 <li> Features:<br />
13 Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
14 Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)<br />
15 </li>
16
17 <li> Documentation:<br />
18 Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),<br />
19 Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),<br />
20 Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)<br />
21 </li>
22
23 <li> Portability:<br />
24 Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
25 rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),<br />
26 elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br />
27 elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),<br />
28 Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),<br />
29 Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),<br />
30 Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),<br />
31 Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),<br />
32 Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),<br />
33 Fix a portability issue for GCC &lt; 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
34 Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),<br />
35 Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),<br />
36 Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)<br />
37 </li>
38
39 <li> Bug Fixes:<br />
40 Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
41 Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),<br />
42 Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),<br />
43 Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),<br />
44 Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),<br />
45 Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),<br />
46 Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),<br />
47 Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),<br />
48 Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),<br />
49 fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),<br />
50 xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),<br />
51 Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),<br />
52 Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),<br />
53 Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,<br />
54Veillard),<br />
55 Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),<br />
56 When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,<br />
57Veillard),<br />
58 Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),<br />
59 xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,<br />
60Veillard),<br />
61 Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),<br />
62 Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),<br />
63 Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),<br />
64 Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
65 Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,<br />
66Veillard),<br />
67 Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)<br />
68 </li>
69
70 <li> Improvements:<br />
71 Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),<br />
72 Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),<br />
73 update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
74 A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),<br />
75 Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
76 Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
77 First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
78 updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
79 Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),<br />
80 Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),<br />
81 Cache presence of '&lt;' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br />
82 Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
83 Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),<br />
84 Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),<br />
85 Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),<br />
86 Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),<br />
87 Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)<br />
88 </li>
89
90 <li> Cleanups:<br />
91 Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),<br />
92 Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),<br />
93 Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),<br />
94 Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
95 Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),<br />
96 Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,<br />
97Gansterer),<br />
98 Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),<br />
99 Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),<br />
100 Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),<br />
101 rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),<br />
102 Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)<br />
103 </li>
104</ul><h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3><ul>
105 <li> Features:<br />
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800106 A few new API entry points,<br />
107 More resilient push parser mode,<br />
108 A lot of portability improvement,<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800109 Faster XPath evaluation<br />
110 </li>
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800111
112 <li> Documentation:<br />
113 xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),<br />
114 libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800115 More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)<br />
116 </li>
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800117
118 <li> Portability:<br />
119 Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),<br />
120 fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),<br />
121 GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),<br />
122 More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),<br />
123 More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),<br />
124 Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),<br />
125 Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),<br />
126 Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
127 Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
128 Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),<br />
129 clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),<br />
130 use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),<br />
131 fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),<br />
132 Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),<br />
133 Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800134 Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)<br />
135 </li>
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800136
137 <li> Bug Fixes:<br />
138 Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
139 Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
140 Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
141 initialize var (Rob Richards),<br />
142 Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
143 Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),<br />
144 Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
145 Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),<br />
146 Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),<br />
147 Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),<br />
148 Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),<br />
149 Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),<br />
150 Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
151 Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),<br />
152 Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
153 More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
154 Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),<br />
155 Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
156 Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
157 Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
158 Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),<br />
159 Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
160 Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800161 Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)<br />
162 </li>
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800163
164 <li> Improvements:<br />
165 Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),<br />
166 Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),<br />
167 Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),<br />
168 Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),<br />
169 Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),<br />
170 Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),<br />
171 Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br />
172 Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),<br />
173 Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
174 Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),<br />
175 Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),<br />
176 Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),<br />
177 Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),<br />
178 minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),<br />
179 fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),<br />
180 Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),<br />
181 Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),<br />
182 Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
183 Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
184 Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),<br />
185 Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),<br />
186 Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
187 Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),<br />
188 Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
189 Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),<br />
190 Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
191 Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
192 Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),<br />
193 More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),<br />
194 Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
195 first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
196 Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),<br />
197 Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
198 Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),<br />
199 Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),<br />
200 More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
201 Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(),<br /> to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
202 Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
203 Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
204 Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
205 Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),<br />
206 Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
207 New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br />
208 Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),<br />
209 Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
210 Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
211 Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),<br />
212 Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
213 Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
214 Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
215 Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),<br />
216 Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),<br />
217 Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),<br />
218 Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800219 Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)<br />
220 </li>
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800221
222 <li> Cleanups:<br />
223 Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),<br />
224 Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),<br />
225 Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),<br />
226 Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),<br />
227 Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),<br />
228 Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
229 Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),<br />
230 Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
231 Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),<br />
232 Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),<br />
233 Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),<br />
234 Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),<br />
235 Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),<br />
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800236 Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)<br />
237 </li>
238</ul><h3>2.8.0: May 23 2012</h3><ul>
239 <li>Features:
Daniel Veillard38bbd342012-09-11 15:00:08 +0800240 add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
Daniel Veillardc943f702012-05-23 17:10:59 +0800241 </li>
242
243 <li>Documentation:
244 xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),
245 Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
246 URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
247 Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
248 Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
249 Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
250 add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
251 Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
252 Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
253 Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
254 </li>
255
256 <li>Portability:
257 Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
258 Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
259 xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
260 remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
261 undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
262 Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
263 fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
264 prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
265 Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
266 Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
267 fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
268 Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
269 Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
270 autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
271 Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
272 634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
273 599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
274 fix win build (Rob Richards)
275 </li>
276
277 <li>Bug fixes:
278 Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
279 Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
280 Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
281 Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
282 Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
283 Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
284 Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
285 Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
286 HTML parser error with &lt;noscript&gt; in the &lt;head&gt; (Denis Pauk),
287 XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
288 Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
289 Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
290 Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
291 Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
292 Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
293 xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
294 Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
295 Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),
296 Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
297 Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
298 xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
299 HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
300 Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),
301 Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
302 Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
303 Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
304 Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
305 Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
306 Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
307 Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
308 fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
309 fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
310 Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
311 Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
312 Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
313 Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
314 Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
315 Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
316 Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
317 Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
318 Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
319 Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
320 Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
321 __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
322 __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
323 Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
324 Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
325 Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
326 Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
327 Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
328 </li>
329
330 <li>Improvements:
331 use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
332 New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
333 xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
334 Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
335 Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
336 Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
337 wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
338 Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
339 Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
340 Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
341 add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
342 Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
343 Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
344 included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
345 move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
346 add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
347 add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
348 autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
349 Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
350 Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
351 Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
352 testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
353 various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
354 testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
355 runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
356 configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
357 configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
358 xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
359 __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
360 __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
361 </li>
362
363 <li>Cleanups:
364 Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
365 Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
366 Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),
367 autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),
368 Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
369 Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
370 Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
371 Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
372 Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
373 python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
374 python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
375 configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
376 xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
377 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800378</ul><h3>2.7.8: Nov 4 2010</h3><ul>
379 <li> Features:
Daniel Veillard4c2e7c62010-11-04 18:35:57 +0100380 480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
381 Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
382 </li>
383 <li> Documentation:
384 Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
385 Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
386 Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
387 Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
388 </li>
389 <li> Portability:
390 607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
391 614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
392 Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
393 Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
394 </li>
395 <li> Bug Fixes:
396 595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
397 617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
398 616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
399 614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
400 627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
401 629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
402 630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
403 make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
404 Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
405 Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
406 Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
407 Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
408 Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
409 Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
410 Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
411 Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
412 Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
413 xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
414 Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
415 </li>
416 <li> Improvements:
417 606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
418 Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
419 Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
420 </li>
421 <li> Cleanups:
422 618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
423 Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
424 Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
425 Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
426 Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
427 Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
428 Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
429 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800430</ul><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul>
431 <li> Improvements:
Daniel Veillardf61ba8d2010-03-25 10:54:32 +0100432 Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
433 Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
434 </li>
435 <li> Portability:
436 relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
437 Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
438 use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
439 Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
440 Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
441 Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
442 Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
443 Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
444 Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
445 598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
446 </li>
447 <li> Bug Fixes:
448 libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
449 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
450 Fix missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
451 Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
452 fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
453 ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
454 htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
455 Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
456 Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200457 xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
Daniel Veillardf61ba8d2010-03-25 10:54:32 +0100458 608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
459 Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
460 Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
461 Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
462 Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
463 Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
464 Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
465 Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
466 Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
467 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
468 Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
469 xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
470 </li>
471 <li> Cleanups:
472 Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
473 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800474</ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct 6 2009</h3><ul>
475 <li> Bug Fixes:
Daniel Veillard96bb7402009-10-06 18:38:15 +0200476 Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
477 URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
478 Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
479 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800480</ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul>
481 <li> Bug Fixes:
Daniel Veillard7a896ce2009-09-24 18:38:57 +0200482 Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
483 Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
484 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
485 Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
486 Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
487 link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
488 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
489 </li>
490 <li> Cleanup:
491 Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
492 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800493</ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul>
494 <li>Improvements:
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200495 Switch to GIT (GNOME),
496 Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
497 </li>
498 <li>Portability:
499 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
500 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
501 Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
502 Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
503 Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
504 Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
505 Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
506 Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
507 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
508 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
509 Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
510 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
511 xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
512 Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
513 Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
514 Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200515 Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200516 fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
517 fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
518 </li>
519 <li>Documentation:
520 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
521 Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
522 Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200523 560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200524 Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
525 updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
526 more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
527 </li>
528 <li>Bug fixes:
529 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
530 Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
531 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
532 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
533 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
534 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
535 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
536 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
537 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
538 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
539 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
540 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with &lt;&gt; (Daniel Veillard),
541 Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
542 Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
543 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
544 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
545 Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
546 Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
547 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
548 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
549 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
550 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
551 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
552 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
553 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
554 Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
555 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
556 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
557 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
558 Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
559 Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
560 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
561 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
562 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
563 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
564 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
565 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
566 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
567 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
568 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200569 574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200570 Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200571 585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200572 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200573 Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
574 Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
575 576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
576 Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
Daniel Veillard29341682009-09-10 18:23:39 +0200577 Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
578 Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
579 Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
580 potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
581 Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
582 Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
583 Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
584 Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
585 reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
586 use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
587 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
588 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
589 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
590 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
591 do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
592 564217 fix structured error handling problems,
593 reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
594 xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
595 add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
596 avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
597 </li>
598 <li>Cleanup:
599 Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
600 A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
601 Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
602 Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
603 Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
604 Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
605 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
606 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
607 Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
608 Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
609 Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
610 hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
611 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
612 cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
613 </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800614</ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul>
615 <li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li>
Daniel Veillard97ff9b32009-01-18 21:43:30 +0000616 <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
617 indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
618 xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
619 xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
620 avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
621 deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li>
622 <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
623 limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
624 APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
625 add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
626 parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800627</ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul>
628 <li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
Daniel Veillard7f4547c2008-10-03 07:58:23 +0000629 if XPath is not configured in</li>
630 <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
631 when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
632 bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
633 </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
634 XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800635</ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul>
636 <li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li>
Daniel Veillarda7036d92008-09-01 14:50:19 +0000637 <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
638 case handking and leaks (Martin)</li>
639 <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li>
640 <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800641</ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul>
642 <li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
Daniel Veillard15724252008-08-30 15:01:04 +0000643 xmlParserCleanup docs</li>
644 <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
645 porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200646 non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
Daniel Veillard15724252008-08-30 15:01:04 +0000647 </li>
648 <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
649 (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
650 Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
651 parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
652 tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
653 (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
654 when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li>
655 <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
656 (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
657 serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li>
658 <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
659 for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
660 add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
661 new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
662 improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
663 regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
664 to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
665 arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800666</ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul>
667 <li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
Daniel Veillard596da972008-04-08 14:58:41 +0000668 trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
669 (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
670 XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li>
671 <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
672 paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
673 patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
674 SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
675 regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
676 document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
677 writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
678 detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
679 team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
680 (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
681 Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
682 allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
683 problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
684 the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
685 out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
686 (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
687 conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
688 functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
689 (Mark Rowe)</li>
690 <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
691 mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
692 Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
693 a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
694 cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
695 fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
696 duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
697 (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li>
698 <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
699 (Tobias Minich)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800700</ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul>
701 <li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard28b64e22008-01-11 09:07:51 +0000702 <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
703 xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
704 (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
705 XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
706 xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
707 parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
708 deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
709 HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
710 output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash
711 (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
712 </li>
713 <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
714 copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
715 some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li>
716 <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
717 testURI --debug option, </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800718</ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul>
719 <li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
Daniel Veillardc1b3fe02007-08-23 15:00:06 +0000720 (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li>
721 <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
722 reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
723 xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
724 (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
725 detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
726 generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
727 problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
728 (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800729</ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul>
730 <li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
Daniel Veillard38431c32007-06-12 16:20:09 +0000731 fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
732 (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
733 improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
734 new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li>
735 <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li>
736 <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
737 flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
738 htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
739 typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200740 (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
Daniel Veillard38431c32007-06-12 16:20:09 +0000741 nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200742 xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
Daniel Veillard38431c32007-06-12 16:20:09 +0000743 XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
744 sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
745 dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
746 error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
747 workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
748 invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before
749 internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200750 the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker) </li>
Daniel Veillard38431c32007-06-12 16:20:09 +0000751 <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
752 embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800753</ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul>
754 <li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
Daniel Veillard39bcf942007-04-17 14:47:05 +0000755 (James Dennett)</li>
756 <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
757 (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
758 on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
759 principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
760 (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
761 standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
762 for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200763 (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
Daniel Veillard39bcf942007-04-17 14:47:05 +0000764 concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
765 in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
766 python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
767 (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
768 XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
769 fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
770 min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li>
771 <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li>
772 <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +0200773 __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
Daniel Veillard39bcf942007-04-17 14:47:05 +0000774 (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
775 Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li>
776 <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800777</ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul>
778 <li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel,
Daniel Veillardc8338f12006-10-25 16:06:29 +0000779 Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards),
780 AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li>
781 <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
782 (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
783 equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
784 improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib
785 support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
786 (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
787 Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
788 of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to
789 python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca),
790 try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
791 add --html --memory case to xmllint</li>
792 <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix,
793 const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
794 portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
795 Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python
796 shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
797 (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
798 --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li>
799 <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
800 attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode,
801 xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
802 missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
803 (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
804 serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
805 xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
806 allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
807 fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
808 crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
809 when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when
810 using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
811 context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
812 autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
813 fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
814 validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute
815 XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
816 in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
817 meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc,
818 HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
819 htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
820 xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
821 htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
822 bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
823 </li>
824 <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
825 fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
826 xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
827 functions</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800828</ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul>
829 <li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
Daniel Veillardfabafd52006-06-08 08:16:33 +0000830 error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li>
831 <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
832 xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
833 variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
834 Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
835 leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
836 selfdocument.</li>
837 <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
838 cache(Kasimier)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800839</ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul>
840 <li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000841 (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
842 HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
843 cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
844 Windows (Roland Schwingel).
845 </li>
846 <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
847 Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li>
848 <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
849 on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
850 bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &amp;
851 Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
852 one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
853 XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
854 left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
855 xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
856 number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
857 in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
858 fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation,
859 xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
860 code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
861 line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li>
Daniel Veillardb2f8f1d2006-04-28 16:30:48 +0000862 <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li>
863 <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800864</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul>
865 <li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000866 (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
867 --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
868 on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
869 Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
870 MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
871 Jones),</li>
872 <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
873 (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
874 parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
875 <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
876 combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
877 xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
878 Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
879 XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV &amp; Kasimier),
880 xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
881 xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
882 vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
883 split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
884 xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
885 HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
886 exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
887 totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
888 xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
889 Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
890 XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
891 fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
892 (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
893 runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
894 (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
895 compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
896 xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, more XPath
897 pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
898 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
899 Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
900 transition bug in regexps, ctxt-&gt;standalone = -2 to indicate no
901 standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
902 (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
903 (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
904 htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li>
905 <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
906 function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800907</ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul>
908 <li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000909 <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
910 CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
911 XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
912 output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
913 XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
914 (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
915 <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
916 XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
917 derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
918 <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
919 devhelp.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800920</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul>
921 <li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000922 convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
923 sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
924 on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
925 Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
926 compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
927 Z/OS,</li>
928 <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
929 bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
930 htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
931 Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
932 xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
933 foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
934 Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
935 namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
936 (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
937 xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
938 messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
939 fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
940 Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
941 serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
942 XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
943 Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
944 type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
945 xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
946 error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
947 xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
948 bugs.</li>
949 <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
950 (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
951 (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
952 not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
953 error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
954 yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
955 for text nodes allocation.</li>
Daniel Veillardfabafd52006-06-08 08:16:33 +0000956 <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800957</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul>
958 <li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000959 Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
960 andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
961 pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
962 of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
963 compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
964 distribution.</li>
965 <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
966 HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
967 overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
968 (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
969 (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
970 on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
971 exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
972 Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
973 QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
974 (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
975 Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
976 Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
977 areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
978 (William).</li>
979 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
980 conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
981 Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
982 Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
983 (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
984 xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
985 standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
986 xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
987 xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
988 Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
989 ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
990 standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
991 xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
992 Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +0800993</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul>
994 <li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000995 Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
996 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
997 Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
998 <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
999 code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
1000 Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
1001 segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
1002 (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
1003 HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
1004 leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
1005 encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
1006 gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
1007 switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
1008 serialization time</li>
1009 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
1010 checking and also mixed handling.</li>
Daniel Veillardfabafd52006-06-08 08:16:33 +00001011 <li></li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001012</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul>
1013 <li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001014 Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
1015 some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
1016 <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
1017 xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
1018 reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
1019 saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
1020 fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
1021 (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
1022 xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
1023 FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
1024 xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
1025 empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
1026 (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
1027 Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
1028 (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
1029 xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
1030 <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
1031 hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
1032 subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
1033 values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
1034 Stansvik),</li>
Daniel Veillard67952602006-01-05 15:29:44 +00001035 <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001036</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul>
1037 <li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001038 maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
1039 (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
1040 (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
1041 McNichol)</li>
1042 <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
1043 to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
1044 ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
1045 warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
1046 UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
1047 push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
1048 Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
1049 patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
1050 sometimes missing.</li>
1051 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
1052 (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
1053 (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
1054 serialize().</li>
1055 <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
1056 the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
1057 Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
1058 (Phil Shafer)</li>
1059 <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
1060 (William).</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001061</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul>
1062 <li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001063 automated regression testing</li>
Daniel Veillardc3d7cb42004-11-10 14:34:45 +00001064 <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001065 <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding
1066 conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
1067 Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
1068 <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
1069 were updated.</li>
1070 <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
1071 Hendricks)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001072</ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul>
1073 <li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001074 <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
1075 source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
1076 <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
1077 paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
1078 saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
1079 (Malcolm), save back &lt;group&gt; in catalogs (William), tree build
1080 fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
1081 on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
1082 by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
1083 entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
1084 (William).</li>
1085 <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
1086 module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
1087 Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001088</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul>
1089 <li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001090 without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &amp;
1091 Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
1092 <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
1093 Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
1094 transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
1095 (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
1096 handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
1097 date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
1098 E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
1099 <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
1100 xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
1101 (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
1102 Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
1103 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001104</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul>
1105 <li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001106 Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
1107 <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
1108 (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
1109 and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
1110 problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
1111 genrate a serialization loop.</li>
1112 <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
1113 and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillardd1de4a32004-08-31 13:43:07 +00001114 <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001115</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul>
1116 <li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001117 Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
1118 Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
1119 <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
1120 (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
1121 Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
1122 (Torkel Lyng)</li>
Daniel Veillardb331fff2004-08-22 14:21:57 +00001123 <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001124 <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
1125 debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
1126 xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
1127 handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
1128 memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
1129 handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
1130 htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
1131 (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
1132 xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
1133 (William)</li>
1134 <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
1135 (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
1136 xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
1137 to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
1138 tag (William)</li>
1139 <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
1140 schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001141</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul>
1142 <li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001143 attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
1144 <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
1145 (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
1146 <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
1147 path on Windows</li>
1148 <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
1149 (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
1150 <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
1151 properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
1152 (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
1153 by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
1154 with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
1155 Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
1156 streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
1157 libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
1158 Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001159 improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001160 synchronous behaviour.</li>
1161 <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
1162 namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
1163 test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
1164 XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
1165 Parent and William)</li>
1166 <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
1167 and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
1168 the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001169</ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul>
1170 <li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
Daniel Veillard81205012004-05-18 03:06:41 +00001171 <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001172 <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
1173 vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
1174 use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
1175 Davis),</li>
1176 <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
1177 (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
1178 xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
1179 escaping, added escaping customization</li>
1180 <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
1181 Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
1182 URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
1183 transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
1184 Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
1185 (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
1186 xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001187</ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul>
1188 <li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001189 <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
1190 Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
1191 William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
1192 William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
1193 fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
1194 validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
1195 schemas</li>
1196 <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
1197 save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian
1198 Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
1199 dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
1200 clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li>
1201 <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
1202 example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
1203 <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
1204 compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001205</ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul>
1206 <li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001207 <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
1208 Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
Daniel Veillard252004d2004-03-23 12:32:32 +00001209 <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
1210 <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001211 <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
1212 reference in interleave (William), missing error on &lt;choice&gt;
1213 failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
Daniel Veillard252004d2004-03-23 12:32:32 +00001214 <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001215 <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
1216 Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
1217 URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
1218 XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
1219 reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
1220 groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
1221 do not close stderr.</li>
Daniel Veillard252004d2004-03-23 12:32:32 +00001222 <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
1223 <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001224 <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
1225 (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
1226 to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
1227 Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001228</ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul>
1229 <li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
Daniel Veillard92914492004-02-23 16:33:21 +00001230 <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
1231 <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
1232 <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001233 <li>bugfixes: xpath number with &gt; 19 fractional (William Brack), push
1234 mode with unescaped '&gt;' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
1235 xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
1236 handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
Daniel Veillard92914492004-02-23 16:33:21 +00001237 <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
1238 <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001239</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul>
1240 <li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001241 William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
1242 <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
1243 (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
1244 (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
1245 Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
1246 XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
1247 isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
1248 entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
1249 &lt;xs:all&gt; fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
1250 <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
1251 (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
1252 --with-minimum configuration.</li>
Daniel Veillard5c9547e2004-02-12 15:31:49 +00001253 <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001254 <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
1255 dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillard5c9547e2004-02-12 15:31:49 +00001256 <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001257 <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
1258 prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
1259 patch</li>
1260 <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
1261 input.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001262</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul>
1263 <li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001264 (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
1265 (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
1266 namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
1267 (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
1268 evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
1269 XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
1270 callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
1271 <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
1272 Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001273 <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
1274 structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001275 <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
1276 references (William &amp; me), recursion (William)</li>
1277 <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
1278 Mickautsch),</li>
Daniel Veillard189f46b2004-01-25 21:03:04 +00001279 <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
1280 <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
1281 <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001282 <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
1283 XSLT optimizations.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001284</ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul>
1285 <li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
Daniel Veillard189f46b2004-01-25 21:03:04 +00001286 <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
1287 <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001288 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
1289 (Lucas Brasilino)</li>
1290 <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
1291 NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
1292 filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
1293 again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
1294 Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
1295 double inclusion behaviour</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001296</ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul>
1297 <li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001298 <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
1299 Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
1300 <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
1301 (Kenneth Haley)</li>
Daniel Veillardc480c4e2003-12-10 13:24:38 +00001302 <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
1303 <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
1304 <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li>
1305 <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001306 <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
1307 xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
1308 (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
1309 cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
1310 Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
1311 (Daniel Schulman)</li>
1312 <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
1313 namespace change.</li>
1314 <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
1315 namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
1316 based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
1317 <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
1318 constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
1319 when streaming.</li>
Daniel Veillardc480c4e2003-12-10 13:24:38 +00001320 <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001321</ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul>
1322 <li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard6d373a22003-11-04 10:26:43 +00001323 <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
1324 <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li>
1325 <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
1326 <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li>
1327 <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
1328 <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li>
1329 <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc480c4e2003-12-10 13:24:38 +00001330 <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
Daniel Veillard6d373a22003-11-04 10:26:43 +00001331 <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001332 <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
1333 functions</li>
Daniel Veillard6d373a22003-11-04 10:26:43 +00001334 <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
1335 <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
1336 <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
1337 <li>HTML serialization for &lt;p&gt; elements (William Brack and me)</li>
1338 <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001339 <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
1340 --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
1341 serializer)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001342</ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul>
1343 <li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001344 <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
1345 (William Brack)</li>
1346 <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
1347 Zlatkovic)</li>
Daniel Veillarde4e3f5d2003-10-28 23:06:32 +00001348 <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
1349 <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001350 <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
1351 Bennett)</li>
Daniel Veillarde4e3f5d2003-10-28 23:06:32 +00001352 <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001353 <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
1354 (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillarde4e3f5d2003-10-28 23:06:32 +00001355 <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
1356 <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
1357 <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
1358 <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001359 <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
1360 Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
1361 XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001362</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul>
1363 <li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001364 of change</li>
1365 <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
1366 a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
1367 <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
1368 text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
1369 <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
1370 provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
1371 allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
1372 immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
1373 <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
1374 intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
1375 available.</li>
1376 <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
1377 easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
1378 consecutive documents.</li>
1379 <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
1380 functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
1381 bindings</li>
1382 <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
1383 Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
1384 make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
1385 extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
1386 algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
1387 access</li>
Daniel Veillard3e35f8e2003-10-21 00:05:38 +00001388 <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
1389 <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001390 <li>Parser&lt;-&gt;HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
William M. Brack43a87292007-02-15 20:41:02 +00001391 and charset information if available.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001392 <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
1393 zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001394 <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001395 output</li>
1396 <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
1397 convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
1398 Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
1399 Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
1400 warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
1401 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
1402 <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
1403 tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
1404 <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
1405 mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
1406 and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
1407 on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
1408 namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
1409 (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
1410 Derr), high codepoint charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
1411 mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
1412 (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
1413 error handling.</li>
1414 <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
1415 testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
1416 replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
1417 declarations</li>
Daniel Veillard3e35f8e2003-10-21 00:05:38 +00001418 <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001419 <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
1420 xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
1421 allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
1422 on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +00001423 <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
Daniel Veillard3e35f8e2003-10-21 00:05:38 +00001424 <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001425 <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
1426 parser instead.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001427</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul>
1428 <li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
Daniel Veillardeec1ae92003-09-09 13:11:01 +00001429 <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001430</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul>
1431 <li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillardcfba2fe2003-08-15 00:33:43 +00001432 <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001433 <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
1434 on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
Daniel Veillardcfba2fe2003-08-15 00:33:43 +00001435 <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
1436 <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
1437 <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
1438 <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
Daniel Veillardeec1ae92003-09-09 13:11:01 +00001439 <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001440</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul>
1441 <li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001442 (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
1443 (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
1444 xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
1445 Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
1446 content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
1447 progressive HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard83ee40d2003-08-09 22:24:09 +00001448 <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
1449 <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
1450 <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
1451 <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
1452 <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
1453 <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
1454 <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001455 <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
1456 Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001457</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul>
1458 <li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001459 Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
1460 PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
1461 Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
1462 rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
1463 xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +00001464 <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
1465 <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
1466 <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001467 <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001468 Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +00001469 <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
1470 <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001471 <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001472 generator</li>
Daniel Veillard83ee40d2003-08-09 22:24:09 +00001473 <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +00001474 <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001475</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul>
1476 <li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001477 xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
Daniel Veillard92fc02c2003-04-24 23:12:35 +00001478 <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
1479 <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
1480 <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001481 <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
1482 (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
1483 and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
1484 behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
1485 error conditions</li>
1486 <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
1487 allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
1488 accordingly.</li>
1489 <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
1490 xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
Daniel Veillard92fc02c2003-04-24 23:12:35 +00001491 <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
1492 <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001493</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul>
1494 <li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001495 binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
1496 <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
1497 XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
1498 Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
Daniel Veillardc2d4a932003-04-01 11:13:05 +00001499 <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
1500 <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001501 <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
1502 errors</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001503</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul>
1504 <li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001505 DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
Daniel Veillardd8da01c2003-03-24 15:58:23 +00001506 <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
1507 <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001508 <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
1509 conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
Daniel Veillardd8da01c2003-03-24 15:58:23 +00001510 <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
1511 <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001512</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul>
1513 <li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001514 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard17bed982003-02-24 20:11:43 +00001515 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001516 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
1517 namespaces,
1518 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
1519 generation problem.</p>
Daniel Veillard17bed982003-02-24 20:11:43 +00001520 </li>
1521 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
1522 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
1523 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001524</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul>
1525 <li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001526 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
1527 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
1528 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
1529 serialization</li>
Daniel Veillard1d788d22003-02-10 16:21:58 +00001530 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001531</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul>
1532 <li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +00001533 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001534 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001535 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001536 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
1537 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
1538 namespaces</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +00001539 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001540 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
1541 patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +00001542 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001543 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001544 (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +00001545 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001546</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul>
1547 <li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
Daniel Veillarde2830f12003-01-08 17:47:49 +00001548 <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
1549 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001550</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul>
1551 <li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001552 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillard7b4b2f92003-01-06 13:11:20 +00001553 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
1554 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001555 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
1556 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001557 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
1558 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
1559 (John)</li>
Daniel Veillard7b4b2f92003-01-06 13:11:20 +00001560 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
1561 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
1562 <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001563 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
1564 Schroeder)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +00001565 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001566</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul>
1567 <li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001568 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
1569 fixes.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001570</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul>
1571 <li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
Daniel Veillardd2190fa2010-09-30 13:58:22 +02001572 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +00001573 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
1574 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001575 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
1576 dump</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +00001577 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
1578 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
1579 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001580 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
William M. Brack43a87292007-02-15 20:41:02 +00001581 more information needed for C# bindings</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001582</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul>
1583 <li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +00001584 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
1585 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
1586 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +00001587 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +00001588 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +00001589 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001590</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul>
1591 <li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001592 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
1593 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
1594 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
1595 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
1596 Pajas), entities processing</li>
Daniel Veillarddad3f682002-11-17 16:47:27 +00001597 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
1598 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001599 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
1600 better thread support on Windows</li>
Daniel Veillarddad3f682002-11-17 16:47:27 +00001601 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
1602 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001603</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul>
1604 <li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001605 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
1606 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
1607 problems</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001608</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul>
1609 <li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001610 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +00001611 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001612 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
1613 and improvement of the regexp core</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +00001614 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001615 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
1616 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
1617 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
1618 APIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +00001619 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
1620 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001621 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
1622 Merlet)</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +00001623 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
1624 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
1625 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001626</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul>
1627 <li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001628 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
1629 (fcrozat)</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +00001630 <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
1631 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +00001632 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +00001633 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
1634 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001635</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul>
1636 <li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001637 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
1638 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
1639 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001640 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
1641 Peter Jacobi</li>
1642 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
1643 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001644 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001645</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul>
1646 <li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001647 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
1648 indentation, URI parsing</li>
1649 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
1650 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001651 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001652 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
1653 datatypes</li>
1654</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
1655Schemas <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
1656interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
1657progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Patrick Monneratea8c89b2014-03-04 16:13:34 +01001658it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
1659<ul>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001660 <li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001661 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001662 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
1663 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001664 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
1665 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001666</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul>
1667 <li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001668 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001669 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
1670 libxml.m4</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001671</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul>
1672 <li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001673 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001674 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
1675 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
1676 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001677</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul>
1678 <li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001679 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001680 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
1681 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
1682 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
1683 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001684</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul>
1685 <li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001686 XPath"</li>
1687 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
1688 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001689 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001690</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul>
1691 <li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001692 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001693 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001694</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul>
1695 <li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001696 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
1697 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001698</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul>
1699 <li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001700 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
1701 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
1702 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
1703 complete</li>
1704 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
1705 manipulations</li>
1706 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
1707 XML</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001708</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul>
1709 <li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001710 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001711 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
1712 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001713 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
1714 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001715</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul>
1716 <li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001717 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
1718 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001719 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
1720 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001721</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul>
1722 <li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001723 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001724 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
1725 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
1726 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001727</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul>
1728 <li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001729 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
1730 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001731 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
1732 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001733 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
1734 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001735</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul>
1736 <li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001737 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001738</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul>
1739 <li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001740 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001741 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001742</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul>
1743 <li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001744 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001745 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
1746 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001747 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
1748 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
1749 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
1750 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
1751 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
1752 <li>general bug fixes</li>
1753 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
1754 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001755</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul>
1756 <li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001757 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
1758 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
1759 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
1760 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
1761 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001762</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul>
1763 <li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001764 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
1765 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001766</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul>
1767 <li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001768 portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001769</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul>
1770 <li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001771 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001772 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
1773 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001774</ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul>
1775 <li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001776 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
1777 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001778</ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul>
1779 <li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001780 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
1781 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
1782 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
1783 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
1784 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001785</ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul>
1786 <li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001787 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
1788 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
1789 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
1790 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001791</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul>
1792 <li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001793 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
1794 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001795 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001796</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul>
1797 <li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001798 substituting them</li>
1799 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
1800 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001801 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
1802 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
1803 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
1804 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001805</ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul>
1806 <li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001807 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001808</ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul>
1809 <li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001810 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001811</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul>
1812 <li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001813 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
1814 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
1815 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
1816 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001817 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
1818 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
1819 optimizer on Tru64</li>
1820 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
1821 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001822 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
1823 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001824</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul>
1825 <li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001826 problems (alpha)</li>
1827 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
1828 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001829 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001830 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
1831 parser</li>
1832 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
1833 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001834 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
1835 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
1836 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
1837 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001838</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul>
1839 <li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001840 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
1841 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001842 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Patrick Monneratea8c89b2014-03-04 16:13:34 +01001843</ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
1844<ul>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001845 <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001846 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
1847 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
1848 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
1849 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001850 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
1851 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001852 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
1853 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
1854 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
1855 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
1856 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
1857 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
1858 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001859</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul>
1860 <li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
1861</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul>
1862 <li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001863 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001864 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
1865 point portability issue</li>
1866 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
1867 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001868 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
1869 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
1870 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
1871 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001872</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul>
1873 <li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001874 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
1875 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
1876 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
1877 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
1878 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
1879 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
1880 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
1881 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
1882 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001883</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul>
1884 <li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001885 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001886 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001887 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
1888 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
1889 them</li>
1890 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
1891 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
1892 broken ...</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001893</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul>
1894 <li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001895 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
1896 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
1897 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001898 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001899</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul>
1900 <li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001901 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
1902 size to be application tunable.</li>
1903 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
1904 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
1905 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
1906 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001907 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
1908 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
1909 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001910 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
1911 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001912</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul>
1913 <li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001914 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
1915 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
1916 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001917</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul>
1918 <li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001919 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
1920 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
1921 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001922</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul>
1923 <li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001924 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
1925 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001926 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001927</ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul>
1928 <li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001929 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
1930 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001931 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
1932 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
1933 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
1934 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001935 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
1936 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001937 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
1938 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
1939 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
1940 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
1941 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001942</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul>
1943 <li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001944 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
1945 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
1946 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
1947 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001948</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul>
1949 <li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001950 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
1951 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
1952 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
1953 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001954</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul>
1955 <li>erroneous release :-(</li>
1956</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul>
1957 <li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001958 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001959 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
1960 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
1961 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
1962 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
1963 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001964</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul>
1965 <li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001966 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
1967 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
1968 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
1969 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001970</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul>
1971 <li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001972 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001973 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
1974 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001975 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
1976 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001977 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
1978 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001979</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul>
1980 <li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001981 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
1982 tests</li>
1983 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
1984 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001985 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
1986 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
1987 <li>added memory management docs</li>
1988 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001989</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul>
1990 <li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001991 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
1992 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08001993</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul>
1994 <li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00001995 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00001996 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
1997 checked too</li>
1998 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
1999 works smoothly now.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002000</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul>
2001 <li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
2002</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul>
2003 <li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002004 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002005</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul>
2006 <li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002007 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
2008 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002009 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
2010 allocation routines</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002011</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul>
2012 <li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002013 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
2014 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002015 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
2016 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
2017 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
2018 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
2019 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002020 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
2021 support</a></li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002022</ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul>
2023 <li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002024 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
2025 rpmfind users problem</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002026</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul>
2027 <li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002028 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002029</ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul>
2030 <li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002031 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
2032 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
2033 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
2034 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002035 <ul>
2036 <li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002037 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
2038 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002039 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
2040 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002041 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
2042 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002043 </ul>
2044 </li>
2045</ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul>
2046 <li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002047 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
2048 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
2049 workload.</li>
2050 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
2051 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +00002052 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002053 <p>instead of</p>
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +00002054 <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002055 </li>
2056 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002057 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
2058 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
2059 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
2060 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
2061 package</li>
2062 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
2063 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
2064 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
2065 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
2066 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
2067 number of the libxml module in use</li>
2068 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
2069 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002070</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul>
2071 <li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002072 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org
2073 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
2074 RPMs</li>
2075 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
2076 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
2077 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
2078 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
2079 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002080 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
2081 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002082 <ul>
2083 <li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002084 handled now</li>
2085 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
2086 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002087 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
2088 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002089 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
2090 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002091 </ul>
2092 </li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002093 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
2094 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
2095 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
2096 head version.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002097</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul>
2098 <li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002099 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
2100 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
2101 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
2102 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
2103 old code.</li>
2104 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
2105 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
2106 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
2107 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
2108 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
2109 URIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002110</ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul>
2111 <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
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002112 it without troubles</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002113</ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul>
2114 <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
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002115 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002116 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002117 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
2118 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
2119 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
2120 gnumeric soon</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002121</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul>
2122 <li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002123 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
2124 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
2125 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002126</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul>
2127 <li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002128 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
2129 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
2130 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
2131 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
2132 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002133 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
2134 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002135 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002136</ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul>
2137 <li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002138 for good this time</li>
2139 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
2140 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
2141 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +00002142 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002143</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul>
2144 <li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002145 the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002146 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002147 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
2148 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
2149 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
2150 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002151 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002152</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul>
2153 <li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002154 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
2155 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
2156 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
2157 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
2158 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002159 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002160 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
2161 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002162</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul>
2163 <li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002164 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
2165 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
2166 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002167</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul>
2168 <li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002169 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
2170 were it's not available, fixed</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002171</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul>
2172 <li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002173 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
2174 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
2175 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
2176 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
2177 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
2178 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
Daniel Veillarde38217a2013-05-10 15:40:13 +08002179</ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul>
2180 <li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002181 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
2182 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002183 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +00002184 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
2185 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
2186 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +00002187 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
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