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Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]84<li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li>
85<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li>
Daniel Veillard4a859202002-01-08 11:49:22 +0000[diff] [blame]86<li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]87<li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li>
Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]88<li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li>
Daniel Veillardc84f8b52002-12-19 22:12:47 +0000[diff] [blame]89<li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillarddb9dfd92001-11-26 17:25:02 +0000[diff] [blame]90<li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillardcb7543b2002-09-09 10:54:06 +0000[diff] [blame]91<li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]92<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li>
Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]93<li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&amp;product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li>
Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]94</ul></td></tr>
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98<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
99for a really accurate description</h3>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]100<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
101to test those</p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102<ul>
103<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]104 Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]105</li>
106</ul>
Daniel Veillarde2830f12003-01-08 17:47:49 +0000[diff] [blame^]107<h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3>
108<ul>
109<li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
110 <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
111 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
112</ul>
Daniel Veillard7b4b2f92003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000[diff] [blame]113<h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3>
114<ul>
115<li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
116 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
117 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
118 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
119 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
120 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
121 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
122 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
123 (John)</li>
124 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
125 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
126 <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
127 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
128 Schroeder)</li>
129 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a>
130</li>
131</ul>
Daniel Veillardc1eed322002-12-12 11:01:32 +0000[diff] [blame]132<h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3>
133<ul>
134<li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
135 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
136 fixes.</li>
137</ul>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]138<h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3>
139<ul>
140<li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
141 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
142 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
143 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
144 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
145 dump</li>
146 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
147 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
148 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
149 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
150 more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
151</ul>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000[diff] [blame]152<h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3>
153<ul>
154<li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
155 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
156 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
157 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
158 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse=&quot;text&quot;</li>
159 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]160 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000[diff] [blame]161</ul>
Daniel Veillarddad3f682002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]162<h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3>
163<ul>
164<li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
165 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
166 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
167 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
168 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
169 Pajas), entities processing</li>
170 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
171 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
172 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
173 better thread support on Windows</li>
174 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
175 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
176</ul>
Daniel Veillarde645e8c2002-10-22 17:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]177<h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3>
178<ul>
179<li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
180 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
181 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
182 problems</li>
183</ul>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]184<h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3>
185<ul>
186<li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
187 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
188 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
189 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
190 and improvement of the regexp core</li>
191 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
192 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
193 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
194 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
Daniel Veillard321be0c2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000[diff] [blame]195 APIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]196 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
197 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
198 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
199 Merlet)</li>
200 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
201 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
202 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
203</ul>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]204<p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p>
205<ul>
206<li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
207 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
208 (fcrozat)</li>
209 <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
210 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000[diff] [blame]211 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]212 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
213 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
214</ul>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]215<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
216<ul>
217<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]218 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
219 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
220 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
221 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]222 Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]223 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]224 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]225 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]226</ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]227<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
228<ul>
229<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
230 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]231 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]232 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]233 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]234 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
235 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]236 datatypes</li>
237</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]238<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
239<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
240Schemas <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
241interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
242progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]243it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]244<ul>
245<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]246 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
247 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]248 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]249 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
250 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]251</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]252<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
253<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]254<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]255 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
256 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]257 libxml.m4</li>
258</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]259<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
260<ul>
261<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
262 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]263 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
264 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
265 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]266</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]267<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
268<ul>
269<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]270 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]271 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
272 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
273 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
274 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]275</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]276<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]277<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]278<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
279 XPath&quot;</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]280 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]281 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]282 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]283</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]284<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
285<ul>
286<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
287 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]288 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]289</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]290<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
291<ul>
292<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]293 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
294 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]295</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]296<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
297<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]298<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
299 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
300 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]301 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]302 complete</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]303 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]304 manipulations</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]305 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]306 XML</li>
307</ul>
308<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]309<ul>
310<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]311 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
312 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]313 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]314 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
315 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]316</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]317<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
318<ul>
319<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
320 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
321 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]322 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
323 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]324</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]325<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
326<ul>
327<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
328 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]329 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
330 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
331 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]332</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]333<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
334<ul>
335<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]336 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
337 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
338 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]339 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]340 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
341 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]342</ul>
343<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
344<ul>
345<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]346 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]347</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]348<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
349<ul>
350<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
351 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]352 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]353</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]354<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
355<ul>
356<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]357 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
358 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]359 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]360 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
361 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
362 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
363 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
364 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
365 <li>general bug fixes</li>
366 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
367 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]368</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]369<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
370<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]371<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]372 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
373 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
374 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
375 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
376 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]377</ul>
378<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
379<ul>
380<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]381 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]382 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
383</ul>
384<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]385<ul>
386<li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
387 portability fixes</li>
388</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]389<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
390<ul>
391<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
392 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]393 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
394 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]395</ul>
396<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
397<ul>
398<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]399 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
400 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]401</ul>
402<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
403<ul>
404<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]405 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
406 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
407 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
408 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
409 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]410</ul>
411<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
412<ul>
413<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]414 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
415 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
416 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
417 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]418</ul>
419<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
420<ul>
421<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]422 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]423 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]424 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]425</ul>
426<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
427<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]428<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
429 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]430 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]431 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]432 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
433 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
434 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
435 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]436</ul>
437<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
438<ul>
439<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]440 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]441</ul>
442<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
443<ul>
444<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]445 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]446</ul>
447<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
448<ul>
449<li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]450 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
451 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
452 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
453 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
454 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]455 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
456 optimizer on Tru64</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]457 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]458 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]459 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
460 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]461</ul>
462<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
463<ul>
464<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
465 problems (alpha)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]466 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]467 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]468 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
469 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]470 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]472 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]473 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
474 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
475 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
476 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]477</ul>
478<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
479<ul>
480<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]481 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]482 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]483 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]484</ul>
485<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
486<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
487<ul>
488<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]489 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
490 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
491 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
492 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
493 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]494 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]495 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
496 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
497 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
498 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
499 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
500 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
501 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]502</ul>
503<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]504<ul>
505<li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
506</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]507<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
508<ul>
509<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]510 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
511 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]512 point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]513 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]514 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]515 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
516 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
517 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
518 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]519</ul>
520<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
521<ul>
522<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]523 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
524 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
525 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
526 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
527 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
528 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
529 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
530 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
531 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]532</ul>
533<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
534<ul>
535<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
536 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]537 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
538 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]539 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
540 them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]541 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]542 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
543 broken ...</li>
544</ul>
545<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
546<ul>
547<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
548 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]549 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]550 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]551 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]552</ul>
553<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
554<ul>
555<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]557 size to be application tunable.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]558 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]559 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]560 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]561 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]562 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
563 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
564 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
565 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]566 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]567</ul>
568<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
569<ul>
570<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]571 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
572 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
573 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]574</ul>
575<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
576<ul>
577<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]578 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
579 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
580 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]581</ul>
582<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
583<ul>
584<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]585 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]586 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]587 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]588</ul>
589<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
590<ul>
591<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]592 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]593 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]594 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
595 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
596 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
597 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
598 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]599 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]600 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
601 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
602 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
603 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
604 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]605</ul>
606<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
607<ul>
608<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]609 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
610 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
611 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
612 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]613</ul>
614<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
615<ul>
616<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]617 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
618 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
619 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
620 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]621</ul>
622<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]623<ul>
624<li>erroneous release :-(</li>
625</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]626<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
627<ul>
628<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
629 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]630 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
631 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
632 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
633 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
634 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]635</ul>
636<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
637<ul>
638<li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]639 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
640 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
641 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
642 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]643</ul>
644<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
645<ul>
646<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
647 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]648 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
649 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
650 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]651 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]652 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
653 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]654</ul>
655<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
656<ul>
657<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]658 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]659 tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]660 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]661 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]662 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
663 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
664 <li>added memory management docs</li>
665 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]666</ul>
667<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
668<ul>
669<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]670 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
671 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]672</ul>
673<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
674<ul>
675<li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]676 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
677 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]678 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]679 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]680 works smoothly now.</li>
681</ul>
682<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]683<ul>
684<li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
685</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]686<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
687<ul>
688<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]689 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]690</ul>
691<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
692<ul>
693<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]694 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
695 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
696 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]697 allocation routines</li>
698</ul>
699<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
700<ul>
701<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]702 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]703 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]704 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
705 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
706 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
707 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
708 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
709 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]710 support</a>
711</li>
712</ul>
713<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
714<ul>
715<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]716 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]717 rpmfind users problem</li>
718</ul>
719<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
720<ul>
721<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]722 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]723</ul>
724<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
725<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]726<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
727 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]728 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]729 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]730 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
731 <ul>
732<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]733 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
734 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
735 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]736 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]737 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
738 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
739 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]740</li>
741</ul>
742<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
743<ul>
744<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]745 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
746 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]747 workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]748 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]749 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
750 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]751 <p>instead of</p>
752 <pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
753 </li>
754 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
755 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]756 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]757 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]758 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
759 package</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]760 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]761 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
762 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
763 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]764 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]765 number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]766 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]767 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
768</ul>
769<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
770<ul>
771<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]772 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]773 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
774 RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]775 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]776 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]777 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]778 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
779 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]780</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]781 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
782 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]783 <ul>
784<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
785 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]786 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]787 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]788 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
789 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
790 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]791 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]792 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]793</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]794 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]795 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]796 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
797 head version.</li>
798</ul>
799<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
800<ul>
801<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]802 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]803 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
804 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
805 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
806 old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]807 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]808 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]809 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]810 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]811 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]812 URIs</li>
813</ul>
814<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]815<ul>
816<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
817 it without troubles</li>
818</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]819<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
820<ul>
821<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
822 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]823 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
824 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]825 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]826 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]827 gnumeric soon</li>
828</ul>
829<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
830<ul>
831<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]832 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
833 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
834 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]835</ul>
836<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
837<ul>
838<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]839 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
840 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
841 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
842 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
843 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
844 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]845 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]846 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]847</ul>
848<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
849<ul>
850<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
851 for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]852 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]853 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
854 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]855 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]856</li>
857</ul>
858<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
859<ul>
860<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
861 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]862 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
863 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]864 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]865 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]866 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]867 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]868</ul>
869<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
870<ul>
871<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]872 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]873 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]874 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]875 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
876 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]877 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
878 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]879 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]880</ul>
881<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
882<ul>
883<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]884 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
885 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
886 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]887</ul>
888<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
889<ul>
890<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]891 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]892 were it's not available, fixed</li>
893</ul>
894<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
895<ul>
896<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
897 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
898 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
899 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
900 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]901 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]902 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
903</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]904<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]905<ul>
906<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]907 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]908 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]909 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
910 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
911 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]912 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]913 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]914</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]915<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]916</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
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