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