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      2         NEWS file for libxml2
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      5        http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
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      7 The change log at 
      8 ChangeLog.html
      9  describes the recents commits
     10 to the GIT at 
     11 http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/
     12  code base.Here is the list of public releases:
     13 2.9.2: Oct 16 2014:
     14    - Security:
     15   Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),
     16   CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)
     17   
     18    - Bug Fixes:
     19   fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),
     20   xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),
     21   Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),
     22   Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),
     23   Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing < (Daniel Veillard),
     24   xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),
     25   Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),
     26   parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),
     27   Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),
     28   Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),
     29   Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),
     30   python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),
     31   Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),
     32   xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),
     33   Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),
     34   wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),
     35   wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),
     36   no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),
     37   Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
     38   Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),
     39   xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),
     40   runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),
     41   xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),
     42   xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),
     43   HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),
     44   Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),
     45   Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),
     46   Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),
     47   XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),
     48   Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),
     49   Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
     50   Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),
     51   Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),
     52   Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),
     53   xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),
     54   Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
     55   Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),
     56   Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),
     57   erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),
     58   xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Srgio Batista),
     59   Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),
     60   Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),
     61   Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),
     62   Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),
     63   Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),
     64   Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),
     65   Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),
     66   fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),
     67   Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),
     68   Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),
     69   Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),
     70   Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),
     71   Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),
     72   Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),
     73   Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),
     74   Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),
     75   Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),
     76   Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),
     77   Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),
     78   run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),
     79   Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),
     80   Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),
     81   Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),
     82   xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),
     83   Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),
     84   Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),
     85   Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),
     86   Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),
     87   Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),
     88   Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),
     89   Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),
     90   Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),
     91   missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),
     92   Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),
     93   Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),
     94   properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
     95   Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),
     96   Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),
     97   Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),
     98   Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)
     99   
    100    - Documentation:
    101   typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),
    102   Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),
    103   Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorn),
    104   Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),
    105   Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorn),
    106   Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),
    107   Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorn),
    108   Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorn),
    109   Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)
    110   
    111    - Portability:
    112   AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),
    113   remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),
    114   fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),
    115   Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),
    116   OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),
    117   OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),
    118   os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),
    119   OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
    120   OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),
    121   OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),
    122   OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),
    123   OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),
    124   OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),
    125   OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),
    126   OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),
    127   OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),
    128   OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),
    129   OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),
    130   OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),
    131   Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),
    132   configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),
    133   Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),
    134   Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
    135   Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),
    136   Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),
    137   Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),
    138   Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),
    139   Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),
    140   Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
    141   Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),
    142   Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
    143   Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),
    144   Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),
    145   Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
    146   Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
    147   Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),
    148   Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),
    149   build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),
    150   build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxmls pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),
    151   fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    152   add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),
    153   Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
    154   python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),
    155   python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),
    156   Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)
    157   
    158    - Improvements:
    159   win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
    160   elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),
    161   elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),
    162   Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),
    163   Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),
    164   Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),
    165   Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),
    166   Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),
    167   wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),
    168   doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),
    169   Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),
    170   Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),
    171   xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),
    172   Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),
    173   adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),
    174   Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorn),
    175   Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),
    176   Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),
    177   xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),
    178   Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)
    179   
    180    - Cleanups:
    181   Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),
    182   Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),
    183   Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),
    184   Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),
    185   Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),
    186   Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)
    187   
    188 
    189 
    190 2.9.1: Apr 19 2013:
    191    -  Features:
    192     Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    193     Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)
    194   
    195    -  Documentation:
    196     Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),
    197     Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),
    198     Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)
    199   
    200    -  Portability:
    201     Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),
    202     rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),
    203     elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),
    204     elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),
    205     Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),
    206     Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),
    207     Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),
    208     Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),
    209     Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),
    210     Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),
    211     Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),
    212     Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),
    213     Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)
    214   
    215    -  Bug Fixes:
    216     Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),
    217     Fix a couple of return without value (Jri Aedla),
    218     Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),
    219     Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),
    220     Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),
    221     Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),
    222     Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),
    223     Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba Lszl),
    224     Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),
    225     fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),
    226     xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),
    227     Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),
    228     Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),
    229     Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,
    230 Veillard),
    231     Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),
    232     When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,
    233 Veillard),
    234     Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),
    235     xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,
    236 Veillard),
    237     Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),
    238     Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),
    239     Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),
    240     Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),
    241     Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,
    242 Veillard),
    243     Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)
    244   
    245    -  Improvements:
    246     Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),
    247     Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),
    248     update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),
    249     A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),
    250     Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    251     Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    252     First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    253     updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),
    254     Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),
    255     Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),
    256     Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),
    257     Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),
    258     Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),
    259     Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),
    260     Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),
    261     Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),
    262     Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
    263   
    264    -  Cleanups:
    265     Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),
    266     Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),
    267     Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),
    268     Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),
    269     Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),
    270     Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,
    271 Gansterer),
    272     Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),
    273     Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),
    274     Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),
    275     rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),
    276     Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorn)
    277   
    278 
    279 
    280 2.9.0: Sep 11 2012:
    281    -  Features:
    282     A few new API entry points,
    283     More resilient push parser mode,
    284     A lot of portability improvement,
    285     Faster XPath evaluation
    286   
    287    -  Documentation:
    288     xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),
    289     libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),
    290     More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)
    291   
    292    -  Portability:
    293     Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),
    294     fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),
    295     GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),
    296     More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),
    297     More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),
    298     Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),
    299     Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),
    300     Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),
    301     Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),
    302     Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),
    303     clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),
    304     use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),
    305     fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),
    306     Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),
    307     Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),
    308     Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)
    309   
    310    -  Bug Fixes:
    311     Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),
    312     Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),
    313     Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),
    314     initialize var (Rob Richards),
    315     Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),
    316     Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),
    317     Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),
    318     Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),
    319     Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),
    320     Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),
    321     Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),
    322     Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),
    323     Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),
    324     Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
    325     Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),
    326     More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
    327     Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),
    328     Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),
    329     Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),
    330     Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),
    331     Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),
    332     Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
    333     Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),
    334     Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)
    335   
    336    -  Improvements:
    337     Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),
    338     Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),
    339     Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),
    340     Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),
    341     Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),
    342     Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),
    343     Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),
    344     Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),
    345     Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),
    346     Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),
    347     Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),
    348     Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),
    349     Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),
    350     minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),
    351     fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),
    352     Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),
    353     Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),
    354     Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
    355     Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),
    356     Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),
    357     Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),
    358     Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),
    359     Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),
    360     Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),
    361     Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),
    362     Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),
    363     Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),
    364     Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),
    365     More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),
    366     Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),
    367     first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),
    368     Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),
    369     Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),
    370     Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),
    371     Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),
    372     More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),
    373     Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(), to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)
    374     Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    375     Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    376     Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    377     Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),
    378     Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    379     New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),
    380     Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),
    381     Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    382     Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    383     Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),
    384     Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    385     Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    386     Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    387     Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),
    388     Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),
    389     Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),
    390     Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),
    391     Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)
    392   
    393    -  Cleanups:
    394     Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),
    395     Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
    396     Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),
    397     Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),
    398     Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),
    399     Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),
    400     Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),
    401     Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),
    402     Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),
    403     Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),
    404     Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),
    405     Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),
    406     Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),
    407     Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)
    408   
    409 
    410 
    411 2.8.0: May 23 2012:
    412    - Features:
    413   add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
    414   
    415    - Documentation:
    416     xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skytt),
    417     Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),
    418     URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),
    419     Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
    420     Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),
    421     Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),
    422     add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    423     Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),
    424     Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),
    425     Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)
    426   
    427    - Portability:
    428     Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),
    429     Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),
    430     xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),
    431     remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),
    432     undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
    433     Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),
    434     fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),
    435     prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
    436     Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),
    437     Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),
    438     fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),
    439     Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),
    440     Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),
    441     autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),
    442     Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),
    443     634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),
    444     599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),
    445     fix win build (Rob Richards)
    446   
    447    - Bug fixes:
    448     Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
    449     Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),
    450     Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),
    451     Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),
    452     Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),
    453     Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),
    454     Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),
    455     Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),
    456     HTML parser error with <noscript> in the <head> (Denis Pauk),
    457     XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),
    458     Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),
    459     Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),
    460     Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),
    461     Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),
    462     Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),
    463     xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),
    464     Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),
    465     Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schrder),
    466     Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),
    467     Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),
    468     xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),
    469     HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),
    470     Fix an off by one pointer access (Jri Aedla),
    471     Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),
    472     Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),
    473     Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
    474     Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
    475     Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),
    476     Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),
    477     Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),
    478     fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),
    479     fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),
    480     Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),
    481     Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),
    482     Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),
    483     Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
    484     Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),
    485     Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
    486     Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
    487     Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),
    488     Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),
    489     Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),
    490     Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),
    491     __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
    492     __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
    493     Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),
    494     Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),
    495     Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),
    496     Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),
    497     Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)
    498   
    499    - Improvements:
    500     use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),
    501     New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),
    502     xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),
    503     Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),
    504     Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
    505     Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),
    506     wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),
    507     Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),
    508     Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),
    509     Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
    510     add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
    511     Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
    512     Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
    513     included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),
    514     move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    515     add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),
    516     add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),
    517     autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),
    518     Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),
    519     Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),
    520     Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),
    521     testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),
    522     various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),
    523     testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),
    524     runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),
    525     configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),
    526     configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),
    527     xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),
    528     __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),
    529     __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
    530   
    531    - Cleanups:
    532     Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),
    533     Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),
    534     Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardn),
    535     autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardn),
    536     Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),
    537     Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),
    538     Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
    539     Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),
    540     Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),
    541     python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),
    542     python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),
    543     configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),
    544     xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
    545   
    546 
    547 
    548 2.7.8: Nov 4 2010:
    549    -  Features:
    550     480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
    551     Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
    552   
    553    -  Documentation:
    554     Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
    555     Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
    556     Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
    557     Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
    558   
    559    -  Portability:
    560     607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
    561     614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
    562     Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
    563     Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
    564   
    565    -  Bug Fixes:
    566     595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
    567     617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
    568     616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
    569     614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
    570     627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
    571     629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
    572     630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
    573     make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
    574     Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
    575     Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
    576     Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
    577     Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
    578     Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
    579     Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
    580     Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
    581     Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
    582     Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
    583     xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
    584     Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
    585   
    586    -  Improvements:
    587     606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
    588     Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
    589     Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
    590   
    591    -  Cleanups:
    592     618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
    593     Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
    594     Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
    595     Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
    596     Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
    597     Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
    598     Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
    599   
    600 
    601 
    602 2.7.7: Mar 15 2010:
    603    -  Improvements:
    604     Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
    605     Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
    606   
    607    -  Portability:
    608     relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
    609     Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
    610     use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
    611     Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
    612     Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
    613     Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
    614     Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
    615     Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
    616     Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
    617     598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
    618   
    619    -  Bug Fixes:
    620     libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
    621     Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
    622     Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
    623     Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
    624     fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
    625     ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
    626     htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
    627     Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
    628     Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
    629     xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (Franois Delyon),
    630     608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
    631     Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
    632     Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
    633     Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
    634     Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
    635     Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
    636     Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
    637     Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
    638     Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
    639     Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
    640     Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
    641     xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
    642   
    643    -  Cleanups:
    644     Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
    645   
    646 
    647 
    648 2.7.6: Oct  6 2009:
    649    -  Bug Fixes:
    650      Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
    651      URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
    652      Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
    653   
    654 
    655 
    656 2.7.5: Sep 24 2009:
    657    -  Bug Fixes:
    658     Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
    659     Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
    660     595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
    661     Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
    662     Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
    663     link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
    664     594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
    665   
    666    -  Cleanup:
    667     Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
    668   
    669 
    670 
    671 2.7.4: Sep 10 2009:
    672    - Improvements:
    673     Switch to GIT (GNOME),
    674     Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
    675   
    676    - Portability:
    677     593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
    678     594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
    679     Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
    680     Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
    681     Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
    682     Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
    683     Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
    684     Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
    685     584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
    686     574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
    687     Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
    688     545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
    689     xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
    690     Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
    691     Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
    692     Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
    693     Bug 571059  MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
    694     fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
    695     fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
    696   
    697    - Documentation:
    698     544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
    699     Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
    700     Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
    701     560524  xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
    702     Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
    703     updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
    704     more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
    705   
    706    - Bug fixes:
    707     594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
    708     Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
    709     492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
    710     558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
    711     558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
    712     579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
    713     502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
    714     566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
    715     566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
    716     584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
    717     587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
    718     444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),
    719     Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
    720     Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
    721     440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
    722     572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
    723     Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
    724     Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
    725     566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
    726     541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
    727     541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
    728     583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
    729     587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
    730     559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
    731     559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
    732     Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
    733     592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
    734     447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
    735     446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
    736     Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
    737     Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
    738     512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
    739     512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
    740     588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
    741     582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
    742     579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
    743     575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
    744     571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
    745     570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
    746     567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
    747     574393  utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
    748     Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
    749     585505  Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
    750     582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
    751     Bug 582887  problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
    752     Bug 579729  fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
    753     576368  htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
    754     Bug 565747  relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
    755     Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
    756     Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
    757     Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
    758     potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
    759     Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
    760     Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
    761     Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
    762     Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
    763     reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
    764     use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
    765     581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
    766     584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
    767     580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
    768     581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
    769     do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
    770     564217 fix structured error handling problems,
    771     reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
    772     xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
    773     add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
    774     avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
    775   
    776    - Cleanup:
    777     Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
    778     A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
    779     Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
    780     Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
    781     Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
    782     Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
    783     555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
    784     542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
    785     Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
    786     Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
    787     Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
    788     hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
    789     570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
    790     cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
    791   
    792 
    793 
    794 2.7.3: Jan 18 2009:
    795    - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.
    796    - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
    797       indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
    798       xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
    799       xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
    800       avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
    801       deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).
    802    - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
    803       limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
    804       APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
    805       add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
    806       parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).
    807 
    808 
    809 2.7.2: Oct 3 2008:
    810    - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
    811         if XPath is not configured in
    812    - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
    813         when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
    814         bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
    815     
    816    - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
    817         XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents
    818 
    819 
    820 2.7.1: Sep 1 2008:
    821    - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)
    822    - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
    823         case handking and leaks (Martin)
    824    - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees
    825    - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers
    826 
    827 
    828 2.7.0: Aug 30 2008:
    829    - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
    830       xmlParserCleanup docs
    831    - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
    832       porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
    833       non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Frber)
    834       
    835    - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
    836       (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
    837       Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
    838       parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
    839       tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
    840       (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
    841       when encoder cant serialize characters on output
    842    - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
    843       (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
    844       serious cleanup of the entity handling code
    845    - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
    846       for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
    847       add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
    848       new hashing functions for dictionaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
    849       improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
    850       regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
    851       to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
    852       arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option
    853 
    854 
    855 2.6.32: Apr 8 2008:
    856    - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
    857       trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
    858       (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
    859       XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)
    860    - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
    861       paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
    862       patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
    863       SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
    864       regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
    865       document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
    866       writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
    867       detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
    868       team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
    869       (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
    870       Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
    871       allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
    872       problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
    873       the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
    874       out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
    875       (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
    876       conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
    877       functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
    878       (Mark Rowe)
    879    - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
    880       mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
    881       Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
    882       a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
    883       cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
    884       fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
    885       duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
    886       (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)
    887    - improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
    888       (Tobias Minich)
    889 
    890 
    891 2.6.31: Jan 11 2008:
    892    - Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing
    893    - Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
    894       xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
    895       (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
    896       XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
    897       xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
    898       parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
    899       deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
    900       HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
    901       output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 
    902       (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
    903       
    904    - Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
    905       copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
    906       some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)
    907    - Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
    908       testURI --debug option, 
    909 
    910 
    911 2.6.30: Aug 23 2007:
    912    - Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
    913       (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)
    914    - Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
    915       reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
    916       xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
    917       (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
    918       detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
    919       generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
    920       problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
    921       (William Brack)
    922 
    923 
    924 2.6.29: Jun 12 2007:
    925    - Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
    926       fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
    927       (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
    928       improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
    929       new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)
    930    - Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, 
    931    - Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
    932       flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
    933       htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
    934       typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
    935       (Georges-Andr Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
    936       nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
    937       xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (Franois Delyon),
    938       XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
    939       sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
    940       dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
    941       error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
    942       workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
    943       invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 
    944       internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
    945       the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsker) 
    946    - Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
    947       embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) 
    948 
    949 
    950 2.6.28: Apr 17 2007:
    951    - Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
    952       (James Dennett)
    953    - Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
    954       (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
    955       on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
    956       principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
    957       (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
    958       standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
    959       for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
    960       (Stphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
    961       concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
    962       in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
    963       python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
    964       (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
    965       XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
    966       fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
    967       min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)
    968    - Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public
    969    - Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
    970       __ss_familly on AIX again (Bjrn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
    971       (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
    972       Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)
    973    - Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes
    974 
    975 
    976 2.6.27: Oct 25 2006:
    977    - Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 
    978       Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 
    979       AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive
    980    - improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
    981       (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
    982       equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
    983       improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 
    984       support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
    985       (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
    986       Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
    987       of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 
    988       python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 
    989       try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
    990       add --html --memory case to xmllint
    991    - building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 
    992       const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
    993       portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
    994       Breitenlohner),  remove the build path recorded in the python
    995       shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
    996       (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
    997       --with-minimum --with-schemas builds
    998    - bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
    999       attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 
   1000       xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
   1001       missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
   1002       (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
   1003       serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
   1004       xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
   1005       allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
   1006       fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
   1007       crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
   1008       when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 
   1009       using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
   1010       context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
   1011       autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
   1012       fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
   1013       validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 
   1014       XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
   1015       in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
   1016       meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 
   1017       HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
   1018       htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
   1019       xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
   1020       htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
   1021       bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
   1022       
   1023    - documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
   1024       fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
   1025       xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
   1026       functions
   1027 
   1028 
   1029 2.6.26: Jun 6 2006:
   1030    - portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
   1031     error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)
   1032    - bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
   1033     xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
   1034     variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
   1035     Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
   1036     leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
   1037     selfdocument.
   1038    - improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
   1039     cache(Kasimier)
   1040 
   1041 
   1042 2.6.25: Jun 6 2006::
   1043 Do not use or package 2.6.25
   1044 2.6.24: Apr 28 2006:
   1045    - Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
   1046       (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
   1047       HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
   1048       cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
   1049       Windows (Roland Schwingel).
   1050       
   1051    - Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
   1052       Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.
   1053    - Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
   1054       on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
   1055       bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &
   1056       Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
   1057       one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
   1058       XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
   1059       left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
   1060       xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
   1061       number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
   1062       in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
   1063       fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 
   1064       xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
   1065       code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
   1066       line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). 
   1067    - Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
   1068    - New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.
   1069 
   1070 
   1071 2.6.23: Jan 5 2006:
   1072    - portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
   1073     (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
   1074     --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
   1075     on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
   1076     Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
   1077     MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
   1078   Jones),
   1079    - code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
   1080     (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
   1081     parsing code (Bjorn Reese)
   1082    - bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
   1083     combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
   1084     xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
   1085     Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
   1086     XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
   1087     xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
   1088     xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
   1089     vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
   1090     split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
   1091     xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
   1092     HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
   1093     exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
   1094     totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
   1095     xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
   1096     Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
   1097     XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
   1098     fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
   1099     (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
   1100     runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
   1101     (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
   1102     compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
   1103     xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
   1104     pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)
   1105    - improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
   1106     Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
   1107     transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
   1108     standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
   1109     (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
   1110     (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
   1111     htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),
   1112    - documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
   1113     function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
   1114 
   1115 
   1116 2.6.22: Sep 12 2005:
   1117    - build fixes: compile without schematron (Stphane Bidoul)
   1118    - bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
   1119     CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
   1120     XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
   1121     output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
   1122     XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
   1123     (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
   1124    - improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
   1125     XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
   1126     derive (Kasimier Buchcik).
   1127    - documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
   1128     devhelp.
   1129 
   1130 
   1131 2.6.21: Sep 4 2005:
   1132    - build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
   1133     convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
   1134     sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
   1135     on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
   1136     Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
   1137     compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
   1138     Z/OS,
   1139    - bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
   1140     bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
   1141     htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
   1142     Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
   1143     xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
   1144     foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
   1145     Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
   1146     namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
   1147     (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
   1148     xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
   1149     messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
   1150     fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
   1151     Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
   1152     serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
   1153     XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
   1154     Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
   1155     type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
   1156     xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
   1157     error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
   1158     xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
   1159   bugs.
   1160    - improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
   1161     (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
   1162     (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
   1163     not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
   1164     error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
   1165     yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
   1166     for text nodes allocation.
   1167    - documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
   1168 
   1169 
   1170 2.6.20: Jul 10 2005:
   1171    - build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
   1172     Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
   1173     andriy (a] google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
   1174     pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
   1175     of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
   1176     compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
   1177     distribution.
   1178    - bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
   1179     HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
   1180     overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
   1181     (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
   1182     (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
   1183     on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
   1184     exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
   1185     Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
   1186     QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
   1187     (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
   1188     Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
   1189     Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
   1190     areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
   1191   (William).
   1192    - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
   1193     conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
   1194     Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
   1195     Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
   1196     (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
   1197     xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
   1198     standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
   1199     xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
   1200     xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
   1201     Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
   1202     ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
   1203     standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
   1204     xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
   1205     Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
   1206 
   1207 
   1208 2.6.19: Apr 02 2005:
   1209    - build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
   1210     Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
   1211     5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
   1212     Linux/ELF/gcc4
   1213    - bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
   1214     code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
   1215     Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
   1216     segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
   1217     (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
   1218     HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
   1219     leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
   1220     encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
   1221     gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
   1222     switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
   1223     serialization time
   1224    - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
   1225     checking and also mixed handling.
   1226    - 
   1227 
   1228 
   1229 2.6.18: Mar 13 2005:
   1230    - build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
   1231     Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
   1232     some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
   1233    - bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
   1234     xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionaries
   1235     reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
   1236     saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
   1237     fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
   1238     (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
   1239     xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
   1240     FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
   1241     xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
   1242     empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
   1243     (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
   1244     Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
   1245     (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
   1246     xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
   1247    - improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionary support for
   1248     hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
   1249     subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
   1250     values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
   1251   Stansvik),
   1252    - Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)
   1253 
   1254 
   1255 2.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
   1256    - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
   1257     maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
   1258     (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
   1259     (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
   1260     McNichol)
   1261    - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
   1262     to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
   1263     ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
   1264     warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
   1265     UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
   1266     push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
   1267     Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
   1268     patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
   1269     sometimes missing.
   1270    - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
   1271     (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
   1272     (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
   1273     serialize().
   1274    - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
   1275     the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
   1276     Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
   1277     (Phil Shafer)
   1278    - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
   1279   (William).
   1280 
   1281 
   1282 2.6.16: Nov 10 2004:
   1283    - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
   1284     automated regression testing
   1285    - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
   1286    - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
   1287     conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
   1288     Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
   1289    - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
   1290     were updated.
   1291    - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
   1292     Hendricks)
   1293 
   1294 
   1295 2.6.15: Oct 27 2004:
   1296    - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
   1297    - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
   1298     source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
   1299    - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
   1300     paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
   1301     saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
   1302     (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
   1303     fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
   1304     on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
   1305     by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
   1306     entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
   1307     (William).
   1308    - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
   1309     module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
   1310     Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
   1311 
   1312 
   1313 2.6.14: Sep 29 2004:
   1314    - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
   1315     without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
   1316     Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
   1317    - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
   1318     Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
   1319     transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
   1320     (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
   1321     handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
   1322     date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
   1323     E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
   1324    - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
   1325     xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
   1326     (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
   1327     Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
   1328     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)
   1329 
   1330 
   1331 2.6.13: Aug 31 2004:
   1332    - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
   1333     Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
   1334    - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
   1335     (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
   1336     and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
   1337     problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
   1338     genrate a serialization loop.
   1339    - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
   1340     and --load-trace options to xmllint
   1341    - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)
   1342 
   1343 
   1344 2.6.12: Aug 22 2004:
   1345    - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
   1346     Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
   1347     Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
   1348    - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
   1349     (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
   1350     Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
   1351     (Torkel Lyng)
   1352    - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
   1353    - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
   1354     debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
   1355     xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
   1356     handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
   1357     memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
   1358     handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
   1359     htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
   1360     (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
   1361     xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
   1362   (William)
   1363    - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
   1364     (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
   1365     xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
   1366     to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
   1367     tag (William)
   1368    - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
   1369     schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)
   1370 
   1371 
   1372 2.6.11: July 5 2004:
   1373    - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
   1374     attributes, namespaces and simple types.
   1375    - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
   1376     (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
   1377    - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
   1378     path on Windows
   1379    - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
   1380     (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
   1381    - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
   1382     properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
   1383     (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
   1384     by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
   1385     with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
   1386     Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
   1387     streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
   1388     libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
   1389     Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
   1390     improvement (with Stphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
   1391     synchronous behaviour.
   1392    - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
   1393     namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
   1394     test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
   1395     XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
   1396     Parent and William)
   1397    - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
   1398     and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
   1399     the code generated in the RPM packages.
   1400 
   1401 
   1402 2.6.10: May 17 2004:
   1403    - Web page generated for ChangeLog
   1404    - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
   1405    - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
   1406     vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
   1407     use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
   1408   Davis),
   1409    - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
   1410     (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
   1411     xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
   1412     escaping, added escaping customization
   1413    - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
   1414     Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
   1415     URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
   1416     transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
   1417     Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
   1418     (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
   1419     xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
   1420 
   1421 
   1422 2.6.9: Apr 18 2004:
   1423    - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
   1424    - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
   1425     Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
   1426     William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
   1427     William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
   1428     fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
   1429     validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
   1430     schemas
   1431    - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
   1432     save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
   1433     Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
   1434     dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
   1435     clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
   1436    - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
   1437     example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
   1438    - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
   1439     compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
   1440 
   1441 
   1442 2.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
   1443    - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
   1444    - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
   1445     Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
   1446    - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
   1447    - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
   1448    - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
   1449     reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
   1450     failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
   1451    - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
   1452    - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
   1453     Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
   1454     URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
   1455     XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
   1456     reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
   1457     groups '-' handling (William), dictionary reference counting problems,
   1458     do not close stderr.
   1459    - performance patches from Petr Pajas
   1460    - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
   1461    - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
   1462     (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
   1463     to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
   1464     Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
   1465 
   1466 
   1467 2.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
   1468    - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
   1469    - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
   1470    - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
   1471    - DTD ID handling optimization
   1472    - bugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
   1473     mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
   1474     xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
   1475     handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
   1476    - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
   1477    - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
   1478 
   1479 
   1480 2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
   1481    - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
   1482     William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
   1483    - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
   1484     (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
   1485     (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionaries issues (William and Oleg
   1486     Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
   1487     XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
   1488     isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
   1489     entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
   1490     <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
   1491    - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
   1492     (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
   1493     --with-minimum configuration.
   1494    - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
   1495    - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
   1496     dependancies (John Fleck)
   1497    - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
   1498    - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
   1499     prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
   1500   patch
   1501    - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
   1502     input.
   1503 
   1504 
   1505 2.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
   1506    - Bugfixes: dictionaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
   1507     (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
   1508     (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
   1509     namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
   1510     (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
   1511     evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
   1512     XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
   1513     callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
   1514    - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
   1515     Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
   1516    - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stphane Bidoul),
   1517     structured error reporting (Stphane Bidoul)
   1518    - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionary
   1519     references (William & me), recursion (William)
   1520    - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
   1521     Mickautsch),
   1522    - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
   1523    - code cleanup for strings functions (William)
   1524    - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
   1525    - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionary APIs for future
   1526     XSLT optimizations.
   1527 
   1528 
   1529 2.6.4: Dec 24 2003:
   1530    - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
   1531    - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
   1532    - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
   1533    - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
   1534     (Lucas Brasilino)
   1535    - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
   1536     NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
   1537     filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
   1538     again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
   1539     Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
   1540     double inclusion behaviour
   1541 
   1542 
   1543 2.6.3: Dec 10 2003:
   1544    - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
   1545    - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
   1546     Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
   1547    - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
   1548     (Kenneth Haley)
   1549    - Unicode range checking (William Brack)
   1550    - code cleanup (William Brack)
   1551    - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixes
   1552    - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
   1553    - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
   1554     xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
   1555     (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
   1556     cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
   1557     Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
   1558     (Daniel Schulman)
   1559    - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
   1560     namespace change.
   1561    - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
   1562     namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
   1563     based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
   1564    - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
   1565     constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
   1566     when streaming.
   1567    - various fixes in the structured error handling
   1568 
   1569 
   1570 2.6.2: Nov 4 2003:
   1571    - XPath context unregistration fixes
   1572    - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
   1573    - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
   1574    - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
   1575    - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
   1576    - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
   1577    - stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
   1578    - a posteriori DTD validation fixes
   1579    - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
   1580    - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
   1581    - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
   1582   functions
   1583    - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
   1584    - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
   1585    - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
   1586    - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
   1587    - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
   1588    - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
   1589     --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
   1590     serializer)
   1591 
   1592 
   1593 2.6.1: Oct 28 2003:
   1594    - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
   1595    - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
   1596     (William Brack)
   1597    - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
   1598     Zlatkovic)
   1599    - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
   1600    - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
   1601    - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
   1602   Bennett)
   1603    - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
   1604    - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
   1605     (Stephane Bidoul)
   1606    - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
   1607    - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
   1608    - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
   1609    - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
   1610    - 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.
   1613 
   1614 
   1615 2.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
   1616    - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
   1617     of change
   1618    - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
   1619     a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
   1620    - Use per parser and per document dictionary, allocate names and small
   1621     text nodes from the dictionary
   1622    - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
   1623     provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
   1624     allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
   1625     immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
   1626    - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
   1627     intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
   1628   available.
   1629    - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
   1630     easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
   1631     consecutive documents.
   1632    - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
   1633     functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
   1634   bindings
   1635    - a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
   1636     Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
   1637     make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
   1638     extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
   1639     algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
   1640     access
   1641    - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
   1642    - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
   1643    - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
   1644     and charset information if available.
   1645    - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
   1646     zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
   1647    - Python bindings (Stphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
   1648   output
   1649    - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
   1650     convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
   1651     Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
   1652     Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
   1653     warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
   1654     'Shard' Konicki)
   1655    - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
   1656     tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)
   1657    - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
   1658     mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
   1659     and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
   1660     on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
   1661     namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
   1662     (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
   1663     Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
   1664     mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
   1665     (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
   1666     error handling.
   1667    - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
   1668     testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionary, --nocdata to
   1669     replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
   1670     declarations
   1671    - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming
   1672    - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
   1673     xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
   1674     allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
   1675     on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
   1676    - cleanup of "make tests"
   1677    - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick
   1678    - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
   1679     parser instead.
   1680 
   1681 
   1682 2.5.11: Sep 9 2003:
   1683 A bugfix only release:   - risk of crash in Relax-NG
   1684    - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs
   1685 
   1686 
   1687 2.5.10: Aug 15 2003:
   1688 A bugfixes only release   - Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
   1689    - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
   1690    - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
   1691     on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
   1692    - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
   1693    - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
   1694    - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
   1695    - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
   1696    - and a couple other cleanup
   1697 
   1698 
   1699 2.5.9: Aug 9 2003:
   1700    - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
   1701     (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
   1702     (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
   1703     xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
   1704     Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
   1705     content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
   1706     progressive HTML parser
   1707    - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )
   1708    - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
   1709    - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
   1710    - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
   1711    - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
   1712    - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
   1713    - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
   1714    - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
   1715   Brack)
   1716 
   1717 
   1718 2.5.8: Jul 6 2003:
   1719    - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
   1720     Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
   1721     PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
   1722     Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
   1723     rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
   1724     xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
   1725    - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)
   1726    - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems
   1727    - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)
   1728    - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stphane
   1729     Bidoul)
   1730    - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements
   1731    - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)
   1732    - Python bindings for thread globals (Stphane Bidoul), and method/class
   1733     generator
   1734    - added --nonet option to xmllint
   1735    - documentation improvements (John Fleck)
   1736 
   1737 
   1738 2.5.7: Apr 25 2003:
   1739    - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
   1740     xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
   1741    - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes
   1742    - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance
   1743    - Thread support is now configured in by default
   1744    - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
   1745     (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
   1746     and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
   1747     behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
   1748     error conditions
   1749    - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
   1750     allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
   1751     accordingly.
   1752    - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
   1753     xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
   1754    - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation
   1755    - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)
   1756 
   1757 
   1758 2.5.6: Apr 1 2003:
   1759    - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
   1760     binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
   1761    - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
   1762     XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
   1763     Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
   1764    - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings
   1765    - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)
   1766    - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
   1767     errors
   1768 
   1769 
   1770 2.5.5: Mar 24 2003:
   1771    - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
   1772     DocBook and TEI examples.
   1773    - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype
   1774    - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer
   1775    - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
   1776     conversion, line counting in the parser.
   1777    - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete
   1778    - Fixed the RPM spec file name
   1779 
   1780 
   1781 2.5.4: Feb 20 2003:
   1782    - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
   1783     implementation
   1784    - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
   1785    - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
   1786     namespaces,
   1787     2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
   1788     generation problem.
   1789   
   1790    - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
   1791    - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
   1792    - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)
   1793 
   1794 
   1795 2.5.3: Feb 10 2003:
   1796    - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
   1797     version of RelaxNG Python bindings
   1798    - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
   1799     serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
   1800   serialization
   1801    - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file
   1802 
   1803 
   1804 2.5.2: Feb 5 2003:
   1805    - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
   1806    - Schemas support now compiled in by default.
   1807    - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
   1808     delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stphane Bidoul),
   1809     XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
   1810     consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
   1811   namespaces
   1812    - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
   1813    - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
   1814     patches (Stefan Kost)
   1815    - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
   1816    - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
   1817     (Stphane Bidoul)
   1818    - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)
   1819 
   1820 
   1821 2.5.1: Jan 8 2003:
   1822    - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
   1823    - documentation updates (John)
   1824    - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes
   1825 
   1826 
   1827 2.5.0: Jan 6 2003:
   1828    - New XmltextReader interface based on C#
   1829     API (with help of Stphane Bidoul)
   1830    - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
   1831    - XInclude fallback fix
   1832    - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stphane Bidoul),
   1833     drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
   1834     and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
   1835    - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
   1836   (John)
   1837    - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
   1838    - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
   1839    - Entities handling fixes
   1840    - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
   1841   Schroeder)
   1842    - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines
   1843 
   1844 
   1845 2.4.30: Dec 12 2002:
   1846    - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
   1847    - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
   1848     fixes.
   1849 
   1850 
   1851 2.4.29: Dec 11 2002:
   1852    - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
   1853     (Stphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
   1854    - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
   1855    - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
   1856    - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
   1857     dump
   1858    - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
   1859    - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
   1860    - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
   1861    - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
   1862     more information needed for C# bindings
   1863 
   1864 
   1865 2.4.28: Nov 22 2002:
   1866    - a couple of python binding fixes
   1867    - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
   1868    - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
   1869    - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
   1870    - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
   1871    - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
   1872    - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)
   1873 
   1874 
   1875 2.4.27: Nov 17 2002:
   1876    - fixes for the Python bindings
   1877    - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
   1878     HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
   1879     (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
   1880     xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
   1881     Pajas), entities processing
   1882    - added grep to xmllint --shell
   1883    - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
   1884    - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
   1885     better thread support on Windows
   1886    - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
   1887    - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)
   1888 
   1889 
   1890 2.4.26: Oct 18 2002:
   1891    - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
   1892    - Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
   1893     HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
   1894   problems
   1895 
   1896 
   1897 2.4.25: Sep 26 2002:
   1898    - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
   1899     tree, xmlI/O,  Html
   1900    - Serious rewrite of XInclude
   1901    - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
   1902     and improvement of the regexp core
   1903    - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs
   1904    - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
   1905     Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
   1906    - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
   1907     APIs
   1908    - New logos from Marc Liyanage
   1909    - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris
   1910    - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
   1911   Merlet)
   1912    - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting
   1913    - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation
   1914    - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)
   1915 
   1916 2.4.24: Aug 22 2002   - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
   1917    - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
   1918     (fcrozat)
   1919    - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
   1920    - C14N improvements by Aleksey
   1921    - doc cleanups: Rick Jones
   1922    - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
   1923    - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added
   1924 
   1925 
   1926 2.4.23: July 6 2002:
   1927    - performances patches: Peter Jacobi
   1928    - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
   1929    - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
   1930    - new tutorial: John Fleck
   1931    - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
   1932     Peter Jacobi
   1933    - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
   1934     HTML parsers, ID lookup function
   1935    - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin
   1936 
   1937 
   1938 2.4.22: May 27 2002:
   1939    - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
   1940     usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
   1941     indentation, URI parsing
   1942    - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
   1943     protocol handlers (Aleksey)
   1944    - performance patch from Gary Pennington
   1945    - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
   1946   datatypes
   1947 
   1948 
   1949 2.4.21: Apr 29 2002:
   1950 This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
   1951 Schemas structures at 
   1952 http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
   1953  and datatypes at 
   1954 http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
   1955  code, beware, all
   1956 interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
   1957 progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
   1958 it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
   1959    - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20
   1960    - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor
   1961    - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
   1962   Jinks
   1963    - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification
   1964    - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn
   1965 
   1966 
   1967 2.4.20: Apr 15 2002:
   1968    - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation
   1969    - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks
   1970    - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
   1971     libxml.m4
   1972 
   1973 
   1974 2.4.19: Mar 25 2002:
   1975    - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
   1976     encoder
   1977    - portability fixes in the HTTP code
   1978    - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests
   1979    - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles
   1980 
   1981 
   1982 2.4.18: Mar 18 2002:
   1983    - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
   1984   XPath
   1985    - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable
   1986    - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles
   1987    - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets
   1988    - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation
   1989 
   1990 
   1991 2.4.17: Mar 8 2002:
   1992    - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
   1993   XPath"
   1994    - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
   1995     regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets
   1996    - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin
   1997 
   1998 
   1999 2.4.16: Feb 20 2002:
   2000    - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
   2001     from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.
   2002    - a couple of portability fixes too.
   2003 
   2004 
   2005 2.4.15: Feb 11 2002:
   2006    - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones
   2007    - A few bug fixes and cleanup
   2008    - Includes cleanup
   2009 
   2010 
   2011 2.4.14: Feb 8 2002:
   2012    - Change of License to the MIT
   2013     License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
   2014     confusion around the previous dual-licensing
   2015    - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
   2016     complete
   2017    - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
   2018     manipulations
   2019    - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
   2020   XML
   2021 
   2022 
   2023 2.4.13: Jan 14 2002:
   2024    - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
   2025    - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
   2026    - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
   2027     Narojnyi
   2028    - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
   2029    - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg
   2030 
   2031 
   2032 2.4.12: Dec 7 2001:
   2033    - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
   2034     XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
   2035   (robert)
   2036    - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
   2037    - some makefiles cleanups
   2038 
   2039 
   2040 2.4.11: Nov 26 2001:
   2041    - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
   2042     cleanups
   2043    - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
   2044    - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
   2045    - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor
   2046 
   2047 
   2048 2.4.10: Nov 10 2001:
   2049    - URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
   2050    - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
   2051    - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
   2052    - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
   2053     --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
   2054    - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
   2055    - fixes to the HTML parser
   2056 
   2057 
   2058 2.4.9: Nov 6 2001:
   2059    - fixes more catalog bugs
   2060    - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
   2061 
   2062 
   2063 2.4.8: Nov 4 2001:
   2064    - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
   2065   tool
   2066    - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
   2067 
   2068 
   2069 2.4.7: Oct 30 2001:
   2070    - exported some debugging interfaces
   2071    - serious rewrite of the catalog code
   2072    - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
   2073     and regression tests
   2074    - removed an HTML parser bug
   2075    - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
   2076    - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
   2077    - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
   2078    - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
   2079    - general bug fixes
   2080    - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
   2081    - some VMS and Windows updates
   2082 
   2083 
   2084 2.4.6: Oct 10 2001:
   2085    - added an updated man pages by John Fleck
   2086    - portability and configure fixes
   2087    - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
   2088    - Windows makefile patches from Igor
   2089    - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt
   2090    - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs
   2091 
   2092 
   2093 2.4.5: Sep 14 2001:
   2094    - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
   2095    - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
   2096     version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones
   2097 
   2098 
   2099 1.8.16: Sep 14 2001:
   2100    - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
   2101     portability fixes
   2102 
   2103 
   2104 2.4.4: Sep 12 2001:
   2105    - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
   2106   Catalog
   2107    - a few bug fixes and some portability changes
   2108    - some documentation cleanups
   2109 
   2110 
   2111 2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001:
   2112    - XML Catalog support see the doc
   2113    - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
   2114    - A few bug fixes
   2115 
   2116 
   2117 2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001:
   2118    - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
   2119    - lot of bug fixes
   2120    - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date
   2121    - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
   2122    - fixes a serious potential security bug
   2123    - added a --format option to xmllint
   2124 
   2125 
   2126 2.4.1:  July 24 2001:
   2127    - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
   2128    - some computation NaN fixes
   2129    - extension of the XPath API
   2130    - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
   2131    - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST
   2132 
   2133 
   2134 2.4.0: July 10 2001:
   2135    - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
   2136    - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
   2137     regression tests
   2138    - A bit of cleanup
   2139 
   2140 
   2141 2.3.14: July 5 2001:
   2142    - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
   2143     substituting them
   2144    - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
   2145     substantially faster
   2146    - Makefiles and configure cleanups
   2147    - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
   2148    - HTML tag closing bug fixed
   2149    - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating
   2150 
   2151 
   2152 2.3.13: June 28 2001:
   2153    - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
   2154    - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek
   2155 
   2156 
   2157 1.8.14: June 28 2001:
   2158    - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
   2159    - Small Makefile fix
   2160 
   2161 
   2162 2.3.12: June 26 2001:
   2163    - lots of cleanup
   2164    - a couple of validation fix
   2165    - fixed line number counting
   2166    - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
   2167    - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
   2168    - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
   2169     miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
   2170     optimizer on Tru64
   2171    - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
   2172     compilation on Windows MSC
   2173    - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
   2174    - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code
   2175 
   2176 
   2177 2.3.11: June 17 2001:
   2178    - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
   2179     problems (alpha)
   2180    - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
   2181     handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code
   2182    - added xmlHasNsProp()
   2183    - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
   2184     parser
   2185    - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
   2186     node selection)
   2187    - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
   2188    - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
   2189    - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
   2190    - added --version to xmllint for bug reports
   2191 
   2192 
   2193 2.3.10: June 1 2001:
   2194    - fixed the SGML catalog support
   2195    - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
   2196     XInclude processing
   2197    - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly
   2198 
   2199 
   2200 2.3.9: May 19 2001:
   2201 Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
   2202    - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom
   2203    - some serious speed optimization again
   2204    - some documentation cleanups
   2205    - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
   2206    - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
   2207    - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
   2208     xmlValidGetValidElements()
   2209    - Added an INSTALL file
   2210    - Attribute removal added to API: #54433
   2211    - added a basic support for SGML catalogs
   2212    - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
   2213    - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
   2214    - fixed a small configure portability problem
   2215    - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document
   2216 
   2217 
   2218 1.8.13: May 14 2001:
   2219    - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome
   2220 
   2221 
   2222 2.3.8: May 3 2001:
   2223    - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
   2224    - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
   2225    - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
   2226     point portability issue
   2227    - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
   2228     DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
   2229    - incorporated more Windows cleanup
   2230    - added xmlSaveFormatFile()
   2231    - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
   2232    - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module
   2233 
   2234 
   2235 2.3.7: April 22 2001:
   2236    - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
   2237    - Non deterministic content model validation support
   2238    - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
   2239    - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
   2240    - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting
   2241    - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
   2242    - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
   2243    - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
   2244    - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
   2245    - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese
   2246 
   2247 
   2248 2.3.6: April 8 2001:
   2249    - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
   2250     cleared half a dozen potential problem
   2251    - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
   2252    - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
   2253     trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
   2254     them
   2255    - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
   2256     problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
   2257     broken ...
   2258 
   2259 
   2260 2.3.5: Mar 23 2001:
   2261    - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
   2262     there is some new APIs for this too
   2263    - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
   2264   52299)
   2265    - Fixed some portability issues
   2266 
   2267 
   2268 2.3.4: Mar 10 2001:
   2269    - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
   2270    - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
   2271     size to be application tunable.
   2272    - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
   2273     should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\
   2274    - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
   2275     parser
   2276    - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
   2277    - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
   2278    - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
   2279    - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
   2280     are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance
   2281 
   2282 
   2283 2.3.3: Mar 1 2001:
   2284    - small change in XPath for XSLT
   2285    - documentation cleanups
   2286    - fix in validation by Gary Pennington
   2287    - serious parsing performances improvements
   2288 
   2289 
   2290 2.3.2: Feb 24 2001:
   2291    - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
   2292    - fixed a Dtd parsing bug
   2293    - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
   2294    - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington
   2295 
   2296 
   2297 2.3.1: Feb 15 2001:
   2298    - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
   2299    - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
   2300     implementation
   2301    - A few bug fixes
   2302 
   2303 
   2304 2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track):
   2305    - Lots of XPath bug fixes
   2306    - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
   2307     XSLT
   2308    - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
   2309    - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
   2310    - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
   2311    - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
   2312    - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
   2313   libxml2-devel
   2314    - the example Makefile is now fixed
   2315    - added HTML to the RPM packages
   2316    - tree copying bugfixes
   2317    - updates to Windows makefiles
   2318    - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese
   2319 
   2320 
   2321 2.2.11: Jan 4 2001:
   2322    - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
   2323    - added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
   2324    - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
   2325    - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
   2326    - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support
   2327 
   2328 
   2329 2.2.10: Nov 25 2000:
   2330    - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
   2331    - integrate OpenVMS patches
   2332    - better handling of some nasty HTML input
   2333    - Improved the XPointer implementation
   2334    - integrate a number of provided patches
   2335 
   2336 
   2337 2.2.9: Nov 25 2000:
   2338    - erroneous release :-(
   2339 
   2340 
   2341 2.2.8: Nov 13 2000:
   2342    - First version of XInclude
   2343     support
   2344    - Patch in conditional section handling
   2345    - updated MS compiler project
   2346    - fixed some XPath problems
   2347    - added an URI escaping function
   2348    - some other bug fixes
   2349 
   2350 
   2351 2.2.7: Oct 31 2000:
   2352    - added message redirection
   2353    - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
   2354    - xmlIOParseDTD() added
   2355    - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
   2356    - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content
   2357 
   2358 
   2359 2.2.6: Oct 25 2000::
   2360    - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
   2361     those
   2362    - Fixed a posteriori validation problems
   2363    - HTTP module cleanups
   2364    - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
   2365     normalization)
   2366    - coalescing of adjacent text nodes
   2367    - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API
   2368 
   2369 
   2370 2.2.5: Oct 15 2000::
   2371    - XPointer implementation and testsuite
   2372    - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
   2373     tests
   2374    - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
   2375     and release
   2376    - Late validation fixes
   2377    - Integrated a lot of contributed patches
   2378    - added memory management docs
   2379    - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed
   2380 
   2381 
   2382 2.2.4: Oct 1 2000::
   2383    - main XPath problem fixed
   2384    - Integrated portability patches for Windows
   2385    - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code
   2386 
   2387 
   2388 2.2.3: Sep 17 2000:
   2389    - bug fixes
   2390    - cleanup of entity handling code
   2391    - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
   2392     checked too
   2393    - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
   2394     works smoothly now.
   2395 
   2396 
   2397 1.8.10: Sep 6 2000:
   2398    - bug fix release for some Gnome projects
   2399 
   2400 
   2401 2.2.2: August 12 2000:
   2402    - mostly bug fixes
   2403    - started adding routines to access xml parser context options
   2404 
   2405 
   2406 2.2.1: July 21 2000:
   2407    - a purely bug fixes release
   2408    - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
   2409    - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
   2410    - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
   2411     allocation routines
   2412 
   2413 
   2414 2.2.0: July 14 2000:
   2415    - applied a lot of portability fixes
   2416    - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
   2417     encoded in UTF-8)
   2418    - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
   2419    - added xmlHasProp()
   2420    - fixed a serious problem with &#38;
   2421    - propagated the fix to FTP client
   2422    - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
   2423    - Added a page about libxml Internationalization
   2424     support
   2425 
   2426 
   2427 1.8.9:  July 9 2000:
   2428    - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
   2429    - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
   2430     rpmfind users problem
   2431 
   2432 
   2433 2.1.1: July 1 2000:
   2434    - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
   2435    - improvements on the HTML parser
   2436 
   2437 
   2438 2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000:
   2439    - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
   2440     to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem
   2441     about &#38; charref parsing
   2442    - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
   2443     also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
   2444     
   2445       added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
   2446       improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
   2447       includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
   2448       tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
   2449         related problems
   2450       output to a given encoding has been added/tested
   2451       lot of various fixes
   2452     
   2453   
   2454    - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
   2455    - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
   2456    - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
   2457    - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
   2458         related problems
   2459    - output to a given encoding has been added/tested
   2460    - lot of various fixes
   2461 
   2462 
   2463 2.0.0: Apr 12 2000:
   2464    - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
   2465     idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
   2466     scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
   2467     workload.
   2468    - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
   2469     $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
   2470     #include <libxml/xxx.h>
   2471     instead of
   2472     #include "xxx.h"
   2473   
   2474    - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
   2475    - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
   2476     dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
   2477    - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
   2478     xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2
   2479     package
   2480    - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
   2481     specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
   2482     xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
   2483     parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
   2484    - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
   2485     number of the libxml module in use
   2486    - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
   2487     configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)
   2488 
   2489 
   2490 2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000:
   2491    - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
   2492    - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org
   2493     FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
   2494   RPMs
   2495    - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
   2496     available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
   2497    - This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
   2498     of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
   2499     upgrade page
   2500    - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
   2501    - the updates includes:
   2502     
   2503       fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
   2504         handled now
   2505       Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
   2506         and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
   2507       DTD conditional sections
   2508       Validation now correctly handle entities content
   2509       change
   2510         structures to accommodate DOM
   2511     
   2512   
   2513    - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
   2514         handled now
   2515    - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
   2516         and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
   2517    - DTD conditional sections
   2518    - Validation now correctly handle entities content
   2519    - change
   2520         structures to accommodate DOM
   2521    - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the
   2522     OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
   2523     encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
   2524     head version.
   2525 
   2526 
   2527 1.8.7: Mar 6 2000:
   2528    - This is a bug fix release:
   2529    - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
   2530     libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
   2531     that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
   2532     default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
   2533     old code.
   2534    - Blanks in <a>  </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
   2535     avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
   2536    - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
   2537     compilation on some platforms has been fixed
   2538    - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
   2539   URIs
   2540 
   2541 
   2542 1.8.6: Jan 31 2000:
   2543    - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use
   2544     it without troubles
   2545 
   2546 
   2547 1.8.5: Jan 21 2000:
   2548    - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the
   2549     XML spec)
   2550    - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus (a] fast.no
   2551    - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg (a] home.com> provided another patch trying
   2552     to solve the zlib checks problems
   2553    - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
   2554     gnumeric soon
   2555 
   2556 
   2557 1.8.4: Jan 13 2000:
   2558    - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
   2559    - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
   2560    - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
   2561    - added newDocFragment()
   2562 
   2563 
   2564 1.8.3: Jan 5 2000:
   2565    - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
   2566    - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
   2567    - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays
   2568    - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
   2569    - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
   2570    - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
   2571    - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
   2572     xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added
   2573    - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff
   2574 
   2575 
   2576 1.8.2: Dec 21 1999:
   2577    - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
   2578     for good this time
   2579    - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
   2580     xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
   2581     xmlDocSetRootElement
   2582    - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey
   2583 
   2584 
   2585 1.8.1: Dec 18 1999:
   2586    - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
   2587     the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
   2588    - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
   2589    - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
   2590     and more specifically the Dia application
   2591    - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
   2592     Dtd not specified in the original document)
   2593    - fixed a bug in
   2594 
   2595 
   2596 1.8.0: Dec 12 1999:
   2597    - cleanup, especially memory wise
   2598    - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
   2599     not crash, whatever the input !
   2600    - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
   2601     dataset from Carl Nygard,
   2602     configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
   2603    - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
   2604    - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
   2605     does entities escaping by default.
   2606 
   2607 
   2608 1.7.4: Oct 25 1999:
   2609    - Lots of HTML improvement
   2610    - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
   2611    - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
   2612    - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref
   2613 
   2614 
   2615 1.7.3: Sep 29 1999:
   2616    - portability problems fixed
   2617    - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
   2618     were it's not available, fixed
   2619 
   2620 
   2621 1.7.1: Sep 24 1999:
   2622    - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
   2623     1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason
   2624     is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
   2625     on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
   2626     #define .
   2627    - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
   2628     leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro
   2629 
   2630 
   2631 1.7.0: Sep 23 1999:
   2632    - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module.
   2633    - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
   2634     like callback
   2635    - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
   2636    - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module)
   2637    - Improvement of XPath
   2638     implementation
   2639    - Added an HTML parser front-end
   2640 
   2641 Daniel Veillard at 
   2642 bugs.html
   2643