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-to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.9.4: May 23 2016</h3><ul>
+to the <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/">GIT</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>v2.9.5: Sep 04 2017</h3><ul>
+
+ <li>Security:<br />
+ Detect infinite recursion in parameter entities (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix handling of parameter-entity references (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Disallow namespace nodes in XPointer ranges (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix XPointer paths beginning with range-to (Nick Wellnhofer)<br />
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Documentation:<br />
+ Documentation fixes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Spelling and grammar fixes (Nick Wellnhofer)<br />
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Portability:<br />
+ Adding README.zOS to list of extra files for the release (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Description of work needed to compile on zOS (Stéphane Michaut),<br />
+ Porting libxml2 on zOS encoding of code (Stéphane Michaut),<br />
+ small changes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br />
+ relaxng.c, xmlschemas.c: Fix build on pre-C99 compilers (Chun-wei Fan)<br />
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Bug Fixes:<br />
+ Problem resolving relative URIs (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Fix unwanted warnings when switching encodings (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix signature of xmlSchemaAugmentImportedIDC (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Heap-buffer-overflow read of size 1 in xmlFAParsePosCharGroup (David Kilzer),<br />
+ Fix NULL pointer deref in xmlFAParseCharClassEsc (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix infinite loops with push parser in recovery mode (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Send xmllint usage error to stderr (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix NULL deref in xmlParseExternalEntityPrivate (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Make sure not to call IS_BLANK_CH when parsing the DTD (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix xmlHaltParser (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix pathological performance when outputting charrefs (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix invalid-source-encoding warnings in testWriter.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix duplicate SAX callbacks for entity content (David Kilzer),<br />
+ Treat URIs with scheme as absolute in C14N (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix copy-paste errors in error messages (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix sanity check in htmlParseNameComplex (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix potential infinite loop in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Reset parser input pointers on encoding failure (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlParseEntityDecl error path (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix xmlBuildRelativeURI for URIs starting with './' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix type confusion in xmlValidateOneNamespace (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlStringLenGetNodeList (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix NULL pointer deref in xmlDumpElementContent (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Stop parser on unsupported encodings (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Check for integer overflow in memory debug code (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix buffer size checks in xmlSnprintfElementContent (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Avoid reparsing in xmlParseStartTag2 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix undefined behavior in xmlRegExecPushStringInternal (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Check XPath exponents for overflow (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Check for overflow in xmlXPathIsPositionalPredicate (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix spurious error message (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlCanonicPath (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlXPathCompareNodeSetValue (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in pattern error path (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in parser error path (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leaks in XPointer error paths (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in xmlXPathNodeSetMergeAndClear (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leak in XPath filter optimizations (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix memory leaks in XPath error paths (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Do not leak the new CData node if adding fails (David Tardon),<br />
+ Prevent unwanted external entity reference (Neel Mehta),<br />
+ Increase buffer space for port in HTTP redirect support (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Fix more NULL pointer derefs in xpointer.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Avoid function/data pointer conversion in xpath.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix format string warnings (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Disallow namespace nodes in XPointer points (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix comparison with root node in xmlXPathCmpNodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix attribute decoding during XML schema validation (Alex Henrie),<br />
+ Fix NULL pointer deref in XPointer range-to (Nick Wellnhofer)<br />
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Improvements:<br />
+ Updating the spec file to reflect Fedora 24 (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Add const in five places to move 1 KiB to .rdata (Bruce Dawson),<br />
+ Fix missing part of comment for function xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Get rid of "blanks wrapper" for parameter entities (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Simplify handling of parameter entity references (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Deduplicate code in encoding.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Make HTML parser functions take const pointers (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Build test programs only when needed (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix doc/examples/index.py (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix compiler warnings in threads.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix empty-body warning in nanohttp.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix cast-align warnings (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix unused-parameter warnings (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Rework entity boundary checks (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Don't switch encoding for internal parameter entities (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Merge duplicate code paths handling PE references (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Test SAX2 callbacks with entity substitution (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Support catalog and threads tests under --without-sax1 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Misc fixes for 'make tests' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Initialize keepBlanks in HTML parser (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Add test cases for bug 758518 (David Kilzer),<br />
+ Fix compiler warning in htmlParseElementInternal (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Remove useless check in xmlParseAttributeListDecl (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Allow zero sized memory input buffers (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Add TODO comment in xmlSwitchEncoding (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Check for integer overflow in xmlXPathFormatNumber (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Make Travis print UBSan stacktraces (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Add .travis.yml (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix expected error output in Python tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Simplify control flow in xmlParseStartTag2 (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Disable LeakSanitizer when running API tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Avoid out-of-bound array access in API tests (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Avoid spurious UBSan errors in parser.c (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Parse small XPath numbers more accurately (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Rework XPath rounding functions (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix white space in test output (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Fix axis traversal from attribute and namespace nodes (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Check for trailing characters in XPath expressions earlier (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Rework final handling of XPath results (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Make xmlXPathEvalExpression call xmlXPathEval (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Remove unused variables (Nick Wellnhofer),<br />
+ Don't print generic error messages in XPath tests (Nick Wellnhofer)<br />
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Cleanups:<br />
+ Fix a couple of misleading indentation errors (Daniel Veillard),<br />
+ Remove unnecessary calls to xmlPopInput (Nick Wellnhofer)<br />
+ </li>
+</ul><h3>2.9.4: May 23 2016</h3><ul>
<li>Security:<br />
More format string warnings with possible format string vulnerability (David Kilzer),<br />
Avoid building recursive entities (Daniel Veillard),<br />
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