<p>Here is the list of public releases:</p>
+<h3>2.9.2: Oct 16 2014</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>Security:<br/>
+ Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Bug Fixes:<br/>
+ fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),<br/>
+ xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),<br/>
+ Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing &lt; (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),<br/>
+ Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),<br/>
+ Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),<br/>
+ wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),<br/>
+ no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),<br/>
+ Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),<br/>
+ Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),<br/>
+ Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),<br/>
+ Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/>
+ Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/>
+ Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),<br/>
+ Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),<br/>
+ Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),<br/>
+ Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),<br/>
+ xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),<br/>
+ Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/>
+ Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),<br/>
+ Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),<br/>
+ Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),<br/>
+ Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),<br/>
+ Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),<br/>
+ Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),<br/>
+ Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Documentation:<br/>
+ typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/>
+ Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),<br/>
+ Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/>
+ Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),<br/>
+ Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Portability:<br/>
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),<br/>
+ OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),<br/>
+ Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/>
+ Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/>
+ Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/>
+ Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/>
+ Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),<br/>
+ Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),<br/>
+ Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),<br/>
+ Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),<br/>
+ fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),<br/>
+ Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),<br/>
+ python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),<br/>
+ python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),<br/>
+ Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Improvements:<br/>
+ win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),<br/>
+ Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),<br/>
+ Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),<br/>
+ wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),<br/>
+ doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),<br/>
+ Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),<br/>
+ Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),<br/>
+ xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),<br/>
+ Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),<br/>
+ adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),<br/>
+ Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),<br/>
+ Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Cleanups:<br/>
+ Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),<br/>
+ Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),<br/>
+ Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),<br/>
+ Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<h3>2.9.1: Apr 19 2013</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li> Features:<br/>
+ Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li> Documentation:<br/>
+ Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li> Portability:<br/>
+ Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),<br/>
+ Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),<br/>
+ Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),<br/>
+ Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),<br/>
+ Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),<br/>
+ Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),<br/>
+ Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li> Bug Fixes:<br/>
+ Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),<br/>
+ Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),<br/>
+ Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),<br/>
+ Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),<br/>
+ Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),<br/>
+ fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),<br/>
+ Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),<br/>
+ Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,<br/>
+Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,<br/>
+Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),<br/>
+ xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,<br/>
+Veillard),<br/>
+ Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),<br/>
+ Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,<br/>
+Veillard),<br/>
+ Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li> Improvements:<br/>
+ Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),<br/>
+ Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),<br/>
+ Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),<br/>
+ Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),<br/>
+ Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)<br/>
+ </li>
+
+ <li> Cleanups:<br/>
+ Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),<br/>
+ Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,<br/>
+Gansterer),<br/>
+ Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),<br/>
+ rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),<br/>
+ Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)<br/>
+ </li>
+</ul>
<h3>2.9.0: Sep 11 2012</h3>
<ul>
<li> Features:<br/>
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
-it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
+it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
+</p>
+
<ul>
<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
-<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
+<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
+</p>
<ul>
- <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
+ <li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrom</li>
<li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
<li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
<p>To get more detailed step-by-step guidance on using the SAX interface of
libxml, see the <a
-href="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/gnome/xml-sax/xml-sax.html">nice
+href="http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/libxml-sax/libxml-sax.html">nice
documentation</a>.written by <a href="mailto:james@daa.com.au">James
Henstridge</a>.</p>
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