1
2        NEWS file for libxml2
3
4  Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5       http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
6
7Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
8to help those   - More testing on RelaxNG
9   - Finishing up XML
10  Schemas
11
12The change log at 
13ChangeLog.html
14 describes the recents commits
15to the SVN at 
16http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/
17 code base.Here is the list of public releases:
182.7.6: Oct  6 2009:
19   -  Bug Fixes:
20     Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
21     URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
22     Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
23  
24
25
262.7.5: Sep 24 2009:
27   -  Bug Fixes:
28    Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
29    Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
30    595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
31    Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
32    Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
33    link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
34    594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
35  
36   -  Cleanup:
37    Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
38  
39
40
412.7.4: Sep 10 2009:
42   - Improvements:
43    Switch to GIT (GNOME),
44    Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
45  
46   - Portability:
47    593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
48    594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
49    Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
50    Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
51    Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
52    Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
53    Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
54    Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
55    584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
56    574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
57    Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
58    545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
59    xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
60    Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
61    Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
62    Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
63    Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
64    fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
65    fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
66  
67   - Documentation:
68    544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
69    Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
70    Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
71    560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
72    Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
73    updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
74    more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
75  
76   - Bug fixes:
77    594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
78    Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
79    492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
80    558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
81    558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
82    579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
83    502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
84    566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
85    566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
86    584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
87    587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
88    444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),
89    Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
90    Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
91    440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
92    572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
93    Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
94    Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
95    566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
96    541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
97    541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
98    583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
99    587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
100    559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
101    559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
102    Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
103    592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
104    447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
105    446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
106    Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
107    Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
108    512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
109    512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
110    588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
111    582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
112    579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
113    575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
114    571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
115    570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
116    567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
117    574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
118    Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
119    585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
120    582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
121    Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
122    Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
123    576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
124    Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
125    Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
126    Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
127    Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
128    potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
129    Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
130    Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
131    Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
132    Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
133    reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
134    use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
135    581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
136    584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
137    580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
138    581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
139    do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
140    564217 fix structured error handling problems,
141    reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
142    xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
143    add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
144    avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
145  
146   - Cleanup:
147    Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
148    A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
149    Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
150    Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
151    Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
152    Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
153    555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
154    542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
155    Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
156    Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
157    Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
158    hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
159    570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
160    cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
161  
162
163
1642.7.3: Jan 18 2009:
165   - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.
166   - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
167      indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
168      xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
169      xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
170      avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
171      deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).
172   - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
173      limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
174      APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
175      add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
176      parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).
177
178
1792.7.2: Oct 3 2008:
180   - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
181        if XPath is not configured in
182   - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
183        when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
184        bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
185    
186   - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
187        XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents
188
189
1902.7.1: Sep 1 2008:
191   - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)
192   - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
193        case handking and leaks (Martin)
194   - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees
195   - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers
196
197
1982.7.0: Aug 30 2008:
199   - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
200      xmlParserCleanup docs
201   - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
202      porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
203      non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
204      
205   - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
206      (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
207      Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
208      parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
209      tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
210      (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
211      when encoder cant serialize characters on output
212   - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
213      (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
214      serious cleanup of the entity handling code
215   - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
216      for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
217      add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
218      new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
219      improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
220      regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
221      to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
222      arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option
223
224
2252.6.32: Apr 8 2008:
226   - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
227      trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
228      (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
229      XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)
230   - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
231      paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
232      patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
233      SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
234      regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
235      document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
236      writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
237      detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
238      team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
239      (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
240      Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
241      allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
242      problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
243      the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
244      out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
245      (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
246      conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
247      functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
248      (Mark Rowe)
249   - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
250      mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
251      Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
252      a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
253      cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
254      fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
255      duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
256      (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)
257   - improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
258      (Tobias Minich)
259
260
2612.6.31: Jan 11 2008:
262   - Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing
263   - Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
264      xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
265      (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
266      XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
267      xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
268      parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
269      deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
270      HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
271      output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 
272      (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
273      
274   - Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
275      copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
276      some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)
277   - Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
278      testURI --debug option, 
279
280
2812.6.30: Aug 23 2007:
282   - Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
283      (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)
284   - Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
285      reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
286      xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
287      (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
288      detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
289      generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
290      problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
291      (William Brack)
292
293
2942.6.29: Jun 12 2007:
295   - Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
296      fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
297      (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
298      improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
299      new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)
300   - Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, 
301   - Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
302      flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
303      htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
304      typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
305      (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
306      nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
307      xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
308      XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
309      sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
310      dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
311      error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
312      workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
313      invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 
314      internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
315      the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker) 
316   - Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
317      embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) 
318
319
3202.6.28: Apr 17 2007:
321   - Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
322      (James Dennett)
323   - Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
324      (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
325      on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
326      principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
327      (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
328      standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
329      for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
330      (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
331      concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
332      in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
333      python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
334      (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
335      XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
336      fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
337      min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)
338   - Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public
339   - Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
340      __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
341      (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
342      Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)
343   - Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes
344
345
3462.6.27: Oct 25 2006:
347   - Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 
348      Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 
349      AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive
350   - improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
351      (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
352      equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
353      improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 
354      support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
355      (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
356      Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
357      of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 
358      python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 
359      try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
360      add --html --memory case to xmllint
361   - building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 
362      const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
363      portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
364      Breitenlohner),  remove the build path recorded in the python
365      shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
366      (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
367      --with-minimum --with-schemas builds
368   - bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
369      attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 
370      xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
371      missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
372      (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
373      serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
374      xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
375      allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
376      fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
377      crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
378      when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 
379      using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
380      context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
381      autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
382      fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
383      validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 
384      XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
385      in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
386      meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 
387      HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
388      htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
389      xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
390      htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
391      bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
392      
393   - documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
394      fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
395      xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
396      functions
397
398
3992.6.26: Jun 6 2006:
400   - portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
401    error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)
402   - bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
403    xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
404    variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
405    Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
406    leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
407    selfdocument.
408   - improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
409    cache(Kasimier)
410
411
4122.6.25: Jun 6 2006::
413Do not use or package 2.6.25
4142.6.24: Apr 28 2006:
415   - Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
416      (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
417      HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
418      cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
419      Windows (Roland Schwingel).
420      
421   - Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
422      Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.
423   - Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
424      on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
425      bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &
426      Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
427      one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
428      XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
429      left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
430      xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
431      number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
432      in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
433      fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 
434      xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
435      code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
436      line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). 
437   - Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
438   - New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.
439
440
4412.6.23: Jan 5 2006:
442   - portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
443    (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
444    --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
445    on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
446    Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
447    MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
448  Jones),
449   - code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
450    (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
451    parsing code (Bjorn Reese)
452   - bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
453    combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
454    xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
455    Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
456    XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
457    xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
458    xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
459    vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
460    split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
461    xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
462    HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
463    exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
464    totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
465    xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
466    Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
467    XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
468    fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
469    (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
470    runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
471    (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
472    compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
473    xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
474    pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)
475   - improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
476    Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
477    transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
478    standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
479    (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
480    (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
481    htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),
482   - documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
483    function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
484
485
4862.6.22: Sep 12 2005:
487   - build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)
488   - bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
489    CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
490    XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
491    output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
492    XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
493    (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
494   - improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
495    XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
496    derive (Kasimier Buchcik).
497   - documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
498    devhelp.
499
500
5012.6.21: Sep 4 2005:
502   - build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
503    convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
504    sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
505    on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
506    Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
507    compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
508    Z/OS,
509   - bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
510    bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
511    htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
512    Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
513    xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
514    foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
515    Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
516    namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
517    (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
518    xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
519    messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
520    fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
521    Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
522    serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
523    XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
524    Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
525    type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
526    xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
527    error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
528    xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
529  bugs.
530   - improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
531    (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
532    (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
533    not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
534    error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
535    yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
536    for text nodes allocation.
537   - documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
538
539
5402.6.20: Jul 10 2005:
541   - build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
542    Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
543    andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
544    pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
545    of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
546    compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
547    distribution.
548   - bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
549    HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
550    overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
551    (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
552    (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
553    on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
554    exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
555    Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
556    QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
557    (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
558    Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
559    Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
560    areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
561  (William).
562   - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
563    conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
564    Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
565    Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
566    (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
567    xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
568    standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
569    xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
570    xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
571    Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
572    ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
573    standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
574    xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
575    Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
576
577
5782.6.19: Apr 02 2005:
579   - build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
580    Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
581    5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
582    Linux/ELF/gcc4
583   - bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
584    code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
585    Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
586    segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
587    (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
588    HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
589    leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
590    encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
591    gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
592    switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
593    serialization time
594   - improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
595    checking and also mixed handling.
596   - 
597
598
5992.6.18: Mar 13 2005:
600   - build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
601    Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
602    some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
603   - bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
604    xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
605    reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
606    saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
607    fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
608    (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
609    xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
610    FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
611    xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
612    empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
613    (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
614    Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
615    (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
616    xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
617   - improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
618    hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
619    subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
620    values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
621  Stansvik),
622   - Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)
623
624
6252.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
626   - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
627    maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
628    (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
629    (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
630    McNichol)
631   - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
632    to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
633    ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
634    warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
635    UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
636    push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
637    Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
638    patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
639    sometimes missing.
640   - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
641    (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
642    (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
643    serialize().
644   - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
645    the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
646    Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
647    (Phil Shafer)
648   - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
649  (William).
650
651
6522.6.16: Nov 10 2004:
653   - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
654    automated regression testing
655   - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
656   - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
657    conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
658    Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
659   - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
660    were updated.
661   - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
662    Hendricks)
663
664
6652.6.15: Oct 27 2004:
666   - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
667   - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
668    source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
669   - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
670    paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
671    saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
672    (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
673    fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
674    on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
675    by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
676    entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
677    (William).
678   - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
679    module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
680    Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
681
682
6832.6.14: Sep 29 2004:
684   - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
685    without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
686    Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
687   - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
688    Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
689    transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
690    (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
691    handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
692    date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
693    E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
694   - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
695    xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
696    (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
697    Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
698    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)
699
700
7012.6.13: Aug 31 2004:
702   - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
703    Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
704   - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
705    (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
706    and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
707    problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
708    genrate a serialization loop.
709   - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
710    and --load-trace options to xmllint
711   - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)
712
713
7142.6.12: Aug 22 2004:
715   - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
716    Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
717    Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
718   - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
719    (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
720    Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
721    (Torkel Lyng)
722   - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
723   - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
724    debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
725    xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
726    handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
727    memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
728    handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
729    htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
730    (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
731    xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
732  (William)
733   - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
734    (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
735    xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
736    to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
737    tag (William)
738   - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
739    schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)
740
741
7422.6.11: July 5 2004:
743   - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
744    attributes, namespaces and simple types.
745   - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
746    (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
747   - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
748    path on Windows
749   - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
750    (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
751   - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
752    properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
753    (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
754    by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
755    with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
756    Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
757    streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
758    libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
759    Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
760    improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
761    synchronous behaviour.
762   - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
763    namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
764    test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
765    XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
766    Parent and William)
767   - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
768    and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
769    the code generated in the RPM packages.
770
771
7722.6.10: May 17 2004:
773   - Web page generated for ChangeLog
774   - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
775   - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
776    vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
777    use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
778  Davis),
779   - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
780    (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
781    xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
782    escaping, added escaping customization
783   - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
784    Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
785    URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
786    transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
787    Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
788    (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
789    xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
790
791
7922.6.9: Apr 18 2004:
793   - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
794   - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
795    Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
796    William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
797    William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
798    fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
799    validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
800    schemas
801   - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
802    save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
803    Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
804    dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
805    clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
806   - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
807    example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
808   - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
809    compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
810
811
8122.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
813   - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
814   - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
815    Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
816   - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
817   - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
818   - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
819    reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
820    failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
821   - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
822   - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
823    Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
824    URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
825    XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
826    reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
827    groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
828    do not close stderr.
829   - performance patches from Petr Pajas
830   - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
831   - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
832    (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
833    to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
834    Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
835
836
8372.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
838   - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
839   - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
840   - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
841   - DTD ID handling optimization
842   - bugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
843    mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
844    xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
845    handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
846   - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
847   - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
848
849
8502.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
851   - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
852    William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
853   - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
854    (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
855    (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
856    Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
857    XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
858    isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
859    entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
860    <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
861   - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
862    (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
863    --with-minimum configuration.
864   - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
865   - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
866    dependancies (John Fleck)
867   - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
868   - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
869    prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
870  patch
871   - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
872    input.
873
874
8752.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
876   - Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
877    (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
878    (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
879    namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
880    (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
881    evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
882    XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
883    callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
884   - Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
885    Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
886   - Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
887    structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)
888   - XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
889    references (William & me), recursion (William)
890   - xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
891    Mickautsch),
892   - xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
893   - code cleanup for strings functions (William)
894   - Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
895   - Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
896    XSLT optimizations.
897
898
8992.6.4: Dec 24 2003:
900   - Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
901   - Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
902   - Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
903   - Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
904    (Lucas Brasilino)
905   - bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
906    NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
907    filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
908    again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
909    Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
910    double inclusion behaviour
911
912
9132.6.3: Dec 10 2003:
914   - documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
915   - added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
916    Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
917   - Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
918    (Kenneth Haley)
919   - Unicode range checking (William Brack)
920   - code cleanup (William Brack)
921   - Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixes
922   - UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
923   - bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
924    xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
925    (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
926    cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
927    Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
928    (Daniel Schulman)
929   - XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
930    namespace change.
931   - XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
932    namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
933    based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
934   - preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
935    constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
936    when streaming.
937   - various fixes in the structured error handling
938
939
9402.6.2: Nov 4 2003:
941   - XPath context unregistration fixes
942   - text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
943   - API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
944   - BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
945   - xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
946   - compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
947   - stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
948   - a posteriori DTD validation fixes
949   - xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
950   - fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
951   - always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
952  functions
953   - added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
954   - implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
955   - DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
956   - HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
957   - XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
958   - fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
959    --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
960    serializer)
961
962
9632.6.1: Oct 28 2003:
964   - Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
965   - Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
966    (William Brack)
967   - Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
968    Zlatkovic)
969   - xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
970   - chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
971   - context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
972  Bennett)
973   - context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
974   - defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
975    (Stephane Bidoul)
976   - Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
977   - Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
978   - xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
979   - testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
980   - general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
981    Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
982    XPath errors not reported,  slow HTML parsing of large documents.
983
984
9852.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
986   - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
987    of change
988   - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
989    a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
990   - Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
991    text nodes from the dictionnary
992   - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
993    provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
994    allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
995    immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
996   - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
997    intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
998  available.
999   - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
1000    easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
1001    consecutive documents.
1002   - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
1003    functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
1004  bindings
1005   - a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
1006    Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
1007    make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
1008    extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
1009    algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
1010    access
1011   - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
1012   - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
1013   - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
1014    and charset information if available.
1015   - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
1016    zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
1017   - Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
1018  output
1019   - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
1020    convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
1021    Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
1022    Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
1023    warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
1024    'Shard' Konicki)
1025   - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
1026    tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)
1027   - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
1028    mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
1029    and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
1030    on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
1031    namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
1032    (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
1033    Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
1034    mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
1035    (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
1036    error handling.
1037   - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
1038    testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
1039    replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
1040    declarations
1041   - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming
1042   - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
1043    xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
1044    allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
1045    on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
1046   - cleanup of "make tests"
1047   - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick
1048   - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
1049    parser instead.
1050
1051
10522.5.11: Sep 9 2003:
1053A bugfix only release:   - risk of crash in Relax-NG
1054   - risk of crash when using multithreaded programs
1055
1056
10572.5.10: Aug 15 2003:
1058A bugfixes only release   - Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
1059   - UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
1060   - Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
1061    on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
1062   - HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
1063   - XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
1064   - XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
1065   - xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
1066   - and a couple other cleanup
1067
1068
10692.5.9: Aug 9 2003:
1070   - bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
1071    (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
1072    (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
1073    xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
1074    Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
1075    content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
1076    progressive HTML parser
1077   - better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )
1078   - adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
1079   - doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
1080   - configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
1081   - couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
1082   - general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
1083   - xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
1084   - general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
1085  Brack)
1086
1087
10882.5.8: Jul 6 2003:
1089   - bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
1090    Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
1091    PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
1092    Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
1093    rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
1094    xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
1095   - portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)
1096   - William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems
1097   - IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)
1098   - Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
1099    Bidoul)
1100   - A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements
1101   - W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)
1102   - Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
1103    generator
1104   - added --nonet option to xmllint
1105   - documentation improvements (John Fleck)
1106
1107
11082.5.7: Apr 25 2003:
1109   - Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
1110    xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
1111   - xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes
1112   - Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance
1113   - Thread support is now configured in by default
1114   - Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
1115    (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
1116    and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
1117    behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
1118    error conditions
1119   - extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
1120    allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
1121    accordingly.
1122   - Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
1123    xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
1124   - Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation
1125   - Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)
1126
1127
11282.5.6: Apr 1 2003:
1129   - Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
1130    binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
1131   - bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
1132    XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
1133    Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
1134   - portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings
1135   - documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)
1136   - improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
1137    errors
1138
1139
11402.5.5: Mar 24 2003:
1141   - Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
1142    DocBook and TEI examples.
1143   - Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype
1144   - Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer
1145   - Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
1146    conversion, line counting in the parser.
1147   - Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete
1148   - Fixed the RPM spec file name
1149
1150
11512.5.4: Feb 20 2003:
1152   - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
1153    implementation
1154   - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
1155   - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
1156    namespaces,
1157    2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
1158    generation problem.
1159  
1160   - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
1161   - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
1162   - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)
1163
1164
11652.5.3: Feb 10 2003:
1166   - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
1167    version of RelaxNG Python bindings
1168   - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
1169    serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
1170  serialization
1171   - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file
1172
1173
11742.5.2: Feb 5 2003:
1175   - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
1176   - Schemas support now compiled in by default.
1177   - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
1178    delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
1179    XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
1180    consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
1181  namespaces
1182   - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
1183   - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
1184    patches (Stefan Kost)
1185   - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
1186   - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
1187    (Stéphane Bidoul)
1188   - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)
1189
1190
11912.5.1: Jan 8 2003:
1192   - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
1193   - documentation updates (John)
1194   - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes
1195
1196
11972.5.0: Jan 6 2003:
1198   - New XmltextReader interface based on C#
1199    API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)
1200   - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
1201   - XInclude fallback fix
1202   - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
1203    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
1204    and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
1205   - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
1206  (John)
1207   - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
1208   - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
1209   - Entities handling fixes
1210   - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
1211  Schroeder)
1212   - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines
1213
1214
12152.4.30: Dec 12 2002:
1216   - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
1217   - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
1218    fixes.
1219
1220
12212.4.29: Dec 11 2002:
1222   - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
1223    (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
1224   - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
1225   - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
1226   - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
1227    dump
1228   - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
1229   - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
1230   - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
1231   - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
1232    more information needed for C# bindings
1233
1234
12352.4.28: Nov 22 2002:
1236   - a couple of python binding fixes
1237   - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
1238   - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
1239   - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
1240   - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
1241   - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
1242   - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)
1243
1244
12452.4.27: Nov 17 2002:
1246   - fixes for the Python bindings
1247   - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
1248    HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
1249    (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
1250    xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
1251    Pajas), entities processing
1252   - added grep to xmllint --shell
1253   - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
1254   - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
1255    better thread support on Windows
1256   - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
1257   - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)
1258
1259
12602.4.26: Oct 18 2002:
1261   - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
1262   - Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
1263    HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
1264  problems
1265
1266
12672.4.25: Sep 26 2002:
1268   - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
1269    tree, xmlI/O,  Html
1270   - Serious rewrite of XInclude
1271   - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
1272    and improvement of the regexp core
1273   - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs
1274   - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
1275    Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
1276   - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
1277    APIs
1278   - New logos from Marc Liyanage
1279   - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris
1280   - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
1281  Merlet)
1282   - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting
1283   - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation
1284   - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)
1285
12862.4.24: Aug 22 2002   - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
1287   - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
1288    (fcrozat)
1289   - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
1290   - C14N improvements by Aleksey
1291   - doc cleanups: Rick Jones
1292   - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
1293   - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added
1294
1295
12962.4.23: July 6 2002:
1297   - performances patches: Peter Jacobi
1298   - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
1299   - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
1300   - new tutorial: John Fleck
1301   - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
1302    Peter Jacobi
1303   - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
1304    HTML parsers, ID lookup function
1305   - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin
1306
1307
13082.4.22: May 27 2002:
1309   - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
1310    usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
1311    indentation, URI parsing
1312   - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
1313    protocol handlers (Aleksey)
1314   - performance patch from Gary Pennington
1315   - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
1316  datatypes
1317
1318
13192.4.21: Apr 29 2002:
1320This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
1321Schemas structures at 
1322http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
1323 and datatypes at 
1324http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
1325 code, beware, all
1326interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
1327progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
1328it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:   - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20
1329   - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor
1330   - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
1331  Jinks
1332   - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification
1333   - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn
1334
1335
13362.4.20: Apr 15 2002:
1337   - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation
1338   - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks
1339   - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
1340    libxml.m4
1341
1342
13432.4.19: Mar 25 2002:
1344   - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
1345    encoder
1346   - portability fixes in the HTTP code
1347   - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests
1348   - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles
1349
1350
13512.4.18: Mar 18 2002:
1352   - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
1353  XPath
1354   - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable
1355   - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles
1356   - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets
1357   - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation
1358
1359
13602.4.17: Mar 8 2002:
1361   - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
1362  XPath"
1363   - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
1364    regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets
1365   - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin
1366
1367
13682.4.16: Feb 20 2002:
1369   - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
1370    from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.
1371   - a couple of portability fixes too.
1372
1373
13742.4.15: Feb 11 2002:
1375   - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones
1376   - A few bug fixes and cleanup
1377   - Includes cleanup
1378
1379
13802.4.14: Feb 8 2002:
1381   - Change of License to the MIT
1382    License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
1383    confusion around the previous dual-licensing
1384   - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
1385    complete
1386   - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
1387    manipulations
1388   - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
1389  XML
1390
1391
13922.4.13: Jan 14 2002:
1393   - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
1394   - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
1395   - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
1396    Narojnyi
1397   - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
1398   - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg
1399
1400
14012.4.12: Dec 7 2001:
1402   - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
1403    XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
1404  (robert)
1405   - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
1406   - some makefiles cleanups
1407
1408
14092.4.11: Nov 26 2001:
1410   - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
1411    cleanups
1412   - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
1413   - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
1414   - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor
1415
1416
14172.4.10: Nov 10 2001:
1418   - URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
1419   - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
1420   - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
1421   - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
1422    --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
1423   - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
1424   - fixes to the HTML parser
1425
1426
14272.4.9: Nov 6 2001:
1428   - fixes more catalog bugs
1429   - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
1430
1431
14322.4.8: Nov 4 2001:
1433   - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
1434  tool
1435   - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
1436
1437
14382.4.7: Oct 30 2001:
1439   - exported some debugging interfaces
1440   - serious rewrite of the catalog code
1441   - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
1442    and regression tests
1443   - removed an HTML parser bug
1444   - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
1445   - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
1446   - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
1447   - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
1448   - general bug fixes
1449   - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
1450   - some VMS and Windows updates
1451
1452
14532.4.6: Oct 10 2001:
1454   - added an updated man pages by John Fleck
1455   - portability and configure fixes
1456   - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
1457   - Windows makefile patches from Igor
1458   - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt
1459   - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs
1460
1461
14622.4.5: Sep 14 2001:
1463   - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
1464   - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
1465    version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones
1466
1467
14681.8.16: Sep 14 2001:
1469   - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
1470    portability fixes
1471
1472
14732.4.4: Sep 12 2001:
1474   - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
1475  Catalog
1476   - a few bug fixes and some portability changes
1477   - some documentation cleanups
1478
1479
14802.4.3:  Aug 23 2001:
1481   - XML Catalog support see the doc
1482   - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
1483   - A few bug fixes
1484
1485
14862.4.2:  Aug 15 2001:
1487   - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
1488   - lot of bug fixes
1489   - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date
1490   - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
1491   - fixes a serious potential security bug
1492   - added a --format option to xmllint
1493
1494
14952.4.1:  July 24 2001:
1496   - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
1497   - some computation NaN fixes
1498   - extension of the XPath API
1499   - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
1500   - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST
1501
1502
15032.4.0: July 10 2001:
1504   - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
1505   - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
1506    regression tests
1507   - A bit of cleanup
1508
1509
15102.3.14: July 5 2001:
1511   - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
1512    substituting them
1513   - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
1514    substantially faster
1515   - Makefiles and configure cleanups
1516   - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
1517   - HTML tag closing bug fixed
1518   - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating
1519
1520
15212.3.13: June 28 2001:
1522   - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
1523   - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek
1524
1525
15261.8.14: June 28 2001:
1527   - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
1528   - Small Makefile fix
1529
1530
15312.3.12: June 26 2001:
1532   - lots of cleanup
1533   - a couple of validation fix
1534   - fixed line number counting
1535   - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
1536   - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
1537   - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
1538    miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
1539    optimizer on Tru64
1540   - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
1541    compilation on Windows MSC
1542   - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
1543   - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code
1544
1545
15462.3.11: June 17 2001:
1547   - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
1548    problems (alpha)
1549   - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
1550    handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code
1551   - added xmlHasNsProp()
1552   - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
1553    parser
1554   - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
1555    node selection)
1556   - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
1557   - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
1558   - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
1559   - added --version to xmllint for bug reports
1560
1561
15622.3.10: June 1 2001:
1563   - fixed the SGML catalog support
1564   - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
1565    XInclude processing
1566   - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly
1567
1568
15692.3.9: May 19 2001:
1570Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:   - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström
1571   - some serious speed optimization again
1572   - some documentation cleanups
1573   - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
1574   - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
1575   - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
1576    xmlValidGetValidElements()
1577   - Added an INSTALL file
1578   - Attribute removal added to API: #54433
1579   - added a basic support for SGML catalogs
1580   - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
1581   - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
1582   - fixed a small configure portability problem
1583   - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document
1584
1585
15861.8.13: May 14 2001:
1587   - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome
1588
1589
15902.3.8: May 3 2001:
1591   - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
1592   - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
1593   - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
1594    point portability issue
1595   - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
1596    DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
1597   - incorporated more Windows cleanup
1598   - added xmlSaveFormatFile()
1599   - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
1600   - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module
1601
1602
16032.3.7: April 22 2001:
1604   - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
1605   - Non deterministic content model validation support
1606   - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
1607   - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
1608   - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting
1609   - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
1610   - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
1611   - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
1612   - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
1613   - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese
1614
1615
16162.3.6: April 8 2001:
1617   - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
1618    cleared half a dozen potential problem
1619   - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
1620   - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
1621    trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
1622    them
1623   - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
1624    problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
1625    broken ...
1626
1627
16282.3.5: Mar 23 2001:
1629   - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
1630    there is some new APIs for this too
1631   - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
1632  52299)
1633   - Fixed some portability issues
1634
1635
16362.3.4: Mar 10 2001:
1637   - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
1638   - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
1639    size to be application tunable.
1640   - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
1641    should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\
1642   - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
1643    parser
1644   - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
1645   - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
1646   - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
1647   - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
1648    are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance
1649
1650
16512.3.3: Mar 1 2001:
1652   - small change in XPath for XSLT
1653   - documentation cleanups
1654   - fix in validation by Gary Pennington
1655   - serious parsing performances improvements
1656
1657
16582.3.2: Feb 24 2001:
1659   - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
1660   - fixed a Dtd parsing bug
1661   - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
1662   - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington
1663
1664
16652.3.1: Feb 15 2001:
1666   - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
1667   - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
1668    implementation
1669   - A few bug fixes
1670
1671
16722.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track):
1673   - Lots of XPath bug fixes
1674   - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
1675    XSLT
1676   - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
1677   - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
1678   - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
1679   - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
1680   - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
1681  libxml2-devel
1682   - the example Makefile is now fixed
1683   - added HTML to the RPM packages
1684   - tree copying bugfixes
1685   - updates to Windows makefiles
1686   - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese
1687
1688
16892.2.11: Jan 4 2001:
1690   - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
1691   - added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
1692   - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
1693   - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
1694   - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support
1695
1696
16972.2.10: Nov 25 2000:
1698   - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
1699   - integrate OpenVMS patches
1700   - better handling of some nasty HTML input
1701   - Improved the XPointer implementation
1702   - integrate a number of provided patches
1703
1704
17052.2.9: Nov 25 2000:
1706   - erroneous release :-(
1707
1708
17092.2.8: Nov 13 2000:
1710   - First version of XInclude
1711    support
1712   - Patch in conditional section handling
1713   - updated MS compiler project
1714   - fixed some XPath problems
1715   - added an URI escaping function
1716   - some other bug fixes
1717
1718
17192.2.7: Oct 31 2000:
1720   - added message redirection
1721   - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
1722   - xmlIOParseDTD() added
1723   - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
1724   - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content
1725
1726
17272.2.6: Oct 25 2000::
1728   - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
1729    those
1730   - Fixed a posteriori validation problems
1731   - HTTP module cleanups
1732   - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
1733    normalization)
1734   - coalescing of adjacent text nodes
1735   - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API
1736
1737
17382.2.5: Oct 15 2000::
1739   - XPointer implementation and testsuite
1740   - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
1741    tests
1742   - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
1743    and release
1744   - Late validation fixes
1745   - Integrated a lot of contributed patches
1746   - added memory management docs
1747   - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed
1748
1749
17502.2.4: Oct 1 2000::
1751   - main XPath problem fixed
1752   - Integrated portability patches for Windows
1753   - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code
1754
1755
17562.2.3: Sep 17 2000:
1757   - bug fixes
1758   - cleanup of entity handling code
1759   - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
1760    checked too
1761   - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
1762    works smoothly now.
1763
1764
17651.8.10: Sep 6 2000:
1766   - bug fix release for some Gnome projects
1767
1768
17692.2.2: August 12 2000:
1770   - mostly bug fixes
1771   - started adding routines to access xml parser context options
1772
1773
17742.2.1: July 21 2000:
1775   - a purely bug fixes release
1776   - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
1777   - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
1778   - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
1779    allocation routines
1780
1781
17822.2.0: July 14 2000:
1783   - applied a lot of portability fixes
1784   - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
1785    encoded in UTF-8)
1786   - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
1787   - added xmlHasProp()
1788   - fixed a serious problem with &#38;
1789   - propagated the fix to FTP client
1790   - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
1791   - Added a page about libxml Internationalization
1792    support
1793
1794
17951.8.9:  July 9 2000:
1796   - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
1797   - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
1798    rpmfind users problem
1799
1800
18012.1.1: July 1 2000:
1802   - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
1803   - improvements on the HTML parser
1804
1805
18062.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000:
1807   - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
1808    to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem
1809    about &#38; charref parsing
1810   - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
1811    also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
1812    added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
1813      improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
1814      includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
1815      tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
1816        related problems
1817      output to a given encoding has been added/tested
1818      lot of various fixes
1819    
1820   - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
1821   - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
1822   - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
1823   - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
1824        related problems
1825   - output to a given encoding has been added/tested
1826   - lot of various fixes
1827
1828
18292.0.0: Apr 12 2000:
1830   - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
1831    idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
1832    scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
1833    workload.
1834   - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
1835    $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
1836    #include <libxml/xxx.h>
1837    instead of
1838    #include "xxx.h"
1839  
1840   - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
1841   - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
1842    dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
1843   - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
1844    xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2
1845    package
1846   - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
1847    specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
1848    xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
1849    parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
1850   - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
1851    number of the libxml module in use
1852   - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
1853    configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)
1854
1855
18562.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000:
1857   - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
1858   - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org
1859    FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
1860  RPMs
1861   - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
1862    available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
1863   - This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
1864    of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
1865    upgrade page
1866   - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
1867   - the updates includes:
1868    fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
1869        handled now
1870      Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
1871        and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
1872      DTD conditional sections
1873      Validation now correctly handle entities content
1874      change
1875        structures to accommodate DOM
1876    
1877   - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
1878        handled now
1879   - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
1880        and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
1881   - DTD conditional sections
1882   - Validation now correctly handle entities content
1883   - change
1884        structures to accommodate DOM
1885   - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the
1886    OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
1887    encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
1888    head version.
1889
1890
18911.8.7: Mar 6 2000:
1892   - This is a bug fix release:
1893   - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
1894    libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
1895    that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
1896    default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
1897    old code.
1898   - Blanks in <a>  </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
1899    avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
1900   - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
1901    compilation on some platforms has been fixed
1902   - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
1903  URIs
1904
1905
19061.8.6: Jan 31 2000:
1907   - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use
1908    it without troubles
1909
1910
19111.8.5: Jan 21 2000:
1912   - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the
1913    XML spec)
1914   - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
1915   - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
1916    to solve the zlib checks problems
1917   - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
1918    gnumeric soon
1919
1920
19211.8.4: Jan 13 2000:
1922   - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
1923   - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
1924   - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
1925   - added newDocFragment()
1926
1927
19281.8.3: Jan 5 2000:
1929   - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
1930   - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
1931   - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays
1932   - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
1933   - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
1934   - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
1935   - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
1936    xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added
1937   - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff
1938
1939
19401.8.2: Dec 21 1999:
1941   - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
1942    for good this time
1943   - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
1944    xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
1945    xmlDocSetRootElement
1946   - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey
1947
1948
19491.8.1: Dec 18 1999:
1950   - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
1951    the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
1952   - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
1953   - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
1954    and more specifically the Dia application
1955   - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
1956    Dtd not specified in the original document)
1957   - fixed a bug in
1958
1959
19601.8.0: Dec 12 1999:
1961   - cleanup, especially memory wise
1962   - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
1963    not crash, whatever the input !
1964   - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
1965    dataset from Carl Nygard,
1966    configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
1967   - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
1968   - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
1969    does entities escaping by default.
1970
1971
19721.7.4: Oct 25 1999:
1973   - Lots of HTML improvement
1974   - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
1975   - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
1976   - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref
1977
1978
19791.7.3: Sep 29 1999:
1980   - portability problems fixed
1981   - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
1982    were it's not available, fixed
1983
1984
19851.7.1: Sep 24 1999:
1986   - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
1987    1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason
1988    is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
1989    on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
1990    #define .
1991   - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
1992    leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro
1993
1994
19951.7.0: Sep 23 1999:
1996   - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module.
1997   - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
1998    like callback
1999   - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
2000   - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module)
2001   - Improvement of XPath
2002    implementation
2003   - Added an HTML parser front-end
2004
2005Daniel Veillard at 
2006bugs.html
2007