CVS only : check the Changelog file
for a really accurate description
Items floating around but not actively worked on, get in touch with me if
you want to test those
- Implementing XSLT, this is done
as a separate C library on top of libxml called libxslt
- Finishing up XPointer and XInclude
- (seeems working but delayed from release) parsing/import of Docbook
SGML docs
2.4.13: Jan 14 2001
- update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
- cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
- fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Narojnyi
- Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
- added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg
2.4.12: Dec 7 2001
- a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
(robert)
- Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
- some makefiles cleanups
2.4.11: Nov 26 2001
- fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
cleanups
- xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
- updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
- Windows Makefiles updates from Igor
2.4.10: Nov 10 2001
- URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
- added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
- Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
- improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
--encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
- fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
- fixes to the HTML parser
2.4.9: Nov 6 2001
- fixes more catalog bugs
- avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
2.4.8: Nov 4 2001
- fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
tool
- fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
2.4.7: Oct 30 2001
- exported some debugging interfaces
- serious rewrite of the catalog code
- integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
and regression tests
- removed an HTML parser bug
- fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
- integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
- changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
- some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
- general bug fixes
- updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
- some VMS and Windows updates
2.4.6: Oct 10 2001
- added an updated man pages by John Fleck
- portability and configure fixes
- an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
- Windows makefile patches from Igor
- fixed half a dozen bugs reported fof libxml or libxslt
- updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs
2.4.5: Sep 14 2001
- Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
- forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones
1.8.16: Sep 14 2001
- maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
portability fixes
2.4.4: Sep 12 2001
- added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
Catalog
- a few bug fixes and some portability changes
- some documentation cleanups
2.4.3: Aug 23 2001
- XML Catalog support see the doc
- New NaN/Infinity floating point code
- A few bug fixes
2.4.2: Aug 15 2001
- adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
- lot of bug fixes
- the Microsoft MSC projects files shuld now be up to date
- inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
- fixes a serious potential security bug
- added a --format option to xmllint
2.4.1: July 24 2001
- possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
- some computation NaN fixes
- extension of the XPath API
- cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
- patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST
2.4.0: July 10 2001
- Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
- Fixed XML Base implementation, added a coupel of examples to the
regression tests
- A bit of cleanup
2.3.14: July 5 2001
- fixed some entities problems and reduce mem requirement when
substituing them
- lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
substancially faster
- Makefiles and configure cleanups
- Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
- HTML tag closing bug fixed
- Fixed an URI reference computating problem when validating
2.3.13: June 28 2001
- 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
- a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek
1.8.14: June 28 2001
- Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
- Small Makefile fix
2.3.12: June 26 2001
- lots of cleanup
- a couple of validation fix
- fixed line number counting
- fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
- added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
- fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
optimizer on Tru64
- incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
compilation on Windows MSC
- update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
- fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code
2.3.11: June 17 2001
- updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
problems (alpha)
- fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code
- added xmlHasNsProp()
- implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
parser
- some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
node selection)
- fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
- fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
- fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
- added --version to xmllint for bug reports
2.3.10: June 1 2001
- fixed the SGML catalog support
- a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
XInclude processing
- XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly
2.3.9: May 19 2001
Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
- HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström
- some serious speed optimisation again
- some documentation cleanups
- trying to get better linking on solaris (-R)
- XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
- Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
xmlValidGetValidElements()
- Added an INSTALL file
- Attribute removal added to API: #54433
- added a basic support for SGML catalogs
- fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
- bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
- fixed a small configure portability problem
- fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document
1.8.13: May 14 2001
- bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome
2.3.8: May 3 2001
- Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
- Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
- Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
point portability issue
- Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
- incorporated more Windows cleanup
- added xmlSaveFormatFile()
- fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
- removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module
2.3.7: April 22 2001
- lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
- Non determinist content model validation support
- added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
- revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
- XPath: corrctions of namespacessupport and number formatting
- Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
- HTML ouput fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
- Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
- fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
- portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese
2.3.6: April 8 2001
- Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
cleared half a dozen potential problem
- the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
- cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
them
- xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
broken ...
2.3.5: Mar 23 2001
- Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
there is some new APIs for this too
- included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
52299)
- Fixed some portability issues
2.3.4: Mar 10 2001
- Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
- Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
size to be application tunable.
- Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\
- Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
parser
- Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
- Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
- Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
- blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
are formatting spaces, this is for XmL conformance
2.3.3: Mar 1 2001
- small change in XPath for XSLT
- documentation cleanups
- fix in validation by Gary Pennington
- serious parsing performances improvements
2.3.2: Feb 24 2001
- chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
- fixed a Dtd parsing bug
- fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
- ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington
2.3.1: Feb 15 2001
- some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
- small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
implementation
- A few bug fixes
2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)
- Lots of XPath bug fixes
- Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
XSLT
- Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
- bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
- validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
- Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
- Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
libxml2-devel
- the example Makefile is now fixed
- added HTML to the RPM packages
- tree copying bugfixes
- updates to Windows makefiles
- optimisation patch from Bjorn Reese
2.2.11: Jan 4 2001
- bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
- added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
- Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
- Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
- added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support
2.2.10: Nov 25 2000
- Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
- integrate OpenVMS patches
- better handling of some nasty HTML input
- Improved the XPointer implementation
- integrate a number of provided patches
2.2.9: Nov 25 2000
2.2.8: Nov 13 2000
- First version of XInclude
support
- Patch in conditional section handling
- updated MS compiler project
- fixed some XPath problems
- added an URI escaping function
- some other bug fixes
2.2.7: Oct 31 2000
- added message redirection
- XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
- xmlIOParseDTD() added
- various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
- some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content
2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:
- Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
those
- Fixed a posteriori validation problems
- HTTP module cleanups
- HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
normalization)
- coalescing of adjacent text nodes
- couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API
2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:
- XPointer implementation and testsuite
- Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
tests
- Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
and release
- Late validation fixes
- Integrated a lot of contributed patches
- added memory management docs
- a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed
2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:
- main XPath problem fixed
- Integrated portability patches for Windows
- Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code
2.2.3: Sep 17 2000
- bug fixes
- cleanup of entity handling code
- overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
checked too
- Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against Docbook XML Dtd
works smoothly now.
1.8.10: Sep 6 2000
- bug fix release for some Gnome projects
2.2.2: August 12 2000
- mostly bug fixes
- started adding routines to access xml parser context options
2.2.1: July 21 2000
- a purely bug fixes release
- fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
- fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
- removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
allocation routines
2.2.0: July 14 2000
- applied a lot of portability fixes
- better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
encoded in UTF-8)
- the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
- added xmlHasProp()
- fixed a serious problem with &
- propagated the fix to FTP client
- cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
- Added a page about libxml Internationalization
support
1.8.9: July 9 2000
- fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
- fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
rpmfind users problem
2.1.1: July 1 2000
- fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
- improvements on the HTML parser
2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000
- 1.8.8 is mostly a comodity package for upgrading to libxml2 accoding to
new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem
about & charref parsing
- 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
- added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
- improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
- includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
- tried to fix as much as possible DtD validation and namespace
related problems
- output to a given encoding has been added/tested
- lot of various fixes
2.0.0: Apr 12 2000
- First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initally
scheduled for Apr 3 the relase occured only on Apr 12 due to massive
workload.
- The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
$prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
#include <libxml/xxx.h>
instead of
#include "xxx.h"
- a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
- the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
- The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2
package
- The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
- there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
number of the libxml module in use
- a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)
2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000
- This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
- It's available only fromxmlsoft.org
FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
RPMs
- This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
- This includes a very large set of changes. Froma programmatic point of
view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the upgrade page
- Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
- the updates includes:
- fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
handled now
- Better handling of entities, especially well formedness checking
and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
- DTD conditional sections
- Validation now correcly handle entities content
- change
structures to accomodate DOM
- Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the
OASIS testsuite (except the japanese tests since I don't support that
encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
head version.
1.8.7: Mar 6 2000
- This is a bug fix release:
- It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
old code.
- Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
- The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
compilation on some platforms has been fixed
- nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
URIs
1.8.6: Jan 31 2000
- added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use
it without troubles
1.8.5: Jan 21 2000
- adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the
XML spec)
- fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
- Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
to solve the zlib checks problems
- The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
gnumeric soon
1.8.4: Jan 13 2000
- bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
- all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
- fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
- added newDocFragment()
1.8.3: Jan 5 2000
- a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
- a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
- lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas hollidays
- fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
- added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
- Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
- External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added
- cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff
1.8.2: Dec 21 1999
- I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
for good this time
- Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
xmlDocSetRootElement
- Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey
1.8.1: Dec 18 1999
- various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
- a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
- fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
and more specifically the Dia application
- fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Dtd not specified in the original document)
- fixed a bug in
1.8.0: Dec 12 1999
- cleanup, especially memory wise
- the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
not crash, whatever the input !
- Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
dataset from Carl Nygard,
configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
- attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
- attributes defaulted from Dtds should be available, xmlSetProp() now
does entities escapting by default.
1.7.4: Oct 25 1999
- Lots of HTML improvement
- Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
- More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
- Fixed a bug with contiguous charref
1.7.3: Sep 29 1999
- portability problems fixed
- snprintf was used unconditionnally, leading to link problems on system
were it's not available, fixed
1.7.1: Sep 24 1999
- The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason
is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
#define .
- Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro
1.7.0: sep 23 1999
- Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module.
- Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
like callback
- Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
- Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module)
- Improvement of XPath
implementation
- Added an HTML parser front-end
Daniel Veillard
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