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commitstothe CVScode
base. There is the list of public releases: 2.6.26: Jun 6 2006portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
    error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
    xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
    variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
    Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
    leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
    selfdocument.improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
    cache(Kasimier)
 2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:Do not use or package 2.6.25 2.6.24: Apr 28 2006Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile
    onwindows(Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile
    (EricZurcher),HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config
    bugfix,gcc-4.1cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8
    file pathsonWindows (Roland Schwingel).Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces
    xmlDOMWrapCloneNode(KasimierBuchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones),
    update to Unicode4.01.Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23,
    xmlParseInNodeContext()onHTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob
    Richards), comment streamingbug,xmlParseComment (with William Brack),
    regexp bug fixes (DV &YouriGolovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA
    (Kasimier),one Relax-NGinterleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,XSD
    bugfixes (Kasimier),remove debugleft in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier),
    xmlCatalogAdd bug(Martin Cole),xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML
    IDness (RobRichards), a largenumber of cleanups and small fixes based on
    Coverityreports, bugin character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars
    Kalvans),schemasfix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse
    errordeallocation,xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error
    handling onunallowedcode point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net
    (GaryCoady),line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers).Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.
 2.6.23: Jan 5 2006portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on
    Windows(KoljaNowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan
    Maraas),--with-minimumcompilation fixes (William Brack), error case
    handling fixon Solaris(Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name
    reported bySamuel DiazGarcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert
    Chin),MinGW compilation(Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings
  (RickJones),code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), removexmlBufferClose(Geert
    Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko),refactoringparsing code
    (Bjorn Reese)bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path
    (WilliamBrack),combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code,
    leakinxmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities
    problem(MassimoMorara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault
    (KasimierBuchcik),XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV
    &Kasimier),xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier),
    potentialleak inxmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf()
    misuseofvsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob
    Richards),CRLFsplit problem (William), issues with non-namespaced
    attributesinxmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling()
    (RobRichards),HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout
    (NicFerrier),exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin),
    XSDdataypetotalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing
    toanxmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not
    reported(HisashiFujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code
    (AlbertChin), fixXSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of
    xs:decimal(Kasimier),fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak
    inxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml(Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting
    schemas(Kasimier), configuration ofruntime debugging
    (Kasimier),xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs(Oleksandr
    Kononenko),xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),compilation and build
    fixes(Michael Day), removed dependancies onxmlSchemaValidError
    (Kasimier), bugwith <xml:foo/>, more XPathpattern based evaluation
    fixes(Kasimier)improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions
    (KasimierBuchcik),node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards),
    countedtransitionbug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate
    nostandaloneattribute was found, add
    xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()(KasimierBuchcik), add
    xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API(Kasimier), handlegzipped HTTP
    resources (Gary Coady), addhtmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (RobRichards),documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert
    Chin),savefunction to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix
    (AronStansvik),
 2.6.22: Sep 12 2005build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg
    Paraschenko)i,CDATApush parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1
    doc,XML_FEATURE_xxxclash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix
    someoutput formattingfor meta element (Rob Richards), script and
    styleXHTML1 serialization(David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in
    XSD(Kasimier Buchcik),better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob
    Richards),addXML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements
    preparingforderive (Kasimier Buchcik).documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs,
  integrationwithdevhelp.
 2.6.21: Sep 4 2005build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P.
    Haase),callingconvention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups
    based onLinus'sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards),
    removewarningson Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1,
    detectionof thePython binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew
    W.Nosenko),compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem
    byC370 onZ/OS,bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML
    UTF-8bug(Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William
    Brack),htmlParseScriptpotential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces,
    Base64Schemascomparisons NIST passes, automata build error
    xsd:all,xmlGetNodePath fornamespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda),
    xmlSchemasforeign namespaceshandling, XML Schemas facet comparison
    (KupriyanovAnatolij),xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier
    Buchcik), xml:namespaceahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group
    in Schemas(Kasimier),wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition
    (William),xs:anyType inSchemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting
    errormessages directly,Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying
    tofix the file path/URIconversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix
    (RobRichards),xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML
    UTF-8serialization, streamingXPath, Schemas determinism detection
    problem,XInclude bug, Schemascontext type (Dean Hill), validation fix
    (DerekPoon),xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards),
    Schemastype fix(Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in
    encodinghandling,xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity
    nameextraction inerror handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body
    tags(Gary Coady),xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath
    streamingpatternsbugs.improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG
    errorreports(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner
    loopparsing(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron
    validationthoughnot finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration,
    keyrefmatcherror reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code
    notpluggedyet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser
    XML_PARSE_COMPACToptionfor text nodes allocation.documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
 2.6.20: Jul 10 2005build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw
    compilation(IgorZlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings
    (Kasimierandandriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to
    avoidthepthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve
    Nairn),compilingof subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation
    (WilliamBrack),compilation when disabling parts of the library,
    standalonetestdistribution.bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William
    Brack),HTTPquery strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD
    (William),integeroverflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size,
    pattern "." apthfixup(Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe,
    replaceNodepatch(Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc),
    xml:basefixupon XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute
    buginexclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with
    SAX2(RobRichards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe),
    XSDtypeQNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William),
    RelaxNGbug(Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal
    of ID(RobRichards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode
    bug(JamesBursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in
    CDATAsections,areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in
    DTDbug(William).improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik
    bothonconformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages
    (KasimierBuchcik,Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python
    level(BrentHendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests
    fromW3C/Nist(Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier),
    implementationofxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml
    (JamesWert),standalone test framework and programs, new DOM
    importAPIsxmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces()
    xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode()andxmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint
    capabilities for SAXandSchemas regression tests, xmlStopParser()
    available in pull modetoo,ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces
    support, Windows port ofthestandalone testing tools (Kasimier
    andWilliam),xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug()
    andxmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAXSchemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
 2.6.19: Apr 02 2005build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build
    fix(WilliamBrack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it
    breakswith AIX5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT
    reductioncode onLinux/ELF/gcc4bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack),
    xmmlintreturncode (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess
    andGUYFabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n
    (AlekseySanin),segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas
    attributevalidation(Kasimier), Prop related functions and
    xmlNewNodeEatName (RobRichards),HTML serialization of name attribute on a
    elements, Pythonerror handlersleaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks),
    uninitializedvariable inencoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential
    crashifgnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and
    xmlParseDocsignatures,switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding
    is givenatserialization timeimprovements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik
    onfacetschecking and also mixed handling.
 2.6.18: Mar 13 2005build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner),
    testapi.cgeneration,Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows
    compilation(Joel Reed),some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick
    Jones).bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik),
    pushandxmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support
    fordictionnariesreference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and
    pushproblem, URLsaved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes
    (Kasimier),Python pathsfixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and
    namespaces,xmlSetNsProp fix(Mike Hommey), warning should not count as
    error (WilliamBrack),xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser
    flags (William),cleanupFTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and
    IPv6(William),xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob
    Richards),XMLLINT_INDENT beingempty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob
    Richards),multithreading on Windows(Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix
    (Kasimier),Python binding leak (BrentHendricks), aliasing bug exposed by
    gcc4 ons390, xmlTextReaderNext bug(Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type
    fixes(William Brack),xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary
    supportforhash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier),
    streamingXPathsubset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese),
    Schemascanonicalvalues handling (Kasimier), add
    xmlTextReaderByteConsumed(AronStansvik),Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)
 2.6.17: Jan 16 2005build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William
    Brack),maintainer-cleandependency(William), build in a different
    directory(William), fixing--with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS
    build(Marcin Konicki),Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX
    (DanMcNichol)bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob
    Richards),xmlCtxtReadFile()to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William
    Brack),XPath memory leak,ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard),
    debugDumpNodecrash (William),warning not using error callback (William),
    xmlStopParserbug (William),UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace
    bug on emptyelements inpush mode (Rob Richards), line and col
    computations fixups(AlekseySanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William),
    xmlXPathErr on bad range(William),patterns with too many steps, bug in
    RNG choice optimization,line numbersometimes missing.improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), pythongenerator(William),
    xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Pythonstrings(William), XSD
    error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__callserialize().new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and
    GetColumnNumberforthe xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries
    APIs (mostlyJoelReed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave
    option forformat(Phil Shafer)documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries(William).
 2.6.16: Nov 10 2004general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based
    onnewautomated regression testingbuild fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr
    Pajas,encodingconversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting
    XPathreported byMarkus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries
    (WilliamBrack)documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API
    functiondescritpionwere updated.improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python
    level(BrentHendricks)
 2.6.15: Oct 27 2004security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modulesbuild fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building
    outsidethesource tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names
    (William),Pythonpaths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default
    namespace(William),saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick),
    DTD lookupfix(Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William),
    treebuildfixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured
    errorhandleron Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory
    leakreportedby Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an
    internalsubset,entities and _private problem (William),
    xmlBuildRelativeURIerror(William).improvements: better XInclude error reports (William),
    treedebuggingmodule and tests, convenience functions at the Reader
    API(GrahamBennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
 2.6.14: Sep 29 2004build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and
    xsltproc,compilationwithout HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups
    (WilliamBrack &Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig
  Berry),bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName
    properties(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude testing, Notation
    serialization,UTF8ToISO8859xtranscoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML
    Schemas cleanupand fixes(Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal),
    memory fixes (MarkVakoc),handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array
    adressing inSchemasdate handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm
    Tredinnick),NMTOKENSE20 validation fix (Malcolm),improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier
    Buchcik),addxmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python
    exceptionhierearchy(Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver
    improvement(MalcolmTredinnick), Schemas support
    forxsi:schemaLocation,xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type
    (KasimierBuchcik)
 2.6.13: Aug 31 2004build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag withgcc,Solaris
    compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error
    reportsAPIs(Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8
    (WilliamBrackand Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier),
    defaultnamespaceproblem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values,
    encodingerror couldgenrate a serialization loop.Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added
    --pathand--load-trace options to xmllintdocumentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)
 2.6.12: Aug 22 2004build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h
    fixes(PeterBreitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on
    Solaris(AlbertChin), some 64bits cleanups.Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and
    spacemixes(William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support
    (GerritP.Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML
    Schemassupport(Torkel Lyng)Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcikfixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug
    (William),memorydebug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling
    (PeterBreitenlohner),xmlReader state after attribute reading
    (William),structured errorhandler (William), XInclude generated xml:base
    fixup(William), Windowsmemory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of
    Memoryconditionshandling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc()
    charsetbug,htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation
    DTDbase(William), notations serialization missing,
    xmlGetNodePath(Dodji),xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers
    onentity(William)improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William),
    xmlcatalogtool(Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment
    (MikeHommey),xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell,
    allowXIncludeto not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version
    toinclude CVStag (William)documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes(William)schemas
    API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (JohnFleck)
 2.6.11: July 5 2004Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier
    Buchcikforattributes, namespaces and simple types.build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcccleanup(William),
    --with-thread-alloc (William)portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic),Catalogpath
    on Windowsdocumentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint
    returncode(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey
    Sanin),testSAXproperly initialize the library (William), empty node set
    inXPath(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref
    problempointedby Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William),
    Relax-NGbugwith div processing (William), XPointer and
    xml:baseproblem(William),Reader and entities, xmllint return code for
    schemas(William), readerstreaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD
    serializationproblem (William),libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not
    providedestructors as methods onPython classes, xmlReader buffer bug,
    Pythonbindings memory interfacesimprovement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed
    thepush parser to be back tosynchronous behaviour.improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob
    Richards),registernamespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python
    basedregressiontest for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase
    thenumber ofXPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory
    leak(Marc-AntoineParent and William)performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF
    footprintandgenerated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to
    optimizethecode generated in the RPM packages.
 2.6.10: May 17 2004Web page generated for ChangeLogbuild fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make allportability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and
    Borland),memcmpvs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark
    Vakoc), C++ donotuse "list" as parameter name, make tests work with
    Python 1.5(EdDavis),improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small
    buffersresizing(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to
    xmllint,addxmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring
    ofserializationescaping, added escaping customizationbugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp
    bugs(WilliamBrack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration
    withreader,URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick
    Wellnhofer),regexptransition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas
    fixes(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird
    problemswith DTD(William), structured error handler callback context
    (William),reversexmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping
  '"'
 2.6.9: Apr 18 2004implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checkingbugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and
    CDATA(DaveBeckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp
    patches(withWilliam), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed
    problem(withWilliam), Relax-NG name classes compares (William),
    XIncludeduplicatefallback (William), external DTD encoding detection
    (William), aDTDvalidation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix,
    recusiveextentionschemasimprovements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark
    Vakoc),indentingsave optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP
    redirectbehaviour (IanHummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa),
    libxml2-pythonRPMdependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier
    Buchcik), warningremovalclanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when
    installing fromRPMsdocumentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John
    Fleck),newexample (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump()
  comments,Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work
    aroundMicrosoftcompiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
 2.6.8: Mar 23 2004First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIsXML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling
    fixes(AdamDickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results
    (William),externalreference in interleave (William), missing error
    on<choice>failure (William), memory leak in schemas
  datatypefacets.xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey
    andWilliamBrack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR,
    xmlcatalogfallbacks toURI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse
    flagsinheritance (William),XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities
    (William),XML parser bugreported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak
    (William),regexps chargroups '-' handling (William), dictionnary
    reference countingproblems,do not close stderr.performance patches from Petr PajasDocumentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid,
    catalogcleanups(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland
    Schwingel),cross-compilationto Windows (Christophe de Vienne), 
    --with-html-dirfixup (Julio MerinoVidal), Windows build (Eric
  Zurcher)
 2.6.7: Feb 23 2004documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark resultsxmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)DTD ID handling optimizationbugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William
    Brack),pushmode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream
    --timing,fixxmllint --memory --stream memory
    usage,xmlAttrSerializeTxtContenthandling NULL, trying to fix
    Relax-NG/Perlinterface.python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
 2.6.6: Feb 12 2004nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing
    (IgorandWilliam) reported by Yuuichi Teranishibugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter
    attributeserialization(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William),
    schemasvalidation(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues
    (Williamand OlegParaschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML
    warnings(William),XPointer in XInclude (William), Python
    namespaceserialization,isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch),
    output ofparameterentities in internal subset (William), internal subset
    bug inpush mode,<xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warningsremoval(Philip
    Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard),fix--with-minimum
    configuration.XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.Documentation: missing example/index.html (John
    Fleck),versiondependancies (John Fleck)reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail
    Grushinskiy),functionprototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler
    warnings,_WINSOCKAPI_patchParsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte
  offestininput.
 2.6.5: Jan 25 2004Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack),
    regexpsegfault(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of
    XPointerbugfixes(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation
    problemwithnamespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal
    optionsfixes(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance),
    XPathunionevaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL
    (AlekseySanin),XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no
    href,argumentcallbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt
    stylesheets(JohnFleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support
    (StéphaneBidoul),structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related
    todictionnaryreferences (William & me), recursion (William)xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory
    leaks(AlfredMickautsch),xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)code cleanup for strings functions (William)Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs
    forfutureXSLT optimizations.
 2.6.4: Dec 24 2003Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko andUnix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack),
    examplefix(Lucas Brasilino)bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath
    handlingofNULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or
    parserfromfiledescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to
    bestableagain (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating
    '(null)'(WilliamBrack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack),
    XMLSchemasdouble inclusion behaviour
 2.6.3: Dec 10 2003documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey
    Sanin,DodjiSeketeli, Alfred MickautschWindows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher,Mingw(Kenneth
    Haley)Unicode range checking (William Brack)code cleanup (William Brack)Python bindings: doc (John Fleck),  bug fixesUTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William
    Brack),xmlWriter(Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML
    parser(James Bursa),attribute defaulting and validation, some
    serializationcleanups,XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads
    (WilliamBrack),serialization of attributes and entities content,
    xmlWriter(DanielSchulman)XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version
    includingthenamespace change.XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), importandnamespace
    handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, addedexamplesbased on Eric
    van der Vlist book, regexp fixespreliminary pattern support for streaming (needed
    forschemasconstraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to
    collectsubdocumentwhen streaming.various fixes in the structured error handling
 2.6.2: Nov 4 2003XPath context unregistration fixestext node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)stdin parsing fix (William Brack)a posteriori DTD validation fixesxmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindingsfixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errorsalways generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxxfunctionsadded XInclude support to the xmlReader interfaceimplemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser optionDocBook XSLT processing bug fixedHTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errorsfixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output(added--xmlout
    to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using
  theXMLserializer)
 2.6.1: Oct 28 2003Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changesUnix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche),
    warningscleanup(William Brack)Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane
    Bidoul,IgorZlatkovic)xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoulcontext reset: error state reset, push parser reset (GrahamBennett)context reuse: generate errors if file is not readabledefaulted attributes for element coming from internal
    entities(StephaneBidoul)Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private fieldtestSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl,
    serializingDocumentFragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier
    Buchcik),XPath errorsnot reported,  slow HTML parsing of large
  documents.
 2.6.0: Oct 20 2003Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got alotof
    changeIncreased the library modularity, far more options can be strippedout,a
    --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytesUse per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names
    andsmalltext nodes from the dictionnarySwitch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML
    parsercore,provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes,
    minimizememoryallocations and copies, namespace checking and specific
    errorhandling,immutable buffers, make predefined entities static
    structures,etc...rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors
    canbeintercepted at a structured level, with
  preciseinformationavailable.New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs,
    allowingtoeasilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context
    formultipleconsecutive documents.Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse,
    providednewfunctions to access content as const strings, use them
    forPythonbindingsa  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf
    (AlekseySanin),Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred
    Mickautschcode,make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting
    and futurePSVIextensions, generation of character ranges to be checked
    withfasteralgorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher
    Dunnavant),bufferaccessNew xmlWriter API provided by Alfred MickautschSchemas: base64 support by Anthony CarricoParser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of
    theMime-Typeand charset informations if available.Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn
    FaassenandzeroOrMore, better error reporting.Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout forerrorsoutputPortability: all the headers have macros for export
    andcallingconvention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig
    A.Berry),Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric
    Zurcher,Igor),Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version
    (StephaneBidoul),warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William
    Brack), BeOS(Marcin'Shard' Konicki)Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search
    fix(William),tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan
  Kost)Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett),
    threadinguninitializedmutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO
    (William),compression detectionand restore (William), attribute
    declaration in DTDs(William), namespaceon attribute in HTML output
    (William), input filename(Rob Richards),namespace DTD validation,
    xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland),I/O callbacks(Markus Keim), CDATA
    serialization (Shaun McCance),xmlReader (PeterDerr), high codepoint
    charref like , bufferaccess in pushmode (Justin Fletcher),
    TLS threads on Windows (JessePelton), XPath bug(William),
    xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATAoutput (William), HTTPerror
    handling.xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1
    forcompattesting,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary,
    --nocdatatoreplace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove
    surperfluousnamespacedeclarationsadded xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleminga lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup
    patchforxmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do
    farlessallocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris
    Andersonworkedon speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.cleanup of "make tests"libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnickdeactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged
    theXMLparser instead.
 2.5.11: Sep 9 2003A bugfix only release: risk of crash in Relax-NGrisk of crash when using multithreaded programs
 2.5.10: Aug 15 2003A bugfixes only release Windows Makefiles (William Brack)UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha,
    MingwonWindows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin RuscoeXML parser performance problem reported by Grant GoodalexmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnickand a couple other cleanup
 2.5.9: Aug 9 2003bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim),
    Windowsbuild(Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter
    Sobisch),threading(Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM
    (DodjiSeketeli),xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace
    handling,EXSLT (SeanGriffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD
    validationfor mixedcontent + namespaces, HTML serialization,
    libraryinitialization,progressive HTML parserbetter interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtreedoc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/...(WilliamBrack)
 2.5.8: Jul 6 2003bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16
    save(MarkItzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing
    (WilliamBrack),PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without
    xpath(JoergSchmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem
    withDTDs,rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems
    from2.5.7,xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)William Brack fixed multithreading lock problemsIPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher),
  threading(StéphaneBidoul)A few W3C Schemas Structure improvementsW3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul),
    andmethod/classgeneratoradded --nonet option to xmllintdocumentation improvements (John Fleck)
 2.5.7: Apr 25 2003Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top
    ofthexmlReader interface, added to xmllint --streamxmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixesSupport for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instanceThread support is now configured in by defaultFixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and
    Durationfixes(Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks),
    HTML pushparserand zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file
    pathconversions,behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of
    "outof memory"error conditionsextended the API to be able to plug a garbage
    collectingmemoryallocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified
    theallocationsaccordingly.Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the
    pushandxmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread lockingDocumentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentationPython: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)
 2.5.6: Apr 1 2003Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now exceptforbinHex
    and base64 which are not supported yet.bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large
    docsandXInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external
    subsets,XMLSchemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warningsdocumentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches,
    RelaxNGerrors
 2.5.5: Mar 24 2003Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More
    testingincludingDocBook and TEI examples.Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatypeSeveral bug fixes in the URI handling layerBug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation,
    XPath,encodingconversion, line counting in the parser.Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP deleteFixed the RPM spec file name
 2.5.4: Feb 20 20032.5.3: Feb 10 2003RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added afirstversion
    of RelaxNG Python bindingsFixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API
    fixforserializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion
    bug,XHTML1serializationPortability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file
 2.5.2: Feb 5 2003First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllintSchemas support now compiled in by default.Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude
    andentities,delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader
    (StéphaneBidoul),XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization,
    XMLreader memoryconsumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the
    presenceofnamespacesadded an HTML API to check elements and attributes.Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck),docpatches
    (Stefan Kost)Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error
    reporting(StéphaneBidoul)URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)
 2.5.1: Jan 8 2003Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0documentation updates (John)a couple of XmlTextReader fixes
 2.5.0: Jan 6 2003New XmltextReader interfacebased on
    C#API(with help of Stéphane Bidoul)Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)XInclude fallback fixPython: bindings for the new API, packaging
    (StéphaneBidoul),drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul),
    fixes,speedupand iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint manupdate(John)Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav PindyuraFix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)Entities handling fixesnew API to optionally track node creation and
  deletion(LukasSchroeder)Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines
 2.4.30: Dec 12 20022.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasingImprovement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of
    minorcodefixes.
 2.4.29: Dec 11 2002Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking,
    pythonbindings(Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export
    listupdatesFix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path,
  fixedXHTML1dumpFix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiersFix for HTTP URL escaping problemadded an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser
    andsavesmore informations needed for C# bindings
 2.4.28: Nov 22 2002a couple of python binding fixes2 bug fixes in the XML push parserpotential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules addednasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)
 2.4.27: Nov 17 2002fixes for the Python bindingsa number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs,xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),HTML
    parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman),document fragment support(Christian
    Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (BrianStafford), XPointer,xmlFreeNode(),
    xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones),xmlGetNodePath (PetrPajas), entities
    processingadded grep to xmllint --shellVMS update patch from Craig A. Berrycleanup of the Windows build with support for more
    compilers(Igor),better thread support on Windowscleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec fileImprovements to the documentation (John Fleck)
 2.4.26: Oct 18 2002Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handlingFixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath()
    ,HTMLserialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of
  smallproblems
 2.4.25: Sep 26 2002A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM
    andtree,xmlI/O,  HtmlSerious rewrite of XIncludeMade XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, smallfixand
    improvement of the regexp coreChanged the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIsBetter handling of Windows file paths, improvement of
    Makefiles(Igor,Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver
    andregexpAPIsNew logos from Marc LiyanageTutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher HarrisMakefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
  DESTDIR(ChristopheMerlet)removal of all stderr/perror use for error reportingBetter error reporting: XPath and DTD validationupdate of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)
 2.4.24: Aug 22 2002 XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm
    build,x86-64(fcrozat)HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixesC14N improvements by Alekseydoc cleanups: Rick JonesWindows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth BarhamXInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added
 2.4.23: July 6 2002performances patches: Peter Jacobic14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Saninadded xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorionew tutorial: John Flecknew hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability
    fixfromPeter Jacobia number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XMLandHTML
    parsers, ID lookup functionremoval of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin
 2.4.22: May 27 2002a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling,
    parser,memoryusage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation
    (ChristianCornelssen),indentation, URI parsingOptimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of
    thenetworkprotocol handlers (Aleksey)performance patch from Gary PenningtonCharles Bozeman provided date and time support for
  XMLSchemasdatatypes
 2.4.21: Apr 29 2002This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the
earlyXMLSchemas structuresand
datatypescode,
beware,allinterfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly
a workinprogress and don't even think of putting this code in a
productionsystem,it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes
are: a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igorsome fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by RichardJinkspatch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specificationOSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn
 2.4.20: Apr 15 2002bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validationXPath conformance testing by Richard JinksPortability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1,
    pythonbindings,libxml.m4
 2.4.19: Mar 25 2002bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin
  toUTF8encoderportability fixes in the HTTP codememory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling testsrevamp of the Windows build and Makefiles
 2.4.18: Mar 18 2002bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization,
  validation,portability,XPathremoved the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainableserious cleanup of the Python makefilesspeedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheetsFixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation
 2.4.17: Mar 8 2002a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no
  parentsinXPath"fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples
    andmoreregression tests, XPath extension functions can now
  returnnode-setsadded the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin
 2.4.16: Feb 20 2002a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XMLTestsuitefrom
    OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantlyimproved.a couple of portability fixes too.
 2.4.15: Feb 11 2002Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module onesA few bug fixes and cleanupIncludes cleanup
 2.4.14: Feb 8 2002Change of License to the MITLicensebasicallyfor
    integration in XFree86 codebase, and removingconfusion around theprevious
    dual-licensingadded Python bindings, beta software but should already
  bequitecompletea large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for
    alltreemanipulationscleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API
  definitioninXML
 2.4.13: Jan 14 2002update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozemancleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcherfixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor
    andSergueiNarojnyiCygwin patch from Robert Collinsadded xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg
 2.4.12: Dec 7 2001a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint
    (GeertKloosterman),XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy),
    I/Ocleanups(robert)Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOSsome makefiles cleanups
 2.4.11: Nov 26 2001fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs,
    somecodecleanupsxmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Ruppupdated VMS build instructions from John A FotheringhamWindows Makefiles updates from Igor
 2.4.10: Nov 10 2001URI escaping fix (Joel Young)added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validationimprovements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format
    and--encode,Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shellfixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gaofixes to the HTML parser
 2.4.9: Nov 6 2001fixes more catalog bugsavoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
 2.4.8: Nov 4 2001fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release,
  updatedxmlcatalogtoolfixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
 2.4.7: Oct 30 2001exported some debugging interfacesserious rewrite of the catalog codeintegrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added
    configureoptionand regression testsremoved an HTML parser bugfixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugsintegrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllintchanged the nanoftp anonymous login passwdsome I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrappergeneral bug fixesupdated xmllint man page by John Flecksome VMS and Windows updates
 2.4.6: Oct 10 2001added an updated man pages by John Fleckportability and configure fixesan infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)Windows makefile patches from Igorfixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxsltupdated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs
 2.4.5: Sep 14 2001Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since
    someversionof Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones
 1.8.16: Sep 14 2001maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of
    bugandportability fixes
 2.4.4: Sep 12 2001added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XMLCataloga few bug fixes and some portability changessome documentation cleanups
 2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001XML Catalog support see the docNew NaN/Infinity floating point codeA few bug fixes
 2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generationlot of bug fixesthe Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to dateinheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributesfixes a serious potential security bugadded a --format option to xmllint
 2.4.1:  July 24 2001possibility to keep line numbers in the treesome computation NaN fixesextension of the XPath APIcleanup for alpha and ia64 targetspatch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST
 2.4.0: July 10 2001Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples
    totheregression testsA bit of cleanup
 2.3.14: July 5 2001fixed some entities problems and reduce memory
    requirementwhensubstituting themlots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter
    canbesubstantially fasterMakefiles and configure cleanupsFixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node setHTML tag closing bug fixedFixed an URI reference computation problem when validating
 2.3.13: June 28 20012.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parsera few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek
 1.8.14: June 28 2001Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push modeSmall Makefile fix
 2.3.12: June 26 2001lots of cleanupa couple of validation fixfixed line number countingfixed serious problems in the XInclude processingadded support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entitiesfixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of
    float,gcc-3.0miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix
    fortheoptimizer on Tru64incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and
    improvementsforcompilation on Windows MSCupdate of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code
 2.3.11: June 17 2001updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix
    someportabilityproblems (alpha)fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script,
    andblock/inlinehandling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of
  thiscodeadded xmlHasNsProp()implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the
  DocBookSGMLparsersome XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter
    andnamespacesnode selection)fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation codefixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviourfixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twiceadded --version to xmllint for bug reports
 2.3.10: June 1 2001fixed the SGML catalog supporta number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv
    detection,XIncludeprocessingXPath string function should now handle unicode correctly
 2.3.9: May 19 2001Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support: HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgströmsome serious speed optimization againsome documentation cleanupstrying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)XPath API cleanup from Thomas BroyerValidation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary
    Pennington,fixedxmlValidGetValidElements()Added an INSTALL fileAttribute removal added to API: #54433added a basic support for SGML catalogsfixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) APIbugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()fixed a small configure portability problemfixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document
 1.8.13: May 14 2001bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome
 2.3.8: May 3 2001Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome projectFixed a few things in the HTML parserFixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix thefloatingpoint
    portability issueSpeed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s
    forDOM+validationusing the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).incorporated more Windows cleanupadded xmlSaveFormatFile()fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module
 2.3.7: April 22 2001lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointerNon deterministic content model validation supportadded xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tagsXPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formattingWindows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilationHTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. BrackImproved validation speed sensible for DocBookfixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entitiesportability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese
 2.3.6: April 8 2001Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options,
    foundandcleared half a dozen potential problemthe Eazel team found an XML parser bugcleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function.
    usedthetrio library code to provide the one needed when the platform
    ismissingthemxpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate
    evaluationproblem,extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result.
    XPointer seemsbroken...
 2.3.5: Mar 23 2001Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of
    XPathexpressions,there is some new APIs for this tooincluded a number of bug fixes(XML push parser,
  51876,notations,52299)Fixed some portability issues
 2.3.4: Mar 10 2001Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow defaultbuffersize
    to be application tunable.Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and
    thispartshould probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content
  model:-\Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes
    in2.3.3parserFixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formattingFixed a loop reported in the HTML parsingblank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves
    thattheyare formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance
 2.3.3: Mar 1 2001small change in XPath for XSLTdocumentation cleanupsfix in validation by Gary Penningtonserious parsing performances improvements
 2.3.2: Feb 24 2001chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODOfixed a Dtd parsing bugfixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContentID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington
 2.3.1: Feb 15 2001some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLTsmall extension of the hash table interfaces for
  DOMgdome2implementationA 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 fixesAdd a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error
  reportingforXSLTAdd support for text node without escaping (XSLT)bug fixes for xmlCheckFilenamevalidation code bug fixes from Gary PenningtonPatch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalizationPatch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-develandlibxml2-develthe example Makefile is now fixedadded HTML to the RPM packagestree copying bugfixesupdates to Windows makefilesoptimization patch from Bjorn Reese
 2.2.11: Jan 4 2001bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)added htmlHandleOmittedElem()Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patchApplied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude resultsadded XPointer xmlns() new scheme support
 2.2.10: Nov 25 2000Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8integrate OpenVMS patchesbetter handling of some nasty HTML inputImproved the XPointer implementationintegrate a number of provided patches
 2.2.9: Nov 25 20002.2.8: Nov 13 2000First version of XIncludesupportPatch in conditional section handlingupdated MS compiler projectfixed some XPath problemsadded an URI escaping functionsome other bug fixes
 2.2.7: Oct 31 2000added message redirectionXPath improvements (thanks TOM !)xmlIOParseDTD() addedvarious small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer supportsome 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
    structuretothoseFixed a posteriori validation problemsHTTP module cleanupsHTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style
    handling,attributenormalization)coalescing of adjacent text nodescouple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API
 2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:XPointer implementation and testsuiteLot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions
  registration,moretestsPortability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows
    buildandreleaseLate validation fixesIntegrated a lot of contributed patchesadded memory management docsa performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed
 2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:main XPath problem fixedIntegrated portability patches for WindowsSerious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code
 2.2.3: Sep 17 2000bug fixescleanup of entity handling codeoverall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage
    hasbeenchecked tooFar better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook
    XMLDtdworks smoothly now.
 1.8.10: Sep 6 2000bug fix release for some Gnome projects
 2.2.2: August 12 2000mostly bug fixesstarted adding routines to access xml parser context options
 2.2.1: July 21 2000a purely bug fixes releasefixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory blockfixed a DOCTYPE parsing problemremoved a bug in the function allowing to override the
    memoryallocationroutines
 2.2.0: July 14 2000applied a lot of portability fixesbetter encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is nowalwaysencoded
    in UTF-8)the HTML parser now correctly handles encodingsadded xmlHasProp()fixed a serious problem with &propagated the fix to FTP clientcleanup, bugfixes, etc ...Added a page about libxmlInternationalizationsupport
 1.8.9:  July 9 2000fixed the spec the RPMs should be betterfixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9
    tosolverpmfind users problem
 2.1.1: July 1 2000fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packagingimprovements on the HTML parser
 2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 20001.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2accordingto
    new instructions. It fixes a nastyproblemabout
    & charref parsing2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version.italso
    contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
    added xmlStopParser() to stop parsingimproved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocsincludes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technologytried to fix as much as possible DTD validation andnamespacerelated
        problemsoutput to a given encoding has been added/testedlot of various fixes
 2.0.0: Apr 12 2000First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's
    agoodidea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE:
    whileinitiallyscheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due
    tomassiveworkload.The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml
    (insteadof$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 2396the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now
    beoverloadeddynamically by using xmlMemSetup()The previously CVS only tool tester has
    beenrenamedxmllintand is now installed as part of
    thelibxml2packageThe I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to
    pluginspecific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection
    levelusingxmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions
    whencreating aparser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing
    theversionnumber of the libxml module in usea number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded
    atconfiguretime (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)
 2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2It's available only fromxmlsoft.orgFTP, it's packaged
    aslibxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar andRPMsThis version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old
    oneisavailable under the tag LIB_XML_1_XThis includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic
    pointofview applications should not have to be modified too much, check
    theupgrade pageSome interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).the updates includes:
    fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly)
        seemscorrectlyhandled nowBetter handling of entities, especially well-formedness
        checkingandproper PEref extensions in external subsetsDTD conditional sectionsValidation now correctly handle entities contentchangestructuresto
        accommodate DOM
Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the
    testagainsttheOASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I
    don't supportthatencoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours
    using theCVShead version.
 1.8.7: Mar 6 2000This is a bug fix release:It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic
    usedbylibxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow
    this.Notethat for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be
    disabledbydefault in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep
    compatibilityforold code.Blanks in <a>  </a> constructs are not
    ignoredanymore,avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\The unchecked use of snprintf which was breakinglibxml-1.8.6compilation
    on some platforms has been fixednanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping
  whenprocessingURIs
 1.8.6: Jan 31 2000added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfindcanuseit
    without troubles
 1.8.5: Jan 21 2000adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] contentof
    theXMLspec)fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.noJody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patchtryingto
    solve the zlib checks problemsThe current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as
    1.8.5withgnumeric soon
 1.8.4: Jan 13 2000bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()all exit() call should have been removed from libxmlfixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platformadded newDocFragment()
 1.8.3: Jan 5 2000a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsersa shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidaysfixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTDadded xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()External entity loading code has been revamped, now
    itusesxmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing
  wereaddedcleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff
 1.8.2: Dec 21 1999I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue
    isfixedfor good this timeAdded a few tree modification
    functions:xmlReplaceNode,xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling,
    xmlNodeSetNameandxmlDocSetRootElementTried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey
 1.8.1: Dec 18 1999various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with
    C++compilersthe "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include filesa problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was correctedfixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default
    namespaceprocessing,and more specifically the Dia applicationfixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by
    usingaDtd not specified in the original document)fixed a bug in
 1.8.0: Dec 12 1999cleanup, especially memory wisethe parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one,
    itshouldnot crash, whatever the input !Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement
    forlargedataset from CarlNygard,configure with
    --with-buffers to enable them.attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp()nowdoes
    entities escaping by default.
 1.7.4: Oct 25 1999Lots of HTML improvementFixed some errors when saving both XML and HTMLMore examples, the regression tests should now look cleanFixed a bug with contiguous charref
 1.7.3: Sep 29 1999portability problems fixedsnprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems
    onsystemwere it's not available, fixed
 1.7.1: Sep 24 1999The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been
    renamedin1.7.1 from CHARto xmlChar.
    Thereasonis that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on
    Windows.Howeveron non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the
    way ofa#define .Changed another error : the use of a structure field called
    errno,andleading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro
 1.7.0: Sep 23 1999Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttpmodule.Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simpleprintflike
    callbackFinished ID/IDREF support and checking when validationSerious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrappermodule)Improvement of XPathimplementationAdded an HTML parser front-end
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