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There is the list of public releases:
2.6.23: Jan 5 2006
portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
    (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
    --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
    on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
    Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
    MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick Jones),
  
  
code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
    (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
    parsing code (Bjorn Reese)
  
bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
    combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
    xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
    Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
    XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
    xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
    xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
    vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
    split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
    xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
    HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
    exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
    totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
    xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
    Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
    XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
    fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
    (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
    runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
    (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
    compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
    xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
    pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)
  
improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
    Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
    transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
    standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
    (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
    (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
    htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards), 
  
documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
    function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
  
2.6.22: Sep 12 2005
build fixes: compile without schematron (Stphane Bidoul)  
bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
    CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
    XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
    output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
    XHTML1 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), add
    XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
    derive (Kasimier Buchcik).
  
documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
    devhelp.
2.6.21: Sep 4 2005
build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
    convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
    sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
    on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
    Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
    compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
    Z/OS,
  
bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
    bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
    htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
    Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
    xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
    foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
    Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
    namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
    (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
    xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
    messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
    fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
    Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
    serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
    XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
    Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
    type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
    xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
    error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
    xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
  bugs.
  
improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
    (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
    (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
    not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
    error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
    yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
    for text nodes allocation.
  
documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated2.6.20: Jul 10 2005
build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
    Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
    andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
    pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
    of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
    compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
    distribution.
  
bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
    HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
    overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
    (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
    (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
    on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
    exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
    Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
    QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
    (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
    Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
    Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
    areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
  (William).
  
improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
    conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
    Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
    Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
    (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
    xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
    standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
    xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
    xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
    Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
    ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
    standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
    xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
    Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
2.6.19: Apr 02 2005
build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
    Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
    5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
    Linux/ELF/gcc4
  
bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
    code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
    Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
    segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
    (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
    HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
    leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
    encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
    gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
    switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
    serialization time
  
improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
    checking and also mixed handling.
  
2.6.18: Mar 13 2005
build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
    Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
    some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
  
bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
    xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
    reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
    saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
    fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
    (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
    xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
    FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
    xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
    empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
    (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
    Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
    (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
    xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
  
improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
    hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
    subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
    values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
  Stansvik),
  
Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)2.6.17: Jan 16 2005
build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
    maintainer-clean dependency(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 (Dan
    McNichol)
  
bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
    to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
    ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
    warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
    UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
    push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
    Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
    patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
    sometimes missing.
  
improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
    (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
    (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
    serialize().
  
new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
    the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
    Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
    (Phil Shafer)
  
documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
  (William).
2.6.16: Nov 10 2004
general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
    automated regression testing
  
build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)  
bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
    conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
    Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
  
documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
    were updated.
  
improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
    Hendricks)
2.6.15: Oct 27 2004
security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules  
build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
    source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
  
bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
    paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
    saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
    (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
    fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
    on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
    by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
    entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
    (William).
  
improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
    module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
    Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
2.6.14: Sep 29 2004
build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
    without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
    Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
  
bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
    Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
    transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
    (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
    handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
    date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
    E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
  
improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
    xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
    (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
    Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)
2.6.13: Aug 31 2004
build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
    Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
  
fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
    (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
    and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
    problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
    genrate a serialization loop.
  
Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
    and --load-trace options to xmllint
  
documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)2.6.12: Aug 22 2004
build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
    Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
    Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
  
Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
    (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
    Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
    (Torkel Lyng)
  
Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik  
fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
    debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
    xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
    handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
    memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
    handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
    htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
    (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
    xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
  (William)
  
improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
    (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
    xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
    to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
    tag (William)
  
documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
    schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)
2.6.11: July 5 2004
Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
    attributes, namespaces and simple types.
  
build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
    (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
  
portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
    path on Windows
  
documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
    (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
  
bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
    properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
    (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
    by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
    with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
    Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
    streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
    libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
    Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
    improvement (with Stphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
    synchronous behaviour.
  
improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
    namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
    test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
    XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
    Parent and William)
  
performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
    and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
    the code generated in the RPM packages.
2.6.10: May 17 2004
Web page generated for ChangeLog  
build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all  
portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
    vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
    use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
  Davis),
  
improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
    (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
    xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
    escaping, added escaping customization
  
bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
    Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
    URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
    transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
    Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
    (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
    xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
2.6.9: Apr 18 2004
implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking  
bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
    Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
    William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
    William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
    fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
    validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
    schemas
  
improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
    save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
    Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
    dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
    clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
  
documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
    example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
  
Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
    compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
2.6.8: Mar 23 2004
First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs  
XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
    Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
  
Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)  
xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)  
Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
    reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
    failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
  
xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)  
bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
    Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
    URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
    XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
    reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
    groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
    do not close stderr.
  
performance patches from Petr Pajas  
Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)  
compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
    (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
    to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
    Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
2.6.7: Feb 23 2004
documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results  
xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)  
XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)  
DTD ID handling optimization  
bugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
    mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
    xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
    handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
  
python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)  
Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell2.6.6: Feb 12 2004
nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
    William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
  
bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
    (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
    (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
    Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
    XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
    isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
    entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
    <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
  
Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
    (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), version
    dependancies (John Fleck)
  
reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)  
Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
    prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
  patch
  
Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
    input.
2.6.5: Jan 25 2004
Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
    (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
    (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
    namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
    (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
    evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
    XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
    callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
  
Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
    Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
  
Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stphane Bidoul),
    structured error reporting (Stphane Bidoul)
  
XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
    references (William & me), recursion (William)
  
xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
    Mickautsch),
  
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 for future
    XSLT optimizations.
2.6.4: Dec 24 2003
Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)  
Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and  
Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,  
Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
    (Lucas Brasilino)
  
bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
    NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
    filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
    again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
    Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
    double inclusion behaviour
2.6.3: Dec 10 2003
documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)  
added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
    Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
  
Windows 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 fixes  
UTF-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 serialization
    cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
    Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
    (Daniel Schulman)
  
XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
    namespace change.
  
XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
    namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
    based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
  
preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
    constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
    when streaming.
  
various fixes in the structured error handling2.6.2: Nov 4 2003
XPath context unregistration fixes  
text 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 fixes  
xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings  
fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors  
always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
  functions
  
added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface  
implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option  
DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed  
HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)  
XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors  
fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
    --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
    serializer)
2.6.1: Oct 28 2003
Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes  
Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
    (William Brack)
  
Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
    Zlatkovic)
  
xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)  
chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul  
context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
  Bennett)
  
context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable  
defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
    (Stephane Bidoul)
  
Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)  
Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0  
xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field  
testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)  
general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
    Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
    XPath errors not reported,  slow HTML parsing of large documents.
2.6.0: Oct 20 2003
Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
    of change
  
Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
    a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
  
Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
    text nodes from the dictionnary
  
Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
    provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
    allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
    immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
  
rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
    intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
  available.
  
New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
    easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
    consecutive documents.
  
Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
    functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
  bindings
  
a  lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
    Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
    make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
    extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
    algorithm (William),  xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
    access
  
New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch  
Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico  
Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
    and charset informations if available.
  
Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
    zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
  
Python bindings (Stphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
  output
  
Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
    convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
    Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher,  Igor),
    Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc),  beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
    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), threading uninitialized
    mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase,  SAX/IO (William), compression detection
    and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
    on 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 (Peter
    Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
    mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
    (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
    error handling.
  
xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
    testing,  --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
    replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous  namespace
    declarations
  
added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming  
a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
    xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
    allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
    on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
  
cleanup of "make tests"  
libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick  
deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
    parser instead.
2.5.11: Sep 9 2003
A bugfix only release:
risk of crash in Relax-NG  
risk of crash when using multithreaded programs2.5.10: Aug 15 2003
A bugfixes only release
Windows Makefiles (William Brack)  
UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)  
Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
    on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
  
HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)  
XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe  
XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale  
xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick  
and a couple other cleanup2.5.9: Aug 9 2003
bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
    (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
    (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
    xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling,  EXSLT (Sean
    Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
    content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
    progressive HTML parser
  
better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )  
adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree  
doc 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/... (William
  Brack)
2.5.8: Jul 6 2003
bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
    Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
    PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
    Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
    rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
    xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
  
portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)  
William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems  
IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)  
Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic,  Eric Zurcher), threading (Stphane
    Bidoul)
  
A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements  
W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)  
Python bindings for thread globals (Stphane Bidoul), and method/class
    generator
  
added --nonet option to xmllint  
documentation improvements (John Fleck)2.5.7: Apr 25 2003
Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
    xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
  
xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes  
Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance  
Thread support is now configured in by default  
Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
    (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
    and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
    behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
    error conditions
  
extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
    allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
    accordingly.
  
Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
    xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
  
Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation  
Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)2.5.6: Apr 1 2003
Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
    binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
  
bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
    XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
    Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
  
portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings  
documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)  
improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
    errors
2.5.5: Mar 24 2003
Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
    DocBook and TEI examples.
  
Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype  
Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer  
Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
    conversion, line counting in the parser.
  
Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete  
Fixed the RPM spec file name2.5.4: Feb 20 2003
Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
    implementation
  
Implementation of XPointer element() scheme  
Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
    namespaces,
    
2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
    generation problem.
  
  
Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)  
A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)  
Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)2.5.3: Feb 10 2003
RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
    version of RelaxNG Python bindings
  
Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
    serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
  serialization
  
Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file2.5.2: Feb 5 2003
First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint  
Schemas support now compiled in by default.  
Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
    delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stphane Bidoul),
    XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
    consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
  namespaces
  
added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.  
Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
    patches (Stefan Kost)
  
Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)  
Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
    (Stphane Bidoul)
  
URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)2.5.1: Jan 8 2003
Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0  
documentation updates (John)  
a couple of XmlTextReader fixes2.5.0: Jan 6 2003
New xmlreader.htmlXmltextReader interface  based on C#
    API (with help of Stphane Bidoul)
  
Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)  
XInclude fallback fix  
Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stphane Bidoul),
    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
    and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
  
Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
  (John)
  
Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura  
Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)  
Entities handling fixes  
new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
  Schroeder)
  
Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some guidelines.htmlXML guidelines 2.4.30: Dec 12 2002
2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing  
Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
    fixes.
2.4.29: Dec 11 2002
Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
    (Stphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
  
Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)  
Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)  
Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
    dump
  
Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers  
Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem  
added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)  
Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
    more informations needed for C# bindings
2.4.28: Nov 22 2002
a couple of python binding fixes  
2 bug fixes in the XML push parser  
potential 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 added  
nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)2.4.27: Nov 17 2002
fixes for the Python bindings  
a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
    HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
    (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
    xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
    Pajas), entities processing
  
added grep to xmllint --shell  
VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry  
cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
    better thread support on Windows
  
cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file  
Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)2.4.26: Oct 18 2002
Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling  
Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
    HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
  problems
2.4.25: Sep 26 2002
A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
    tree, xmlI/O,  Html
  
Serious rewrite of XInclude  
Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
    and improvement of the regexp core
  
Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs  
Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
    Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
  
Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
    APIs
  
New logos from Marc Liyanage  
Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris  
Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
  Merlet)
  
removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting  
Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation  
update 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 fixes  
C14N improvements by Aleksey  
doc cleanups: Rick Jones  
Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham  
XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added2.4.23: July 6 2002
performances patches: Peter Jacobi  
c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin  
added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio  
new tutorial: John Fleck  
new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
    Peter Jacobi
  
a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
    HTML parsers, ID lookup function
  
removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin2.4.22: May 27 2002
a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
    usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
    indentation, URI parsing
  
Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
    protocol handlers (Aleksey)
  
performance patch from Gary Pennington  
Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
  datatypes
2.4.21: Apr 29 2002
This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
Schemas 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/structures  and http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/datatypes  code, beware, all
interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:
a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20  
patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor  
some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
  Jinks
  
patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification  
OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn2.4.20: Apr 15 2002
bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation  
XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks  
Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
    libxml.m4
2.4.19: Mar 25 2002
bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
    encoder
  
portability fixes in the HTTP code  
memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests  
revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles2.4.18: Mar 18 2002
bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
  XPath
  
removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable  
serious cleanup of the Python makefiles  
speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets  
Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation2.4.17: Mar 8 2002
a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
  XPath"
  
fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
    regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets
  
added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin2.4.16: Feb 20 2002
a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
    from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.
  
a couple of portability fixes too.2.4.15: Feb 11 2002
Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones  
A few bug fixes and cleanup  
Includes cleanup2.4.14: Feb 8 2002
Change of License to the http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.htmlMIT
    License
 basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
    confusion around the previous dual-licensing
  
added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
    complete
  
a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
    manipulations
  
cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
  XML
2.4.13: Jan 14 2002
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 xsldbg2.4.12: 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 cleanups2.4.11: 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 Igor2.4.10: 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 parser2.4.9: 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 updates2.4.6: 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 for libxml or libxslt  
updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs2.4.5: 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 cleanups2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001
XML Catalog support see the doc  
New NaN/Infinity floating point code  
A few bug fixes2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001
adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation  
lot of bug fixes  
the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date  
inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes  
fixes a serious potential security bug  
added a --format option to xmllint2.4.1:  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 POST2.4.0: July 10 2001
Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.  
Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
    regression tests
  
A bit of cleanup2.3.14: July 5 2001
fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
    substituting them
  
lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
    substantially 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 computation problem when validating2.3.13: 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 Derek1.8.14: June 28 2001
Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode  
Small Makefile fix2.3.12: 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 code2.3.11: 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 reports2.3.10: 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 correctly2.3.9: May 19 2001
Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:
HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrm  
some serious speed optimization 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 document1.8.13: May 14 2001
bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome2.3.8: 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 module2.3.7: April 22 2001
lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer  
Non deterministic content model validation support  
added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2  
revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags  
XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting  
Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation  
HTML output 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 Reese2.3.6: 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 issues2.3.4: 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 improvements2.3.2: 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 Pennington2.3.1: 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 fixes2.3.0: 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  
optimization patch from Bjorn Reese2.2.11: 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 support2.2.10: 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 patches2.2.9: Nov 25 2000
erroneous release :-(2.2.8: Nov 13 2000
First version of http://www.w3.org/TR/xincludeXInclude     support
  
Patch in conditional section handling  
updated MS compiler project  
fixed some XPath problems  
added an URI escaping function  
some other bug fixes2.2.7: 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 content2.2.6: 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 API2.2.5: 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 fixed2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:
main XPath problem fixed  
Integrated portability patches for Windows  
Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code2.2.3: 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 projects2.2.2: August 12 2000
mostly bug fixes  
started adding routines to access xml parser context options2.2.1: 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 &#38;  
propagated the fix to FTP client  
cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...  
Added a page about encoding.htmllibxml 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 parser2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000
1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
    to 
upgrade.htmlnew instructions . It fixes a nasty problem
    about &#38; 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 initially
    scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred 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 from ftp://xmlsoft.org/xmlsoft.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. From a  programmatic point
    of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
    
upgrade.htmlupgrade 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 correctly handle entities content      
http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.htmlchange
        structures to accommodate DOM
    
  
Serious progress were made toward compliance, conf/result.htmlhere 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 http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.htmlrpmfind  can use
    it without troubles
1.8.5: Jan 21 2000
adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content[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 holidays  
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 stuff1.8.2: 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 mailto:clahey@umich.eduChris 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 in1.8.0: 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 
mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.netCarl 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 escaping 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 charref1.7.3: Sep 29 1999
portability problems fixed  
snprintf was used unconditionally, 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 html/libxml-nanohttp.htmlnanohttp  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 html/libxml-xmlmemory.htmlmemory wrapper  module)  
Improvement of http://www.w3.org/TR/xpathXPath     implementation
  
Added an HTML parser front-end bugs.htmlDaniel Veillard 
