NEWS file for libxml2

  Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:

       http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

The change log at 

ChangeLog.html

 describes the recents commits

to the GIT at 

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/

 code base.Here is the list of public releases:

2.9.2: Oct 16 2014:

   - Security:

  Fix for CVE-2014-3660 billion laugh variant (Daniel Veillard),

  CVE-2014-0191 Do not fetch external parameter entities (Daniel Veillard)

   - Bug Fixes:

  fix memory leak xml header encoding field with XML_PARSE_IGNORE_ENC (Bart De Schuymer),

  xmlmemory: handle realloc properly (Yegor Yefremov),

  Python generator bug raised by the const change (Daniel Veillard),

  Windows Critical sections not released correctly (Daniel Veillard),

  Parser error on repeated recursive entity expansion containing < (Daniel Veillard),

  xpointer : fixing Null Pointers (Gaurav Gupta),

  Remove Unnecessary Null check in xpointer.c (Gaurav Gupta),

  parser bug on misformed namespace attributes (Dennis Filder),

  Pointer dereferenced before null check (Daniel Veillard),

  Leak of struct addrinfo in xmlNanoFTPConnect() (Gaurav Gupta),

  Possible overflow in HTMLParser.c (Daniel Veillard),

  python/tests/sync.py assumes Python dictionaries are ordered (John Beck),

  Fix Enum check and missing break (Gaurav Gupta),

  xmlIO: Handle error returns from dup() (Philip Withnall),

  Fix a problem properly saving URIs (Daniel Veillard),

  wrong error column in structured error when parsing attribute values (Juergen Keil),

  wrong error column in structured error when skipping whitespace in xml decl (Juergen Keil),

  no error column in structured error handler for xml schema validation errors (Juergen Keil),

  Couple of Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),

  Add couple of missing Null checks (Daniel Veillard),

  xmlschemastypes: Fix potential array overflow (Philip Withnall),

  runtest: Fix a memory leak on parse failure (Philip Withnall),

  xmlIO: Fix an FD leak on gzdopen() failure (Philip Withnall),

  xmlcatalog: Fix a memory leak on quit (Philip Withnall),

  HTMLparser: Correctly initialise a stack allocated structure (Philip Withnall),

  Check for tmon in _xmlSchemaDateAdd() is incorrect (David Kilzer),

  Avoid Possible Null Pointer in trio.c (Gaurav Gupta),

  Fix processing in SAX2 in case of an allocation failure (Daniel Veillard),

  XML Shell command "cd" does not handle "/" at end of path (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix various Missing Null checks (Gaurav Gupta),

  Fix a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),

  Add a couple of misisng check in xmlRelaxNGCleanupTree (Gaurav Gupta),

  Add a missing argument check (Gaurav Gupta),

  Adding a check in case of allocation error (Gaurav Gupta),

  xmlSaveUri() incorrectly recomposes URIs with rootless paths (Dennis Filder),

  Adding some missing NULL checks (Gaurav),

  Fixes for xmlInitParserCtxt (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix regressions introduced by CVE-2014-0191 patch (Daniel Veillard),

  erroneously ignores a validation error if no error callback set (Daniel Veillard),

  xmllint was not parsing the --c14n11 flag (Sérgio Batista),

  Avoid Possible null pointer dereference in memory debug mode (Gaurav),

  Avoid Double Null Check (Gaurav),

  Restore context size and position after XPATH_OP_ARG (Nick Wellnhofer),

  Fix xmlParseInNodeContext() if node is not element (Daniel Veillard),

  Avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference (Gaurav),

  Fix xmlTextWriterWriteElement when a null content is given (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix an typo 'onrest' in htmlScriptAttributes (Daniel Veillard),

  fixing a ptotential uninitialized access (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix an fd leak in an error case (Daniel Veillard),

  Missing initialization for the catalog module (Daniel Veillard),

  Handling of XPath function arguments in error case (Nick Wellnhofer),

  Fix a couple of missing NULL checks (Gaurav),

  Avoid a possibility of dangling encoding handler (Gaurav),

  Fix HTML push parser to accept HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD (Arnold Hendriks),

  Fix a bug loading some compressed files (Mike Alexander),

  Fix XPath node comparison bug (Gaurav),

  Type mismatch in xmlschemas.c (Gaurav),

  Type mismatch in xmlschemastypes.c (Gaurav),

  Avoid a deadcode in catalog.c (Daniel Veillard),

  run close socket on Solaris, same as we do on other platforms (Denis Pauk),

  Fix pointer dereferenced before null check (Gaurav),

  Fix a potential NULL dereference in tree code (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix potential NULL pointer dereferences in regexp code (Gaurav),

  xmllint --pretty crashed without following numeric argument (Tim Galeckas),

  Fix XPath expressions of the form '@ns:*' (Nick Wellnhofer),

  Fix XPath '//' optimization with predicates (Nick Wellnhofer),

  Clear up a potential NULL dereference (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix a possible NULL dereference (Gaurav),

  Avoid crash if allocation fails (Daniel Veillard),

  Remove occasional leading space in XPath number formatting (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix handling of mmap errors (Daniel Veillard),

  Catch malloc error and exit accordingly (Daniel Veillard),

  missing else in xlink.c (Ami Fischman),

  Fix a parsing bug on non-ascii element and CR/LF usage (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix a regression in xmlGetDocCompressMode() (Daniel Veillard),

  properly quote the namespace uris written out during c14n (Aleksey Sanin),

  Remove premature XInclude check on URI being relative (Alexey Neyman),

  Fix missing break on last() function for attributes (dcb),

  Do not URI escape in server side includes (Romain Bondue),

  Fix an error in xmlCleanupParser (Alexander Pastukhov)

   - Documentation:

  typo in error messages "colon are forbidden from..." (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix a link to James SAX documentation old page (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix typos in relaxng.c (Jan Pokorný),

  Fix a doc typo (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix typos in {tree,xpath}.c (errror) (Jan Pokorný),

  Add limitations about encoding conversion (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix typos in xmlschemas{,types}.c (Jan Pokorný),

  Fix incorrect spelling entites->entities (Jan Pokorný),

  Forgot to document 2.9.1 release, regenerate docs (Daniel Veillard)

   - Portability:

  AC_CONFIG_FILES and executable bit (Roumen Petrov),

  remove HAVE_CONFIG_H dependency in testlimits.c (Roumen Petrov),

  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Roumen Petrov),

  Visual Studio 14 CTP defines snprintf() (Francis Dupont),

  OS400: do not try to copy unexisting doc files (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: use either configure.ac or configure.in. (Patrick Monnerat),

  os400: make-src.sh: create physical file with target CCSID (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: Add some more C macros equivalent procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: use C macros to implement equivalent RPG support procedures. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: implement XPath macros as procedures for ILE/RPG support. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: include in distribution tarball. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: Add README: compilation directives and OS/400 specific stuff. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: Add compilation scripts. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: ILE RPG language header files. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: implement some macros as functions for ILE/RPG language support (that as no macros). (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: UTF8<-->EBCDIC wrappers for system and external library calls (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: Easy character transcoding support (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: iconv functions compatibility wrappers and table builder. (Patrick Monnerat),

  OS400: create architecture directory. Implement dlfcn emulation. (Patrick Monnerat),

  Fix building when configuring without xpath and xptr (Daniel Veillard),

  configure: Add --with-python-install-dir (Jonas Eriksson),

  Fix compilation with minimum and xinclude. (Nicolas Le Cam),

  Compile out use of xmlValidateNCName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),

  Fix compilation with minimum and schematron. (Nicolas Le Cam),

  Legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement(). (Nicolas Le Cam),

  Don't use xmlValidateName() when not available. (Nicolas Le Cam),

  Fix a portability issue on Windows (Longstreth Jon),

  Various portability patches for OpenVMS (Jacob (Jouk) Jansen),

  Use specific macros for portability to OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),

  Add macros needed for OS/400 portability (Patrick Monnerat),

  Portability patch for fopen on OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),

  Portability fixes for OS/400 (Patrick Monnerat),

  Improve va_list portability (Patrick Monnerat),

  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),

  Portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),

  Generic portability fix (Patrick Monnerat),

  Shortening lines in headers (Patrick Monnerat),

  build: Use pkg-config to find liblzma in preference to AC_CHECK_LIB (Philip Withnall),

  build: Add @LZMA_LIBS@ to libxml’s pkg-config files (Philip Withnall),

  fix some tabs mixing incompatible with python3 (Daniel Veillard),

  add additional defines checks for support "./configure --with-minimum" (Denis Pauk),

  Another round of fixes for older versions of Python (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),

  python: fix drv_libxml2.py for python3 compatibility (Alexandre Rostovtsev),

  python: Fix compiler warnings when building python3 bindings (Armin K),

  Fix for compilation with python 2.6.8 (Petr Sumbera)

   - Improvements:

  win32/libxml2.def.src after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),

  elfgcchack.h: more legacy needs xmlSAX2StartElement() and xmlSAX2EndElement() (Roumen Petrov),

  elfgcchack.h: add xmlXPathNodeEval and xmlXPathSetContextNode (Roumen Petrov),

  Provide cmake module (Samuel Martin),

  Fix a couple of issues raised by make dist (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix and add const qualifiers (Kurt Roeckx),

  Preparing for upcoming release of 2.9.2 (Daniel Veillard),

  Fix zlib and lzma libraries check via command line (Dmitriy),

  wrong error column in structured error when parsing end tag (Juergen Keil),

  doc/news.html: small update to avoid line join while generating NEWS. (Patrick Monnerat),

  Add methods for python3 iterator (Ron Angeles),

  Support element node traversal in document fragments. (Kyle VanderBeek),

  xmlNodeSetName: Allow setting the name to a substring of the currently set name (Tristan Van Berkom),

  Added macros for argument casts (Eric Zurcher),

  adding init calls to xml and html Read parsing entry points (Daniel Veillard),

  Get rid of 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' Unicode chars in xmlschemas.c (Jan Pokorný),

  Implement choice for name classes on attributes (Shaun McCance),

  Two small namespace tweaks (Daniel Veillard),

  xmllint --memory should fail on empty files (Daniel Veillard),

  Cast encoding name to char pointer to match arg type (Nikolay Sivov)

   - Cleanups:

  Removal of old configure.in (Daniel Veillard),

  Unreachable code in tree.c (Gaurav Gupta),

  Remove a couple of dead conditions (Gaurav Gupta),

  Avoid some dead code and cleanup in relaxng.c (Gaurav),

  Drop not needed checks (Denis Pauk),

  Fix a wrong test (Daniel Veillard)

2.9.1: Apr 19 2013:

   -  Features:

    Support for Python3 (Daniel Veillard),

    Add xmlXPathSetContextNode and xmlXPathNodeEval (Alex Bligh)

   -  Documentation:

    Add documentation for xmllint --xpath (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix the URL of the SAX documentation from James (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix spelling of "length". (Michael Wood)

   -  Portability:

    Fix python bindings with versions older than 2.7 (Daniel Veillard),

    rebuild docs:Makefile.am (Roumen Petrov),

    elfgcchack.h after rebuild in doc (Roumen Petrov),

    elfgcchack for buf module (Roumen Petrov),

    Fix a uneeded and wrong extra link parameter (Daniel Veillard),

    Few cleanup patches for Windows (Denis Pauk),

    Fix rpmbuild --nocheck (Mark Salter),

    Fix for win32/configure.js and WITH_THREAD_ALLOC (Daniel Richard),

    Fix Broken multi-arch support in xml2-config (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a portability issue for GCC < 3.4.0 (Daniel Veillard),

    Windows build fixes (Daniel Richard),

    Fix a thread portability problem (Friedrich Haubensak),

    Downgrade autoconf requirement to 2.63 (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Bug Fixes:

    Fix a linking error for python bindings (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a couple of return without value (Jüri Aedla),

    Improve the hashing functions (Daniel Franke),

    Improve handling of xmlStopParser() (Daniel Veillard),

    Remove risk of lockup in dictionary initialization (Daniel Veillard),

    Activate detection of encoding in external subset (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an output buffer flushing conversion bug (Mikhail Titov),

    Fix an old bug in xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Csaba László),

    Fix configure cannot remove messages (Gilles Espinasse),

    fix schema validation in combination with xsi:nil (Daniel Veillard),

    xmlCtxtReadFile doesn't work with literal IPv6 URLs (Steve Wolf),

    Fix a few problems with setEntityLoader (Alexey Neyman),

    Detect excessive entities expansion upon replacement (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix the flushing out of raw buffers on encoding conversions (Daniel,

Veillard),

    Fix some buffer conversion issues (Daniel Veillard),

    When calling xmlNodeDump make sure we grow the buffer quickly (Daniel,

Veillard),

    Fix an error in the progressive DTD parsing code (Dan Winship),

    xmllint should not load DTD by default when using the reader (Daniel,

Veillard),

    Try IBM-037 when looking for EBCDIC handlers (Petr Sumbera),

    Fix potential out of bound access (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix large parse of file from memory (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a bug in the nsclean option of the parser (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a regression in 2.9.0 breaking validation while streaming (Daniel,

Veillard),

    Remove potential calls to exit() (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Improvements:

    Regenerated API, and testapi, rebuild documentation (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix tree iterators broken by 2to3 script (Daniel Veillard),

    update all tests for Python3 and Python2 (Daniel Veillard),

    A few more fixes for python 3 affecting libxml2.py (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix compilation on Python3 (Daniel Veillard),

    Converting apibuild.py to python3 (Daniel Veillard),

    First pass at starting porting to python3 (Daniel Veillard),

    updated configure.in for python3 (Daniel Veillard),

    Add support for xpathRegisterVariable in Python (Shaun McCance),

    Added a regression tests from bug 694228 data (Daniel Veillard),

    Cache presence of '<' in entities content (Daniel Veillard),

    Avoid extra processing on entities (Daniel Veillard),

    Python binding for xmlRegisterInputCallback (Alexey Neyman),

    Python bindings: DOM casts everything to xmlNode (Alexey Neyman),

    Define LIBXML_THREAD_ALLOC_ENABLED via xmlversion.h (Tim Starling),

    Adding streaming validation to runtest checks (Daniel Veillard),

    Add a --pushsmall option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Cleanups:

    Switched comment in file to UTF-8 encoding (Daniel Veillard),

    Extend gitignore (Daniel Veillard),

    Silent the new python test on input (Alexey Neyman),

    Cleanup of a duplicate test (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup on duplicate test expressions (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix compiler warning after 153cf15905cf4ec080612ada6703757d10caba1e (Patrick,

Gansterer),

    Spec cleanups and a fix for multiarch support (Daniel Veillard),

    Silence a clang warning (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup the Copyright to be pure MIT Licence wording (Daniel Veillard),

    rand_seed should be static in dict.c (Wouter Van Rooy),

    Fix typos in parser comments (Jan Pokorný)

2.9.0: Sep 11 2012:

   -  Features:

    A few new API entry points,

    More resilient push parser mode,

    A lot of portability improvement,

    Faster XPath evaluation

   -  Documentation:

    xml2-config.1 markup error (Christian Weisgerber),

    libxml(3) manpage typo fix (John Bradshaw),

    More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2 (Daniel Richard G)

   -  Portability:

    Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1 (Akira TAGOH),

    fix builds not having stdint.h (Rob Richards),

    GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE (Daniel Veillard),

    More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles (Daniel Richard G),

    More changes for Win32 compilation (Eric Zurcher),

    Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c (Eric Zurcher),

    Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution (Daniel Richard G),

    Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c (Patrick Gansterer),

    Fix non __GNUC__ build (Patrick Gansterer),

    Fix windows unicode build (Patrick Gansterer),

    clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source (Roumen Petrov),

    use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined (Roumen Petrov),

    fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms (Daniel Richard G),

    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part (Daniel Richard G),

    Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Daniel Richard G),

    Fix compilation on older Visual Studio (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Bug Fixes:

    Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix reuse of xmlInitParser (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix potential crash on entities errors (Daniel Veillard),

    initialize var (Rob Richards),

    Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers (Pietro Cerutti),

    Avoid a potential infinite recursion (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata (Daniel Veillard),

    Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters (Vitaly Ostanin),

    Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds (Daniel Veillard),

    Add a missing element check (Daniel Veillard),

    Adding various checks on node type though the API (Daniel Veillard),

    Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix make dist to include new private header files (Daniel Veillard),

    More fixups on the push parser behaviour (Daniel Veillard),

    Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations (Daniel Veillard),

    Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser (Daniel Veillard),

    Fixup limits parser (Daniel Veillard),

    Do not fetch external parsed entities (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an error in previous commit (Aron Xu),

    Fix entities local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix parser local buffers size problems (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Improvements:

    Keep libxml2.syms when running "make distclean" (Daniel Veillard),

    Allow to set the quoting character of an xmlWriter (Csaba Raduly),

    Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser (Daniel Veillard),

    Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath (Daniel Veillard),

    Support long path names on WNT (Michael Stahl),

    Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output (Daniel Veillard),

    Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors (Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis),

    Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort (Vojtech Fried),

    Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions (Nick Wellnhofer),

    Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API (Daniel Veillard),

    Visible HTML elements close the head tag (Conrad Irwin),

    Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach (Daniel Veillard),

    minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H (Roumen Petrov),

    fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups (Roumen Petrov),

    Add support for big line numbers in error reporting (Daniel Veillard),

    Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization (Daniel Veillard),

    Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer (Daniel Veillard),

    Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer (Daniel Veillard),

    Improvements for old buffer compatibility (Daniel Veillard),

    Expand the limit test program (Daniel Veillard),

    Improve error reporting on parser errors (Daniel Veillard),

    Implement some default limits in the XPath module (Daniel Veillard),

    Introduce some default parser limits (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries (Daniel Veillard),

    Fixup for buf.c (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup URI module memory allocation code (Daniel Veillard),

    Extend testlimits (Daniel Veillard),

    More avoid quadratic behaviour (Daniel Veillard),

    Impose a reasonable limit on PI size (Daniel Veillard),

    first version of testlimits new test (Daniel Veillard),

    Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases (Daniel Veillard),

    Impose a reasonable limit on comment size (Daniel Veillard),

    Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size (Daniel Veillard),

    Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible (Daniel Veillard),

    More cleanups for input/buffers code (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput(), to set input from Buffer (Daniel Veillard)

    Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion (Daniel Veillard),

    Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert XInclude to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert catalog code to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert C14N to the new Input buffer (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert XML parser to the new input buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures (Daniel Veillard),

    Convert XPath to xmlBuf (Daniel Veillard),

    Adding a new buf module for buffers (Daniel Veillard),

    Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Cleanups:

    Various cleanups to avoid compiler warnings (Daniel Veillard),

    Big space and tab cleanup (Daniel Veillard),

    Followup to LibXML2 docs/examples cleanup patch (Daniel Veillard),

    Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples (Daniel Richard),

    Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a Timsort function helper comment (Daniel Veillard),

    Small cleanup for valgrind target (Daniel Veillard),

    Patch for portability of latin characters in C files (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup some of the parser code (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a variable name in comment (Daniel Veillard),

    Regenerated testapi.c (Daniel Veillard),

    Regenerating docs and API files (Daniel Veillard),

    Small cleanup of unused variables in test (Daniel Veillard),

    Expand .gitignore with more files (Daniel Veillard)

2.8.0: May 23 2012:

   - Features:

  add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)

   - Documentation:

    xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä),

    Update README.tests (Daniel Veillard),

    URI handling code is not OOM resilient (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),

    Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles),

    Fixed two typos in the README document (Daniel Neel),

    add generated html files (Anders F Bjorklund),

    Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard),

    Improve documentation a bit (Daniel Veillard),

    Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel Veillard)

   - Portability:

    Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel Veillard),

    Remove git error message during configure (Christian Dywan),

    xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) (Patrick R. Gansterer),

    remove a bashism in confgure.in (John Hein),

    undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),

    Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth),

    fix windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense (Rob Richards),

    prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),

    Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm),

    Fix mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales),

    fixed a 64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner),

    Fix portability failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards),

    autogen: Only check for libtoolize (Colin Walters),

    Fix the Windows build files (Patrick von Reth),

    634846 Remove a linking option breaking Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard),

    599241 fix an initialization problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko),

    fix win build (Rob Richards)

   - Bug fixes:

    Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),

    Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix undefined reference in python module (Pacho Ramos),

    Fix a race in xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix weird streaming RelaxNG errors (Noam),

    Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API checking (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix various problems with "make dist" (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code (Daniel Veillard),

    HTML parser error with 

    XSD: optional element in complex type extension (Remi Gacogne),

    Fix html serialization error and htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a wrong return value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an uninitialized variable use (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a compilation problem with --minimum (Brandon Slack),

    Remove redundant and ungarded include of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard),

    xinclude with parse="text" does not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance),

    Allow to parse 1 byte HTML files (Denis Pauk),

    Patch that fixes the skipping of the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder),

    Avoid memory leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li),

    Prevent an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems (Timothy Elliott),

    xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty document (Tim Elliott),

    HTML element position is not detected propperly (Pavel Andrejs),

    Fix an off by one pointer access (Jüri Aedla),

    Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty results (Daniel Veillard),

    Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),

    Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),

    Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber),

    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element namespaces (Daniel Veillard),

    fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan),

    fix a pair of possible out of array char references (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an allocation error when copying entities (Daniel Veillard),

    Make sure the parser returns when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans),

    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng),

    Fix a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),

    Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance),

    Fix XSD validation bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi),

    Fix some potential problems on reallocation failures (Chris Evans),

    __xmlRaiseError: fix use of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),

    __xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),

    Fix memory corruption when xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards),

    Small fix for previous commit (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a potential freeing error in XPath (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a potential memory access error (Daniel Veillard),

    Reactivate the shared library versionning script (Daniel Veillard)

   - Improvements:

    use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov),

    New symbols added for the next release (Daniel Veillard),

    xmlTextReader bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski),

    Use a hybrid allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin),

    Use buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),

    Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding declaration (Denis Pauk),

    wrong message for double hyphen in comment XML error (Bryan Henderson),

    Fix "make tst" to grab lzma lib too (Daniel Veillard),

    Add "whereis" command to xmllint shell (Ryan),

    Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),

    add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),

    Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),

    Add hash randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),

    included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund),

    move xz/lzma helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund),

    add generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund),

    add XML_WITH_LZMA to api (Anders F Bjorklund),

    autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE environment variable (Colin Walters),

    Improve the error report on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard),

    Add exception for new W3C PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard),

    Add options to ignore the internal encoding (Daniel Veillard),

    testapi: use the right type for the check (Stefan Kost),

    various: handle return values of write calls (Stefan Kost),

    testWriter: xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long int (Stefan Kost),

    runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite version (Stefan Kost),

    configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS (Stefan Kost),

    configure: support silent automake rules if possible (Stefan Kost),

    xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost),

    __xmlRaiseError: remove redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin),

    __xmlRaiseError: do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)

   - Cleanups:

    Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard),

    Avoid an extra operation (Daniel Veillard),

    Remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón),

    autogen.sh: Fix typo (Javier Jardón),

    Do not use unsigned but unsigned int (Daniel Veillard),

    Remove two references to u_short (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),

    Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard),

    Augment the list of ignored files (Daniel Veillard),

    python: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost),

    python: flag two unused args (Stefan Kost),

    configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50 (Stefan Kost),

    xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)

2.7.8: Nov 4 2010:

   -  Features:

    480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),

    Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)

   -  Documentation:

    Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),

    Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),

    Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Portability:

    607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),

    614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),

    Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),

    Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)

   -  Bug Fixes:

    595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),

    617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),

    616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),

    614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),

    627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),

    629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),

    630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),

    make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),

    Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),

    Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),

    Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),

    Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),

    Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),

    xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),

    Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)

   -  Improvements:

    606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),

    Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),

    Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Cleanups:

    618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),

    Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),

    Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),

    Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),

    Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),

    Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)

2.7.7: Mar 15 2010:

   -  Improvements:

    Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),

    Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)

   -  Portability:

    relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),

    Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),

    use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),

    Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),

    Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),

    Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),

    Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),

    598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)

   -  Bug Fixes:

    libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),

    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix  missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),

    Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),

    fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),

    ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),

    htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),

    Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),

    xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),

    608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),

    Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),

    Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),

    Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),

    Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),

    Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),

    Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),

    xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Cleanups:

    Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)

2.7.6: Oct  6 2009:

   -  Bug Fixes:

     Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),

     URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),

     Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)

2.7.5: Sep 24 2009:

   -  Bug Fixes:

    Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),

    Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),

    595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),

    link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),

    594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)

   -  Cleanup:

    Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)

2.7.4: Sep 10 2009:

   - Improvements:

    Switch to GIT (GNOME),

    Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)

   - Portability:

    593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),

    594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),

    Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),

    Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),

    Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),

    Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),

    Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),

    584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),

    574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix windows build (Rob Richards),

    545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),

    xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),

    Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),

    Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),

    Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),

    Bug 571059 – MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),

    fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),

    fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)

   - Documentation:

    544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),

    Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),

    Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),

    560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),

    Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),

    updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),

    more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)

   - Bug fixes:

    594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),

    Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),

    492317 Fix  Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),

    558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),

    558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),

    579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),

    502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),

    566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),

    566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),

    584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),

    587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),

    444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),

    Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),

    440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),

    572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),

    Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),

    566012  Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),

    541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),

    541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),

    583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),

    587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),

    559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),

    559410 -  Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),

    592430 -  HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),

    447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),

    446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),

    512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),

    512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),

    588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),

    582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),

    579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),

    575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),

    571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),

    570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),

    567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),

    574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),

    Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),

    585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),

    582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),

    Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),

    Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),

    576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),

    Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),

    Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),

    Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),

    Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),

    potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),

    Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),

    Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),

    reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),

    use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),

    581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),

    584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),

    580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),

    581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),

    do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),

    564217 fix structured error handling problems,

    reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),

    xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),

    add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),

    avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)

   - Cleanup:

    Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),

    A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),

    Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),

    Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),

    Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),

    Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),

    555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),

    542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),

    Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),

    Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),

    Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),

    hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),

    570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),

    cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)

2.7.3: Jan 18 2009:

   - Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.

   - Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,

      indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),

      xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),

      xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),

      avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),

      deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).

   - Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),

      limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal

      APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),

      add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions

      parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).

2.7.2: Oct 3 2008:

   - Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation

        if XPath is not configured in

   - Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour

        when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing

        bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)

   - Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as

        XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents

2.7.1: Sep 1 2008:

   - Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)

   - Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner

        case handking and leaks (Martin)

   - Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees

   - Cleanup: python serialization wrappers

2.7.0: Aug 30 2008:

   - Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and

      xmlParserCleanup docs

   - Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC

      porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),

      non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)

   - Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free

      (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob

      Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML

      parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader

      tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix

      (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown

      when encoder cant serialize characters on output

   - Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output

      (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,

      serious cleanup of the entity handling code

   - Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags

      for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,

      add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),

      new hashing functions for dictionaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),

      improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better

      regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms

      to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make

      arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option

2.6.32: Apr 8 2008:

   - Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),

      trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement

      (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,

      XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)

   - Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with

      paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback

      patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),

      SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),

      regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the

      document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),

      writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding

      detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari

      team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing

      (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily

      Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,

      allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation

      problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in

      the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many

      out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes

      (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding

      conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName

      functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities

      (Mark Rowe)

   - Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless

      mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo