On 5/7/09 2:40 AM, Gwynne Raskind said:

>The system installed version of libxml2 on 10.5.6 is 2.6.16. The
>current release of libxml2 is 2.7.3. A quick glance at <http://
>xmlsoft.org/news.html
> > tells us that 2.6.16 comes from November of 2004 and that there
>have been dozens of bug, feature, and security fixes in the *nearly
>five years* since. The only question is why someone who needed libxml
>*wouldn't* embed something more recent than the system provides.
>
>This is another example of Apple's code lagging *severely* behind the
>times.

Yup, I filed a Radar on this in 2007 and it was duped to <rdar://
4444886> which itself dates from around Feb 2006.  Doesn't look like it
will be fixed anytime soon.  What's very disturbing is that there were
several security-related fixes, as you say.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 [email protected]
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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