Hello All:

This is a VOTE to release Apache Xalan-J 2.7.2-RC1 as 2.7.2

This is a bug fix release. As before, Xalan-J requires a minimum of Java
1.3.

The Apache Xalan-J team is pleased to announce the Apache Xalan-J 2.7.2
release!

Xalan-Java fully implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and the
XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.

Changes in this version include:

Fixed Bugs:

- Fix for CVE-2014-0107 insufficient secure processing

When using FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING ("
http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing";) on a
TransformerFactory, the output properties:

    {http://xml.apache.org/xalan}content-handler
    {http://xml.apache.org/xalan}entities
    {http://xml.apache.org/xslt}content-handler
    {http://xml.apache.org/xslt}entities

should be ignored (see
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops)

These properties can be used to load an arbitrary class or access an
arbitrary URL/resource so are problematic when secure processing is desired.

<xsl:output xalan:content-handler="org.example.BadClass" ...

<xsl:output xalan:entities="http://example.org/reallyLargeFile.bin"; ...

These features could be used to load a class that had undesirable
side-effects or to load a large file and exhaust memory, etc.

See XALANJ-2435.

- Upgrade to Xerces-J 2.11.0 and XML Commons External 1.4.01

The distributions contain upgraded versions of xercesImpl.jar (Xerces-J
2.11.0) and xml-apis.jar (XML Commons External 1.4.01).


- XALANJ Jira bug fixes

XALANJ Jira bug fixes: 2435, 2580, 2546, 2581, 2582, 2583, 2473, 2495,
2493, 2424, 2446, 2447

You can also view the list in Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2424?jql=project%20%3D%20XALANJ%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.7.2%20ORDER%20BY%20due%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC

This VOTE is open for at least 72 hours until March 29 2014 at 15:00 PM EST.

The files:

https://people.apache.org/~ggregory/xalan/2.7.1-rc1/dist/

The tags:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/java/tags/xalan-j_2_7_2-rc1
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xalan/test/tags/xalan-j_2_7_2-rc1

The docs:

https://people.apache.org/~ggregory/xalan/2.7.1-rc1/site/

Thank you,
Gary Gregory

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