Excellent! Gary, thanks for driving this.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote on 04/22/2014 04:26:07 PM:

> The VOTE to release Xalan 2.7.2-RC1 as 2.7.2 passes with the following 
votes:
> 
> Binding +1 votes:
> 
> Gary Gregory (ggregory)
> Gareth Reakes (gareth)
> Steven J. Hathaway (shathaway)
> Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas)
> 
> Non-Binding +1 votes:
> 
> [email protected]
> Per Arnold BlĂ„smo ([email protected])
> 
> Vote thread: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00554.html
> Xalan PMC: 
https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#xalan-pmc

> Thank you all for your patience,
> Gary Gregory

> PS: Now for the tricky part of releasing when it has not been done 
> in a long time...
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 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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