I found ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz but there doesn't appear
to be a correlated test suite tarball? The
latest test suite tarball on the FTP site is
ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-tests-2.7.8.tar.gz ...
On Wed, 05/23/12 4:17 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Finally after 18 month the new release is out. Hopefully I will
> adopt a more regular schedule in the future, something like every
> 6 months, so let's see in November if I can keep it up :-)
>
> Of course this is mostly a bugfix release, with a few improvement
> and one added feature, everybody is invited to update, and give
> feedback in case of problems !
>
> 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 <noscript> in the <head> (Denis Pauk)
> - 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)
>
> thanks everybody for the help to make this release, be it with
> report, patches or documentation !
>
> Daniel
>
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