Yes that's the end of the 2.6.x series (2.6.0 was released Oct 20 2003!)
There is a few big changes in the parser in that version which make
it worth bumping the mid version number:
- the parser is switched to XML-1.0 5th edition, you should not notice
the change, if it bothers you use the XML_PARSE_OLD10 parser flag
- the URI parser is updated to RFC 3986, the WebDAV people won't get
a warning because of their broken namespace name
- the dictionaries have a new improved hash algorithm
- there is a new entity non-linear detection algorithm which should
protect effectively agaisnt billion laughts kind of attacks
- there is a parser flag XML_PARSE_HUGE to drop hardcoded limits in
the parser like maximum depth of a document or the entity recursion
So lot of changes available in 2.7.0 as usual at:
ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/
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 F�rber)
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 dictionnaries (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
thanks to everybody who helped for the release by providing quality
reporti, documentation or patches !
Daniel
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