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NEWS file for libxml2
v2.12.4: Jan 15 2024
### Regressions
- parser: Fix regression parsing standalone declarations
- autotools: Readd --with-xptr-locs configuration option
- parser: Fix build --without-output
- parser: Don't grow or shrink pull parser memory buffers
- io: Fix memory lifetime issue with input buffers
v2.12.3: Dec 12 2023
### Regressions
- parser: Fix namespaces redefined from default attributes
### Build fixes
- include: Rename XML_EMPTY helper macro
- include: Move declaration of xmlInitGlobals
- include: Add missing includes
- include: Move globals from xmlsave.h to parser.h
- include: Readd circular dependency between tree.h and parser.h
v2.12.2: Dec 5 2023
### Regressions
- parser: Fix invalid free in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover
- globals: Disable TLS in static Windows builds
- html: Reenable buggy detection of XML declarations
- tree: Fix regression when copying DTDs
- parser: Make CRLF increment line number
### Build fixes
- build: Disable compiler TLS by default
- cmake: Update config.h.cmake.in
- tests: Fix tests --with-valid --without-xinclude
v2.12.1: Nov 23 2023
### Regressions
- hash: Fix deletion of entries during scan
- parser: Only enable SAX2 if there are SAX2 element handlers
### Build fixes
- autotools: Stop checking for snprintf
- dict: Fix '__thread' before 'static'
- fix: pthread weak references in globals.c (Mike Dalessio)
- tests: Fix build with older MSVC
v2.12.0: Nov 16 2023
### Major changes
Most of the known issues leading to quadratic behavior in the XML parser
were fixed. Internal hash tables were rewritten to reduce memory
consumption.
Starting with this release, it should be enough to add the --with-legacy
configuration option to provide maximum ABI compatibility. For example,
if a code module was removed from the default configuration, the option
will add stubs for the removed symbols.
libxml2 will now store global variables in thread-local storage if supported
by the compiler. This avoids allocating the data lazily which can result in
a fatal error condition. A new API function xmlCheckThreadLocalStorage
was added so the allocation can be checked earlier if compiler TLS is not
supported. To prepare for future improvements, some API functions now expect
or return a const xmlError struct.
Several cyclic dependencies in public header files were fixed. As a result,
certain headers won't include other headers as before.
Refactoring of the encoding code has been mostly completed. Calling
xmlSwitchEncoding from client code is now fully supported, for example to
override the encoding for the push parser.
When parsing data from memory, libxml2 will now stream data chunk by chunk
instead of copying the whole buffer (possibly twice with encodings),
reducing peak memory consumption considerably.
A new API function xmlCtxtSetMaxAmplification was added to allow parsing
of files that would otherwise trigger the billion laughs protection.
Several bugs in the regex determinism checks were fixed. Invalid XML
Schemas which previous versions erroneously accepted will now be
rejected.
### Deprecations
- globals: Deprecate xmlLastError
- parser: Deprecate global parser options
- win32: Deprecate old Windows build system
### Bug fixes
- parser: Stop switching to ISO-8859-1 on encoding errors
- parser: Support encoded external PEs in entity values
- string: Fix UTF-8 validation in xmlGetUTF8Char
- SAX2: Allow multiple top-level elements
- parser: Update line number after coalescing text nodes
- parser: Check for truncated multi-byte sequences
### Improvements
- error: Make more xmlError structs constant
- parser: Remove redundant IS_CHAR check in xmlCurrentChar
- parser: Fix stack handling in xmlParseTryOrFinish
- parser: Protect against quadratic default attribute expansion
- parser: Missing checks for disableSAX
- entities: Make xmlFreeEntity public
- examples: Don't use sprintf
- encoding: Suppress -Wcast-align warnings
- parser: Use hash tables to avoid quadratic behavior
- parser: Don't skip CR in xmlCurrentChar
- dict: Rewrite dictionary hash table code
- hash: Rewrite hash table code
- malloc-fail: Report malloc failure in xmlFARegExec
- malloc-fail: Report malloc failure in xmlRegEpxFromParse
- parser: Simplify xmlStringCurrentChar
- regexp: Fix status codes and handle invalid UTF-8
- error: Make xmlGetLastError return a const error
- html: Fix logic in htmlAutoClose
- globals: Move globals back to correct header files
- globals: Use thread-local storage if available
- globals: Rework global state destruction on Windows
- globals: Define globals using macros
- globals: Introduce xmlCheckThreadLocalStorage
- globals: Make xmlGlobalState private
- threads: Move library initialization code to threads.c
- debug: Remove debugging code
- globals: Move code from threads.c to globals.c
- parser: Avoid undefined behavior in xmlParseStartTag2
- schemas: Fix memory leak of annotations in notations
- dict: Update hash function
- dict: Use thread-local storage for PRNG state
- dict: Use xoroshiro64** as PRNG
- xmllint: Fix error messages
- parser: Fix detection of null bytes
- parser: Improve error handling in push parser
- parser: Don't check inputNr in xmlParseTryOrFinish
- parser: Remove push parser debugging code
- tree: Fix copying of DTDs
- legacy: Add stubs for disabled modules
- parser: Allow to set maximum amplification factor
- entities: Don't change doc when encoding entities
- parser: Never use UTF-8 encoding handler
- encoding: Remove debugging code
- malloc-fail: Fix unsigned integer overflow in xmlTextReaderPushData
- html: Remove encoding hack in htmlCreateFileParserCtxt
- parser: Decode all data in xmlCharEncInput
- parser: Stream data when reading from memory
- parser: Optimize xmlLoadEntityContent
- parser: Don't overwrite EOF parser state
- parser: Simplify input pointer updates
- parser: Don't reinitialize parser input members
- encoding: Move rawconsumed accounting to xmlCharEncInput
- parser: Rework encoding detection
- parser: Always create UTF-8 in xmlParseReference
- html: Remove some debugging code in htmlParseTryOrFinish
- malloc-fail: Fix memory leak in xmlCompileAttributeTest
- parser: Recover more input from encoding errors
- malloc-fail: Handle malloc failures in xmlAddEncodingAlias
- malloc-fail: Fix null-deref with xmllint --copy
- xpath: Ignore entity ref nodes when computing node hash
- malloc-fail: Fix null deref after xmlXIncludeNewRef
- SAX: Always validate xml:ids
- Stop using sprintf
- Fix compiler warning on GCC < 8
- regexp: Fix determinism checks
- regexp: Fix checks for eliminated transitions
- regexp: Simplify xmlFAReduceEpsilonTransitions
- regexp: Fix cycle check in xmlFAReduceEpsilonTransitions
- schemas: Fix filename in xmlSchemaValidateFile
- schemas: Fix line numbers in streaming validation
- writer: Add error check in xmlTextWriterEndDocument
- encoding: Stop calling xmlEncodingErr
- xmlIO: Remove some calls to xmlIOErr
- parser: Improve handling of encoding and IO errors
- parser: Move xmlFatalErr to parserInternals.c
- encoding: Rework error codes
- .gitignore: Split up and rearrange .gitignore files
- .gitignore: Add runsuite.log
- Stop calling xmlMemoryDump
- examples: Don't call xmlCleanupParser and xmlMemoryDump
- xpath: Remove remaining references to valueFrame
### Portability
- python: Make it compatible with python3.12 (Daniel Garcia Moreno)
### Build systems
- cmake: Check whether static linking dependencies found in config files
(James Le Cuirot)
- autotools: Make --with-minimum disable lzma support
- build: Remove some GCC warnings
- Handle NOCONFIG case when setting locations from CMake target properties
(Markus Rickert)
- cmake: Generate better pkg-config file for SYSROOT builds under CMake
(James Le Cuirot)
- autoconf: Include non-pkg-config dependency flags in the pkg-config file
(James Le Cuirot)
- autoconf: Don't bake build time CFLAGS into pkg-config file (James Le Cuirot)
- build: Generate better pkg-config files for static-only builds (James
Le Cuirot)
- build: Generate better pkg-config file for SYSROOT builds (James Le Cuirot)
- autoconf: Allow custom --with-icu configure option
### Tests
- tests: Also test xmlNextChar in testchar.c
- tests: Start with testparser.c for extra tests
- fuzz: Raise rss_limit_mb
- fuzz: Test xmlTextReaderRead after EOF or failure
- fuzz: Test XML_PARSE_XINCLUDE | XML_PARSE_VALID
- tests: Handle entities in SAX tests
- fuzz: Disable XML_PARSE_SAX1 option in xml fuzzer
- tests: Add more tests for redefined attributes
- hash: Add hash table tests
- tests: Add ATTRIBUTE_NO_SANITIZE_INTEGER macro
- fuzz: Allow to fuzz without push, reader or output modules
- gitlab-ci: Add a "medium" config build
- python: Fix tests on MinGW
- test: Add push parser test with overridden encoding
- testapi: test_xmlSAXDefaultVersion() leaves xmlSAX2DefaultVersionValue set
to 1 with LIBXML_SAX1_ENABLED (David Kilzer)
- gitlab-ci: Lower _XOPEN_SOURCE value
- testapi: Don't set http_proxy environment variable
- test: Add push parser tests for split UTF-8 sequences
- xinclude: Lower initial table size when fuzzing
- tests: Test streaming schema validation
- runtest: Skip element name in schema error messages
### Documentation
- doc: Add notes about runtest to MAINTAINERS.md
- doc: Don't document internal macros in xmlversion.h
- doc: Allow 'unsigned' without 'int'
- doc: Improve documentation of configuration options
v2.11.6: Nov 16 2023
### Regressions
- threads: Fix --with-thread-alloc
- xinclude: Fix 'last' pointer in xmlXIncludeCopyNode
### Bug fixes
- parser: Fix potential use-after-free in xmlParseCharDataInternal
v2.11.5: Aug 9 2023
### Regressions
- parser: Make xmlSwitchEncoding always skip the BOM
- autotools: Improve iconv check
### Bug fixes
- valid: Fix c1->parent pointer in xmlCopyDocElementContent
- encoding: Always call ucnv_convertEx with flush set to false
### Portability
- autotools: fix Python module file ext for cygwin/msys2 (Christoph Reiter)
### Tests
- runtest: Fix compilation without LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED
v2.11.4: May 18 2023
Fixes a serious regression.
- parser: Fix regression when push parsing UTF-8 sequences
v2.11.3: May 11 2023
Fixes more regressions.
- xinclude: Fix false positives in inclusion loop detection
- autotools: Fix ICU detection
- parser: Fix "huge input lookup" error with push parser
- xpath: Fix build without LIBXML_XPATH_ENABLED
- hash: Fix possible startup crash with old libxslt versions
- autoconf: fix iconv library paths (Mike Dalessio)
v2.11.2: May 5 2023
Fix regressions.
- threads: Fix startup crash with weak symbol hack
- win32: Don't depend on removed .def file
- schemas: Fix memory leak in xmlSchemaValidateStream
v2.11.1: Apr 30 2023
Fixes build and ABI issues.
- cmake: Fix va_copy detection (Luca Niccoli)
- libxml.m4: Fix quoting
- Link with --undefined-version
- libxml2.syms: Revert removal of version information
v2.11.0: Apr 28 2023
### Major changes
Protection against entity expansion attacks, also known as "billion laughs"
has been greatly improved. Malicious files should be detected reliably now
and false positives should be reduced. It is possible though that large
documents which make heavy use of entities are rejected now.
This release finally fixes symbol visibility on UNIX systems. Internal
symbols will now be hidden. While these symbols were never declared in public
headers, it was still possible to declare them manually. Now this won't work.
All symbol information has been removed from the ELF version script to fix
link errors with --no-undefined-version. The version nodes are kept so it
should still be possible to run binaries linked against older versions.
About 90 memory errors in code paths handling malloc failures have been fixed.
While these issues shouldn't impact security, this improves robustness under
memory pressure.
The XInclude engine has been reworked to properly support nested includes.
Several cases of quadratic behavior in the XML push parser have been fixed.
Refactoring has begun on some buffering and encoding code with the goal of
simplifying this part of the code base and improving error reporting.
Other highlights:
- Consolidated private header files.
- Major rework of the autoconf build.
- Deprecated several outdated and internal functions.
Special thanks to Google's Open Source Security Subsidies program for
sponsoring much of the work on this release!
Ongoing work on libxml2 relies on funding. For a list of important open
issues see <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/507>
### Security
- Fix use-after-free in xmlParseContentInternal() (David Kilzer)
- xmllint: Fix use-after-free with --maxmem
- parser: Fix OOB read when formatting error message
- entities: Rework entity amplification checks
### Regressions
- parser: Fix regression in xmlParserNodeInfo accounting
### Bug fixes
- Fix memory errors in code handling malloc failures
- encoding: Fix error code in asciiToUTF8
- xpath: number('-') should return NaN
- xmlParseStartTag2() contains typo when checking for default definitions for
an attribute in a namespace (David Kilzer)
- uri: Fix handling of port numbers
- error: Make sure that error messages are valid UTF-8
- xinclude: Fix nested includes
### Improvements
- xmllint: Validate --maxmem integer option
- xmlValidatePopElement() can return invalid value (-1) (David Kilzer)
- parser: Rework EBCDIC code page detection
- parser: Limit name length in xmlParseEncName
- parser: Rework shrinking of input buffers
- html: Rely on CUR_CHAR to grow the input buffer
- parser: Rely on CUR_CHAR/NEXT to grow the input buffer
- valid: Make xmlValidateElement non-recursive
- html: Fix quadratic behavior in htmlParseTryOrFinish
- xmllint: Fix memory leak with --pattern --stream
- parser: Stop calling xmlParserInputShrink
- html: Impose some length limits
- valid: Allow xmlFreeValidCtxt(NULL)
- parser: Stop calling xmlParserInputGrow
- xinclude: Fix quadratic behavior in xmlXIncludeLoadTxt
- xinclude: Abort immediately if max depth was exceeded
- xpath: Only report the first error
- error: Don't move past current position
- error: Limit number of parser errors
- parser: Lower entity nesting limit with XML_PARSE_HUGE
- parser: Don't increase depth twice when parsing internal entities
- parser: Improve detection of entity loops
- parser: Only report a single entity error
- libxml.h: Remove dubious definition of LIBXML_STATIC
- html: Improve parsing of nested lists
- memory: Don't use locks in xmlMemUsed
- encoding: Remove unused variable xmlDefaultCharEncodingHandler
- Rework initialization code
- Add .editorconfig
- parser: Merge misc, prolog and epilog cases in push parser
- parser: Fix 'consumed' accounting when switching encodings
- html: Fix check for end of comment in push parser
- parser: Fix push parser with 1-3 byte initial chunk
- parser: Rewrite push parser boundary checks
- reader: Switch to xmlParserInputBufferCreateMem
- html: Don't escape ASCII chars in href attributes
- io: Don't shrink memory input buffers
- parser: Don't call xmlSHRINK from push parser
- parser: Ignore cdata argument in xmlParseCharData
- parser: Rework push parser parser progress checks
- io: Fix a few integer overflows in I/O statistics
- io: Rework xmlParserInputBufferGrow with encodings
- io: Remove xmlInputReadCallbackNop
- io: Check for memory buffer early in xmlParserInputGrow
- parser: Fix error message in xmlParseCommentComplex
- Bypass proxy in nanoHTTP for hosts in "no_proxy" (Markus Jörg)
- schemas: Fix infinite loop in xmlSchemaCheckElemSubstGroup
- threads: Remove check for pthread_equal
- xinclude: Rework XInclude cache
- xinclude: Remove inefficient refcounting scheme
- xmllint: Improve handling of empty XPath node sets
- parser: Fix potential memory leak in xmlParseAttValueInternal
- error: Don't use initGenericErrorDefaultFunc
- xpath: Lower XPath recursion limit on Windows
- Stop including sys/types.h
- Don't define WIN32 macro
- Make xmlNewSAXParserCtx take a const sax handler
- Consolidate private header files
- Remove internal macros from parserInternals.h
- Move some HTML functions to correct header file
- xmllint: Stop calling xmlSAXDefaultVersion
- Introduce xmlNewSAXParserCtxt and htmlNewSAXParserCtxt
- Don't mess with parser options in htmlParseDocument
- Remove useless call to htmlDefaultSAXHandlerInit
- Remove htmlDefaultSAXHandler from non-SAX1 build
- Don't initialize SAX handler in htmlReadMemory
- Fix htmlReadMemory mixing up XML and HTML functions
- Don't use default SAX handler to report unrelated errors
- Create stream with buffer in xmlNewStringInputStream
- xmlcatalog: Fix memory leaks
### Code quality
- xzlib: Fix implicit sign change in xz_open
- parser: Simplify calculation of available buffer space
- parser: Use size_t when subtracting input buffer pointers
- parser: Check for integer overflow when updating checkIndex
- xpath: Fix harmless integer overflow in xmlXPathTranslateFunction
- schematron: Use logical and
- relaxng: Remove useless if statement
- schemas: Remove useless if statement
- pattern: Merge identical branches
- regexp: Add sanity check in xmlRegCalloc2
- regexp: Simplify xmlRegAtomPush
- encoding: Cast toupper argument to unsigned char
- uri: Add explicit cast in xmlSaveUri
- buf: Fix return value of xmlBufGetInputBase
- parser: Fix integer overflow of input ID
- parser: Remove useless ent->etype test in xmlParseReference
- parser: Remove useless ent->children tests in xmlParseReference
- xmlmemory.c: Remove xmlMemContentShow
- libxml.h: Add comments and indentation
- libxml.h: Don't include stdio.h
- xmlexports.h: Disable docs for internal macro XMLPUBLIC
- parser: Simplify xmlParseConditionalSections
- io: Rearrange code in xmlSwitchInputEncodingInt
- warnings: Fix -Wstrict-prototypes warning
- warnings: Remove set-but-unused variables
- Fix compiler warnings in SAX2.c
- Fix unused variable warning in python/types.c
- Fix compiler warning in examples
- Fix compiler warnings in fuzzing code
- Remove unused code in nanohttp.c
- Remove or annotate char casts
- Don't use sizeof(xmlChar) or sizeof(char)
- Remove explicit integer casts
### Deprecations
- parser: Deprecate more internal functions
- parser: Deprecate some parser input functions
- parser: Deprecate xmlString*DecodeEntities
- threads: Deprecate some internal functions
- buf: Deprecate static/immutable buffers
- Deprecate internal parser functions
- Deprecate old HTML SAX API
- Generate deprecation warnings for old SAX API
- Mark more functions setting globals as deprecated
- Mark more parser functions as deprecated
- Mark most SAX1 functions as deprecated
- Deprecate some global variables
### Portability
- autoconf: Warn about outdated C compilers
- win32: Remove broken libxml2.def.src
- Remove symbols from version script
- catalog.c: Silence a cast warning on VS 2022 (Lukáš Tyrychtr)
- libxml.h: Remove ancient LynxOS setup
- Use python3 not python (Ross Burton)
- xstc/fixup-tests.py: port to Python 3 (Ross Burton)
- xstc/fixup-tests.py: unify whitespace (Ross Burton)
- Remove hacky heuristic from b2dc5675 (Alex Richardson)
- Avoid creating an out-of-bounds pointer by rewriting a check
(Alex Richardson)
- Hide internal functions
- Correctly relocate internal pointers after realloc() (Alex Richardson)
- Visual Studio builds: Allow silencing deprecation warnings (Chun-wei Fan)
- Visual Studio: Define XML_DEPRECATED (Chun-wei Fan)
- xmllint: Include <io.h> on Windows
- warnings: Work around MSVC bug
- sources: Silence C4013 warnings on Visual Studio (Chun-wei Fan)
- python/setup.py.in: Improve Windows import patching (Chun-wei Fan)
- python: Create .pyd on Windows
- Fix Python build on Windows
- Fix Windows compiler warnings in python/types.c
- Fix libxml_PyFileGet
- Remove BeOS support
- Fix libxml_PyFileGet with stdout on macOS
- Migrate from PyEval_ to PyObject_
- Port build_glob.py to Python 3
- Port genChRanges.py to Python 3
- xmlexports.h: Remove LIBXML_FASTCALL optimization
- Remove XMLCALL and XMLCDECL macros from public headers
- Remove XMLDECL macro from .c files
### Build systems
- cmake: Link against `dl` and `dld` only when `LIBXML2_WITH_MODULES` is
enabled (Alexander Kutelev)
- autotools: Fix make distcheck
- Remove RPM build, Makefile.tests, README.tests
- libxml.m4: deprecate AM_PATH_XML2, wrap PKG_CHECK_MODULES instead
(Ross Burton)
- libxml.m4: fix -Wstrict-prototypes (Sam James)
- cmake: Build static library with -DLIBXML_STATIC
- autotools: Don't use version script on Windows
- autotools: Fix winsock detection
- autotools: Only add network libraries if HTTP/FTP enabled
- autotools: Disable parallel Python build
- python: Don't output missing generators during build
- build: Remove check for broken ss_family
- http: Simplify IPv6 checks
- autotools: Fix network checks on Windows
- Fix detection of GNU libiconv
- cmake: Fix Python installation
- cmake: Don't check for Python 2
- configure.ac: Also check for MSYS host
- Improve network library detection
- Detect ws2_32 with AC_SEARCH_LIBS
- Rework network configure checks
- Remove arg cast configure checks
- Fix dlopen check
- Remove HAVE_WIN32_THREADS configuration flag
- Rework dlopen and pthread detection
- Fix test in configure.ac
- cmake: Enable GCC compiler warnings
- Always link with -no-undefined
- Use AM_CFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS consistently
- Remove -Wredundant-decls
- Call AC_CHECK_* with multiple arguments
- configure.ac: Remove checks for unused programs
- Rework library detection in configure.ac
- Rearrange configure.ac
- Consolidate zlib and lzma detection
- Remove "runtime debugging"
- Consolidate simple API modules in configure.ac
- Fix dependency resolution in configure.ac
- Fix --with-valid --without-regexps build
- Fix --with-schemas --without-xpath build
- Don't build unneeded .c source files
- Move xmlIsXHTML to tree.c
- Cleanup distribution settings in Makefile.am
- Also clean *.pyc files for Python 2
- Don't distribute libxml2.spec
### Tests
- testchar: Add test for memory pull parser with encoding
- fuzz: Also test init function of URI fuzzer
- fuzz: Separate fuzzer for DTD validation
- gitlab-ci: Enable all "integer" sanitizers
- fuzz: Inject random malloc failures
- fuzz: Support variable integer sizes in fuzz data
- fuzz: Fix duplicate detection in fuzzEntityRecorder
- fuzz: Set filename in xmlFuzzEntityLoader
- fuzz: Allow xmlFuzzReadString(NULL)
- fuzz: Fix Makefile dependencies
- fuzz: Add test/recurse to seed corpus
- fuzz: Add separate XInclude fuzzer
- runsuite: Some errors are expected
- testrecurse: Test entity expansion stats
- testapi.c: Initialize catalog early
- gentest.py: Fix memory leak in API tests
- tests: Enable "runsuite" test
- python/tests/reader2: use absolute paths everywhere (Ross Burton)
- python/tests/reader2: always exit(1) if a test fails (Ross Burton)
- testModule: exit if the module can't be opened (Ross Burton)
- CI: disable modules in gcc:static build (Ross Burton)
- CI: fix CI on MinGW builds (Ross Burton)
- python: Fix memory leak checks
- tests: Check that xmlInitParser doesn't allocate memory
- tests: Fix use-after-free in Python tests
- tests: Remove unneeded #includes
- gitlab-ci: Make Test-Msvc exit if ctest fails
- gitlab-ci: Treat compiler warnings as errors on MSVC
- test: Add test for push parser boundaries
- gitlab-ci: Upgrade image to Ubuntu 22.10, reenable MSan
- gitlab-ci: Reenable LeakSanitizer
- gitlab-ci: Fix llvm-symbolizer
- xinclude: Don't create result doc for test with errors
- xinclude: Also test error messages
- gitlab-ci: Allow cast-align warnings from clang
- gitlab-ci: Fix tar invocation
- gitlab-ci: Move MSVC test to separate script
- gitlab-ci: Fix SUFFIX, remove MINGW_PATH
- gitlab-ci: Consolidate CMake test scripts
- gitlab-ci: Only install MinGW autotools if needed
- gitlab-ci: Only install cmake MinGW package if needed
- gitlab-ci: Install 7-Zip using the .msi
- Use $MSYSTEM and 'bash -lc' in MinGW CI
- Add CI job for MinGW/Autotools
- Consolidate CI scripts
- Allow empty MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX
- Move Dockerfile to .gitlab-ci directory
- testapi: Disable on Windows for now
- Disable fuzzer tests if glob.h wasn't found
- Move automata test to runtest.c
- Fix testapi when building --without-sax1
# Documentation
- doc: Remove ancient files
- Remove ancient TODOs
- html: Fix htmlInitAutoClose documentation
- doc: Mention new location of XML catalog as breaking change
- doc: Mention potentially breaking changes in NEWS
- doc: Remove xmlDllMain from documentation and version script
- doc: Mention ${sysconfdir} in man pages
- doc: Document xmlcatalog --convert
- doc: Document xmllint --nodict and --pedantic
- doc: Fix indentation in source XML files
- xmllint: Document --quiet option
- Improve cross-references in API docs
- Improve documentation of globals
- Fix documentation parser
- Support comments for global variables in documentation
- Fix update call in apibuild.py
- Don't index anything in DOC_DISABLE sections
- Fix warnings from apibuild.py
- Start with documentation for maintainers
v2.10.4: Apr 11 2023
### Security
- [CVE-2023-29469] Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic
- [CVE-2023-28484] Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType
- schemas: Fix null-pointer-deref in xmlSchemaCheckCOSSTDerivedOK
### Regressions
- SAX2: Ignore namespaces in HTML documents
- io: Fix "buffer full" error with certain buffer sizes
v2.10.3: Oct 14 2022
### Security
- [CVE-2022-40304] Fix dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles
- [CVE-2022-40303] Fix integer overflows with XML_PARSE_HUGE
- Fix overflow check in SAX2.c
### Portability
- win32: Fix build with VS2013
### Build system
- cmake: Set SOVERSION
v2.10.2: Aug 29 2022
### Improvements
- Remove set-but-unused variable in xmlXPathScanName
- Silence -Warray-bounds warning
### Build system
- build: require automake-1.16.3 or later (Xi Ruoyao)
- Remove generated files from distribution
### Test suite
- Don't create missing.xml when running testapi
v2.10.1: Aug 25 2022
### Regressions
- Fix xmlCtxtReadDoc with encoding
### Bug fixes
- Fix HTML parser with threads and --without-legacy
### Build system
- Fix build with Python 3.10
- cmake: Disable version script on macOS
- Remove Makefile rule to build testapi.c
### Documentation
- Switch back to HTML output for API documentation
- Port doc/examples/index.py to Python 3
- Fix order of exports in libxml2-api.xml
- Remove libxml2-refs.xml
v2.10.0: Aug 17 2022
### Breaking changes
The Docbook parser module and all related symbols habe been removed completely.
This was experimental code which never worked and generated a deprecation
warning for 15+ years. The library's soname wasn't changed in order to allow
seamless upgrades to later versions. If this concerns you, consider bumping
soname yourself.
Some other modules are now disabled by default and will eventually be removed
completely:
- Support for XPointer locations (ranges and points): This was based on
a W3C specification which never got beyond Working Draft status. To my
knowledge, there's no software supporting this spec which is still
maintained. You now have to enable this code by passing the
`--with-xptr-locs` configuration option. Be warned that this part of
the code base is buggy and had many security issues in the past.
- Support for the built-in FTP client (`--with-ftp`).
- Support for "legacy" functions (`--with-legacy`).
If you're concerned about ABI stability and haven't disabled these modules
already, add the following configuration options or bump soname yourself:
--with-ftp
--with-legacy
--with-xptr-locs
Several functions of the public API were deprecated. Most of them should be
completely unused and will generate a deprecation warning now.
The autoconf build now uses the sysconfdir variable for the location of
the default catalog file. The path changed from hardcoded /etc/xml/catalog
to ${sysconfdir}/xml/catalog. The sysconfdir variable defaults to
${prefix}/etc, prefix defaults to /usr/local, so without other options
the path becomes /usr/local/etc/xml/catalog. If you want the old behavior,
configure with
--sysconfdir=/etc
### Security
- [CVE-2022-2309] Reset nsNr in xmlCtxtReset
- Reserve byte for NUL terminator and report errors consistently in xmlBuf and
xmlBuffer (David Kilzer)
- Fix missing NUL terminators in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer functions (David Kilzer)
- Fix integer overflow in xmlBufferDump() (David Kilzer)
- xmlBufAvail() should return length without including a byte for NUL
terminator (David Kilzer)
- Fix ownership of xmlNodePtr & xmlAttrPtr fields in xmlSetTreeDoc() (David
Kilzer)
- Use xmlNewDocText in xmlXIncludeCopyRange
- Fix use-after-free bugs when calling xmlTextReaderClose() before
xmlFreeTextReader() on post-validating parser (David Kilzer)
- Use UPDATE_COMPAT() consistently in buf.c (David Kilzer)
- fix: xmlXPathParserContext could be double-delete in OOM case. (jinsub ahn)
### Removals and deprecations
- Disable XPointer location support by default
- Remove outdated xml2Conf.sh
- Deprecate module init and cleanup functions
- Remove obsolete XML Software Autoupdate (XSA) file
- Remove DOCBparser
- Remove obsolete Python test framework
- Remove broken VxWorks support
- Remove broken Mac OS 9 support
- Remove broken bakefile support
- Remove broken Visual Studio 2010 support
- Remove broken Windows CE support
- Deprecate IDREF-related functions in valid.h
- Deprecate legacy functions
- Disable legacy support by default
- Deprecate all functions in nanoftp.h
- Disable FTP support by default
- Add XML_DEPRECATED macro
- Remove elfgcchack.h
### Regressions
- Skip incorrectly opened HTML comments
- Restore behavior of htmlDocContentDumpFormatOutput() (David Kilzer)
### Bug fixes
- Fix memory leak with invalid XSD
- Make XPath depth check work with recursive invocations
- Fix memory leak in xmlLoadEntityContent error path
- Avoid double-free if malloc fails in inputPush
- Properly fold whitespace around the QName value when validating an XSD
schema. (Damjan Jovanovic)
- Add whitespace folding for some atomic data types that it's missing on.
(Damjan Jovanovic)
- Don't add IDs containing unexpanded entity references
### Improvements
- Avoid calling xmlSetTreeDoc
- Simplify xmlFreeNode
- Don't reset nsDef when changing node content
- Fix unintended fall-through in xmlNodeAddContentLen
- Remove unused xmlBuf functions (David Kilzer)
- Implement xpath1() XPointer scheme
- Add configuration flag for XPointer locations support
- Fix compiler warnings in Python code
- Mark more static data as `const` (David Kilzer)
- Make xmlStaticCopyNode non-recursive
- Clean up encoding switching code
- Simplify recursive pthread mutex
- Use non-recursive mutex in dict.c
- Fix parser progress checks
- Avoid arithmetic on freed pointers
- Improve buffer allocation scheme
- Remove unneeded #includes
- Add support for some non-standard escapes in regular expressions. (Damjan
Jovanovic)
- htmlParseComment: handle abruptly-closed comments (Mike Dalessio)
- Add let variable tag support (Oliver Diehl)
- Add value-of tag support (Oliver Diehl)
- Remove useless call to xmlRelaxNGCleanupTypes
- Don't include ICU headers in public headers
- Update `xmlStrlen()` to use POSIX / ISO C `strlen()` (Mike Dalessio)
- Fix unused variable warnings with disabled features
- Only warn on invalid redeclarations of predefined entities
- Remove unneeded code in xmlreader.c
- Rework validation context flags
### Portability
- Use NAN/INFINITY if available to init XPath NaN/Inf (Sergey Kosukhin)
- Fix Python tests on macOS
- Fix xmlCleanupThreads on Windows
- Fix reinitialization of library on Windows
- Don't mix declarations and code in runtest.c
- Use portable python shebangs (David Seifert)
- Use critical sections as mutex on Windows
- Don't set HAVE_WIN32_THREADS in win32config.h
- Use stdint.h with newer MSVC
- Remove cruft from win32config.h
- Remove isinf/isnan emulation in win32config.h
- Always fopen files with "rb"
- Remove __DJGPP__ checks
- Remove useless __CYGWIN__ checks
### Build system
- Don't autogenerate doc/examples/Makefile.am
- cmake: Install libxml.m4 on UNIX-like platforms (Daniel E)
- cmake: Use symbol versioning on UNIX-like platforms (Daniel E)
- Port genUnicode.py to Python 3
- Port gentest.py to Python 3
- cmake: Fix build without thread support
- cmake: Install documentation in CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR
- cmake: Remove non needed files in docs dir (Daniel E)
- configure: move XML_PRIVATE_LIBS after WIN32_EXTRA_LIBADD is set
(Christopher Degawa)
- Move local Autoconf macros into m4 directory
- Use XML_PRIVATE_LIBS in libxml2_la_LIBADD
- Update libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc.in
- Remove LIBS from XML_PRIVATE_LIBS
- Add WIN32_EXTRA_LIBADD to XML_PRIVATE_LIBS
- Don't overlink executables
- cmake: Adjust paths for UNIX or UNIX-like target systems (Daniel Engberg)
- build: Make use of variables in libxml's pkg-config file (Daniel Engberg)
- Avoid obsolescent `test -a` constructs (David Seifert)
- Move AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to AM section
- configure.ac: make AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) unconditional (David Seifert)
- Streamline documentation installation
- Don't try to recreate COPYING symlink
- Detect libm using libtool's macros (David Seifert)
- configure.ac: disable static libraries by default (David Seifert)
- python/Makefile.am: nest python docs in $(docdir) (David Seifert)
- python/Makefile.am: rely on global AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (David Seifert)
- Makefile.am: install examples more idiomatically (David Seifert)
- configure.ac: remove useless AC_SUBST (David Seifert)
- Respect `--sysconfdir` in source files (David Seifert)
- Ignore configure backup file created by recent autoreconf too (Vadim Zeitlin)
- Only install *.html and *.c example files
- Remove --with-html-dir option
- Rework documentation build system
- Remove old website
- Use AM_PATH_PYTHON/PKG_CHECK_MODULES for python bindings (David Seifert)
- Update genChRanges.py
- Update build_glob.py
- Remove ICONV_CONST test
- Remove obsolete AC_HEADER checks
- Don't check for standard C89 library functions
- Don't check for standard C89 headers
- Remove special configuration for certain maintainers
### Test suite, CI
- Disable network in API tests
- testapi: remove leading slash from "/missing.xml" (Mike Gilbert)
- Build Autotools CI tests out of source tree (VPATH)
- Add --with-minimum build to CI tests
- Fix warnings when testing --with-minimum build
- cmake: Run all tests when threads are disabled
- Also build CI tests with -Werror
- Move doc/examples tests to new test suite
- Simplify 'make check' targets
- Fix schemas and relaxng tests
- Remove unused result files
- Allow missing result files in runtest
- Move regexp tests to runtest
- Move SVG tests to runtest.c
- Move testModule to new test suite
- Move testThreads to new test suite
- Remove major parts of old test suite
- Make testchar return an error on failure (Tony Tascioglu)
- Add CI job for static build
- python/tests: open() relative to test scripts (David Seifert)
- Port some test scripts to Python 3
### Documentation
- Improve documentation of tree manipulation API
- Update xml2-config man page
- Consolidate man pages
- Rename xmlcatalog_man.xml
- Make examples a standalone HTML page
- Fix documentation in entities.c
- Add note about optimization flags
v2.9.14: May 02 2022:
- Security:
[CVE-2022-29824] Integer overflow in xmlBuf and xmlBuffer
Fix potential double-free in xmlXPtrStringRangeFunction
Fix memory leak in xmlFindCharEncodingHandler
Normalize XPath strings in-place
Prevent integer-overflow in htmlSkipBlankChars() and xmlSkipBlankChars()
(David Kilzer)
Fix leak of xmlElementContent (David Kilzer)
- Bug fixes:
Fix parsing of subtracted regex character classes
Fix recursion check in xinclude.c
Reset last error in xmlCleanupGlobals
Fix certain combinations of regex range quantifiers
Fix range quantifier on subregex
- Improvements:
Fix recovery from invalid HTML start tags
- Build system, portability:
Define LFS macros before including system headers
Initialize XPath floating-point globals
configure: check for icu DEFS (James Hilliard)
configure.ac: produce tar.xz only (GNOME policy) (David Seifert)
CMakeLists.txt: Fix LIBXML_VERSION_NUMBER
Fix build with older Python versions
Fix --without-valid build