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</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
  <li>Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
    HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
  problems</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
    tree, xmlI/O,  Html</li>
  <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
  <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
    and improvement of the regexp core</li>
  <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
  <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
    Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
  <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
    APIs</li>
  <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
  <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
  <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
  Merlet)</li>
  <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
  <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
  <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
  <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
    (fcrozat)</li>
  <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
  <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
  <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
  <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
  <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
  <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
  <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
  <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
  <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
    Peter Jacobi</li>
  <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
    HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
  <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
    usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
    indentation, URI parsing</li>
  <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
    protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
  <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
  <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
  datatypes</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
  <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
  <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
  Jinks</li>
  <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
  <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
  <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
  <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
    libxml.m4</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
    encoder</li>
  <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
  <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
  <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
  XPath</li>
  <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
  <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
  <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
  <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
  XPath"</li>
  <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
    regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
  <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
    from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
  <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
  <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
  <li>Includes cleanup</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
    License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
    confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
  <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
    complete</li>
  <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
    manipulations</li>
  <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
  XML</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
  <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
  <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
    Narojnyi</li>
  <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
  <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
    XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
  (robert)</li>
  <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
  <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
    cleanups</li>
  <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
  <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
  <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
  <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
  <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
  <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
    --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
  <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
  <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
  <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
  tool</li>
  <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
  <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
  <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
    and regression tests</li>
  <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
  <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
  <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
  <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
  <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
  <li>general bug fixes</li>
  <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
  <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
  <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
  <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
  <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
  <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
  <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
  <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
    version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
    portability fixes</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
  Catalog</li>
  <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
  <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
  <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
  <li>A few bug fixes</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
  <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
  <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
  <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
  <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
  <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.1:  July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
  <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
  <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
  <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
  <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
  <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
    regression tests</li>
  <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
    substituting them</li>
  <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
    substantially faster</li>
  <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
  <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
  <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
  <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
  <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
  <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li>
  <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
  <li>fixed line number counting</li>
  <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
  <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
  <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
    miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
    optimizer on Tru64</li>
  <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
    compilation on Windows MSC</li>
  <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
  <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
    problems (alpha)</li>
  <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
    handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
  <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
  <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
    parser</li>
  <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces