| <html> |
| <head> |
| <title>Old Expat News</title> |
| <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="style.css" type="text/css" /> |
| </head> |
| <body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> |
| <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="corner"><img src="expat.png" /></td> |
| <td class="banner"><h2>Old Expat News</h2></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="navbar"> |
| </td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| |
| <p><a href="./index.html#news">Current news</a></p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt><em>27 December 2005</em>, |
| Final Expat 2.0 pre-release snapshot made available. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>This <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-12-27.tar.gz" > |
| pre-release distribution</a> is based on the feedback we got from the |
| Dec. 23 snapshot and represents the final opportunity for |
| feedback before the actual release goes out.</p> |
| <p>We plan to release after the New Year.</p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>23 December 2005</em>, |
| Expat 2.0 pre-release snapshot (another one) made available. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>As nothing happened here for a long time, we've posted another |
| <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-12-23.tar.gz" >pre-release |
| distribution snapshot</a> of the code currently in CVS on |
| libexpat.org. Please try this out and report any problems you |
| have. We'd like to get Expat 2.0 out soon.</p> |
| <p>A late addition was the new (optional) <code>XML_LARGE_SIZE</code> |
| feature to enable 64-bit integers on some API members. Please check |
| how it builds and works for you.</p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>28 January 2005</em>, |
| Expat pre-release snapshot made available. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>We've posted a <a href= |
| "http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-01-28.tar.gz" >pre-release |
| distribution snapshot</a> of the code currently in CVS on |
| libexpat.org. Please try this out and report any problems you |
| have. We'd like to get a release out soon.</p> |
| <p>The coming release will either be 1.95.9 or 2.0, depending |
| primarily on the response to this snapshot. If we do decide to |
| make this 1.95.9, then we'll try to follow up with 2.0 in about a |
| month.</p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>23 July 2004</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.8 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>The release schedule described in the previous news item didn't |
| work out. As a compensation, we've fixed a number of the |
| nuissance warnings generated on many platforms, and added a nice |
| new suspend/resume feature to the parser.</p> |
| <p><ul> |
| <li> Major new feature: suspend/resume. Handlers can now request |
| that a parse be suspended for later resumption or aborted |
| altogether. See "Temporarily Stopping Parsing" in the |
| documentation for more details. </li> |
| <li> Some mostly minor bug fixes, but compilation should no |
| longer generate warnings on most platforms. SF issues |
| include: 827319, 840173, 846309, 888329, 896188, 923913, |
| 928113, 961698, 985192.</li> |
| </ul></p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>20 October 2003</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.7 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p><ul> |
| <li> Fixed <code>enum XML_Status</code> issue (reported on |
| SourceForge many times), so compilers that are properly |
| picky will be happy. </li> |
| <li> Introduced an <code>XMLCALL</code> macro to control the |
| calling convention used by the Expat API; this macro should |
| be used to annotate prototypes and definitions of callback |
| implementations in code compiled with a calling convention |
| other than the default convention for the host |
| platform. </li> |
| <li> Improved ability to build without the |
| <b>configure</b>-generated <span |
| class="filename">expat_config.h</span> header. This is |
| useful for applications which embed Expat rather than |
| linking in the library. </li> |
| <li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 458907, 609603, |
| 676844, 679754, 692878, 692964, 695401, 699323, 699487, |
| 820946. </li> |
| <li> Improved hash table lookups. </li> |
| <li> Added more regression tests and improved documentation. </li> |
| </ul></p> |
| <p>Our plan is to wait for a short while and re-release this |
| version as the long-awaited Expat 2.0 if no major problems are |
| identified. If significant problems are found, additional |
| iterative releases will be made as fixes are made.</p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>15 October 2003</em>, |
| Upcoming release. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <p>We're working on getting the long-delayed Expat 1.95.7 out the |
| door. A snapshot of the current source code is available as |
| expat-2003-10-15.tar.gz (no longer available); |
| please give this a try on your platform and report how it works |
| for you to the <a href= |
| "http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/expat-discuss" |
| >expat-discuss</a> mailing list. Our goals for this release are |
| portability and stability. |
| </p> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>28 January 2003</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.6 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <ul> |
| <li> Added <code>XML_FreeContentModel()</code>. </li> |
| <li> Added <code>XML_MemMalloc()</code>, |
| <code>XML_MemRealloc()</code>, |
| <code>XML_MemFree()</code>. </li> |
| <li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 615606, 616863, |
| 618199, 653180, 673791. </li> |
| <li> Enhanced the regression test suite. </li> |
| <li> Man page improvements: includes SF issue 632146. </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p /> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>6 September 2002</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.5 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <ul> |
| <li> Added <code>XML_UseForeignDTD()</code> for improved SAX2 |
| support. </li> |
| <li> Added <code>XML_GetFeatureList()</code>. </li> |
| <li> Defined <code>XML_Bool</code> type and the values |
| <code>XML_TRUE</code> and <code>XML_FALSE</code>. </li> |
| <li> Use an incomplete struct instead of a <code>void*</code> |
| for the parser. </li> |
| <li> Fixed UTF-8 decoding bug that caused legal UTF-8 to be |
| rejected. </li> |
| <li> Finally fixed bug where default handler would report DTD |
| events that were already handled by another handler. |
| Initial patch contributed by Darryl Miles. </li> |
| <li> Removed unnecessary <code>DllMain()</code> function that |
| caused static linking into a DLL to be difficult. </li> |
| <li> Added VC++ projects for building static libraries. </li> |
| <li> Reduced line-length for all source code and headers to be |
| no longer than 80 characters, to help with AS/400 |
| support. </li> |
| <li> Reduced memory copying during parsing (SF patch #600964). </li> |
| <li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 580793, 434664, |
| 483514, 580503, 581069, 584041, 584183, 584832, 585537, |
| 596555, 596678, 598352, 598944, 599715, 600479, 600971. </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p /> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>4 September 2002</em>, |
| <a href="dev/roadmap.html">Development roadmap</a> published. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <ul> |
| <li> The initial version of the development roadmap was released |
| for comment. </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p /> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>12 July 2002</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.4 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <ul> |
| <li> Added support for VMS, contributed by Craig Berry. See |
| vms/README.vms in the distrubution for more information. </li> |
| <li> Added Mac OS (classic) support, with a makefile for MPW, |
| contributed by Thomas Wegner and Daryle Walker. </li> |
| <li> Added Borland C++ Builder 5 / BCC 5.5 support, contributed |
| by Patrick McConnell (SF patch #538032). </li> |
| <li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 441449, 563184, |
| 564342, 566334, 566901, 569461, 570263, 575168, 579196. </li> |
| <li> Made skippedEntityHandler conform to SAX2 (see source |
| comment). </li> |
| <li> Re-implemented WFC: Entity Declared from XML 1.0 spec and |
| added a new error "entity declared in parameter entity": |
| see SF bug report 569461 and SF patch 578161. </li> |
| <li> Re-implemented section 5.1 from XML 1.0 spec: |
| see SF bug report 570263 and SF patch 578161. </li> |
| </ul> |
| Expat 1.95.3 is being withdrawn due to <a href= |
| "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=566334&group_id=10127&atid=110127" |
| >bug #566334</a>. If you are currently using Expat 1.95.3, please |
| update to 1.95.4. |
| <p /> |
| </dd> |
| <dt><em>3 June 2002</em>, |
| Expat 1.95.3 released. |
| </dt> |
| <dd> |
| <ul> |
| <li> Changed the name of the Windows DLLs from expat.dll to |
| libexpat.dll; this fixes SF bug #432456. This is a problem |
| only known to affect the Perl XML::Parser::Expat extension, |
| but is very important for that extension.</li> |
| <li> Added a project to the MSVC workspace to create a wchar_t |
| version of the library; the DLLs are named libexpatw.dll. |
| (Note the addition of the "w" character in the file name.) |
| </li> |
| <li> Added the XML_ParserReset() API function. This allows a |
| parser to be re-used, reducing the number of memory |
| allocations needed to set up a parser. This can be a |
| substantial benefit when parsing a large number of small |
| documents. </li> |
| <li> Fixed XML_SetReturnNSTriplet() to work for element names. |
| This is now a usable feature. </li> |
| <li> Made the XML_UNICODE builds usable (thanks, Karl!). </li> |
| <li> Allow xmlwf to read from standard input. </li> |
| <li> Install a man page for xmlwf on Unix systems. </li> |
| <li> Fixed many bugs; see SF bug reports 231864, 461380, 464837, |
| 466885, 469226, 477667, 484419, 487840, 494749, 496505, |
| 547350. Other bugs which we can't test as easily may also |
| have been fixed, especially in the area of build support. </li> |
| </ul> |
| </dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td class="corner"> |
| <a href="http://sourceforge.net"> |
| <img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=10127&type=2" |
| width="125" height="37" border="0" alt="SourceForge.net Logo" /> |
| </a> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| </body> |
| </html> |
