winlibs / libxml2

The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome

libxml2

libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project from http://www.xmlsoft.org/

Building for PHP with VC9/VC11

Configure line non debug:

cscript configure.js lib="<path to iconv lib dir>" include="<path to iconv header dir>" vcmanifest=yes

Configure line with debug:

cscript configure.js lib="<path to iconv lib dir>" include="<path to iconv header dir>"  debug=yes mem_debug=yes  vcmanifest=yes

libxml2_a_dll.lib MUST be used with PHP.

libxml2's Issues

Please upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.14

Version 2.9.14 of libxml2 is available at:

https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.9/

Note that starting with 2.9.13, libxml2 tarballs are published on download.gnome.org instead of ftp.xmlsoft.org.

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

New version 2.9.5

Version 2.9.5 was freshly released and there is a new release schedule. The plan is to release "whatever is there" more or less each month. Would be great if the winlibs could follow somehow.

New version 2.9.7

@weltling: They seem to have an active maintenance policy now:
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html