• Add libxml2 2.7.8 as tested and working fine for the Makefile.PL.
  (Thanks to H. Merijn Brand.).
  
• Apply a patch to perl-libxml-sax.c to use xmlChar * instead of char *.
  (Thanks to H. Merijn Brand.).
  
• Correct the README so it won't read XML-LibXML-Common.
  
  • see http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-xml/8907/
    
• Add a patch to implement the no_defdtd option in recent libxml2's:
  
  • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70878
    
  • Thanks to zzgrim@gmail.com .
    
• Add scripts/bump-version-number.pl to modify the version number globally.
  
  • Up to then, the version numbers of the modules under lib/ had
    been 1.73.