Major changes
The API documentation is now generated with Doxygen. Building the
documentation requires the new --with-docs configuration option as well
as Doxygen, xsltproc and the DocBook 4 XSLT stylesheets.
The Python bindings are disabled by default now. Building the bindings
also requires Doxygen.
Support for Schematron is now disabled by default.
The parser option XML_PARSE_UNZIP is now required to read compressed data.
HTML serialization and handling of character encodings is more in line
with the HTML5 spec now.
More accessors for xmlParserCtxt were added.
Deprecations
More internal functions and struct members were deprecated.
Removals
The built-in HTTP client and support for LZMA compression were removed.
The custom Windows build system in win32 was removed in favor of CMake.
Planned removals
The Python bindings and support for Schematron validation are planned to
be removed in the 2.16 release.
The following features are considered for removal:
- Modules API (xmlmodule.h)
- Support for zlib compressed file I/O
RELAX NG support is still in a bad state and a long-term removal
candidate.
Thanks
Thanks to the following contributors:
- Alex Richardson
- Benjamin Gilbert
- Caolán McNamara
- Collin Funk
- Dag-Erling Smørgrav
- Dan Yeaw
- Daniel P. Berrangé
- Francesco Pretto
- Lovell Fuller
- Maks Verver
- Markus Rickert
- Michael Mann
- Omar Siam
- Pavel Kopylov
- Peter Kokot
- Samuel Thibault
- ThomasK