What's new in XMLStarlet 1.5.0
Jul 13, 2013
- This version fixes a crash when trying to run pyx on nonexistent files and a boundary condition in the unescape command.
- The ed and sel commands can now refer to a document's top level default namespace with "_" or "DEFAULT" and give a friendly message if the user doesn't realize they need to specify namespaces.
New in XMLStarlet 1.4.2 (Jan 3, 2013)
- This version fixes a crash in the pyx subcommand that occurred when it handled nodes with multiple attributes.
New in XMLStarlet 1.4.1 (Dec 15, 2012)
- A crash with invalid editing operations has been fixed.
- The documentation can now be built from the tarball and installs to the correct place.
- The test suite has been made more forgiving of serialization differences between libxml2 versions.
New in XMLStarlet 1.2.1 (Jul 8, 2011)
- A crash when libxml2 returned NULL nodeset result was fixed.
- "-" was being confused with --elif.
- The generated XSLT now contains the namespaces extracted from the first input file.
- -N is once again allowed after other options.
- Namespace values were being registered as prefixes.
- A segfault is avoided when asked to move namespace nodes.
- There was a missing newline in the ed --help message.
- The test scripts portability was improved.
- XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG is only used if libxml is version 2.7.8 or later.
New in XMLStarlet 1.2.0 (Jun 2, 2011)
- This version implements --update --expr for the ed command.
- The ed and sel commands use top-level namespace definitions from first input file, which should remove the need to define namespaces on the command line with -N in most cases.
- Select exits with 0 only if the result is non-empty.
- The -Q option has been added to select, like grep's -q.
- This release adds column number and restores input context (lost in version 1.0.3) to error messages.
- It adds the --net option to c14n, ed, fo, and val.
- It removes --catalog from the tr --help message since it isn't actually supported.
- It adds --elif and --else to the sel --help message.
New in XMLStarlet 1.1.0 (Apr 6, 2011)
- A bug was fixed for BSD and Mac OS X by checking that O_BINARY is declared before #including io.h.
- Several select command improvements were made: --elif and --else options, sorting on multiple fields, correct (for English) lexical sorting, and inclusion of only needed namespaces by the output stylesheet.
- Shared libxml and libxslt libraries are linked by default.
- Library version information was added to --version output.
- A directory argument for ls was added; the exit status indicates failure or success instead of file count.
- Xmlstarlet will now link with a libxml configured --without-sax1 and --without-legacy.
New in XMLStarlet 1.0.6 (Mar 14, 2011)
- The c14n command now outputs linefeeds only in Windows as well.
- The --help text for ed now correctly describes the behavior of -P, -S, --pf, and --ps.
- Some subcommands' --help options were outputting the printf format string literally.
New in XMLStarlet 1.0.5 (Feb 17, 2011)
- A bug in which stylesheets with CDATA nodes led to memory corruption was fixed.
- The test scripts now double "/" characters under msys to avoid path conversion; most tests now succeed in the mingw build.
- The --help option now prints to stdout and exits with success.
- There were some further tweaks in the tests and build system.
New in XMLStarlet 1.0.4 (Jan 17, 2011)
- encode special XML characters in arguments (can now include quotes in xpath)
- non-zero exit code when input file is not found (Bug 3158488)
- ed with --pf/--ps options doesn't reformat output (Bug 3158490)
- exit() instead of segfault when trying to delete namespace nodes (Bug 1120417)
- added --disable-static-libs ./configure option to use shared libxml2 and libxslt
- non-recursive make
- use TESTS and XFAIL_TESTS for testing, nicer output
New in XMLStarlet 1.0.3 (Nov 28, 2010)
- Bug fixes:
- escape --value in update mode (Bug 3052978)
- c14n now includes default attributes (Bug 1505579)
- Allow special characters in sel --output literal (Bug 1912978)
- remove warning from xml_trans.c (Bug 1521756)
- Use xmlReader interface so line numbers are 32-bit (Bug 1219072)
- test for error messages on lines past 2^16 (Bug 1219072)
- don't look for embedded dtd if not asked (Bug 1167215)