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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Mukul Gandhi <mu...@apache.org> on 2018/05/03 03:55:20 UTC

[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

Hi all,
   The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version
2.12.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.

Xerces-J 2.12.0 can be downloaded at: http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi.

This release expands on Xerces-J's experimental support for XML Schema 1.1
by providing a fully compliant XML Schema 1.1 implementation. It fixes
several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.11.0 and also includes a few
other minor enhancements.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

* Report all id/idref problems when validating XML against DTD or XML
Schema. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Implemented improvements to XML Schema 1.1 CTA implementation and
inheritable attributes. [Mukul Gandhi, Hiranya Jayathilaka]

* Implemented improved error/warning message reporting for various XML
Schema use cases. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented few performance enhancements (affecting parsing/validation
latency and memory footprint) to the implementation. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor bugs in Xerces-J's regex support in XML Schema <pattern>
facet. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao]

* Implemented various fixes to XML Schema 1.1 assert/assertion
implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented minor and major fixes in certain areas, to XML Schema 1.0 and
1.1 implementations. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao, Mukul
Gandhi]

* Fixed the issue related to, XIncludeTextReader doesn't handle null
Content Types properly. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor problems in the DOM (Level 3 Core) implementation. [Michael
Glavassevich]

* Fixed few errors related to Xerces-J's build component. [Michael
Glavassevich]

* Solved a minor bug in SoftReferenceSymbolTable implementation component.
[Michael Glavassevich]

* Octavian and Radu, from Oxygen XML Editor team have contributed much by
way of intimating numerous bugs and implementation ideas, for Xerces-J's
XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Octavian Nadolu, Radu Coravu]

* The following security issues, raised by users were fixed:
CVE-2012-0881 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0881
CVE-2013-4002 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002
CVE-2018-2799 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2799

A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10520&version=12336542

For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/



-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

Posted by Michael Glavassevich <mr...@ca.ibm.com>.
Maven has never been part of our release process. Other people from the 
community would have uploaded those previous releases.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org

Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com> wrote on 05/03/2018 11:48:20 AM:
 
> This version has not hit Maven repos yet?
> 
> https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22xerces%22%20AND%
> 20a%3A%22xercesImpl%22
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Mukul Gandhi <mu...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that 
> version 2.12.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.
> 
> Xerces-J 2.12.0 can be downloaded at: 
http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi.
> 
> This release expands on Xerces-J's experimental support for XML 
> Schema 1.1 by providing a fully compliant XML Schema 1.1 
> implementation. It fixes several bugs which were present in Xerces-J
> 2.11.0 and also includes a few other minor enhancements.
> 
> Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:
> 
> * Report all id/idref problems when validating XML against DTD or 
> XML Schema. [Michael Glavassevich]
> 
> * Implemented improvements to XML Schema 1.1 CTA implementation and 
> inheritable attributes. [Mukul Gandhi, Hiranya Jayathilaka]
> 
> * Implemented improved error/warning message reporting for various 
> XML Schema use cases. [Mukul Gandhi]
> 
> * Implemented few performance enhancements (affecting parsing/
> validation latency and memory footprint) to the implementation. 
> [Michael Glavassevich]
> 
> * Fixed minor bugs in Xerces-J's regex support in XML Schema 
> <pattern> facet. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao]
> 
> * Implemented various fixes to XML Schema 1.1 assert/assertion 
> implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]
> 
> * Implemented minor and major fixes in certain areas, to XML Schema 
> 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, 
> Sandy Gao, Mukul Gandhi]
> 
> * Fixed the issue related to, XIncludeTextReader doesn't handle null
> Content Types properly. [Michael Glavassevich]
> 
> * Fixed minor problems in the DOM (Level 3 Core) implementation. 
> [Michael Glavassevich]
> 
> * Fixed few errors related to Xerces-J's build component. [Michael 
> Glavassevich]
> 
> * Solved a minor bug in SoftReferenceSymbolTable implementation 
> component. [Michael Glavassevich]
> 
> * Octavian and Radu, from Oxygen XML Editor team have contributed 
> much by way of intimating numerous bugs and implementation ideas, 
> for Xerces-J's XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Octavian 
> Nadolu, Radu Coravu]
> 
> * The following security issues, raised by users were fixed:
> CVE-2012-0881 : 
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0881
> CVE-2013-4002 : 
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002
> CVE-2018-2799 : 
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2799
> 
> A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available 
here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?
> projectId=10520&version=12336542
> 
> For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi


Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

Posted by Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>.
This version has not hit Maven repos yet?

https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cgav%7C1%7Cg%3A%22xerces%22%20AND%20a%3A%22xercesImpl%22

Gary

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Mukul Gandhi <mu...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version
> 2.12.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.
>
> Xerces-J 2.12.0 can be downloaded at: http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi
> .
>
> This release expands on Xerces-J's experimental support for XML Schema 1.1
> by providing a fully compliant XML Schema 1.1 implementation. It fixes
> several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.11.0 and also includes a few
> other minor enhancements.
>
> Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:
>
> * Report all id/idref problems when validating XML against DTD or XML
> Schema. [Michael Glavassevich]
>
> * Implemented improvements to XML Schema 1.1 CTA implementation and
> inheritable attributes. [Mukul Gandhi, Hiranya Jayathilaka]
>
> * Implemented improved error/warning message reporting for various XML
> Schema use cases. [Mukul Gandhi]
>
> * Implemented few performance enhancements (affecting parsing/validation
> latency and memory footprint) to the implementation. [Michael Glavassevich]
>
> * Fixed minor bugs in Xerces-J's regex support in XML Schema <pattern>
> facet. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao]
>
> * Implemented various fixes to XML Schema 1.1 assert/assertion
> implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]
>
> * Implemented minor and major fixes in certain areas, to XML Schema 1.0
> and 1.1 implementations. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao,
> Mukul Gandhi]
>
> * Fixed the issue related to, XIncludeTextReader doesn't handle null
> Content Types properly. [Michael Glavassevich]
>
> * Fixed minor problems in the DOM (Level 3 Core) implementation. [Michael
> Glavassevich]
>
> * Fixed few errors related to Xerces-J's build component. [Michael
> Glavassevich]
>
> * Solved a minor bug in SoftReferenceSymbolTable implementation component.
> [Michael Glavassevich]
>
> * Octavian and Radu, from Oxygen XML Editor team have contributed much by
> way of intimating numerous bugs and implementation ideas, for Xerces-J's
> XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Octavian Nadolu, Radu Coravu]
>
> * The following security issues, raised by users were fixed:
> CVE-2012-0881 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/
> cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0881
> CVE-2013-4002 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/
> cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002
> CVE-2018-2799 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/
> cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2799
>
> A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?
> projectId=10520&version=12336542
>
> For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>