Hello everybody, I just made a build in Rawhide of libxml2-2.9.0-0rc1.fc19, the first release candidate for the upcoming libxml2-2.9.0 release, I'm targetting a final release beginning of September. This release introduce a small API incompatibility which may affect a few package, among others libxslt, php, python-lxml, gcc libjava and evolution-data-server, all of which should have the patches needed upstream already. More information may be found in the libxml2 and GNOME mailing-lists, basically a structure which used to be exposed at the API level is now opaque for refactoring. That change was made mosly for security reasons: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-August/msg00005.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-August/msg00007.html Out of the hundreds of packages relying on libxml2 I expect only a few more who might be affected by the change, this can show up at compilation time with an error about accessing an undefined buf structure. Grab me I will be more than happy to help fixing the problem and getting the patch ready for upstream ! The ABI emulation should work fine at this point, I have been running my Fedora 17 with the updated package without noticing any problem for nearly a week now, even libxslt/xsltproc which probably push the limits of libxml2 APIs works fine, so I'm relatively confident on the current state. One thing I'm unclear about is the best way to get this into Fedora 18, should I try to push the release candidate now to find out which packages need fixing at the code level if we do other mass rebuilds before GA, or should I wait until 2.9.0 is out in a few weeks, possibly relying on the binary compatibility if the affected packages are not rebuilt, Any opinion on the best way ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
