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

Hi Folks,


xercesImpl.jar has still yet to show up on maven central, was this an 
oversight?


--dave



On 05/02/2018 11:59 PM, Mukul Gandhi 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