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=== Saturday 18th June 2011 ===

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `libxml` in F-13, F-14, F-15 and Rawhide to fix the broken XPath implementation, which was failing the regression tests and, more significantly, segfaulting on 32-bit builds; this was a result of a pointer being cast from type `xmlDocPtr` to `xmlNodePtr` (which have only a few structure members in common) and trying to access non-existent elements of the resulting `xmlNode` (upstream said that [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-September/msg00240.html|the cast was generally safe to do]] but that was because there were lots of special-case tests in the code to see if the `xmlNodePtr` was really a `xmlDocPtr` and act accordingly, but one had been missed, resulting in the segfault and failed XPath tests)
 . This simple addition to the code fixed it:
 . {{{
--- libxml-1.8.17/xpath.c.orig	2011-06-18 16:26:57.430229932 +0100
+++ libxml-1.8.17/xpath.c	2011-06-18 19:27:03.295989406 +0100
@@ -1537,6 +1539,8 @@
         return(ctxt->context->node->childs);
     }
 
+    if (cur == (xmlNodePtr) ctxt->context->doc)
+        return(ctxt->context->doc->root);
     if (cur->childs != NULL) return(cur->childs);
     if (cur->next != NULL) return(cur->next);
     
}}}

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `libxml` as per the Fedora version
 * Updated `perl-XML-LibXML` to 1.73:
  * Calculating `$err->column()` properly, so it won't be maxed out at 80 ([[CPAN:66642|CPAN RT#66642]])
  * Update the repository in the documentation to point to the bitbucket.org one
  * Revamped `Makefile.PL`:
   * Got rid of "`\t`" characters
   * Add "`use strict`" and "`use warnings`"
   * Add resources and keywords to the `META_MERGE`
   * Other changes
  * Fix [[CPAN:53632|CPAN RT#53632]]: when calling `normalize` on a node, processing of children nodes will stop when an empty element node is encountered
  * Apply the patch from Daniel Fetter's `InputCallbackFix` branch:
   * A partial fix to [[CPAN:4263|CPAN RT#4263]]
   * Call two `$parser->parse_string()` in succession
  * Apply the `NestedParsing` patch (more of [[CPAN:4263|CPAN RT#4263]]):
   * Updated how legacy parser local callbacks are utilized by `init_callbacks` so that the `XML::LibXML::InputCallback` object doesn't have to be temporarily modified during the parsing process; this change could break code for users that have subclassed `XML::LibXML::InputCallback` and overridden the `init_callbacks` method
  * Documentation fixes patch from Daniel Fetter

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