Release 2.4.9 Tue September 20 2022
Security fixes:
#629#640 CVE-2022-40674 -- Heap use-after-free vulnerability in
function doContent. Expected impact is denial of service
or potentially arbitrary code execution.
Bug fixes:
#634 MinGW: Fix mis-compilation for -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0
#614 docs: Fix documentation on effect of switch XML_DTD on
symbol visibility in doc/reference.html
Other changes:
#638 MinGW: Make fix-xmltest-log.sh drop more Wine bug output
#596#625 Autotools: Sync CMake templates with CMake 3.22
#608 CMake: Migrate from use of CMAKE_*_POSTFIX to
dedicated variables EXPAT_*_POSTFIX to stop affecting
other projects
#597#599 Windows|CMake: Add missing -DXML_STATIC to test runners
and fuzzers
#512#621 Windows|CMake: Render .def file from a template to fix
linking with -DEXPAT_DTD=OFF and/or -DEXPAT_ATTR_INFO=ON
#611#621 MinGW|CMake: Apply MSVC .def file when linking
#622#624 MinGW|CMake: Sync library name with GNU Autotools,
i.e. produce libexpat-1.dll rather than libexpat.dll
by default. Filename libexpat.dll.a is unaffected.
#632 MinGW|CMake: Set missing variable CMAKE_RC_COMPILER in
toolchain file "cmake/mingw-toolchain.cmake" to avoid
error "windres: Command not found" on e.g. Ubuntu 20.04
#597#627 CMake: Unify inconsistent use of set() and option() in
context of public build time options to take need for
set(.. FORCE) in projects using Expat by means of
add_subdirectory(..) off Expat's users' shoulders
#626#641 Stop exporting API symbols when building a static library
#644 Resolve use of deprecated "fgrep" by "grep -F"
#620 CMake: Make documentation on variables a bit more consistent
#636 CMake: Drop leading whitespace from a #cmakedefine line in
file expat_config.h.cmake
#594 xmlwf: Fix harmless variable mix-up in function nsattcmp
#592#593#610 Address Cppcheck warnings
#643 Address Clang 15 compiler warnings
#642#644 Version info bumped from 9:8:8 to 9:9:8;
see https://verbump.de/ for what these numbers do
Infrastructure:
#597#598 CI: Windows: Start covering MSVC 2022
#619 CI: macOS: Migrate off deprecated macOS 10.15
#632 CI: Linux: Make migration off deprecated Ubuntu 18.04 work
#643 CI: Upgrade Clang from 14 to 15
#637 apply-clang-format.sh: Add support for BSD find
#633 coverage.sh: Exclude MinGW headers
#635 coverage.sh: Fix name collision for -funsigned-char
Special thanks to:
David Faure
Felix Wilhelm
Frank Bergmann
Rhodri James
Rosen Penev
Thijs Schreijer
Vincent Torri
and
Google Project Zero
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 266524
9901fd092a