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Libxml2 Becomes Officially Unmaintained After Maintainer Steps Down (linuxiac.com)
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In mid-September, we reported that Nick Wellnhofer, the long-time maintainer of the widely used XML parsing library libxml2, planned to step down from the project. A few days ago, that change became official.

When looking at one of the latest commits in the project’s GitLab repository, you can now see the following notice:

“This project is unmaintained and has known security issues (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/346). It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data.”

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[–] 30 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Good on Nick. Do what you want buddy, you had a good run. Go have some fun doing what you love.

Now it's time for a corporate user of libxml2 to donate resources for maintenance and bug fixing or forking it. It doesn't always have to be on the shoulders of unpaid maintainers.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Considering that qt6-webengine also depends upon it, I guess someone will come and pick it up soon, or maybe they will just create an alternative?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    My guess, it'll be rewritten in rust.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Well, there's already sax, xml-rs and rust-xml.
    How many more do you want?

    Better off giving more attention to those that already exist than making more rewrites.

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