NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above. NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py312-libxml2-python listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
textproc/libxml2: really update to 2.15.1
Changelog: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/blob/2.15/NEWS
Notably, all documentation generation requires a circular dependency
on textproc/libxslt. While the API documentation, in HTML, lives
on the upstream site [0], the man pages are now pre-rendered manually.
Also includes an upstream commit addressing unsafe pointer usage
in XPath, leading to security bugs in consumers like libxslt
(CVE-2025-10911). [1]
Mark the -python child port DEPRECATED without expiration date since
upstream has not provided a firm one yet, particularly the release
schedule for the next major version 2.16.
[0] https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libxml2/html/index.html
[1]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/0e50b31902cdb1eb242eb361c123e9e033b2af87
Event: Snowstorm Special January 2026
With hat: desktop
PR: 291316
Revert "textproc/libxml2*: update to 2.15.1, split -core"
The design of this update was repeatedly rejected in the linked PR
with a prescribed different design. This commit is therefore
unauthorised.
This reverts commit 099bd713e09ebdd02d73fde770c50706f980404f.
With hat: desktop (textproc/libxml2), gnome (USES=gnome)
PR: 291316
textproc/libxml2*: update to 2.15.1, split -core
libxml2 now requires xsltproc from libxslt to build,
yet libxslt depends on libxml2,
so we need to break a dependency cycle.
documentation needed to be split out to a separate port.
libxml2 has therefore been split into two ports,
* libxml2 builds the documentation (unless disabled),
* library and executables in libxml2-core.
Pull in one contributor patch suggested by the former libxml2 maintainer
to address one downstream security issue in recent libxslt versions.
This should address arrowd@'s hint that installing libxml2 should
provide a full-featured package.
While here, deprecate libxml2-python according to upstream plans, we
have very few users in the ports tree, and expire end of 2026Q1.
PR: 291316
textproc/libxml2: update to 2.14.4
Changelog: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/blob/v2.14.4/NEWS
textproc/py-libxml2 child port is moved to textproc/libxml2-python
to match the Python package name upstream specified; it now USES=python
to build after do-configure. Consumers adjusted to match.
Includes two bug-fix commits.
PR: 279705
