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Recent Releases of https://github.com/ruby/rexml

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.4.4 - 2025-09-10

Improvement

  • Accept REXML::Document.new("") for backward compatibility
    • GH-296
    • GH-295
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
    • Reported by Joe Rafaniello

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • Joe Rafaniello

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Published by github-actions[bot] 6 months ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.4.3 - 2025-09-07

Improvement

  • Reject no root element XML as an invalid XML
    • GH-289
    • GH-291
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
    • Reported by Sutou Kouhei

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with IOSource#read_until when reaching the end of a file
    • GH-287
    • GH-288
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
    • Reported by Jason Thomas

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • Sutou Kouhei

  • Jason Thomas

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Published by github-actions[bot] 6 months ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.4.2 - 2025-08-26

Improvement

  • Improved performance.

    • GH-244
    • GH-245
    • GH-246
    • GH-249
    • GH-256
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Raise appropriate exception when failing to match start tag in DOCTYPE

    • GH-247
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Deprecate accepting array as an element in XPath.match, first and each

    • GH-252
    • Patch by tomoya ishida
  • Don't call needless encoding_updated

    • GH-259
    • Patch by Sutou Kouhei
  • Reuse XPath::match

    • GH-263
    • Patch by pboling
  • Cache redundant calls for doctype

    • GH-264
    • Patch by pboling
  • Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3

    • GH-265
    • Patch by pboling
  • Remove redundant return statements

    • GH-266
    • Patch by pboling
  • Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method

    • GH-282
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
    • Reported by Sofi Aberegg

Fixes

  • Fix docs typo

    • GH-248
    • Patch by James Coleman
  • Fix reverse sort in xpath_parser

    • GH-251
    • Patch by tomoya ishida
  • Fix duplicate responses in XPath following, following-sibling, preceding, preceding-sibling

    • GH-255
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Fix wrong Encoding resolution

    • GH-258
    • Patch by Sutou Kouhei
  • Handle nil when parsing fragment

    • GH-267
    • GH-268
    • Patch by pboling
  • [Documentation] Use # to reference instance methods

    • GH-269
    • GH-270
    • Patch by pboling
  • Fix & Deprecate REXML::Text#text_indent

    • GH-273
    • GH-275
    • Patch by pboling
  • remove bundler from dev deps

    • GH-276
    • GH-277
    • Patch by pboling
  • remove ostruct from dev deps

    • GH-280
    • GH-281
    • Patch by pboling

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • tomoya ishida

  • James Coleman

  • pboling

  • Sutou Kouhei

  • Sofi Aberegg

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Published by github-actions[bot] 6 months ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.4.1 - 2025-02-16

Improvement

  • Improved performance.
    • GH-226
    • GH-227
    • GH-237
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun

Fixes

  • Fix serialization of ATTLIST is incorrect
    • GH-233
    • GH-234
    • Patch by OlofKalufs
    • Reported by OlofKalufs

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • OlofKalufs

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.4.0 - 2024-12-15

Improvement

  • Improved performance.

    • GH-216
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • JRuby: Improved parse performance.

    • GH-219
    • Patch by João Duarte
  • Added support for reusing pull parser.

    • GH-214
    • GH-220
    • Patch by Dmitry Pogrebnoy
  • Improved error handling when source is IO.

    • GH-221
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • João Duarte

  • Dmitry Pogrebnoy

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Published by github-actions[bot] about 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.9 - 2024-10-24

Improvements

  • Improved performance.
    • GH-210
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

  • Fixed a parse bug for text only invalid XML.

    • GH-215
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Fixed a parse bug that &#0x...; is accepted as a character
    reference.

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.8 - 2024-09-29

Improvements

  • SAX2: Improve parse performance.
    • GH-207
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that unexpected attribute namespace conflict error for
    the predefined "xml" namespace is reported.
    • GH-208
    • Patch by KITAITI Makoto

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • KITAITI Makoto

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.7 - 2024-09-04

Improvements

  • Added local entity expansion limit methods

    • GH-192
    • GH-202
    • Reported by takuya kodama.
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Removed explicit strscan dependency

    • GH-204
    • Patch by Bo Anderson.

Thanks

  • takuya kodama

  • NAITOH Jun

  • Bo Anderson

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.6 - 2024-08-22

Improvements

  • Removed duplicated entity expansions for performance.

    • GH-194
    • Patch by Viktor Ivarsson.
  • Improved namespace conflicted attribute check performance. It was
    too slow for deep elements.

    • Reported by l33thaxor.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that default entity expansions are counted for
    security check. Default entity expansions should not be counted
    because they don't have a security risk.

    • GH-198
    • GH-199
    • Patch Viktor Ivarsson
  • Fixed a parser bug that parameter entity references in internal
    subsets are expanded. It's not allowed in the XML specification.

    • GH-191
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Fixed a stream parser bug that user-defined entity references in
    text aren't expanded.

    • GH-200
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

  • Viktor Ivarsson

  • NAITOH Jun

  • l33thaxor

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.5 - 2024-08-12

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit
    check has wrong text size calculation in SAX and pull parsers.
    • GH-193
    • GH-195
    • Reported by Viktor Ivarsson.
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

  • Viktor Ivarsson

  • NAITOH Jun

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.4 - 2024-08-01

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that REXML::Security isn't defined when
    REXML::Parsers::StreamParser is used and
    rexml/parsers/streamparser is only required.
    • GH-189
    • Patch by takuya kodama.

Thanks

  • takuya kodama

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.3 - 2024-08-01

Improvements

  • Added support for detecting invalid XML that has unsupported
    content before root element

    • GH-184
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Added support for REXML::Security.entity_expansion_limit= and
    REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit= in SAX2 and pull
    parsers

    • GH-187
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Added more tests for invalid XMLs.

    • GH-183
    • Patch by Watson.
  • Added more performance tests.

    • Patch by Watson.
  • Improved parse performance.

    • GH-186
    • Patch by tomoya ishida.

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • Watson

  • tomoya ishida

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.2 - 2024-07-16

Improvements

  • Improved parse performance.

    • GH-160
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Improved parse performance.

    • GH-169
    • GH-170
    • GH-171
    • GH-172
    • GH-173
    • GH-174
    • GH-175
    • GH-176
    • GH-177
    • Patch by Watson.
  • Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML has extra
    content after the root element.

    • GH-161
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML
    declaration exists in wrong position.

    • GH-162
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Removed needless a space after XML declaration in pretty print mode.

    • GH-164
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Stopped to emit :text event after the root element.

    • GH-167
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that SAX2 parser doesn't expand predefined entities for
    characters callback.
    • GH-168
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

  • NAITOH Jun

  • Watson

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.1 - 2024-06-25

Improvements

  • Added support for detecting malformed top-level comments.

    • GH-145
    • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.
  • Improved REXML::Element#attribute performance.

    • GH-146
    • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.
  • Added support for detecting malformed <!--> comments.

    • GH-147
    • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.
  • Added support for detecting unclosed DOCTYPE.

    • GH-152
    • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.
  • Added changlog_uri metadata to gemspec.

    • GH-156
    • Patch by fynsta.
  • Improved parse performance.

    • GH-157
    • GH-158
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that large XML can't be parsed.

    • GH-154
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Fixed a bug that private constants are visible.

    • GH-155
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

  • Hiroya Fujinami

  • NAITOH Jun

  • fynsta

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.3.0 - 2024-06-11

Improvements

  • Added support for strscan 0.7.0 installed with Ruby 2.6.
    • GH-142
    • Reported by Fernando Trigoso.

Thanks

  • Fernando Trigoso

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.2.9 - 2024-06-09

Improvements

  • Added support for old strscan.

    • GH-132
    • Reported by Adam
  • Improved attribute value parse performance.

    • GH-135
    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.
  • Improved REXML::Node#each_recursive performance.

    • GH-134
    • GH-139
    • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.
  • Improved text parse performance.

    • Reported by mprogrammer.

Thanks

  • Adam
  • NAITOH Jun
  • Hiroya Fujinami
  • mprogrammer

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 1 year ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.2.8 - 2024-05-16

Fixes

  • Suppressed a warning

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 2 years ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.2.7 - 2024-05-16

Improvements

  • Improve parse performance by using StringScanner.

    • GH-106

    • GH-107

    • GH-108

    • GH-109

    • GH-112

    • GH-113

    • GH-114

    • GH-115

    • GH-116

    • GH-117

    • GH-118

    • GH-119

    • GH-121

    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

  • Improved parse performance when an attribute has many <s.

    • GH-124

Fixes

  • XPath: Fixed a bug of normalize_space(array).

    • GH-110

    • GH-111

    • Patch by flatisland.

  • XPath: Fixed a bug that wrong position is used with nested path.

    • GH-110

    • GH-122

    • Reported by jcavalieri.

    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

  • Fixed a bug that an exception message can't be generated for
    invalid encoding XML.

    • GH-29

    • GH-123

    • Reported by DuKewu.

    • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

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Published by github-actions[bot] almost 2 years ago

https://github.com/ruby/rexml - REXML 3.2.6 - 2023-07-27

Improvements

  • Required Ruby 2.5 or later explicitly.
    GH-69
    [Patch by Ivo Anjo]

  • Added documentation for maintenance cycle.
    GH-71
    [Patch by Ivo Anjo]

  • Added tutorial.
    GH-77
    GH-78
    [Patch by Burdette Lamar]

  • Improved performance and memory usage.
    GH-94
    [Patch by fatkodima]

  • REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for
    function arguments.
    GH-95
    [Reported by pulver]

  • REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for string
    literal that contains double-quote.
    GH-96
    [Patch by pulver]

  • REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added missing / to
    :descendant_or_self/:self/:parent.
    GH-97
    [Reported by pulver]

  • REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for more patterns.
    GH-97
    [Reported by pulver]

Fixes

  • Fixed a typo in NEWS.
    GH-72
    [Patch by Spencer Goodman]

  • Fixed a typo in NEWS.
    GH-75
    [Patch by Andrew Bromwich]

  • Fixed documents.
    GH-87
    [Patch by Alexander Ilyin]

  • Fixed a bug that Attriute convert ' and &apos; even when
    attribute_quote: :quote is used.
    GH-92
    [Reported by Edouard Brière]

  • Fixed links in tutorial.
    GH-99
    [Patch by gemmaro]

Thanks

  • Ivo Anjo

  • Spencer Goodman

  • Andrew Bromwich

  • Burdette Lamar

  • Alexander Ilyin

  • Edouard Brière

  • fatkodima

  • pulver

  • gemmaro

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Published by github-actions[bot] over 2 years ago