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Libxml2 Becomes Officially Unmaintained After Maintainer Steps Down (linuxiac.com)
submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, things will be so much better when we eventually replicate all of XML's functionality in JSON.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Well we've recreated namespaces, and JSON already has a completely useless type system, so it's pretty much already there.