[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

Hi all,

   The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version 2.12.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.

Xerces-J 2.12.0 can be downloaded at: http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi.

This release expands on Xerces-J's experimental support for XML Schema 1.1 by providing a fully compliant XML Schema 1.1 implementation. It fixes several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.11.0 and also includes a few other minor enhancements.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

* Report all id/idref problems when validating XML against DTD or XML Schema. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Implemented improvements to XML Schema 1.1 CTA implementation and inheritable attributes. [Mukul Gandhi, Hiranya Jayathilaka]

* Implemented improved error/warning message reporting for various XML Schema use cases. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented few performance enhancements (affecting parsing/validation latency and memory footprint) to the implementation. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor bugs in Xerces-J's regex support in XML Schema <pattern> facet. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao]

* Implemented various fixes to XML Schema 1.1 assert/assertion implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented minor and major fixes in certain areas, to XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao, Mukul Gandhi]

* Fixed the issue related to, XIncludeTextReader doesn't handle null Content Types properly. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor problems in the DOM (Level 3 Core) implementation. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed few errors related to Xerces-J's build component. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Solved a minor bug in SoftReferenceSymbolTable implementation component. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Octavian and Radu, from Oxygen XML Editor team have contributed much by way of intimating numerous bugs and implementation ideas, for Xerces-J's XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Octavian Nadolu, Radu Coravu]

* The following security issues, raised by users were fixed:

CVE-2012-0881 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0881

CVE-2013-4002 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002

CVE-2018-2799 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2799

A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available here:

For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/