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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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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where were you when libxml2 die?

I was at house eating dorito when Lemmy ring.

"libxml2 is kil"

"no"

I actually used it the other day to grab a value from an xml file.

[–] SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

xml files have a value?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Landfill.