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Following more bug fixes, testing, warning squashing, and documentation updates, Xerces-C++ 3.0.0 was released on the 29th of September. The 3.1.0 release is tentatively targeted for mid 2009. We are also considering releasing 3.0.1 with a few bug and memory leak fixes in the near future.
Xerces-P
Still unable to make a Xerces-P 3.0 beta release. Late code changes in Xerces-C broke compilation, which is now fixed, but a number of unit tests are now failing. Most are minor but we have been unwilling to release until we understand the cause of the failure.
XML Commons
There has been some recent activity on the XML Catalog resolver, with a few significant performance improvements made in the last week. In XML Commons External a few bug fixes were applied to the JAXP 1.3 and 1.4 branches. Nothing else notable to report.