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The build and tests are now passing on a number of platforms that were known to fail before (AIX, Solaris, Cygwin/Mingw). See the XercescBuildStatus page for details. A successful vote for the release of 3.0.0 beta was held.
Xerces-P
It was noticed Giaugo Rabellino kindly pointed out (with thanks to Black Duck Software) that some files still have the 1.1 Apache license. No release has been made with the incorrect license version. When Xerces-C 3.0 is released a the new version of P will be with the 2.0 license. We are checking and fixing the code This has been corrected in SVN.
XML Commons
Though there was no new development there was one bug report (http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44426) opened that is worth noting. The W3C receives a large number of requests every day for the same DTDs, XML Schemas and other XML resources. They've observed that this happens in large part because applications are not using XML Catalogs or grammar caching facilities such as the ones provided by Xerces. They're appealing to us for help. We plan to review their thoughts/proposals.
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