W3C Open Source Software – News for 2018

This is an archive of the W3C Open Source Software release news for the year 2018. Please read the Latest News for up-to-date information.

xmptool 2.1

2018-11-21 Version 2.1 of xmptool fixes two bugs: When adding a new value to an existing property that already has a Seq or Alt, it adds the new value to that Seq or Alt, instead of changing the property into a Bag. And it fixes a possible crash, due to an assert() in the wrong place.

wrjpgxmp 2.4

2018-08-19 Version 2.4 of wrjpgxmp (part of the jpeg-xmp collection) now actively checks if the XMP it adds to a JPEG file has the packet wrappers (<?xpacket...?>). If not, it adds them.

xmptool 2.0

2018-08-19 Version 2.0 of xmptool has a new parser that can also handle structured values and nested arrays.

xmptool 1.0

7 August 2018: Version 1.0 of xmptool accepts (with a warning) XMP files that lack an ‘about’ attribute on the top-level Description element. The source code has been cleaned up a bit.

AgendaBot 0.1

7 August 2018: AgendaBot is an experimental IRC bot that tries to follow URLs and find meeting agendas. It currently recognizes agendas in five simple text formats.

HTML-XML-utils 7.7

29 April 2018: Version 7.7 of the HTML-XML-utils improves portability, improves some regression tests, and fixes an error in the hxmkbib manual page. hxindex gains a -N option to show section titles after keywords in the alphabetical index. And the order in which hxcite and hxmkbib read temporary files is now changed so that the two programs can be used together in a pipe without overwriting each other's files.

HTML-XML-utils 7.6

9 February 2018: Version 7.6 of the HTML-XML-utils fixes a bug in hxselect where it could read uninitialized memory and crash.

HTML-XML-utils 7.5

20 January 2018: Version 7.5 of the HTML-XML-utils adds support for a few more HTML5 elements (main, video, audio, source, track), fixes a bug in hxwls (it omitted the src attribute of input elements), fixes two spelling errors in the manual pages, and fixes a bug that could lead to an incorrectly printed error message.


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