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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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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Good on Nick. Do what you want buddy, you had a good run. Go have some fun doing what you love.

Now it's time for a corporate user of libxml2 to donate resources for maintenance and bug fixing or forking it. It doesn't always have to be on the shoulders of unpaid maintainers.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Considering that qt6-webengine also depends upon it, I guess someone will come and pick it up soon, or maybe they will just create an alternative?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

My guess, it'll be rewritten in rust.