[ANN] Markup Validator 0.8.1 release

Dear all,

A new version of the W3C Markup Validator was released today.

online http://validator.w3.org/
documentation http://validator.w3.org/docs/
download http://validator.w3.org/source/

Version 0.8.1 of the W3C Markup Validation service (a.k.a "HTML  
Validator" if you are old skool) is a bug fix release of the popular  
service, building upon the recent 0.8.0 major release, and fixing a  
number of issues discovered in the past couple of weeks:

* the xml-well-formedness checking engine was made more processor and  
badwidth efficient
* we fixed some bogus error about HTML/XML named entities (such as  
©)
* there were reports of a (rare) case of crashing the validator when  
called with some browser setups: this should not happen any longer.
Along with this bug fixes were a number of code cleanup and  
performance fixes.
Changelog: http://validator.w3.org/whatsnew.html


Many thanks to those who have helped with this release, by reporting  
bugs, suggesting fixes or documentation tweaks, or provided patches.



** Send Feedback - Get Involved **

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created and maintained at W3C: your participation in sending feedback
and ideas, patches and bug reports helps build better tools.

The mailing-list www-validator is the primary discussion channel for
users and contributors of the Markup Validator (and Link Checker).
Please make sure to search the archives before sending in a new idea
or request, as a courtesy to the many readers of the list.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/

Bug reports and patches can be sent to the public W3C Bugzilla
database. Usual bug reporting guidelines apply - make sure your bug
is a bug, make sure it is not yet known, and give precise and
complete information to reproduce.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/

If you are curious about the next steps on the validator's  
development roadmap, and/or would be interested in getting involved,  
see: http://validator-test.w3.org/todo.html

For an overview of feedback mechanisms for the validator, see:
http://validator.w3.org/feedback.html


Thank you,
olivier.
-- 
olivier Thereaux - W3C - http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
W3C Open Source Software: http://www.w3.org/Status

Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 05:17:14 UTC