[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available

Hi all,
   The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version
2.12.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.

Xerces-J 2.12.0 can be downloaded at: http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi.

This release expands on Xerces-J's experimental support for XML Schema 1.1
by providing a fully compliant XML Schema 1.1 implementation. It fixes
several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.11.0 and also includes a few
other minor enhancements.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

* Report all id/idref problems when validating XML against DTD or XML
Schema. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Implemented improvements to XML Schema 1.1 CTA implementation and
inheritable attributes. [Mukul Gandhi, Hiranya Jayathilaka]

* Implemented improved error/warning message reporting for various XML
Schema use cases. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented few performance enhancements (affecting parsing/validation
latency and memory footprint) to the implementation. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor bugs in Xerces-J's regex support in XML Schema <pattern>
facet. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao]

* Implemented various fixes to XML Schema 1.1 assert/assertion
implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]

* Implemented minor and major fixes in certain areas, to XML Schema 1.0 and
1.1 implementations. [Michael Glavassevich, Khaled Noaman, Sandy Gao, Mukul
Gandhi]

* Fixed the issue related to, XIncludeTextReader doesn't handle null
Content Types properly. [Michael Glavassevich]

* Fixed minor problems in the DOM (Level 3 Core) implementation. [Michael
Glavassevich]

* Fixed few errors related to Xerces-J's build component. [Michael
Glavassevich]

* Solved a minor bug in SoftReferenceSymbolTable implementation component.
[Michael Glavassevich]

* Octavian and Radu, from Oxygen XML Editor team have contributed much by
way of intimating numerous bugs and implementation ideas, for Xerces-J's
XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 implementations. [Octavian Nadolu, Radu Coravu]

* The following security issues, raised by users were fixed:
CVE-2012-0881 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0881
CVE-2013-4002 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4002
CVE-2018-2799 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-2799

A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10520&version=12336542

For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/



-- 
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi