Releases

• Release v1.18.4 / 2025-03-14 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • and wrote the accompanying GHSA Nokogiri updates packaged libxslt to v1.1.43 to resolve multiple CVEs · Advisory · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Release v1.18.5 / 2025-03-19 · sparklemotion/nokogiri to unblock a major ruby-saml release.
• Release v1.18.6 / 2025-03-24 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Release v1.18.7 / 2025-03-31 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

Contributions

• Fixed a JRuby namespace bug when creating a new element: fix(jruby): create_element should not set the doc's default ns by flavorjones · Pull Request #3463 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Removed the JRuby implementation's namespace cache, which was causing subtle issues: fix(java): stop using the cache for Node#namespace_definitions by flavorjones · Pull Request #3460 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Fixed a Builder namespace issue: fix: XML::Builder namespace stitching by flavorjones · Pull Request #3461 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Added downstream ruby-saml testing for JRuby: ci: add jruby coverage for ruby-saml by flavorjones · Pull Request #3465 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Updated vendored libxslt to 1.1.43: dep: update libxslt to 1.1.43 (v1.18.x branch) by flavorjones · Pull Request #3467 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Updated vendored libxml to v2.13.7: dep: bump libxml2 to 2.13.7 by flavorjones · Pull Request #3494 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Fixed a JRuby regression fix(jruby): Node#attribute in HTML documents by flavorjones · Pull Request #3490 · sparklemotion/nokogiri.
• Work in progress:
  • Another subtle namespace issue, which needs more work to not break downstream projects: fix(cruby): reconciliation of ns on unparented nodes by flavorjones · Pull Request #3462 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • Simplifying library linking on windows: IN_LIBXML no longer needed for windows linkage by flavorjones · Pull Request #3475 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • An API improvement: feat: Implement Document#parent, which always returns nil by flavorjones · Pull Request #3481 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • Updating vendored libxml to v2.14.1, which promises to be a nice performance improvement, particularly for XPath queries: dep: update packaged libxml2 to v2.14.1 by flavorjones · Pull Request #3499 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

Reviews and user help

• Reviewed some great work by Johnny Shields to fix a JRuby issue that was blocking a ruby-saml release Fix MRI Ruby vs. JRuby XML child namespace output differences by johnnyshields · Pull Request #3456 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Charlie Nutter contributed:
  • General JRuby cleanup: Clean up and modernize the JRuby extension by headius · Pull Request #3478 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • JRuby 10 support: Fixes for recent JRuby updates by headius · Pull Request #3477 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Documentation improvements from Burdette and Anton:
  • Doc for Node#add_child by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3453 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • Tweaks for Node subclass list by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3471 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • doc: Nokogiri::XML::Node.traverse is recursively called on children first by AntonKhorev · Pull Request #3480 · sparklemotion/nokogiri