Releases

• Release v1.18.2 / 2024-01-19 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Release v1.18.3 / 2025-02-18 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • and the accompanying GHSA Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to 2.13.6 to resolve CVE-2025-24928 and CVE-2024-56171 · Advisory · sparklemotion/nokogiri

Contributions

• Worked a bit with the upstream libxml2 maintainer, Nick Wellnhofer, to reproduce xpath issues in XPath optimizations (!293) · Merge requests · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
• Working on XPath performance improvements · Issue #3403 · sparklemotion/nokogiri, which will land once libxml 2.14 is released.
  • These changes, when combined with the upstream libxml2 improvements, show a stunning speedup of ~12x on XPath queries in my benchmarks. 🚀
• Investigated Nokogiri::XML::Document#css no longer matches namespaced XML attributes · Issue #3411 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
  • And fixed it in fix(css-selector): default XML namespace is not applied to wildcard by flavorjones · Pull Request #3413 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Did another round of html5lib error-message-correcting in Update tests for relaxed select parser by josepharhar · Pull Request #178 · html5lib/html5lib-tests
• Created Deprecate Nokogiri::HTML4::ElementDescription · Issue #3443 · sparklemotion/nokogiri, which will be deprecated in an upcoming release.
• Wrote up an issue Update parse options to reflect modern libxml usage · Issue #3439 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Closed RFC: Increase Nokogiri::Gumbo::DEFAULT_MAX_ERRORS to a positive number · sparklemotion/nokogiri · Discussion #3248 after much consideration.

Reviews and user help

• Reviewed and merged Parse options doc by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3360 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Reviewed and merged New doc for modernized call-seqs (kwargs) by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3362 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Reviewed and merged Parse options doc by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3360 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Reviewed Revision for XML::Node.add_child by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3431 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Reviewed and merged In XML::ParseOptions.rb put :nodoc: onto constants SAX1 and NODICT by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3447 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Reviewed and merged Add links to local pages in README.md by BurdetteLamar · Pull Request #3449 · sparklemotion/nokogiri
• Commented on the proposed format in Method documentation summary · Issue #3450 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

• Wrote up an example solution at How to find all matches of a link in a document using Nokogiri · sparklemotion/nokogiri · Discussion #3420
• Answered questions at Partial script tag not being sanitized · Issue #3444 · sparklemotion/nokogiri

• Merged Drop Struct::HTMLElementDescription class by viralpraxis · Pull Request #3433 · sparklemotion/nokogiri