XML News from Monday, April 26, 2004

The Mozilla Project has posted the first release candidate of Mozilla 1.7, an open source web browser, chat and e-mail client that supports XML, CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness. It's available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Version 1.7 improves popup blocking, lets users review and open blocked popups, supports multiple identities in the same email account, provides a "show passwords" mode that displays saved passwords, and makes various other small improvements. It also has some small but significant performance optimizations.

The XML Apache Project has released version 1.1 of XML Security, Java version. This release fixes a few bugs in digital signatures and adds beta support for XML encryption.

Tim Bray has posted beta 4 of Genx, his pure C library for outputting canonical XML. Bray tells me this version now passes my canonical XML test suite. Genx is published under the expat license. This is a very liberal, non-viral but GPL-compatible license.