NEWS file for libxslt v1.1.36: Aug 17 2022 ### Removals and deprecations - Remove SVN keyword anchors - Remove CVS and SVN-related code - Remove README.cvs-commits - Remove ChangeLog - Remove xsltwin32config.h ### Improvements - Simplify xsltexports.h and exsltexports.h - Don't overlink executables with gcrypt - Fix quadratic behavior with variables and parameters - Remove case labels with XPointer location types - Add configure~ to .gitignore - Stop calling deprecated libxml2 functions ### Portability - Use portable python shebangs (David Seifert) - Remove useless __CYGWIN__ checks - Remove cruft from win32config.h - crypto.c: Silence a compiler warning on Windows (Chun-wei Fan) ### Build system - Add missing compile definition for static builds to CMake - Avoid obsolescent `test -a` constructs (David Seifert) - Only link libxml2 statically in purely static build - Set AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR - Allow AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to be disabled - Streamline and fix documentation installation - Don't try to recreate COPYING symlink - Remove special configuration for certain maintainers - configure.ac: produce tar.xz only (GNOME policy) (David Seifert) - Detect libm using libtool's macros (David Seifert) - configure.ac: disable static libraries by default (David Seifert) - python/Makefile.am: nest python docs in $(docdir) (David Seifert) - python/Makefile.am: rely on global AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (David Seifert) - configure.ac: remove useless AC_SUBST (David Seifert) - Use AM_PATH_PYTHON/PKG_CHECK_MODULES for python bindings (David Seifert) - Change libxml2 Python config - Don't check for standard C89 library functions - Don't check for standard C89 headers - Remove --with-html-dir option - Also check for glibtoolize in autogen.sh - Rework documentation build system - Remove old website - CMake: Relax check for enabling crypto support on Windows (Chun-wei Fan) - Remove obsolete AC_HEADER_STDC autoconf macro (Vadim Zeitlin) - Remove special configuration for old maintainers ### Test suite, CI - Remove test involving XPointer range-to function - Test recursion in EXSLT dynamic functions - Add CI job for static build ### Documentation - Move tutorial images