REXML 3.4.4 - 2025-09-10

Improvement

• Accept REXML::Document.new("") for backward compatibility
  • GH-296
  • GH-295
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Joe Rafaniello

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Joe Rafaniello

REXML 3.4.3 - 2025-09-07

Improvement

• Reject no root element XML as an invalid XML
  • GH-289
  • GH-291
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Sutou Kouhei

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with IOSource#read_until when reaching the end of a file
  • GH-287
  • GH-288
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Jason Thomas

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Sutou Kouhei

• Jason Thomas

REXML 3.4.2 - 2025-08-26

Improvement

• Improved performance.

  • GH-244
  • GH-245
  • GH-246
  • GH-249
  • GH-256
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Raise appropriate exception when failing to match start tag in DOCTYPE

  • GH-247
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Deprecate accepting array as an element in XPath.match, first and each

  • GH-252
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Don't call needless encoding_updated

  • GH-259
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Reuse XPath::match

  • GH-263
  • Patch by pboling

• Cache redundant calls for doctype

  • GH-264
  • Patch by pboling

• Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3

  • GH-265
  • Patch by pboling

• Remove redundant return statements

  • GH-266
  • Patch by pboling

• Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method

  • GH-282
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Sofi Aberegg

Fixes

• Fix docs typo

  • GH-248
  • Patch by James Coleman

• Fix reverse sort in xpath_parser

  • GH-251
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Fix duplicate responses in XPath following, following-sibling, preceding, preceding-sibling

  • GH-255
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Fix wrong Encoding resolution

  • GH-258
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Handle nil when parsing fragment

  • GH-267
  • GH-268
  • Patch by pboling

• [Documentation] Use # to reference instance methods

  • GH-269
  • GH-270
  • Patch by pboling

• Fix & Deprecate REXML::Text#text_indent

  • GH-273
  • GH-275
  • Patch by pboling

• remove bundler from dev deps

  • GH-276
  • GH-277
  • Patch by pboling

• remove ostruct from dev deps

  • GH-280
  • GH-281
  • Patch by pboling

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• tomoya ishida

• James Coleman

• pboling

• Sutou Kouhei

• Sofi Aberegg

REXML 3.4.1 - 2025-02-16

Improvement

• Improved performance.
  • GH-226
  • GH-227
  • GH-237
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

Fixes

• Fix serialization of ATTLIST is incorrect
  • GH-233
  • GH-234
  • Patch by OlofKalufs
  • Reported by OlofKalufs

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• OlofKalufs

REXML 3.4.0 - 2024-12-15

Improvement

• Improved performance.

  • GH-216
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• JRuby: Improved parse performance.

  • GH-219
  • Patch by João Duarte

• Added support for reusing pull parser.

  • GH-214
  • GH-220
  • Patch by Dmitry Pogrebnoy

• Improved error handling when source is IO.

  • GH-221
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• João Duarte

• Dmitry Pogrebnoy

REXML 3.3.9 - 2024-10-24

Improvements

• Improved performance.
  • GH-210
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

• Fixed a parse bug for text only invalid XML.

  • GH-215
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Fixed a parse bug that &#0x...; is accepted as a character
  reference.

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

REXML 3.3.8 - 2024-09-29

Improvements

• SAX2: Improve parse performance.
  • GH-207
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that unexpected attribute namespace conflict error for
  the predefined "xml" namespace is reported.
  • GH-208
  • Patch by KITAITI Makoto

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• KITAITI Makoto

REXML 3.3.7 - 2024-09-04

Improvements

• Added local entity expansion limit methods

  • GH-192
  • GH-202
  • Reported by takuya kodama.
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Removed explicit strscan dependency

  • GH-204
  • Patch by Bo Anderson.

Thanks

• takuya kodama

• NAITOH Jun

• Bo Anderson

REXML 3.3.6 - 2024-08-22

Improvements

• Removed duplicated entity expansions for performance.

  • GH-194
  • Patch by Viktor Ivarsson.

• Improved namespace conflicted attribute check performance. It was
  too slow for deep elements.

  • Reported by l33thaxor.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that default entity expansions are counted for
  security check. Default entity expansions should not be counted
  because they don't have a security risk.

  • GH-198
  • GH-199
  • Patch Viktor Ivarsson

• Fixed a parser bug that parameter entity references in internal
  subsets are expanded. It's not allowed in the XML specification.

  • GH-191
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Fixed a stream parser bug that user-defined entity references in
  text aren't expanded.

  • GH-200
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• Viktor Ivarsson

• NAITOH Jun

• l33thaxor

REXML 3.3.5 - 2024-08-12

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit
  check has wrong text size calculation in SAX and pull parsers.
  • GH-193
  • GH-195
  • Reported by Viktor Ivarsson.
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• Viktor Ivarsson

• NAITOH Jun