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libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"


The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined.

Nick Wellnhofer has long been the maintainer of libxml2, a widely-used library for parsing XML documents that has been around since 1999. Libxml2 is part of the GNOME project but used extensively by software across the spectrum and by no means limited to GNOME/GTK-aligned apps. We'll see if/when anyone steps up to reliably maintain the libxml2 library for this widely-used but under appreciated software component.

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