• integrate xml-naming to validate DOCTYPE entity name and notation name (using qname because of backward compatibility)
  • This will consider xml-version as well. '1.0' is default
• update strnum to 2.3.0
  • You can set octal and binary parsing which is by deault off
• update fast-xml-builder to 1.2.0
  • can sanitize tag names if found invalid
  • fix format output

• fix: alwaysCreateTextNode should create text node when attributes are present for self closing node
• fix stop node expression when ns prefix is removed (found by iruizsalinas)
• update XML Builder to 1.1.7
• mark addEntity deprecated

• allow numerical external entity for backward compatibility
• fix #705: attributesGroupName working with preserveOrder
• fix #817: stackoverflow when tag expression is very long

• Use @nodable/entities v2.1.0
  • breaking changes
    • single entity scan. You're not allowed to use entity value to form another entity name.
    • you cant add numeric external entity
    • entity error message when expantion limit is crossed might change
  • typings are updated for new options related to process entity
  • please follow documentation of @nodable/entities for more detail.
  • performance
    • if processEntities is false, then there should not be impact on performance.
    • if processEntities is true, but you dont pass entity decoder separately then performance may degrade by approx 8-10%
    • if processEntities is true, and you pass entity decoder separately
      • if no entity then performance should be same as before
      • if there are entities then performance should be increased from past versions
  • ignoreAttributes is not required to be set to set xml version for NCR entity value
• update 'fast-xml-builder' to sanitize malicious CDATA and comment's content

• No API change
• No change in performance for basic usage
• No typing change
• No config change
• new dependency
• breaking: error messages for entities might have been changed.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/compare/v5.5.12...v5.6.0

• increase default entity explansion limit as many projects demand for that

maxEntitySize: 10000,
maxExpansionDepth: 10000,
maxTotalExpansions: Infinity,
maxExpandedLength: 100000,
maxEntityCount: 1000,

• performance improvement
  • reduce calls to toString
  • early return when entities are not present
  • prepare rawAttrsForMatcher only if user sets jPath: false

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/compare/v5.5.9...v5.5.10

combine typings file to avoid configuration changes pass readonly instance of matcher to the call backs to avoid accidental push/pop call

fix: entity expansion limits update strnum package to 2.2.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/compare/v5.5.5...v5.5.6

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/compare/v5.5.3...v5.5.5