- 2007-04-19 — 0.8.0 Beta 1:
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Testing version 0.8.0 Beta #1 of the Markup Validator; a new version including
important changes in architecture, performance, reliability of validation for XML-based languages,
improvements to the User Interface, and a number of new features. Changes include:
- New architecture, faster and more reliable, scaling better to the growing usage of the validator
- Improved interface for better usability, accessibility
- New feature: automatic cleanup of markup (with Tidy)
- New feature: additional XML-Well-Formedness check, for more reliable validation of XML-based languages
- Back by popular demand: document outline feature
- New feature: checking that the documents are sent with proper Internet Media Type (MIME type)
- New feature: for XML documents, checking that the xmlns is present, and properly set.
- New feature: grouped messages, an alternate view to the sequential display of errors
- New feature: Direct Input validation can check full documents AND HTML fragments
- Added support for SMIL 2.1, XHTML Basic 1.1
- Bug fixes
Participate in this Beta Test!
Read the Instructions and start testing.
- 2006-11-14 — 0.7.4 Release:
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Releasing version 0.7.4 of the W3C Markup Validator,
a maintenance release including bug fixes and documentation updates.
Changes include:
- Bug fixes to the validator's API
- The proprietary XML output format is (still) deprecated, and will be removed in version 0.8.0
- The outline feature, broken in version 0.7.3, is back.
- Local installations of the validator can be configured to enable, or disable, the API
- "Validation icons" are now available
in two colors and 4 file formats, including PNG
and SVG
- Documentation updates
- 2006-10-23 — 0.7.3 Release:
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Releasing version 0.7.3 of the W3C Markup Validator,
a maintenance release including fixes, updates, and includes an
experimental API to interface the validator with other programs and services.
Changes include:
- A new (experimental) Web Services API
- The proprietary (and experimental) XML output format is deprecated
- New Document type supported: XHTML-Print
- New Character Encoding supported ISO-8859-11 (Thai)
- Usability fix: better error messages for documents with no character encoding
declared, and for which the encoding fallback fails
- HTTP Fix: Be more lenient about whitespace and linefeeds in Content-Type
- Usability Fix: Adding the possibility of Doctype Override for SVG Document Types
- Compatibility Fix for OpenSP 1.5.2
- documentation updates and improvements
- Improved Feedback mechanisms
- 2006-02-20 — 0.7.2 Release:
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Releasing version 0.7.2 of the Markup Validator, a maintenance release
including minor fixes as described below:
- update for compatibility with new version of Config::General module
- fixed the recognized root element for XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 (plus SVG)
- avoid Text::Wrap error with deeply nested documents
- documentation fixes (typos, broken link)
- avoid trailing comma in failed validation results if number of errors is unknown
- consistency fixes for character encoding selection
- fixed support for iso-8859-3 and iso-8859-4 encodings, added support for iso-ir-111
- 2005-10-18 — 0.7.1 Release:
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Releasing version 0.7.1 of the Markup Validator, a maintenance release
introducing performance enhancements and including minor
fixes
in the user interface and in the "Direct Input" validation results.
- 2005-08-08 — 0.7.0 Release:
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Stable release including all the fixes and improvements made in consecutive
beta versions 0.7.0 Beta #2 and
0.7.0 Beta #1.
- 2005-07-28 — 0.7.0 Beta #2:
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Testing version 0.7.0 Beta #2 of the Markup Validator, the second phase
of beta test of a new version, including the results of feedback
during the first phase of beta testing.
Most bugs and issues resolved were recorded in our bugzilla database. Changes from version 0.7.0 Beta#1 include:
- Improvements in the way the results and errors number is displayed, with a bug fix in error count.
- Bug fixes:
- The error number count in resuts now only counts errors, not warnings or other messages
- A missing entry in the SGML catalog was added
- The direct input interface now handles cases where no content is set properly
- Running the validator under mod_perl is no longer supported
- Simplified configuration sample for an installation on the Apache Server
- Documentation updates
- 2005-07-12 — 0.7.0 Beta #1:
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Testing version 0.7.0 Beta #1 of the Markup Validator; a new version including
small architectural changes, improvements to the User Interface, documentation
and user-friendliness, as well as a number of bug fixes.
Most bugs and issues resolved were recorded in our bugzilla database.
Changes include:
- Templates for the XHTML output of validation results:
- less inline markup
- easier for multi-format output
- getting close to the possibility of localization
- Better feedback mechanisms
- Integration of the feedback page with validation results for better error message feedback
- The feedback page now allows direct search of the mailing-list and bug database
- Additional and improved error messages explanations and documentation
- Variants of HTML2, MathML and SVG added to the bundled SGML and XML catalogs
- Better support for validation of non-W3C document types, including custom DTDs
- User Interface and style changes for a user-friendlier experience, including
- New print stylesheet, handheld stylesheets
- Style differentiating errors, warnings and information in validation results
- (re-)Added the possibility of validating markup by direct input
- Simplified configuration syntax (for local installations)
- Made easier to run on Windows platform (still needs testing and documentation)
- Global updates to the documentation
- Simplified, documented and checked the consistency of our usage of Access Keys
- 2004-07-23 — 0.6.7 Release:
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A maintenance release that fixes a
few minor bugs,
improves authentication proxying, and makes some slight tweaks to the
website style and markup.
This version also more completely fixes the bug mentioned at the end
of the previous version's release notes. See the v0.6.6 release notes for details.
- 2004-05-21 — 0.6.6 Release:
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A maintenance release that fixes a
few minor bugs,
resurrects the
whitespace-preserving source display, adds explanations for additional
error messages, and makes some slight tweaks to the website style.
This version also tentatively fixes a bug where, for Document Instances
with a Document Type Name of "html", but with
an incorrect Formal Public Identifier, the Validator would fall back
to HTML 4.01 Transitional and, if no other errors were found,
silently ignore the erroneous FPI.
- 2004-05-07 — 0.6.5 Release:
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Stable release including all the fixes and improvements made in
consecutive beta versions 0.6.5 Beta #3,
0.6.5 Beta #2,
0.6.5 Beta #1,
0.6.2 beta #2,
and 0.6.2 beta #1
- 2004-04-30 — 0.6.5 Beta #3:
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Testing version 0.6.5 Beta #3 of the Markup Validator; an intermediary
version including further layout, style and documentation improvements
over version 0.6.5 Beta #2, based on discussion and comments during
the testing phase of that version. Changes include:
- Simpler navigation system - removed the "links" navigation bar
- More consistent layout
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A few issues with the way some agents were dealing with our Style
Sheets were fixed. Other minor style fixes were also applied.
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Cleanup of grammar issues and typos in a large part of the
documentation.
- 2004-04-15 — 0.6.5 Beta #2:
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Testing version 0.6.5 Beta #2 of the Markup Validator; an intermediary
version addressing comments received for the version 0.6.5 Beta #1
and adding significant User Interface and Documentation improvements.
Changes include:
- More explanations for most of the validation error messages
- New documentation on installing the Markup Validator locally
- The "fussy" parsing mode is no longer available and will be
drastically improved before it comes back - if ever
- The W3C Link Checker has now been spun off into a standalone product
and is no longer bundled with the Markup Validator
- Stylesheets have been updated, with a more pleasant look
- Easier navigation, more accessible documentation
- More "Quality Tips" have been added
- 2003-08-26 — 0.6.5 Beta #1:
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Testing version 0.6.5 Beta #1 of the Markup Validator; an intermediary
version addressing various issues and add requested features.
Changes include:
- Stylesheets updated to work around browser issues.
- Added a pointer to contributed RPMs
courtesy of Ville Skyttä.
- Fixed broken links in Copyright statement.
- Added current version number in page headings.
- Detect proxies stripping the Referer header.
- Added "Comma Tools".
- Minor Accessibility fixes.
- A few new Webmaster Tips for the Tip of The Day.
- The Link Checker now sends Accept, and Accept-Language headers.
- The Link Checker supports more HTTP Status Codes.
- The documentation has seen much improvement.
- The RPM spec file is now available in the download.
- Update ISO-HTML DTD to TC1.
- Update SVG 1.0 DTD to current Errata.
- Added support for ISO-8859-16 Encoding.
- Added support for the data: URL scheme.
- The Link Checker in command-line mode now supports bundling of options.
- The Validator RPMs now try to integrate with the system catalog.
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Added options to make the DOCTYPE and Charset Override behave like
Fallbacks. i.e. With these options enabled, the Override will only
insert the relevant new value iff one was not already present.
- No longer treat missing DOCTYPE or Charset as a fatal error.
- Much improved error messages for several error situations.
- Updated and expanded error explanations.
- Use passive (PASV) FTP by default.
- Updated experimental mod_perl support to work with Apache/mod_perl 2.
- Added support for the Big5-HKSCS encoding.
- The MathML2 DTDs were updated to the 20030620 errata version.
- Add option to restrict access to private IP addresses.
- Added custom, inline, verbose error messages.
- Tweaked markup and style for source display.
- Tweaked markup and style for indicating position of error.
- Changes in output mandated by W3C Legal.
- Verbose output is now the default from the home page.
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Added new "fussy" parse mode (enabled by default from the home
page) that should make it easier to locate SHORTTAGS-related
problems (such as implied end tags).
- Valid Badge usage guidelines are now available.
- Various internal restructuring to make way for future (post-0.6.5) features.
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"/referer" is now deprecated in favor of "?uri=referer";
this allows us to preserve additional options in referer links.
- 2002-12-01 — 0.6.1 Release:
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Maintenance release to fix various minor issues reported against the
November 26 release. Stylesheet updates,
ability to turn on Verbose output, and bug fixes.
- 2002-11-26 — 0.6.0 Release:
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- Improved design of layout, including for Validation results.
- Added "beefed up" Tip-of-the-Day.
- Many accessibility fixes, both to the web site and the Result page.
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Major internal restructuring. The code has undergone significant
refactoring with many benefits. It is more readable and easier to
understand, much more robust, much improved security, more modular,
and performance should be significantly better. There is tentative
support for running under mod_perl (leading to even greater
performance enhancements) and memory consumption should be much
improved.
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Many new document types are supported and support for some
existing document types has been improved. Notable changes
and additions include:
- Output has been reworked to be easier to understand.
- And a whole bunch of bugfixes... :-)
- 2001-10-06:
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- Finished redesign and use consistent style for all pages..
- Added Tip-of-the-Day.
- 2001-09-24:
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- Added experimental support for SVG 1.0.
- Added experimental support for
spec-prod 2.0.
- ...and several minor bug fixes.
- 2001-09-13:
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- Added support for XHTML 1.1 and
XHTML
Basic 1.0.
- Added experimental support for
MathML 2.0.
- You can now tweak options from results page.
- Added option to override Character Encoding.
- Various bug fixes and minor changes.
- 2001-06-22:
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- Various bug fixes; notably two related to the File Upload feature.
- Some changes to make local installations easier.
- Support for more Character Encodings (e.g.
ISO-8859-8-I).
- Generally improved handling of Character Encodings.
- Documentation donated by Scott Bigham (Thanks Scott!).
- 2000-10-18:
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Added support for ISO/IEC 15445:2000
(ISO-HTML).
See also: User's
Guide to ISO-HTML.
- 2000-06-30:
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The service now checks XHTML documents
for validity as well as XML well-formedness.
- 2000-04-28:
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Added the file upload feature.
Created the www-validator-cvs
mailing list.
Updated the home page, moved some things to
another page.
- 2000-01-26:
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Updated the DTDs
and added icons for
XHTML 1.0,
HTML 4.01.
- 1999-08-24:
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Added the DTDs
for
HTML 4.01.
Updated the DTDs
for XHTML 1.0.
- 1999-04-08:
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Added username/password proxying for validation of documents protected
by HTTP Basic Authentication, thanks to patches from
Renaud Bruyeron. (see
the
changes)
This revision also includes patches to use the Perl5 version
of libwww-perl, LWP.
- 1999-03-04:
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Added support for XHTML,
using the DTDs
from the
19990304 working draft. (see the changes)
- 1999-02-25:
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Added support for ISO-2022-JP and Shift_JIS
character encodings.
Thanks to Takuya
Asada, Masayasu
Ishikawa, and Martin
Dürst for their patches and advice.
Updated the SGML declaration according to the
HTML
4.0 spec errata. (see the
changes).
- 1998-08-26:
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Put a tarred and gzipped version of the SGML library files (DTDs etc.) on the
Web.
- 1998-08-05:
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Posted some new documents on the Web:
- 1998-07-24:
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Made the source code
available via W3C's public CVS tree.
Upgraded the HTTP server to Apache
1.3.1.
- 1998-06-19:
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Added a page about the hardware/network
behind this service.
- 1998-04-20:
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Added support for a parameter to check the referring Web page for
mistakes. To use it, just link to the following URL when linking to
the service <http://validator.w3.org/check/referer>
(you can try the link to see how it works).
- 1997-12-18:
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Updated HTML 4.0
materials to match the
HTML 4.0 Recommendation.