I plan to provide a new version of libxml2-2.6.0 including a lot of changes at various level, it should provide significant speedups but I'm still a bit worried about possible ABI compatibilities which may have resulted from the massive changes done since 2.5.11 last stable version. I have provided a new set of RPMs and tarball at http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/libxml2/ including packages precompiled and signed for severn and shrike. I have run for the most part of the day with that version on my workstation without any apparent problem, but I would be interested in possible ABI breakage that a larger pool of tester may find :-) For those interested in the change done in the library and at the API level there is a few posts about those. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-September/msg00146.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-September/msg00115.html
Daniel