Libxml2 2.12.9 has been released to address a security issue.

Libxml2 2.12.9 released

https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.12/libxml2-2.12.9.tar.xz (2.52M)
sha256sum: 59912db536ab56a3996489ea0299768c7bcffe57169f0235e7f962a91f483590

Security

• [CVE-2024-40896] Fix XXE protection in downstream code

Improvements

• Undeprecate xmlKeepBlanksDefault

Libxml2 2.12.9 released