Greetings!

REXML 2.5.8 is out, and includes mostly bug fixes, although there are
some behavior changes and two minor (probably seldom used) API
changes.  2.4.8 will follow, probably on 4/22 or 4/23, and includes
most of the bug fixes.

Here's the URL:

	http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml

and here's the obligatory blurb:

REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML
parser that supports multiple encodings.  It has an API that is
designed to be intuitive, straightforward, and terse. REXML includes a
tree model parser, a SAX2 streaming parser, and a pull parser.  It
also includes a full XPath implementation.  All of REXML's parsers
pass 100% of the Oasis XML non-validating tests.

Changelog (since 2.5.7):
* Forward-ported some unit tests from the 2.4 branch.
* Made write() send to $stdout by default; this means that the first
argument is no longer required.
* Some documentation fixes
* When a child was added to a parent, the parent wasn't making sure
that the child was removed from any previous parent. This has been
fixed.
* Applied patch that escapes "-" in character ranges in regular
expressions to keep Ruby 1.8 from complaining (Tom Payne)
* Applied patch that allows entities to contain upper case characters
(Shin-ichi Hirata)
* Fixed a bug in moving child nodes between parents
* Fixed an XPath bug in predicate evaluation
* Applied a patch that fixes != equality checks in XPath (Kou)
* Fixed Function::string() behavior, so elements evaluate to the
correct string value in XPaths.
* Fixed text() evaluation in XPath predicates
* Added more () to method calls, which Ruby 1.8 seems to prefer
* Fixed a recently introduced bug in Comment that caused
Comment::write to fail.
* ##### WARNING: API CHANGE ##### Attlist events have been improved;
this affects StreamListeners, so check attlistdecl()
* ##### WARNING: API CHANGE ##### @element in AttlistDecl is now
@element_name
* Many READMEs were really file lists, and have been renamed to FILES
* There's a nacent INSTALL in the root directory now, on user request.