Announcing Saxon 12.8!

By Norm Tovey-Walsh on July 03, 2025 at 05:35p.m.

The Saxon 12.8 maintenance release has been published. This is a maintenance release for Java, C#, C/C++, PHP, and Python that fixes a security gap and a few other issues that have been addressed since 12.7 was released.

Saxon 12.8 was released on 3 July 2025. This release has been uploaded to the usual locations on the Saxonica website, GitHub, and Maven, PyPi, and NuGet. SaxonCS 12.8 is built with .NET 8.

For a list of the issues resolved in this release, please visit the issue trackers for SaxonJ and SaxonCS or SaxonC on the Saxon support site.

Download products:

For more details, please consult the documentation.

Issues resolved

In addition to the security issue, only a few other issues have been fixed; our focus was on getting the security release out promptly.

Issues in SaxonJ

Only one additional issue was fixed in SaxonJ:

Issues in SaxonC

A few small issues were fixed in SaxonC:

If you encounter any issues with Saxon 12.8, please report them on our issue tracker.