Jekyll2026-10-28T19:16:59+00:00https://www.msweet.org/feed.xmlMichael R SweetMichael R Sweet's User Page RepositoryHTMLDOC 1.9.252026-10-28T00:00:00+00:002026-10-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/htmldoc-1.9.25HTMLDOC 1.9.25 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Updated the maximum length of “data:” URLs to 32k (Issue #573)
  • Fixed the Windows installer metadata that was preventing upgrades from prior releases (Issue #572)
  • Fixed an issue in the source code that prevented GCC from successfully building with LTO optimization settings (Issue #576)

Binaries are available from Github for Windows 10+ and macOS 11+, and through the Snapcraft store for Linux.

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]]>PDFio 1.6.62026-10-28T00:00:00+00:002026-10-28T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/pdfio-1.6.6PDFio 1.6.6 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Fixed reading of the last cross-reference table in a PDF file (Issue #181)
  • Fixed some memory leaks (Issue #182, Issue #193)
  • Fixed potential issues in the PNG fallback code (Issue #187)
  • Fixed number validation for integer dictionary values (Issue #189)
  • Fixed a potential loop when repairing a broken PDF file (Issue #190)
  • Fixed an error decoding short UTF-16 hex strings (Issue #194)
  • Fixed an error decoding strings with escaped NUL characters (Issue #195)
  • Fixed some memory leaks (Issue #196)
  • Fixed date/time value offset issues on some platforms (Issue #196)

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]]>Mike’s System Monitor (msysmon) v1.1.02026-10-08T00:00:00+00:002026-10-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/msysmon-1.1.0Mike’s System Monitor (msysmon) v1.1.0 is a feature release. Changes include:

  • Added CSV export/download of usage data from the web interface (Issue #2)
  • Now show system up time on web page (Issue #3)
  • Now use non-breaking space between field headings and arrows (Issue #4)
  • Terminated processes are no longer sorted by the final CPU, memory, or thread usage (Issue #5)
  • Applied some fixes to issues found by running various code scanning tools.

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]]>Mini-XML 4.0.62026-09-22T00:00:00+00:002026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/mxml-4.0.6Mini-XML v4.0.6 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Fixed a potential memory leak when loading bad XML (Issue #356)
  • Fixed reporting of bad characters to use the U+XXXX format (Issue #357)

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]]>HTMLDOC 1.9.242026-08-29T00:00:00+00:002026-08-29T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/htmldoc-1.9.24HTMLDOC 1.9.24 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Updated the maximum image dimensions for RGBA images (Issue #557)
  • Added/updated memory allocation checks (Issue #558)
  • Updated error messages for consistency.
  • Optimized the page resources dictionary in PDF output to provide a modest reduction in output size.
  • Fixed document depth tracking (Issue #559)
  • Fixed a crash bug when generating HTML output from empty HTML input files (Issue #560)
  • Fixed a regression with rendering links in PDF documents (Issue #561)
  • Fixed a use-after-free bug when loading an unsupported image format (Issue #562)
  • Fixed builds when libcups is unavailable or disabled (Issue #565)
  • Fixed a crash bug when generating EPub content with --webpage (Issue #567)
  • Fixed an out-of-bounds read bug in the roman numeral formatting code (Issue #568)
  • Fixed an issue with proxy support (Issue #570)
  • Fixed an issue with --no-localfiles (Issue #571)

Binaries are available from Github for Windows 10+ and macOS 11+, and through the Snapcraft store for Linux.

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]]>Mini-XML 4.0.52026-08-20T00:00:00+00:002026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/mxml-4.0.5Mini-XML v4.0.5 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Added support for the “apos” entity (Issue #346)
  • Added support for Windows on ARM64 (Issue #352)
  • Fixed build issues with MingW (Issue #347)
  • Fixed an access issue in mxmlIndexNew (Issue #350)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak when loading bad XML (Issue #354)

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]]>PAPPL v1.4.122026-08-20T00:00:00+00:002026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/pappl-1.4.12PAPPL v1.4.12 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • CVE-2026-NNNNN: Added overflow protection to the dithering code paths.
  • CVE-2026-NNNNN: Added overflow protection for setting ready media values.
  • Added logging of the USB port status byte for USB-connected printers.
  • Now clear USB errors after a failed get device ID request.
  • Updated poll error handling and forced sleep to be consistent throughout.
  • Now close HTTP connections immediately after returning an error (Issue #431)
  • Fixed a locking issue when deleting a printer (Issue #433)

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]]>PDFio 1.6.52026-08-20T00:00:00+00:002026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/pdfio-1.6.5PDFio 1.6.5 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • SECURITY-4.0: Fixed reading of invalid empty AES-encrypted strings (GHSA-527h-2p2v-g388)
  • Fixed pdfioContentTextXxx output with Unicode characters past U+FFFF (Issue #171)
  • Fixed pdfioPageCopy with a damaged input PDF file (Issue #174)
  • Fixed error recovery when reading values (Issue #178)
  • Fixed pdfioContentTextXxx output with invalid UTF-8.
  • Fixed import of 16-bit PNG files with alpha.
  • Fixed pdfioDictSetStringf which wasn’t making a copy of the formatted string.

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]]>Mike’s System Monitor (msysmon) v1.0.02026-08-10T00:00:00+00:002026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/msysmon-1.0.0Mike’s System Monitor (msysmon) is a lightweight administrator/developer tool for monitoring the CPU, memory, and threads used by processes on a Linux or macOS system. I wrote it primarily to do long-term testing of embedded Linux systems where memory leaks, crashes, and/or CPU spins can cause problems but are often hard to track down.

msysmon runs in the background to collect usage information and provides a simple web interface for viewing it complete with graphs.

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]]>HP Printer Application v1.3.12026-06-08T00:00:00+00:002026-06-08T00:00:00+00:00https://www.msweet.org/blog/hp-printer-app-1.3.1HP Printer Application v1.3.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

  • Improved PCL compression code.
  • Fixed CMYK output.
  • Fixed a few PCL 6 output bugs.
  • Fixed the --enable-experimental configure option to enable the PCL 6 driver.

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