From bd558135ce9b4202fd66d3bb1154ca711a268328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Iv=C3=A1n=20Chavero?= <ichavero@chavero.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:57:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Release v1.1.44

---
 NEWS         | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 configure.ac |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04561ff8..9a6d3a60 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,33 @@
 NEWS file for libxslt
 
-v1.1.44: not yet released
+v1.1.44: Nov 23 2025
 
+## Major changes
+
+Libxml2 changed the meta tag information, removed the:
+`http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;` attributes leaving
+only the `charset` attribute. This caused the tests to fail in the
+gitlab pipeline. Updated the test files accordingly.
+
+## Security
+
+- [CVE-2025-9714] Fix: Was a false positive, closed issue #148.
+- [CVE-2025-7424] Fix: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source
+                  nodes (Fixed by Apple's engineers)
+- [CVE-2025-11731] Fix: End function node ancestor search at document
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- New maintainer: Iván Chavero
+- CMake: cannot configure on MinGW-w64, missing Iconv::Iconv
+- Reset context variable when evaluating globals
+
+### Tests
+
+- Update test outputs for new libxml2
+- Fixed Windows tests
+
+### Build
 
 v1.1.43: Mar 12 2025
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 42f7222b..b2efe903 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ LIBXSLT_MICRO_VERSION=MICRO_VERSION
 LIBEXSLT_MAJOR_VERSION=0
 LIBEXSLT_MINOR_VERSION=8
 LIBEXSLT_MICRO_VERSION=25
-LIBXML_REQUIRED_VERSION=2.6.27
+LIBXML_REQUIRED_VERSION=2.15.1
 
 
 LIBXSLT_VERSION=$LIBXSLT_MAJOR_VERSION.$LIBXSLT_MINOR_VERSION.$LIBXSLT_MICRO_VERSION