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+<small>Note: If you find missing information about particular minor version, that version must have been changed without any functional change in this library.</small>
+
+Note: Due to some last quick changes on v4, detail of v4.5.3 & v4.5.4 are not updated here. v4.5.4x is the last tag of v4 in github repository. I'm extremely sorry for the confusion
+
+**5.5.6 / 2026-03-16**
+- update builder dependency
+- fix incorrect regex to replace \. in entity name
+- fix check for entitiy expansion for lastEntities and html entities too
+
+**5.5.5 / 2026-03-13**
+- sanitize dangerous tag or attribute name
+- error on critical property name
+- support onDangerousProperty option
+
+**5.5.4 / 2026-03-13**
+- declare Matcher & Expression as unknown so user is not forced to install path-expression-matcher
+
+
+**5.5.3 / 2026-03-11**
+- upgrade builder
+
+**5.5.2 / 2026-03-11**
+- update dependency to fix typings
+
+**5.5.1 / 2026-03-10**
+- fix dependency
+
+**5.5.0 / 2026-03-10**
+- support path-expression-matcher
+- fix: stopNode should not be parsed
+- performance improvement for stopNode checking
+
+**5.4.2 / 2026-03-03**
+- support maxEntityCount option
+
+**5.4.1  / 2026-02-25**
+- fix (#785) unpairedTag node should not have tag content
+
+**5.4.0  / 2026-02-25**
+- migrate to fast-xml-builder
+
+**5.3.9 / 2026-02-25**
+- support strictReservedNames 
+
+**5.3.8 / 2026-02-25**
+- support maxNestedTags 
+- handle non-array input for XML builder when preserveOrder is true (By [Angelo Coetzee](https://github.com/Angelopvtac))
+- save use of js properies
+
+**5.3.7 / 2026-02-20**
+- fix typings for CJS (By [Corentin Girard](https://github.com/Drarig29))
+
+
+
+**5.3.6 / 2026-02-14**
+- Improve security and performance of entity processing
+  - new options `maxEntitySize`, `maxExpansionDepth`, `maxTotalExpansions`, `maxExpandedLength`, `allowedTags`,`tagFilter`
+  - fast return when no edtity is present
+  - improvement replacement logic to reduce number of calls
+
+
+**5.3.5 / 2026-02-08**
+- fix: Escape regex char in entity name
+- update strnum to 2.1.2
+- add missing exports in CJS typings
+
+
+**5.3.4 / 2026-01-30**
+- fix: handle HTML numeric and hex entities when out of range
+
+
+**5.3.3 / 2025-12-12**
+- fix #775: transformTagName with allowBooleanAttributes adds an unnecessary attribute
+
+**5.3.2 / 2025-11-14**
+- fix for import statement for v6
+
+**5.3.1 / 2025-11-03**
+- Performance improvement for stopNodes (By [Maciek Lamberski](https://github.com/macieklamberski))
+
+**5.3.0 / 2025-10-03**
+- Use `Uint8Array` in place of `Buffer` in Parser
+
+**5.2.5 / 2025-06-08**
+- Inform user to use [fxp-cli](https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fxp-cli) instead of in-built CLI feature
+- Export typings  for direct use
+
+**5.2.4 / 2025-06-06**
+- fix (#747): fix EMPTY and ANY with ELEMENT in DOCTYPE
+
+**5.2.3 / 2025-05-11**
+- fix (#747): support EMPTY and ANY with ELEMENT in DOCTYPE
+
+**5.2.2 / 2025-05-05**
+- fix (#746): update strnum to fix parsing issues related to enotations
+
+**5.2.1 / 2025-04-22**
+- fix: read DOCTYPE entity value correctly
+- read DOCTYPE NOTATION, ELEMENT exp but not using read values
+
+
+**5.2.0 / 2025-04-03**
+- feat: support metadata on nodes (#593) (By [Steven R. Loomis](https://github.com/srl295))
+
+**5.1.0 / 2025-04-02**
+- feat: declare package as side-effect free (#738) (By [Thomas Bouffard](https://github.com/tbouffard))
+- fix cjs build mode
+- fix builder return type to string
+- 
+
+**5.0.9 / 2025-03-14**
+- fix: support numeric entities with values over 0xFFFF (#726) (By [Marc Durdin](https://github.com/mcdurdin))
+- fix: update strnum to fix parsing 0 if skiplike option is used
+
+**5.0.8 / 2025-02-27**
+- fix parsing 0 if skiplike option is used.
+  - updating strnum dependency
+
+**5.0.7 / 2025-02-25**
+- fix (#724) typings for cjs.
+
+**5.0.6 / 2025-02-20**
+- fix cli output (By [Angel Delgado](https://github.com/angeld7))
+  - remove multiple JSON parsing
+
+**5.0.5 / 2025-02-20**
+- fix parsing of string starting with 'e' or 'E' by updating strnum
+
+**5.0.4 / 2025-02-20**
+- fix CLI to support all the versions of node js when displaying library version.
+- fix CJS import in v5
+  - by fixing webpack config
+
+**5.0.3 / 2025-02-20**
+- Using strnum ESM module
+  - new fixes in strum may break your experience
+
+**5.0.2 / 2025-02-20**
+- fix: include CommonJS resources in the npm package #714 (By [Thomas Bouffard](https://github.com/tbouffard))
+- fix: move babel deps to dev deps
+
+**5.0.1 / 2025-02-19**
+- fix syntax error for CLI command
+
+**5.0.0 / 2025-02-19**
+- ESM support
+  - no change in the functionality, syntax, APIs, options, or documentation.
+
+**4.5.2 / 2025-02-18**
+- Fix null CDATA to comply with undefined behavior (#701) (By [Matthieu BOHEAS](https://github.com/Kelgors))
+- Fix(performance): Update check for leaf node in saveTextToParentTag function in OrderedObjParser.js (#707) (By [...](https://github.com/tomingtoming))
+- Fix: emit full JSON string from CLI when no output filename specified (#710) (By [Matt Benson](https://github.com/mbenson))
+
+**4.5.1 / 2024-12-15**
+- Fix empty tag key name for v5 (#697).  no impact on v4
+- Fixes entity parsing when used in strict mode (#699)
+
+**4.5.0 / 2024-09-03**
+- feat #666: ignoreAttributes support function, and array of string or regex (By [ArtemM](https://github.com/mav-rik))
+
+**4.4.1 / 2024-07-28**
+- v5 fix: maximum length limit to currency value
+- fix #634: build attributes with oneListGroup and attributesGroupName (#653)(By [Andreas Naziris](https://github.com/a-rasin))
+- fix: get oneListGroup to work as expected for array of strings (#662)(By [Andreas Naziris](https://github.com/a-rasin))
+
+**4.4.0 / 2024-05-18**
+- fix #654: parse attribute list correctly for self closing stop node.
+- fix: validator bug when closing tag is not opened. (#647) (By [Ryosuke Fukatani](https://github.com/RyosukeFukatani))
+- fix #581: typings; return type of `tagValueProcessor` & `attributeValueProcessor` (#582) (By [monholm]())
+
+**4.3.6 / 2024-03-16**
+- Add support for parsing HTML numeric entities (#645) (By [Jonas Schade ](https://github.com/DerZade))
+
+**4.3.5 / 2024-02-24**
+- code for v5 is added for experimental use
+
+**4.3.4 / 2024-01-10**
+- fix: Don't escape entities in CDATA sections (#633) (By [wackbyte](https://github.com/wackbyte))
+
+**4.3.3 / 2024-01-10**
+- Remove unnecessary regex
+
+**4.3.2 / 2023-10-02**
+- fix `jObj.hasOwnProperty` when give input is null (By [Arda TANRIKULU](https://github.com/ardatan)) 
+
+**4.3.1 / 2023-09-24**
+- revert back "Fix typings for builder and parser to make return type generic" to avoid failure of existing projects. Need to decide a common approach.
+
+**4.3.0 / 2023-09-20**
+- Fix stopNodes to work with removeNSPrefix (#607) (#608) (By [Craig Andrews]https://github.com/candrews))
+- Fix #610 ignore properties set to Object.prototype
+- Fix typings for builder and parser to make return type generic (By [Sarah Dayan](https://github.com/sarahdayan))
+
+**4.2.7 / 2023-07-30**
+- Fix: builder should set text node correctly when only textnode is present (#589) (By [qianqing](https://github.com/joneqian))
+- Fix: Fix for null and undefined attributes when building xml (#585) (#598). A null or undefined value should be ignored. (By [Eugenio Ceschia](https://github.com/cecia234))
+
+**4.2.6 / 2023-07-17**
+- Fix: Remove trailing slash from jPath for self-closing tags (#595) (By [Maciej Radzikowski](https://github.com/m-radzikowski))
+
+**4.2.5 / 2023-06-22**
+- change code implementation
+
+**4.2.4 / 2023-06-06**
+- fix security bug
+
+**4.2.3 / 2023-06-05**
+- fix security bug
+
+**4.2.2 / 2023-04-18**
+- fix #562: fix unpaired tag when it comes in last of a nested tag. Also throw error when unpaired tag is used as closing tag
+
+**4.2.1 / 2023-04-18**
+- fix: jpath after unpaired tags
+
+**4.2.0 / 2023-04-09**
+- support `updateTag` parser property
+
+**4.1.4 / 2023-04-08**
+- update typings to let user create XMLBuilder instance without options (#556) (By [Patrick](https://github.com/omggga))
+- fix: IsArray option isn't parsing tags with 0 as value correctly #490 (#557) (By [Aleksandr Murashkin](https://github.com/p-kuen))
+- feature: support `oneListGroup` to group repeated children tags udder single group
+ 
+**4.1.3 / 2023-02-26**
+- fix #546: Support complex entity value
+
+**4.1.2 / 2023-02-12**
+- Security Fix
+
+**4.1.1 / 2023-02-03**
+- Fix #540: ignoreAttributes breaks unpairedTags
+- Refactor XML builder code
+
+**4.1.0 / 2023-02-02**
+- Fix '<' or '>' in DTD comment throwing an error. (#533) (By [Adam Baker](https://github.com/Cwazywierdo))
+- Set "eNotation" to 'true' as default
+
+**4.0.15 / 2023-01-25**
+- make "eNotation" optional
+
+**4.0.14 / 2023-01-22**
+- fixed: add missed typing "eNotation" to parse values
+
+**4.0.13 / 2023-01-07**
+- preserveorder formatting (By [mdeknowis](https://github.com/mdeknowis))
+- support `transformAttributeName` (By [Erik Rothoff Andersson](https://github.com/erkie))
+
+**4.0.12 / 2022-11-19**
+- fix typescript
+
+**4.0.11 / 2022-10-05**
+- fix #501: parse for entities only once
+
+**4.0.10 / 2022-09-14**
+- fix broken links in demo site (By [Yannick Lang](https://github.com/layaxx))
+- fix #491: tagValueProcessor type definition (By [Andrea Francesco Speziale](https://github.com/andreafspeziale))
+- Add jsdocs for tagValueProcessor
+
+
+**4.0.9 / 2022-07-10**
+- fix #470: stop-tag can have self-closing tag with same name
+- fix #472: stopNode can have any special tag inside
+- Allow !ATTLIST and !NOTATION with DOCTYPE
+- Add transformTagName option to transform tag names when parsing (#469) (By [Erik Rothoff Andersson](https://github.com/erkie))
+
+**4.0.8 / 2022-05-28**
+- Fix CDATA parsing returning empty string when value = 0 (#451) (By [ndelanou](https://github.com/ndelanou))
+- Fix stopNodes when same tag appears inside node (#456) (By [patrickshipe](https://github.com/patrickshipe))
+- fix #468: prettify own properties only
+
+**4.0.7 / 2022-03-18**
+- support CDATA even if tag order is not preserved
+- support Comments even if tag order is not preserved
+- fix #446: XMLbuilder should not indent XML declaration
+
+**4.0.6 / 2022-03-08**
+- fix: call tagValueProcessor only once for array items
+- fix: missing changed for #437
+
+**4.0.5 / 2022-03-06**
+- fix #437: call tagValueProcessor from XML builder
+
+**4.0.4 / 2022-03-03**
+- fix #435: should skip unpaired and self-closing nodes when set as stopnodes
+
+**4.0.3 / 2022-02-15**
+- fix: ReferenceError when Bundled with Strict (#431) (By [Andreas Heissenberger](https://github.com/aheissenberger))
+
+
+**4.0.2 / 2022-02-04**
+- builder supports `suppressUnpairedNode`
+- parser supports `ignoreDeclaration` and `ignorePiTags`
+- fix: when comment is parsed as text value if given as `<!--> ...` #423
+- builder supports decoding `&`
+
+**4.0.1 / 2022-01-08**
+- fix builder for pi tag
+- fix: support suppressBooleanAttrs by builder
+
+**4.0.0 / 2022-01-06**
+- Generating different combined, parser only, builder only, validator only browser bundles
+- Keeping cjs modules as they can be imported in cjs and esm modules both. Otherwise refer `esm` branch.
+
+**4.0.0-beta.8 / 2021-12-13**
+- call tagValueProcessor for stop nodes
+
+**4.0.0-beta.7 / 2021-12-09**
+- fix Validator bug when an attribute has no value but '=' only
+- XML Builder should suppress unpaired tags by default.
+- documents update for missing features
+- refactoring to use Object.assign
+- refactoring to remove repeated code
+
+**4.0.0-beta.6 / 2021-12-05**
+- Support PI Tags processing
+- Support `suppressBooleanAttributes` by XML Builder for attributes with value `true`.
+
+**4.0.0-beta.5 / 2021-12-04**
+- fix: when a tag with name "attributes"
+
+**4.0.0-beta.4 / 2021-12-02**
+- Support HTML document parsing
+- skip stop nodes parsing when building the XML from JS object
+- Support external entites without DOCTYPE
+- update dev dependency: strnum v1.0.5 to fix long number issue
+
+**4.0.0-beta.3 / 2021-11-30**
+- support global stopNodes expression like "*.stop"
+- support self-closing and paired unpaired tags
+- fix: CDATA should not be parsed.
+- Fix typings for XMLBuilder (#396)(By [Anders Emil Salvesen](https://github.com/andersem))
+- supports XML entities, HTML entities, DOCTYPE entities
+
+**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.2 / 2021-11-19**
+- rename `attrMap` to `attibutes` in parser output when `preserveOrder:true`
+- supports unpairedTags
+
+**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.1 / 2021-11-18**
+- Parser returns an array now
+  - to make the structure common
+  - and to return root level detail
+- renamed `cdataTagName` to `cdataPropName`
+- Added `commentPropName`
+- fix typings
+
+**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.0 / 2021-11-16**
+- Name change of many configuration properties.
+  - `attrNodeName` to `attributesGroupName`
+  - `attrValueProcessor` to `attributeValueProcessor`
+  - `parseNodeValue` to `parseTagValue`
+  - `ignoreNameSpace` to `removeNSPrefix`
+  - `numParseOptions` to `numberParseOptions`
+  - spelling correction for `suppressEmptyNode`
+- Name change of cli and browser bundle to **fxparser**
+- `isArray` option is added to parse a tag into array
+- `preserveOrder` option is added to render XML in such a way that the result js Object maintains the order of properties same as in XML.
+- Processing behaviour of `tagValueProcessor` and `attributeValueProcessor` are changes with extra input parameters
+- j2xparser is renamed to XMLBuilder.
+- You need to build XML parser instance for given options first before parsing XML.
+- fix #327, #336: throw error when extra text after XML content
+- fix #330: attribute value can have '\n', 
+- fix #350: attrbiutes can be separated by '\n' from tagname
+
+3.21.1 / 2021-10-31
+- Correctly format JSON elements with a text prop but no attribute props ( By [haddadnj](https://github.com/haddadnj) )
+
+3.21.0 / 2021-10-25
+  - feat: added option `rootNodeName` to set tag name for array input when converting js object to XML.
+  - feat: added option `alwaysCreateTextNode` to force text node creation (by: *@massimo-ua*)
+  - ⚠️ feat: Better error location for unclosed tags. (by *@Gei0r*)
+    - Some error messages would be changed when validating XML. Eg
+      - `{ InvalidXml: "Invalid '[    \"rootNode\"]' found." }` → `{InvalidTag: "Unclosed tag 'rootNode'."}`
+      - `{ InvalidTag: "Closing tag 'rootNode' is expected inplace of 'rootnode'." }` → `{ InvalidTag: "Expected closing tag 'rootNode' (opened in line 1) instead of closing tag 'rootnode'."}`
+  - ⚠️ feat: Column in error response when validating XML
+```js
+{
+  "code": "InvalidAttr",
+  "msg":  "Attribute 'abc' is repeated.",
+  "line": 1,
+  "col": 22
+}
+```
+
+3.20.1 / 2021-09-25
+  - update strnum package
+
+3.20.0 / 2021-09-10
+  - Use strnum npm package to parse string to number
+    - breaking change: long number will be parsed to scientific notation.
+
+3.19.0 / 2021-03-14
+  - License changed to MIT original
+  - Fix #321 : namespace tag parsing
+
+3.18.0 / 2021-02-05
+  - Support RegEx and function in arrayMode option 
+  - Fix #317 : validate nested PI tags
+
+3.17.4 / 2020-06-07
+  - Refactor some code to support IE11
+  - Fix: `<tag >` space as attribute string
+
+3.17.3 / 2020-05-23
+  - Fix: tag name separated by \n \t
+  - Fix: throw error for unclosed tags
+
+3.17.2 / 2020-05-23
+  - Fixed an issue in processing doctype tag
+  - Fixed tagName where it should not have whitespace chars
+
+3.17.1 / 2020-05-19
+  - Fixed an issue in checking opening tag
+  
+3.17.0 / 2020-05-18
+  - parser: fix '<' issue when it comes in aatr value
+  - parser: refactoring to remove dependency from regex
+  - validator: fix IE 11 issue for error messages
+  - updated dev dependencies
+  - separated benchmark module to sub-module
+  - breaking change: comments will not be removed from CDATA data
+
+3.16.0 / 2020-01-12
+  - validaor: fix for ampersand characters (#215)
+  - refactoring to support unicode chars in tag name
+  - update typing for validator error
+
+3.15.1 / 2019-12-09
+  - validaor: fix multiple roots are not allowed
+
+3.15.0 / 2019-11-23
+  - validaor: improve error messaging
+  - validator: add line number in case of error
+  - validator: add more error scenarios to make it more descriptive
+
+3.14.0 / 2019-10-25
+  - arrayMode for XML to JS obj parsing
+
+3.13.0 / 2019-10-02
+  - pass tag/attr name to tag/attr value processor
+  - inbuilt  optional validation with XML parser
+
+3.12.21 / 2019-10-02
+  - Fix validator for unclosed XMLs
+  - move nimnjs dependency to dev dependency
+  - update dependencies
+  
+3.12.20 / 2019-08-16
+  - Revert:  Fix #167: '>' in attribute value as it is causing high performance degrade.
+  
+3.12.19 / 2019-07-28
+  - Fix js to xml parser should work for date values. (broken: `tagValueProcessor` will receive the original value instead of string always) (breaking change)
+  
+3.12.18 / 2019-07-27
+  - remove configstore dependency
+  
+3.12.17 / 2019-07-14
+  - Fix #167: '>' in attribute value
+  
+3.12.16 / 2019-03-23
+  - Support a new option "stopNodes". (#150)
+Accept the list of tags which are not required to be parsed. Instead, all the nested tag and data will be assigned as string.
+  - Don't show post-install message
+  
+3.12.12 / 2019-01-11
+  - fix : IE parseInt, parseFloat error
+  
+3.12.11 / 2018-12-24
+  - fix #132: "/" should not be parsed as boolean attr in case of self closing tags
+  
+3.12.9 / 2018-11-23
+  - fix #129 : validator should not fail when an atrribute name is 'length'
+  
+3.12.8 / 2018-11-22
+  - fix #128 : use 'attrValueProcessor' to process attribute value in json2xml parser
+  
+3.12.6 / 2018-11-10
+  - Fix #126: check for type
+  
+3.12.4 / 2018-09-12
+  - Fix: include tasks in npm package
+  
+3.12.3 / 2018-09-12
+  - Fix CLI issue raised in last PR
+  
+3.12.2 / 2018-09-11
+  - Fix formatting for JSON to XML output
+  - Migrate to webpack (PR merged)
+  - fix cli (PR merged)
+  
+3.12.0 / 2018-08-06
+  - Support hexadecimal values
+  - Support true number parsing 
+  
+3.11.2 / 2018-07-23
+  - Update Demo for more options
+  - Update license information
+  - Update readme for formatting, users, and spelling mistakes
+  - Add missing typescript definition for j2xParser
+  - refactoring: change filenames
+  
+3.11.1 / 2018-06-05
+  - fix #93: read the text after self closing tag
+  
+3.11.0 / 2018-05-20
+  - return defaultOptions if there are not options in buildOptions function 
+  - added localeRange declaration in parser.d.ts
+  - Added support of cyrillic characters in validator XML
+  - fixed bug in validator work when XML data with byte order marker
+  
+3.10.0 / 2018-05-13
+  - Added support of cyrillic characters in parsing XML to JSON
+  
+3.9.11 / 2018-05-09
+  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/80 fix nimn chars
+  - update package information
+  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/86: json 2 xml parser : property with null value should be parsed to self closing tag.
+  - update online demo
+  - revert zombiejs to old version to support old version of node
+  - update dependencies
+  
+3.3.10 / 2018-04-23
+  - fix #77 : parse even if closing tag has space before '>'
+  - include all css & js lib in demo app
+  - remove babel dependencies until needed
+  
+3.3.9 / 2018-04-18
+  - fix #74 : TS2314 TypeScript compiler error
+  
+3.3.8 / 2018-04-17
+  - fix #73 : IE doesn't support Object.assign
+  
+3.3.7 / 2018-04-14
+  - fix: use let insted of const in for loop of validator
+  - Merge pull request
+    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/71 from bb/master
+    first draft of typings for typescript
+    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/69
+  - Merge pull request
+    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/70 from bb/patch-1
+    fix some typos in readme
+    
+3.3.6 / 2018-03-21
+  - change arrow functions to full notation for IE compatibility
+  
+3.3.5 / 2018-03-15
+  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/67 : attrNodeName invalid behavior
+  - fix: remove decodeHTML char condition
+  
+3.3.4 / 2018-03-14
+  - remove dependency on "he" package
+  - refactor code to separate methods in separate files.
+  - draft code for transforming XML to json string. It is not officially documented due to performance issue.
+  
+3.3.0 / 2018-03-05
+  - use common default options for XML parsing for consistency. And add `parseToNimn` method.
+  - update nexttodo
+  - update README about XML to Nimn transformation and remove special notes about 3.x release
+  - update CONTRIBUTING.ms mentioning nexttodo
+  - add negative case for XML PIs
+  - validate xml processing instruction tags    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/62
+  - nimndata: handle array with object
+  - nimndata: node with nested node and text node
+  - nimndata: handle attributes and text node
+  - nimndata: add options, handle array
+  - add xml to nimn data converter
+  - x2j: direct access property with tagname
+  - update changelog
+  - fix validator when single quote presents in value enclosed with double quotes or vice versa
+  - Revert "remove unneded nimnjs dependency, move opencollective to devDependencies and replace it
+    with more light opencollective-postinstall"
+    This reverts commit d47aa7181075d82db4fee97fd8ea32b056fe3f46.
+  - Merge pull request: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/63 from HaroldPutman/suppress-undefined
+    Keep undefined nodes out of the XML output :     This is useful when you are deleting nodes from the JSON and rewriting XML.
+    
+3.2.4 / 2018-03-01
+  - fix #59 fix in validator when open quote presents in attribute value
+  - Create nexttodo.md
+  - exclude static from bitHound tests
+  - add package lock
+  
+3.2.3 / 2018-02-28
+  - Merge pull request from  Delagen/master: fix namespaces can contain the same characters as xml names
+  
+3.2.2 / 2018-02-22
+  - fix: attribute xmlns should not be removed if ignoreNameSpace is false
+  - create CONTRIBUTING.md
+  
+3.2.1 / 2018-02-17
+  - fix: empty attribute should be parsed
+  
+3.2.0 / 2018-02-16
+  - Merge pull request : Dev to Master
+  - Update README and version
+  - j2x:add performance test
+  - j2x: Remove extra empty line before closing tag
+  - j2x: suppress empty nodes to self closing node if configured
+  - j2x: provide option to give indentation depth
+  - j2x: make optional formatting
+  - j2x: encodeHTMLchat
+  - j2x: handle cdata tag
+  - j2x: handle grouped attributes
+  - convert json to xml
+    - nested object
+    - array
+    - attributes
+    - text value
+  - small refactoring
+  - Merge pull request: Update cli.js to let user validate XML file or data
+  - Add option for rendering CDATA as separate property
+  
+3.0.1 / 2018-02-09
+  - fix CRLF: replace it with single space in attributes value only.
+  
+3.0.0 / 2018-02-08
+  - change online tool with new changes
+  - update info about new options
+  - separate tag value processing to separate function
+  - make HTML decoding optional
+  - give an option to allow boolean attributes
+  - change cli options as per v3
+  - Correct comparison table format on README
+  - update v3 information
+  - some performance improvement changes
+  - Make regex object local to the method and move some common methods to util
+  - Change parser to
+    - handle multiple instances of CDATA
+    - make triming of value optionals
+    - HTML decode attribute and text value
+    - refactor code to separate files
+  - Ignore newline chars without RE (in validator)
+  - validate for XML prolog
+  - Validate DOCTYPE without RE
+  - Update validator to return error response
+  - Update README to add detail about V3
+  - Separate xmlNode model class
+  - include vscode debug config
+  - fix for repeated object
+  - fix attribute regex for boolean attributes
+  - Fix validator for invalid attributes
+2.9.4 / 2018-02-02
+  - Merge pull request: Decode HTML characters
+  - refactor source folder name
+  - ignore bundle / browser js to be published to npm
+2.9.3 / 2018-01-26
+  - Merge pull request: Correctly remove CRLF line breaks
+  - Enable to parse attribute in online editor
+  - Fix testing demo app test
+  - Describe parsing options
+  - Add options for online demo
+2.9.2 / 2018-01-18
+  - Remove check if tag starting with "XML"
+  - Fix: when there are spaces before / after CDATA
+
+2.9.1 / 2018-01-16
+  - Fix: newline should be replaced with single space
+  - Fix: for single and multiline comments
+  - validate xml with CDATA
+  - Fix: the issue when there is no space between 2 attributes
+  - Fix: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/33: when there is newline char in attr val, it doesn't parse
+  - Merge pull request: fix ignoreNamespace
+    - fix: don't wrap attributes if only namespace attrs
+    - fix: use portfinder for run tests, update deps
+    - fix: don't treat namespaces as attributes when ignoreNamespace enabled
+
+2.9.0 / 2018-01-10
+  - Rewrite the validator to handle large files.
+    Ignore DOCTYPE validation. 
+  - Fix: When attribute value has equal sign
+
+2.8.3 / 2017-12-15
+  - Fix: when a tag has value along with subtags
+
+2.8.2 / 2017-12-04
+  - Fix value parsing for IE
+
+2.8.1 / 2017-12-01
+  - fix: validator should return false instead of err when invalid XML
+
+2.8.0 / 2017-11-29
+  - Add CLI option to ignore value conversion
+  - Fix variable name when filename is given on CLI
+  - Update CLI help text
+  - Merge pull request: xml2js: Accept standard input
+  - Test Node 8
+  - Update dependencies
+  - Bundle readToEnd
+  - Add ability to read from standard input
+
+2.7.4 / 2017-09-22
+  - Merge pull request: Allow wrap attributes with subobject to compatible with other parsers output
+
+2.7.3 / 2017-08-02
+  - fix: handle CDATA with regx
+
+2.7.2 / 2017-07-30
+  - Change travis config for yarn caching
+  - fix validator: when tag property is same as array property
+  - Merge pull request: Failing test case in validator for valid SVG
+
+2.7.1 / 2017-07-26
+  - Fix: Handle val 0
+
+2.7.0 / 2017-07-25
+  - Fix test for arrayMode
+  - Merge pull request: Add arrayMode option to parse any nodes as arrays
+
+2.6.0 / 2017-07-14
+  - code improvement
+  - Add unit tests for value conversion for attr
+  - Merge pull request: option of an attribute value conversion to a number (textAttrConversion) the same way as the textNodeConversion option does. Default value is false.
+
+2.5.1 / 2017-07-01
+  - Fix XML element name pattern
+  - Fix XML element name pattern while parsing
+  - Fix validation for xml tag element
+
+2.5.0 / 2017-06-25
+  - Improve Validator performance
+  - update attr matching regex
+  - Add perf tests
+  - Improve atrr regex to handle all cases
+
+2.4.4 / 2017-06-08
+  - Bug fix: when an attribute has single or double quote in value
+
+2.4.3 / 2017-06-05
+  - Bug fix: when multiple CDATA tags are given
+  - Merge pull request: add option "textNodeConversion"
+  - add option "textNodeConversion"
+
+2.4.1 / 2017-04-14
+  - fix tests
+  - Bug fix: preserve initial space of node value
+  - Handle CDATA
+
+2.3.1 / 2017-03-15
+  - Bug fix: when single self closing tag
+  - Merge pull request: fix .codeclimate.yml
+  - Update .codeclimate.yml - Fixed config so it does not error anymore.
+  - Update .codeclimate.yml
+
+2.3.0 / 2017-02-26
+  - Code improvement
+  - add bithound config
+  - Update usage
+  - Update travis to generate bundle js before running tests
+  - 1.Browserify, 2. add more tests for validator
+  - Add validator
+  - Fix CLI default parameter bug
+
+2.2.1 / 2017-02-05
+  - Bug fix: CLI default option