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title: pugixml 1.0 release
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pugixml-1.0 is out. This is a major release with lots of fixes/improvements (read the [changelog](http://pugixml.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release-1.0/docs/manual/changes.html) for details).

The most important changes are:

* XPath implementation was considerably improved – variable support was added, exceptions and STL are no longer required for XPath to function, query evaluation performance was improved and several bugs were fixed.
* All deprecated functions and types were removed
* File loading/saving functions can now work with wide character paths

You can [download the source package](http://github.com/zeux/pugixml/releases/download/v1.0/pugixml-1.0.zip) or get the new version from Subversion using the latest tag (http://pugixml.googlecode.com/svn/tags/latest).