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title: pugixml 1.9 release
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pugixml-1.9 is out. This is a maintenance release that fixes some compatibility issues and introduces several features (read the [changelog](/docs/manual.html#v1.9) for details).

Highlights for this release include:

* Added move semantics support for `xml_document`
* XPath parser no longer relies on exceptional control flow/longjmp in absence of exceptions
	* xpath_exception is still used to communicate errors when exceptions are enabled
* Fix compilation issues for some custom GCC installations
* Fix compilation warnings for GCC 7.3/8

You can [download the source package](http://github.com/zeux/pugixml/releases/download/v1.9/pugixml-1.9.zip) or get the new version from GitHub using the latest tag (http://github.com/zeux/pugixml).