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Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522) #155558
Description
Please see blog post https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-8-3-released/ for an overview and the change log at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_8_3/expat/Changes for details. Affects all alive branches of Python. Thank you!
Related: #152216 (predecessor for Expat 2.8.2)
Linked PRs
- gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 #155560
- [3.15] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155612
- [3.14] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155613
- [3.13] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155614
- [3.12] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155615
- [3.11] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155616
- [3.10] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) #155618
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[-][security] Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522)[/-][+]Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522)[/+]StanFromIreland commentedon Aug 11, 2026
@hartwork Thanks for letting us know! JFYI for the future, you don't need to add
[security]to the title here, we have labels to distinguish such things.gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560)
[3.12] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155615)
[3.13] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155614)
[3.14] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155613)
[3.15] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155612)
[3.11] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155616)
[3.10] gh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (GH-155560) (#155618)
pythongh-155558: Update bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (pythonGH-155560)