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Canonical source repository for LibYAML

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Dominant language: C
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 21, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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[GLD Serializer Benchmark] C libyaml 0.2.5 — spec compliance misses Open

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yaml/libyaml#351 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Owner Giorgi Meskhidze Open

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yaml/libyaml#346 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Adding SPDX-License-Identifier headers to libyaml sources Open

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yaml/libyaml#343 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
YAML 1.1 multi-document directives are not processed correctly Open

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yaml/libyaml#341 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
How to output simple keys regardless of length ("128 chars hardcoded limit") Open

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yaml/libyaml#340 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2026
[Bug] Null Pointer Dereference in parser.c — `first=1` path of 4 collection-entry functions Open

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yaml/libyaml#337 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2026
Leading BOM is counted as a column when the encoding is set explicitly Open

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yaml/libyaml#334 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
A Open

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yaml/libyaml#333 · Opened May 10, 2026
[Question] Can this project be built with CMake on Unix-like systems (macOS, linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc)? Open

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yaml/libyaml#330 · Opened May 4, 2026
docs: Add missing build dependency. Open

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yaml/libyaml#328 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
compile error C4703: potentially uninitialized local pointer variable 'input' used Open

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yaml/libyaml#325 · Opened Mar 23, 2026
libyaml_dumper_fuzzer: parser leak on emitter init failure Open

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yaml/libyaml#324 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 8, 2026
https://github.com/yaml/libyaml/issues/321#issuecomment-3703927906 Open

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yaml/libyaml#322 · Opened Jan 1, 2026
$ ./bootstrap $ ./configure $ make # make install Open

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yaml/libyaml#320 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 1, 2026
[BUG] Scanner API: infinite-loop risk for some clients... Open

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yaml/libyaml#318 · Opened Nov 6, 2025
CMake version needs updating Open

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yaml/libyaml#317 · 8 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2025
[BUG] A SEGV in `yaml_free` at `src/api.c:53:14` Open

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yaml/libyaml#312 · Opened May 14, 2025
Memory Leak in api.c Open

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yaml/libyaml#309 · 3 comments · Opened May 7, 2025
YAML_FLOW_MAPPING_START_TOKEN Open

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yaml/libyaml#307 · Opened Mar 21, 2025
CVE-2024-35325 Open

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yaml/libyaml#303 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2024
CVE-2024-35326, CVE-2024-35328, CVE-2024-35329 Open

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yaml/libyaml#302 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2024
How is this CVE-2024-35329 affected? Open

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yaml/libyaml#298 · 18 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2024
Error when build libyaml 0.2.5 for Centos 7.9 Open

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yaml/libyaml#285 · Opened Mar 13, 2024
Some emojis are incorrectly not considered printable Open

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yaml/libyaml#279 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2023
`sprintf` is deprecated on MacOS if ASAN is enable. Open

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yaml/libyaml#276 · Opened Dec 2, 2023
Add Meson build system Open

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yaml/libyaml#275 · Opened Sep 16, 2023
Add advance error reporting for custom write_handler() Open

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yaml/libyaml#273 · Opened Aug 25, 2023
Security Audit of libyaml Open

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yaml/libyaml#271 · Opened Jul 10, 2023
run-emitter-test-suite: negative-size-param in `get_tag/memcpy` Open

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yaml/libyaml#270 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 22, 2023
Add support of blank lines and comments (re)format support, because people seems has been fighting with these issues for ages: Open

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yaml/libyaml#269 · 3 comments · 10 reactions · Opened May 29, 2023
./bootstrap fails on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Open

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yaml/libyaml#266 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 3, 2023
Set permissions for Github Workflows Open

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yaml/libyaml#265 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 27, 2023
problem libyaml building on Ubuntu Open

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yaml/libyaml#264 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2023
Error in `./run-emitter': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0000000000621760 *** Open

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yaml/libyaml#261 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 4, 2023
build: run ./configure fail, cannot build successfully Open

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yaml/libyaml#256 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2022
Event based YAML parsing Open

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yaml/libyaml#255 · Opened Sep 28, 2022
error Open

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yaml/libyaml#254 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2022
%TAG prefix does not accept all characters in ns-uri-char production Open

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yaml/libyaml#253 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2022
Loader cycles on large input Open

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yaml/libyaml#251 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2022
Request alternate check for --enable-shared Open

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yaml/libyaml#245 · Opened Mar 19, 2022
when url as value field,sometimes token.data.scalar.value will get "\0" Open

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yaml/libyaml#233 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 21, 2021
Compiler warning: integer conversion resulted in a change of sign Open

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yaml/libyaml#231 · Opened Oct 19, 2021
large loop in yaml_parser_fetch_more_tokens Open

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yaml/libyaml#227 · Opened Sep 22, 2021
Indentation of sequence elements Open

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yaml/libyaml#224 · 5 comments · 17 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2021
The package `libyaml-dev` in Ubuntu/apt does not have a config.cmake file Open

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yaml/libyaml#222 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2021
Certain Chinese characters are encoded with \U... prefix Open

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yaml/libyaml#218 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2021
Please document parser error handling Open

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yaml/libyaml#211 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2021
unused-value warnings with gcc 10.2.0 Open

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yaml/libyaml#210 · Opened Feb 8, 2021
How to write data into yaml？ Open

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yaml/libyaml#209 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2021
Added documentation with API reference Open

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yaml/libyaml#204 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2020

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