The first release candidate for Mini-XML 2.0 is now available. Mini-XML 2.0 adds a new programmers manual, support for reading UTF-16 encoded files and strings (all output is still encoded using UTF-8), a new indexing API to support fast searches of large XML databases, new character entity and whitespace callbacks, and several improvements and bug fixes for the mxmldoc utility. The new release also fixes some makefile problems.