0.8 Released

Major Release
Added by Ash Berlin 282 days ago

Download Flusspferd from Sourceforge.

This version is hot on the heels of 0.7 (relatively speaking) due to a lot of work Ash Berlin put in place to get features for the first release of Juice and Zest – the first implementation of a JSGI 0.3 webapp server and an app framework to go on top of it – which is due for its initial release any day now.

Major features:

  • Build trees are now relocatable – you can move the built tree to a different place on the filesystem and module loading will do the right thing.
  • Refactor of require() handling – this means modules are now JITable.
  • Implement most of the CommonJS `fs-base' (Filesystem/A/0) module (no permissions functions yet).
  • Treat source files as UTF-8 – this means you can have unicode literals in .js source files now.
  • REPL now prints debug/uneval representation, rather than .toString().
  • Enable Spidermonkey strict warnings for all modules.
  • SQLite3 plugin got an overhaul.
  • Immature plugins are no longer part of the main tree. This means no cURL, or XML plugins for now. If you want them back sooner, help us finish (designing) their APIs.
  • JSON top-level-object is now always available.

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