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Ben Murdoch3fb3ca82011-12-02 17:19:32 +000012011-07-20: Version 3.4.14
2
3 Fix the debugger for strict-mode functions. (Chromium issue 89236)
4
5 Add GetPropertyAttribute method for Object in the API. (Patch by Peter Varga)
6
7 Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc-4.6 on x64. (Issue 1291)
8
9
102011-07-18: Version 3.4.13
11
12 Improved debugger support to allow inspection of optimized frames (issue
13 1140).
14
15 Fixed a bug in prototype transitions cache clearing introduced by r8165.
16
17 Fixed shortcutting bug in HInferRepresentation. Patch by Andy Wingo.
18
19 Fixed a memory leak in sample/shell.cc (dispose semaphores).
20
21 Simplified HClampToUint8. Patch by Andy Wingo.
22
23 Exposed APIs for detecting boxed primitives, native errors. Patch by
24 Luke Zarko.
25
26 Added map check for COW elements to crankshaft array handling code
27 (issue 1560).
28
29 Sample shell and (a light version of) D8 links against a shared library
30 now.
31
32 Fixed bug in array filter and reduce functions (issue 1559).
33
34 Avoid TLS load in AstNode constructor.
35
36 Introduced a random entropy source which can optionally be provided at
37 initialization. (Chromium issue 89462).
38
39
402011-07-13: Version 3.4.12
41
42 Added --prof profiling option to d8 shell.
43
44 Fixed a bug where reading a directory in d8 shell hangs (issue 1533).
45
46 Fixed a potential assertion failure in const declarations.
47
48 Fixed an assertion failure in descriptor arrays (issue 1526).
49
50 Enabled fast thread-local storage by default on supported platforms.
51
52 Improved reporting of source position for global variable loads
53 (issue 1527).
54
55
562011-07-11: Version 3.4.11
57
58 Fixed MinGW32 build.
59
60 Fixed a GC bug with RegExp code flushing.
61
62 Implemented Object.defineProperty for proxies.
63
64 Fixed a bug in for/in iteration of arguments objects (issue 1531).
65
66 Added debugger support for inspecting optimized frames (issue 1140).
67
68 Allowed JSObject::PreventExtensions to work for arguments objects.
69
70 Bugfixes and performance work.
71
72
732011-07-06: Version 3.4.10
74
75 Fixed debugger not breaking on certain "if" statements (issue 1523).
76
77 Fixed assertion failure in runtime profiler when running on IA32
78 without snapshot (issue 1522).
79
80 Fixed ABI for API calls on IA32 (for clang compatibility).
81
82 Introduced code flushing of RegExp code to free memory used by
83 RegExps sooner.
84
85 Fixed linux-tick-processor built wrong version of v8 (issue 1532).
86
87 Fixed assertion failure in v8::TryCache::StackTrace (issue 1529).
88
89 Performance improvements on all platforms.
90
91
922011-07-04: Version 3.4.9
93
94 Added support for debugger inspection of locals in optimized frames
95 (issue 1140).
96
97 Fixed SConstruct to pass correct defines to samples/preparser when
98 building with library=shared.
99
100 Made date parser handle ES5 Date Time Strings correctly (issue 1498).
101
102 Fixed a bug in Object.defineProperty on the arguments object.
103
104 Performance improvements on all platforms.
105
106
1072011-06-29: Version 3.4.8
108
109 Ensure 16-byte stack alignment on Solaris (issue 1505).
110
111 Fix "illegal access" when calling parseInt with a radix
112 that is not a smi. (issue 1246).
113
114
1152011-06-27: Version 3.4.7
116
117 Fixed 64-bit build on FreeBSD.
118
119 Added API to set the property attributes for the prototype
120 property on functions created from FunctionTemplates.
121
122 Bugfixes and performance work.
123
124
1252011-06-22: Version 3.4.6
126
127 Lowered limit on code space for systems with low memory supply.
128
129 Allowed compiling v8_shell with the 'host' toolset (issue 82437).
130
131 Extended setBreakpoint API to accept partial script name (issue 1418).
132
133 Made multi-line comments not count when deciding whether the '-->'
134 comment starter is first on a line. This matches Safari.
135
136 Made handling of non-array recievers in Array length setter correct
137 (issue 1491).
138
139 Added ability to heap profiler to iterate over snapshot's node
140 (issue 1481).
141
142
1432011-06-20: Version 3.4.5
144
145 Fixed issues 794, 1097, 1215(partial), 1417, 1435, 1472, 1473,
146 1476, and 1477.
147
148 Improved code generation for !0 and !1.
149
150 Reduced memory usage for regular expressions with nested qualifiers.
151 (issue 1472)
152
153 Fixed V8 to count line terminators in multi-line comments.
154 (Chromium issue 86431)
155
156 Fixed disassembler=on option for release-mode builds. (issue 1473)
157
158 Performance improvements on all platforms.
159
160
1612011-06-15: Version 3.4.4
162
163 Added snapshot compression support and --stress-opt flag to d8.
164
165 Improved performance of try/catch.
166
167 Several GYP-related changes: Added support for building Xcode project
168 files. Make the ARM simulator build with GYP again. Generate Makefiles
169 for all architectures on Linux.
170
171 Fixed Array.prototype.{reduce,reduceRight} to pass undefined as the
172 receiver for strict mode callbacks. (issue 1436)
173
174 Fixed a bug where an array load was incorrectly hoisted by GVN.
175
176 Handle 'undefined' correctly when === has been specialized for doubles.
177 (issue 1434)
178
179 Corrected the limit of local variables in an optimized function from 64
180 to 63.
181
182 Correctly set ReadOnly flag on indexed properties when using the API Set
183 method. (issue 1470)
184
185 Give the correct error message when Object.isExtensible is called on a
186 non-object. (issue 1452)
187
188 Added GetOwnPropertyNames method for Object in the API. Patch by Peter
189 Varga.
190
191 Do not redefine properties unneccesarily in seal and freeze. (issue
192 1447)
193
194 IsExecutionTerminating has an Isolate parameter now.
195
196 Distinguish keyed loads with a symbol key from fast elements loads,
197 avoiding some useless deoptimizations. (issue 1471)
198
199
2002011-06-08: Version 3.4.3
201
202 Clear the global thread table when an isolate is disposed
203 (issue 1433).
204
205 Converted time zone name to UTF8 on Windows (issue 1290).
206
207 Limited the number of arguments in a function call to 32766
208 (issue 1413).
209
210 Compress sources of JS libraries in addition to the snapshot.
211
212 Fixed a bug in Lithium environment iteration.
213
214 Performance improvements on all platforms.
215
216
2172011-06-06: Version 3.4.2
218
219 More work on ES-Harmony proxies. Still hidden behind a flag.
220
221 Fixed some crash bugs and improved performance.
222
223 Fixed building with gdb debugging support.
224
225 Do not install SIGPROF handler until it is needed.
226
227 Added DateTimeFormat to i18n API.
228
229 Fixed compilation on OpenBSD.
230
231 Take the ulimit into account when sizing the heap. OpenBSD users
232 may still have to increase the default ulimit to run heavy pages in
233 the browser.
234
235
2362011-06-01: Version 3.4.1
237
238 Fixed JSON stringify issue with arrays.
239
240 Changed calls to JS builtins to be passed undefined when called with
241 implicit receiver.
242
243 Implemented the set trap for Harmony proxies. Proxies still need to
244 be enabled with the --harmony-proxies flag.
245
246
2472011-05-30: Version 3.4.0
248
249 Changed calls to undefined property setters to not throw (issue 1355).
250
251 Made RegExp objects not callable.
252
253 Fixed issues on special case large JSON strings in new json parser
254 (issues http://crbug.com/83877 and http://crbug.com/84186).
255
256 Performance improvements on all platforms.
257
258
Ben Murdoch257744e2011-11-30 15:57:28 +00002592011-05-25: Version 3.3.10
260
261 Fixed calls of strict mode function with an implicit receiver.
262
263 Fixed fast handling of arrays to properly deal with changes to the
264 Object prototype (issue 1403).
265
266 Changed strict mode poison pill to be the same type error function
267 (issue 1387).
268
269 Fixed a debug crash in arguments object handling (issue 1227).
270
271 Fixed a bug in deoptimization on x64 (issue 1404).
272
273 Performance improvements and bug fixes on all platforms.
274
275
2762011-05-23: Version 3.3.9
277
278 Added DateTimeFormat class to experimental i18n API.
279
280 Extended preparser to give early errors for some strict mode
281 restrictions.
282
283 Removed legacy execScript function from V8.
284
285 Extended isolate API with the ability to add embedder-specific
286 data to an isolate.
287
288 Added basic support for polymorphic loads from JS and external
289 arrays.
290
291 Fixed bug in handling of switch statements in the optimizing
292 compiler.
293
294
2952011-05-18: Version 3.3.8
296
297 Added MarkIndependent to the persistent handle API. Independent
298 handles are independent of all other persistent handles and can be
299 garbage collected more frequently.
300
301 Implemented the get trap for Harmony proxies. Proxies are enabled
302 with the --harmony-proxies flag.
303
304 Performance improvements and bug fixes on all platforms.
305
306
3072011-05-16: Version 3.3.7
308
309 Updated MIPS infrastructure files.
310
311 Performance improvements and bug fixes on all platforms.
312
313
3142011-05-11: Version 3.3.6
315
316 Updated MIPS infrastructure files.
317
318 Added method IsCallable for Object to the API.
319 Patch by Peter Varga.
320
321
3222011-05-09: Version 3.3.5
323
324 Fixed build on FreeBSD. Patch by Akinori MUSHA.
325
326 Added check that receiver is JSObject on API calls.
327
328 Implemented CallAsConstructor method for Object in the API (Issue 1348).
329 Patch by Peter Varga.
330
331 Added CallAsFunction method to the Object class in the API (Issue 1336).
332 Patch by Peter Varga.
333
334 Added per-isolate locking and unlocking.
335
336 Fixed bug in x64 >>> operator (Issue 1359).
337
338
3392011-05-04: Version 3.3.4
340
341 Implemented API to disallow code generation from strings for a context
342 (issue 1258).
343
344 Fixed bug with whitespaces in parseInt (issue 955).
345
346 Fixed bug with == comparison of Date objects (issue 1356).
347
348 Added GYP variables for ARM code generation:
349 v8_can_use_vfp_instructions, v8_can_use_unaligned_accesses
350 and v8_use_arm_eabi_hardfloat.
351
352
3532011-05-02: Version 3.3.3
354
355 Added support for generating Visual Studio solution and project files
356 using GYP.
357
358 Implemented support for ARM EABI calling convention variation where
359 floating-point arguments are passed in registers (hardfloat).
360
361 Added Object::HasOwnProperty() to the API.
362
363 Added support for compressing startup data to reduce binary size. This
364 includes build time support and an API for the embedder to decompress
365 the startup data before initializing V8.
366
367 Reduced the profiling hooks overhead from >400% to 25% when using
368 ll_prof.
369
370 Performance improvements and bug fixes on all platforms.
371
372
3732011-04-27: Version 3.3.2
374
375 Fixed crash bug on ARM with no VFP3 hardware.
376
377 Fixed compilation of V8 without debugger support.
378
379 Improved performance on JSLint.
380
381 Added support Float64 WebGL arrays.
382
383 Fixed crash bug in regexp replace.
384
385
3862011-04-20: Version 3.3.1
387
388 Reduced V8 binary size by removing virtual functions from hydrogen.
389
390 Fixed crash bug on x64.
391
392 Performance improvements on ARM and IA32.
393
394
3952011-04-18: Version 3.3.0
396
397 Fixed bug in floating point rounding in Crankshaft on ARM
398 (issue 958)
399
400 Fixed a number of issues with running without VFPv3 support on ARM
401 (issue 1315)
402
403 Introduced v8Locale.Collator, a partial implementation of Collator
404 per last ECMAScript meeting + mailing list.
405
406 Minor performance improvements and bug fixes.
407
408
Ben Murdoch8b112d22011-06-08 16:22:53 +01004092011-04-13: Version 3.2.10
410
411 Fixed bug in external float arrays on ARM (issue 1323).
412
413 Minor performance improvements and bug fixes.
414
415
4162011-04-11: Version 3.2.9
417
418 Removed support for ABI prior to EABI on ARM.
419
420 Fixed multiple crash bugs.
421
422 Added GCMole to the repository, a simple static analysis tool that
423 searches for GC-unsafe evaluation order dependent callsites.
424
425 Made preparser API be exported in shared libraries.
426
427 Fixed multiple issues in EcmaScript 5 strict mode implementation.
428
429 Fixed mutable __proto__ property if object is not extensible
430 (Issue 1309).
431
432 Fixed auto suspension of the sampler thread.
433
434
4352011-04-06: Version 3.2.8
436
437 Exposed WebGL typed array constructors in the shell sample.
438
439 Performance improvements on all platforms.
440
441
4422011-04-04: Version 3.2.7
443
444 Disabled the original 'classic' V8 code generator. Crankshaft is
445 now the default on all platforms.
446
447 Changed the heap profiler to use more descriptive names.
448
449 Performance and stability improvements to isolates on all platforms.
450
451
Steve Block44f0eee2011-05-26 01:26:41 +01004522011-03-30: Version 3.2.6
453
454 Fixed xcode build warning in shell.cc (out of order initialization).
455
456 Fixed null-pointer dereference in the compiler when running without
457 SSE3 support (Chromium issue 77654).
458
459 Fixed x64 compilation error due to some dead code. (Issue 1286)
460
461 Introduced scons target to build the preparser stand-alone example.
462
463 Made FreeBSD build and pass all tests.
464
465
4662011-03-28: Version 3.2.5
467
468 Fixed build with Irregexp interpreter (issue 1266).
469
470 Added Crankshaft support for external arrays.
471
472 Fixed two potential crash bugs.
473
474
4752011-03-23: Version 3.2.4
476
477 Added isolates which allows several V8 instances in the same process.
478 This is controlled through the new Isolate class in the API.
479
480 Implemented more of EcmaScript 5 strict mode.
481
482 Reduced the time it takes to make detailed heap snapshot.
483
484 Added a number of commands to the ARM simulator and enhanced the ARM
485 disassembler.
486
487
4882011-03-17: Version 3.2.3
489
490 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
491
492 Fixed Array::New(length) to return an array with a length (issue 1256).
493
494 Fixed FreeBSD build.
495
496 Changed __defineGetter__ to not throw (matching the behavior of Safari).
497
498 Implemented more of EcmaScript 5 strict mode.
499
500 Improved Crankshaft performance on all platforms.
501
502
5032011-03-14: Version 3.2.2
504
505 Fixed a number of crash and correctness bugs.
506
507 Improved Crankshaft performance on all platforms.
508
509 Fixed Crankshaft on Solaris/Illumos.
510
511
5122011-03-10: Version 3.2.1
513
514 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
515
516 Improved Crankshaft for x64 and ARM.
517
518 Implemented more of EcmaScript 5 strict mode.
519
520
Ben Murdoche0cee9b2011-05-25 10:26:03 +01005212011-03-07: Version 3.2.0
522
523 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
524
525 Turned on Crankshaft by default on x64 and ARM.
526
527 Improved Crankshaft for x64 and ARM.
528
529 Implemented more of EcmaScript 5 strict mode.
530
531
5322011-03-02: Version 3.1.8
533
534 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
535
536 Improved Crankshaft for x64 and ARM.
537
538 Implemented more of EcmaScript 5 strict mode.
539
540 Fixed issue with unaligned reads and writes on ARM.
541
542 Improved heap profiler support.
543
544
5452011-02-28: Version 3.1.7
546
547 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
548
549 Improved Crankshaft for x64 and ARM.
550
551 Fixed implementation of indexOf/lastIndexOf for sparse
552 arrays (http://crbug.com/73940).
553
554 Fixed bug in map space compaction (http://crbug.com/59688).
555
556 Added support for direct getter accessors calls on ARM.
557
558
5592011-02-24: Version 3.1.6
560
561 Fixed a number of crash bugs.
562
563 Added support for Cygwin (issue 64).
564
565 Improved Crankshaft for x64 and ARM.
566
567 Added Crankshaft support for stores to pixel arrays.
568
569 Fixed issue in CPU profiler with Crankshaft.
570
571
5722011-02-16: Version 3.1.5
573
574 Change RegExp parsing to disallow /(*)/.
575
576 Added GDB JIT support for ARM.
577
578 Fixed several crash bugs.
579
580 Performance improvements on the IA32 platform.
581
582
Steve Block1e0659c2011-05-24 12:43:12 +01005832011-02-14: Version 3.1.4
584
585 Fixed incorrect compare of prototypes of the global object (issue
586 1082).
587
588 Fixed a bug in optimizing calls to global functions (issue 1106).
589
590 Made optimized Function.prototype.apply safe for non-JSObject first
591 arguments (issue 1128).
592
593 Fixed an error related to element accessors on Object.prototype and
594 parser errors (issue 1130).
595
596 Fixed a bug in sorting an array with large array indices (issue 1131).
597
598 Properly treat exceptions thrown while compiling (issue 1132).
599
600 Fixed bug in register requirements for function.apply (issue 1133).
601
602 Fixed a representation change bug in the Hydrogen graph construction
603 (issue 1134).
604
605 Fixed the semantics of delete on parameters (issue 1136).
606
607 Fixed a optimizer bug related to moving instructions with side effects
608 (issue 1138).
609
610 Added support for the global object in Object.keys (issue 1150).
611
612 Fixed incorrect value for Math.LOG10E
613 (issue http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72555)
614
615 Performance improvements on the IA32 platform.
616
617 Implement assignment to undefined reference in ES5 Strict Mode.
618
619
6202011-02-09: Version 3.1.3
621
622 Fixed a bug triggered by functions with huge numbers of declared
623 arguments.
624
625 Fixed zap value aliasing a real object - debug mode only (issue 866).
626
627 Fixed issue where Array.prototype.__proto__ had been set to null
628 (issue 1121).
629
630 Fixed stability bugs in Crankshaft for x86.
631
632
6332011-02-07: Version 3.1.2
634
635 Added better security checks when accessing properties via
636 Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor.
637
638 Fixed bug in Object.defineProperty and related access bugs (issues
639 992, 1083 and 1092).
640
641 Added LICENSE.v8, LICENSE.strongtalk and LICENSE.valgrind to ease
642 copyright notice generation for embedders.
643
644
6452011-02-02: Version 3.1.1
646
647 Perform security checks before fetching the value in
648 Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor.
649
650 Fixed a bug in Array.prototype.splice triggered by passing no
651 arguments.
652
653 Fixed bugs in -0 in arithmetic and in Math.pow.
654
655 Fixed bugs in the register allocator and in switching from optimized
656 to unoptimized code.
657
658
6592011-01-31: Version 3.1.0
660
661 Performance improvements on all platforms.
662
663
6642011-01-28: Version 3.0.12
665
666 Added support for strict mode parameter and object property
667 validation.
668
669 Fixed a couple of crash bugs.
670
671
6722011-01-25: Version 3.0.11
673
674 Fixed a bug in deletion of lookup slots that could cause global
675 variables to be accidentally deleted (http://crbug.com/70066).
676
677 Added support for strict mode octal literal verification.
678
679 Fixed a couple of crash bugs (issues 1070 and 1071).
680
681
6822011-01-24: Version 3.0.10
683
684 Fixed External::Wrap for 64-bit addresses (issue 1037).
685
686 Fixed incorrect .arguments variable proxy handling in the full
687 code generator (issue 1060).
688
689 Introduced partial strict mode support.
690
691 Changed formatting of recursive error messages to match Firefox and
692 Safari (issue http://crbug.com/70334).
693
694 Fixed incorrect rounding for float-to-integer conversions for external
695 array types, which implement the Typed Array spec
696 (issue http://crbug.com/50972).
697
698 Performance improvements on the IA32 platform.
699
700
Ben Murdochb8e0da22011-05-16 14:20:40 +01007012011-01-19: Version 3.0.9
702
703 Added basic GDB JIT Interface integration.
704
705 Make invalid break/continue statements a syntax error instead of a
706 runtime error.
707
708
7092011-01-17: Version 3.0.8
710
711 Exposed heap size limit to the heap statistics gathered by
712 the GetHeapStatistics API.
713
714 Wrapped external pointers more carefully (issue 1037).
715
716 Hardened the implementation of error objects to avoid setters
717 intercepting the properties set then throwing an error.
718
719 Avoided trashing the FPSCR when calculating Math.floor on ARM.
720
721 Performance improvements on the IA32 platform.
722
723
7242011-01-10: Version 3.0.7
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100725
726 Stopped calling inherited setters when creating object literals
727 (issue 1015).
728
729 Changed interpretation of malformed \c? escapes in RegExp to match
730 JSC.
731
732 Enhanced the command-line debugger interface and fixed some minor
733 bugs in the debugger.
734
735 Performance improvements on the IA32 platform.
736
737
Ben Murdochb8e0da22011-05-16 14:20:40 +01007382011-01-05: Version 3.0.6
Steve Block9fac8402011-05-12 15:51:54 +0100739
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100740 Allowed getters and setters on JSArray elements (issue 900).
Steve Block9fac8402011-05-12 15:51:54 +0100741
742 Stopped JSON objects from hitting inherited setters (part of
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100743 issue 1015).
Steve Block9fac8402011-05-12 15:51:54 +0100744
745 Allowed numbers and strings as names of getters/setters in object
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100746 initializer (issue 820).
Steve Block9fac8402011-05-12 15:51:54 +0100747
748 Added use_system_v8 option to gyp (off by default), to make it easier
749 for Linux distributions to ship with system-provided V8 library.
750
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100751 Exported external array data accessors (issue 1016).
Steve Block9fac8402011-05-12 15:51:54 +0100752
753 Added labelled thread names to help with debugging (on Linux).
754
755
7562011-01-03: Version 3.0.5
757
758 Fixed a couple of cast errors for gcc-3.4.3.
759
760 Performance improvements in GC and IA32 code generator.
761
762
Ben Murdochb0fe1622011-05-05 13:52:32 +01007632010-12-21: Version 3.0.4
764
765 Added Date::ResetCache() to the API so that the cached values in the
766 Date object can be reset to allow live DST / timezone changes.
767
768 Extended existing support for printing (while debugging) the contents
769 of objects. Added support for printing objects from release builds.
770
771 Fixed V8 issues 989, 1006, and 1007.
772
773
7742010-12-17: Version 3.0.3
775
776 Reapplied all changes for version 3.0.1.
777
778 Improved debugger protocol for remote debugging.
779
780 Added experimental support for using gyp to generate build files
781 for V8.
782
783 Fixed implementation of String::Write in the API (issue 975).
784
785
7862010-12-15: Version 3.0.2
787
788 Revert version 3.0.1 and patch 3.0.1.1.
789
790
7912010-12-13: Version 3.0.1
792
793 Added support for an experimental internationalization API as an
794 extension. This extension is disabled by default but can be enabled
795 when building V8. The ECMAScript internationalization strawman is
796 at http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:i18n_api.
797
798 Made RegExp character class parsing stricter. This mirrors a change
799 to RegExp parsing in WebKit.
800
801 Fixed a bug in Object.defineProperty when used to change attributes
802 of an existing property. It incorrectly set the property value to
803 undefined (issue 965).
804
805 Fixed several different compilation failures on various platforms
806 caused by the 3.0.0 release.
807
808 Optimized Math.pow so it can work on unboxed doubles.
809
810 Sped up quoting of JSON strings by removing one traversal of the
811 string.
812
813
8142010-12-07: Version 3.0.0
815
816 Improved performance by (partially) addressing issue 957 on
817 IA-32. Still needs more work for the other architectures.
818
819
Shimeng (Simon) Wang8a31eba2010-12-06 19:01:33 -08008202010-11-29: Version 2.5.9
821
822 Fixed crashes during GC caused by partially initialize heap
823 objects.
824
825 Fixed bug in process sample that caused memory leaks.
826
827 Improved performance on ARM by implementing missing stubs and
828 inlining.
829
830 Improved heap profiler support.
831
832 Added separate seeding on Windows of the random number generator
833 used internally by the compiler (issue 936).
834
835 Exposed API for getting the name of the function used to construct
836 an object.
837
838 Fixed date parser to handle one and two digit millisecond
839 values (issue 944).
840
841 Fixed number parsing to disallow space between sign and
842 digits (issue 946).
843
844
8452010-11-23: Version 2.5.8
846
847 Removed dependency on Gay's dtoa.
848
849 Improved heap profiler precision and speed.
850
851 Reduced overhead of callback invocations on ARM.
852
853
8542010-11-18: Version 2.5.7
855
856 Fixed obscure evaluation order bug (issue 931).
857
858 Split the random number state between JavaScript and the private API.
859
860 Fixed performance bug causing GCs when generating stack traces on
861 code from very large scripts.
862
863 Fixed bug in parser that allowed (foo):42 as a labelled statement
864 (issue 918).
865
866 Provide more accurate results about used heap size via
867 GetHeapStatistics.
868
869 Allow build-time customization of the max semispace size.
870
871 Made String.prototype.split honor limit when separator is empty
872 (issue 929).
873
874 Added missing failure check after expecting an identifier in
875 preparser (Chromium issue 62639).
876
877
Russell Brenner90bac252010-11-18 13:33:46 -08008782010-11-10: Version 2.5.6
879
880 Added support for VFP rounding modes to the ARM simulator.
881
882 Fixed multiplication overflow bug (issue 927).
883
884 Added a limit for the amount of executable memory (issue 925).
885
886
Teng-Hui Zhu3e5fa292010-11-09 16:16:48 -08008872010-11-08: Version 2.5.5
888
889 Added more aggressive GC of external objects in near out-of-memory
890 situations.
891
892 Fixed a bug that gave the incorrect result for String.split called
893 on the empty string (issue 924).
894
895
8962010-11-03: Version 2.5.4
897
898 Improved V8 VFPv3 runtime detection to address issue 914.
899
900
9012010-11-01: Version 2.5.3
902
903 Fixed a bug that prevents constants from overwriting function values
904 in object literals (issue 907).
905
906 Fixed a bug with reporting of impossible nested calls of DOM functions
907 (issue http://crbug.com/60753).
908
909
John Reck59135872010-11-02 12:39:01 -07009102010-10-27: Version 2.5.2
911
912 Improved sampler resolution on Linux.
913
914 Allowed forcing the use of a simulator from the build script
915 independently of the host architecture.
916
Ben Murdoch086aeea2011-05-13 15:57:08 +0100917 Fixed FreeBSD port (issue 912).
John Reck59135872010-11-02 12:39:01 -0700918
919 Made windows-tick-processor respect D8_PATH.
920
921 Implemented --noinline-new flag fully on IA32, X64 and ARM platforms.
922
923
Ben Murdochf87a2032010-10-22 12:50:53 +01009242010-10-20: Version 2.5.1
925
926 Fixed bug causing spurious out of memory exceptions
927 (issue http://crbug.com/54580).
928
929 Fixed compilation error on Solaris platform (issue 901).
930
931 Fixed error in strtod (string to floating point number conversion)
932 due to glibc's use of 80-bit floats in the FPU on 32-bit linux.
933
934 Adjusted randomized allocations of executable memory to have 64k
935 granularity (issue http://crbug.com/56036).
936
937 Supported profiling using kernel perf_events on linux. Added ll_prof
938 script to tools and --ll-prof flag to V8.
939
940
9412010-10-18: Version 2.5.0
942
943 Fixed bug in cache handling of lastIndex on global regexps
944 (issue http://crbug.com/58740).
945
946 Added USE_SIMULATOR macro that explicitly indicates that we wish to use
947 the simulator as the execution engine (by Mark Lam <mark.lam@palm.com>
Ben Murdochb0fe1622011-05-05 13:52:32 +0100948 from Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP).
Ben Murdochf87a2032010-10-22 12:50:53 +0100949
950 Fixed compilation error on ARM with gcc 4.4 (issue 894).
951
952
9532010-10-13: Version 2.4.9
954
955 Fixed a bug in the handling of conditional expressions in test
956 contexts in compiler for top-level code.
957
958 Added "//@ sourceURL" information to the StackTrace API.
959
960 Exposed RegExp construction through the API.
961
962
9632010-10-04: Version 2.4.8
964
965 Fixed a bug in ResumeProfilerEx causing it to not always write out the
966 whole snapshot (issue 868).
967
968 Performance improvements on all platforms.
969
970
9712010-09-30: Version 2.4.7
972
973 Changed the command-line flag --max-new-space-size to be in kB and the
974 flag --max-old-space-size to be in MB (previously they were in bytes).
975
976 Added Debug::CancelDebugBreak to the debugger API.
977
978 Fixed a bug in getters for negative numeric property names
979 (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46689).
980
981 Performance improvements on all platforms.
982
983
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01009842010-09-27: Version 2.4.6
Ben Murdochf87a2032010-10-22 12:50:53 +0100985
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +0100986 Fixed assertion failure related to copy-on-write arrays (issue 876).
987
988 Fixed build failure of 64-bit V8 on Windows.
989
990 Fixed a bug in RegExp (issue http://crbug.com/52801).
991
992 Improved the profiler's coverage to cover more functions (issue 858).
993
994 Fixed error in shift operators on 64-bit V8
995 (issue http://crbug.com/54521).
996
997
9982010-09-22: Version 2.4.5
Ben Murdochf87a2032010-10-22 12:50:53 +0100999
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001000 Changed the RegExp benchmark to exercise the regexp engine on different
1001 inputs by scrambling the input strings.
1002
1003 Fixed a bug in keyed loads on strings.
1004
1005 Fixed a bug with loading global function prototypes.
1006
1007 Fixed a bug with profiling RegExp calls (issue http://crbug.com/55999).
1008
1009 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1010
1011
10122010-09-15: Version 2.4.4
1013
1014 Fixed bug with hangs on very large sparse arrays.
1015
1016 Now tries harder to free up memory when running out of space.
1017
1018 Added heap snapshots to JSON format to API.
1019
1020 Recalibrated benchmarks.
1021
1022
Steve Block59151502010-09-22 15:07:15 +010010232010-09-13: Version 2.4.3
1024
1025 Made Date.parse properly handle TZ offsets (issue 857).
1026
1027 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1028
1029
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +010010302010-09-08: Version 2.4.2
1031
1032 Fixed GC crash bug.
1033
1034 Fixed stack corruption bug.
1035
1036 Fixed compilation for newer C++ compilers that found Operand(0)
1037 ambiguous.
1038
1039
10402010-09-06: Version 2.4.1
1041
1042 Added the ability for an embedding application to receive a callback
1043 when V8 allocates (V8::AddMemoryAllocationCallback) or deallocates
1044 (V8::RemoveMemoryAllocationCallback) from the OS.
1045
1046 Fixed several JSON bugs (including issue 855).
1047
1048 Fixed memory overrun crash bug triggered during V8's tick-based
1049 profiling.
1050
1051 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1052
1053
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +010010542010-09-01: Version 2.4.0
1055
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001056 Fixed bug in Object.freeze and Object.seal when Array.prototype or
1057 Object.prototype are changed (issue 842).
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001058
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001059 Updated Array.splice to follow Safari and Firefox when called
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +01001060 with zero arguments.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001061
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001062 Fixed a missing live register when breaking at keyed loads on ARM.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001063
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +01001064 Performance improvements on all platforms.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001065
1066
10672010-08-25: Version 2.3.11
1068
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001069 Fixed bug in RegExp related to copy-on-write arrays.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001070
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001071 Refactored tools/test.py script, including the introduction of
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +01001072 VARIANT_FLAGS that allows specification of sets of flags with which
1073 all tests should be run.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001074
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001075 Fixed a bug in the handling of debug breaks in CallIC.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001076
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +01001077 Performance improvements on all platforms.
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001078
1079
Steve Block791712a2010-08-27 10:21:07 +010010802010-08-23: Version 2.3.10
1081
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001082 Fixed bug in bitops on ARM.
Steve Block791712a2010-08-27 10:21:07 +01001083
1084 Build fixes for unusual compilers.
1085
1086 Track high water mark for RWX memory.
1087
1088 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1089
1090
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +010010912010-08-18: Version 2.3.9
1092
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001093 Fixed compilation for ARMv4 on OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001094
1095 Removed specialized handling of GCC 4.4 (issue 830).
1096
Iain Merrick9ac36c92010-09-13 15:29:50 +01001097 Fixed DST cache to take into account the suspension of DST in
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001098 Egypt during the 2010 Ramadan (issue http://crbug.com/51855).
1099
Kristian Monsen80d68ea2010-09-08 11:05:35 +01001100 Performance improvements on all platforms.
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001101
1102
11032010-08-16: Version 2.3.8
1104
1105 Fixed build with strict aliasing on GCC 4.4 (issue 463).
1106
1107 Fixed issue with incorrect handling of custom valueOf methods on
1108 string wrappers (issue 760).
1109
1110 Fixed compilation for ARMv4 (issue 590).
1111
1112 Improved performance.
1113
1114
11152010-08-11: Version 2.3.7
1116
1117 Reduced size of heap snapshots produced by heap profiler (issue 783).
1118
1119 Introduced v8::Value::IsRegExp method.
1120
1121 Fixed CPU profiler crash in start / stop sequence when non-existent
1122 name is passed (issue http://crbug.com/51594).
1123
1124 Introduced new indexed property query callbacks API (issue 816). This
1125 API is guarded by USE_NEW_QUERY_CALLBACK define and is disabled
1126 by default.
1127
1128 Removed support for object literal get/set with number/string
1129 property name.
1130
1131 Fixed handling of JSObject::elements in CalculateNetworkSize
1132 (issue 822).
1133
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001134 Allowed compiling with strict aliasing enabled on GCC 4.4 (issue 463).
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001135
1136
Ben Murdochbb769b22010-08-11 14:56:33 +010011372010-08-09: Version 2.3.6
1138
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001139 RegExp literals create a new object every time they are evaluated
1140 (issue 704).
Ben Murdochbb769b22010-08-11 14:56:33 +01001141
Iain Merrick75681382010-08-19 15:07:18 +01001142 Object.seal and Object.freeze return the modified object (issue 809).
Ben Murdochbb769b22010-08-11 14:56:33 +01001143
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001144 Fixed building using GCC 4.4.4.
Ben Murdochbb769b22010-08-11 14:56:33 +01001145
1146
11472010-08-04: Version 2.3.5
1148
1149 Added support for ES5 property names. Object initialisers and
1150 dot-notation property access now allows keywords. Also allowed
1151 non-identifiers after "get" or "set" in an object initialiser.
1152
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001153 Randomized the addresses of allocated executable memory on Windows.
Ben Murdochbb769b22010-08-11 14:56:33 +01001154
1155
11562010-08-02: Version 2.3.4
1157
1158 Fixed problems in implementation of ES5 function.prototype.bind.
1159
1160 Fixed error when using apply with arguments object on ARM (issue 784).
1161
1162 Added setting of global flags to debugger protocol.
1163
1164 Fixed an error affecting cached results of sin and cos (issue 792).
1165
1166 Removed memory leak from a boundary case where V8 is not initialized.
1167
1168 Fixed issue where debugger could set breakpoints outside the body
1169 of a function.
1170
1171 Fixed issue in debugger when using both live edit and step in features.
1172
1173 Added Number-letter (Nl) category to Unicode tables. These characters
1174 can now be used in identifiers.
1175
1176 Fixed an assert failure on X64 (issue 806).
1177
1178 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1179
1180
Kristian Monsen50ef84f2010-07-29 15:18:00 +010011812010-07-26: Version 2.3.3
1182
1183 Fixed error when building the d8 shell in a fresh checkout.
1184
1185 Implemented Function.prototype.bind (ES5 15.3.4.5).
1186
1187 Fixed an error in inlined stores on ia32.
1188
1189 Fixed an error when setting a breakpoint at the end of a function
1190 that does not end with a newline character.
1191
1192 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1193
1194
11952010-07-21: Version 2.3.2
1196
1197 Fixed compiler warnings when building with LLVM.
1198
1199 Fixed a bug with for-in applied to strings (issue 785).
1200
1201 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1202
1203
Ben Murdoch3bec4d22010-07-22 14:51:16 +010012042010-07-19: Version 2.3.1
1205
1206 Fixed compilation and linking with V8_INTERPRETED_REGEXP flag.
1207
1208 Fixed bug related to code flushing while compiling a lazy
1209 compilable function (issue http://crbug.com/49099).
1210
1211 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1212
1213
12142010-07-15: Version 2.3.0
1215
1216 Added ES5 Object.seal and Object.isSealed.
1217
1218 Added debugger API for scheduling debugger commands from a
1219 separate thread.
1220
1221
12222010-07-14: Version 2.2.24
1223
1224 Added API for capturing stack traces for uncaught exceptions.
1225
1226 Fixed crash bug when preparsing from a non-external V8 string
1227 (issue 775).
1228
1229 Fixed JSON.parse bug causing input not to be converted to string
1230 (issue 764).
1231
1232 Added ES5 Object.freeze and Object.isFrozen.
1233
1234 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1235
1236
Leon Clarkeac952652010-07-15 11:15:24 +010012372010-07-07: Version 2.2.23
1238
1239 API change: Convert Unicode code points outside the basic multilingual
1240 plane to the replacement character. Previous behavior was to silently
1241 truncate the value to 16 bits.
1242
1243 Fixed crash: handle all flat string types in regexp replace.
1244
1245 Prevent invalid pre-parsing data passed in through the API from
1246 crashing V8.
1247
1248 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1249
Ben Murdoch3bec4d22010-07-22 14:51:16 +01001250
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +010012512010-07-05: Version 2.2.22
1252
1253 Added ES5 Object.isExtensible and Object.preventExtensions.
1254
1255 Enabled building V8 as a DLL.
1256
1257 Fixed a bug in date code where -0 was not interpreted as 0
1258 (issue 736).
1259
1260 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1261
1262
12632010-06-30: Version 2.2.21
1264
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001265 Fixed bug in externalizing some ASCII strings (Chromium issue 47824).
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001266
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001267 Updated JSON.stringify to floor the space parameter (issue 753).
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001268
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001269 Updated the Mozilla test expectations to the newest version.
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001270
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001271 Updated the ES5 Conformance Test expectations to the latest version.
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001272
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001273 Updated the V8 benchmark suite.
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001274
1275 Provide actual breakpoints locations in response to setBreakpoint
1276 and listBreakpoints requests.
1277
1278
12792010-06-28: Version 2.2.20
1280
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001281 Fixed bug with for-in on x64 platform (issue 748).
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001282
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001283 Fixed crash bug on x64 platform (issue 756).
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001284
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001285 Fixed bug in Object.getOwnPropertyNames. (chromium issue 41243).
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001286
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001287 Fixed a bug on ARM that caused the result of 1 << x to be
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001288 miscalculated for some inputs.
1289
1290 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1291
1292
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +010012932010-06-23: Version 2.2.19
1294
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001295 Fixed bug that causes the build to break when profillingsupport=off
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +01001296 (issue 738).
1297
1298 Added expose-externalize-string flag for testing extensions.
1299
1300 Resolve linker issues with using V8 as a DLL causing a number of
1301 problems with unresolved symbols.
1302
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001303 Fixed build failure for cctests when ENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT is not
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +01001304 defined.
1305
1306 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1307
1308
13092010-06-16: Version 2.2.18
1310
1311 Added API functions to retrieve information on indexed properties
1312 managed by the embedding layer. Fixes bug 737.
1313
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001314 Made ES5 Object.defineProperty support array elements. Fixes bug 619.
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +01001315
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001316 Added heap profiling to the API.
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +01001317
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001318 Removed old named property query from the API.
Kristian Monsen9dcf7e22010-06-28 14:14:28 +01001319
1320 Incremental performance improvements.
1321
1322
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +010013232010-06-14: Version 2.2.17
1324
1325 Improved debugger support for stepping out of functions.
1326
1327 Incremental performance improvements.
1328
1329
13302010-06-09: Version 2.2.16
1331
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001332 Removed the SetExternalStringDiposeCallback API. Changed the
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001333 disposal of external string resources to call a virtual Dispose
1334 method on the resource.
1335
Steve Block8defd9f2010-07-08 12:39:36 +01001336 Added support for more precise break points when debugging and
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001337 stepping.
1338
1339 Memory usage improvements on all platforms.
1340
1341
13422010-06-07: Version 2.2.15
1343
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001344 Added an API to control the disposal of external string resources.
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001345
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001346 Added missing initialization of a couple of variables which makes
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001347 some compilers complaint when compiling with -Werror.
1348
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001349 Improved performance on all platforms.
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001350
1351
13522010-06-02: Version 2.2.14
1353
1354 Fixed a crash in code generated for String.charCodeAt.
1355
1356 Fixed a compilation issue with some GCC versions (issue 727).
1357
1358 Performance optimizations on x64 and ARM platforms.
1359
1360
13612010-05-31: Version 2.2.13
1362
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001363 Implemented Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor for element indices and
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001364 strings (issue 599).
1365
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001366 Fixed bug for windows 64 bit C calls from generated code.
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001367
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001368 Added new scons flag unalignedaccesses for arm builds.
Ben Murdoch7f4d5bd2010-06-15 11:15:29 +01001369
1370 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1371
1372
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +010013732010-05-26: Version 2.2.12
1374
1375 Allowed accessors to be defined on objects rather than just object
1376 templates.
1377
1378 Changed the ScriptData API.
1379
1380
13812010-05-21: Version 2.2.11
1382
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001383 Fixed crash bug in liveedit on 64 bit.
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +01001384
1385 Use 'full compiler' when debugging is active. This should increase
1386 the density of possible break points, making single step more fine
1387 grained. This will only take effect for functions compiled after
1388 debugging has been started, so recompilation of all functions is
1389 required to get the full effect. IA32 and x64 only for now.
1390
1391 Misc. fixes to the Solaris build.
1392
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001393 Added new flags --print-cumulative-gc-stat and --trace-gc-nvp.
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +01001394
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001395 Added filtering of CPU profiles by security context.
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +01001396
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001397 Fixed crash bug on ARM when running without VFP2 or VFP3.
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +01001398
1399 Incremental performance improvements in all backends.
1400
1401
Kristian Monsen25f61362010-05-21 11:50:48 +010014022010-05-17: Version 2.2.10
1403
1404 Performance improvements in the x64 and ARM backends.
1405
1406
14072010-05-10: Version 2.2.9
1408
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001409 Allowed Object.create to be called with a function (issue 697).
Kristian Monsen25f61362010-05-21 11:50:48 +01001410
1411 Fixed bug with Date.parse returning a non-NaN value when called on a
1412 non date string (issue 696).
1413
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001414 Allowed unaligned memory accesses on ARM targets that support it (by
Leon Clarkef7060e22010-06-03 12:02:55 +01001415 Subrato K De of CodeAurora <subratokde@codeaurora.org>).
Kristian Monsen25f61362010-05-21 11:50:48 +01001416
1417 C++ API for retrieving JavaScript stack trace information.
1418
1419
Steve Block6ded16b2010-05-10 14:33:55 +010014202010-05-05: Version 2.2.8
1421
1422 Performance improvements in the x64 and ARM backends.
1423
1424
14252010-05-03: Version 2.2.7
1426
1427 Added support for ES5 date time string format to Date.parse.
1428
1429 Performance improvements in the x64 backend.
1430
1431
14322010-04-28: Version 2.2.6
1433
1434 Added "amd64" as recognized architecture in scons build script
1435 (by Ryan Dahl <coldredlemur@gmail.com>).
1436
1437 Fixed bug in String search and replace with very simple RegExps.
1438
1439 Fixed bug in RegExp containing "\b^".
1440
1441 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1442
1443
14442010-04-26: Version 2.2.5
1445
1446 Various performance improvements (especially for ARM and x64)
1447
1448 Fixed bug in CPU profiling (http://crbug.com/42137)
1449
1450 Fixed a bug with the natives cache.
1451
1452 Fixed two bugs in the ARM code generator that can cause
1453 wrong calculations.
1454
1455 Fixed a bug that may cause a wrong result for shift operations.
1456
1457
14582010-04-21: Version 2.2.4
1459
1460 Fixed warnings on arm on newer GCC versions.
1461
1462 Fixed a number of minor bugs.
1463
1464 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1465
1466
14672010-04-14: Version 2.2.3
1468
1469 Added stack command and mem command to ARM simulator debugger.
1470
1471 Fixed scons snapshot and ARM build, and Windows X64 build issues.
1472
1473 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1474
1475
14762010-04-12: Version 2.2.2
1477
1478 Introduced new profiler API.
1479
1480 Fixed random number generator to produce full 32 random bits.
1481
1482
14832010-04-06: Version 2.2.1
1484
1485 Debugger improvements.
1486
1487 Fixed minor bugs.
1488
1489
14902010-03-29: Version 2.2.0
1491
1492 Fixed a few minor bugs.
1493
1494 Performance improvements for string operations.
1495
1496
14972010-03-26: Version 2.1.10
1498
1499 Fixed scons build issues.
1500
1501 Fixed a couple of minor bugs.
1502
1503
15042010-03-25: Version 2.1.9
1505
1506 Added API support for reattaching a global object to a context.
1507
1508 Extended debugger API with access to the internal debugger context.
1509
1510 Fixed Chromium crashes (issues http://crbug.com/39128 and
1511 http://crbug.com/39160)
1512
1513
15142010-03-24: Version 2.1.8
1515
1516 Added fine-grained garbage collection callbacks to the API.
1517
1518 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1519
1520
15212010-03-22: Version 2.1.7
1522
1523 Fixed issue 650.
1524
1525 Fixed a bug where __proto__ was sometimes enumerated (issue 646).
1526
1527 Performance improvements for arithmetic operations.
1528
1529 Performance improvements for string operations.
1530
1531 Print script name and line number information in stack trace.
1532
1533
15342010-03-17: Version 2.1.6
1535
1536 Performance improvements for arithmetic operations.
1537
1538 Performance improvements for string operations.
1539
1540
15412010-03-10: Version 2.1.4
1542
1543 Fixed code cache lookup for keyed IC's (issue http://crbug.com/37853).
1544
1545 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1546
1547
15482010-03-10: Version 2.1.3
1549
1550 Added API method for context-disposal notifications.
1551
1552 Added API method for accessing elements by integer index.
1553
1554 Added missing implementation of Uint32::Value and Value::IsUint32
1555 API methods.
1556
1557 Added IsExecutionTerminating API method.
1558
1559 Disabled strict aliasing for GCC 4.4.
1560
1561 Fixed string-concatenation bug (issue 636).
1562
1563 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1564
1565
Andrei Popescu402d9372010-02-26 13:31:12 +000015662010-02-23: Version 2.1.2
1567
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001568 Fixed a crash bug caused by wrong assert.
Andrei Popescu402d9372010-02-26 13:31:12 +00001569
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001570 Fixed a bug with register names on 64-bit V8 (issue 615).
Andrei Popescu402d9372010-02-26 13:31:12 +00001571
1572 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1573
Steve Block6ded16b2010-05-10 14:33:55 +01001574
Andrei Popescu402d9372010-02-26 13:31:12 +000015752010-02-19: Version 2.1.1
1576
1577 [ES5] Implemented Object.defineProperty.
1578
1579 Improved profiler support.
1580
1581 Added SetPrototype method in the public V8 API.
1582
1583 Added GetScriptOrigin and GetScriptLineNumber methods to Function
1584 objects in the API.
1585
1586 Performance improvements on all platforms.
1587
1588
Leon Clarke4515c472010-02-03 11:58:03 +000015892010-02-03: Version 2.1.0
1590
1591 Values are now always wrapped in objects when used as a receiver.
1592 (issue 223).
1593
1594 [ES5] Implemented Object.getOwnPropertyNames.
1595
1596 [ES5] Restrict JSON.parse to only accept strings that conforms to the
1597 JSON grammar.
1598
1599 Improvement of debugger agent (issue 549 and 554).
1600
1601 Fixed problem with skipped stack frame in profiles (issue 553).
1602
1603 Solaris support by Erich Ocean <erich.ocean@me.com> and Ryan Dahl
1604 <ry@tinyclouds.org>.
1605
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001606 Fixed a bug that Math.round() returns incorrect results for huge
Leon Clarke4515c472010-02-03 11:58:03 +00001607 integers.
1608
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001609 Fixed enumeration order for objects created from some constructor
Leon Clarke4515c472010-02-03 11:58:03 +00001610 functions (isue http://crbug.com/3867).
1611
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001612 Fixed arithmetic on some integer constants (issue 580).
Leon Clarke4515c472010-02-03 11:58:03 +00001613
1614 Numerous performance improvements including porting of previous IA-32
1615 optimizations to x64 and ARM architectures.
1616
1617
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +000016182010-01-14: Version 2.0.6
1619
1620 Added ES5 Object.getPrototypeOf, GetOwnPropertyDescriptor,
1621 GetOwnProperty, FromPropertyDescriptor.
1622
1623 Fixed Mac x64 build errors.
1624
1625 Improved performance of some math and string operations.
1626
1627 Improved performance of some regexp operations.
1628
1629 Improved performance of context creation.
1630
1631 Improved performance of hash tables.
1632
1633
16342009-12-18: Version 2.0.5
1635
1636 Extended to upper limit of map space to allow for 7 times as many map
1637 to be allocated (issue 524).
1638
1639 Improved performance of code using closures.
1640
1641 Improved performance of some binary operations involving doubles.
1642
1643
16442009-12-16: Version 2.0.4
1645
1646 Added ECMAScript 5 Object.create.
1647
1648 Improved performance of Math.max and Math.min.
1649
1650 Optimized adding of strings on 64-bit platforms.
1651
1652 Improved handling of external strings by using a separate table
1653 instead of weak handles. This improves garbage collection
1654 performance and uses less memory.
1655
1656 Changed code generation for object and array literals in toplevel
1657 code to be more compact by doing more work in the runtime.
1658
1659 Fixed a crash bug triggered when garbage collection happened during
1660 generation of a callback load inline cache stub.
1661
1662 Fixed crash bug sometimes triggered when local variables shadowed
1663 parameters in functions that used the arguments object.
1664
1665
Steve Blockd0582a62009-12-15 09:54:21 +000016662009-12-03: Version 2.0.3
1667
1668 Optimized handling and adding of strings, for-in and Array.join.
1669
1670 Heap serialization is now non-destructive.
1671
1672 Improved profiler support with information on time spend in C++
1673 callbacks registered through the API.
1674
1675 Added commands to the debugger protocol for starting/stopping
1676 profiling.
1677
1678 Enabled the non-optimizing compiler for top-level code.
1679
1680 Changed the API to only allow strings to be set as data objects on
1681 Contexts and scripts to avoid potentially keeping global objects
1682 around for too long (issue 528).
1683
1684 OpenBSD support patch by Peter Valchev <pvalchev@gmail.com>.
1685
1686 Fixed bugs.
1687
1688
16892009-11-24: Version 2.0.2
1690
1691 Improved profiler support.
1692
1693 Fixed bug that broke compilation of d8 with readline support.
1694
1695
16962009-11-20: Version 2.0.1
1697
1698 Fixed crash bug in String.prototype.replace.
1699
1700 Reverted a change which caused Chromium interactive ui test
1701 failures.
1702
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00001703
Steve Blockd0582a62009-12-15 09:54:21 +000017042009-11-18: Version 2.0.0
1705
1706 Added support for VFP on ARM.
1707
1708 Added TryCatch::ReThrow method to the API.
1709
1710 Reduced the size of snapshots and improved the snapshot load time.
1711
1712 Improved heap profiler support.
1713
1714 64-bit version now supported on Windows.
1715
1716 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
1717
1718 Fixed bugs.
1719
1720
17212009-10-29: Version 1.3.18
1722
1723 Reverted a change which caused crashes in RegExp replace.
1724
1725 Reverted a change which caused Chromium ui_tests failure.
1726
1727
17282009-10-28: Version 1.3.17
1729
1730 Added API method to get simple heap statistics.
1731
1732 Improved heap profiler support.
1733
1734 Fixed the implementation of the resource constraint API so it
1735 works when using snapshots.
1736
1737 Fixed a number of issues in the Windows 64-bit version.
1738
1739 Optimized calls to API getters.
1740
1741 Added valgrind notification on code modification to the 64-bit version.
1742
1743 Fixed issue where we logged shared library addresses on Windows at
1744 startup and never used them.
1745
1746
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +000017472009-10-16: Version 1.3.16
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00001748
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001749 X64: Convert smis to holding 32 bits of payload.
1750
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001751 Introduced v8::Integer::NewFromUnsigned method.
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001752
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001753 Added missing null check in Context::GetCurrent.
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001754
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001755 Added trim, trimLeft and trimRight methods to String
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001756 Patch by Jan de Mooij <jandemooij@gmail.com>
1757
1758 Implement ES5 Array.isArray
1759 Patch by Jan de Mooij <jandemooij@gmail.com>
1760
1761 Skip access checks for hidden properties.
1762
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001763 Added String::Concat(Handle<String> left, Handle<String> right) to the
1764 V8 API.
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001765
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001766 Fixed GYP-based builds of V8.
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001767
1768
17692009-10-07: Version 1.3.15
1770
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001771 Expanded the maximum size of the code space to 512MB for 64-bit mode.
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001772
1773 Fixed a crash bug happening when starting profiling (issue
1774 http://crbug.com/23768).
1775
1776
17772009-10-07: Version 1.3.14
1778
1779 Added GetRealNamedProperty to the API to lookup real properties
1780 located on the object or in the prototype chain skipping any
1781 interceptors.
1782
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001783 Fixed the stack limits setting API to work correctly with threads. The
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001784 stack limit now needs to be set to each thread thich is used with V8.
1785
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001786 Removed the high-priority flag from IdleNotification()
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001787
1788 Ensure V8 is initialized before locking and unlocking threads.
1789
1790 Implemented a new JavaScript minifier for compressing the source of
Steve Blockd0582a62009-12-15 09:54:21 +00001791 the built-in JavaScript. This removes non-Open Source code from Douglas
Steve Block3ce2e202009-11-05 08:53:23 +00001792 Crockford from the project.
1793
1794 Added a missing optimization in StringCharAt.
1795
1796 Fixed some flaky socket tests.
1797
1798 Change by Alexander Botero-Lowry to fix profiler sampling on FreeBSD
1799 in 64-bit mode.
1800
1801 Fixed memory leaks in the thread management code.
1802
1803 Fixed the result of assignment to a pixel array. The assigned value
1804 is now the result.
1805
1806 Error reporting for invalid left-hand sides in for-in statements, pre-
1807 and postfix count expressions, and assignments now matches the JSC
1808 behavior in Safari 4.
1809
1810 Follow the spec in disallowing function declarations without a name.
1811
1812 Always allocate code objects within a 2 GB range. On x64 architecture
1813 this is used to use near calls (32-bit displacement) in Code objects.
1814
1815 Optimized array construction ported to x64 and ARM architectures.
1816
1817 [ES5] Changed Object.keys to return strings for element indices.
1818
1819
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +000018202009-09-23: Version 1.3.13
1821
1822 Fixed uninitialized memory problem.
1823
1824 Improved heap profiler support.
1825
1826
18272009-09-22: Version 1.3.12
1828
1829 Changed behavior of |function|.toString() on built-in functions to
1830 be compatible with other implementations. Patch by Jan de Mooij.
1831
1832 Added Object::IsDirty in the API.
1833
1834 Optimized array construction; it is now handled purely in native
1835 code.
1836
1837 [ES5] Made properties of the arguments array enumerable.
1838
1839 [ES5] Added test suite adapter for the es5conform test suite.
1840
1841 [ES5] Added Object.keys function.
1842
1843
18442009-09-15: Version 1.3.11
1845
1846 Fixed crash in error reporting during bootstrapping.
1847
1848 Optimized generated IA32 math code by using SSE2 instructions when
1849 available.
1850
1851 Implemented missing pieces of debugger infrastructure on ARM. The
1852 debugger is now fully functional on ARM.
1853
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001854 Made 'hidden' the default visibility for gcc.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001855
1856
18572009-09-09: Version 1.3.10
1858
1859 Fixed profiler on Mac in 64-bit mode.
1860
1861 Optimized creation of objects from simple constructor functions on
1862 ARM.
1863
1864 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
1865
1866 Reduced the amount of memory consumed by V8.
1867
1868
18692009-09-02: Version 1.3.9
1870
1871 Optimized stack guard checks on ARM.
1872
1873 Optimized API operations by inlining more in the API.
1874
1875 Optimized creation of objects from simple constructor functions.
1876
1877 Enabled a number of missing optimizations in the 64-bit port.
1878
1879 Implemented native-code support for regular expressions on ARM.
1880
1881 Stopped using the 'sahf' instruction on 64-bit machines that do
1882 not support it.
1883
1884 Fixed a bug in the support for forceful termination of JavaScript
1885 execution.
1886
1887
18882009-08-26: Version 1.3.8
1889
1890 Changed the handling of idle notifications to allow idle
1891 notifications when V8 has not yet been initialized.
1892
1893 Fixed ARM simulator compilation problem on Windows.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00001894
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001895
18962009-08-25: Version 1.3.7
1897
1898 Reduced the size of generated code on ARM platforms by reducing
1899 the size of constant pools.
1900
1901 Changed build files to not include the 'ENV' user environment
1902 variable in the build environment.
1903
1904 Changed the handling of idle notifications.
1905
1906
19072009-08-21: Version 1.3.6
1908
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001909 Added support for forceful termination of JavaScript execution.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001910
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001911 Added low memory notification to the API. The embedding host can signal
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001912 a low memory situation to V8.
1913
1914 Changed the handling of global handles (persistent handles in the API
1915 sense) to avoid issues regarding allocation of new global handles
1916 during weak handle callbacks.
1917
1918 Changed the growth policy of the young space.
1919
1920 Fixed a GC issue introduced in version 1.3.5.
1921
1922
19232009-08-19: Version 1.3.5
1924
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001925 Optimized initialization of some arrays in the builtins.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001926
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001927 Fixed mac-nm script to support filenames with spaces.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001928
1929 Support for using the V8 profiler when V8 is embedded in a Windows DLL.
1930
1931 Changed typeof RegExp from 'object' to 'function' for compatibility.
1932 Fixed bug where regexps were not callable across contexts.
1933
1934 Added context independent script compilation to the API.
1935
1936 Added API call to get the stack trace for an exception.
1937
1938 Added API for getting object mirrors.
1939
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001940 Made sure that SSE3 instructions are used whenever possible even when
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001941 running off a snapshot generated without using SSE3 instructions.
1942
1943 Tweaked the handling of the initial size and growth policy of the heap.
1944
1945 Added native code generation for RegExp to 64-bit version.
1946
1947 Added JavaScript debugger support to 64-bit version.
1948
1949
19502009-08-13: Version 1.3.4
1951
1952 Added a readline() command to the d8 shell.
1953
1954 Fixed bug in json parsing.
1955
1956 Added idle notification to the API and reduced memory on idle
1957 notifications.
1958
1959
19602009-08-12: Version 1.3.3
1961
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001962 Fixed issue 417: incorrect %t placeholder expansion.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001963
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001964 Added .gitignore file similar to Chromium's one.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001965
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001966 Fixed SConstruct file to build with new logging code for Android.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001967
1968 API: added function to find instance of template in prototype
1969 chain. Inlined Object::IsInstanceOf.
1970
1971 Land change to notify valgrind when we modify code on x86.
1972
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001973 Added api call to determine whether a string can be externalized.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001974
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01001975 Added a write() command to d8.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00001976
1977
19782009-08-05: Version 1.3.2
1979
1980 Started new compiler infrastructure for two-pass compilation using a
1981 control flow graph constructed from the AST.
1982
1983 Profiler stack sampling for X64.
1984
1985 Safe handling of NaN to Posix platform-dependent time functions.
1986
1987 Added a new profiler control API to unify controlling various aspects
1988 of profiling.
1989
1990 Fixed issue 392.
1991
1992
19932009-07-30: Version 1.3.1
1994
1995 Speed improvements to accessors and interceptors.
1996
1997 Added support for capturing stack information on custom errors.
1998
1999 Added support for morphing an object into a pixel array where its
2000 indexed properties are stored in an external byte array. Values written
2001 are always clamped to the 0..255 interval.
2002
2003 Profiler on x64 now handles C/C++ functions from shared libraries.
2004
2005 Changed the debugger to avoid stepping into function.call/apply if the
2006 function is a built-in.
2007
2008 Initial implementation of constructor heap profile for JS objects.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00002009
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002010 More fine grained control of profiling aspects through the API.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00002011
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002012 Optimized the called as constructor check for API calls.
2013
2014
20152009-07-27: Version 1.3.0
2016
2017 Allowed RegExp objects to be called as functions (issue 132).
2018
2019 Fixed issue where global property cells would escape after
2020 detaching the global object; see http://crbug.com/16276.
2021
2022 Added support for stepping into setters and getters in the
2023 debugger.
2024
2025 Changed the debugger to avoid stopping in its own JavaScript code
2026 and in the code of built-in functions.
2027
2028 Fixed issue 345 by avoiding duplicate escaping labels.
2029
2030 Fixed ARM code generator crash in short-circuited boolean
2031 expressions and added regression tests.
2032
2033 Added an external allocation limit to avoid issues where small V8
2034 objects would hold on to large amounts of external memory without
2035 causing garbage collections.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00002036
2037 Finished more of the inline caching stubs for x64 targets.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002038
2039
20402009-07-13: Version 1.2.14
2041
2042 Added separate paged heap space for global property cells and
2043 avoid updating the write barrier when storing into them.
2044
2045 Improved peep-hole optimization on ARM platforms by not emitting
2046 unnecessary debug information.
2047
2048 Re-enabled ICs for loads and calls that skip a global object
2049 during lookup through the prototype chain.
2050
2051 Allowed access through global proxies to use ICs.
2052
2053 Fixed issue 401.
2054
2055
20562009-07-09: Version 1.2.13
2057
2058 Fixed issue 397, issue 398, and issue 399.
2059
2060 Added support for breakpoint groups.
2061
2062 Fixed bugs introduced with the new global object representation.
2063
2064 Fixed a few bugs in the ARM code generator.
2065
2066
20672009-07-06: Version 1.2.12
2068
2069 Added stack traces collection to Error objects accessible through
2070 the e.stack property.
2071
2072 Changed RegExp parser to use a recursive data structure instead of
2073 stack-based recursion.
2074
2075 Optimized Date object construction and string concatenation.
2076
2077 Improved performance of div, mod, and mul on ARM platforms.
2078
2079
20802009-07-02: Version 1.2.11
2081
2082 Improved performance on IA-32 and ARM.
2083
2084 Fixed profiler sampler implementation on Mac OS X.
2085
2086 Changed the representation of global objects to improve
2087 performance of adding a lot of new properties.
2088
2089
20902009-06-29: Version 1.2.10
2091
2092 Improved debugger support.
2093
2094 Fixed bug in exception message reporting (issue 390).
2095
2096 Improved overall performance.
2097
2098
20992009-06-23: Version 1.2.9
2100
2101 Improved math performance on ARM.
2102
2103 Fixed profiler name-inference bug.
2104
2105 Fixed handling of shared libraries in the profiler tick processor
2106 scripts.
2107
2108 Fixed handling of tests that time out in the test scripts.
2109
2110 Fixed compilation on MacOS X version 10.4.
2111
2112 Fixed two bugs in the regular expression engine.
2113
2114 Fixed a bug in the string type inference.
2115
2116 Fixed a bug in the handling of 'constant function' properties.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00002117
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002118 Improved overall performance.
Leon Clarkee46be812010-01-19 14:06:41 +00002119
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002120
21212009-06-16: Version 1.2.8
2122
2123 Optimized math on ARM platforms.
2124
2125 Fixed two crash bugs in the handling of getters and setters.
2126
2127 Improved the debugger support by adding scope chain information.
2128
2129 Improved the profiler support by compressing log data transmitted
2130 to clients.
2131
2132 Improved overall performance.
2133
2134
21352009-06-08: Version 1.2.7
2136
2137 Improved debugger and profiler support.
2138
2139 Reduced compilation time by improving the handling of deferred
2140 code.
2141
2142 Optimized interceptor accesses where the property is on the object
2143 on which the interceptors is attached.
2144
2145 Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.4 by changing the stack
2146 alignment to 16 bytes.
2147
2148 Fixed handle creation to follow stric aliasing rules.
2149
2150 Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
2151
2152 Introduced API for forcing the deletion of a property ignoring
2153 interceptors and attributes.
2154
2155
21562009-05-29: Version 1.2.6
2157
2158 Added a histogram recording hit rates at different levels of the
2159 compilation cache.
2160
2161 Added stack overflow check for the RegExp analysis phase. Previously a
2162 very long regexp graph could overflow the stack with recursive calls.
2163
2164 Use a dynamic buffer when collecting log events in memory.
2165
2166 Added start/stop events to the profiler log.
2167
2168 Fixed infinite loop which could happen when setting a debug break while
2169 executing a RegExp compiled to native code.
2170
2171 Fixed handling of lastIndexOf called with negative index (issue 351).
2172
2173 Fixed irregular crash in profiler test (issue 358).
2174
2175 Fixed compilation issues with some versions of gcc.
2176
2177
21782009-05-26: Version 1.2.5
2179
2180 Fixed bug in initial boundary check for Boyer-Moore text
2181 search (issue 349).
2182
2183 Fixed compilation issues with MinGW and gcc 4.3+ and added support
2184 for armv7 and cortex-a8 architectures. Patches by Lei Zhang and
2185 Craig Schlenter.
2186
2187 Added a script cache to the debugger.
2188
2189 Optimized compilation performance by improving internal data
2190 structures and avoiding expensive property load optimizations for
2191 code that's infrequently executed.
2192
2193 Exposed the calling JavaScript context through the static API
2194 function Context::GetCalling().
2195
2196
21972009-05-18: Version 1.2.4
2198
2199 Improved performance of floating point number allocation for ARM
2200 platforms.
2201
2202 Fixed crash when using the instanceof operator on functions with
2203 number values in their prototype chain (issue 341).
2204
2205 Optimized virtual frame operations in the code generator to speed
2206 up compilation time and allocated the frames in the zone.
2207
2208 Made the representation of virtual frames and jump targets in the
2209 code generator much more compact.
2210
2211 Avoided linear search for non-locals in scope code when resolving
2212 variables inside with and eval scopes.
2213
2214 Optimized lexical scanner by dealing with whitespace as part of
2215 the token scanning instead of as a separate step before it.
2216
2217 Changed the scavenging collector so that promoted objects do not
2218 reside in the old generation while their remembered set is being
2219 swept for pointers into the young generation.
2220
2221 Fixed numeric overflow handling when compiling count operations.
2222
2223
22242009-05-11: Version 1.2.3
2225
2226 Fixed bug in reporting of out-of-memory situations.
2227
2228 Introduced hidden prototypes on certain builtin prototype objects
2229 such as String.prototype to emulate JSC's behavior of restoring
2230 the original function when deleting functions from those prototype
2231 objects.
2232
2233 Fixed crash bug in the register allocator.
2234
2235
22362009-05-04: Version 1.2.2
2237
2238 Fixed bug in array sorting for sparse arrays (issue 326).
2239
2240 Added support for adding a soname when building a shared library
2241 on Linux (issue 151).
2242
2243 Fixed bug caused by morphing internal ASCII strings to external
2244 two-byte strings. Slices over ASCII strings have to forward ASCII
2245 checks to the underlying buffer string.
2246
2247 Allowed API call-as-function handlers to be called as
2248 constructors.
2249
2250 Fixed a crash bug where an external string was disposed but a
2251 slice of the external string survived as a symbol.
2252
2253
22542009-04-27: Version 1.2.1
2255
2256 Added EcmaScript 5 JSON object.
2257
Kristian Monsen0d5e1162010-09-30 15:31:59 +01002258 Fixed bug in preemption support on ARM.
Steve Blocka7e24c12009-10-30 11:49:00 +00002259
2260
22612009-04-23: Version 1.2.0
2262
2263 Optimized floating-point operations on ARM.
2264
2265 Added a number of extensions to the debugger API.
2266
2267 Changed the enumeration order for unsigned integer keys to always
2268 be numerical order.
2269
2270 Added a "read" extension to the shell sample.
2271
2272 Added support for Array.prototype.reduce and
2273 Array.prototype.reduceRight.
2274
2275 Added an option to the SCons build to control Microsoft Visual C++
2276 link-time code generation.
2277
2278 Fixed a number of bugs (in particular issue 315, issue 316,
2279 issue 317 and issue 318).
2280
2281
22822009-04-15: Version 1.1.10
2283
2284 Fixed crash bug that occurred when loading a const variable in the
2285 presence of eval.
2286
2287 Allowed using with and eval in registered extensions in debug mode
2288 by fixing bogus assert.
2289
2290 Fixed the source position for function returns to enable the
2291 debugger to break there.
2292
2293
22942009-04-14: Version 1.1.9
2295
2296 Made the stack traversal code in the profiler robust by avoiding
2297 to look into the heap.
2298
2299 Added name inferencing for anonymous functions to facilitate
2300 debugging and profiling.
2301
2302 Re-enabled stats timers in the developer shell (d8).
2303
2304 Fixed issue 303 by avoiding to shortcut cons-symbols.
2305
2306
23072009-04-11: Version 1.1.8
2308
2309 Changed test-debug/ThreadedDebugging to be non-flaky (issue 96).
2310
2311 Fixed step-in handling for Function.prototype.apply and call in
2312 the debugger (issue 269).
2313
2314 Fixed v8::Object::DeleteHiddenValue to not bail out when there
2315 are no hidden properties.
2316
2317 Added workaround for crash bug, where external symbol table
2318 entries with deleted resources would lead to NPEs when looking
2319 up in the symbol table.
2320
2321
23222009-04-07: Version 1.1.7
2323
2324 Added support for easily importing additional environment
2325 variables into the SCons build.
2326
2327 Optimized strict equality checks.
2328
2329 Fixed crash in indexed setters on objects without a corresponding
2330 getter (issue 298).
2331
2332 Re-enabled script compilation cache.
2333
2334
23352009-04-01: Version 1.1.6
2336
2337 Reverted an unsafe code generator change.
2338
2339
23402009-04-01: Version 1.1.5
2341
2342 Fixed bug that caused function literals to not be optimized as
2343 much as other functions.
2344
2345 Improved profiler support.
2346
2347 Fixed a crash bug in connection with debugger unloading.
2348
2349 Fixed a crash bug in the code generator caused by losing the
2350 information that a frame element was copied.
2351
2352 Fixed an exception propagation bug that could cause non-null
2353 return values when exceptions were thrown.
2354
2355
23562009-03-30: Version 1.1.4
2357
2358 Optimized String.prototype.match.
2359
2360 Improved the stack information in profiles.
2361
2362 Fixed bug in ARM port making it possible to compile the runtime
2363 system for thumb mode again.
2364
2365 Implemented a number of optimizations in the code generator.
2366
2367 Fixed a number of memory leaks in tests.
2368
2369 Fixed crash bug in connection with script source code and external
2370 strings.
2371
2372
23732009-03-24: Version 1.1.3
2374
2375 Fixed assertion failures in compilation of loop conditions.
2376
2377 Removed STL dependency from developer shell (d8).
2378
2379 Added infrastructure for protecting the V8 heap from corruption
2380 caused by memory modifications from the outside.
2381
2382
23832009-03-24: Version 1.1.2
2384
2385 Improved frame merge code generated by the code generator.
2386
2387 Optimized String.prototype.replace.
2388
2389 Implemented __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ for properties
2390 with integer keys on non-array objects.
2391
2392 Improved debugger and profiler support.
2393
2394 Fixed a number of portability issues to allow compilation for
2395 smaller ARM devices.
2396
2397 Exposed object cloning through the API.
2398
2399 Implemented hidden properties. This is used to expose an identity
2400 hash for objects through the API.
2401
2402 Implemented restarting of regular expressions if their input
2403 string changes representation during preemption.
2404
2405 Fixed a code generator bug that could cause assignments in loops
2406 to be ignored if using continue to break out of the loop (issue
2407 284).
2408
2409
24102009-03-12: Version 1.1.1
2411
2412 Fixed an assertion in the new compiler to take stack overflow
2413 exceptions into account.
2414
2415 Removed exception propagation code that could cause crashes.
2416
2417 Fixed minor bug in debugger line number computations.
2418
2419 8-byte align the C stack on Linux and Windows to speed up floating
2420 point computations.
2421
2422
24232009-03-12: Version 1.1.0
2424
2425 Improved code generation infrastructure by doing simple register
2426 allocation and constant folding and propagation.
2427
2428 Optimized regular expression matching by avoiding to create
2429 intermediate string arrays and by flattening nested array
2430 representations of RegExp data.
2431
2432 Traverse a few stack frames when recording profiler samples to
2433 include partial call graphs in the profiling output.
2434
2435 Added support for using OProfile to profile generated code.
2436
2437 Added remote debugging support to the D8 developer shell.
2438
2439 Optimized creation of nested literals like JSON objects.
2440
2441 Fixed a bug in garbage collecting unused maps and turned it on by
2442 default (--collect-maps).
2443
2444 Added support for running tests under Valgrind.
2445
2446
24472009-02-27: Version 1.0.3
2448
2449 Optimized double-to-integer conversions in bit operations by using
2450 SSE3 instructions if available.
2451
2452 Optimized initialization sequences that store to multiple
2453 properties of the same object.
2454
2455 Changed the D8 debugger frontend to use JSON messages.
2456
2457 Force garbage collections when disposing contexts.
2458
2459 Align code objects at 32-byte boundaries.
2460
2461
24622009-02-25: Version 1.0.2
2463
2464 Improved profiling support by performing simple call stack
2465 sampling for ticks and by fixing a bug in the logging of code
2466 addresses.
2467
2468 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
2469
2470 Optimized code that uses eval.
2471
2472 Fixed a couple of bugs in the regular expression engine.
2473
2474 Reduced the size of generated code for certain regular expressions.
2475
2476 Removed JSCRE completely.
2477
2478 Fixed issue where test could not be run if there was a dot in the
2479 checkout path.
2480
2481
24822009-02-13: Version 1.0.1
2483
2484 Fixed two crash-bugs in irregexp (issue 231 and 233).
2485
2486 Fixed a number of minor bugs (issue 87, 227 and 228).
2487
2488 Added support for morphing strings to external strings on demand
2489 to avoid having to create copies in the embedding code.
2490
2491 Removed experimental support for external symbol callbacks.
2492
2493
24942009-02-09: Version 1.0.0
2495
2496 Fixed crash-bug in the code generation for case independent 16 bit
2497 backreferences.
2498
2499 Made shells more robust in the presence of string conversion
2500 failures (issue 224).
2501
2502 Fixed a potential infinite loop when attempting to resolve
2503 eval (issue 221).
2504
2505 Miscellaneous fixes to the new regular expression engine.
2506
2507 Reduced binary by stripping unneeded text from JavaScript library and
2508 minifying some JavaScript files.
2509
2510
25112009-01-27: Version 0.4.9
2512
2513 Enabled new regular expression engine.
2514
2515 Made a number of changes to the debugger protocol.
2516
2517 Fixed a number of bugs in the preemption support.
2518
2519 Added -p option to the developer shell to run files in parallel
2520 using preemption.
2521
2522 Fixed a number of minor bugs (including issues 176, 187, 189, 192,
2523 193, 198 and 201).
2524
2525 Fixed a number of bugs in the serialization/deserialization
2526 support for the ARM platform.
2527
2528
25292009-01-19: Version 0.4.8.1
2530
2531 Minor patch to debugger support.
2532
2533
25342009-01-16: Version 0.4.8
2535
2536 Fixed string length bug on ARM (issue 171).
2537
2538 Made most methods in the API const.
2539
2540 Optimized object literals by improving data locality.
2541
2542 Fixed bug that caused incomplete functions to be cached in case of
2543 stack overflow exceptions.
2544
2545 Fixed bugs that caused catch variables and variables introduced by
2546 eval to behave incorrectly when using accessors (issues 186, 190
2547 and 191).
2548
2549
25502009-01-06: Version 0.4.7
2551
2552 Minor bugfixes and optimizations.
2553
2554 Added command line debugger to D8 shell.
2555
2556 Fixed subtle bug that caused the wrong 'this' to be used when
2557 calling a caught function in a catch clause.
2558
2559 Inline array loads within loops directly in the code instead of
2560 always calling a stub.
2561
2562
25632008-12-11: Version 0.4.6
2564
2565 Fixed exception reporting bug where certain exceptions were
2566 incorrectly reported as uncaught.
2567
2568 Improved the memory allocation strategy used during compilation to
2569 make running out of memory when compiling huge scripts less
2570 likely.
2571
2572 Optimized String.replace by avoiding the construction of certain
2573 sub strings.
2574
2575 Fixed bug in code generation for large switch statements on ARM.
2576
2577 Fixed bug that caused V8 to change the global object template
2578 passed in by the user.
2579
2580 Changed the API for creating object groups used during garbage
2581 collection. Entire object groups are now passed to V8 instead of
2582 individual members of the groups.
2583
2584
25852008-12-03: Version 0.4.5
2586
2587 Added experimental API support for allocating V8 symbols as
2588 external strings.
2589
2590 Fixed bugs in debugging support on ARM.
2591
2592 Changed eval implementation to correctly detect whether or not a
2593 call to eval is aliased.
2594
2595 Fixed bug caused by a combination of the compilation cache and
2596 dictionary probing in native code. The bug caused us to sometimes
2597 call functions that had not yet been compiled.
2598
2599 Added platform support for FreeBSD.
2600
2601 Added support for building V8 on Windows with either the shared or
2602 static version of MSVCRT
2603
2604 Added the v8::jscre namespace around the jscre functions to avoid
2605 link errors (duplicate symbols) when building Google Chrome.
2606
2607 Added support for calling a JavaScript function with the current
2608 debugger execution context as its argument to the debugger
2609 interface.
2610
2611 Changed the type of names of counters from wchar_t to char.
2612
2613 Changed the Windows system call used to compute daylight savings
2614 time. The system call that we used to use became four times
2615 slower on WinXP SP3.
2616
2617 Added support in the d8 developer shell for memory-mapped counters
2618 and added a stats-viewer tool.
2619
2620 Fixed bug in upper/lower case mappings (issue 149).
2621
2622
26232008-11-17: Version 0.4.4
2624
2625 Reduced code size by using shorter instruction encoding when
2626 possible.
2627
2628 Added a --help option to the shell sample and to the d8 shell.
2629
2630 Added visual studio project files for building the ARM simulator.
2631
2632 Fixed a number of ARM simulator issues.
2633
2634 Fixed bug in out-of-memory handling on ARM.
2635
2636 Implemented shell support for passing arguments to a script from
2637 the command line.
2638
2639 Fixed bug in date code that made certain date functions return -0
2640 instead of 0 for dates before the epoch.
2641
2642 Restricted applications of eval so it can only be used in the
2643 context of the associated global object.
2644
2645 Treat byte-order marks as whitespace characters.
2646
2647
26482008-11-04: Version 0.4.3
2649
2650 Added support for API accessors that prohibit overwriting by
2651 accessors defined in JavaScript code by using __defineGetter__ and
2652 __defineSetter__.
2653
2654 Improved handling of conditionals in test status files.
2655
2656 Introduced access control in propertyIsEnumerable.
2657
2658 Improved performance of some string operations by caching
2659 information about the type of the string between operations.
2660
2661 Fixed bug in fast-case code for switch statements that only have
2662 integer labels.
2663
2664
26652008-10-30: Version 0.4.2
2666
2667 Improved performance of Array.prototype.concat by moving the
2668 implementation to C++ (issue 123).
2669
2670 Fixed heap growth policy to avoid growing old space to its maximum
2671 capacity before doing a garbage collection and fixed issue that
2672 would lead to artificial out of memory situations (issue 129).
2673
2674 Fixed Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString to return the date in the
2675 same format as WebKit.
2676
2677 Added missing initialization checks to debugger API.
2678
2679 Added removing of unused maps during GC.
2680
2681
26822008-10-28: Version 0.4.1
2683
2684 Added caching of RegExp data in compilation cache.
2685
2686 Added Visual Studio project file for d8 shell.
2687
2688 Fixed function call performance regression introduced in version
2689 0.4.0 when splitting the global object in two parts (issue 120).
2690
2691 Fixed issue 131 by checking for empty handles before throwing and
2692 reporting exceptions.
2693
2694
26952008-10-23: Version 0.4.0
2696
2697 Split the global object into two parts: The state holding global
2698 object and the global object proxy.
2699
2700 Fixed bug that affected the value of an assignment to an element
2701 in certain cases (issue 116).
2702
2703 Added GetPropertyNames functionality (issue 33) and extra Date
2704 functions (issue 77) to the API.
2705
2706 Changed WeakReferenceCallback to take a Persistent<Value> instead
2707 of a Persistent<Object> (issue 101).
2708
2709 Fixed issues with message reporting for exceptions in try-finally
2710 blocks (issues 73 and 75).
2711
2712 Optimized flattening of strings and string equality checking.
2713
2714 Improved Boyer-Moore implementation for faster indexOf operations.
2715
2716 Added development shell (d8) which includes counters and
2717 completion support.
2718
2719 Fixed problem with the receiver passed to functions called from
2720 eval (issue 124).
2721
2722
27232008-10-16: Version 0.3.5
2724
2725 Improved string hash-code distribution by excluding bit-field bits
2726 from the hash-code.
2727
2728 Changed string search algorithm used in indexOf from KMP to
2729 Boyer-Moore.
2730
2731 Improved the generated code for the instanceof operator.
2732
2733 Improved performance of slow-case string equality checks by
2734 specializing the code based on the string representation.
2735
2736 Improve the handling of out-of-memory situations (issue 70).
2737
2738 Improved performance of strict equality checks.
2739
2740 Improved profiler output to make it easier to see anonymous
2741 functions.
2742
2743 Improved performance of slow-case keyed loads.
2744
2745 Improved property access performance by allocating a number of
2746 properties in the front object.
2747
2748 Changed the toString behavior on the built-in object constructors
2749 to print [native code] instead of the actual source. Some web
2750 applications do not like constructors with complex toString
2751 results.
2752
2753
27542008-10-06: Version 0.3.4
2755
2756 Changed Array.prototype.sort to use quick sort.
2757
2758 Fixed code generation issue where leaving a finally block with
2759 break or continue would accumulate elements on the expression
2760 stack (issue 86).
2761
2762 Made sure that the name accessor on functions returns the expected
2763 names for builtin JavaScript functions and C++ callback functions.
2764
2765 Added fast case code for extending the property storage array of
2766 JavaScript objects.
2767
2768 Ported switch statement optimizations introduced in version 0.3.3
2769 to the ARM code generator.
2770
2771 Allowed GCC to use strict-aliasing rules when compiling.
2772
2773 Improved performance of arguments object allocation by taking care
2774 of arguments adaptor frames in the generated code.
2775
2776 Updated the V8 benchmark suite to version 2.
2777
2778
27792008-09-25: Version 0.3.3
2780
2781 Improved handling of relocation information to enable more
2782 peep-hole optimizations.
2783
2784 Optimized switch statements where all labels are constant small
2785 integers.
2786
2787 Optimized String.prototype.indexOf for common cases.
2788
2789 Fixed more build issues (issue 80).
2790
2791 Fixed a couple of profiler issues.
2792
2793 Fixed bug where the body of a function created using the Function
2794 constructor was not allowed to end with a single-line comment
2795 (issue 85).
2796
2797 Improved handling of object literals by canonicalizing object
2798 literal maps. This will allow JSON objects with the same set of
2799 properties to share the same map making inline caching work better
2800 for JSON objects.
2801
2802
28032008-09-17: Version 0.3.2
2804
2805 Generalized the EvalCache into a CompilationCache and enabled it
2806 for scripts too. The current strategy is to retire all entries
2807 whenever a mark-sweep collection is started.
2808
2809 Fixed bug where switch statements containing only a default case
2810 would lead to an unbalanced stack (issue 69).
2811
2812 Fixed bug that made access to the function in a named function
2813 expression impossible in certain situations (issue 24).
2814
2815 Fixed even more build issues.
2816
2817 Optimized calling conventions on ARM. The conventions on ARM and
2818 IA-32 now match.
2819
2820 Removed static initializers for flags and counters.
2821
2822 Improved inline caching behavior for uncommon cases where lazily
2823 loading Date and RegExp code could force certain code paths go
2824 megamorphic.
2825
2826 Removed arguments adaption for builtins written in C++. This
2827 makes Array.prototype.push and Array.prototype.pop slightly
2828 faster.
2829
2830
28312008-09-11: Version 0.3.1
2832
2833 Fixed a number of build issues.
2834
2835 Fixed problem with missing I-cache flusing on ARM.
2836
2837 Changed space layout in memory management by splitting up
2838 code space into old data space and code space.
2839
2840 Added utf-8 conversion support to the API (issue 57).
2841
2842 Optimized repeated calls to eval with the same strings. These
2843 repeated calls are common in web applications.
2844
2845 Added Xcode project file.
2846
2847 Optimized a couple of Array operation.
2848
2849 Fixed parser bug by checking for end-of-string when parsing break
2850 and continue (issue 35).
2851
2852 Fixed problem where asian characters were not categorized as
2853 letters.
2854
2855 Fixed bug that disallowed calling functions fetched from an array
2856 using a string as an array index (issue 32).
2857
2858 Fixed bug where the internal field count on object templates were
2859 sometimes ignored (issue 54).
2860
2861 Added -f option to the shell sample for compatibility with other
2862 engines (issue 18).
2863
2864 Added source info to TryCatches in the API.
2865
2866 Fixed problem where the seed for the random number generator was
2867 clipped in a double to unsigned int conversion.
2868
2869 Fixed bug where cons string symbols were sometimes converted to
2870 non-symbol flat strings during GC.
2871
2872 Fixed bug in error reporting when attempting to convert null to an
2873 object.
2874
2875
28762008-09-04: Version 0.3.0
2877
2878 Added support for running tests on the ARM simulator.
2879
2880 Fixed bug in the 'in' operator where negative indices were not
2881 treated correctly.
2882
2883 Fixed build issues on gcc-4.3.1.
2884
2885 Changed Date.prototype.toLocaleTimeString to not print the
2886 timezone part of the time.
2887
2888 Renamed debug.h to v8-debug.h to reduce the risk of name conflicts
2889 with user code.
2890
2891
28922008-09-02: Version 0.2.5
2893
2894 Renamed the top level directory 'public' to 'include'.
2895
2896 Added 'env' option to the SCons build scripts to support
2897 overriding the ENV part of the build environment. This is mostly
2898 to support Windows builds in cases where SCons cannot find the
2899 correct paths to the Windows SDK, as these paths cannot be passed
2900 through shell environment variables.
2901
2902 Enabled "Buffer Security Check" on for the Windows SCons build and
2903 added the linker option /OPT:ICF as an optimization.
2904
2905 Added the V8 benchmark suite to the repository.
2906
2907
29082008-09-01: Version 0.2.4
2909
2910 Included mjsunit JavaScript test suite and C++ unit tests.
2911
2912 Changed the shell sample to not print the result of executing a
2913 script provided on the command line.
2914
2915 Fixed issue when building samples on Windows using a shared V8
2916 library. Added visibility option on Linux build which makes the
2917 generated library 18% smaller.
2918
2919 Changed build system to accept multiple build modes in one build
2920 and generate separate objects, libraries and executables for each
2921 mode.
2922
2923 Removed deferred negation optimization (a * -b => -(a * b)) since
2924 this visibly changes operand conversion order.
2925
2926 Improved parsing performance by introducing stack guard in
2927 preparsing. Without a stack guard preparsing always bails out
2928 with stack overflow.
2929
2930 Changed shell sample to take flags directly from the command-line.
2931 Added API call that implements this.
2932
2933 Added load, quit and version functions to the shell sample so it's
2934 easier to run benchmarks and tests.
2935
2936 Fixed issue with building samples and cctests on 64-bit machines.
2937
2938 Fixed bug in the runtime system where the prototype chain was not
2939 always searched for a setter when setting a property that does not
2940 exist locally.
2941
2942
29432008-08-14: Version 0.2.3
2944
2945 Improved performance of garbage collection by moving the
2946 function that updates pointers during compacting collection
2947 into the updating visitor. This gives the compiler a better
2948 chance to inline and avoid a function call per (potential)
2949 pointer.
2950
2951 Extended the shell sample with a --runtime-flags option.
2952
2953 Added Visual Studio project files for the shell.cc and
2954 process.cc samples.
2955
2956
29572008-08-13: Version 0.2.2
2958
2959 Improved performance of garbage collection by changing the way
2960 we use the marking stack in the event of stack overflow during
2961 full garbage collection and by changing the way we mark roots.
2962
2963 Cleaned up ARM version by removing top of stack caching and by
2964 introducing push/pop elimination.
2965
2966 Cleaned up the way runtime functions are called to allow
2967 runtime calls with no arguments.
2968
2969 Changed Windows build options to make sure that exceptions are
2970 disabled and that optimization flags are enabled.
2971
2972 Added first version of Visual Studio project files.
2973
2974
29752008-08-06: Version 0.2.1
2976
2977 Improved performance of unary addition by avoiding runtime calls.
2978
2979 Fixed the handling of '>' and '<=' to use right-to-left conversion
2980 and left-to-right evaluation as specified by ECMA-262.
2981
2982 Fixed a branch elimination bug on the ARM platform where incorrect
2983 code was generated because of overly aggressive branch
2984 elimination.
2985
2986 Improved performance of code that repeatedly assigns the same
2987 function to the same property of different objects with the same
2988 map.
2989
2990 Untangled DEBUG and ENABLE_DISASSEMBLER defines. The disassembler
2991 no longer expects DEBUG to be defined.
2992
2993 Added platform-nullos.cc to serve as the basis for new platform
2994 implementations.
2995
2996
29972008-07-30: Version 0.2.0
2998
2999 Changed all text files to have native svn:eol-style.
3000
3001 Added a few samples and support for building them. The samples
3002 include a simple shell that can be used to benchmark and test V8.
3003
3004 Changed V8::GetVersion to return the version as a string.
3005
3006 Added source for lazily loaded scripts to snapshots and made
3007 serialization non-destructive.
3008
3009 Improved ARM support by fixing the write barrier code to use
3010 aligned loads and stores and by removing premature locals
3011 optimization that relied on broken support for callee-saved
3012 registers (removed).
3013
3014 Refactored the code for marking live objects during garbage
3015 collection and the code for allocating objects in paged
3016 spaces. Introduced an abstraction for the map word of a heap-
3017 allocated object and changed the memory allocator to allocate
3018 executable memory only for spaces that may contain code objects.
3019
3020 Moved StringBuilder to utils.h and ScopedLock to platform.h, where
3021 they can be used by debugging and logging modules. Added
3022 thread-safe message queues for dealing with debugger events.
3023
3024 Fixed the source code reported by toString for certain builtin
3025 empty functions and made sure that the prototype property of a
3026 function is enumerable.
3027
3028 Improved performance of converting values to condition flags in
3029 generated code.
3030
3031 Merged disassembler-{arch} files.
3032
3033
30342008-07-28: Version 0.1.4
3035
3036 Added support for storing JavaScript stack traces in a stack
3037 allocated buffer to make it visible in shallow core dumps.
3038 Controlled by the --preallocate-message-memory flag which is
3039 disabled by default.
3040
3041
30422008-07-25: Version 0.1.3
3043
3044 Fixed bug in JSObject::GetPropertyAttributePostInterceptor where
3045 map transitions would count as properties.
3046
3047 Allowed aliased eval invocations by treating them as evals in the
3048 global context. This may change in the future.
3049
3050 Added support for accessing the last entered context through the
3051 API and renamed Context::Current to Context::GetCurrent and
3052 Context::GetSecurityContext to Context::GetCurrentSecurityContext.
3053
3054 Fixed bug in the debugger that would cause the debugger scripts to
3055 be recursively loaded and changed all disabling of interrupts to
3056 be block-structured.
3057
3058 Made snapshot data read-only to allow it to be more easily shared
3059 across multiple users of V8 when linked as a shared library.
3060
3061
30622008-07-16: Version 0.1.2
3063
3064 Fixed building on Mac OS X by recognizing i386 and friends as
3065 IA-32 platforms.
3066
3067 Added propagation of stack overflow exceptions that occur while
3068 compiling nested functions.
3069
3070 Improved debugger with support for recursive break points and
3071 handling of exceptions that occur in the debugger JavaScript code.
3072
3073 Renamed GetInternal to GetInternalField and SetInternal to
3074 SetInternalField in the API and moved InternalFieldCount and
3075 SetInternalFieldCount from FunctionTemplate to ObjectTemplate.
3076
3077
30782008-07-09: Version 0.1.1
3079
3080 Fixed bug in stack overflow check code for IA-32 targets where a
3081 non-tagged value in register eax was pushed to the stack.
3082
3083 Fixed potential quadratic behavior when converting strings to
3084 numbers.
3085
3086 Fixed bug where the return value from Object::SetProperty could
3087 end up being the property holder instead of the written value.
3088
3089 Improved debugger support by allowing nested break points and by
3090 dealing with stack-overflows when compiling functions before
3091 setting break points in them.
3092
3093
30942008-07-03: Version 0.1.0
3095
3096 Initial export.
3097
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