therubyracer/History.txt

=== 0.7.1 2010-06-03
* 5 major enhancements
  * Function#call() now uses the global scope for 'this' by default
  * Function#methodcall() added to allow passing in 'this' object
  * Function#new() method to invoke javascript constructor from ruby
  * access javascript properties and call javascript methods from ruby
  * bundled Jasmine DOM-Less browser testing framework.

* 3 minor enhancements
  * added Object::GetHiddenValue() to v8 metal
  * added Handle::IsEmpty() to v8 metal
  * fixed bug where iterating over arrays sometimes failed
  * numerous bug /segfault fixes.

=== 0.7.0 2010-05-31
* 10 major enhancements
  * upgraded to V8 2.1.10
  * added low level scripting interface for V8 objects
  * ruby object property/method access is now implemented in ruby
  * auto-convert javascript arrays to rb arrays and vice-versa
  * auto-convert ruby hashes into javascript objects
  * auto-convert javascript Date into ruby Time object and vice versa.
  * better exception handling when passing through multiple language boundaries
  * objects maintain referential integrity when passing objects from ruby to javascript and vice-versa
  * added debug compile option for getting C/C++ backtraces whenever segfaults occur.
  * official support for REE 1.8.7
* 4 minor enhancements
  * fixed numerous segfaults
  * implemented V8::Value#to_s
  * the global scope is available to every V8::Context as the 'scope' attribute
  * properly convert ruby boolean values into V8 booleans.

=== 0.6.3 2010-05-07
* 1 minor enhancement
  * FIX: linkage error on OSX /usr/bin/ruby

=== 0.6.2 2010-05-06
* 1 minor enhancement
  * FIX: linkage error on OSX 10.5

=== 0.6.1 2010-05-03
* 1 major enhancement
  * call JavaScript functions from Ruby

=== 0.6.0 2010-03-31
* 4 major enhancements
  * ruby 1.9 compatible
  * full featured command line bin/v8 and bin/therubyracer
  * self validating install (v8 --selftest)
  * Only dependency to build gem from source is rubygems.

=== 0.5.5 2010-03-15
* 2 minor enhancements
  * fix string encoding issue that was breaking RHEL 5.x
  * fix pthread linking issue on RHEL 5.2

=== 0.5.4 2010-03-09
* 1 minor enhancement
  * add ext directory to gem require paths which was causing problems for non-binary gems

=== 0.5.3 2010-03-01
* 1 major enhancement
  * added full back trace to javascript code

=== 0.5.2 2010-02-26
* 1 major enhancement
  * added javascript shell (bin/therubyracer)
* 2 minor enhancements
  * added to_s method for embedded ruby objects
  * added line number and file name to error message.

=== 0.5.1 2010-02-17
* 1 minor enhancement
  * fix bug in 1.8.6 by creating Object#tap if it does not exist

=== 0.5.0 2010-02-17
* 1 major enhancement
  * support for Linux 64 bit

=== 0.4.9 2010-02-16
* 1 major enhancement
  * support for Linux 32 bit

=== 0.4.8 2010-02-08
* 1 major enhancement
  * expose line number and source name on JavascriptErrors.

=== 0.4.5 2010-01-18
* 3 major enhancements
  * case munging so that ruby methods(perl_case) are accessed through javascript in camelCase.
  * access 0-arity ruby methods as javascript properties
  * invoke ruby setters from javascript as properties
* 1 minor enhancements
  * contexts detect whether they are open or not and open when needed

=== 0.4.4 2010-01-14
* 2 major enhancements:
  * Ruby objects embedded into javascript are passed back to ruby as themselves and not a wrapped V8 object wrapping a ruby object.
  * Use any ruby object as the scope of eval().
* 5 minor enhancements:
  * quick and dirty V8.eval() method added
  * native objects have a reference to the context that created them.
  * context now has equality check.
  * expose InContext() and GetCurrent() methods.
  * fix a couple of segmentation faults

=== 0.4.3 2010-10-11
* 3 major enhancements:
  * access properties on Ruby objects with their camel case equivalents
  * reflect JavaScript objects into Ruby and access their properties
  * load JavaScript source from an IO object or by filename

=== 0.4.2 2010-10-10
* 1 major enhancement:
  * embed Ruby Objects into Javascript and call their methods

=== 0.4.1 2010-01-09

* 3 major enhancements:
  * embed bare Proc and Method objects into JavaScript and call them
  * catch JavaScript exceptions from Ruby

=== 0.4.0 2009-12-21

* 1 major enhancements:
  * evaluate JavaScript code from inside Ruby.