therubyracer/Changelog.md

Changelog

0.11

• upgrade V8 version to 3.11.8
• remove dependency on libv8. enable compilation against system v8
• complete re-write of low-level C layer for dramatically increased stability and performance
• more faithful and complete coverage of the low-level C API
• ease the building of binary gems
• official support for Rubinius
• ability to query V8 for memory usage and set resource constraints
• extensible conversion framework for thunking Ruby values to V8 and vice-versa
• extensible invocation framework for calling Ruby code (Proc, Method, etc...) from JavaScript
• extensible access framework for interacting with Ruby properties from JavaScript
• provide explicit context teardown for distributed cycles of garbage.

0.10.1 2012/04/05

• [bugfix] V8::Object#respond_to? did not call super

0.10.0 2012/03/28

• [incompatible] embedded lambdas now take JS this object as first object
• add sponsorship image to the README
• enable Travis CI

0.9.9 2012/11/08

• remove GCC specific C++ extension to fix llvm build.

0.9.8 2012/11/07

• let Rake version float again.

0.9.7 2012/10/06

• build fixes
• fix rake dependency at 0.8.7 while the Rake team sorts some shit out.

0.9.6 2012/10/06

• make build compatible with Gentoo

0.9.5 - 2012/10/05

• remove GCC specific code to enable build on BSD
• let Rake dependency float

0.9.4 - 2011/08/22

• Fix an issue with the compilation include paths which allowed compilation against conflicting libv8's

0.9.3 - 2011/08/11

• Better documentation for the C extension memory management
• Always lock V8 operations, always.
• GH-86 Context#[], Context#[]= always looks up values from the JavaScript scope, even when it's a Ruby object

0.9.2 - 2011/06/23

• fix issue with 1.8.7 where object allocation inside of GC was segfaulting

0.9.1 - 2011/06/17

• never perform V8 operations inside Ruby GC
• refactor locking interface
• add documentation for v8_handle

0.9.0 - 2011/06/10

• extract libv8 into installable binary for most platforms
• fix numerous memory leaks
• expose the V8 debugger via V8::C::Debug::EnableAgent()
• force UTf-8 encoding on strings returned from javascript in ruby 1.9
• remove deprecated evaluate() methods
• make the currently executing JavaScript stack available via Context#stack

0.8.1 - 2011/03/07

• upgrade to v8 3.1.8
• remove bin/v8 which conflicted with v8 executeable
• decruft all the crap that had accumulated in the gem
• Javascript Objects are now always mapped to the same V8::Object when read from the context

0.8.0 - 2010/12/02

• every V8 Context gets its own unique access strategy
• ruby methods and procs embedded in javascript always return the same function per context.
• ruby classes and subclasses are now all connected via the javascript prototype chain
• better error reporting on syntax errors
• upgrade to rspec 2
• several bug fixes and stability fixes

0.7.5 - 1010/08/03

• upgrade to V8 2.3.3
• property interceptors from ruby via [] and []=
• indexed property access via [] and []=
• property
• several bugfixes
• stability: eliminate many segfaults
• don't enumerate property setters such as foo= from javascript

0.7.4 - 2010/06/15

• bug fix for rvm ruby installs incorrectly detected as 32bit

0.7.3 - 2010/06/15

• don't catch SystemExit and NoMemoryError
• fix bug bundling gem

0.7.2 - 2010/06/14

• embed ruby classes as constructors
• support for rubinius
• uniform backtrace() function on JSError mixes the ruby
• String::NewSymbol() is now scriptable
• InstanceTemplate(), PrototypeTemplate(), Inherit() methods on v8::FunctionTemplate now scriptable.
• reuse the standard ruby object access template
• fix a bunch of compile warnings
• Store any ruby object in V8 with V8::C::External

0.7.1 - 2010/06/03

• 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.

• 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

• 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
• 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

• FIX: linkage error on OSX /usr/bin/ruby

0.6.2 - 2010/05/06

• FIX: linkage error on OSX 10.5

0.6.1 - 2010/05/03

• call JavaScript functions from Ruby

0.6.0 - 2010/03/31

• 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

• fix string encoding issue that was breaking RHEL 5.x
• fix pthread linking issue on RHEL 5.2

0.5.4 - 2010/03/09

• add ext directory to gem require paths which was causing problems for non-binary gems

0.5.3 - 2010/03/01

• added full back trace to javascript code

0.5.2 - 2010/02/26

• added javascript shell (bin/therubyracer)
• added to_s method for embedded ruby objects
• added line number and file name to error message.

0.5.1 - 2010/02/17

• fix bug in 1.8.6 by creating Object#tap if it does not exist

0.5.0 - 2010/02/17

• support for Linux 64 bit

0.4.9 - 2010/02/16

• support for Linux 32 bit

0.4.8 - 2010/02/08

• expose line number and source name on JavascriptErrors.

0.4.5 - 2010/01/18

• 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
• contexts detect whether they are open or not and open when needed

0.4.4 - 2010/01/14

• 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().
• 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

• 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

• embed Ruby Objects into Javascript and call their methods

0.4.1 - 2010/01/09

• embed bare Proc and Method objects into JavaScript and call them
• catch JavaScript exceptions from Ruby

0.4.0 - 2009/12/21

• evaluate JavaScript code from inside Ruby.