Port to mozjs38

[jbicha]

gjs 1.17.90 has been ported from Spidermonkey 24 to 38 (packaged in Ubuntu as mozjs24 and mozjs38). Spidermonkey is the JavaScript engine from Firefox so 24 is very out of date. gjs 1.18 will be released with GNOME 3.24 next month.

Ubuntu would like to drop mozjs24 from the archives by 17.10. cjs and cinnamon are the only Ubuntu 17.04 packages except for edbrowse that still use mozjs24 in Ubuntu.

Future Plans

GNOME 3.26 has a goal of porting to mozjs52 (not yet released) or at least mozjs45. I expect GNOME 3.26 to be the GNOME version included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS so it would be best if cjs would be ready for that. (GNOME 3.26 will be released in September 2017).

References

• https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2017-February/msg00004.html
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Releases/38
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozjs38

[jbicha]

Ubuntu 17.04 has been released now.

[mtwebster]

Being worked on - https://github.com/linuxmint/cjs/tree/3.4-mozjs38