v1.0.0-alpha.1

Pre-release of a major milestone for Neon. 1.0.

Breaking Changes

Major

• Removed the legacy backend; only Node-API is supported going forward (#881)
• Removed neon::result::JsResultExt in favor of more general neon::result::ResultExt (#904)

Minor

• Length APIs (argument, argument_ops, len) use usize instead of i32 (#889)
• Deprecate feature flags for accepted RFCs (#872)
• neon::meta::version returns semver@1 version instead of 0.9 (#912)

Features

• Add Object.freeze and Object.seal (#891)
• Futures RFC (#872) Implementation (#874)
  • Await JoinHandle from sending an event on a Channel
  • Adapt JsPromise to JsFuture
• API for thread-local data (i.e., instance data) (#902)
• Add Object::call_with() convenience method to call a method on an object (#879)

Bug Fixes

• Relax the lifetime constraints on TypedArray borrows (#877)
• Allowing missing symbols at load time to support bun (#914)
• Prevent a panic when an async event is called after the JavaScript runtime has stopped (#913)
• Fix a soundness hole in JsArrayBuffer::external and JsBuffer::external (#897)

Docs

• Fixed mistake in Object::get docs (#903)
• Fixed link in README to migration guide (#895)

Internal

• Moved cargo-cp-artirfact into the monorepo (#905)
• Decreased the size of the Neon build matrix (#893)
• Removed scope abstraction from legacy backend (#888)
• Improved the monorepo structure of neon (#884)