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2009-12-03: Version 2.0.3
Optimized handling and adding of strings, for-in and Array.join.
Heap serialization is now non-destructive.
Improved profiler support with information on time spend in C++
callbacks registered through the API.
Added commands to the debugger protocol for starting/stopping
profiling.
Enabled the non-optimizing compiler for top-level code.
Changed the API to only allow strings to be set as data objects on
Contexts and scripts to avoid potentially keeping global objects
around for too long (issue 528).
OpenBSD support patch by Peter Valchev <pvalchev@gmail.com>.
Fixed bugs.
2009-11-24: Version 2.0.2
Improved profiler support.
Fixed bug that broke compilation of d8 with readline support.
2009-11-20: Version 2.0.1
Fixed crash bug in String.prototype.replace.
Reverted a change which caused Chromium interactive ui test
failures.
2009-11-18: Version 2.0.0
Added support for VFP on ARM.
Added TryCatch::ReThrow method to the API.
Reduced the size of snapshots and improved the snapshot load time.
Improved heap profiler support.
64-bit version now supported on Windows.
Fixed a number of debugger issues.
Fixed bugs.
2009-10-29: Version 1.3.18
Reverted a change which caused crashes in RegExp replace.
Reverted a change which caused Chromium ui_tests failure.
2009-10-28: Version 1.3.17
Added API method to get simple heap statistics.
Improved heap profiler support.
Fixed the implementation of the resource constraint API so it
works when using snapshots.
Fixed a number of issues in the Windows 64-bit version.
Optimized calls to API getters.
Added valgrind notification on code modification to the 64-bit version.
Fixed issue where we logged shared library addresses on Windows at
startup and never used them.
2009-10-16: Version 1.3.16
X64: Convert smis to holding 32 bits of payload.
Introduce v8::Integer::NewFromUnsigned method.
Add missing null check in Context::GetCurrent.
Add trim, trimLeft and trimRight methods to String
Patch by Jan de Mooij <jandemooij@gmail.com>
Implement ES5 Array.isArray
Patch by Jan de Mooij <jandemooij@gmail.com>
Skip access checks for hidden properties.
Add String::Concat(Handle<String> left, Handle<String> right) to the V8 API.
Fix GYP-based builds of V8.
2009-10-07: Version 1.3.15
Expand the maximum size of the code space to 512MB for 64-bit mode.
Fixed a crash bug happening when starting profiling (issue
http://crbug.com/23768).
2009-10-07: Version 1.3.14
Added GetRealNamedProperty to the API to lookup real properties
located on the object or in the prototype chain skipping any
interceptors.
Fix the stack limits setting API to work correctly with threads. The
stack limit now needs to be set to each thread thich is used with V8.
Remove the high-priority flag from IdleNotification()
Ensure V8 is initialized before locking and unlocking threads.
Implemented a new JavaScript minifier for compressing the source of
the built-in JavaScript. This removes non-Open Source code from Douglas
Crockford from the project.
Added a missing optimization in StringCharAt.
Fixed some flaky socket tests.
Change by Alexander Botero-Lowry to fix profiler sampling on FreeBSD
in 64-bit mode.
Fixed memory leaks in the thread management code.
Fixed the result of assignment to a pixel array. The assigned value
is now the result.
Error reporting for invalid left-hand sides in for-in statements, pre-
and postfix count expressions, and assignments now matches the JSC
behavior in Safari 4.
Follow the spec in disallowing function declarations without a name.
Always allocate code objects within a 2 GB range. On x64 architecture
this is used to use near calls (32-bit displacement) in Code objects.
Optimized array construction ported to x64 and ARM architectures.
[ES5] Changed Object.keys to return strings for element indices.
2009-09-23: Version 1.3.13
Fixed uninitialized memory problem.
Improved heap profiler support.
2009-09-22: Version 1.3.12
Changed behavior of |function|.toString() on built-in functions to
be compatible with other implementations. Patch by Jan de Mooij.
Added Object::IsDirty in the API.
Optimized array construction; it is now handled purely in native
code.
[ES5] Made properties of the arguments array enumerable.
[ES5] Added test suite adapter for the es5conform test suite.
[ES5] Added Object.keys function.
2009-09-15: Version 1.3.11
Fixed crash in error reporting during bootstrapping.
Optimized generated IA32 math code by using SSE2 instructions when
available.
Implemented missing pieces of debugger infrastructure on ARM. The
debugger is now fully functional on ARM.
Make 'hidden' the default visibility for gcc.
2009-09-09: Version 1.3.10
Fixed profiler on Mac in 64-bit mode.
Optimized creation of objects from simple constructor functions on
ARM.
Fixed a number of debugger issues.
Reduced the amount of memory consumed by V8.
2009-09-02: Version 1.3.9
Optimized stack guard checks on ARM.
Optimized API operations by inlining more in the API.
Optimized creation of objects from simple constructor functions.
Enabled a number of missing optimizations in the 64-bit port.
Implemented native-code support for regular expressions on ARM.
Stopped using the 'sahf' instruction on 64-bit machines that do
not support it.
Fixed a bug in the support for forceful termination of JavaScript
execution.
2009-08-26: Version 1.3.8
Changed the handling of idle notifications to allow idle
notifications when V8 has not yet been initialized.
Fixed ARM simulator compilation problem on Windows.
2009-08-25: Version 1.3.7
Reduced the size of generated code on ARM platforms by reducing
the size of constant pools.
Changed build files to not include the 'ENV' user environment
variable in the build environment.
Changed the handling of idle notifications.
2009-08-21: Version 1.3.6
Add support for forceful termination of JavaScript execution.
Add low memory notification to the API. The embedding host can signal
a low memory situation to V8.
Changed the handling of global handles (persistent handles in the API
sense) to avoid issues regarding allocation of new global handles
during weak handle callbacks.
Changed the growth policy of the young space.
Fixed a GC issue introduced in version 1.3.5.
2009-08-19: Version 1.3.5
Optimize initialization of some arrays in the builtins.
Fix mac-nm script to support filenames with spaces.
Support for using the V8 profiler when V8 is embedded in a Windows DLL.
Changed typeof RegExp from 'object' to 'function' for compatibility.
Fixed bug where regexps were not callable across contexts.
Added context independent script compilation to the API.
Added API call to get the stack trace for an exception.
Added API for getting object mirrors.
Make sure that SSE3 instructions are used whenever possible even when
running off a snapshot generated without using SSE3 instructions.
Tweaked the handling of the initial size and growth policy of the heap.
Added native code generation for RegExp to 64-bit version.
Added JavaScript debugger support to 64-bit version.
2009-08-13: Version 1.3.4
Added a readline() command to the d8 shell.
Fixed bug in json parsing.
Added idle notification to the API and reduced memory on idle
notifications.
2009-08-12: Version 1.3.3
Fix issue 417: incorrect %t placeholder expansion.
Add .gitignore file similar to Chromium's one.
Fix SConstruct file to build with new logging code for Android.
API: added function to find instance of template in prototype
chain. Inlined Object::IsInstanceOf.
Land change to notify valgrind when we modify code on x86.
Add api call to determine whether a string can be externalized.
Add a write() command to d8.
2009-08-05: Version 1.3.2
Started new compiler infrastructure for two-pass compilation using a
control flow graph constructed from the AST.
Profiler stack sampling for X64.
Safe handling of NaN to Posix platform-dependent time functions.
Added a new profiler control API to unify controlling various aspects
of profiling.
Fixed issue 392.
2009-07-30: Version 1.3.1
Speed improvements to accessors and interceptors.
Added support for capturing stack information on custom errors.
Added support for morphing an object into a pixel array where its
indexed properties are stored in an external byte array. Values written
are always clamped to the 0..255 interval.
Profiler on x64 now handles C/C++ functions from shared libraries.
Changed the debugger to avoid stepping into function.call/apply if the
function is a built-in.
Initial implementation of constructor heap profile for JS objects.
More fine grained control of profiling aspects through the API.
Optimized the called as constructor check for API calls.
2009-07-27: Version 1.3.0
Allowed RegExp objects to be called as functions (issue 132).
Fixed issue where global property cells would escape after
detaching the global object; see http://crbug.com/16276.
Added support for stepping into setters and getters in the
debugger.
Changed the debugger to avoid stopping in its own JavaScript code
and in the code of built-in functions.
Fixed issue 345 by avoiding duplicate escaping labels.
Fixed ARM code generator crash in short-circuited boolean
expressions and added regression tests.
Added an external allocation limit to avoid issues where small V8
objects would hold on to large amounts of external memory without
causing garbage collections.
Finished more of the inline caching stubs for x64 targets.
2009-07-13: Version 1.2.14
Added separate paged heap space for global property cells and
avoid updating the write barrier when storing into them.
Improved peep-hole optimization on ARM platforms by not emitting
unnecessary debug information.
Re-enabled ICs for loads and calls that skip a global object
during lookup through the prototype chain.
Allowed access through global proxies to use ICs.
Fixed issue 401.
2009-07-09: Version 1.2.13
Fixed issue 397, issue 398, and issue 399.
Added support for breakpoint groups.
Fixed bugs introduced with the new global object representation.
Fixed a few bugs in the ARM code generator.
2009-07-06: Version 1.2.12
Added stack traces collection to Error objects accessible through
the e.stack property.
Changed RegExp parser to use a recursive data structure instead of
stack-based recursion.
Optimized Date object construction and string concatenation.
Improved performance of div, mod, and mul on ARM platforms.
2009-07-02: Version 1.2.11
Improved performance on IA-32 and ARM.
Fixed profiler sampler implementation on Mac OS X.
Changed the representation of global objects to improve
performance of adding a lot of new properties.
2009-06-29: Version 1.2.10
Improved debugger support.
Fixed bug in exception message reporting (issue 390).
Improved overall performance.
2009-06-23: Version 1.2.9
Improved math performance on ARM.
Fixed profiler name-inference bug.
Fixed handling of shared libraries in the profiler tick processor
scripts.
Fixed handling of tests that time out in the test scripts.
Fixed compilation on MacOS X version 10.4.
Fixed two bugs in the regular expression engine.
Fixed a bug in the string type inference.
Fixed a bug in the handling of 'constant function' properties.
Improved overall performance.
2009-06-16: Version 1.2.8
Optimized math on ARM platforms.
Fixed two crash bugs in the handling of getters and setters.
Improved the debugger support by adding scope chain information.
Improved the profiler support by compressing log data transmitted
to clients.
Improved overall performance.
2009-06-08: Version 1.2.7
Improved debugger and profiler support.
Reduced compilation time by improving the handling of deferred
code.
Optimized interceptor accesses where the property is on the object
on which the interceptors is attached.
Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.4 by changing the stack
alignment to 16 bytes.
Fixed handle creation to follow stric aliasing rules.
Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
Introduced API for forcing the deletion of a property ignoring
interceptors and attributes.
2009-05-29: Version 1.2.6
Added a histogram recording hit rates at different levels of the
compilation cache.
Added stack overflow check for the RegExp analysis phase. Previously a
very long regexp graph could overflow the stack with recursive calls.
Use a dynamic buffer when collecting log events in memory.
Added start/stop events to the profiler log.
Fixed infinite loop which could happen when setting a debug break while
executing a RegExp compiled to native code.
Fixed handling of lastIndexOf called with negative index (issue 351).
Fixed irregular crash in profiler test (issue 358).
Fixed compilation issues with some versions of gcc.
2009-05-26: Version 1.2.5
Fixed bug in initial boundary check for Boyer-Moore text
search (issue 349).
Fixed compilation issues with MinGW and gcc 4.3+ and added support
for armv7 and cortex-a8 architectures. Patches by Lei Zhang and
Craig Schlenter.
Added a script cache to the debugger.
Optimized compilation performance by improving internal data
structures and avoiding expensive property load optimizations for
code that's infrequently executed.
Exposed the calling JavaScript context through the static API
function Context::GetCalling().
2009-05-18: Version 1.2.4
Improved performance of floating point number allocation for ARM
platforms.
Fixed crash when using the instanceof operator on functions with
number values in their prototype chain (issue 341).
Optimized virtual frame operations in the code generator to speed
up compilation time and allocated the frames in the zone.
Made the representation of virtual frames and jump targets in the
code generator much more compact.
Avoided linear search for non-locals in scope code when resolving
variables inside with and eval scopes.
Optimized lexical scanner by dealing with whitespace as part of
the token scanning instead of as a separate step before it.
Changed the scavenging collector so that promoted objects do not
reside in the old generation while their remembered set is being
swept for pointers into the young generation.
Fixed numeric overflow handling when compiling count operations.
2009-05-11: Version 1.2.3
Fixed bug in reporting of out-of-memory situations.
Introduced hidden prototypes on certain builtin prototype objects
such as String.prototype to emulate JSC's behavior of restoring
the original function when deleting functions from those prototype
objects.
Fixed crash bug in the register allocator.
2009-05-04: Version 1.2.2
Fixed bug in array sorting for sparse arrays (issue 326).
Added support for adding a soname when building a shared library
on Linux (issue 151).
Fixed bug caused by morphing internal ASCII strings to external
two-byte strings. Slices over ASCII strings have to forward ASCII
checks to the underlying buffer string.
Allowed API call-as-function handlers to be called as
constructors.
Fixed a crash bug where an external string was disposed but a
slice of the external string survived as a symbol.
2009-04-27: Version 1.2.1
Added EcmaScript 5 JSON object.
Fix bug in preemption support on ARM.
2009-04-23: Version 1.2.0
Optimized floating-point operations on ARM.
Added a number of extensions to the debugger API.
Changed the enumeration order for unsigned integer keys to always
be numerical order.
Added a "read" extension to the shell sample.
Added support for Array.prototype.reduce and
Array.prototype.reduceRight.
Added an option to the SCons build to control Microsoft Visual C++
link-time code generation.
Fixed a number of bugs (in particular issue 315, issue 316,
issue 317 and issue 318).
2009-04-15: Version 1.1.10
Fixed crash bug that occurred when loading a const variable in the
presence of eval.
Allowed using with and eval in registered extensions in debug mode
by fixing bogus assert.
Fixed the source position for function returns to enable the
debugger to break there.
2009-04-14: Version 1.1.9
Made the stack traversal code in the profiler robust by avoiding
to look into the heap.
Added name inferencing for anonymous functions to facilitate
debugging and profiling.
Re-enabled stats timers in the developer shell (d8).
Fixed issue 303 by avoiding to shortcut cons-symbols.
2009-04-11: Version 1.1.8
Changed test-debug/ThreadedDebugging to be non-flaky (issue 96).
Fixed step-in handling for Function.prototype.apply and call in
the debugger (issue 269).
Fixed v8::Object::DeleteHiddenValue to not bail out when there
are no hidden properties.
Added workaround for crash bug, where external symbol table
entries with deleted resources would lead to NPEs when looking
up in the symbol table.
2009-04-07: Version 1.1.7
Added support for easily importing additional environment
variables into the SCons build.
Optimized strict equality checks.
Fixed crash in indexed setters on objects without a corresponding
getter (issue 298).
Re-enabled script compilation cache.
2009-04-01: Version 1.1.6
Reverted an unsafe code generator change.
2009-04-01: Version 1.1.5
Fixed bug that caused function literals to not be optimized as
much as other functions.
Improved profiler support.
Fixed a crash bug in connection with debugger unloading.
Fixed a crash bug in the code generator caused by losing the
information that a frame element was copied.
Fixed an exception propagation bug that could cause non-null
return values when exceptions were thrown.
2009-03-30: Version 1.1.4
Optimized String.prototype.match.
Improved the stack information in profiles.
Fixed bug in ARM port making it possible to compile the runtime
system for thumb mode again.
Implemented a number of optimizations in the code generator.
Fixed a number of memory leaks in tests.
Fixed crash bug in connection with script source code and external
strings.
2009-03-24: Version 1.1.3
Fixed assertion failures in compilation of loop conditions.
Removed STL dependency from developer shell (d8).
Added infrastructure for protecting the V8 heap from corruption
caused by memory modifications from the outside.
2009-03-24: Version 1.1.2
Improved frame merge code generated by the code generator.
Optimized String.prototype.replace.
Implemented __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ for properties
with integer keys on non-array objects.
Improved debugger and profiler support.
Fixed a number of portability issues to allow compilation for
smaller ARM devices.
Exposed object cloning through the API.
Implemented hidden properties. This is used to expose an identity
hash for objects through the API.
Implemented restarting of regular expressions if their input
string changes representation during preemption.
Fixed a code generator bug that could cause assignments in loops
to be ignored if using continue to break out of the loop (issue
284).
2009-03-12: Version 1.1.1
Fixed an assertion in the new compiler to take stack overflow
exceptions into account.
Removed exception propagation code that could cause crashes.
Fixed minor bug in debugger line number computations.
8-byte align the C stack on Linux and Windows to speed up floating
point computations.
2009-03-12: Version 1.1.0
Improved code generation infrastructure by doing simple register
allocation and constant folding and propagation.
Optimized regular expression matching by avoiding to create
intermediate string arrays and by flattening nested array
representations of RegExp data.
Traverse a few stack frames when recording profiler samples to
include partial call graphs in the profiling output.
Added support for using OProfile to profile generated code.
Added remote debugging support to the D8 developer shell.
Optimized creation of nested literals like JSON objects.
Fixed a bug in garbage collecting unused maps and turned it on by
default (--collect-maps).
Added support for running tests under Valgrind.
2009-02-27: Version 1.0.3
Optimized double-to-integer conversions in bit operations by using
SSE3 instructions if available.
Optimized initialization sequences that store to multiple
properties of the same object.
Changed the D8 debugger frontend to use JSON messages.
Force garbage collections when disposing contexts.
Align code objects at 32-byte boundaries.
2009-02-25: Version 1.0.2
Improved profiling support by performing simple call stack
sampling for ticks and by fixing a bug in the logging of code
addresses.
Fixed a number of debugger issues.
Optimized code that uses eval.
Fixed a couple of bugs in the regular expression engine.
Reduced the size of generated code for certain regular expressions.
Removed JSCRE completely.
Fixed issue where test could not be run if there was a dot in the
checkout path.
2009-02-13: Version 1.0.1
Fixed two crash-bugs in irregexp (issue 231 and 233).
Fixed a number of minor bugs (issue 87, 227 and 228).
Added support for morphing strings to external strings on demand
to avoid having to create copies in the embedding code.
Removed experimental support for external symbol callbacks.
2009-02-09: Version 1.0.0
Fixed crash-bug in the code generation for case independent 16 bit
backreferences.
Made shells more robust in the presence of string conversion
failures (issue 224).
Fixed a potential infinite loop when attempting to resolve
eval (issue 221).
Miscellaneous fixes to the new regular expression engine.
Reduced binary by stripping unneeded text from JavaScript library and
minifying some JavaScript files.
2009-01-27: Version 0.4.9
Enabled new regular expression engine.
Made a number of changes to the debugger protocol.
Fixed a number of bugs in the preemption support.
Added -p option to the developer shell to run files in parallel
using preemption.
Fixed a number of minor bugs (including issues 176, 187, 189, 192,
193, 198 and 201).
Fixed a number of bugs in the serialization/deserialization
support for the ARM platform.
2009-01-19: Version 0.4.8.1
Minor patch to debugger support.
2009-01-16: Version 0.4.8
Fixed string length bug on ARM (issue 171).
Made most methods in the API const.
Optimized object literals by improving data locality.
Fixed bug that caused incomplete functions to be cached in case of
stack overflow exceptions.
Fixed bugs that caused catch variables and variables introduced by
eval to behave incorrectly when using accessors (issues 186, 190
and 191).
2009-01-06: Version 0.4.7
Minor bugfixes and optimizations.
Added command line debugger to D8 shell.
Fixed subtle bug that caused the wrong 'this' to be used when
calling a caught function in a catch clause.
Inline array loads within loops directly in the code instead of
always calling a stub.
2008-12-11: Version 0.4.6
Fixed exception reporting bug where certain exceptions were
incorrectly reported as uncaught.
Improved the memory allocation strategy used during compilation to
make running out of memory when compiling huge scripts less
likely.
Optimized String.replace by avoiding the construction of certain
sub strings.
Fixed bug in code generation for large switch statements on ARM.
Fixed bug that caused V8 to change the global object template
passed in by the user.
Changed the API for creating object groups used during garbage
collection. Entire object groups are now passed to V8 instead of
individual members of the groups.
2008-12-03: Version 0.4.5
Added experimental API support for allocating V8 symbols as
external strings.
Fixed bugs in debugging support on ARM.
Changed eval implementation to correctly detect whether or not a
call to eval is aliased.
Fixed bug caused by a combination of the compilation cache and
dictionary probing in native code. The bug caused us to sometimes
call functions that had not yet been compiled.
Added platform support for FreeBSD.
Added support for building V8 on Windows with either the shared or
static version of MSVCRT
Added the v8::jscre namespace around the jscre functions to avoid
link errors (duplicate symbols) when building Google Chrome.
Added support for calling a JavaScript function with the current
debugger execution context as its argument to the debugger
interface.
Changed the type of names of counters from wchar_t to char.
Changed the Windows system call used to compute daylight savings
time. The system call that we used to use became four times
slower on WinXP SP3.
Added support in the d8 developer shell for memory-mapped counters
and added a stats-viewer tool.
Fixed bug in upper/lower case mappings (issue 149).
2008-11-17: Version 0.4.4
Reduced code size by using shorter instruction encoding when
possible.
Added a --help option to the shell sample and to the d8 shell.
Added visual studio project files for building the ARM simulator.
Fixed a number of ARM simulator issues.
Fixed bug in out-of-memory handling on ARM.
Implemented shell support for passing arguments to a script from
the command line.
Fixed bug in date code that made certain date functions return -0
instead of 0 for dates before the epoch.
Restricted applications of eval so it can only be used in the
context of the associated global object.
Treat byte-order marks as whitespace characters.
2008-11-04: Version 0.4.3
Added support for API accessors that prohibit overwriting by
accessors defined in JavaScript code by using __defineGetter__ and
__defineSetter__.
Improved handling of conditionals in test status files.
Introduced access control in propertyIsEnumerable.
Improved performance of some string operations by caching
information about the type of the string between operations.
Fixed bug in fast-case code for switch statements that only have
integer labels.
2008-10-30: Version 0.4.2