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Duktape releases
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0.1.0 (2013-02-14)
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* Initial alpha release
* Core features work: compiler, executor, regexps, garbage collection
* Most built-ins incomplete or missing
0.2.0 (2013-02-27)
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* Built-ins implemented: Boolean, Date, JSON
* Date built-in has initial, minimal local time / locale support
* Initial internal documentation: regexp, datetime, json
0.3.0 (2013-03-16)
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* Built-ins implemented: global object, Object, String
0.4.0 (2013-03-31)
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* Built-ins: Array, Number, completing built-ins
0.5.0 (2013-05-17)
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* Built-in number conversion primitives
* Cleanup built-ins, improve test cases for built-ins
0.6.0 (2013-09-21)
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* First round of public API cleanup, and add basic API documentation
* First version of duktape.org website
0.7.0 (2013-10-30)
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* Traceback support improved
* Clean up and document error object properties
* Add prototype objects for buffer and pointer values, and make them object
coercible
* Proper support for big, little, and "middle endian" environments
* Single file combined source distributable
* Portability and bug fixes
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0.8.0 (2013-12-18)
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* Remove DUK_PROFILE model, explicit DUK_OPT_xxx feature options added for
tuning the build (see web docs)
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* Register shuffling added to compiler which mostly eliminates constant and
temporary register limits
* Reduce code footprint, make built-in data 'const' so that it compiles
into the 'text' section
* Augment errors created when a built-in error constructor is called as
a normal function (e.g. "var e = Error('test')")
* Enforce string/buffer length limits to avoid corner cases with strings
and buffers close to size_t limit
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* Ecmascript E5.1 test cases and fixes
* Mark-and-sweep stringtable leak fixed, affected mostly builds without
reference counting
* Run a few mark-and-sweep passes in duk_destroy_heap() to give finalizers
a chance to run in most (but not all) cases
* Coroutine yield fixes
* Portability and bug fixes
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0.9.0 (2014-02-02)
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* Added duk_gc() API call to force GC, implemented duk_map_string() and
duk_decode_string()
* Added extended JSON format variants JSONX and JSONC; NULL pointer
values string now coerce to "null" instead of e.g. "(nil)" to match
JSONX format
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* Added input line number to compiler error messages (e.g. SyntaxErrors)
* Added support for function declarations outside function or program top
level (also known as "function statements"), with V8-like semantics
* Renamed __duk__ to Duktape for more consistency with Ecmascript conventions
* Removed somewhat useless Duktape.build property and added Duktape.env
* Replaced Duktape.addr() and Duktape.refc() with Duktape.info() which gives
more internal info
* Merged Duktape.setFinalizer() and Duktape.getFinalizer() into a single
Duktape.fin() call
* Some compatibility properties available for now (e.g. __duk__), but these
will be removed after this release
* Removed array size limit for very large array joins
* Improve Unicode handling of Greek final sigma
* Make mark-and-sweep interval relative to current heap size (measured as
combined object and string count)
* Add DUK_OPT_NO_VOLUNTARY_GC to disable voluntary mark-and-sweep entirely;
this is useful in timing sensitive applications like games
* Preliminary internal support for periodic bytecode executor interrupts
which can be used to implement executor step limits, profiling, and
debugging
* More feature options for build tuning
* More self tests to detect obscure compiler bugs, two's complement
arithmetic, etc (enable with DUK_OPT_SELF_TESTS)
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* Fixed several compile warnings, fixed warnings generated by GCC -Wextra
* Fixed some incorrect assertions (with no underlying bug)
* Fixed a coroutine termination bug which caused assertion errors and
occasional segfaults when an uncaught error terminated a thread with
a catch point active
* Fixed a tail call bug: the current activation was not closed which
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caused variable lookups to fail if an inner function accessed
variables in the surrounding activation
* Fixed a few bound constructor bugs
* Fixed handling of "get" and "set": they were handled as reserved words
which prevented valid statements like "var set = 1;"
* Fixed a switch-case bug where code was accepted before the first
case/default clause
* Fixed a switch-case bug where successive case clauses with no code
in-between was not handled correctly
* Fixed a for statement control flow bug when the third clause of the for
statement was empty and a continue was used
* Fixed error lineNumber bug triggered when there was more than 127
source lines between successive compiled statements
* Fixed some line terminator handling issues
* Fixed relational operator ToPrimitive() coercion order, for some
operators coercion order was reversed
* Fixed 'with' statement in strict mode (did not throw SyntaxError)
* Fixed strictness handling of an indirect eval call from a strict
function (eval incorrectly inherited strict mode)
* Several test262 and underscore.js test case fixes (other than above)
* Windows compatibility for both WIN32 and WIN64, tested with MinGW (x86),
MINGW-w64 (x64), VS2010 Express (x32), VS2013 Express (x32 and x64)
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* Portability fixes for non-C99 platforms (like MSVC in VS2010)
* Drop 'full distributable' build, which is replaced by the public GitHub
repo; simplify Makefiles etc accordingly (this change is not visible in
the source distributable)
0.10.0 (2014-04-13)
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* Avoid "out of regs" for large expressions by adding more comprehensive
register shuffling and indirect variants of several bytecode opcodes
* Change error handler model: error handlers are now set explicitly to
Duktape.errcreate and Duktape.errthrow, and can interact with both error
creation and error throwing
* Incompatible API change: errhandler_index argument has been removed
from all protected API calls as unnecessary
* Add duk_push_heap_stash(), duk_push_global_stash(), and
duk_push_thread_stash() to provide C code with stashes for storing
values invisible to Ecmascript code
* Add duk_safe_to_string() and duk_safe_to_lstring() to make it easier
to write result printing in C
* Add protected variants of eval/compile: duk_peval(), duk_peval_string(),
duk_peval_file(), duk_pcompile(), duk_pcompile_string(), duk_pcompile_file()
* duk_pcall_prop() now catches invalid stack index errors and property
lookup errors which happen before the actual call
* Add duk_put_function_list() and duk_put_number_list() to make it easier
to define modules from C code
* Add Duktape.compact(), Duktape.line(), and Duktape.act()
* Add a "use duk notail" directive which indicates that an Ecmascript
function should never be tail called
* Add a barebones built-in logging framework with both Ecmascript and C
APIs and easy customization
* Add a message argument to fatal handler function callback, simplify
internal fatal error and panic handling
* Compact function templates and instances to reduce memory footprint
* Execute finalizers for all objects, even reachable ones, when a heap
is freed to allow native resources to be freed reliably
* "new Object()" now promotes plain buffer and pointer values to Buffer
and Pointer objects
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* Buffer values now have virtual numeric index properties and a virtual
'length' property, so that you can do x = buf[123], buf[123] = x and
buf.length
* Buffer data areas no longer have an automatic NUL terminator to avoid
rounding user-requested allocation sizes upwards unnecessarily
* Buffer constructor behavior changes: number argument creates a buffer
of a certain size; optional second argument indicates whether a buffer
should be dynamic or fixed
* Change Array.prototype.splice() behavior so that if 2nd argument
(deleteCount) is not given, splice to end of array instead of treating
like deleteCount was zero: the new behavior is non-standard but is the
real world behavior used by V8, Rhino, Spidermonkey, etc
* Add an automatic 'length' property to Duktape/C functions
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* Add a feature option to provide a 'caller' property for non-strict
functions, with behavior similar to the (non-standard) behavior in
e.g. V8 and Rhino
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* Add a feature option to disable automatic zeroing of data areas of
buffer values
* Improve self tests to include byte order validation
* Allow the global eval() function to be called from C code (causes an
indirect eval); this was at least an issue with a bound eval() call
* Fix O(depth^2) inner function parsing issue, inner functions are now
only parsed once and deeply nested inner functions are no longer a
performance issue
* On platforms requiring a specific alignment, use an alternate object
property table memory layout to reduce memory footprint
* Wrap remaining platform calls through macro wrappers to allow easier
targeted fixes if necessary
* Fix a regexp bug: non-capturing groups inside quantifier expressions
were matched incorrectly
* Fix a regexp bug: capture groups were not reset to 'undefined' when
a quantified with capture groups was re-matched by a quantifier
* Fix a tail call bug which caused assertion failures when a tail call was
made from inside a switch-case
* Fix a with statement bug which caused assertion failures when a break or
continue jumped out of the with statement
* Fix a try-catch-finally broken assertion when finally block had finished
(ENDFIN opcode)
* Portability fixes for Crossbridge (Flash), NetBSD (endianness detection
and a few Math.pow() fixes), OpenBSD (endianness detection),
QNX (endianness and other fixes)
* Warning fixes for non-default feature options and a few exotic compilers
* Duktape can now be compiled with Emscripten and executed with e.g. V8,
"Dukweb" provides an example where Duktape runs on a web page, with
Duktape and the browser Javascript environment interacting
0.11.0 (2014-07-11)
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* Add a built-in module loader (i.e. a require() function) based on CommonJS
modules v1.1.1; user must always provide a module search function
(Duktape.modSearch)
* Add Object.setPrototypeOf() and Object.prototype.__proto__, both borrowed
from ES2015 draft, to improve internal prototype handling
* Add proxy objects borrowed from ES2015 draft to allow property
virtualization, subset limited to the following traps: has, get, set,
deleteProperty, enumerate, ownKeys
* Add property name as a non-standard setter/getter argument to make it
possible to share a single setter/getter pair for multiple properties
* Allow non-standard dollar escape inside character classes (previously
they were already allowed elsewhere), to support non-standard regexps
like /[\\$]/
* Add debug API calls to dump the stack top and values in the current context,
see e.g. duk_dump_context_stdout
* Add convenience API calls: duk_push_uint(), duk_get_global_string()
* Add more variants for eval/compile (such as duk_eval_lstring() and
duk_compile_lstring()) and avoid interning the source code when compiling
from a user provided string (useful in low memory environments)
* Add duk_copy() API call, essentially shorthand for duk_dup() + duk_replace()
* Align duk_to_fixed_buffer() arguments and return value with duk_to_buffer()
(this is an API incompatible change); add duk_to_dynamic_buffer()
* Implement the DUK_COMPILE_FUNCTION flag for duk_compile()
* Remove Duktape.line() as redundant to Duktape.act()
* Serialize negative zero as '-0' in JSONX and JSONC
* Public API C typing wrapped behind typedefs to allow porting to more exotic
platforms, e.g. platforms where "int" is a 16-bit type; API docs updated to
describe how type wrapping affects calling code (see new section "C types")
* Internal C typing wrapped throughout to allow porting to more exotic
platforms, e.g. platforms where "int" is a 16-bit type
* Rename some feature options (DUK_OPT_xxx) for consistency, please check
any options you use against the up-to-date options list
* Rename Duktape.errcreate and Duktape.errthrow to Duktape.errCreate and
Duktape.errThrow for naming consistency
* Rename Duktape's custom JSONX format to avoid confusion with JSONx
(XML encoding for JSON); new names are JX and JC ('jx' and 'jc' in APIs,
DUK_OPT_NO_JX and DUK_OPT_NO_JC in feature options)
* Compact the automatic function .prototype property, which previously had
1 unused property slot
* Use 'anon' instead of 'empty' for the function name in toString() coercion
of an anonymous function, matching traceback behavior
* The expressions !0 and !1 are now constant folded by the compiler as they're
often found in minified code; also !true and !false are constant folded
* Remove the 256 character limitation for duk_log(), log messages can now be
arbitrarily long but short messages (<= 256) are still formatted efficiently
using a stack buffer
* Improve non-C99 build: type detection should now work on (some) 64-bit
platforms too, and non-debug build should now generate much fewer (or no)
warnings; this also improves C++ build
* Add support for X32 ABI (gcc -mx32 option)
* Move platform and feature detection into duktape.h, also for internal
types, which allows type wrappers to be applied to the public API
* Add a safety limit for compiled bytecode byte size and maximum line number
used to ensure pc-to-line internal data structure limits are not exceeded
* Fix a number conversion related incorrect assertion triggered by the
test262 test suite
* Fix JSON.parse() handling for '__proto__' named own property, which
should be parsed as a normal property of that name instead of changing
the object's prototype
* Fix a duk_push_sprintf() bug: for long formatted strings Duktape would
reuse a va_list without copying it, which lead to memory unsafe behavior
* Fix a 'delete' bug: if delete target was a string and key was 'length' or
a valid character index, value stack was left in an inconsistent state in
non-strict mode (caused an assertion failure)
* Fix a rare math optimization issue in the Date built-in, which caused a
corner case test (test-bi-date-canceling.js) to fail on e.g. 64-bit Ubuntu,
gcc 4.8.1, -m32, and no -std=c99
* Fix a few corner case pointer wrapping bugs in duk_set_top() and a few
other value stack index handling functions
* Portability fix for avoiding potentially non-portable signed integer
constants internally (e.g. use 0x7fffffffL - 1L instead of -0x80000000L);
this fixed a concrete problem with at least VS2010 + x64
* Portability fix for avoiding direct function pointers to built-in functions
(especially math functions) because they may be implemented as inline
functions or macros on some platforms or polyfill headers
* Portability fixes for MSVC, avoid secure CRT warnings to work better with
Windows Store apps
* Portability fixes for VS2010, avoid ending up with a packed value
representation on x64 when standard integer headers are not available
(also added a self test to catch such cases)
* Reduce warnings generated by /Wp64 option of VS2010 when compiling for
x86; the remainings warnings are harmless and cannot be completely removed,
see guide documentation for more information
* Portability fix for DUK_OPT_SEGFAULT_ON_PANIC when C99 types are not
available
* Portability fixes for uclibc, use a replacement for e.g. fpclassify()
because it is broken in some uclibc versions still in use (affected at
least some mixed endian ARM environments)
* Portability fixes for newer Emscripten version, Dukweb.js now works with
Firefox
* A few polyfills for non-standard but still commonly used features are
provided in the distributable polyfills/ directory
* AUTHORS.txt is now included in the distributable, and both LICENSE.txt and
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AUTHORS.txt are embedded into duktape.c and duktape.h to ensure they're
automatically included when used in another project
0.12.0 (2014-09-26)
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* Beta release for stabilization: feature freeze until 1.0.0 release, most
work will be testing, bug fixes, and documentation
* Remove undocumented duk_xmove(), add duk_xmove_top() and duk_xcopy_top()
(duk_xcopy_top() provides the same semantics as the earlier undocumented
duk_xmove())
* Change strictness behavior for Duktape API calls: all API calls now have
Ecmascript strict semantics, even when a call is made with an empty call
stack outside of any Duktape/C function
* Change strictness handling of duk_eval() and variants so that all code is
evaluated in non-strict mode by default (unless the code itself contains
a "use strict" directive); without this change the strictness would depend
on whether a Duktape/C function call was active or not
* Change Array.prototype.concat() and Array.prototype.map() behavior so that
trailing non-existent elements are counted towards the result array length;
this behavior seems to be non-standard but is the real world behavior used
by V8, Rhino, and Spidermonkey at least
* Add API call duk_set_global_object() which allows the global object of a
context to be replaced; this is useful as an initial mechanism for proper
sandboxing of Ecmascript code
* Add API calls duk_get_prototype() and duk_set_prototype() for getting and
setting an object's "internal prototype" from C code
* Add API calls duk_get_finalizer() and duk_set_finalizer() for getting and
setting an object's finalizer from C code
* Add API calls for function "magic" which allows a 16-bit signed integer
to be associated (cheaply) with a Duktape/C function
* Treat any strings whose byte representation begins with 0xFF as internal,
so that user code can use hidden internal properties like Duktape does
internally; such properties are not enumerated or returned by e.g.
getOwnPropertyNames()
* Fix the object property allocation resizing algorithm to avoid unbounded
memory usage with some insert/delete sequences
(see test-bug-object-prop-alloc-unbounded.js)
* Use an equivalent year (matching leap-year-ness and weekday of Jan 1) for
local tzoffset calculations outside the [1971,2037] year range to improve
local time handling
* Use gmtime() + localtime() on Unix (instead of gmtime() twice) for local
tzoffset, fixing some DST cases
* Improve parsing of a local time (new Date(2012, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)) using an
iterative algorithm to get a more accurate tzoffset/DST estimate
* Apply E5.1 Section 15.3.5.4 TypeError throwing also when the property value
is a bound strict function, previously the special "caller" property
behavior was only applied when "caller" value was a non-bound strict mode
function
* Reject deletion of plain buffer indexed elements (previously this behavior
was implemented only for Buffer objects), i.e. delete returns false (in
non-strict functions) or throws a TypeError (in strict functions)
* Reject empty throw statement ('throw;') and reject a newline which occurs
between a 'throw' and its argument
* Disable internal interrupt mechanism in anticipation of 1.0 release since
there will be no API to use it
* Fix value stack reserve handling for function calls: a function call
(Ecmascript or Duktape/C) might reduce the valstack "checked size" which
was previously requested by user code (for more detail, see API test case
test-dev-valstack-checked-size-call.c)
* Fix finalizer handling for Proxy objects: if a Proxy object was reachable
at heap destruction and the target object had a finalizer, the finalizer
would also be executed for the Proxy object
* Fix a few Date bugs for large out-of-range years which caused some assert
failures and incorrect behavior when year was out of Ecmascript range (e.g.
year 870e6 and year -200e6)
* Minor compile warnings fixes for non-default options (e.g. when reference
counting is disabled)
* Make objects and functions defined by included polyfills non-enumerable so
that they don't enumerate e.g. in a for-in loop
* A few more polyfills
1.0.0 (2014-10-26)
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* Feature complete baseline release
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* Add convenience API call: duk_put_global_string()
* Rename duk_is_fixed() to duk_is_fixed_buffer() and duk_is_dynamic() to
duk_is_dynamic_buffer() for consistency with other API calls
* Rename Duktape internal keys to start with an uppercase character (e.g.
"\\xFFValue") so that user internal keys which begin with a lowercase
character (e.g. "\\xFFptr") won't conflict by default
* Add OS and compiler strings to Duktape.env
* Make error 'tracedata' an internal property for better sandboxing
* Rename members of struct duk_memory_functions to have a "_func" suffix,
to avoid conflicting with standard library names (which is problematic if
the standard names are #defines)
* Add DUK_OPT_DLL_BUILD, which should be enabled for both Duktape and
application build when Duktape is built as a DLL; on Windows it makes
Duktape use __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport) for public
API symbols
* Rename RELEASES.txt, AUTHORS.txt, and README.txt files to .rst suffix for
better automatic formatting
* Fix a mark-and-sweep finalizer bug which could cause memory safety issues
when finalizer execution was disabled for a mark-and-sweep round
* Fix a mark-and-sweep zero-size realloc() bug which could happen when an
initial zero-size realloc() failed (this shouldn't normally happen but
was triggered by GC torture testing)
* Fix an assertion failure when using labelled block statements; some
labelled block statements still cause an internal error ("INVALID
opcode 0") but don't cause assert failures
* Fix an assertion failure when using a try-catch in a function with a lot
of constants (more than 511 string or non-integer constants); a compile
error happens now instead to prevent unsafe behavior
* Fix duk_dump_context_stderr() which incorrectly dumped to stdout
* Fix require() resolution of relative module identifiers, which was off by
one component (GH-48)
* Fix DUK_INVALID_INDEX define value, it used INT_MIN directly
* Fix return value of Duktape.gc() to return true (instead of false) for
a successful mark-and-sweep
* Fix duk_peval_file(), duk_peval_file_noresult() and duk_pcompile_file()
to avoid throwing an error for a missing file
* Fix compile error for DUK_OPT_NO_FILE_IO
* Regexp internal limit errors changed from Error to RangeError
* Change command line example to be "barebones" by default, with readline
enabled via DUK_CMDLINE_FANCY
* Use variadic macros for VS2005+
1.0.1 (2014-10-31)
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* Fix compile error for DUK_OPT_NO_PC2LINE
* Fix fileName for functions defined in a module loaded using require(),
previously fileName would always be duk_bi_global.c which is misleading
(GH-58)
1.0.2 (2014-11-08)
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* Quick fix for C++ compilation issue caused by Duktape using both
static declaration and a static define which is not allowed in C++;
the quick fix is to avoid "static" entirely with C++ (GH-63)
1.1.0 (2015-01-09)
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* Main release goal: improved low memory support to allow Duktape to run
better on devices with 128kB (or even 96kB) system memory; with the changes
in this release, Duktape initial RAM usage is reduced from about 46kB to
22kB for a 32-bit target when all low memory features are enabled
* Add lightfunc (DUK_TYPE_LIGHTFUNC) primitive type, representing a
Duktape/C function with a plain tagged value without any heap allocations
* Add duk_push_c_lightfunc() and duk_is_lightfunc() API calls to push user
lightfuncs on the value stack and to check if a value is a lightfunc
* Add feature option DUK_OPT_LIGHTFUNC_BUILTINS which causes Duktape to use
lightfuncs for almost all built-in functions, saving around 14kB of Duktape
heap on 32-bit platforms
* Add multiple feature options to use 16-bit fields and pointer compression
for reducing memory usage on low memory systems, see doc/low-memory.rst
for detailed discussion
* Add DUK_OPT_EXTERNAL_STRINGS to enable support for external strings which
are like dynamic buffers: a fixed size string header is allocated from the
Duktape heap, but the data is behind a pointer
* Add DUK_OPT_EXTSTR_INTERN_CHECK and DUK_OPT_EXTSTR_FREE (used with
DUK_OPT_EXTERNAL_STRINGS) to allow string data to be held outside the
Duktape heap, which is useful in low memory environments; see
doc/low-memory.rst for detailed discussion
* Add DUK_OPT_STRTAB_CHAIN and DUK_OPT_STRTAB_CHAIN_SIZE=nnn which enable
an alternate string table algorithm intended for low memory environments;
the algorithm uses separate chaining with arrays, making allocation
behavior easier to handle using a pool allocator, see doc/low-memory.rst
* Add duk_def_prop() which allows creation of accessor (getter/setter)
properties and other custom properties from C code (instead of using
Object.defineProperty() from Ecmascript code)
* Add duk_is_error() API call to check if a value inherits from Error
* Add duk_get_error_code() API call to check if a value inherits from
Error, and if so, map its error class to DUK_ERR_xxx codes so that
checking for built-in errors is more convenient
* Add duk_get_heapptr(), duk_require_heapptr(), and duk_push_heapptr()
to get borrowed void pointer references to Duktape heap objects
(objects, strings, buffers)
* Add vararg variants duk_error_va(), duk_push_error_object_va(), and
duk_log_va()
* Add DUK_GIT_DESCRIBE macro to the C API (with no Ecmascript equivalent)
to allow application code to e.g. log more detailed version information
relevant for non-official snapshot builds
* Add feature option DUK_OPT_NO_STRICT_DECL to disable support for "use
strict" declarations which may be useful with legacy code bases
* Add DUK_OPT_SETJMP, DUK_OPT_UNDERSCORE_SETJMP, and DUK_OPT_SIGSETJMP to
force an alternative provider for long control transfers; _setjmp() or
sigsetjmp() (with savesigs set to 0) can be a lot faster than setjmp()
if the platform's setjmp() implementation saves the signal mask (GH-55)
* Default to _setjmp() for long control transfers on OSX/iPhone (when
__APPLE__ is defined) (GH-55)
* Add SuperH detection support
* Change JSON.stringify() to escape U+2028 and U+2029 by default to make
the output a valid Javascript string, so that it can be embedded in a
web page or parsed with eval (GH-68)
* Change JSON.parse() to include a byte offset with a syntax error to help
pinpoint JSON errors
* Make Function.prototype.name writable so that application code can set
a 'name' property on Duktape/C functions (GH-79)
* Change buffer maximum size check to compare against allocated size
(including spare) instead of requested size (without spare), this has
a practical impact only when using 16-bit buffer size field
* Use deep C stack for dukweb.js to remove some compiler recursion limit
limitations (GH-67)
* Add an example allocator with alloc/realloc/free logging, which is
useful when optimizing e.g. pool sizes for low memory targets
* Add an example allocator with memory wiping, red zones for invalid
writes, and forced address change on realloc, which can be used for
detecting memory safety issues on platforms where valgrind is not
available
* Add an example allocator with a hybrid model where a fixed set of small
pools are used to reduce allocator churn, but the allocator falls back
to malloc, realloc, and free for larger allocation sizes or when there
are no free pool entries
* Add an SPDX 1.2 license into the distributable
* Fix INVALID opcode error for some labelled non-iteration statements
(GH-85)
* Fix a few missing "volatile" attributes in the bytecode executor which
affected setjmp handling in clang (especially for _setjmp and sigsetjmp),
also fix a few setjmp clobber warnings in executor
* Fix compile error for DUK_OPT_NO_PC2LINE
* Better fix for C++ compilation issue caused by Duktape using both
static declaration and a static define which is not allowed in C++
(GH-63)
* Fix compiler specific behavior when assigning a string to a buffer index
(e.g. buf[3] = 'x'), now NaN coerces consistently to zero (this was the
behavior on most compilers but e.g. on Linux MIPS NaN coerced to 255)
* Fix fileName for functions defined in a module loaded using require(),
previously fileName would always be duk_bi_global.c which is misleading
(GH-58)
* Fix object literal getter/setter definition to avoid creating a binding
for the function (property) name, so that a setter/getter can access an
outside variable with the same name as the get/set property (see
test-bug-getset-func-name.js for details)
* Fix JSON.parse() syntax error for explicitly positive exponents (e.g.
'1.5e+2') (GH-93)
* Fix duk_push_error_object() return value for platforms where variadic
macros are not available
* Don't fail compilation if SIZE_MAX is < 0xffffffffUL, to allow compilation
on platforms where SIZE_MAX is (apparently) incorrectly defined
* Fix several compile warnings with gcc 4.9.2 (GH-91)
* Fix MinGW and Cygwin GCC compile warning "visibility attribute not
supported in this configuration; ignored" when using separate sources
* Fix MSVC const difference warning
* Fix <inttypes.h> issue for older C++ compilers by defining
__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS and __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS before including
stdint.h and inttypes.h
* Fix various warnings and errors detected in option matrix testing
1.1.1 (2015-02-17)
------------------
* Fix Unicode handling of CJK ideographs and Hangul which were incorrectly
not accepted in identifier names (GH-103)
* Fix function parsing bug where the left curly brace opening the function
body was not checked and Duktape would accept e.g. "function () [}"
(GH-106)
* Fix compiler register limit bug where an Ecmascript function with
[65536,262143] VM registers would be compiled into incorrect bytecode
instead of being rejected with an internal error (GH-111)
* Fix compiler shuffle register handling by doing a pass 3 compile if
necessary, fixing "CSPROPI target is not a number" error (GH-115)
* Fix value stack setup bug which caused a segfault with large number of
arguments (GH-107)
1.1.2 (2015-03-17)
------------------
* Fix assignment evaluation order issue which affected expressions like
"a[i] = b[i++]" (GH-118)
* Fix incorrect parsing of zero escape in regexp class ("[\0]") (GH-122)
* Fix tail call issue in return comma expression when a function call
in the comma expression was followed by a constant value or a register
bound variable, e.g. 'return 0, (function { return 1; })(), 2;' would
return 1 instead of 2 (GH-131)
* Fix for-in statement shuffle bug which caused enumeration to fail
in large functions which enable register shuffling (GH-132)
* Fix shuffle handling issue for PUTPROP opcode, discovered by shuffle
torture tests (GH-135)
10 years ago
1.1.3 (2015-04-03)
------------------
* Fix Duktape.act() lineNumber bug, PC used for lineNumber was off-by-one
which sometimes resulted in incorrect linenumbers (GH-143)
* Fix incorrect switch-case matching when default clause is the first clause
in a switch statement (GH-155)
* Fix a few compiler warnings (GH-141)
1.2.0 (2015-04-05)
------------------
* Main release goals: debugger support and performance improvements
* Add first iteration of experimental debugger support which is based on a
narrow debug API and a standard debug protocol; Duktape also provides an
example debug client with a web UI, and a JSON debug proxy
* Add support "fastints", i.e. for using integer arithmetic when possible
in a transparent manner (improves performance for some workloads on soft
float and some hard float platforms)
* Add DUK_OPT_EXEC_TIMEOUT_CHECK(), an experimental bytecode execution timeout
mechanism to safely bail out if script execution takes too long; this
protects against accidental errors but is not (yet) intended to protect
against deliberately malicious code
* Internal performance improvement: direct refcount manipulation from macros
instead of doing a helper function call
* Internal performance improvement: hex encode/decode optimizations
* Internal performance improvement: shorter internal chain for API push
functions like duk_push_undefined()
* Performance improvement: array write fast path when writing to "dense"
Array instances using a numeric index
* Add internal type tag to Duktape.info() result for non-heap-allocated types
(useful for some testing)
* Accept 32-bit codepoints in String.fromCharCode() to better support non-BMP
strings (GH-120)
* Make RegExp compiler/executor C stack limit higher on mainstream platforms
(GH-157)
* Add source code fileName/lineNumber to errors thrown during compilation
(GH-140)
* Improve MIPS32/MIPS64 detection, architecture strings in Duktape.env
also updated ("mips32" or "mips64") (GH-102)
* Add iPhone/iOS strings to Duktape.env
* Add support for TI-Nspire (using Ndless, see GH-113)
* Fix Unicode handling of CJK ideographs and Hangul which were incorrectly
not accepted in identifier names (GH-103)
* Fix function parsing bug where the left curly brace opening the function
body was not checked and Duktape would accept e.g. "function () [}"
(GH-106)
* Fix compiler register limit bug where an Ecmascript function with
[65536,262143] VM registers would be compiled into incorrect bytecode
instead of being rejected with an internal error (GH-111)
* Fix buffer assignment to allow negative values: buf[3] = -1 now yields 0xFF
(in Duktape 1.1 yields 0x00 because negative values are capped to 0)
* Fix compiler shuffle register handling by doing a pass 3 compile if
necessary, fixing "CSPROPI target is not a number" error (GH-115)
* Fix value stack setup bug which caused a segfault with large number of
arguments (GH-107)
* Fix incorrect parsing of zero escape in regexp class ("[\0]") (GH-122)
* Fix assignment evaluation order issue which affected expressions like
"a[i] = b[i++]" (GH-118)
* Fix tail call issue in return comma expression when a function call
in the comma expression was followed by a constant value or a register
bound variable, e.g. 'return 0, (function { return 1; })(), 2;' would
return 1 instead of 2 (GH-131)
* Fix for-in statement shuffle bug which caused enumeration to fail
in large functions which enable register shuffling (GH-132)
* Fix shuffle handling issue for PUTPROP opcode, discovered by shuffle
torture tests (GH-135)
* Fix a potential crash risk in Duktape.info() caused by a live pointer being
used across a possible realloc
* Fix Duktape.act() lineNumber bug, PC used for lineNumber was off-by-one
which sometimes resulted in incorrect linenumbers (GH-143)
* Fix incorrect switch-case matching when default clause is the first clause
in a switch statement (GH-155)
10 years ago
* Fix a few compiler warnings (GH-141)
1.2.1 (2015-04-08)
------------------
* Fix duk_push_nan() NaN normalization bug which caused segfaults when using
MSVC on x86 and potentially on other 32-bit platforms (GH-168)
1.2.2 (2015-06-02)
------------------
* Fix harmless MSVC warnings when using DUK_OPT_FASTINT on x86 (GH-172)
* Fix compile error from array fast path when using low memory options
(GH-174)
* Fix harmless MSVC warnings for size_t casts on x64 (GH-177)
* Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in duk_is_dynamic_buffer() and
duk_is_fixed_buffer() when index is outside of value stack (GH-206)
1.2.3 (2015-08-09)
------------------
* Fix bytecode execution timeout regression which caused timeouts to fail
after the first execution timeout had been triggered (GH-212)
* Fix a few pointer compression issues (DUK_OPT_HEAPPTR16 / DUK_USE_HEAPPTR16)
on 64-bit platforms (GH-228)
* Fix JX parsing bug which caused strings like "1Infinity" to be parsed as
negative infinity instead of causing a SyntaxError (GH-247)
* Fix accidental ToString(this) coercion in Error.prototype.fileName and
Error.prototype.lineNumber which was an issue if you replaced
Error.prototype.toString with a function that accessed the 'lineNumber'
or 'fileName' property of the error (GH-254)
1.2.4 (2015-09-06)
------------------
* Fix a try-finally finalizer side effect issue by scrubbing TRYCATCH catch
registers before executing the try code block (GH-287)
* Fix missing activation lookup from call handling after an Arguments object
was created, this could in theory lead to memory unsafe behavior (GH-305)
* Avoid including <windows.h> for application build (GH-312)
9 years ago
1.2.5 (2015-11-23)
------------------
* Fix duk_is_primitive() return value for invalid index, was incorrectly 1
(GH-337)
* Fix assignment expression handling of the right-hand-side value when that
value is a register-bound variable which is used and mutated in the rest
of the expression (GH-381)
* Remove octal autodetection in parseInt(), also fixes incorrect octal
autodetection in e.g. "parseInt('00e1', 16)" (GH-413, GH-414)
* Fix a bug in number conversion resolving a few (but not all) corner case
rounding issues (GH-264)
* Fix a segfault (and assertion error) caused by compiler intermediate value
handling bug; the bug was triggered when a temporary register was required
by the compiler, but an existing "intermediate value" referred to a const
instead of a register value (GH-449)
9 years ago
1.2.6 (2016-04-19)
------------------
* Fix potentially memory unsafe behavior when a refcount-triggered finalizer
function rescues an object; the memory unsafe behavior doesn't happen
immediately which makes the cause of the unsafe behavior difficult to
diagnose (GH-531)
* Fix debugger detach handling bug which could cause the debugger to be
re-entered recursively during detach handling; this could cause various
difficult to diagnose side effects (GH-599, GH-597, GH-591)
1.3.0 (2015-09-12)
------------------
* Introduce an external duk_config.h header which provides all platform and
configuration specific defines; this makes it easier to adapt Duktape to
custom platforms (GH-64)
* Add support for Node.js Buffer API (GH-152)
* Add support for Khronos/ES2015 TypedArray API (subset of ES2015 API) (GH-151)
* Add duk_push_external_buffer(), duk_is_external_buffer(), and
duk_config_buffer() which provide support for external buffers, i.e. buffer
values which point to a user memory area allocated outside of Duktape heap
(for example, an externally allocated frame buffer) (GH-153)
* Add duk_push_buffer_object() which allows pushing of all buffer object and
buffer view types (GH-190)
* Add duk_get_buffer_data() and duk_require_buffer_data() API calls which
accept both plain buffer and buffer object values (GH-190)
* Add duk_steal_buffer() API call which allows user code to steal the current
allocation of a dynamic buffer which is useful for some buffer manipulation
algorithms (GH-129)
* Add support for module.exports in the module loader framework (GH-201)
* Change Duktape.modLoaded[] module cache to track the "module" object
instead of the "exports" value to better support module.exports and
circular dependencies
* Change debugger breakpoint behavior to trigger only if the exact breakpoint
line is reached to avoid unintuitive breakpoint behavior when breakpoints
are in conditional blocks which are skipped entirely (GH-263)
* Improve Emscripten compatibility as a result of TypedArray support:
Emscripten fastcomp can now be used and Duktape can run more complex
Emscripten-compiled programs (e.g. Lua or Duktape itself)
* Internal performance improvement: add a fast path for JSON.stringify(),
active when no replacer and no indent used; fast path is not enabled
by default because it makes some non-portable type assumptions (GH-204)
* Minor change to plain buffer and Duktape.Buffer write coercion for
consistency with Node.js Buffer and TypeArray, e.g. -Infinity now
coerces to 0x00 rather than 0xFF
* Add support for an external date/time provider to make porting the Date
built-in to exotic platforms easier
* Add duk_dump_function() and duk_load_function() API calls which provide
bytecode dump/load support (GH-27)
* Add duk_pnew() API call (GH-124)
* Add duk_instanceof() API call (GH-148)
* Add Proxy object support to 'instanceof' operator (without support for
'getPrototypeOf' trap) (GH-182)
* Add explicit 'this' binding for C eval calls so that strict eval code also
gets 'this' bound to the global object (GH-164)
* Change typing of "duk_context" from "void" to "struct duk_hthread" which
should improve compiler warnings/errors when accidentally passing an invalid
"ctx" pointer to a Duktape API call (GH-178)
* Add internal assertions for validating the "ctx" pointer beyond just a NULL
check (GH-178)
* Add platform detection support for AmigaOS on PowerPC (GH-269)
* Internal performance improvement: improve bytecode opcode dispatch
performance (GH-265, GH-294)
* Internal performance improvement: improve bytecode executor constant
lookups (GH-295)
* Internal performance improvement: improve lexer tokenization (GH-207)
* Internal performance improvement: add several fast paths to JSON parse
and stringify; remove explicit end-of-input check from JSON parsing
relying on (guaranteed) NUL termination instead (GH-139, GH-209)
* Internal performance improvements from removing dynamic buffer spare:
small improvements to lexer, compiler bytecode emission, JSON parse() and
stringify(), duk_map_string(), global object escape(), unescape() and
variants, regexp compilation, string case conversion, and a few other
places (GH-209)
* Sizeof(duk_hbuffer_dynamic) reduced from 16 to 12 bytes for low memory
builds which employ heap compression (GH-209)
* Increase try-catch register limit (from 511 to 262143) to fix try-catch
out-of-register issues for most code (GH-145)
* Remove DUK_OPT_DEEP_C_STACK (and DUK_USE_DEEP_C_STACK) in favor of explicit
DUK_USE_xxx config options for native recursion limits; C stacks are assumed
to be deep by default for all targets including OSX/iPhone (GH-165, GH-226)
* Make Proxy internal _Target and _Handler properties immutable (non-writable
and non-configurable) (GH-237)
* Remove internal support for dynamic buffer spare; improves performance a
bit, reduces duk_hbuffer_dynamic footprint for both normal and low memory
header (GH-209)
* Incompatible change to debugger DumpHeap command format: dynamic buffer
alloc size is no long sent because it was removed from the internal data
structure (GH-209)
* Add example debug transport with local dvalue encoding and decoding, also
provides a C example for encoding and decoding dvalues (GH-251)
* Provide at least 10 callstack entries for error handling (Duktape.errCreate)
when callstack limit is reached (GH-191)
* Fix a try-finally finalizer side effect issue by scrubbing TRYCATCH catch
registers before executing the try code block (GH-287)
* Fix missing activation lookup from call handling after an Arguments object
was created, this could in theory lead to memory unsafe behavior (GH-305)
* Fix debugger GetCallStack line number handling for callstack entries below
the callstack top (GH-281)
* Fix debugger breakpoint/pause check when a function call is caused by a side
effect like a property getter call (GH-303)
* Fix object environment handling to allow Proxy object as a binding
target, so that a Proxy can be used in a with statement or as the
duk_set_global_object() argument (GH-221)
* Fix accidental ToString(this) coercion in Error.prototype.fileName and
Error.prototype.lineNumber which was an issue if you replaced
Error.prototype.toString with a function that accessed the 'lineNumber'
or 'fileName' property of the error (GH-254)
* Fix bytecode execution timeout regression which caused timeouts to fail
after the first execution timeout had been triggered (GH-212)
* Fix some corner cases in execution timeout handling which caused some
timeouts to be missed (GH-214)
* Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in duk_is_dynamic_buffer() and
duk_is_fixed_buffer() when index is outside of value stack (GH-206)
* Fix duk_push_nan() NaN normalization bug which caused segfaults when using
MSVC on x86 and potentially on other 32-bit platforms (GH-168)
* Fix JX parsing bug which caused strings like "1Infinity" to be parsed as
negative infinity instead of causing a SyntaxError (GH-247)
* Fix duk_is_primitive() return value for invalid index, was incorrectly 1
(GH-337)
* Fix compile error from array fast path when using low memory options
(GH-174)
* Fix a few pointer compression issues (DUK_OPT_HEAPPTR16 / DUK_USE_HEAPPTR16)
on 64-bit platforms (GH-228)
* Fix a bug in number conversion resolving a few (but not all) corner case
rounding issues (GH-264)
* Fix IAR Compiler compilation error caused by volatiles in argument list
(GH-318)
* Fix harmless MSVC warnings when using DUK_OPT_FASTINT on x86 (GH-172)
* Fix harmless MSVC warnings for size_t casts on x64 (GH-177)
* Avoid including <windows.h> for application build (GH-312)
1.3.1 (2015-11-27)
------------------
* Fix assignment expression handling of the right-hand-side value when that
value is a register-bound variable which is used and mutated in the rest
of the expression (GH-381)
* Fix nested property assignment handling (GH-427, GH-428)
* Fix property access expression handling when a variable holding the base
value is mutated by other parts of the expression, in both LHS and RHS
positions (GH-429)
* Remove octal autodetection in parseInt(), also fixes incorrect octal
autodetection in e.g. "parseInt('00e1', 16)" (GH-413, GH-414)
* Fix a segfault (and assertion error) caused by compiler intermediate value
handling bug; the bug was triggered when a temporary register was required
by the compiler, but an existing "intermediate value" referred to a const
instead of a register value (GH-449)
1.3.2 (2016-01-11)
------------------
* Fix segfault (assertion failure when asserts enabled) in
String.prototype.replace() when match argument is RegExp.prototype
(GH-492, GH-495)
* Fix a bogus trailing semicolon in the duk_push_buffer() API macro which
caused compilation errors if duk_push_buffer() was e.g. part of a comma
expression (GH-500, GH-501)
1.3.3 (2016-04-17)
------------------
* Fix potentially memory unsafe behavior when a refcount-triggered finalizer
function rescues an object; the memory unsafe behavior doesn't happen
immediately which makes the cause of the unsafe behavior difficult to
diagnose (GH-531)
* Fix memory unsafe behavior when an external plain buffer was allocated
with heap pointer compression enabled (DUK_USE_HEAPPTR16) (GH-618)
1.4.0 (2016-01-10)
------------------
* Add support for using C++ exceptions instead of setjmp()/longjmp() to
propagate errors inside Duktape, enabled using DUK_OPT_CPP_EXCEPTIONS
(DUK_USE_CPP_EXCEPTIONS); this change allows C++ code to use scope-based
resource management (automatic destructor calls) in Duktape/C functions
with the cleanup code executing on errors (GH-63, GH-75, GH-499)
* Add minimal support for "const" declarations with non-standard semantics,
intended mainly for minimal compatibility with existing code using "const"
(GH-360)
* Add a human readable summary of object/key for rejected property operations
and function calls to make error messages more useful for expressions like
"null.foo = 123" and "null()" (GH-210, GH-405, GH-417)
* Add a debugger Throw notify for errors about to be thrown, and an option
to automatically pause before an uncaught error is thrown (GH-286, GH-347)
* Add a debugger Detaching notify which informs a debug client of an orderly
(or non-orderly) pending detach (GH-423, GH-430, GH-434)
* Allow debugger detached callback to call duk_debugger_attach(), previously
this clobbered some internal state (GH-399)
* Add defines DUK_DEFPROP_{SET,CLEAR}_{WRITABLE,ENUMERABLE,CONFIGURABLE} for
duk_def_prop() to improve call site readability (GH-421)
* Add convenience API calls to detect specific error subtypes, e.g.
duk_is_eval_error() (GH-340, GH-433)
* Make Error instance .filename, .lineNumber, and .stack directly writable
to match V8 and Spidermonkey behavior; the previous behavior is provided
by polyfills/duktape-error-setter-nonwritable.js (GH-390)
* Accept a plain buffer in typed array constructors with same behavior as
for Duktape.Buffer arguments (use as a value initializer) (GH-484)
* Zero buffer data in ArrayBuffer and typed array constructors even when
DUK_USE_ZERO_BUFFER_DATA is not set (default is set) to respect explicit
zeroing guarantee of Khronos/ES2015 (GH-484)
* Add duk_require_function() and duk_require_callable() (GH-441)
* Improve error message verbosity for API index check calls, duk_require_xxx()
calls, and Array iterator calls (GH-441)
* Improve error object .fileName and .lineNumber attribution: if a callstack
function is missing a .fileName property, scan the callstack until a
function with a .fileName is found which improves error reporting for e.g.
"[1,2,3].forEach(null)" (GH-455)
* Provide a stronger finalizer re-entry guarantee than before: a finalizer
is called exactly once (at the latest in heap destruction) unless the
target object is rescued, in which case the finalizer is called once per
"rescue cycle" (GH-473)
* Better finalizer behavior for heap destruction: finalized objects may
create new finalizable objects whose finalizers will also be called
(GH-473)
* Add a second argument to finalizer calls, a boolean value which is true
when the finalizer is called during heap destruction as part of forced
finalization; the finalized object cannot be rescued by the finalizer
in such cases (GH-473)
* Add a combined duktape.c without #line directives into the dist package,
as it is a useful alternative in some environments (GH-363)
* Add a short term workaround for case sensitive RegExp performance using a
128kB canonicalization lookup table; the workaround is disabled by default
because of the relatively large code footprint, enable using
DUK_OPT_REGEXP_CANON_WORKAROUND or DUK_USE_REGEXP_CANON_WORKAROUND if
editing duk_config.h directly (GH-411)
* Add a fastint downgrade check for yield/resume values (GH-482)
* Improve error message for source code UTF-8 decode error (GH-504, GH-506)
* Fix a segfault (and assertion error) caused by compiler intermediate value
handling bug; the bug was triggered when a temporary register was required
by the compiler, but an existing "intermediate value" referred to a const
instead of a register value (GH-449)
* Fix compile warnings for gcc/clang -Wcast-qual (GH-426)
* Fix "debugger" statement line number off-by-one so that the debugger now
correctly pauses on the debugger statement rather than after it (GH-347)
* Fix assignment expression handling of the right-hand-side value when that
value is a register-bound variable which is used and mutated in the rest
of the expression (GH-381)
* Fix nested property assignment handling (GH-427, GH-428)
* Fix property access expression handling when a variable holding the base
value is mutated by other parts of the expression, in both LHS and RHS
positions (GH-429)
* Fix Unix local time offset handling which caused issues at least on RISC
OS (GH-406, GH-407)
* Fix a bug in stack trace ellipsis ("[...]") handling: previously the
ellipsis might be emitted up to 2 callstack levels too early because
the presence of a compilation error and/or a C call site was not taken
into account in stack trace creation (GH-455)
* Fix a bogus trailing semicolon in the duk_push_buffer() API macro which
caused compilation errors if duk_push_buffer() was e.g. part of a comma
expression (GH-500, GH-501)
* Fix segfault (assertion failure when asserts enabled) in
String.prototype.replace() when match argument is RegExp.prototype
(GH-492, GH-495)
* Remove octal autodetection in parseInt(), also fixes incorrect octal
autodetection in e.g. "parseInt('00e1', 16)" (GH-413, GH-414)
* Fix base64 decode reject for whitespace between padding characters
(e.g. "Zm= =") (GH-465)
* Internal performance improvement: rework RETURN opcode handling to avoid
longjmp() calls, improving performance slightly on ordinary platforms and
significantly on Emscripten (GH-342, GH-345)
* Internal performance improvement: rework BREAK and CONTINUE opcode handling
to avoid longjmp() calls, improving performance slightly on ordinary
platforms and significantly on Emscripten (GH-348)
* Internal performance improvement: improve bytecode emitted when compiling
assignment statements with an identifier left-hand-side value, especially
when the assignment is a top level expression like "x = y + z;" (GH-380)
* Internal performance improvement: split bytecode executor and call handling
into an inner and outer function, with the outer function containing a
setjmp/longjmp catch point and the inner function free of setjmp/longjmp
(GH-369, GH-370, GH-498)
* Internal performance improvement: change value stack initialization policy
so that values above current value stack top are set to "undefined" instead
of "unused" to improve call performance (GH-389)
* Internal performance improvement: use a separate 'unused' tag instead of a
sub-type of 'undefined' to e.g. mark gaps in arrays (GH-396)
* Internal performance improvement: rework "effective this" handling for
better call performance (GH-397)
* Internal performance improvement: improve duk_push_this() performance by
direct value stack access (GH-403)
* Internal performance improvement: faster computation of string UTF-8
character length in string interning (GH-422)
* Internal performance improvement: change default internal string hash
algorithm to a faster algorithm adapted from Lua/djb2 hash, with the
previous algorithm (based on Murmurhash2) available using a config
option (GH-139, GH-432)
* Internal performance improvement: optimize internal refcount handling
macros (GH-394)
* Internal performance improvement: improve JSON.stringify() slow path
indentation and loop detection performance (GH-444, GH-446)
* Internal performance improvement: improve JSON.stringify() fast path
by allowing indent value or gap string and by supporting JX/JC in the
fast path (GH-445)
* Internal performance improvement: add fast paths for hex and base64
encoding/decoding (GH-465, GH-467, GH-471)
9 years ago
1.4.1 (2016-04-19)
------------------
* Fix potentially memory unsafe behavior when a refcount-triggered finalizer
function rescues an object; the memory unsafe behavior doesn't happen
immediately which makes the cause of the unsafe behavior difficult to
diagnose (GH-531)
* Fix a genconfig legacy feature option bug in Duktape 1.4.0 which caused
DUK_USE_PACKED_TVAL to default to false unless forced using
DUK_OPT_PACKED_TVAL (GH-550)
* Fix debugger Eval handling issue where an uncaught error during Eval
command (with "pause on uncaught" option enabled) would cause a recursive
attempt to halt execution (GH-558, GH-562)
* Fix debugger detach handling bug which could cause the debugger to be
re-entered recursively during detach handling; this could cause various
difficult to diagnose side effects (GH-599, GH-597, GH-591)
* Fix debugger detach handling bug which could cause detach handling to be
initiated but not completed if the debug transport write error occurred
outside of the debugger message loop (for example when writing a Status
notify in running state) (GH-599, GH-597, GH-591)
* Fix debugger transport write error bug which could cause Duktape to call
the debug transport write callback after it had already returned an error
(GH-599)
* Fix memory unsafe behavior when an external plain buffer was allocated
with heap pointer compression enabled (DUK_USE_HEAPPTR16) (GH-618)
1.4.2 (2016-08-29)
------------------
* Fix potential memory unsafe behavior when duk_push_(l)string() data pointer
is from a dynamic/external buffer (or any other relocatable data source)
and a finalizer side effect resizes/reconfigures the buffer, invalidating
the pointer before string table code has time to copy the data (GH-884)
9 years ago
1.5.0 (2016-05-03)
------------------
* Add support for placing Duktape and user strings and objects into ROM
(read-only data section) which reduces the startup RAM usage of a low
memory build to ~3kB (from ~27kB) (GH-559)
* Add debugger heap object inspection commands GetHeapObjInfo, GetObjPropDesc,
and GetObjPropDescRange, which allow a debug client to inspect heap objects
in detail, walk prototype chains, etc (GH-358, GH-617)
* Garbage collection is now automatically disabled when execution is paused
in the debugger, which facilitates safe heap walking (GH-617)
* Add a config option to drop the 16-bit character length field from
duk_hstring to reduce duk_hstring header overhead from 12 to 8 bytes,
which reduces low memory startup size using default RAM-based built-ins
from 27kB to 24kB (GH-642)
* Allow ES2015 unescaped curly braces ('{' and '}') in regular expressions
(non-standard before ES2015 Annex B) when no valid quantifier can be parsed;
this improves compatibility with existing Javascript code which often
assumes support for literal curly braces (GH-142, GH-513, GH-547, GH-565)
* Change Function object .toString() output to be Emscripten compatible:
anonymous functions won't get an automatic "anon" name, and the function
type is indicated using a fake directive rather than a comment; for example,
'function () {"ecmascript"}' (GH-554)
* Make .stack format a bit more user friendly; if you are parsing the stack
trace format this may need changes in your parser (GH-588, GH-592)
* Change automatic filename of compiled functions and eval code from
__FILE__ to "eval" (eval code) or "input" (other compiled code) when no
explicit filename is known; this makes file/line information thrown from
such code more useful in practice (GH-516, GH-644)
* Add support for non-standard module.filename and module.name used for the
internal module wrapper function's .fileName and .name properties
respectively (if unset, defaults are resolved module ID and last component
of the resolved module ID, respectively); these properties affect e.g.
stack traces and can now be controlled by modSearch() (GH-639)
* Add a .name property for the require() functions created for included
modules, so that they have a readable name in stack traces like the top
level require() function (GH-639)
* Add Windows version of the debugger example TCP transport (GH-579)
* Add support for application specific debugger commands (AppRequest) and
notifications (AppNotify) (GH-596, GH-563)
* Add duk_debugger_pause() API which allows the target to quickly pause
Ecmascript execution and break into the debugger (GH-615)
* Add sizeof void pointer to the BasicInfo debugger command (GH-611)
* Extend debugger GetBytecode command to accept an optional callstack level
or direct heap object argument (GH-610)
* A DukLuv-based JSON debug proxy is now included in the dist package;
it should allow much easier and more flexible packaging of a JSON debug
proxy into a debug client (GH-590)
* Use plain integer dvalues when serializing duk_tval numbers in the debugger
protocol when it's safe to do so, i.e. when the plain integer converts back
to an identical IEEE double with no loss of precision (GH-604)
* Change the error type for some current internal errors to RangeError when
the underlying cause is an implementation limit (like compiler temp limit)
rather than an unexpected internal situation (GH-661)
* Minor changes to error message strings (GH-661)
* Avoid reference loop for eval() code (previously caused by an automatic
.prototype property added for the internal function the eval source
compiles to); this allows eval functions to be collected immediately by
reference counting rather than by mark-and-sweep (GH-717)
* Fix potentially memory unsafe behavior when a refcount-triggered finalizer
function rescues an object; the memory unsafe behavior doesn't happen
immediately which makes the cause of the unsafe behavior difficult to
diagnose (GH-531)
* Fix memory unsafe behavior when an external plain buffer was allocated
with heap pointer compression enabled (DUK_USE_HEAPPTR16) (GH-618)
* Fix pointer arithmetic portability issues with platforms/compilers with
exotic pointer models by avoiding arithmetic and binary operations on
(u)intptr_t values (GH-530, GH-539)
* Fix a genconfig legacy feature option bug in Duktape 1.4.0 which caused
DUK_USE_PACKED_TVAL to default to false unless forced using
DUK_OPT_PACKED_TVAL (GH-550)
* Fix debugger Eval handling issue where an uncaught error during Eval
command (with "pause on uncaught" option enabled) would cause a recursive
attempt to halt execution (GH-558, GH-562)
* Fix debugger detach handling bug which could cause the debugger to be
re-entered recursively during detach handling; this could cause various
difficult to diagnose side effects (GH-599, GH-597, GH-591)
* Fix debugger detach handling bug which could cause detach handling to be
initiated but not completed if the debug transport write error occurred
outside of the debugger message loop (for example when writing a Status
notify in running state) (GH-599, GH-597, GH-591)
* Fix debugger transport write error bug which could cause Duktape to call
the debug transport write callback after it had already returned an error
(GH-599)
* Fix debugger PutVar command bug where a failure to read the PutVar variable
value (e.g. due to a transport detach) could lead to memory unsafe behavior
(GH-610)
* Fix JSON.stringify() fast path handling of boxed values to actually call
.toString() and/or .valueOf(); previously the fast path assumed that these
operations wouldn't be overridden by user code and accessed the internal
value directly (GH-447)
* Fix conditional compilation for default alloc providers (enabled by
default using DUK_USE_PROVIDE_DEFAULT_ALLOC_FUNCTIONS) so that if the
option is disabled there's no reference to malloc(), realloc(), or
free() during compilation (GH-695)
* Remove branch hint from around setjmp() for better portability (GH-605)
* Portability improvement for Atari Mint: avoid fmin/fmax (GH-556)
* Portability improvement for VS2012 C++ compilation: avoid double definition
of replacement double constants (GH-595)
* Portability improvement for Windows MSVC: add inline macros (GH-580)
* Portability improvement for FreeBSD: switch to using netinet/in.h header
instead of inet/arpa.h in debugger socket transport example (GH-676)
* Portability improvement: python tooling (genconfig.py, make_dist.py) etc
use sys.executable for launching Python scripts so that e.g. "python2
util/make_dist.py" works on platforms where "python" points to Python 3;
repo Makefile updated to detect python2 vs. python (GH-646)
* Rework setjmp/longjmp configuration model: (1) removed DUK_OPT_SETJMP,
DUK_OPT_SIGSETJMP, and DUK_OPT_UNDERSCORE_SETJMP; (2) added DUK_JMPBUF_TYPE
to duk_config.h to allow the jmp_buf struct to be replaced; (3) Duktape
internals now rely only on DUK_SETJMP, DUK_LONGJMP, and DUK_JMPBUF_TYPE,
all configurable via duk_config.h (or config platform definitions) (GH-635)
* Change OS string (visible in Duktape.env) from "ios" to "osx" for non-phone
targets (GH-570, GH-571)
* Remove readline support from duk_cmdline.c ('duk' command line tool), add
support for Linenoise instead; -DDUK_CMDLINE_FANCY now assumes linenoise.h
is in the include path and that linenoise.c is compiled with the command
line tool (or linked from a library) (GH-678)
* Add minimal tab completion support for duk_cmdline.c ('duk') using Linenoise
completions (GH-679)
* Internal performance improvement: use raw value stack accessors internally
when it's safe to do so (GH-582)
* Internal performance improvement: single step encoding for JSON values in
the JSON slow path (GH-447)
* Internal performance improvement: faster (and smaller) handling of bytecode
executor 'regconst' fields (GH-670)
* Internal footprint improvement: reduce error call site size (GH-661)
1.5.1 (2016-08-30)
------------------
* Fix a harmless compilation warning related to a shadowed variable (GH-793,
GH-794)
* Fix incorrect duk_hbufferobject size in Duktape.info() (GH-804)
* Fix compilation error triggered when using pointer compression and the
default string table implementation (probe-based rather than chained)
(GH-850)
* Fix potential memory unsafe behavior when duk_push_(l)string() data pointer
is from a dynamic/external buffer (or any other relocatable data source)
and a finalizer side effect resizes/reconfigures the buffer, invalidating
the pointer before string table code has time to copy the data (GH-884)
* Fix lightfunc constructor call handling: lightfuncs were incorrectly
rejected as constructors, now allowed as both direct constructors and
via a bound function chain (GH-895)
* Fix direct references to __FILE__ and __LINE__ in the public header to use
DUK_FILE_MACRO and DUK_LINE_MACRO, which matters if the standard file/line
macros have been replaced in duk_config.h (GH-897)
* Fix AmigaOS3 portability issue by enabling math function replacements
automatically for AmigaOS on M68K, regardless of OS version or compiler
(GH-932)
* Fix clang compile warning for unused duk_err_unsupported_defmsg() (GH-764)
* Reduce harmless "unused function" warnings for GCC and Clang by using
__attribute__ ((unused)) for internal function declarations (GH-916,
GH-942)
1.5.2 (2016-12-09)
------------------
* Fix genconfig.py forced option boolean comparison; for forced numeric option
value 0 genconfig would emit "#undef XXX" (instead of "#define XXX 0") and
for forced numeric option value 1 it would emit "#define XXX" (instead of
"#define XXX 1") (GH-954)
* Fix incorrect value stack handling in duk_put_prop_(l)string() and
duk_put_prop_index() when the target object and the property value
are in the same value stack slot (which is unusual but conceptually
clear) (GH-959)
* Fix incorrect buffer zeroing assumption in regexp executor, triggered
when DUK_USE_ZERO_BUFFER_DATA is not set (default is set) (GH-978)
* Fix incorrect evaluation order of X <op>= Y expressions when the RHS
(Y) mutates the value of X (GH-992)
* Fix String.fromCharCode() behavior for non-BMP characters when standard
behavior is enabled (DUK_USE_NONSTD_STRING_FROMCHARCODE_32BIT disabled):
use ToUint16() + CESU-8 rather than ToUint32() + CESU-8 which produces
two codepoints for non-BMP characters (GH-1046)
* Fix a few bugs in object property handling (delete property and
Object.defineProperty()) where an object property table resize triggered
by a finalizer of a previous value could cause memory unsafe behavior
(GH-1096)
* Add an extra module (extras/module-duktape) providing a Duktape 1.x
compatible module loading framework (Duktape.modSearch etc) (GH-821,
GH-1127)
* Fix duk_hcompfunc 'data' field != NULL assumptions which might lead to
memory unsafe behavior if Duktape ran out of memory when creating a
duk_hcompfunc during compilation or function instantiation (GH-1144,
GH-1132)
* Fix JSON stringify fastpath handling of array gaps in JX and JC; they
incorrectly stringified as 'null' (like in JSON) instead of 'undefined'
and '{"_undef":true}' as intended (GH-859, GH-1149)
* Fix memory unsafe handling of Object.isPrototypeOf() when the argument
given has no prototype (e.g. argument is Object.prototype) (GH-1162,
GH-1163)
1.6.0 (2016-12-12)
------------------
* Add duk_suspend() and duk_resume() which allow a native thread running a
Duktape/C function to be suspended temporarily (e.g. when a native system
call blocks) so that other native threads may execute while the thread is
blocked (GH-893, GH-909)
1.6.1 (2017-01-15)
------------------
* Fix compile error when using 16-bit fields and disabling refcounting at
the same time (GH-1207)
* Fix an incorrect assert in RegExp code for character class dashes (GH-1250)
* Fix duk_hstring array index check integer overflow, which caused certain
integer strings (such as '7394299990') to be incorrectly treated as array
indices (GH-1273, GH-1276)
2.0.0 (2017-01-02)
------------------
Tooling:
* Incompatible change: remove feature option (DUK_OPT_xxx) support, use
tools/configure.py (or tools/genconfig.py) or edit duk_config.h manually
to use custom config options (GH-949)
* Incompatible change: tools/configure.py is the new frontend tool for
configuring Duktape: it generates both a duk_config.h config header,
prepares amalgamated source files for build, and supports ROM built-ins;
raw input source files are included in the end user distributable to
allow tools/configure.py to be used without a repo checkout (GH-949, GH-927,
GH-928, GH-929)
* Genconfig.py is still available (moved to tools/genconfig.py) but is no
longer recommended for configuring Duktape, use tools/configure.py instead
(GH-949, GH-927, GH-928, GH-929)
* util/dist.py no longer supports ROM built-ins, use tools/configure.py
instead (GH-949, GH-929)
* Add support for converting ROM function property values into lightfuncs in
genbuiltins.py to reduce code footprint for ROM-based built-ins and custom
bindings; footprint reduction is around 14-15kB on 32-bit targets (GH-872)
* Fix genconfig.py forced option boolean comparison; for forced numeric option
value 0 genconfig would emit "#undef XXX" (instead of "#define XXX 0") and
for forced numeric option value 1 it would emit "#define XXX" (instead of
"#define XXX 1") (GH-954)
Configuration:
* Incompatible change: remove Duktape internal and user "InitJS" support
(DUK_USE_BUILTIN_INITJS and DUK_USE_USER_INITJS) which were very rarely
used and required minify tools to make a dist package (GH-899)
* Require a DUK_USE_DEBUG_WRITE() macro for handling debug writes when
DUK_USE_DEBUG is enabled; this avoids a platform I/O dependency and allows
debug log filtering and retargeting (GH-782)
* Use DUK_USE_DEBUG_LEVEL for debug print level control rather than the
previous DUK_USE_DPRINT, DUK_USE_DDPRINT, and DUK_USE_DDDPRINT defines
(GH-783)
* Add support for dropping built-in bindings entirely when they are disabled
in configuration, e.g. the Proxy and buffer object bindings will be absent
instead of being replaced by functions throwing an error; this is more
in line with how applications detect supported features and also reduces
footprint (GH-988)
* Remove no longer needed platform wrappers in duk_config.h: DUK_ABORT(),
DUK_EXIT(), DUK_PRINTF(), DUK_FPRINTF(), DUK_FOPEN(), DUK_FCLOSE(),
DUK_FREAD(), DUK_FWRITE(), DUK_FSEEK(), DUK_FTELL(), DUK_FFLUSH(),
DUK_FPUTC(), DUK_STDOUT, DUK_STDERR, DUK_STDIN, duk_file (GH-787, GH-761)
* Make coroutine support optional (DUK_USE_COROUTINE_SUPPORT); disabling
coroutines reduces code footprint by about 2kB (GH-829)
* Make finalizer support optional (DUK_USE_FINALIZER_SUPPORT); disabling
coroutines reduces code footprint by about 0.8kB (GH-936)
* Reduce RAM built-ins initdata limitations for custom bindings by using a
shared varuint encoding in the bit-packed initdata stream (GH-1151, GH-1152)
* Remove support for refcounting-only (= no mark-and-sweep) memory management
option as too error prone: without mark-and-sweep garbage containing
reference loops or created during debugger paused state (with or without
reference loops) would seemingly leak until heap destruction (GH-1168)
* Add DUK_USE_GET_RANDOM_DOUBLE() config option to allow an application
to override the built-in random number generator (which is very simple
and low footprint optimized) with something faster or better (GH-824)
* Make Array property read/write fast path optional to reduce footprint
for footprint optimized builds (ensure DUK_USE_ARRAY_PROP_FASTPATH is
disabled for low memory builds) (GH-934)
Buffers:
* Incompatible change: rework buffer types and their Ecmascript and C API
behavior: remove Duktape.Buffer; provide Uint8Array.allocPlain() and
Uint8Array.plainOf() to replace Duktape.Buffer; plain buffers now behave
like Uint8Arrays and inherit from Uint8Array.prototype; plain buffers now
test false in duk_is_primitive() which is more consistent with their
Ecmascript coercion behavior; many small changes in how built-in functions
behave for plain buffer arguments e.g. in enumeration, JSON serialization,
and Object.prototype.toString() output (GH-875, GH-1005, GH-864, GH-1197)
* Incompatible change: remove the ability to do a 1:1 buffer-to-string
coercion (using buffer data directly as the internal string representation)
from the default Ecmascript bindings, an encoding (usually UTF-8) is now
always applied (GH-875, GH-1005)
* Incompatible change: remove non-standard properties from ArrayBuffer
instances (.length, .byteOffset, virtual index properties) and DataView
instances (.length, virtual index properties) (GH-867, GH-1197)
* Incompatible change: when DUK_USE_BUFFEROBJECT_SUPPORT is disabled, don't
support coercing plain buffers to Uint8Arrays, or any other buffer object
operations (including all ArrayBuffer, typed array, and Node.js Buffer
methods); this reduces code footprint by around 1.2 kB (GH-889)
* Incompatible change: Node.js Buffer binding aligned with Node.js v6.7.0
(from v0.12.1): Buffer.concat() special case for 1-element array removed
(GH-1004); Buffer now inherits from Uint8Array (GH-1008);
Buffer.prototype.toString() does UTF-8 decoding (previously buffer data
was copied into internal string representation as is) (GH-1020)
* Incompatible change: typed array .subarray() and Node.js buffer .slice()
result internal prototype is now the default prototype of the result
type (e.g. initial value of Uint8Array.prototype) rather than being
copied from the argument (GH-864)
* Incompatible change: minor changes to buffer object behavior when buffer
types are mixed (e.g. Node.js Buffer as an argument to typed array calls)
(GH-864)
* Incompatible change: allow a plain buffer as a constructor "replacement
object" return value (GH-1197)
* Reject ArrayBuffers with a view offset/length in Node.js Buffer .slice()
rather than accept such ArrayBuffers without actually respecting the
view offset/length (GH-1197)
* Disable JSON stringify fastpath for plain buffers for now so that the
virtual index properties get serialized correctly; fastpath to be added
back separately (GH-1197)
* As a side effect of fixing JSON serialization of buffer objects, JSON
fast path is aborted when encountering buffer objects; the fast path
doesn't currently handle buffer object virtual properties correctly
so to remain compliant fall back to slow path for now (GH-867)
* Fix duk_push_buffer_object() ArrayBuffer .byteLength to use 0 and .byteOffset
to use view's (byteOffset + byteLength), so that accesses to the ArrayBuffer
at the view's .byteOffset match the view at index 0 as normally expected;
previously .byteOffset and .byteLength were copied from the view as is which
makes the ArrayBuffer indices behave inconsistently with respect to the
view's .byteOffset (GH-1229)
* Fix buffer object (duk_hbufobj) JSON serialization (bug present in 1.5.0):
buffer objects were omitted from serialization when they should be
serialized as normal objects instead (GH-867)
Other type changes:
* Incompatible change: allow a lightfunc as a constructor "replacement
object" return value (GH-1197)
* Incompatible change: plain pointer values now test true in instanceof
(plainPointer instanceof Duktape.Pointer === true) (GH-864)
* Incompatible change: lightfunc values now test false in duk_is_primitive()
which is more consistent with how they behave in Ecmascript coercions
(GH-864)
* Incompatible change: lightfunc value as a "this" binding is ToObject()
coerced to a full Function object if the call target is non-strict (this
matches e.g. string and plain buffer behavior) (GH-864)
Debugger:
* Incompatible change: rename duk_debugger_attach_custom() API call to
duk_debugger_attach() to eliminate an unnecessary API call variant
(GH-735, GH-742)
* Incompatible change: debug protocol version bumped from 1 to 2 to indicate
version incompatible protocol changes in the 2.0.0 release (GH-756)
* Incompatible change: make callstack level mandatory for most debugger
commands which accept one (GH-747, GH-1109)
* Incompatible change: change some debugger artificial property names to match
internal renames: compiledfunction -> compfunc, nativefunction -> natfunc,
bufferobject -> bufobj (GH-798)
* Incompatible change: add a "ctx" argument to the debugger detached_cb to
allow easier reattachment in detached callback (GH-758, GH-853)
* Incompatible change: debugger inspection of array objects no longer sees a
concrete .length property for arrays because of internal duk_harray type
related changes; instead, an artificial property "length" is available via
GetHeapObjInfo (GH-703, GH-856)
* Add ability to perform an indirect debugger Eval with non-empty callstack by
sending null for the callstack level (GH-747)
* Rename debugger protocol artificial property "bound" to "boundfunc" for
consistency with an internal flag rename (GH-703)
Ecmascript 2015+ and real world compatibility:
* Change Object constructor argument coercion policy to match ES2015
requirements for .keys(), .getOwnPropertyNames(),
.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(), .getPrototypeOf(), .freeze(), .isFrozen(),
.seal(), .isSealed(), .preventExtensions(), and .isExtensible();
instead of rejecting non-objects with a TypeError, they are now coerced
to objects or treated as non-extensible objects with no own properties
(GH-1028, GH-1164)
* Add experimental support for ES2015 Symbol built-in (disabled by default,
enable using DUK_USE_SYMBOL_BUILTIN), duk_is_symbol() API call (GH-982,
GH-1227, GH-1237)
* Allow ES2015 Annex B unescaped right bracket (']') in regular expressions
(non-standard before ES2015 Annex B), left bracket ('[') not yet supported
because it needs backtracking (GH-871)
* Allow ES2015 Annex B identity escapes, i.e. allow identity escapes also for
identifier part characters; the support is not yet complete as Duktape
won't backtrack on e.g. an invalid hex escape and treat it literally
(GH-926)
* Add support for ES2015 computed property names in object literals
({ [1+2]: 'three' }), identifier shorthand ({ foo, bar }), and method
definition shorthand ({ func(a,b) { return a+b; } }); however, computed
name for method definition ({ ['foo' + 'bar'](a,b) { ... } }) is not
yet supported (GH-985, GH-1190, GH-1193, GH-1246)
* Add support for ES2016 exponentiation and exponentiation assignment
operators, e.g. "2 \*\* 10" evaluates to 1024, avoiding the cost of an
Ecmascript call to Math.pow() while also being more readable (GH-987,
GH-997)
* Add a Reflect built-in, provides Reflect.construct() etc. from ES2015; some
features like constructor retargeting require ES2015+ semantics and are thus
not yet supported (GH-1025)
* Add support for ES2015 \\u{H+} escape syntax for source code string literals
and identifiers, no RegExp support yet (requires RegExp /u Unicode mode)
(GH-1001)
* Add support for ES2015 octal (0o123) and binary (0b100001) in source code
literals and ToNumber() coercion (e.g. "+'0o123'") (GH-1057, GH-1084)
* Add support for ES2015 String.prototype.codePointAt(), String.fromCodePoint(),
and String.prototype.repeat() (GH-1043, GH-1049, GH-1050)
* Add support for ES2015 Math.hypot(), Math.cbrt(), Math.log2(), Math.log10(),
Math.trunc() (GH-1069, GH-1093, GH-1095)
* Add support for ES2015 Object.assign() (GH-1064)
* Add support for ES2015 Object.is() and duk_samevalue() API call (GH-1068)
* Respect ES2015 enumeration order (array index keys, other keys in insertion
order) for Object.getOwnPropertyNames(), also use the same order in
for-in, Object.keys(), and duk_enum() even though that's not strictly
required by ES2015 or ES2016 (GH-1054)
* Follow ES2016 behavior when a Proxy instance is used as a for-in target:
the "ownKeys" trap is invoked instead of the "enumerate" trap, and the
"enumerate" trap is thus obsoleted entirely (GH-1115)
* Add enumerability check for properties enumerated using Proxy "ownKeys"
trap; because "getOwnPropertyDescriptor" trap is not yet supported, the
check is always made against the target object (GH-1115)
* Align RegExp.prototype behavior more closely with ES2015: .source, .global,
.ignoreCase, .multiline are now inherited getters; .flags, .sticky, and
.unicode have been added (they are inherited getters too); constructor
behavior has been revised for ES2015 behavior; however, leniency to allow
e.g. RegExp.prototype.source (from ES2017 draft) is supported for real
world code compatibility (GH-1178)
* Update UnicodeData.txt and SpecialCasing.txt used for building internal
Unicode control data to Unicode version 9.0.0 (GH-931)
* Change parsing of legacy octal literals so that 077 is parsed as octal
(= 63) but 078 is parsed as decimal (78) rather than causing a SyntaxError;
this aligns better with behavior of other engines (GH-1057)
* Change parsing of octal escapes in string literals to better align with
ES2015 and other engines; "\078" is now accepted and is the same as
"\u00078", "\8" and "\9" are accepted as literal "8" and "9" (GH-1057)
* Change bound function .name property handling to match ES2015 requirements;
for a target function with name "foo", bound function name is "bound foo"
(GH-1113)
* Change bound function internal prototype handling to match ES2015 requirements;
bound function internal prototype is copied from the target function
instead of always being Function.prototype (GH-1135)
* Change Function.prototype.toString() output to match ES2015 requirements;
the output no longer parses with eval() but causes a SyntaxError instead
(GH-1141)
* Make function instance .name and .length properties configurable (but
non-writable and non-enumerable) to match ES2015 requirements; also change
.fileName to follow the same attribute convention (GH-1153, GH-1177)
* Remove anonymous function own .name property to match ES2015 requirements;
anonymous functions inherit an empty string as their name from
Function.prototype.name (GH-1183)
* Change functions created using new Function() to have the .name
"anonymous" to match ES2015 requirements (GH-1183)
* Make Error instance .fileName and .lineNumber properties configurable
but non-writable and non-enumerable to match function instance property
behavior; this only matters when tracebacks are disabled and concrete
error instance properties are in use (GH-1153)
* Change NativeError (TypeError, RangeError, etc) constructor to inherit
from the Error constructor rather than Function.prototype directly as
required by ES2015 (GH-1182)
* Change object literal getter/setter to match ES2015 requirements: no automatic
.prototype property, and the functions are non-constructable (GH-1188)
* Allow duplicate property names in object literals as required by ES2015
(GH-1190)
* Change typed array constructor chain to match ES2015, e.g. Uint8Array
constructor inherits from intrinsic %TypedArray% constructor (GH-1191)
* Move typed array properties .byteLength, .byteOffset, and .buffer to
prototype objects and make them (inherited) accessors to better match
ES2015 requirements; .length remains a virtual own property (GH-1197)
WHATWG Encoding API:
* Add TextEncoder and TextDecoder built-ins (the Encoding API) which allow
Ecmascript code to convert between buffers and strings using the UTF-8
encoding (GH-975)
Other C API changes:
* Incompatible change: add a userdata argument to duk_safe_call() to make it
easier to pass C pointers to safe functions (GH-277, GH-727)
* Incompatible change: remove duk_dump_context_{stdout,stderr}() to avoid a
dependency on stdout/stderr which is a porting issue (GH-736, GH-743)
* Incompatible change: remove file related Duktape C API calls to avoid a
dependency on platform file I/O which is a porting issue; removed calls
(which were moved into extras): duk_push_string_file(), duk_compile_file(),
duk_pcompile_file(), duk_eval_file(), duk_eval_file_noresult(),
duk_peval_file(), duk_peval_file_noresult() (GH-788)
* Incompatible change: remove the distinction between panic and fatal errors,
and simplify the fatal error handler function signature to
"void my_fatal(void \*udata, const char \*msg);" (GH-781)
* Incompatible change: remove error code argument from duk_fatal() API
call to match revised fatal error handler function signature (GH-781)
* Incompatible change: default fatal error handler (similar to panic handler
in Duktape 1.x) calls abort() without printing anything to stdout or stderr
(which avoids unnecessary platform dependencies); this behavior can be
overridden by defining DUK_USE_FATAL_HANDLER() in duk_config.h (GH-781,
GH-1218)
* Incompatible change: remove Duktape specific error codes DUK_ERR_ALLOC_ERROR,
DUK_ERR_API_ERROR, DUK_ERR_ASSERTION_ERROR, DUK_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
DUK_ERR_UNCAUGHT_ERROR, DUK_ERR_UNIMPLEMENTED_ERROR,
DUK_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ERROR; use standard error types instead (GH-827)
* Incompatible change: map API related errors (which previously used
DUK_ERR_API_ERROR and a plain Error for Ecmascript representation) into
TypeErrors and RangeErrors to match common Ecmascript conventions (GH-827)
* Incompatible change: remove duk_to_defaultvalue() which invoked the
[[DefaultValue]] specification algorithm removed in ES2015 (it was folded
to ToPrimitive()), use duk_to_primitive() instead (GH-984)
* Incompatible change: duk_gc() no longer allows a NULL context pointer
for consistency with other API calls (GH-1129)
* Change return from of duk_throw(), duk_error(), and duk_fatal() from void
to duk_ret_t which allows them to be called using the idiom
"return duk_error(ctx, DUK_ERR_TYPE_ERROR, "invalid argument");"
(GH-1038, GH-1041)
* Add convenience API calls to throw specific error types; for example,
duk_type_error(), duk_type_error_va(), duk_range_error(), etc (GH-1040)
* Add convenience API calls duk_get_prop_lstring(), duk_put_prop_lstring(),
duk_del_prop_lstring(), duk_has_prop_lstring(), duk_get_global_lstring(),
duk_put_global_lstring() (GH-946, GH-953)
* Add a ToPropertyKey() coercion to duk_def_prop() key argument to allow
e.g. numbers to be used in the key slot (GH-836, GH-1130)
* Add duk_get_prop_desc() API call which pushes a property descriptor object
for a target object and key, similar to Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor()
(GH-1087)
* Add duk_suspend() and duk_resume() which allow a native thread running a
Duktape/C function to be suspended temporarily (e.g. when a native system
call blocks) so that other native threads may execute while the thread is
blocked (GH-893, GH-909)
* Add duk_is_buffer_data() API call to reliably test whether a value stack
entry is a plain buffer or any buffer object (GH-1221)
* Add time functions to the C API (duk_get_now(), duk_time_to_components(),
duk_components_to_time()) to allow C code to conveniently work with the
same time provider as seen by Ecmascript code (GH-771, GH-1209, GH-1211,
GH-1226)
* Add duk_push_bare_object() API call which pushes an object without an
internal prototype, equivalent to Object.create(null) (GH-1126)
* Add DUK_GC_COMPACT flag to duk_gc() to force object property table
compaction (GH-778, GH-1129)
* Add duk_inspect_value() to provide internal information about an argument
value; the output matches Duktape.info() (GH-1125)
* Add duk_inspect_callstack_entry() to provide internal information about a
callstack entry; the output matches Duktape.act() (GH-1128)
* Add duk_set_length() API call and change duk_get_length() limits from
uint32 to size_t supported range (GH-1123)
* Remove duk_{get,put,has,del}_var() calls from API header; they were not
fully implemented and not part of the documented public API (GH-762)
Other Ecmascript binding changes:
* Incompatible change: remove built-in print() and alert() bindings which,
being dependent on stdout/stderr, are often a portability issue (GH-745)
* Incompatible change: remove the built-in logging framework (Duktape.Logger,
duk_log(), duk_log_va()); now provided as an extra (GH-746, GH-790)
* Incompatible change: remove the built-in module loading framework (global
require() call, Duktape.modSearch() etc); now provided as an extra (GH-821)
* Incompatible change: Duktape.info() output has been changed from an array
(which is difficult to version and work with) to an object with named
properties; the properties are not under versioning guarantees (GH-1125)
* Allow a bound Ecmascript function as an argument to new Duktape.Thread()
(GH-1134, GH-1157)
Extras:
* Add an extra module (extras/duk-v1-compat) providing many Duktape 1.x API
calls removed in Duktape 2.x (multiple Github issues)
* Add an extra module (extras/print-alert) providing Duktape 1.x compatible
print() and alert() bindings (GH-745)
* Add an extra module (extras/logging) providing Duktape 1.x compatible
logging framework (Duktape.Logger, duk_log(), duk_log_va()) (GH-746)
* Add an extra module (extras/console) providing a minimal 'console' binding
(GH-767)
* Add an extra module (extras/module-duktape) providing a Duktape 1.x
compatible module loading framework (Duktape.modSearch etc) (GH-821,
GH-1127)
* Add an extra module (extras/module-node) providing a Node.js-like module
loading framework supporting require.cache, module.loaded, etc. (GH-796,
GH-1127)
* Add an extra module (extras/minimal-printf) providing minimal,
Duktape-optimized sprintf(), snprintf(), vsnprintf(), and sscanf()
implementations; the extra compiles to less than 1kB of code which is
useful on bare metal platforms where an external printf() or scanf()
dependency may have a large footprint impact (often 10-30 kB) (GH-801)
* Add an extra module (extras/alloc-pool) providing an improved pool
allocator which supports runtime resizing of pool counts to specified
memory target and realloc shrinking (GH-847)
Portability:
* Miscellaneous portability improvements: remove dependency on fmin() and
fmax() (GH-1072); remove signed shifts in lightfunc handling (GH-1172)
* Fix ARM64 platform detection for some Android targets (GH-1062)
* Fix AmigaOS3 portability issue by enabling math function replacements
automatically for AmigaOS on M68K, regardless of OS version or compiler
(GH-932)
* Fix Cygwin warning about shadowed 'accept' variable (GH-1098)
* Fix Cygwin/MinGW math issues related to pow2() and atan2() semantics
(GH-1099)
* Add an fmod() self test (GH-1108)
* Add an FP rounding mode self test (Duktape assumes rounding mode is
IEEE 754 round-to-nearest, C99 FE_TONEAREST) (GH-606)
* Add a minimal alloc/realloc/free self test to the (optional) internal
self test (GH-877)
Performance:
* Simplify call related bytecode opcodes for better performance; as a
result maximum argument count to normal and constructor calls dropped
from 511 to 255, and calling a user function (i.e. not the built-in
native eval()) via the identifier 'eval' doesn't get tailcall
optimization (GH-896)
* Internal performance improvement: rework bytecode format to use an 8-bit
opcode field (and 8-bit A, B, and C fields) to speed up opcode dispatch
by around 20-25% and avoid a two-level dispatch for EXTRA opcodes; the
performance optimized build is ~10kB larger while footprint optimized
build is slightly smaller (GH-903)
* Internal performance improvement: add optional fast path for dense arrays in
Array.prototype operations like push() and pop() (GH-584, GH-1154)
* Add an internal type for representing Array instances (duk_harray) to
simplify array operations and improve performance; this also changes the
key order of Object.getOwnPropertyNames() for sparse arrays (arrays whose
internal "array part" has been abandoned) (GH-703)
* Add a fastint check for duk_put_number_list() values (GH-1086)
* Remove an unintended fastint downgrade check for unary minus executor
opcode (fastint downgrade check is intended to be applied to unary plus
only) (GH-903)
* Miscellaneous performance improvements: avoid one extra shift when computing
reg/const pointers in the bytecode executor (GH-674); avoid value stack for
Array .length coercion (GH-862); value stack operation optimization
(GH-891); call related bytecode simplification (GH-896); minor bytecode
opcode handler optimizations (GH-903); refcount optimizations (GH-443,
GH-973, GH-1042); minor RegExp compile/execute optimizations (GH-974,
GH-1033); minor IEEE double handling optimizations (GH-1051); precomputed
duk_hstring array index (GH-1056); duk_get_{type,type_mask}() optimization
(GH-1077); explicit lexenv/varenv fields in duk_hcompfunc struct (GH-1132)
Footprint:
* Miscellaneous footprint improvements: RegExp compiler/executor (GH-977);
internal duk_dup() variants (GH-990); allow stripping of (almost) all
built-ins for low memory builds (GH-989); remove internal accessor setup
helper and use duk_def_prop() instead (GH-1010); minor IEEE double handling
optimizations (GH-1051); precomputed duk_hstring array index (GH-1056);
internal value stack access improvements (GH-1058); shared bitpacked string
format for heap and thread initialization data (GH-1119); explicit
lexenv/varenv fields in duk_hcompfunc struct (GH-1132); omit duk_hcompfunc
_Formals array when it is safe to do so (GH-1141); omit duk_hcompfunc
_Varmap in more cases when it is safe to do so (GH-1146); reduce initial
bytecode allocation in Ecmascript compiler for low memory targets (GH-1146);
packed arguments for some internal helper calls (GH-1158, GH-1172); misc
internal helpers to reduce call site size (GH-1166, GH-1173); config options
for function .name and .fileName control (GH-1153); internal helper
duk_push_hstring_empty() (GH-1186, GH-1220)
Other bug fixes:
* Fix JSON stringify fastpath handling of array gaps in JX and JC; they
incorrectly stringified as 'null' (like in JSON) instead of 'undefined'
and '{"_undef":true}' as intended (GH-859, GH-1149)
* Fix duk_hcompfunc 'data' field != NULL assumptions which might lead to
memory unsafe behavior if Duktape ran out of memory when creating a
duk_hcompfunc during compilation or function instantiation (GH-1144,
GH-1132)
* Fix a few bugs in object property handling (delete property and
Object.defineProperty()) where an object property table resize triggered
by a finalizer of a previous value could cause memory unsafe behavior
(GH-1096)
* Fix Object.prototype.__proto__ handling to use ToObject() coercion rather
than requiring an object; this matches ES2015 requirements and allows e.g.
the expression (123).__proto__ to work (GH-1080)
* Fix String.fromCharCode() behavior for non-BMP characters when standard
behavior is enabled (DUK_USE_NONSTD_STRING_FROMCHARCODE_32BIT disabled):
use ToUint16() + CESU-8 rather than ToUint32() + CESU-8 which produces
two codepoints for non-BMP characters (GH-1046)
* Fix incorrect evaluation order of X <op>= Y expressions when the RHS
(Y) mutates the value of X (GH-992)
* Fix incorrect buffer zeroing assumption in regexp executor, triggered
when DUK_USE_ZERO_BUFFER_DATA is not set (default is set) (GH-978)
* Fix incorrect value stack handling in duk_put_prop_(l)string() and
duk_put_prop_index() when the target object and the property value
are in the same value stack slot (which is unusual but conceptually
clear) (GH-959)
* Fix compilation error triggered when using pointer compression and the
default string table implementation (probe-based rather than chained)
(GH-850)
* Fix a harmless compilation warning related to a shadowed variable (GH-793,
GH-794)
* Fix -Wshadow warnings on some GCC versions for variable/argument name
'index' by avoiding such identifiers in API and internals (GH-810)
* Fix -Wshift-sign-overflow warnings on some Clang versions for signed left
shifts whose result was used as unsigned (GH-812, GH-813)
* Fix JSON.stringify (and JX/JC encode) fast path to allow arrays whose
.length is larger than the internal array part size (created e.g. when
calling new Array(10)) without falling back to the slow path (GH-703)
* Fix potential memory unsafe behavior when duk_push_(l)string() data pointer
is from a dynamic/external buffer (or any other relocatable data source)
and a finalizer side effect resizes/reconfigures the buffer, invalidating
the pointer before string table code has time to copy the data (GH-884)
* Fix lightfunc constructor call handling: lightfuncs were incorrectly
rejected as constructors, now allowed as both direct constructors and
via a bound function chain (GH-895)
* Fix direct references to __FILE__ and __LINE__ in the public header to use
DUK_FILE_MACRO and DUK_LINE_MACRO, which matters if the standard file/line
macros have been replaced in duk_config.h (GH-897)
* Fix two-argument Math function (like Math.atan2()) argument coercion
order; the order was not guaranteed but specification requires left-to-right
ordering (GH-943)
* Reduce harmless "unused function" warnings for GCC and Clang by using
__attribute__ ((unused)) for internal function declarations (GH-916,
GH-942)
* Fix incorrect duk_hbufferobject size in Duktape.info() (GH-804)
* Fix a few incorrect asserts in refcount code; the asserts didn't check for
NULL and cause memory unsafe behavior, but the code itself is correct
(GH-1090)
* Fix memory unsafe handling of Object.isPrototypeOf() when the argument
given has no prototype (e.g. argument is Object.prototype) (GH-1162,
GH-1163)
* Fix compile error when using 16-bit fields and disabling refcounting at
the same time (GH-1207)
* Fix an incorrect assert in RegExp code for character class dashes (GH-1250)
Miscellaneous:
* Incompatible change: bytecode opcode format reworks drop maximum function
and constructor call argument count from 511 to 255, and maximum Ecmascript
function constant count from 262144 to 65536 (GH-903)
* Add a human readable summary of 'new MyConstructor()' constructor call
target when the target is non-constructable (GH-757)
* Add a safe summary for "uncaught error" fatal error (GH-832)
* Minor changes to error messages for errors thrown by Duktape internals
(GH-827, GH-839, GH-840, GH-1016)
* Change default built-in PRNG algorithm to xoroshiro128+ with SplitMix64
seed mixing; previous algorithm (Shamir's three-op algorithm) is still
used for low memory targets and targets without 64-bit types (GH-970)
* Internal change: rework shared internal string handling so that shared
strings are plain string constants used in macro values, rather than
being declared as actual symbols; this reduces compilation warnings with
non-default config options (GH-760)
* Internal change: shorten internal struct names to improve source code
readability: duk_hcompiledfunction -> duk_hcompfunc,
duk_hnativefunction -> duk_hnatfunc, duk_hbufferobject -> duk_hbufobj
(GH-798)
* Internal change: avoid explicit casts for 'switch' statement arguments,
other internal cast fixes (GH-825)
* Internal change: rework tagged value (duk_tval) fastint/integer handling
macros to avoid multiple evaluation of argument(s) and for easier mixing
of fastint and non-fastint aware code (GH-702)
* Internal change: source code policy changes (GH-1169)
8 years ago
2.0.1 (2017-01-27)
------------------
* Fix memory unsafe behavior in Duktape 2.0.0 String.prototype.repeat()
(GH-1270)
* Fix incorrect exponentiation operator behavior which happened at least on
Linux gcc 4.8.4 with -O2 (not -Os) (GH-1272)
* Fix duk_hstring array index check integer overflow, which caused certain
integer strings (such as '7394299990') to be incorrectly treated as array
indices (GH-1273, GH-1276)
* Fix argument validation bug in typedarray .set() which would cause a segfault
for e.g. new Float64Array(2).set(undefined) (GH-1285, GH-1286)
* Fix incorrect behavior for new TextEncoder().encode('') (applied to an
empty string) which manifested at least on MSVC (GH-1293, GH-1294)
* Fix a few incorrect asserts related to reference count triggered finalizer
execution; the functionality itself was correct in these cases but a few
asserts were too strict (GH-1318)
* Improve duk_push_heapptr() assert validation to include checks that the
pointer is only allowed in finalize_list or refzero_list if currently being
finalized, and must otherwise be in either the string table (for strings)
or heap_allocated (non-strings) (GH-1317)
* Fix a duk_push_heapptr() finalize_list assertion issue caused by the
internal heap->finalize_list being (intentionally) out-of-sync during
mark-and-sweep finalizer execution; this has no functional impact but
breaks duk_push_heapptr() asserts in certain conditions (GH-1321)
* Fix ROM pointer duk_heaphdr_incref() handling when slow refcount default
was enabled (GH-1320)
Planned
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1.7.0 (XXXX-XX-XX)
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2.1.0 (XXXX-XX-XX)
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* Replace heap string table algorithms (chain and probe) with a single
algorithm based on single linked chaining of duk_hstrings, with the same
algorithm serving both default and low memory environments; improve ROM
string intern check (GH-1277, GH-1327)
* Replace object property table hash algorithm with a faster algorithm
which uses a 2^N size and a bit mask instead of a prime size and a MOD;
use a hash table more eagerly than before (GH-1284)
* Add ES2015 String.prototype.{startsWith,endsWith,includes}() (GH-1324,
GH-1325, GH-1328)
* Add a "global" property to the global object to provide easy access to the
global object itself without needing idioms like
"new Function('return this')()"; implemented based on
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global (GH-1259, GH-1260)
* Spawn the ArrayBuffer object backing a typed array lazily when its .buffer
property is first read, reducing memory usage in common cases where the view
is constructed directly without needing the ArrayBuffer object (GH-1225)
* Add a JSON.stringify() fast path for plain buffers (GH-1238)
* Improve duk_hstring array index handling performance when
DUK_USE_HSTRING_ARRIDX is disabled (GH-1274)
* Improve duk_push_heapptr() assert validation to include checks that the
pointer is only allowed in finalize_list or refzero_list if currently being
finalized, and must otherwise be in either the string table (for strings)
or heap_allocated (non-strings) (GH-1317)
* Minor improvements to heap object queue handling code: improve pointer
compression performance a little, more assertion coverage (GH-1323)
* Make duk_hstring character length (clen) lazily computed to improve string
handling performance for the majority of strings whose .length is never
read (GH-1303, GH-1358)
* Improve lexical scope handling performance by adding internal duk_hdecenv
and duk_hobjenv structures (previously generic objects were used) (GH-1310,
GH-1339)
* Remove voluntary GC check from refzero processing; the check is not really
necessary because all free operations decrement the voluntary GC counter and
all allocs/reallocs check for voluntary GC (GH-1355)
* Fix a garbage collection bug where a finalizer triggered by mark-and-sweep
could cause a recursive entry into mark-and-sweep (leading to memory unsafe
behavior) if the voluntary GC trigger counter dropped to zero during
mark-and-sweep finalizer execution (GH-1347, GH-1355)
* Fix a garbage collection bug where a call into duk_gc() from a mark-and-sweep
triggered finalizer could cause recursive entry into mark-and-sweep (leading
memory unsafe behavior) (GH-1347)
* Fix a duk_push_heapptr() finalize_list assertion issue caused by the
internal heap->finalize_list being (intentionally) out-of-sync during
mark-and-sweep finalizer execution; this has no functional impact but
breaks duk_push_heapptr() asserts in certain conditions (GH-1321)
* Fix a few incorrect asserts related to reference count triggered finalizer
execution; the functionality itself was correct in these cases but a few
asserts were too strict (GH-1318)
* Fix argument validation bug in typedarray .set() which would cause a segfault
for e.g. new Float64Array(2).set(undefined) (GH-1285, GH-1286)
* Fix duk_hstring array index check integer overflow, which caused certain
integer strings (such as '7394299990') to be incorrectly treated as array
indices (GH-1273, GH-1276)
* Fix memory unsafe behavior in Duktape 2.0.0 String.prototype.repeat()
(GH-1270)
* Fix incorrect behavior for new TextEncoder().encode('') (applied to an
empty string) which manifested at least on MSVC (GH-1293, GH-1294)
* Fix incorrect exponentiation operator behavior which happened at least on
Linux gcc 4.8.4 with -O2 (not -Os) (GH-1272)
* Fix ROM pointer duk_heaphdr_incref() handling when slow refcount default
was enabled (GH-1320)
* Fix bug in global object environment "provideThis" attribute when using ROM
objects and DUK_USE_ROM_GLOBAL_INHERIT (GH-1340, GH-1310)
* Fix bug in global/eval code variable redeclaration handling where a
plain 'var X;' redeclaration for an existing binding caused 'undefined' to
overwrite the existing binding rather than being treated as a no-op
(GH-1351, GH-1354)
* Fix some stale activation ('act') pointer handling which could lead to
memory unsafe behavior in some cases (GH-1370, GH-1371, GH-1373)
* Fix duk_is_constructor_call() for an empty callstack (GH-1376)
* Fix 'duk' command line bytecode load error (GH-1333, GH-1334)
* Avoid log2(), log10(), cbrt(), and trunc() on Android (GH-1325, GH-1341)
* Portability improvements for Solaris, HPUX, and AIX (GH-1356)
* Compiler warning fix for using DUK_UNREF() on a volatile argument (GH-1282)
* Add DUK_HOT() and DUK_COLD() macros, and use them for a few internal
functions (GH-1297)
* Miscellaneous compiler warning fixes (GH-1358)
* Miscellaneous performance improvements: more likely/unlike attributes and
hot/cold function splits (GH-1308, GH-1309), integer refzero-free-running
flag (instead of a flag bit) (GH-1362)
* Miscellaneous footprint improvements: more compact duk_hobject allocation
(GH-1357)
* Internal change: duk_hstring now has a 'next' heap pointer for string table
chaining; this affects string allocation sizes which may matter for manually
tuned memory pools (GH-1277)
3.0.0 (XXXX-XX-XX)
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