Release Features

New Features in 0.9.3 (October 2008)

Major Features

• Major performance work for memory and CPU utilization.
• Extended Date, Array and String classes.
• Improved documentation.
• Extended suite of unit tests including load, benchmark and valgrind tests.

Minor Features

• Add open, close, read, write file I/O convenience routines. These wrap the more comprehensive File class capabilities.
• Complete the installation and removal packaging for major operating systems.

Fixes

• Continued push to drive quality higher using a continuous integration build farm.

New Features in 0.9.2 (September 2008)

Major Features

• Added web ESP (rails-like) framework
• Added SQLite support
• Added RegExp regular expression class
• Added Http client class
• Added with statement
• Lots of bug fixes

Minor Features

• Updated MPR portable runtime layer

Fixes

• Too many to count

New Features in 0.9.1 (August 2008)

Major Features

• First-cut product documentation
• Object, Array, String methods
• ByteArray
• ejs.io namespace including: File, BinaryStream, TextStream, IStream
• Updated ejsmod to support namespaces as packages
• Extended unit test suite
• Lots of bug fixes

Minor Features

• Increased unit test coverage
• Start using Trac issue tracking

Fixes

• Too many to count

New Features in 0.9.0 (July 2008)

Major Features

• Supporting catch (var: type)
• Supporting cast, to, instanceof, in with binary expressions
• Namespaces including "use namespace" and "use default namespaces"
• Packages are removed in deference to namespaces
• Added module blocks and "use module"
• Added iterator support for for/in, for each
• New ejsmod program replaces old bun program. Handles listing, slot and doc generation
• Ejsmod generates documentation based on javadoc style comments
• Enhanced assembler listings
• Improved code generation
• Completed support for block scope
• Closures and bound method capture
• System library documentation
• Object, Array and String library methods implemented
• Support class settings
• E4X support
• ECMA compliance mode
• Implemented type checking on function calls in the VM relieving native types of the burden
• Added parameter type checking and type coercion on function calls
• Implemented rest args (...rest)

Minor Features

• Increased unit test coverage
• Code cleanup and refactoring