v0.14

This release ports Boa to a VM, adds string interning, generator execution and many improvements and fixes, increasing the ECMAScript coverage to almost a 50%.

You can find more information in the release announcement

Changelog

v0.13

This release of boa brings new features and fixes all the known panics in the engine. You can check the full list of changes in the changelog.

v0.12

Check the changelog.

v0.11

See changelog

v0.10

This release makes the execution of the official ECMAScript test suite possible in Boa. It also brings a new lexer and many new features. You can see the release announcement or the changelog for more information.

v0.9.0

This release makes execution around 75% - 80% faster, adds a bunch of new ECMAScript features and includes new tools for easier development. You can see the full changelog here, and the blog post explaining the release here.

v0.8.0

see changelog!

v0.7.0 - New Parser

See changelog!

# 0.6.0 (2020-02-14) - Migration to Workspace Architechure + lexer/parser improvements

The lexer has had several fixes in this release, including how it parses numbers, scientific notation should be improved.
On top of that the lexer no longer panics on errors including Syntax Errors (thanks @adumbidiot), instead you get some output on where the error happened.

Moving to a workspace architecture

Boa offers both a CLI and a library, initially these were all in the same binary. The downside is
those who want to embed boa as-is end up with all of the command-line dependencies.
So the time has come to separate out the two, this is normal procedure, this should be analogous to ripgrep
and the regex crate.
Cargo has great support for workspaces, so this shouldn't be an issue.

Benchmarks

We now have benchmarks which run against master!
Thanks to Github Actions these will run automatically a commit is merged.

Feature enhancements:

• FEATURE #218:
  Implement Array.prototype.toString (@cisen)
• FEATURE #216:
  Keep accepting new array elements after spread.
• FEATURE #220:
  Documentation updates. (@croraf)
• FEATURE #226:
  add parser benchmark for expressions. (@jasonwilliams)
• FEATURE #217:
  String.prototype.replace() implemented
• FEATURE #247:
  Moved to a workspace architecture (@Razican)

Bug fixes:

• BUG #222:
  Fixed clippy errors (@IovoslavIovchev)
• BUG #228:
  [lexer: single-line-comment] Fix bug when single line comment is last line of file (@croraf)
• BUG #229:
  Replace error throwing with panic in "Lexer::next()" (@croraf)
• BUG #232/BUG #238:
  Clippy checking has been scaled right back to just Perf and Style (@jasonwilliams)
• BUG #227:
  Array.prototype.toString should be called by ES value (@cisen)
• BUG #242:
  Fixed some panics in the lexer (@adumbidiot)
• BUG #235:
  Fixed arithmetic operations with no space (@gomesalexandre)
• BUG #245:
  Fixed parsing of floats with scientific notation (@adumbidiot)

0.5.1 (2019-12-02) - Rest / Spread (almost)

Feature enhancements:

• FEATURE #151:
  Implement the Rest/Spread operator (functions and arrays).
• FEATURE #193:
  Implement macro for setting builtin functions
• FEATURE #211:
  Better Display support for all Objects (pretty printing)