Version 1.74.2
--------------
- Various fixes ported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* build error with clang [#514, !807, Philip Chimento]
* can't compile current version with mozjs 102 [#503, !808, Philip Chimento]
* Enabling window-list extension causes gnome-shell to crash when running
"dconf update" as root [#510, !813, Philip Chimento]
* log: Fix an off-by-one buffer overflow [!817, Valentin David]
Version 1.74.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Problem calling promisified D-Bus wrappers with callback [#494, !790, Marco
Trevisan]
* docs: Fix link in issue template [!799, Jan Tojnar]
* doc: Document Gio.FileEnumerator iteration [!800, Sonny Piers]
* doc: Fix Markdown formatting in README.MSVC.md [!803, Kisaragi Hiu]
Version 1.74.0
--------------
- Many improvements to the examples and documentation.
- Build fixes for Windows.
- Overrides to certain non-introspectable functions that will now gracefully
throw an exception instead of crashing.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Various maintenance [!786, Philip Chimento]
* http example not reliable, relies on server provided content-length. [#498,
!787, Andy Holmes]
* Gio set_attribute SIGSEGV (Address boundary error) [#496, !788, Philip
Chimento]
* Fix Visual Studio builds after migration to SpiderMonkey 102.x [!789,
Chun-wei Fan]
* Update Visual Studio build instructions [!791, Chun-wei Fan]
* doc: reformat for better scraping with DevDocs [!792, Andy Holmes]
* doc: Update Home [!793, Sonny Piers]
* GLib: override GThread functions [!795, Andy Holmes]
Version 1.73.90
---------------
- Skipped.
Version 1.72.3
--------------
- Fix for crash after build against libffi 3.4.2 ported from the development
branch.
Version 1.73.2
--------------
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 102, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 91.
Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New APIs
+ The `Object.hasOwn()` static method can be used as an easier replacement
for `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(...)`.
+ `Intl.supportedValuesOf()` lets you enumerate which calendars, currencies,
collation strategies, numbering systems, time zones, and units are
available for internationalization.
- It's now possible to use `GObject.BindingGroup.prototype.bind_full()` with JS
functions. Previously this method was unusable in JS.
- Gio.FileEnumerator is now iterable, both synchronously (with for-of or array
spread syntax) and asynchronously (with for-await-of).
- Performance improvements in the built-in `imports.signals` module.
- Many improvements to the examples and documentation.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Spidermonkey 102 [#487, !765, !785, Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
* Object connections / signal emissions optimizations [#485, !758, Marco
Trevisan]
* tests/Gio: Cleanup Gio._promisify [!767, Marco Trevisan]
* Include JUnit reports in builds [!768, Marco Trevisan]
* Integrate pretty print to the debugger [!769, Nasah Kuma]
* doc: Edit GJS description [!771, Sonny Piers]
* doc: note the version `constructor()` became supported [!774, Andy Holmes]
* build: disable sysprof agent for subproject fallback [!775, Christian
Hergert]
* Update CI images [!776, !777, !778, Philip Chimento]
* GListModel.get_n_items returns garbage value [#493, !779, Florian Müllner]
* Add override for g_binding_group_bind_full() [!780, Florian Müllner]
* doc: Modernize examples [!781, Sonny Piers]
* doc: Document byteArray deprecation and migration [!782, Sonny Piers]
* doc: add simple Gtk.TickCallback example [!783, Andy Holmes]
* Make GFileEnumerator iterable and async iterable [!784, Sonny Piers]
Version 1.72.2
--------------
- Various fixes ported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* gi/arg-cache.cpp: Fix building on Visual Studio [!772, Chun-wei Fan]
* doc: Reflect support for constructor with GObject [!773, Sonny Piers]
Version 1.73.1
--------------
- The interactive interpreter now displays its output more intelligently,
pretty-printing the properties and values of objects based on their type. This
improvement also applies to the log() and logError() functions.
- New API: DBus proxy classes now include methods named with the suffix 'Async',
which perform async calls to DBus APIs and return Promises. This is in
addition to the existing suffixes 'Sync' (for blocking calls) and 'Remote'
(for async calls with callbacks.)
- There is an override for Gio.ActionMap.prototype.add_action_entries().
Previously this method wouldn't work because it required an array of
Gio.ActionEntry objects, which are not possible to construct in GJS. Now it
can be used with an array of plain objects. (e.g. `this.add_action_entries([
{name: 'open', activate() { ... }}]);`
- GJS is now compatible with libffi 3.4.2 and later. All earlier versions of GJS
are not compatible with libffi 3.4.2 and later unless libffi is built with the
--disable-exec-static-tramp flag.
- GJS now requires Meson 0.54 to build.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Verbose Object Print Output [#107, !587, Nasah Kuma]
* Add support for JS async calls in DBusProxyWrapper [!731, Sergio Costas]
* Crash after build against libffi 3.4.2 [#428, !737, Evan Welsh]
* Handle reference cycles in new console pretty print function [#469, !739,
Nasah Kuma]
* Gnome-Shell 42 - crash after login (general protection fault) [#479, !740,
Xi Ruoyao]
* Various maintenance [!741, Philip Chimento]
* jsapi-util-strings: Ignore locale to compute the upper case of a char (i.e.
fix implicit properties on Turkish locale) [!742, Marco Trevisan]
* Dockerfile: Install Turkish locale in CI for UTF-8 locale too [!743, Marco
Trevisan]
* Improve pretty-print output for GObject-introspected objects [#476, !744,
Nasah Kuma]
* Expose pretty print function to tests [!745, Nasah Kuma]
* build: track changes to Sysprof meson options [!747, Christian Hergert]
* Make Gio.ActionMap.add_action_entries work [#407, !749, Sonny Piers]
* Make DBus session and system props non-enumerable [!750, Sonny Piers]
* gi/arg-inl: Mark the arg functions as constexpr [!752, Marco Trevisan]
* build: Do not use verbose GJS debug logging in tests by default [!753, Marco
Trevisan]
* minijasmine: Print test JS errors output if any [!754, Marco Trevisan]
* doc: document the existence of the console object in GJS [!759, Andy Holmes]
* arg-cache: Use a switch to select the not-introspectable error [!762, Marco
Trevisan]
* log_set_writer_func is not safe to use [#481, !766, Evan Welsh]
Version 1.72.1
--------------
- Various fixes ported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Compilation error: call to deleted function 'js_value_to_c' [#473, !738,
Evan Miller]
* jsapi-util-strings: Ignore locale to compute the upper case of a char (i.e.
fix implicit properties on Turkish locale) [!742, Marco Trevisan]
* Fix memory leak when passing a "transfer none" GBytes parameter to a native
function [!746, msizanoen1]
* arg-cache: Do not leak an interface info structures on Callbacks [!751,
Marco Trevisan]
* test-ci: Ignore safe directory errors on CI [!755, Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.72.0
--------------
- No changes from release candidate 1.71.90.
Version 1.70.2
--------------
- Build and compatibility fixes backported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* package: Reverse order of running-from-source checks [!734, Philip Chimento]
- Fix build error on Darwin [Evan Miller]
Version 1.68.6
--------------
- Build and compatibility fixes backported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* package: Reverse order of running-from-source checks [!734, Philip Chimento]
- Fix build error on Darwin [Evan Miller]
Version 1.71.90
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Cairo test broken with commit ea52cf92 [#461, !724, Philip Chimento]
* native: Convert to singleton class [!725, Nasah Kuma]
* Checking `instanceof` for primitive types may lead to a crash or error
[#464, !726, Marco Trevisan]
* Change the GObject Introspection development branch [!727, Emmanuele Bassi]
* gi_marshalling_tests_long_in_max test fails on i686 [#462, !728, Philip
Chimento, Evan Welsh]
* GNOME Shell crashes at startup with the AppIndicator extension enabled
[#466, !729, Marco Trevisan]
* Instances of classes implementing interfaces can override functions for all
implementations of an interface [#467, !730, Evan Welsh]
* package: Reverse order of running-from-source checks [!734, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!735, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!736, Evan Welsh]
Version 1.71.1
--------------
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 91, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 78.
Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New syntax
+ Private class fields and methods are now supported. They start with `#`
and are not accessible outside the class in which they are defined.
+ The `??=` logical nullish assignment operator, which assigns the
right-hand side value to the left-hand side variable if the variable is
null or undefined.
+ The `&&=` logical-and assignment operator, which assigns the right-hand
side value to the left-hand side variable if the variable is truthy.
+ The `||=` logical-or assignment operator, which assigns the right-hand
side value to the left-hand side variable if the variable is falsey.
+ `export * as ... from ...` can be used to aggregate modules.
+ Regular expressions add the `d` flag, which if defined causes the
resulting match object to have an `indices` property giving the positions
in the string where capturing and named groups matched.
+ `static { ... }` blocks in classes allow initialization of classes at the
time of creation of the class.
* New APIs
+ Arrays, strings, and typed arrays have gained the `at()` method, which
does the same thing as indexing with square brackets but also allows
negative numbers, which count from the end, as in Python.
+ `Promise.any()`, which is similar to `Promise.race()` but resolves on the
first successful sub-promise, instead of the first to resolve.
+ `Error()` now takes an options object as its second parameter, which may
contain a `cause` property. This option is used to indicate when an error
is caused by another error, but the first error is caught during error
handling.
+ `WeakRef`, which allows you to hold a reference to an object while still
allowing it to be garbage collected.
+ `dateStyle`, `timeStyle`, `fractionalSecondDigits`, and `dayPeriod` are
now accepted as options in `Intl.DateTimeFormat()` and
`Date.prototype.toLocaleString()`.
+ `collation` is now accepted as an option in `Intl.Collator()`.
+ `Intl.DisplayNames` has been added, which allows you to get translations
of language, region, currency, and script names.
+ `Intl.DateTimeFormat` has gained the `formatRange()` and
`formatRangeToParts()` methods.
* New behaviour
+ More numbering systems are supported in `Intl.NumberFormat`.
+ Top-level await (https://v8.dev/features/top-level-await) allows you to
use `await` statements outside of an `async` function in an ES module.
+ There are a lot of minor behaviour changes as SpiderMonkey's JS
implementation conforms ever closer to existing ECMAScript standards and
adopts new ones. For complete information, read the Firefox developer
release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/79#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/80#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/81#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/82#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/83#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/84#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/85#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/86#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/87#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/88#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/89#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/90#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/91#JavaScript
- It's now possible to pass BigInt values to GObject-introspected functions with
64-bit parameters. This way, you can finally work with large numbers that
cannot be accurately stored as a JS Number value and pass them correctly into
C. For example, `GLib.Variant.new_int64(2n ** 62n)`.
- New API: GJS now has a standards-compliant `setTimeout()` and `setInterval()`.
These can now be used as in web browsers, while still integrating with GLib's
main loop.
- New API: `Cairo.Context.prototype.textExtents()` which makes the
`cairo_text_extents()` C function available to JavaScript.
- New overrides: `GLib.MAXINT64_BIGINT`, `GLib.MININT64_BIGINT`, and
`GLib.MAXUINT64_BIGINT` are BigInt-typed versions of `GLib.MAXINT64` etc.
- It's now possible to use a regular `constructor()` in GObject classes instead
of an `_init()` method.
- It's now possible to use class fields in GObject classes.
- `Gio._promisify()` now tries to guess the name of the finish function, if it
is omitted.
- It's now possible to monkeypatch methods on the prototype of a GObject
interface. The most common use case for this is probably promisifying methods
on `Gio.File`, so you can now do things like
`Gio._promisify(Gio.File.prototype, 'read_async')` without resorting to the
`Gio._LocalFilePrototype` workaround.
- GObject interfaces are now enumerable, so you can now do things like
`Object.keys(Gio.File.prototype)` and get a list of the methods, like you can
with other GObject types.
- Improvements to the performance of promises, making them more predictable
under higher load.
- Several performance and type-safety improvements.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* [Mainloop 1/3] Add custom GSource for promise queueing [#1, !557, Evan
Welsh, Marco Trevisan]
* Upgrade to SpiderMonkey 91 [#413, !632, !687, Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento,
Chun-wei Fan]
* Promise rejections from signal handlers are silent [#417, !632, Philip
Chimento]
* Add a binding for GObject.Object.new [#48, !664, Evan Welsh, Philip
Chimento]
* Object resolve should consider prototypes of GObject interfaces [#189, !665,
Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
* File corruption on file.replace_contents_async [#192, !665, Evan Welsh]
* Overriding inherited interface vfuncs clobbers base class implementation
[#89, !671, Evan Welsh]
* Errors in __init__.js are silenced [#343, !672, Evan Welsh]
* Allocate structs which contain pointers [!674, Evan Welsh]
* [Mainloop 3/3] WHATWG Timers [!677, Evan Welsh]
* [Mainloop 2/3] Implement "implicit" mainloop which only blocks on unresolved
imports [!678, Evan Welsh]
* Correctly chain constructor prototypes to enable static inheritance [!679,
Evan Welsh]
* Upgrade CI to Fedora 34 [!683, !684, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!685, !691, !709, !719, Philip Chimento]
* doc: Add Junction to applications written in GJS [!688, Sonny Piers]
* C++ argument cache [!689, Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
* Gio: Make _promisify to guess the finish function by default [!692, Marco
Trevisan]
* Fails to build with Meson 0.60.2 [#446, !694, !705, Jan Beich, Eli Schwartz]
* doc: Add Oh My SVG to standalone applications [!695, Sonny Piers]
* ci: Ensure forever callbacks do not leak [!698, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Refactor resolving prototypes in GIWrapperInstance constructors [!699,
Evan Welsh]
* Class fields don't work with GObject classes [#331, !700, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Add enumeration hook for Interface prototypes [!701, Evan Welsh]
* Fix Visual Studio builds [!706, Chun-wei Fan]
* tools: Add iwyu-tool as a binary name for iwyu [!707, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Allow GObject.Value boxed type in nested contexts [!708, Evan Welsh,
Philip Chimento]
* Implemented check for null out-params in some functions in context.cpp
[!710, Nasah Kuma]
* Broken links on the doc/Home.md file [#458, !711, Andy Holmes]
* Accept BigInt values as input for 64-bit parameters to introspected
functions [!712, Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
* Enable top-level await [!713, Evan Welsh]
* modules: Remove double '//' from internal module URIs [!714, Evan Welsh]
* modules: Ensure ImportError is an instance of globalThis.Error [!715, Evan
Welsh]
* global: Enable WeakRefs [!716, Evan Welsh]
* global: Enable static class blocks [!717, Evan Welsh]
* overrides: Allow users to implement construct-only props with getters [!718,
Evan Welsh]
* cairo: Add binding for cairo_text_extents() [!720, Philip Chimento]
* Non-integer numbers can not be converted to (u)int64 [#459, !721, Philip
Chimento]
* Print error cause when logging an error [#454, !722, Philip Chimento]
* GtkCustomSorter callbacks receives undefined params [#460, !723, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.70.1
--------------
- Build and crash fixes backported from the development branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Fix size_t/gsize conversion errors on 32-bit systems [!680, Evan Miller]
* Handle optional out parameters in callbacks [#439, !681, Evan Welsh]
* installed-tests: Install matchers.js [!682, Simon McVittie]
* Link fails on Debian armel|mipsel|powerpc: needs more -latomic [#442, !686,
Simon McVittie]
* gjs/jsapi-util.cpp: fix build on gcc-12 [!697, Sergei Trofimovich]
Version 1.68.5
--------------
- Crash fix backported from the development branch. [#439, !681, Evan Welsh]
Version 1.70.0
--------------
- No changes from release candidate 1.69.90.
Version 1.68.4
--------------
- Build fix backported from the development branch. [#436, !667, Evan Welsh]
Version 1.69.90
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Update ESLint to v8 [!657, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Enable pending tests which are now correctly handled [!658, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Return null if return argument is a pointer type [!659, Evan Welsh]
* gi: Assume native enums are signed, avoid asserting. [!660, Evan Welsh]
* Fix cppcheck failure [!661, Philip Chimento]
* Strange behavior for strings with NUL character [#285, !662, Evan Welsh]
* 64-bit int GObject properties have some problems with values > G_MAXINT32
[#92, !663, Evan Welsh]
* Crash on dynamic import in interactive interpreter [#429, !666, Evan Welsh]
* 1.69.1: gjs test suite is failing when gjs is build with -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT
[#436, !667, Evan Welsh]
* function: Warn about unhandled promise rejections in System.exit() [!669,
Philip Chimento]
* attempting to wrap a new GObject mid-construction blows up [#50, !675, Evan
Welsh]
* Fix IWYU CI job [!676, Evan Welsh]
- Build fixes [Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.69.2
--------------
- The TextEncoder and TextDecoder global objects are now available. In most
cases, these will be able to replace usage of the imports.byteArray module. We
recommend that new code use TextEncoder and TextDecoder to convert strings to
UTF-8 encoded Uint8Arrays and vice versa.
MDN is a good source of information on how to use these APIs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextEncoder
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder
- The 'console' global object is now available. This is for compatibility with
Node.js and browser environments, and for familiarity for developers
accustomed to them. The previously existing print(), printerr(), log(),
logError() functions continue to exist, and are not deprecated. The console
methods use GLib structured logging as their backend.
- Cairo.Surface has gained getDeviceScale(), setDeviceScale(),
getDeviceOffset(), and setDeviceOffset() methods. These wrap the corresponding
C functions.
- GLib.log_set_writer_func() and GObject.Object.bind_property_full() now work.
Previously, they had introspection problems.
- There is also a 'console' built-in module which exports functions
setConsoleLogDomain() and getConsoleLogDomain(), for controlling the GLib
log domain that the console methods use.
- The debugger has gained a 'set ignoreCaughtExceptions (true/false)' option.
Previously, when an exception was thrown, the debugger would stop, even if the
exception was thrown intentionally in order to be caught. With this option,
which is now the default, the debugger will keep going on exceptions that are
thrown while inside the scope of a try-catch block.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Implement WHATWG Encoding specification. [!534, Evan Welsh]
* cairo-surface: Add setDevice{Offset,Scale} functions [!605, Daniel van Vugt,
Philip Chimento]
* WHATWG Console Implementation [!634, Evan Welsh]
* Add support for GLib.log_set_writer_func [!637, Evan Welsh]
* Various maintenance [!649, Philip Chimento]
* examples: improve the gettext example [!651, Sonny Piers]
* Unable to use bind_property_full [#241, !653, Florian Müllner]
* Allow continuing for handled exceptions [#431, !655, Florian Müllner]
* text-encoding.cpp: Fix builds on 64-bit Windows [!656, Chun-wei Fan]
Version 1.68.3
--------------
- Crash and bug fixes backported from the development branch.
- Build fixes [Philip Chimento]
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* win32: Fix resource-based imports [!652, Evan Welsh]
* overrides/GLib: Guard Error.new_literal against invalid domains [!654,
Florian Müllner]
Version 1.69.1
--------------
- Memory usage improvements and bug fixes.
- Progress on TextEncoder/TextDecoder.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Cleanup gjs_closure_invoke [#382, !592, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!600, !616, !624, !630, Philip Chimento, Marco
Trevisan, Evan Welsh]
* doc: Add simple sysprof example [!606, Andy Holmes]
* examples: add examples of GtkBuilder templates [!607, Andy Holmes]
* doc: document shebang for ESModules [!608, Sonny Piers]
* Gio.ListStore.insert_sorted's compare_func isn't handled correctly [#326,
!610, Veena Nagar]
* object: Block access to object only if it is finalized [!611, Marco
Trevisan]
* tests: Add unit tests for ToggleQueue and ObjectInstance usage of it [!615,
Marco Trevisan]
* gjs-test-tools: Throw error if we can't create threads [!618, Marco
Trevisan]
* build: Support meson unity builds [!619, Marco Trevisan]
* build: Support building with precompiled headers [!620, Marco Trevisan]
* Support GObject properties with GByteArray type [#276, !621, Veena Nagar]
* Regression in running tests with log output redirected to file [#410, !622,
Philip Chimento]
* doc: add Commit and Almond to applications [!623, Sonny Piers]
* closure (and trampoline): Reimplement to be a C++ class with custom heap
allocator [!625, Marco Trevisan]
* gjs-test-utils: Be more liberal in comparing values of different types
[!626, Marco Trevisan]
* [regression] gjs main can't build today [#414, !627, Daniel van Vugt]
* Add memory counter profiling [#292, !629, Philip Chimento]
* Promisify should complain if the async or finish function doesn't exist
[#200, !631, Veena Nagar]
* Add 'S' conversion specifier to gjs_parse_call_args [!638, Philip Chimento]
* Fix builds on Windows/Visual Studio with the latest GIT main [!639,
Chun-wei Fan]
* meson: fix version check for precompiled headers [!640, Jordan Petridis]
* GjsDBusImplementation.emit_property_changed(..., null): assertion failed
[#427, !642, Andy Holmes]
* gi: Only enumerate properties which GJS defines [!643, Evan Welsh]
* Add Internship Getting Started documentation [!645, Philip Chimento]
* arg-cache: Handle notified callbacks without destroy [!647, Florian Müllner]
* esm/gi: Improve check for version conflicts [!650, Florian Müllner]
Version 1.68.2
--------------
- Crash and regression fixes backported from the development branch.
- Build fix to adjust to GLib renaming its main branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Fix crash in ByteArray.fromGBytes / ByteArray.fromString with 0-length input
[!628, Philip Chimento]
* subprojects: Use GLib main branch [!633, Philip Withnall]
* Construct-only properties and GTK Builder. [#422, !635, Carlos Garnacho]
* Data corruption when passing a 0-terminated array of GVariant [#269, !636,
Evan Welsh]
* Fix race condition in dynamic module resolution. [!641, Evan Welsh]
* Ensure the correct realm is entered in the async executor [!644, Evan Welsh]
* Assertion failure in toggle refs with debug mozjs [#416, !646, Evan Welsh]
Version 1.68.1
--------------
- Many stability fixes due to refactoring how disposed GObjects are handled.
Special thanks to Marco Trevisan for the substantial effort.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Accessing GLib.ByteArray throws [#386, !590, Philip Chimento]
* Missing hyphen and camelCase getters for CONSTRUCT_ONLY GObject properties
defined in JavaScript [#391, !591, Philip Chimento]
* gnome-shell crashes on deferencing a destroyed wrapper object [#395, !593,
!617, Marco Trevisan]
* GNOME crash "JS object wrapper for GObject 0x563bf88f5f50 (GSettings) is
being released..." [#294, !593, !617, Marco Trevisan]
* Finalizing wrapper for an already freed object [#399, !593, !617, Marco
Trevisan]
* Calling implemented methods or getters on disposed objects returns function
pointers [#396, !594, Marco Trevisan]
* overrides/Gio: Fix _LocalFilePrototype [!595, Florian Müllner]
* doc: Fix documentation for dynamic imports [!596, Sonny Piers]
* Added the meson installation command in dependencies [!597, Veena Nagar]
* Upgrade codespell to 2.0.0 in CI [#367, !598, Kajal Sah]
* cairo: Add missing semi-colons from dummy class declarations [!599, Matt
Turner]
* Fixed System.addressOfGObject and System.dumpHeap missing from System ES
module [!600, Philip Chimento]
* `Error: Failed to convert GValue to a fundamental instance` in
Gtk.EventControllerLegacy [#398, !601, Marco Trevisan]
* doc: add an example to get relative filename and dirname with
import.meta.url [!603, Sonny Piers]
* wrapperutils: Use native ostringstream pointer to string conversion [!604,
Marco Trevisan]
* testFundamental: Add more tests ensuring we properly handle subtypes [!602,
Marco Trevisan]
* Some simple Visual Studio fixes for main [!612, Chun-wei Fan]
* Using GFileMonitor crashes GNOME Shell with toggling down object error
[#297, !613, !617, Marco Trevisan]
* Deadlock on toggle queue due to GWeakRef [#404, !613, !617, Marco Trevisan]
* Using g_thread_join from JS is crashing [#406, !613, !617, Marco Trevisan]
* GObject: Ensure to call setter methods for construct-only properties [!614,
Carlos Garnacho]
Version 1.68.0
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* 40.rc session crashes in gjs on unlocking (sometimes) [#387, !588, Marco
Trevisan]
* 40.rc: installed-tests installed despite explicitly disabled [#388, !589,
Philip Chimento]
Version 1.67.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* System.exit() doesn't work inside signal handler [#19, !565, Evan Welsh]
* GdkEvent subtypes trigger assert in Gtk4 [#365, !566, Evan Welsh]
* Replace g_memdup [#375, !567, Philip Chimento]
* 1.67.2: build fails with gcc 11 [#376, !568, Philip Chimento]
* Warnings introspecting array of boxed type as signal argument. [#377, !569,
Carlos Garnacho]
* Add list command to debugger [!571, Nasah Kuma]
* Assertion failure in enqueuePromiseJob [#349, !572, Philip Chimento]
* in interpreter Ctrl-c should exit inner shell if stuck [#98, !574, Philip
Chimento]
* Compiler ambiguity in enum-utils.h on operator overloading [#368, !576,
Chun-wei Fan]
* Fix GJS_DISABLE_JIT not fully disabling JIT [!575, Ivan Molodetskikh]
* Error running gjs built with prefix: g_object_new_is_valid_property: object
class 'GjsContext' has no property named 'program-path' [#381, !577, Sonny
Piers]
* Various maintenance [!578, !586, Philip Chimento]
* Add some profiling labels [!579, Ivan Molodetskikh]
* Some installed tests (introspection) segfault when GTK isn't available
[#383, !580, Olivier Tilloy]
* Installed tests do not install the js/modules subdir [#384, !581, Olivier
Tilloy]
* Installed tests fail because expected path doesn't include project name
[#385, !582, Olivier Tilloy]
* 1.67.2: Regress test hangs / timeouts on i686 [#379, !583, Marco Trevisan]
* object: Do not call any function on disposed GObject pointers [!585, Marco
Trevisan]
Version 1.67.2
--------------
- New language features: Importing ES modules is now supported, both statically
with import statements and dynamically with the import() function. For more
information on how to use modules, see:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import
Four built-in modules exist: cairo, gettext, gi, and system. Except for gi,
they work similarly to the old-style modules imports.cairo, imports.gettext,
and imports.system. Consult the documentation in doc/Modules.md on how to use
them.
- The debugger now has a "list" command which works very similarly to its GDB
equivalent.
- New API: GObject.ParamSpec.jsobject() works like the other GObject.ParamSpec
types, and allows you to have a GObject property whose value is a JavaScript
object (plain object, Date, Array, etc.)
- New API: System.programPath is the name of the JS program that GJS is running,
or null if there isn't one (for example, in the interactive interpreter.)
- New API: System.programArgs is an array of arguments given to the JS program.
It is the same as ARGV but is consistently always present. (ARGV was not
defined in the interactive interpreter or when embedding GJS in a C program.)
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Support Native JSObject GType for Signals and Properties [!305, Marco
Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
* Add 'system.programPath' API. [!443, Evan Welsh]
* ESM: Enable static imports. (Part 3) [!450, Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
* Refactor ARGV handling and add `system.programArgs` [!455, Evan Welsh,
Philip Chimento]
* Function make the object more C++ friendly [!514, Marco Trevisan]
* ESM: Enable dynamic imports. [!525, Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
* Remove JSClass macros from Ns, GType, and Cairo types [!549, Philip
Chimento]
* various documentation improvements [!551, Sonny Piers]
* Replace remaining mentions of window with globalThis [!552, Sonny Piers]
* add .editorconfig file [!553, Sonny Piers]
* Display current line of source code when displaying current frame in
debugger [!554, Nasah Kuma]
* doc: add Clapper and Flatseal to thirty party applications written in GJS
[!555, Sonny Piers]
* Multiline template literals are missing newlines when entered at interactive
prompt [#371, !556, Ales Huzik]
* function: Remove JSClass macros [!558, Philip Chimento, Marco Trevisan]
* Missing classes on global. [#372, !559, Philip Chimento]
* arg: fix build failure with glib main branch [!560, Michael Catanzaro]
* Update to Jasmine 2.9.1 [!561, Evan Welsh]
* Various maintenance [!562, Philip Chimento]
* Add list command to debugger [!563, Nasah Kuma]
* Upgrade to Jasmine 3.6.0 [!564, Evan Welsh]
- Various refactors in preparation for BigInt support in gobject-introspection
[Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.67.1
--------------
- The debugger now has a "backtrace full" command which works very similarly to
its GDB equivalent.
- The GObject.ParamFlags.CONSTRUCT_ONLY flag is now correctly enforced, when
using it on GObject classes defined in JavaScript. This might break code that
was incorrectly trying to set a property that it had previously defined as
construct-only. The workaround is to remove the CONSTRUCT_ONLY flag.
- Fixed exception when calling GObject.Type().
- Several performance improvements.
- Progress on ES Modules.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* gobject: Handle CONSTRUCT_ONLY flag [!377, Florian Müllner]
* Add native module registry to global (Part 2) [!456, Evan Welsh]
* testGIMarshalling: Expand test coverage for flags [!479, Simon McVittie]
* Private Objects: Use native allocators and structs [!494, Marco Trevisan]
* Pass-by-reference GValue arguments do not work right [#74, !496, !507, Marco
Trevisan]
* Templated-data-only GjsAutoPointer (and use it more around) [!504, Marco
Trevisan]
* Error in function "_init()" in module "modules/overrides/GObject.js" [#238,
!508, Nina Pypchenko]
* fails to build on 32-bit [#357, !511, Michael Catanzaro]
* Revert "arg-cache: Save space by not caching GType" [!512, Jonas Dreßler]
* gi/wrapperutils: Move gjs_get_string_id() into resolve() implementations
[!513, Jonas Dreßler]
* updates on eslint configuration [!517, Nasah Kuma]
* Update CONTRIBUTING.md about the runner system failure [!518, Nasah Kuma]
* Switch to eslint-plugin-jsdoc and remove lint-condo [!520, #359, Evan Welsh,
Philip Chimento]
* gi: Check property before access [!521, Florian Müllner]
* testGIMarshalling: Actually run the GPtrArray utf8 tests [!522, Marco
Trevisan]
* Add more documents for "imports" and "imports.gi" [!526, wsgalaxy]
* overrides/Gtk: Set BuilderScope in class init [!527, Florian Müllner]
* gi/arg-cache: Only skip array length parameter once [!528, Florian Müllner]
* Copyright conformance with Reuse Software spec [!529, Philip Chimento, Evan
Welsh]
* Remove JSClass macros [!530, !533, !537, Philip Chimento]
* Avoid pulling from DockerHub in CI [!531, Philip Chimento, Marco Trevisan]
* Use GNOME-specific rules with cppcheck [!532, Philip Chimento]
* Fedora 33 CI images [!535, Philip Chimento]
* Fix IWYU bugs [!536, Philip Chimento]
* Reduce bandwidth usage in CI, and pick a more accurate base for diff checks
[!538, Philip Chimento]
* debugger: Make '$$' mean the last value [!539, Philip Chimento]
* Add codespell CI job [#362, !540, !541, !547, Björn Daase]
* Various maintenance [!542, !548, Philip Chimento]
* fix readline build on certain systems [!543, Jakub Kulík]
* build: Require gobject-introspection 1.66.0 [!546, Philip Chimento]
* Add backtrace full command to debugger [#208, !550, Nasah Kuma]
- Various refactors for type safety [Marco Trevisan]
- Various maintenance [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.66.2
--------------
- Performance improvements and crash fixes backported from the development
branch.
- Bug fixes enabling use of GTK 4.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Error in function "_init()" in module "modules/overrides/GObject.js" [#238,
!508, Nina Pypchenko]
* Revert "arg-cache: Save space by not caching GType" [!512, Jonas Dreßler]
* gi/wrapperutils: Move gjs_get_string_id() into resolve() implementations
[!513, Jonas Dreßler]
* overrides/Gtk: Set BuilderScope in class init [!527, Florian Müllner]
* fix readline build on certain systems [!543, Jakub Kulík]
Version 1.64.5
--------------
- Performance improvements and crash fixes backported from the development
branch.
- Bug fixes enabling use of GTK 4.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Error in function "_init()" in module "modules/overrides/GObject.js" [#238,
!508, Nina Pypchenko]
* gi/wrapperutils: Move gjs_get_string_id() into resolve() implementations
[!513, Jonas Dreßler]
* overrides/Gtk: Set BuilderScope in class init [!527, Florian Müllner]
* fix readline build on certain systems [!543, Jakub Kulík]
Version 1.66.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Throws on Unsupported caller allocates [!495, Marco Trevisan]
* arg: Fix MIN/MAX safe big integer limits [!492, Marco Trevisan]
* Fix leak when virtual function is unimplemented [!498, Evan Welsh]
* Cannot compile GJS 1.66.0 on macOS with llvm/clang 10.0.1 [#347, !499,
Marc-Antoine Perennou]
* console: fix typo in command-line option [!500, Andy Holmes]
* Prevent passing null pointers when not nullable [!503, Evan Welsh]
* Passing fundamentals to functions no longer works [#353, !506, Evan Welsh]
- Fixed examples/clutter.js to work with more recent Clutter [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.66.0
--------------
- No change from 1.65.92.
Version 1.65.92
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* CI: Make iwyu idempotent [!481, Simon McVittie]
* Enum and flags test failing in s390x [#319, !480, Simon McVittie]
* Bring back Visual Studio build support for GJS main branch [!482, Chun-wei Fan]
* gjs_dbus_implementation_emit_signal: don't try to unref NULL [!482, Adam
Williamson]
* doc: add third party applications [!484, Sonny Piers]
* boxed: Initialize all the private BoxedInstance members [!487, Marco
Trevisan]
* object: Fix GjsCallBackTrampoline's leaks [!490, Marco Trevisan]
* Various maintenance [!485, Philip Chimento]
* Crash using shell's looking glass [#344, !486, Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.65.91
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Crash in gjs_dbus_implementation_flush() [#332, !471, Andy Holmes]
* eslint: Bump ecmaScript version [!473, Florian Müllner]
* Documentation: add documentation for ENV variables [!474, Andy Holmes]
* Fix build for the main branch on Windows (due to SpiderMonkey-78.x upgrade) [!475,
Chun-wei Fan]
* Argument cache causes test failure in armhf [#342, !476, Marco Trevisan]
* Argument cache causes test regressions in s390x [#341, !477, Simon McVittie]
* ByteArray.toString use-after-free [#339, !472, Evan Welsh]
* Crash accessing `vfunc_` methods of `Clutter.Actor`s [#313, !478, Evan
Welsh]
- Various refactors for type safety [Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.65.90
---------------
- GJS now has an optional, Linux-only, dependency on libsysprof-capture-4
instead of libsysprof-capture-3 for the profiler functionality.
- New API: gjs_coverage_enable() allows the collection of code coverage metrics.
If you are using GjsCoverage, it is now required to call gjs_coverage_enable()
before you create the first GjsContext. Previously this was not necessary, but
due to changes in SpiderMonkey 78 you must now indicate in advance if you want
to collect code coverage metrics.
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 78, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 68.
Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New language features
+ A new regular expression engine, supporting lookbehind and named capture
groups, among other things
* New syntax
+ The ?? operator ("nullish coalescing operator") is now supported
+ The ?. operator ("optional chaining operator") is now supported
+ Public static class fields are now supported
+ Separators in numeric literals are now supported: for example, 1_000_000
* New APIs
+ String.replaceAll() for replacing all instances of a string inside another
string
+ Promise.allSettled() for awaiting until all Promises in an array have
either fulfilled or rejected
+ Intl.Locale
+ Intl.ListFormat
+ Intl.RelativeTimeFormat.formatToParts()
* New behaviour
+ There are a lot of minor behaviour changes as SpiderMonkey's JS
implementation conforms ever closer to existing ECMAScript standards and
adopts new ones. For complete information, read the Firefox developer
release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/69#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/70#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/71#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/72#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/73#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/74#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/75#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/76#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/77#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/78#JavaScript
* Backwards-incompatible changes
+ The Object.toSource() method has been removed
+ The uneval() global function has been removed
+ A leading zero is now never allowed for BigInt literals, making 08n and
09n invalid similar to the existing error when legacy octal numbers like
07n are used
+ The Function.caller property now has the value of null if the caller is a
strict, async, or generator function, instead of throwing a TypeError
- Backwards-incompatible change: Paths specified on the command line with
the --coverage-prefix argument, are now always interpreted as paths. If they
are relative paths, they will be resolved relative to the current working
directory. In previous versions, they would be treated as string prefixes,
which led to unexpected behaviour when the path of the script was absolute
and the coverage prefix relative, or vice versa.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Port to libsysprof-capture-4.a [!457, Philip Withnall, Philip Chimento]
* CI: Switch ASAN jobs to runners tagged so [!461, Bartłomiej Piotrowski]
* Rework global code to support multiple global "types". (Part 1) [!453, Evan
Welsh]
* SpiderMonkey 78 [#329, !462, !458, Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento]
* GIArgument inlines [!460, Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
* gjs stopped building on 32 bits [#335, !463, Marco Trevisan, Philip
Chimento]
* Improve performance of argument marshalling [#70, !48, Giovanni Campagna,
Philip Chimento]
* Build failure on 32-bit [#336, !465, Michael Catanzaro]
* Various maintenance [!464, Philip Chimento]
* arg-cache.cpp: Fix build on Visual Studio [!466, Chun-wei Fan]
* [regression] Super+A crashes gnome-shell [#338, !467, Philip Chimento]
* Generating coverage information seems to be broken [#322, !470, Philip
Chimento]
- Various refactors for type safety [Marco Trevisan]
- Various maintenance [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.65.4
--------------
- New language features! Public class fields are now supported. See for more
information:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes/Public_class_fields
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* arg.cpp: Add required messages for static_assert (fix building on pre-C++17)
[!441, Chun-wei Fan]
* Add include-what-you-use CI job [!448, !449, Philip Chimento]
* Let's enable class fields! [!445, Evan Welsh]
* examples: add GListModel implementation [!452, Andy Holmes]
* Update ESLint CI image. [!451, Evan Welsh]
* function: Only get function name if we actually warn [!454, Jonas Dreßler]
* Split print into native library. [!444, Evan Welsh]
* Various maintenance [!459, Philip Chimento]
- Various refactors for type safety [Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.64.4
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Fix CI failure caused by GTK4 update [!447, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.65.3
--------------
- In GTK 4, Gtk.Widget is now an iterable object which iterates through its
child widgets. (`for (let child of widget) { ... }`)
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Installed tests are not in preferred directories [#318, !427, Ross Burton]
* Build new test CI images with Buildah [!429, Philip Chimento]
* CI fixes for new test images [!433, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!428, Philip Chimento]
* Fix dead link [!436, prnsml]
* overrides/Gtk: Make GTK4 widgets iteratable [!437, Florian Müllner]
* arg.cpp: Fix building on Visual Studio [!439, Chun-wei Fan]
* Separate closures and vfuncs [!438, Philip Chimento]
* Improvements to IWYU script [!435, Philip Chimento]
* Various refactors in preparation for ES modules [!440, Evan Welsh, Philip
Chimento]
- Various refactors for type safety [Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.64.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* arg: Don't sink GClosure ref if it's a return value [!426, Philip Chimento]
* overrides/Gtk: Adjust gtk_container_child_set_property() check [!431,
Florian Müllner]
* 1.63.3: test suite is failing [#298, !430, Philip Chimento]
* Simplify private pointers [!434, Philip Chimento]
- Various backports:
* Use memory GSettings backend in tests [Philip Chimento]
* Update debug message from trimLeft/trimRight to trimStart/trimEnd [Philip
Chimento]
* Various fixes for potential crash and memory issues [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.58.8
--------------
- Various backports
* 1.63.3: test suite is failing [Philip Chimento]
* Various fixes for potential crash and memory issues [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.65.2
--------------
- It's now possible to omit the getter and setter for a GObject property on your
class, if you only need the default behaviour (reading and writing the
property, respecting the default value if not set, and implementing property
notifications if the setter changes the value.) This should cut down on
boilerplate code and any mistakes made in it.
- The log level of exception messages has changed. Previously, some exceptions
would be logged as critical-level messages even when they were logged
intentionally with logError(). Now, critical-level messages are only logged
when an exception goes uncaught (programmer error) and in all other cases a
warning-level message is logged.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* build: Use '!=' instead of 'is not' to compare string [Robert Mader, !414]
* Various maintenance [Philip Chimento, !413, !425]
* doc fixes [Sonny Piers, !415, !416]
* jsapi-util: Make log levels of exceptions consistent [Philip Chimento, !418]
* Too much recursion error accessing overridden gobject interface property from
a subclass [Philip Chimento, #306, !408]
* JS: migrate from the global `window` to `globalThis` [Andy Holmes, !423]
* doc: Fix a typo [Matthew Leeds, !424]
Version 1.64.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* GList of int not correctly demarshalled on 64-bit big-endian [Philip
Chimento, Simon McVittie, #309, !417, !419]
* Fix template use in GTK4 [Florian Müllner, !420]
* Don't crash if a callback doesn't return an expected array of values [Marco
Trevisan, !405]
* Crash passing integer to strv in constructor [Evan Welsh, #315, !422]
* Skip some tests if GTK can't be initialised [Ross Burton, !421]
- Various backports:
* Fix gjs_log_exception() for InternalError [Philip Chimento]
* Fix signal match mechanism [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.58.7
--------------
- Various backports:
* Don't crash if a callback doesn't return an expected array of values [Marco
Trevisan]
* GList of int not correctly demarshalled on 64-bit big-endian [Philip
Chimento, Simon McVittie]
* Crash passing integer to strv in constructor [Evan Welsh]
* Ignore format-nonliteral warning [Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.65.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* boxed: Implement newEnumerate hook for boxed objects [Ole Jørgen Brønner,
!400]
* ns: Implement newEnumerate hook for namespaces [Ole Jørgen Brønner, !401]
* CI: Tag sanitizer jobs as "privileged" [Philip Chimento, !407]
* overrides/Gio: Allow promisifying static methods [Florian Müllner, !410]
* overrides/Gio: Guard against repeated _promisify() calls [Florian Müllner,
!411]
Version 1.64.1
--------------
- The BigInt type is now _actually_ available, as it wasn't enabled in the
1.64.0 release even though it was mentioned in the release notes.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* testCommandLine's Unicode tests failing on Alpine Linux [Philip Chimento,
#296, !399]
* build: Various clean-ups [Jan Tojnar, !403]
* Correctly handle vfunc inout parameters [Marco Trevisan, !404]
* Fix failed redirect of output in CommandLine tests [Liban Parker, !409]
Version 1.58.6
--------------
- Various backports:
* Correctly handle vfunc inout parameters [Marco Trevisan]
* Fix failed redirect of output in CommandLine tests [Liban Parker]
* Avoid filename conflict when tests run in parallel [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.64.0
--------------
- No change from 1.63.92.
Version 1.63.92
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* object: Use g_irepository_get_object_gtype_interfaces [Colin Walters, Philip
Chimento, #55, !52]
* Add -fno-semantic-interposition to -Bsymbolic-functions [Jan Alexander
Steffens (heftig), #303, !397]
* examples: add a dbus-client and dbus-service example [Andy Holmes, !398]
* Various GNOME Shell crashes during GC, mozjs68 regression [Jan Alexander
Steffens (heftig), Philip Chimento, #301, !396]
Version 1.63.91
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* [mozjs68] Reorganize modules for ESM. [Evan Welsh, Philip Chimento, !383]
* Various maintenance [Philip Chimento, !388]
* Fix building GJS main branch with Visual Studio and update build instructions
[Chun-wei Fan, !389]
* Resolve "Gnome Shell crash on GC run with mozjs68" [Philip Chimento, !391]
* installed-tests/js: Add missing dep on warnlib_typelib [Jan Alexander
Steffens, !393]
* object: Cache known unresolvable properties [Daniel van Vugt, Philip
Chimento, !394, #302]
Version 1.58.5
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Fix Visual Studio builds of gnome-3-34 (1.58.x) branch [Chun-wei Fan, !392]
* Can not access GObject properties of classes without GI information [Juan
Pablo Ugarte, !385, #299]
Version 1.63.90
---------------
- New JS API: The GObject module has gained new overrides:
GObject.signal_handler_find(), GObject.signal_handlers_block_matched(),
GObject.signal_handlers_unblock_matched(), and
GObject.signal_handlers_disconnect_matched(). These overrides replace the
corresponding C API, which was not idiomatic for JavaScript and was not fully
functional because it used bare C pointers for some of its functionality.
See modules/overrides/GObject.js for API documentation.
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 68, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 60.
Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New language features
+ The BigInt type, currently a stage 3 proposal in the ES standard, is now
available.
* New syntax
+ `globalThis` is now the ES-standard supported way to get the global
object, no matter what kind of JS environment. The old way, `window`, will
still work, but is no longer preferred.
+ BigInt literals are expressed by a number with "n" appended to it: for
example, `1n`, `9007199254740992n`.
* New APIs
+ String.prototype.trimStart() and String.prototype.trimEnd() now exist and
are preferred instead of trimLeft() and trimRight() which are nonstandard.
+ String.prototype.matchAll() allows easier access to regex capture groups.
+ Array.prototype.flat() flattens nested arrays, well-known from lodash and
similar libraries.
+ Array.prototype.flatMap() acts like a reverse filter(), allowing adding
elements to an array while iterating functional-style.
+ Object.fromEntries() creates an object from iterable key-value pairs.
+ Intl.RelativeTimeFormat is useful for formatting time differences into
human-readable strings such as "1 day ago".
+ BigInt64Array and BigUint64Array are two new typed array types.
* New behaviour
+ There are a lot of minor behaviour changes as SpiderMonkey's JS
implementation conforms ever closer to existing ECMAScript standards and
adopts new ones. For complete information, read the Firefox developer
release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/61#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/62#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/63#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/64#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/65#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/66#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/67#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/68#JavaScript
* Backwards-incompatible changes
+ The nonstandard String generics were removed. These had only ever been
implemented by Mozilla and never made it into a standard. (An example of a
String generic is calling a string method on something that might not be a
string like this: `String.endsWith(foo, 5)`. The proper way is
`String.prototype.endsWith.call(foo, 5)` or converting `foo` to a string.)
This should not pose much of a problem for existing code, since in the
previous version these would already print a deprecation warning whenever
they were used.
You can use `moz68tool` from mozjs-deprecation-tools
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/ptomato/moz60tool) to scan your code for this
nonstandard usage.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* invalid import on signal.h [#295, !382, Philip Chimento]
* SpiderMonkey 68 [#270, !386, Philip Chimento]
* GObject: Add override for GObject.handler_block_by_func [#290, !371, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.63.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* JS ERROR: TypeError: this._rooms.get(...) is undefined [Philip Chimento,
#289, !367]
* Run CI build with --werror [Philip Chimento, #286, !365]
* build: Remove Autotools build system [Philip Chimento, !364]
* gjs-symlink script is incompatible with distro builds [Michael Catanzaro,
Bastien Nocera, #291, !369, !370]
* installed-tests: Don't hardcode the path of bash [Ting-Wei Lan, !372]
* Update Visual Studio build instructions (after migrating to full Meson-based
builds) [Chun-wei Fan, !375]
* object: Warn when setting a deprecated property [Florian Müllner, !378]
* CI: Create mozjs68 CI images [Philip Chimento, !379]
* Various maintenance [Philip Chimento, !374, !380, !381]
Version 1.58.4
--------------
- Now prints a warning when constructing an unregistered object inheriting from
GObject (i.e. if you forgot to use GObject.registerClass.) In 1.58.2 this
would throw an exception, which broke some existing code, so that change was
reverted in 1.58.3. In this version the check is reinstated, but we log a
warning instead of throwing an exception, so that people know to fix their
code, but without breaking things.
NOTE: In 1.64 (the next stable release) the warning will be changed back into
an exception, because code with this problem can be subtly broken and cause
unexpected errors elsewhere. So make sure to fix your code if you get this
warning.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* GSettings crash fixes [Andy Holmes, !373]
- Memory savings for Cairo objects [Philip Chimento, !374]
- Fix for crash in debug functions [Philip Chimento, !374]
Version 1.63.2
--------------
- There is an option for changing the generated GType name for GObject classes
created in GJS to a new scheme that is less likely to have collisions. This
scheme is not yet the default, but you can opt into it by setting
`GObject.gtypeNameBasedOnJSPath = true;` as early as possible in your
prograṁ. Doing this may require some changes in Glade files if you use
composite widget templates.
We recommend you make this change in your codebase as soon as possible, to
avoid any surprises in the future.
- New JS API: GObject.Object has gained a stop_emission_by_name() method which
is a bit more idiomatic than calling GObject.signal_stop_emission_by_name().
- It's now supported to use the "object" attribute in a signal connection in a
composite widget template in a Glade file.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* CI: Tweak eslint rule for unneeded parentheses [Florian Müllner, !353]
* Smarter GType name computation [Marco Trevisan, !337]
* Meson CI [Philip Chimento, !354]
* Visual Studio builds using Meson [Chun-wei Fan, !355]
* Hide internal symbols from ABI [Marco Trevisan, #194, !352]
* Allow creating custom tree models [Giovanni Campagna, #71]
* build: Fix dist files [Florian Müllner, !357]
* GObject: Add convenience wrapper for signal_stop_emission_by_name() [Florian
Müllner, !358]
* Various maintenance [Philip Chimento, !356]
* object_instance_props_to_g_parameters should do more check on argv [Philip
Chimento, #63, !359]
* Support flat C arrays of structures [Philip Chimento, !361]
* Gtk Templates: support connectObj argument [Andy Holmes, !363]
- Various build fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.58.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* GObject based class initialization checks [Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento,
!336]
* Silently leaked return value of callbacks [Xavier Claessens, Philip
Chimento, #86, !44]
* Crash when calling Gio.Initable.async_init with not vfunc_async_init
implementation [Philip Chimento, #287, !362]
* [cairo] insufficient checking [Philip Chimento, #49, !360]
- Various crash fixes backported from the development branch that didn't close
a bug or merge request.
Version 1.63.1
--------------
- Note that the 1.59, 1.60, 1.61, and 1.62 releases are hereby skipped, because
we are calling the next stable series 1.64 to match gobject-introspection and
GLib.
- GJS now includes a Meson build system. This is now the preferred way to build
it; however, the old Autotools build system is still available for a
transitional period.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* GObject: Add convenience wrapper for signal_handler_(un)block() [Florian
Müllner, !326]
* GObject based class initialization checks [Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento,
!336]
* Meson port [Philip Chimento, !338]
* add http client example [Sonny Piers, !342]
* Smaller CI, phase 2 [Philip Chimento, !343]
* add websocket client example [Sonny Piers, !344]
* Fix Docker images build [Philip Chimento, !345]
* CI: Use new Docker images [Philip Chimento, !346]
* docs: Update internal links [Andy Holmes, !348]
* Don't pass generic marshaller to g_signal_newv() [Niels De Graef, !349]
* tests: Fail debugger tests if command failed [Philip Chimento, !350]
* Minor CI image fixes [Philip Chimento, !351]
* Various fixes [Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.58.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Import wiki documentation [Sonny Piers, !341]
* Smaller CI, phase 1 [Philip Chimento, !339]
* Crashes after setting child property 'icon-name' on GtkStack then displaying
another GtkStack [Florian Müllner, #284, !347]
* GLib.strdelimit crashes [Philip Chimento, #283, !340]
Version 1.58.0
--------------
- No change from 1.57.92.
Version 1.57.92
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* tests: Enable regression test cases for GPtrArrays and GArrays of structures
[Stéphane Seng, !334]
* Various maintenance [Philip Chimento, !333, !335]
Version 1.57.91
---------------
- GJS no longer links to libgtk-3. This makes it possible to load the Gtk-4.0
typelib in GJS and write programs that use GTK 4.
- The heapgraph tool has gained some improvements; it is now possible to print a
heap graph of multiple targets. You can also mark an object for better
identification in the heap graph by assigning a magic property: for example,
myObject.__heapgraph_name = 'Button' will make that object identify itself as
"Button" in heap graphs.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Remove usage of Lang in non legacy code [Sonny Piers, !322]
* GTK4 [Florian Müllner, #99, !328, !330]
* JS syntax fixes [Marco Trevisan, Philip Chimento, !306, !323]
* gi: Avoid infinite recursion when converting GValues [Florian Müllner, !329]
* Implement all GObject-introspection test suites [Philip Chimento, !327,
!332]
* Heapgraph improvements [Philip Chimento, !325]
Version 1.57.90
---------------
- New JS API: GLib.Variant has gained a recursiveUnpack() method which
transforms the variant entirely into a JS object, discarding all type
information. This can be useful for dealing with a{sv} dictionaries, where
deepUnpack() will keep the values as GLib.Variant instances in order to
preserve the type information.
- New JS API: GLib.Variant has gained a deepUnpack() method which is exactly the
same as the already existing deep_unpack(), but fits with the other camelCase
APIs that GJS adds.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Marshalling of GPtrArray broken [#9, !311, Stéphane Seng]
* Fix locale chooser [!313, Philip Chimento]
* dbus-wrapper: Remove interface skeleton flush idle on dispose [!312, Marco
Trevisan]
* gobject: Use auto-compartment when getting property as well [!316, Florian
Müllner]
* modules/signals: Use array destructuring in _emit [!317, Jonas Dreßler]
* GJS can't call glibtop_init function from libgtop [#259, !319,
Philip Chimento]
* GLib's VariantDict is missing lookup [#263, !320, Sonny Piers]
* toString on an object implementing an interface fails [#252, !299, Marco
Trevisan]
* Regression in GstPbutils.Discoverer::discovered callback [#262, !318, Philip
Chimento]
* GLib.Variant.deep_unpack not working properly with a{sv} variants [#225,
!321, Fabián Orccón, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!315, Philip Chimento]
- Various CI fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.57.4
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* gjs 1.57 requires a recent sysprof version for sysprof-capture-3 [#258,
!309, Olivier Fourdan]
- Misc documentation changes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.57.3
--------------
- The GJS profiler is now integrated directly into Sysprof 3, via the
GJS_TRACE_FD environment variable. Call stack information and garbage
collector timing will show up in Sysprof. See also GNOME/Initiatives#10
- New JS API: System.addressOfGObject(obj) will return a string with the hex
address of the underlying GObject of `obj` if it is a GObject wrapper, or
throw an exception if it is not. This is intended for debugging.
- New JS API: It's now possible to pass a value from Gio.DBusProxyFlags to the
constructor of a class created by Gio.DBusProxy.makeProxyWrapper().
- Backwards-incompatible change: Trying to read a write-only property on a DBus
proxy object, or write a read-only property, will now throw an exception.
Previously it would fail silently. It seems unlikely any code is relying on
the old behaviour, and if so then it was probably masking a bug.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Build failure on Continuous [#253, !300, Philip Chimento]
* build: Bump glib requirement [!302, Florian Müllner]
* profiler: avoid clearing 512 bytes of stack [!304, Christian Hergert]
* system: add addressOfGObject method [!296, Marco Trevisan]
* Add support for GJS_TRACE_FD [!295, Christian Hergert]
* Gio: Make possible to pass DBusProxyFlags to proxy wrapper [!297, Marco
Trevisan]
* Various maintenance [!301, Philip Chimento]
* Marshalling of GPtrArray broken [#9, !307, Stéphane Seng]
* Build fix [!308, Philip Chimento]
* Gio: sync dbus wrapper properties flags [!298, Marco Trevisan]
* GjsMaybeOwned: Reduce allocation when used as Object member [!303, Marco
Trevisan]
Version 1.57.2
--------------
- There are now overrides for Gio.SettingsSchema and Gio.Settings which avoid
aborting the whole process when trying to access a nonexistent key or child
schema. The original API from GLib was intended for apps, since apps should
have complete control over which settings keys they are allowed to access.
However, it is not a good fit for shell extensions, which may need to access
different settings keys depending on the version of GNOME shell they're
running on.
This feature is based on code from Cinnamon which the copyright holders have
kindly agreed to relicense to GJS's license.
- New JS API: It is now possible to pass GObject.TypeFlags to
GObject.registerClass(). For example, passing
`GTypeFlags: GObject.TypeFlags.ABSTRACT` in the class info object, will create
a class that cannot be instantiated. This functionality was present in
Lang.Class but has been missing from GObject.registerClass().
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Document logging features [#230, !288, Andy Holmes]
* Support optional GTypeFlags value in GObject subclasses [!290, Florian
Müllner]
* Ensure const-correctness in C++ objects [#105, !291, Onur Şahin]
* Programmer errors with GSettings cause segfaults [#205, !284, Philip
Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!292, Philip Chimento]
* debugger: Fix summary help [!293, Florian Müllner]
* context: Use Heap pointers for GC objects stored in vectors [!294, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.56.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Crash in BoxedInstance when struct could not be allocated directly [#240,
!285, Philip Chimento]
* Cairo conversion bugs [!286, Philip Chimento]
* Gjs crashes when binding inherited property to js added gobject-property
[#246, !289, Marco Trevisan]
* console: Don't accept --profile after the script name [!287, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.57.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Various maintenance [!279, Philip Chimento]
* mainloop: Assign null to property instead of deleting [!280, Jason Hicks]
* Added -d version note README.md [!282, Nauman Umer]
* Extra help for debugger commands [#236, !283, Nauman Umer]
* Crash in BoxedInstance when struct could not be allocated directly [#240,
!285, Philip Chimento]
* Cairo conversion bugs [!286, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.56.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Calling dumpHeap() on non-existent directory causes crash [#134, !277,
Philip Chimento]
* Using Gio.MemoryInputStream.new_from_data ("string") causes segfault [#221,
!278, Philip Chimento]
* Fix gjs_context_eval() for non-zero-terminated strings [!281, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.56.0
--------------
- No change from 1.55.92.
Version 1.55.92
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Fix CI failures [!269, Philip Chimento]
* Possible memory allocation/deallocation bug (possibly in js_free() in GJS)
[!270, Chun-wei Fan, Philip Chimento]
* cairo-context: Special-case 0-sized vector [!271, Florian Müllner]
* Add some more eslint rules [!272, Florian Müllner]
* win32/NMake: Fix introspection builds [!274, Chun-wei Fan]
* NMake/libgjs-private: Export all the public symbols there [!275, Chun-wei
Fan]
Version 1.55.91
---------------
- The problem of freezing while running the tests using GCC's sanitizers was
determined to be a bug in GCC, which was fixed in GCC 9.0.1.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* gnome-sound-recorder crashes deep inside libgjs [#223, !266, Philip
Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!267, Philip Chimento]
* wrapperutils: Define $gtype property as non-enumerable [!268, Philip
Chimento]
Version 1.55.90
---------------
- New JS API: It's now possible to call and implement DBus methods whose
parameters or return types include file descriptor lists (type signature 'h'.)
This involves passing or receiving a Gio.UnixFDList instance along with the
parameters or return values.
To call a method with a file descriptor list, pass the Gio.UnixFDList along
with the rest of the parameters, in any order, the same way you would pass a
Gio.Cancellable or async callback.
For return values, things are a little more complicated, in order to avoid
breaking existing code. Previously, synchronously called DBus proxy methods
would return an unpacked GVariant. Now, but only if called with a
Gio.UnixFDList, they will return [unpacked GVariant, Gio.UnixFDList]. This
does not break existing code because it was not possible to call a method with
a Gio.UnixFDList before, and the return value is unchanged if not calling with
a Gio.UnixFDList. This does mean, unfortunately, that if you have a method
with an 'h' in its return signature but not in its argument signatures, you
will have to call it with an empty FDList in order to receive an FDList with
the return value, when calling synchronously.
On the DBus service side, when receiving a method call, we now pass the
Gio.UnixFDList received from DBus to the called method. Previously, sync
methods were passed the parameters, and async methods were passed the
parameters plus the Gio.DBusInvocation object. Appending the Gio.UnixFDList to
those parameters also should not break existing code.
See the new tests in installed-tests/js/testGDBus.js for examples of calling
methods with FD lists.
- We have observed on the CI server that GJS 1.55.90 will hang forever while
running the test suite compiled with GCC 9.0.0 and configured with the
--enable-asan and --enable-ubsan arguments. This should be addressed in one of
the following 1.55.x releases.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* GDBus proxy overrides should support Gio.DBusProxy.call_with_unix_fd_list()
[#204, !263, Philip Chimento]
* Add regression tests for GObject vfuncs [!259, Jason Hicks]
* GjsPrivate: Sources should be C files [!262, Philip Chimento]
* build: Vendor last-good version of AX_CODE_COVERAGE [!264, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.55.4
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Various maintenance [!258, Philip Chimento]
* Boxed copy constructor should not be called, split Boxed into prototype and
instance structs [#215, !260, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.55.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Manually constructed ByteArray toString segfaults [#219, !254, Philip
Chimento]
* signals: Add _signalHandlerIsConnected method [!255, Jason Hicks]
* Various maintenance [!257, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.52.5
--------------
- This was a release consisting only of backports from the GNOME 3.30 branch to
the GNOME 3.28 branch.
- This release includes the "Big Hammer" patch from GNOME 3.30 to reduce memory
usage. For more information, read the blog post at
https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/
It was not originally intended to be backported to GNOME 3.28, but in practice
several Linux distributions already backported it, and it has been working
well to reduce memory usage, and the bugs have been ironed out of it.
It does decrease performance somewhat, so if you don't want that then don't
install this update.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Ensure not to miss the force_gc flag [#150, !132, Carlos Garnacho]
* Make GC much more aggressive [#62, !50, Giovanni Campagna, Georges Basile
Stavracas Neto, Philip Chimento]
* Queue GC when a GObject reference is toggled down [#140, !114, !127, Georges
Basile Stavracas Neto]
* Reduce memory overhead of g_object_weak_ref() [#144, !122, Carlos Garnacho,
Philip Chimento]
* context: Defer and therefore batch forced GC runs [performance] [!236,
Daniel van Vugt]
* context: use timeout with seconds to schedule a gc trigger [!239, Marco
Trevisan]
* Use compacting GC on RSS size growth [!133, #151, Carlos Garnacho]
* GType memleak fixes [!244, Marco Trevisan]
Version 1.55.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Gnome-shell crashes on destroying cached param specs [#213, !240, Marco
Trevisan]
* Various maintenance [!235, !250, Philip Chimento]
* Auto pointers builder [!243, Marco Trevisan]
* configure.ac: Update bug link [!245, Andrea Azzarone]
* SIGSEGV when exiting gnome-shell [#212, !247, Andrea Azzarone, Philip
Chimento]
* Fix build with --enable-dtrace and create CI job to ensure it doesn't break
in the future [#196, !237, !253, Philip Chimento]
* Delay JSString-to-UTF8 conversion [!249, Philip Chimento]
* Annotate return values [!251, Philip Chimento]
* Fix a regression with GError toString() [!252, Philip Chimento]
* GType memleak fixes [!244, Marco Trevisan]
* Atoms refactor [!233, Philip Chimento, Marco Trevisan]
* Write a "Code Hospitable" README file [#17, !248, Philip Chimento, Andy
Holmes, Avi Zajac]
* object: Method lookup repeatedly traverses introspection [#54, !53, Colin
Walters, Philip Chimento]
* Handler of GtkEditable::insert-text signal is not run [#147, !143, Tomasz
Miąsko, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.54.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* object: Fix write-only properties [!246, Philip Chimento]
* SIGSEGV when exiting gnome-shell [#212, !247, Andrea Azzarone]
* SelectionData.get_targets crashes with "Unable to resize vector" [#201,
!241, Philip Chimento]
* Gnome-shell crashes on destroying cached param specs [#213, !240, Marco
Trevisan]
* GType memleak fixes [!244, Marco Trevisan]
* Fix build with --enable-dtrace and create CI job to ensure it doesn't break
in the future [#196, !253, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.54.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* context: Defer and therefore batch forced GC runs [performance] [!236,
Daniel van Vugt]
* context: use timeout with seconds to schedule a gc trigger [!239, Marco
Trevisan]
* fundamental: Check if gtype is valid before using it [!242, Georges Basile
Stavracas Neto]
- Backported a fix for a crash in the interactive interpreter when executing
something like `throw "foo"` [Philip Chimento]
- Backported various maintenance from 3.31 [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.55.1
--------------
- New API for programs that embed GJS: gjs_memory_report(). This was already an
internal API, but now it is exported.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* object: Implement newEnumerate hook for GObject [!155, Ole Jørgen Brønner]
* Various maintenance [!228, Philip Chimento]
* ByteArray.toString should stop at null bytes [#195, !232, Philip Chimento]
* Byte arrays that represent encoded strings should be 0-terminated [#203,
!232, Philip Chimento]
* context: Defer and therefore batch forced GC runs [performance] [!236,
Daniel van Vugt]
* context: use timeout with seconds to schedule a gc trigger [!239, Marco
Trevisan]
* arg: Add special-case for byte arrays going to C [#67, !49, Jasper
St. Pierre, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.52.4
--------------
- This was a release consisting only of backports from the GNOME 3.30 branch to
the GNOME 3.28 branch.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* `ARGV` encoding issues [#22, !108, Evan Welsh]
* Segfault on enumeration of GjSFileImporter properties when a searchpath
entry contains a symlink [#154, !144, Ole Jørgen Brønner]
* Possible refcounting bug around GtkListbox signal handlers [#24, !154,
Philip Chimento]
* Fix up GJS_DISABLE_JIT flag now the JIT is enabled by default in
SpiderMonkey [!159, Christopher Wheeldon]
* Expose GObject static property symbols. [!197, Evan Welsh]
* Do not run linters on tagged commits [!181, Claudio André]
* gjs-1.52.0 fails to compile against x86_64 musl systems [#132, !214, Philip
Chimento]
* gjs no longer builds after recent autoconf-archive updates [#149, !217,
Philip Chimento]
Version 1.54.1
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* legacy: Ensure generated GType names are valid [!229, Florian Müllner]
* Fix GJS profiler with MozJS 60 [!230, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto]
* Regression with DBus proxies [#202, !231, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.54.0
--------------
- Compatibility fix for byte arrays: the legacy toString() behaviour of byte
arrays returned from GObject-introspected functions is now restored. If you
use the functionality, a warning will be logged asking you to upgrade your
code.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* byteArray: Add compatibility toString property [Philip Chimento, !227]
Version 1.53.92
---------------
- Technology preview of a GNOME 3.32 feature: native Promises for GIO-style
asynchronous operations. This is the result of Avi Zajac's summer internship.
To use it, you can opt in once for each specific asynchronous method, by
including code such as the following:
Gio._promisify(Gio.InputStream.prototype, 'read_bytes_async',
'read_bytes_finish');
After executing this, you will be able to use native Promises with the
Gio.InputStream.prototype.read_async() method, simply by not passing a
callback to it:
try {
let bytes = await stream.read_bytes_async(count, priority, cancel);
} catch (e) {
logError(e, 'Failed to read bytes');
}
Note that any "success" boolean return values are deleted from the array of
return values from the async method. That is,
let [contents, etag] = file.load_contents_async(cancel);
whereas the callback version still returns a useless [ok, contents, etag]
that can never be false, since on false an exception would be thrown. In the
callback version, we must keep this for compatibility reasons.
Note that due to a bug in GJS (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/issues/189),
promisifying methods on Gio.File.prototype and other interface prototypes will
not work. We provide the API Gio._LocalFilePrototype on which you can
promisify methods that will work on Gio.File instances on the local disk only:
Gio._promisify(Gio._LocalFilePrototype, 'load_contents_async',
'load_contents_finish');
We estimate this will cover many common use cases.
Since this is a technology preview, we do not guarantee API stability with
the version coming in GNOME 3.32. These APIs are marked with underscores to
emphasize that they are not stable yet. Use them at your own risk.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Added promisify to GJS GIO overrides [!225, Avi Zajac]
* Temporary fix for Gio.File.prototype [!226, Avi Zajac]
Version 1.53.91
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* CI: add webkit and gtk-app tests [!222, Claudio André]
* Fix example eslint errors [!207, Claudio André, Philip Chimento]
* Fix more "lost" GInterface properties [!223, Florian Müllner]
* Fix --enable-installed-tests when built from a tarball [!224, Simon
McVittie]
Version 1.53.90
---------------
- GJS now depends on SpiderMonkey 60 and requires a compiler capable of C++14.
- GJS includes a simple debugger now. It has basic stepping, breaking, and
printing commands, that work like GDB. Activate it by running the GJS console
interpreter with the -d or --debugger flag before the name of the JS program
on the command line.
- New API for programs that embed GJS: gjs_context_setup_debugger_console().
To integrate the debugger into programs that embed the GJS interpreter, call
this before executing the JS program.
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 60, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 52.
Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New syntax
+ `for await (... of ...)` syntax is used for async iteration.
+ The rest operator is now supported in object destructuring: e.g.
`({a, b, ...cd} = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, d: 4});`
+ The spread operator is now supported in object literals: e.g.
`mergedObject = {...obj1, ...obj2};`
+ Generator methods can now be async, using the `async function*` syntax,
or `async* f() {...}` method shorthand.
+ It's now allowed to omit the variable binding from a catch statement, if
you don't need to access the thrown exception: `try {...} catch {}`
* New APIs
+ Promise.prototype.finally(), popular in many third-party Promise
libraries, is now available natively.
+ String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() and
String.prototype.toLocaleUpperCase() now take an optional locale or
array of locales.
+ Intl.PluralRules is now available.
+ Intl.NumberFormat.prototype.formatToParts() is now available.
+ Intl.Collator now has a caseFirst option.
+ Intl.DateTimeFormat now has an hourCycle option.
* New behaviour
+ There are a lot of minor behaviour changes as SpiderMonkey's JS
implementation conforms ever closer to ECMAScript standards. For complete
information, read the Firefox developer release notes:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/53#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/54#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/55#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/56#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/57#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/58#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/59#JavaScript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/60#JavaScript
* Backwards-incompatible changes
+ Conditional catch clauses have been removed, as they were a Mozilla
extension which will not be standardized. This requires some attention in
GJS programs, as previously we condoned code like `catch (e if
e.matches(Gio.IOError, Gio.IOError.EXISTS))` with a comment in
overrides/GLib.js, so it's likely this is used in several places.
+ The nonstandard `for each (... in ...)` loop was removed.
+ The nonstandard legacy lambda syntax (`function(x) x*x`) was removed.
+ The nonstandard Mozilla iteration protocol was removed, as well as
nonstandard Mozilla generators, including the Iterator and StopIteration
objects, and the Function.prototype.isGenerator() method.
+ Array comprehensions and generator comprehensions have been removed.
+ Several nonstandard methods were removed: ArrayBuffer.slice() (but not
the standard version, ArrayBuffer.prototype.slice()),
Date.prototype.toLocaleFormat(), Function.prototype.isGenerator(),
Object.prototype.watch(), and Object.prototype.unwatch().
- Many of the above backwards-incompatible changes can be caught by scanning
your source code using https://gitlab.gnome.org/ptomato/moz60tool, or
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1455/spidermonkey-60-migration-validator/
- Deprecation: the custom ByteArray is now discouraged. Instead of ByteArray,
use Javascript's native Uint8Array. The ByteArray module still contains
functions for converting between byte arrays, strings, and GLib.Bytes
instances.
The old ByteArray will continue to work as before, except that Uint8Array
will now be returned from introspected functions that previously returned a
ByteArray. To keep your old code working, change this:
let byteArray = functionThatReturnsByteArray();
to this:
let byteArray = new ByteArray.ByteArray(functionThatReturnsByteArray());
To port to the new code:
* ByteArray.ByteArray -> Uint8Array
* ByteArray.fromArray() -> Uint8Array.from()
* ByteArray.ByteArray.prototype.toString() -> ByteArray.toString()
* ByteArray.ByteArray.prototype.toGBytes() -> ByteArray.toGBytes()
* ByteArray.fromString(), ByteArray.fromGBytes() remain the same
* Unlike ByteArray, Uint8Array's length is fixed. Assigning an element past
the end of a ByteArray would lengthen the array. Now, it is ignored.
Instead use Uint8Array.of(), for example, this code:
let a = ByteArray.fromArray([97, 98, 99, 100]);
a[4] = 101;
should be replaced by this code:
let a = Uint8Array.from([97, 98, 99, 100]);
a = Uint8Array.of(...a, 101);
The length of the byte array must be set at creation time. This code will
not work anymore:
let a = new ByteArray.ByteArray();
a[0] = 255;
Instead, use "new Uint8Array(1)" to reserve the correct length.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Run tests using real software [#178, !192, Claudio André]
* Script tests are missing some errors [#179, !192, Claudio André]
* Create a '--disable-readline' option and use it [!196, Claudio André]
* CI: stop using Fedora for clang builds [!198, Claudio André]
* Expose GObject static property symbols. [!197, Evan Welsh]
* CI fixes [!200, Claudio André]
* Docker images creation [!201, Claudio André]
* Get Docker images built and stored in GJS registry [#185, !203, !208,
Claudio André, Philip Chimento]
* Clear the static analysis image a bit more [!205, Claudio André]
* Rename the packaging job to flatpak [!210, Claudio André]
* Create SpiderMonkey 60 docker images [!202, Claudio André]
* Debugger [#110, !204, Philip Chimento]
* Add convenience g_object_set() replacement [!213, Florian Müllner]
* Add dependencies of the real tests (examples) [!215, Claudio André]
* CWE-126 [#174, !218, Philip Chimento]
* gjs no longer builds after recent autoconf-archive updates [#149, !217,
Philip Chimento]
* gjs-1.52.0 fails to compile against x86_64 musl systems [#132, !214, Philip
Chimento]
* Run the GTK real tests (recently added) [!212, Claudio André]
* Fix thorough tests failures [!220, Philip Chimento]
* Port to SpiderMonkey 60 [#161, !199, Philip Chimento]
* Replace ByteArray with native ES6 TypedArray [#5, !199, Philip Chimento]
* Overriding GInterface properties broke [#186, !216, Florian Müllner, Philip
Chimento]
* Avoid segfault when checking for GByteArray [!221, Florian Müllner]
- Various build fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.53.4
--------------
- Refactored the way GObject properties are accessed. This should be a bit more
efficient, as property info (GParamSpec) is now cached for every object type.
There may still be some regressions from this; please be on the lookout so
we can fix them in the next release.
- The memory usage for each object instance has been reduced, resulting in
several dozens of megabytes less memory usage in GNOME Shell.
- The CI pipeline was refactored, now runs a lot faster, detects more failure
situations, builds on different architectures, uses the GitLab Docker
registry, and publishes code coverage statistics to
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gjs/
- For contributors, the C++ style guide has been updated, and there is now a
script in the tools/ directory that will install a Git hook to automatically
format your code when you commit it. The configuration may not be perfect yet,
so bear with us while we get it right.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Define GObject properties and fields as JS properties [#160, !151, Philip
Chimento]
* Possible refcounting bug around GtkListbox signal handlers [#24, !154,
Philip Chimento]
* Fix up GJS_DISABLE_JIT flag now the JIT is enabled by default in
SpiderMonkey [!159, Christopher Wheeldon]
* Various CI maintenance [!160, !161, !162, !169, !172, !180, !191, !193,
Claudio André]
* Update GJS wiki URL [!157, Seth Woodworth]
* Build failure in GNOME Continuous [#104, !156, Philip Chimento]
* Refactor ObjectInstance into C++ class [!158, !164, Philip Chimento]
* Use Ubuntu in the coverage job [!163, Claudio André]
* Remove unused files [!165, Claudio André]
* Add a ARMv8 build test [!166, Claudio André]
* Make CI faster [!167, Claudio André]
* Add a PPC4LE build test [!168, Claudio André]
* gdbus: Fix deprecated API [!170, Philip Chimento]
* Change Docker images names pattern [#173, !174, Claudio André]
* Assert failure on a GC_ZEAL run [#165, !173, Philip Chimento]
* Do not run linters on tagged commits [!181, Claudio André]
* Fail on compiler warnings [!182, Claudio André]
* Save code statistics in GitLab Pages [!183, Claudio André]
* Build static analysis Docker image in GitLab [!184, !185, !187, !189,
Claudio André]
* GNOME Shell always crashes with SIGBUS [#171, !188, Georges Basile
Stavracas Neto]
* Coverage badge is no longer able to show its value [#177, !186, Claudio
André]
* Move the Docker images creation to GitLab [!190, Claudio André]
* Cut the Gordian knot of coding style [#172, !171, Philip Chimento]
* Some GObect/GInterface properties broke [#182, !195, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.53.3
--------------
- This release was made from an earlier state of the main branch, before a bug was
introduced, while we sort out how to fix it. As a result, we don't have too
many changes this round.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Adding multiple ESLint rules for spacing [!152, Avi Zajac]
* Various maintenance [!153, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.53.2
--------------
- The `Template` parameter passed to `GObject.registerClass()` now accepts
file:/// URIs as well as resource:/// URIs and byte arrays.
- New API: `gjs_get_js_version()` returns a string identifying the version of
the underlying SpiderMonkey JS engine. The interpreter executable has also
gained a `--jsversion` argument which will print this string.
- Several fixes for memory efficiency and performance.
- Once again we welcomed contributions from a number of first-time contributors!
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Add support for file:/// uri to glade template [#108, !41, Jesus Bermudez,
Philip Chimento]
* Reduce memory overhead of g_object_weak_ref() [#144, !122, Carlos Garnacho,
Philip Chimento]
* gjs: JS_GetContextPrivate(): gjs-console killed by SIGSEGV [#148, !121,
Philip Chimento]
* Use compacting GC on RSS size growth [#151, !133, Carlos Garnacho]
* Segfault on enumeration of GjSFileImporter properties when a searchpath
entry contains a symlink [#154, !144, Ole Jørgen Brønner]
* Compare linter jobs to correct base [#156, !140, Claudio André]
* Various maintenance [!141, Philip Chimento]
* Support interface signal handlers [!142, Tomasz Miąsko]
* Remove unnecessary inline [!145, Emmanuele Bassi]
* Add badges to the readme [!146, !147, Claudio André]
* Fix debug logging [!148, Philip Chimento]
* CI: add a GC zeal test [!149, Claudio André]
Version 1.53.1
--------------
- Improvements to garbage collection performance. Read for more information:
https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/
- Now, when building a class from a UI template file (using the `Template`
parameter passed to `GObject.registerClass()`, for example) signals defined in
the UI template file will be automatically connected.
- As an experimental feature, we now offer a flatpak built with each GJS commit,
including branches. You can use this to test your apps with a particular GJS
branch before it is merged. Look for it in the "Artifacts" section of the CI
pipeline.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Tweener: Add min/max properties [!67, Jason Hicks]
* `ARGV` encoding issues [#22, !108, Evan Welsh]
* Make GC much more aggressive [#62, !50, Giovanni Campagna, Georges Basile
Stavracas Neto, Philip Chimento]
* Queue GC when a GObject reference is toggled down [#140, !114, !127, Georges
Basile Stavracas Neto]
* overrides: support Gtk template callbacks [!124, Andy Holmes]
* Ensure not to miss the force_gc flag [#150, !132, Carlos Garnacho]
* Create a flatpak on CI [#153, !135, Claudio André]
* Readme update [!138, Claudio André]
Version 1.52.3
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Include calc.js example from Seed [!130, William Barath, Philip Chimento]
* CI: Un-pin the Fedora Docker image [#141, !131, Claudio André]
* Reduce overhead of wrapped objects [#142, !121, Carlos Garnacho, Philip
Chimento]
* Various CI changes [!134, !136, Claudio André]
Version 1.52.2
--------------
- This is an unscheuled release in order to revert a commit that causes a crash
on exit, with some Cairo versions.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* CI: pinned Fedora to old tag [!119, Claudio André]
* heapgraph.py: adjust terminal output style [!120, Andy Holmes]
* CI: small tweaks [!123, Claudio André]
* Warn about compilation warnings [!125, Claudio André]
* Miscellaneous commits [Philip Chimento, Jason Hicks]
Version 1.52.1
--------------
- This version has more changes than would normally be expected from a stable
version. The intention of 1.52.1 is to deliver a version that runs cleaner
under performance tools, in time for the upcoming GNOME Shell performance
hackfest. We also wanted to deliver a stable CI pipeline before branching
GNOME 3.28 off of the main branch.
- Claudio André's work on the CI pipeline deserves a spotlight. We now have
test jobs that run linters, sanitizers, Valgrind, and more; the tests are
run on up-to-date Docker images; and the reliability errors that were plaguing
the test runs are solved.
- In addition to System.dumpHeap(), you can now dump a heap from a running
Javascript program by starting it with the environment variable
GJS_DEBUG_HEAP_OUTPUT=some_name, and sending it SIGUSR1.
- heapgraph.py is a tool in the repository (not installed in distributions) for
analyzing and graphing heap dumps, to aid with tracking down memory leaks.
- The linter CI jobs will compare your branch against the main branch of GNOME/gjs, and fail
if your branch added any new linter errors. There may be false positives, and
the rules configuration is not perfect. If that's the case on your merge
request, you can skip the appropriate linter job by adding the text
"[skip (linter)]" in your commit message: e.g., "[skip cpplint]".
- We welcomed first merge requests from several new contributors for this
release.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Crash when resolving promises if exception is pending [#18, !95, Philip
Chimento]
* gjs_byte_array_get_proto(JSContext*): assertion failed: (((void) "gjs_"
"byte_array" "_define_proto() must be called before " "gjs_" "byte_array"
"_get_proto()", !v_proto.isUndefined())) [#39, !92, Philip Chimento]
* Tools for examining heap graph [#116, !61, !118, Andy Holmes, Tommi
Komulainen, Philip Chimento]
* Run analysis tools to prepare for release [#120, !88, Philip Chimento]
* Add support for passing flags to Gio.DBusProxy in makeProxyWrapper [#122,
!81, Florian Müllner]
* Cannot instantiate Cairo.Context [#126, !91, Philip Chimento]
* GISCAN GjsPrivate-1.0.gir fails [#128, !90, Philip Chimento]
* Invalid read of g_object_finalized flag [#129, !117, Philip Chimento]
* Fix race condition in coverage file test [#130, !99, Philip Chimento]
* Linter jobs should only fail if new lint errors were added [#133, !94,
Philip Chimento]
* Disable all tests that depends on X if there is no XServer [#135, !109,
Claudio André]
* Pick a different C++ linter [#137, !102, Philip Chimento]
* Create a CI test that builds using autotools only [!74, Claudio André]
* CI: enable ASAN [!89, Claudio André]
* CI: disable static analysis jobs using the commit message [!93, Claudio
André]
* profiler: Don't assume layout of struct sigaction [!96, James Cowgill]
* Valgrind [!98, Claudio André]
* Robustness of CI [!103, Claudio André]
* CI: make a separate job for installed tests [!106, Claudio André]
* Corrected Markdown format and added links to JHBuild in setup guide for GJS
[!111, Avi Zajac]
* Update tweener.js -- 48 eslint errors fixed [!112, Karen Medina]
* Various maintenance [!100, !104, !105, !107, !110, !113, !116, Claudio
André, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.52.0
--------------
- No changes from 1.51.92 except for the continuous integration configuration.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Various CI improvements [!84, !85, !86, !87, Claudio André]
Version 1.51.92
---------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* abort if we are called back in a non-main thread [#75, !72, Philip Chimento]
* 3.27.91 build failure on debian/Ubuntu [#122, !73, Tim Lunn]
* Analyze project code quality with Code Climate inside CI [#10, !77, Claudio
André]
* Various CI improvements [!75, !76, !79, !80, !82, !83, Claudio André]
Version 1.51.91
---------------
- Promises now resolve with a higher priority, so asynchronous code should be
faster. [Jason Hicks]
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* New build 'warnings' [#117, !62, !63, Claudio André, Philip Chimento]
* Various CI maintenance [!64, !65, !66, Claudio André, Philip Chimento]
* profiler: Don't include alloca.h when disabled [!69, Ting-Wei Lan]
* GNOME crash with fatal error "Finalizing proxy for an object that's
scheduled to be unrooted: Gio.Subprocess" in gjs [#26, !70, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.51.90
---------------
- Note that all the old Bugzilla bug reports have been migrated over to GitLab.
- GJS now, once again, includes a profiler, which outputs files that can be
read with sysprof. To use it, simply run your program with the environment
variable GJS_ENABLE_PROFILER=1 set. If your program is a JS script that is
executed with the interpreter, you can also pass --profile to the
interpreter. See "gjs --help" for more info.
- New API: For programs that want more control over when to start and stop
profiling, there is new API for GjsContext. When you create your GjsContext
there are two construct-only properties available, "profiler-enabled" and
"profiler-sigusr2". If you set profiler-sigusr2 to TRUE, then the profiler
can be started and stopped while the program is running by sending SIGUSR2 to
the process. You can also use gjs_context_get_profiler(),
gjs_profiler_set_filename(), gjs_profiler_start(), and gjs_profiler_stop()
for more explicit control.
- New API: GObject.signal_connect(), GObject.signal_disconnect(), and
GObject.signal_emit_by_name() are now available in case a GObject-derived
class has conflicting connect(), disconnect() or emit() methods.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Handle 0-valued GType gracefully [#11, !10, Philip Chimento]
* Profiler [#31, !37, Christian Hergert, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!40, !59, Philip Chimento, Giovanni Campagna]
* Rename GObject.Object.connect/disconnect? [#65, !47, Giovanni Campagna]
* Better debugging output for uncatchable exceptions [!39, Simon McVittie]
* Update Docker images and various CI maintenance [!54, !56, !57, !58,
Claudio André]
* Install GJS suppression file for Valgrind [#2, !55, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.50.4
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Gnome Shell crash with places-status extension when you plug an USB device
[#33, !38, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.50.3
--------------
- GJS will now log a warning when a GObject is accessed in Javascript code
after the underlying object has been freed in C. (This used to work most of
the time, but crash unpredictably.) We now prevent this situation which, is
usually caused by a memory management bug in the underlying C library.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Add checks for GObjects that have been finalized [#21, #23, !25, !28, !33,
Marco Trevisan]
* Test "Cairo context has methods when created from a C function" fails [#27,
!35, Valentín Barros]
* Various fixes from the main branch for rare crashes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.51.4
--------------
- We welcomed code and documentation from several new contributors in this
release!
- GJS will now log a warning when a GObject is accessed in Javascript code
after the underlying object has been freed in C. (This used to work most of
the time, but crash unpredictably.) We now prevent this situation which, is
usually caused by a memory management bug in the underlying C library.
- APIs exposed through GObject Introspection that use the GdkAtom type are now
usable from Javascript. Previously these did not work. On the Javascript side,
a GdkAtom translates to a string, so there is no Gdk.Atom type that you can
access. The special atom GDK_NONE translates to null in Javascript, and there
is also no Gdk.NONE constant.
- The GitLab CI tasks have continued to gradually become more and more
sophisticated.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Add checks for GObjects that have been finalized [#21, #23, !22, !27, Marco
Trevisan]
* Fail static analyzer if new warnings are found [!24, Claudio André]
* Run code coverage on GitLab [!20, Claudio André]
* Amend gtk.js and add gtk-application.js with suggestion [!32, Andy Holmes]
* Improve GdkAtom support that is blocking clipboard APIs [#14, !29, makepost]
* Test "Cairo context has methods when created from a C function" fails [#27,
!35, Valentín Barros]
* Various CI improvements [#6, !26, !34, Claudio André]
* Various maintenance [!23, !36, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.51.3
--------------
- This release was made from an earlier state of the main branch, before a breaking
change was merged, while we decide whether to revert that change or not.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* CI improvements on GitLab [!14, !15, !19, Claudio André]
* Fix CI build on Ubuntu [#16, !18, !21, Claudio André, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.51.2
--------------
- Version 1.51.1 was skipped.
- The home of GJS is now at GNOME's GitLab instance:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs
From now on we'll be taking GitLab merge requests instead of Bugzilla
patches. If you want to report a bug, please report it at GitLab.
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* Allow throwing GErrors from JS virtual functions [#682701, Giovanni
Campagna]
* [RFC] bootstrap system [#777724, Jasper St. Pierre, Philip Chimento]
* Fix code coverage (and refactor it to take advantage of mozjs52 features)
[#788166, !1, !3, Philip Chimento]
* Various maintenance [!2, Philip Chimento]
* Get GitLab CI working and various improvements [#6, !7, !9, !11, !13,
Claudio André]
* Add build status badge to README [!8, Claudio André]
* Use Docker images for CI [!12, Claudio André]
- Some changes in progress to improve garbage collection when signals are
disconnected. See bug #679688 for more information [Giovanni Campagna]
Version 1.50.2
--------------
- Closed bugs and merge requests:
* tweener: Fix a couple of warnings [!5, Florian Müllner]
* legacy: Allow ES6 classes to inherit from abstract Lang.Class class [!6,
Florian Müllner]
- Minor bugfixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.50.1
--------------
- As a debugging aid, gjs_dumpstack() now works even during garbage collection.
- Code coverage tools did not work so well in the last few 1.49 releases. The
worst problems are now fixed, although even more improvements will be
released in the next unstable version. Fixes include:
* Specifying prefixes for code coverage files now works again
* Code coverage now works on lines inside ES6 class definitions
* The detection of which lines are executable has been improved a bit
Version 1.50.0
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* Relicense coverage.cpp and coverage.h to the same license as the rest of
GJS [#787263, Philip Chimento; thanks to Dominique Leuenberger for pointing
out the mistake]
Version 1.49.92
---------------
- It's now possible to build GJS with sanitizers (ASan and UBSan) enabled; add
"--enable-asan" and "--enable-ubsan" to your configure flags. This has
already caught some memory leaks.
- There's also a "make check-valgrind" target which will run GJS's test suite
under Valgrind to catch memory leaks and threading races.
- Many of the crashes in GNOME 3.24 were caused by GJS's closure invalidation
code which had to change from the known-working state in 1.46 because of
changes to SpiderMonkey's garbage collector. This code has been refactored to
be less complicated, which will hopefully improve stability and debuggability.
- Closed bugs:
* Clean up the idle closure invalidation mess [#786668, Philip Chimento]
* Add ASan and UBSan to GJS [#783220, Claudio André]
* Run analysis tools on GJS to prepare for release [#786995, Philip Chimento]
* Fix testLegacyGObject importing the GTK overrides [#787113, Philip Chimento]
- Docs tweak [Philip Chimento]
1.49.91
-------
- Deprecation: The private "__name__" property on Lang.Class instances is
now discouraged. Code should not have been using this anyway, but if it did
then it should use the "name" property on the class (this.__name__ should
become this.constructor.name), which is compatible with ES6 classes.
- Closed bugs:
* Use ES6 classes [#785652, Philip Chimento]
* A few fixes for stack traces and error reporting [#786183, Philip Chimento]
* /proc/self/stat is read for every frame if GC was not needed [#786017,
Benjamin Berg]
- Build fix [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.49.90
---------------
- New API: GObject.registerClass(), intended for use with ES6 classes. When
defining a GObject class using ES6 syntax, you must call
GObject.registerClass() on the class object, with an optional metadata
object as the first argument. (The metadata object works exactly like the
meta properties from Lang.Class, except that Name and Extends are not
present.)
Old:
var MyClass = new Lang.Class({
Name: 'MyClass',
Extends: GObject.Object,
Signals: { 'event': {} },
_init(props={}) {
this._private = [];
this.parent(props);
},
});
New:
var MyClass = GObject.registerClass({
Signals: { 'event': {} },
}, class MyClass extends GObject.Object {
_init(props={}) {
this._private = [];
super._init(props);
}
});
It is forward compatible with the following syntax requiring decorators and
class fields, which are not in the JS standard yet:
@GObject.registerClass
class MyClass extends GObject.Object {
static [GObject.signals] = { 'event': {} }
_init(props={}) {
this._private = [];
super._init(props);
}
}
One limitation is that GObject ES6 classes can't have constructor()
methods, they must do any setup in an _init() method. This may be able to be
fixed in the future.
- Closed bugs:
* Misc 1.49 and mozjs52 enhancements [#785040, Philip Chimento]
* Switch to native promises [#784713, Philip Chimento]
* Can't call exports using top-level variable toString [#781623, Philip
Chimento]
* Properties no longer recognized when shadowed by a method [#785091, Philip
Chimento, Rico Tzschichholz]
* Patch: backport of changes required for use with mozjs-55 [#785424, Luke
Jones]
Version 1.48.6
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* GJS crash in needsPostBarrier, possible access from wrong thread [#783935,
Philip Chimento] (again)
Version 1.49.4
--------------
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 52, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 38.
GJS now uses the latest ESR in its engine and the plan is to upgrade again
when SpiderMonkey 59 is released in March 2018, pending maintainer
availability. Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New language features
+ ES6 classes
+ Async functions and await operator
+ Reflect - built-in object with methods for interceptable operations
* New syntax
+ Exponentiation operator: `**`
+ Variable-length Unicode code point escapes: `"\u{1f369}"`
+ Destructured default arguments: `function f([x, y]=[1, 2], {z: z}={z: 3})`
+ Destructured rest parameters: `function f(...[a, b, c])`
+ `new.target` allows a constructor access to the original constructor that
was invoked
+ Unicode (u) flag for regular expressions, and corresponding RegExp.unicode
property
+ Trailing comma in function parameter lists now allowed
* New APIs
+ New Array, String, and TypedArray method: includes()
+ TypedArray sort(), toLocaleString(), and toString() methods, to correspond
with regular arrays
+ New Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors() and Object.values() methods
+ New Proxy traps: getPrototypeOf() and setPrototypeOf()
+ [Symbol.toPrimitive] property specifying how to convert an object to a
primitive value
+ [Symbol.species] property allowing to override the default constructor
for objects
+ [Symbol.match], [Symbol.replace], [Symbol.search], and [Symbol.split]
properties allowing to customize matching behaviour in RegExp subclasses
+ [Symbol.hasInstance] property allowing to customize the behaviour of
the instanceof operator for objects
+ [Symbol.toStringTag] property allowing to customize the message printed
by Object.toString() without overriding it
+ [Symbol.isConcatSpreadable] property allowing to control the behaviour of
an array subclass in an argument list to Array.concat()
+ [Symbol.unscopables] property allowing to control which object properties
are lifted into the scope of a with statement
+ New Intl.getCanonicalLocales() method
+ Date.toString() and RegExp.toString() generic methods
+ Typed arrays can now be constructed from any iterable object
+ Array.toLocaleString() gained optional locales and options arguments, to
correspond with other toLocaleString() methods
* New behaviour
+ The "arguments" object is now iterable
+ Date.prototype, WeakMap.prototype, and WeakSet.prototype are now ordinary
objects, not instances
+ Full ES6-compliant implementation of let keyword
+ RegExp.sticky ('y' flag) behaviour is ES6 standard, it used to be subject
to a long-standing bug in Firefox
+ RegExp constructor with RegExp first argument and flags no longer throws
an exception (`new RegExp(/ab+c/, 'i')` works now)
+ Generators are no longer constructible, as per ES6 (`function* f {}`
followed by `new f` will not work)
+ It is now required to construct ArrayBuffer, TypedArray, Map, Set, and
WeakMap with the new operator
+ Block-level functions (e.g. `{ function foo() {} }`) are now allowed in
strict mode; they are scoped to their block
+ The options.timeZone argument to Date.toLocaleDateString(),
Date.toLocaleString(), Date.toLocaleTimeString(), and the constructor of
Intl.DateTimeFormat now understands IANA time zone names (such as
"America/Vancouver")
* Backwards-incompatible changes
+ Non-standard "let expressions" and "let blocks" (e.g.,
`let (x = 5) { use(x) }`) are not supported any longer
+ Non-standard flags argument to String.match(), String.replace(), and
String.search() (e.g. `str.replace('foo', 'bar', 'g')`) is now ignored
+ Non-standard WeakSet.clear() method has been removed
+ Variables declared with let and const are now 'global lexical bindings',
as per the ES6 standard, meaning that they will not be exported in
modules. We are maintaining the old behaviour for the time being as a
compatibility workaround, but please change "let" or "const" to "var"
inside your module file. A warning will remind you of this. For more
information, read:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/10/14/breaking-changes-let-const-firefox-nightly-44/
* Experimental features (may change in future versions)
+ String.padEnd(), String.padStart() methods (proposed in ES2017)
+ Intl.DateTimeFormat.formatToParts() method (proposed in ES2017)
+ Object.entries() method (proposed in ES2017)
+ Atomics, SharedArrayBuffer, and WebAssembly are disabled by default, but
can be enabled if you compile mozjs yourself
- Closed bugs:
* Prepare for SpiderMonkey 45 and 52 [#781429, Philip Chimento]
* Add a static analysis tool as a make target [#783214, Claudio André]
* Fix the build with debug logs enabled [#784469, Tomas Popela]
* Switch to SpiderMonkey 52 [#784196, Philip Chimento, Chun-wei Fan]
* Test suite fails when run with JIT enabled [#616193, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.48.5
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* GJS crash in needsPostBarrier, possible access from wrong thread [#783935,
Philip Chimento]
- Fix format string, caught by static analysis [Claudio André]
- Fixes for regression in 1.48.4 [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.49.3
--------------
- This will be the last release using SpiderMonkey 38.
- Fixes in preparation for SpiderMonkey 52 [Philip Chimento]
- Use the Centricular fork of libffi to build on Windows [Chun-wei Fan]
- Closed bugs:
* [RFC] Use a C++ auto pointer instead of g_autofree [#777597, Chun-wei Fan,
Daniel Boles, Philip Chimento]
* Build failure in GNOME Continuous [#783031, Chun-wei Fan]
Version 1.48.4
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* gnome-shell 3.24.1 crash on wayland [#781799, Philip Chimento]; thanks to
everyone who contributed clues
Version 1.49.2
--------------
- New feature: When building an app with the Package module, using the Meson
build system, you can now run the app with "ninja run" and all the paths will
be set up correctly.
- New feature: Gio.ListStore is now iterable.
- New API: Package.requireSymbol(), a companion for the already existing
Package.require(), that not only checks for a GIR library but also for a
symbol defined in that library.
- New API: Package.checkSymbol(), similar to Package.requireSymbol() but does
not exit if the symbol was not found. Use this to support older versions of
a GIR library with fallback functionality.
- New API: System.dumpHeap(), for debugging only. Prints the state of the JS
engine's heap to standard output. Takes an optional filename parameter which
will dump to a file instead if given.
- Closed bugs:
* Make gjs build on Windows/Visual Studio [#775868, Chun-wei Fan]
* Bring back fancy error reporter in gjs-console [#781882, Philip Chimento]
* Add Meson running from source support to package.js [#781882, Patrick
Griffis]
* package: Fix initSubmodule() when running from source in Meson [#782065,
Patrick Griffis]
* package: Set GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR when ran from source [#782069, Patrick
Griffis]
* Add imports.gi.has() to check for symbol availability [#779593, Florian
Müllner]
* overrides: Implement Gio.ListStore[Symbol.iterator] [#782310, Patrick
Griffis]
* tweener: Explicitly check for undefined properties [#781219, Debarshi Ray,
Philip Chimento]
* Add a way to dump the heap [#780106, Juan Pablo Ugarte]
- Fixes in preparation for SpiderMonkey 52 [Philip Chimento]
- Misc fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.48.3
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* arg: don't crash when asked to convert a null strv to an array [#775679,
Cosimo Cecchi, Sam Spilsbury]
* gjs 1.48.0: does not compile on macOS with clang [#780350, Tom Schoonjans,
Philip Chimento]
* Modernize shell scripts [#781806, Claudio André]
Version 1.49.1
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* test GObject Class failure [#693676, Stef Walter]
* Enable incremental GCs [#724797, Giovanni Campagna]
* Don't silently accept extra arguments to C functions [#680215, Jasper
St. Pierre, Philip Chimento]
* Special case GValues in signals and properties [#688128, Giovanni Campagna,
Philip Chimento]
* [cairo] Instantiate wrappers properly [#614413, Philip Chimento,
Johan Dahlin]
* Warn if we're importing an unversioned namespace [#689654, Colin Walters,
Philip Chimento]
- Fixes in preparation for SpiderMonkey 45 [Philip Chimento]
- Misc fixes [Philip Chimento, Chun-wei Fan, Dan Winship]
Version 1.48.2
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* Intermittent crash in gnome-shell, probably in weak pointer updating code
[#781194, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto]
* Add contributor's guide [#781297, Philip Chimento]
- Misc fixes [Debarshi Ray, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.48.1
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* gjs crashed with SIGSEGV in gjs_object_from_g_object [#779918, Philip
Chimento]
- Misc bug fixes [Florian Müllner, Philip Chimento, Emmanuele Bassi]
Version 1.48.0
--------------
- Closed bugs:
* Memory leak in object_instance_resolve() [#780171, Philip Chimento]; thanks
to Luke Jones and Hussam Al-Tayeb
Version 1.47.92
---------------
- Closed bugs:
* gjs 1.47.91 configure fails with Fedora's mozjs38 [#779412, Philip Chimento]
* tests: Don't fail when Gtk+-4.0 is available [#779594, Florian Müllner]
* gjs 1.47.91 test failures on non-amd64 [#779399, Philip Chimento]
* gjs_eval_thread should always be set [#779693, Philip Chimento]
* System.exit() should exit even across main loop iterations [#779692, Philip
Chimento]
* Fix a typo in testCommandLine.sh [#779772, Claudio André]
* arg: Fix accidental fallthrough [#779838, Florian Müllner]
* jsUnit: Explicitly check if tempTop.parent is defined [#779871, Iain Lane]
- Misc bug fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.47.91
---------------
- Closed bugs:
* overrides/Gio: Provide an empty array on error, rather than null [#677513,
Jasper St. Pierre, Philip Chimento]
* WithSignals parameter for Lang.Class [#664897, Philip Chimento]
* add API to better support asynchronous code [#608450, Philip Chimento]
* 1.47.90 tests are failing [#778780, Philip Chimento]
* boxed: Plug a memory leak [#779036, Florian Müllner]
* Don't crash when marshalling an unsafe integer from introspection [#778705,
Philip Chimento]
* Lang.Class should include symbol properties [#778718, Philip Chimento]
* Console output of arrays should be UTF-8 aware [#778729, Philip Chimento]
* Various fixes for 1.47.91 [#779293, Philip Chimento]
- Progress towards a Visual Studio build of GJS on Windows [Chun-wei Fan]
- Misc bug fixes [Chun-wei Fan, Philip Chimento]
Version 1.47.90
---------------
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 38, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 31.
Our plans are to continue upgrading to subsequent ESRs as maintainer
availability allows. Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New syntax
+ Shorthand syntax for method definitions: { foo() { return 5; } }
+ Shorthand syntax for object literals: let b = 42; let o = {b}; o.b === 42
+ Computed property names for the above, as well as in getter and setter
expressions and destructuring assignment: { ['b' + 'ar']() { return 6; } }
+ Spread operator in destructuring assignment: let [a, ...b] = [1, 2, 3];
+ Template literals: `Hello, ${name}` with optional tags: tag`string`
* New APIs
+ Symbol, a new fundamental type
+ WeakSet, a Set which does not prevent its members from being
garbage-collected
+ [Symbol.iterator] properties for Array, Map, Set, String, TypedArray, and
the arguments object
+ New Array and TypedArray functionality: Array.copyWithin(), Array.from()
+ New return() method for generators
+ New Number.isSafeInteger() method
+ New Object.assign() method which can replace Lang.copyProperties() in many
cases
+ New Object.getOwnPropertySymbols() method
+ New RegExp flags, global, ignoreCase, multiline, sticky properties that
give access to the flags that the regular expression was created with
+ String.raw, a tag for template strings similar to Python's r""
+ New TypedArray methods for correspondence with Array: entries(), every(),
fill(), filter(), find(), findIndex(), forEach(), indexOf(), join(),
keys(), lastIndexOf(), map(), of(), reduce(), reduceRight(), reverse(),
slice(), some(), values()
* New behaviour
+ Temporal dead zone: print(x); let x = 5; no longer allowed
+ Full ES6-compliant implementation of const keyword
+ The Set, Map, and WeakMap constructors can now take null as their argument
+ The WeakMap constructor can now take an iterable as its argument
+ The Function.name and Function.length properties are configurable
+ When subclassing Map, WeakMap, and Set or using the constructors on
generic objects, they will look for custom set() and add() methods.
+ RegExp.source and RegExp.toString() now deal with empty regexes, and
escape their output.
+ Non-object arguments to Object.preventExtensions() now do not throw an
exception, simply return the original object
* Backwards-incompatible changes
+ It is now a syntax error to declare the same variable twice with "let" or
"const" in the same scope. Existing code may need to be fixed, but the
fix is trivial.
+ SpiderMonkey is now extra vocal about warning when you access an
undefined property, and this causes some false positives. You can turn
this warning off by setting GJS_DISABLE_EXTRA_WARNINGS=1. If it is overly
annoying, let me know and I will consider making it disabled by default
in a future release.
+ When enumerating the importer object (i.e.,
"for (let i in imports) {...}") you will now get the names of any built-in
modules that have previously been imported. (But don't do this, anyway.)
- Closed bugs:
* SpiderMonkey 38 prep [#776966, Philip Chimento]
* Misc fixes [#777205, Philip Chimento]
* missing class name in error message [#642506, Philip Chimento]
* Add continuous integration to GJS [#776549, Claudio André]
* Switch to SpiderMonkey 38 [#777962, Philip Chimento]
- Progress towards a build of GJS on Windows [Chun-wei Fan]
- Progress towards increasing test coverage [Claudio André]
- Misc bug fixes [Philip Chimento]
Version 1.47.4
--------------
- New JavaScript feature: ES6 Promises. This release includes Lie [1], a small,
self-contained Promise implementation, which is imported automatically to
form the Promise global object [2]. In the future, Promises will be built into
the SpiderMonkey engine and Lie will be removed, but any code using Promises
will continue to work as before.
[1] https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/lie
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise
- News for GJS embedders such as gnome-shell:
* New API: The GjsCoverage type and its methods are now exposed. Use this if
you are embedding GJS and need to output code coverage statistics.
- Closed bugs:
* Add GjsCoverage to gjs-1.0 public API [#775776, Philip Chimento]
* Should use uint32_t instead of u_int32_t in coverage.cpp [#776193, Shawn
Walker, Alan Coopersmith]
* Port tests to use an embedded copy of Jasmine [#775444, Philip Chimento]
* support fields in GObject [#563391, Havoc Pennington, Philip Chimento]
* Javascript errors in property getters and setter not always reported
[#730101, Matt Watson, Philip Chimento]
* Exception swallowed while importing Gom [#737607, Philip Chimento]
* log a warning if addSignalMethods() replaces existing methods [#619710, Joe
Shaw, Philip Chimento]
* Provide a useful toString for importer and module objects [#636283, Jasper
St. Pierre, Philip Chimento]
* Fails to marshal out arrays [#697020, Paolo Borelli]
* coverage: Don't warn about executing odd lines by default anymore [#751146,
Sam Spilsbury, Philip Chimento]
* coverage: Crash in EnterBaseline on SpiderMonkey when Ion is enabled during
coverage mode. [#742852, Sam Spilsbury, Philip Chimento]
* installed tests cannot load libregress.so [#776938, Philip Chimento]
* Crash with subclassed fundamental with no introspection [#760057, Lionel
Landwerlin]
- Misc bug fixes [Philip Chimento, Claudio André]
Version 1.47.3
--------------
- New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 31, an
upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 24.
Our plans are to continue upgrading to subsequent ESRs as maintainer
availability allows. Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features.
For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
* New syntax
+ Spread operator in function calls: someFunction(arg1, arg2, ...iterableObj)
+ Generator functions: yield, function*, yield*
+ Binary and octal numeric literals: 0b10011100, 0o377
+ Function arguments without defaults can now come after those with
defaults: function f(x=1, y) {}
* New standard library module
+ Intl - Locale-sensitive formatting and string comparison
* New APIs
+ Iterator protocol - any object implementing certain methods is an
"iterator"
+ New Array functionality: fill(), find(), findIndex(), of()
+ New String functionality for working with Unicode: codePointAt(),
fromCodePoint(), normalize()
+ New Array methods for correspondence with Object: entries(), keys()
+ ES6 Generator methods to replace the old Firefox-specific generator API:
next(), throw()
+ forEach() methods for Map and Set, for correspondence with Array
+ A bunch of new Math functions: acosh(), asinh(), atanh(), cbrt(), clz32(),
cosh(), expm1(), fround(), hypot(), log10(), log1p(), log2(), sign(),
sinh(), tanh(), trunc()
+ Some constants to tell information about float support on the platform:
Number.EPSILON, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER
+ New Number.parseInt() and Number.parseFloat() which are now preferred over
those in the global namespace
+ New Object.setPrototypeOf() which now is preferred over setting
obj.prototype.__proto__
+ New locales and options extra arguments to all toLocaleString() and
related methods
+ Misc new functionality: ArrayBuffer.isView(), Proxy.handler.isExtensible,
Proxy.revocable()
* New behaviour
+ -0 and +0 are now considered equal as Map keys and Set values
+ On typed arrays, numerical indexed properties ignore the prototype object:
Int8Array.prototype[20] = 'foo'; (new Int8Array(32))[20] == 0
* New non-standard Mozilla extensions
+ Array comprehensions
+ Generator comprehensions; both were originally proposed for ES6 but removed
- Backwards-incompatible change: we have changed the way certain JavaScript
values are marshalled into GObject introspection 32 or 64-bit signed integer
values, to match the ECMA standard. Here is the relevant section of the
standard:
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/index.html#sec-toint32
Notable differences between the old and new behaviour are:
* Floating-point numbers ending in 0.5 are rounded differently when
marshalled into 32 or 64-bit signed integers. Previously they were
rounded to floor(x + 0.5), now they are rounded to
signum(x) * floor(abs(x)) as per the ECMA standard:
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/index.html#sec-toint32
Note that previously, GJS rounded according to the standard when
converting to *unsigned* integers!
* Objects whose number value is NaN (e.g, arrays of strings), would
previously fail to convert, throwing a TypeError. Now they convert to
0 when marshalled into 32 or 64-bit signed integers.
Note that the new behaviour is the behaviour you got all along when using
pure JavaScript, without any GObject introspection:
gjs> let a = new Int32Array(2);
gjs> a[0] = 10.5;
10.5
gjs> a[1] = ['this', 'is', 'fine'];
this,is,fine
gjs> a[0]
10
gjs> a[1]
0
- News for GJS embedders such as gnome-shell:
* New API: gjs_error_quark() is now exposed, and the error domain GJS_ERROR
and codes GJS_ERROR_FAILED and GJS_ERROR_SYSTEM_EXIT.
* Backwards-incompatible change: Calling System.exit() from JS code will now
not abort the program immediately, but instead will return immediately from
gjs_context_eval() so that you can unref your GjsContext before internal
resources are released on exit.
If gjs_context_eval() or gjs_context_eval_file() returns an error with code
GJS_ERROR_SYSTEM_EXIT, it means that the JS code called System.exit(). The
exit code will be found in the 'exit_status_p' out parameter to
gjs_context_eval() or gjs_context_eval_file(). If you receive this error,
you should do any cleanup needed and exit your program with the given exit
code.
- Closed bugs:
* spidermonkey 31 prep [Philip Chimento, Tim Lunn, #742249]
* Please use dbus-run-session to run dbus related tests [Philip Chimento,
#771745]
* don't abort gdb'd tests [Philip Chimento, Havoc Pennington, #605972]
* Use Automake test suite runner [Philip Chimento, #775205]
* please add doc/ directory to make dist tar file [Philip Chimento, #595439]
* support new mozjs 31.5 [Philip Chimento, #751252]
* SEGFAULT in js::NewObjectWithClassProtoCommon when instantiating a dynamic
type defined in JS [Philip Chimento, Juan Pablo Ugarte, #770244]
- Misc bug fixes [Philip Chimento, Alexander Larsson]
Version 1.47.0
--------------
- New API: GLib.log_structured() is a convenience wrapper for the C function
g_log_variant(), allowing you to do structured logging without creating
GVariants by hand. For example:
GLib.log_structured('test', GLib.LogLevelFlags.LEVEL_WARNING, {
'MESSAGE': 'Just a test',
'A_FIELD': 'A value',
});
- Backwards-incompatible change: we have changed the way gjs-console interprets
command-line arguments. Previously there was a heuristic to try to decide
whether "--help" given on the command line was meant for GJS itself or for a
script being launched. This did not work in some cases, for example:
$ gjs -c 'if (ARGV.indexOf("--help") == -1) throw "ugh"' --help
would print the GJS help.
Now, all arguments meant for GJS itself must come _before_ the name of the
script to execute or any script given with a "-c" argument. Any arguments
_after_ the filename or script are passed on to the script. This is the way
that Python handles its command line arguments as well.
If you previously relied on any -I arguments after your script being added to
the search path, then you should either reorder those arguments, use GJS_PATH,
or handle -I inside your script, adding paths to imports.searchPath manually.
In order to ease the pain of migration, GJS will continue to take those
arguments into account for the time being, while still passing them on to the
script. A warning will be logged if you are using the deprecated behaviour.
- News for GJS embedders such as gnome-shell:
* Removed API: The gjs-internals-1.0 API is now discontinued. Since
gnome-shell was the only known user of this API, its pkg-config file has
been removed completely and gnome-shell has been patched not to use it.
- Closed bugs:
* make check fails with --enable-debug / -DDEBUG spidermonkey [Philip
Chimento, #573335]
* Modernize autotools configuration [Philip Chimento, #772027]
* overrides/GLib: Add log_structured() - wrapper for g_log_variant() [Jonh
Wendell, #771598]
* Remove gjs-internals-1.0 API [Philip Chimento, #772386]
* Add support for boolean, gunichar, and 64-bit int arrays [Philip Chimento,
#772790]
* add a --version flag [Philip Chimento, #772033]
* Switch to AX_COMPILER_FLAGS and compile warning-free [Philip Chimento,
#773297]
* Reinstate importer test [Philip Chimento, #773335]
Version 1.46.0
--------------
- Be future proof against Format fixes in SpiderMonkey [Giovanni Campagna,
#770111]
Version 1.45.4
--------------
- Release out args before freeing caller-allocated structs [Florian Müllner,
#768413]
- Marshal variable array-typed signal arguments [Philip Chimento, Florian
Müllner, #761659]
- Marshal all structs in out arrays correctly [Philip Chimento, #761658]
- Call setlocale() before processing arguments [Ting-Wei Lan, #760424]
- Build fixes and improvements [Philip Chimento, #737702, #761072] [Hashem
Nasarat, #761366] [Carlos Garnacho, #765905] [Simon McVittie, #767368]
[Emmanuele Bassi] [Michael Catanzaro] [Matt Watson]
Version 1.45.3
--------------
- Support external construction of gjs-defined GObjects [Florian Müllner,
#681254]
- Add new format.printf() API [Colin Walters, #689664]
- Add new API to get the name of a repository [Jasper St. Pierre, #685413]
- Add C to JS support for arrays of flat structures [Giovanni Campagna,
#704842]
- Add API to specify CSS node name [Florian Müllner, #758349]
- Return value of default signal handler for "on_signal_name" methods
[Philip Chimento, #729288]
- Fix multiple emissions of onOverwrite in Tweener [Tommi Komulainen, #597927]
- Misc bug fixes [Philip Chimento, #727370] [Owen Taylor, #623330]
[Juan RP, #667908] [Ben Iofel, #757763]
Version 1.44.0
--------------
- Add Lang.Interface and GObject.Interface [Philip Chimento, Roberto Goizueta,
#751343, #752984]
- Support callbacks with (transfer full) return types [Debarshi Ray, #750286]
- Add binding for setlocale() [Philip Chimento, #753072]
- Improve support to generate code coverage reports [Sam Spilsbury, #743009,
#743007, #742362, #742535, #742797, #742466, #751732]
- Report errors from JS property getters/setters [Matt Watson, #730101]
- Fix crash when garbage collection triggers while inside an init function
[Sam Spilsbury, #742517]
- Port to CallReceiver/CallArgs [Tim Lunn, #742249]
- Misc bug fixes [Ting-Wei Lan, #736979, #753072] [Iain Lane, #750688]
[Jasper St. Pierre] [Philip Chimento] [Colin Walters]
Version 1.43.3
--------------
- GTypeClass and GTypeInterface methods, such as
g_object_class_list_properties(), are now available [#700347]
- Added full automatic support for GTK widget templates [#700347,
#737661] [Jonas Danielsson, #739739]
- Added control of JS Date caches to system module [#739790]
- Misc bug fixes and memory leak fixes [Owen Taylor, #738122]
[Philip Chimento, #740696, #737701]
Version 1.42.0
--------------
- Fix a regression caused by PPC fixes in 1.41.91
Version 1.41.91
---------------
- Added the ability to disable JS language warnings [Lionel Landwerlin,
#734569]
- Fixed crashes in PPC (and probably other arches) due to invalid
callback signatures [Michel Danzer, #729554]
- Fixed regressions with dbus 1.8.6 [Tim Lunn, #735358]
- Readded file system paths to the default module search, to allow
custom GI overrides for third party libraries [Jasper St. Pierre]
Version 1.41.4
--------------
- Fixed memory management of GObject methods that unref their instance
[#729545]
- Added a package module implementing the
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs/Package application conventions
[#690136]
- Misc bug fixes
Version 1.41.3
--------------
- Fixed GObject and Gtk overrides [Mattias Bengtsson, #727781] [#727394]
- Fixed crashes caused by reentrancy during finalization [#725024]
- Added a wrapper type for cairo regions [Jasper St. Pierre, #682303]
- Several cleanups to GC [#725024]
- Thread-safe structures are now finalized in the background, for greater
responsiveness [#725024] [#730030]
- A full GC is now scheduled if after executing a piece of JS we see
that the RSS has grown by over 150% [Cosimo Cecchi, #725099] [#728048]
- ParamSpecs now support methods and static methods implemented by glib
and exposed by gobject-introspection, in addition to the manually
bound fields [#725282]
- Protototypes no longer include static properties or constructors [#725282]
- Misc cleanups and bugfixes [Mattias Bengtsson, #727786] [#725282]
[Lionel Landwerlin, #728004] [Lionel Landwerlin, #727824]
Version 1.40.0
--------------
- No changes
Version 1.39.90
---------------
- Implemented fundamental object support [Lionel Landwerlin, #621716, #725061]
- Fixed GIRepositoryGType prototype [#724925]
- Moved GObject.prototype.disconnect() to a JS implementation [#698283]
- Added support for enumeration methods [#725143]
- Added pseudo-classes for fundamental types [#722554]
- Build fixes [Ting-Wei Lan, #724853]
Version 0.3 (03-Jul-2009)
-------------------------
Changes:
- DBus support
At a high level there are three pieces. First, the "gjs-dbus" library is
a C support library for DBus. Second, the modules/dbus*.[ch] implement
parts of the JavaScript API in C. Third, the modules/dbus.js file fills
out the rest of the JavaScript API and implementation.
- Support simple fields for boxed types
- Support "copy construction" of boxed types
- Support simple structures not registered as boxed
- Allow access to nested structures
- Allow direct assignment to nested structure fields
- Allow enum and flag structure fields
- Allow creating boxed wrapper without copy
- Support for non-default constructor (i.e. constructors like
GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file(file))
- Add a Lang.bind function which binds the meaning of 'this'
- Add an interactive console gjs-console
- Allow code in directory modules (i.e. the code should reside in
__init__.js files)
- Fix handling of enum/flags return values
- Handle non-gobject-registered flags
- Add Tweener.registerSpecialProperty to tweener module
- Add profiler for javascript code
- Add gjs_context_get_all and gjs_dumpstack - useful to invoke from a
debugger such as gdb
- Support GHashTable
- GHashTable return values/out parameters
- Support GHashTable 'in' parameters
- Convert JSON-style object to a GHashTable
- Add support for UNIX shebang (i.e. #!/usr/bin/gjs-console)
- Support new introspection short/ushort type tags
- Support GI_TYPE_TAG_FILENAME
- Improve support for machine-dependent integer types and arrays of
integers
- Fix several memory leaks
Contributors:
Colin Walters, C. Scott Ananian, Dan Winship, David Zeuthen,
Havoc Pennington, Johan Bilien, Johan Dahlin, Lucas Rocha,
Marco Pesenti Gritti, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Owen Taylor,
Tommi Komulainen
Bugs fixed:
Bug 560506 - linking problem
Bug 560670 - Turn on compilation warnings
Bug 560808 - Simple field supported for boxed types
Bug 561514 - memory leak when skipping deprecated methods
Bug 561516 - skipping deprecated methods shouldn't signal error case
Bug 561849 - Alternate way of connecting signals.
Bug 562892 - valgrind errors on get_obj_key
Bug 564424 - Add an interactive console
Bug 564664 - Expose JS_SetDebugErrorHook
Bug 566185 - Allow code in directory modules
Bug 567675 - Handle non-gobject-registered flags
Bug 569178 - Add readline support to the console module
Bug 570775 - array of parameters leaked on each new GObject
Bug 570964 - Race when shutting down a context, r=hp
Bug 580948 - Add DBus support
Bug 584560 - Add support for UNIX shebang
Bug 584850 - Clean up some __BIG definitions.
Bug 584858 - Fix errors (and leftover debugging) from dbus merge.
Bug 584858 - Move gjsdbus to gjs-dbus to match installed location.
Bug 585386 - Add a flush() method to DBus bus object.
Bug 585460 - Fix segfault when a non-existing node is introspected.
Bug 586665 - Fix seg fault when attempting to free callback type.
Bug 586760 - Support converting JavaScript doubles to DBus int64/uint64.
Bug 561203 - Fix priv_from_js_with_typecheck() for dynamic types
Bug 561573 - Add non-default constructors and upcoming static methods to "class"
Bug 561585 - allow using self-built spidermonkey
Bug 561664 - Closure support is broken
Bug 561686 - Don't free prov->gboxed for "has_parent" Boxed
Bug 561812 - Support time_t
Bug 562575 - Set correct GC parameters and max memory usage
Bug 565029 - Style guide - change recommendation for inheritance
Bug 567078 - Don't keep an extra reference to closures
Bug 569374 - Logging exceptions from tweener callbacks could be better
Bug 572113 - add profiler
Bug 572121 - Invalid read of size 1
Bug 572130 - memory leaks
Bug 572258 - profiler hooks should be installed only when needed
Bug 580865 - Call JS_SetLocaleCallbacks()
Bug 580947 - Validate UTF-8 strings in gjs_string_to_utf8()
Bug 580957 - Change the way we trigger a warning in testDebugger
Bug 581277 - Call JS_SetScriptStackQuota on our contexts
Bug 581384 - Propagate exceptions from load context
Bug 581385 - Return false when gjs_g_arg_release_internal fails
Bug 581389 - Fix arg.c to use 'interface' instead of 'symbol'
Bug 582686 - Don't g_error() when failing to release an argument
Bug 582704 - Don't depend on hash table order in test cases
Bug 582707 - Fix problems with memory management for in parameters
Bug 584849 - Kill warnings (uninitialized variables, strict aliasing)
Bug 560808 - Structure support
Version 0.2 (12-Nov-2008)
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Changes:
- Compatible with gobject-introspection 0.6.0
- New modules: mainloop, signals, tweener
- Support passing string arrays to gobject-introspection methods
- Added jsUnit based unit testing framework
- Improved error handling and error reporting
Contributors:
Colin Walters, Havoc Pennington, Johan Bilien, Johan Dahlin, Lucas Rocha,
Owen Taylor, Tommi Komulainen
Bugs fixed:
Bug 557398 – Allow requiring namespace version
Bug 557448 – Enum and Flags members should be uppercase
Bug 557451 – Add search paths from environment variables
Bug 557451 – Add search paths from environment variables
Bug 557466 – Module name mangling considered harmful
Bug 557579 – Remove use of GJS_USE_UNINSTALLED_FILES in favor of GI_TYPELIB_PATH
Bug 557772 - gjs_invoke_c_function should work with union and boxed as well
Bug 558114 – assertRaises should print return value
Bug 558115 – Add test for basic types
Bug 558148 – 'const char*' in arguments are leaked
Bug 558227 – Memory leak if invoked function returns an error
Bug 558741 – Mutual imports cause great confusion
Bug 558882 – Bad error if you omit 'new'
Bug 559075 – enumerating importer should skip hidden files
Bug 559079 – generate code coverage report
Bug 559194 - Fix wrong length buffer in get_obj_key()
Bug 559612 - Ignore deprecated methods definitions.
Bug 560244 - support for strv parameters
Version 0.1
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Initial version! Ha!
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