boa/CHANGELOG.md

TBD

TODO

Features:

• FEATURE #74: Enables Boa to run within the Test 262 framework.
  This will help us see what is implemented or not within the spec

Next

Feature enhancements:

• FEATURE #119: Introduce realm struct to hold realm context and global object.
• FEATURE #89: Implement exponentiation operator. Thanks @arbroween
• FEATURE #47: Add tests for comments in source code. Thanks @Emanon42
• Demo page has been improved, new font plus change on input. Thanks @WofWca

Bug fixes:

• BUG #113: Unassigned variables have default of undefined (@pop)
• Tidy up Globals being added to Global Object. Thanks @DomParfitt

0.4.0 (2019-09-25)

v0.4.0 brings quite a big release. The biggest feature to land is the support of regular expressions.
Functions now have the arguments object supported and we have a debugging section in the docs.

Feature enhancements:

• FEATURE #6: Support for regex literals. (Big thanks @999eagle)
• FEATURE #13: toLowerCase, toUpperCase, substring, substr and valueOf implemented (thanks @arbroween)
• Support for arguments object within functions
• StringData instead of PrimitieData to match spec
• Native function signatures changed, operations added to match spec
• Primitives can now be boxed/unboxed when methods are ran on them
• Spelling edits (thanks @someguynamedmatt)
• Ability to set global values before interpreter starts (thanks @999eagle)
• Assign operators implemented (thanks @oll3)

Bug fixes:

• BUG #57: Fixed issue with stackoverflow by implementing early returns.
• Allow to re-assign value to an existing binding. (Thanks @oll3)

0.3.0 (2019-07-26)

• UnexpectedKeyword(Else) bug fixed https://github.com/jasonwilliams/boa/issues/38
• Contributing guide added
• Ability to specify file - Thanks @callumquick
• Travis fixes
• Parser Tests - Thanks @Razican
• Migrate to dyn traits - Thanks @Atul9
• Added implementations for Array.prototype: concat(), push(), pop() and join() - Thanks @callumquick
• Some clippy Issues fixed - Thanks @Razican
• Objects have been refactored to use structs which are more closely aligned with the specification
• Benchmarks have been added
• String and Array specific console.log formats - Thanks @callumquick
• isPropertyKey implementation added - Thanks @KrisChambers
• Unit Tests for Array and Strings - Thanks @GalAster
• typo fix - Thanks @palerdot
• dist cleanup, thanks @zgotsch

0.2.1 (2019-06-30)

Some String prototype methods are implemented.
Thanks to @lennartbuit we have trim/trimStart/trimEnd added to the string prototype

Feature enhancements:

• String.prototype.concat ( ...args )
• String.prototype.endsWith ( searchString [ , endPosition ] )
• String.prototype.includes ( searchString [ , position ] )
• String.prototype.indexOf ( searchString [ , position ] )
• String.prototype.lastIndexOf ( searchString [ , position ] )
• String.prototype.repeat ( count )
• String.prototype.slice ( start, end )
• String.prototype.startsWith ( searchString [ , position ] )

Bug fixes:

• Plenty

0.2.0 (2019-06-10)

Working state reached

• Tests on the lexer, conforms with puncturators and keywords from TC39 specification
• wasm-bindgen added with working demo in Web Assembly
• snapshot of boa in a working state for the first time