Changelog for RingoJS 4.0.0

Release date: 7 September 2022

This is the first release on the Jetty 11 line. This brings support for the Servlet 5.0 API, JakartaEE 9 with the jakartaee.servlet.* namespace and requires at least Java 11.

What's Changed

• Adds Dockerfile and Github Action to publish main by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/451
• Updated to Jetty11 by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/449
• Fixes shell completion by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/454
• Implements system.properties, fixes #456 by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/457

Security

• Further updates for Log4j2.
• Updated to latest Jetty 11 to fix CVE-2022-2191.

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/compare/v3.0.0...v4.0.0

Due to further breaking code, we decided that RingoJS with Jetty 11 requires a major version jump. This is the first pre-release of this new line. We switched to Debian's bullseye-slim as base image for our releases.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/compare/v3.0.0...v4.0.0-Beta1

What's Changed

This is the first beta of RingoJS with Jetty 11, see https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/449

We are not ready to ship this as a final release and will continue testing.

Changelog for RingoJS 3.0.0

Release date: 23 March 2022

This release brings a variety of new ECMAScript features shipped with Rhino 1.7.14. The underlying Java integration has been updated to run smoothness on Java 11 and 17. We recommend to us these two Java LTS releases for Ringo. It also includes Log4j 2 as basic logging framework and improves integration with SLF4J. We encourage everyone to update from older releases to this one, since we will not support any older versions except for security-related issues.

This release is signed with a new key: Philipp Naderer-Puiu <[email protected]>
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New Features

• New ringo-admin tool, deprecated rp.
• Rhino 1.7.14 with improved JavaScript support:
  • Native Promise
  • Template Literals
  • Short-hand Property Names
  • Object.values / Object.entries / Object.fromEntries
  • Exponential Operator
  • JSON Superset
  • globalThis
• Java 11 and 17 Compatibility.

Core Modules

• Updated to Log4j 2 in ringo/logging.
• Changed binary.toByteString(), see #431
• Added fs.getAttributes().
• Added engine.loadJars().

What's Changed

• New logging configurations following the Log4j update.
• Switched to Gradle as build tool.
• Modernized Ringo's core modules, e.g. using let and const.
• Drops the Security Manager support due deprecation by Java.
• Various shell autocompletion and suggestion fixes.
• Adapted to Java 9+ class loading.
• Dropped Debian package support.
• Switched to Github Actions for CI.

Security

• Secured Log4j2, see CVE-2021-44228.
• Updated to latest Jetty 9 LTS.

Contributors

• Manfred Andres
• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu
• Simon Oberhammer

This is the final release candidate for RingoJS 3.0.

What's Changed

• Java 11 Compatibility by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/406
• #365 Update logging to Log4j2 by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/407
• Upgrade to jline3 by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/413
• Modules modernization by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/412
• add fs.getAttributes(path) in vein of java.nio readAttributes by @oberhamsi in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/415
• Implements engine.loadJars(), fixes #350 by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/425
• Allows a Binary instance as param for conversion by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/432
• Drops the Java Security Manager support by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/437
• Shell autocompletion/suggestion fixes by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/436
• Adapt to Rhino's NativePromise by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/443
• New ringo-admin by @grob in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/435
• Improvements for the logging module by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/445
• Prevent signal() firing too early by @botic in https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/pull/446

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ringo/ringojs/compare/v2.0.0...v3.0.0-RC6

Release Candidate 5 with the new ringo-admin and further fixes for Rhino 1.7.14.

The fourth release candidate of Ringo 3.0.0 with updated Log4J.

The third release candidate of Ringo 3.0.0. Includes the latest Jetty release 9.4.43.v20210629.

The second release candidate of Ringo 3.0.0. Includes the latest Jetty release and Rhino 1.7.13.

The first release candidate of Ringo 3.0. Includes the latest Jetty release and Rhino 1.7.13. Depending on Rhino, we might ship a even newer Rhino.