gjs-1.82.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

GNOME-47 material.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Now 1.81.2 and it depends on spidermonkey-128 (#20077).

[Xi Ruoyao]

See xry111/spidermonkey128 branch.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Now 1.82.0

[Xi Ruoyao]

Reassign to myself. Already discussed with Douglas via IRC.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Version 1.82.0

• Closed bugs and merge requests:
  • installed tests are failing because they can't load internal typelibs from parent directory [#639, !953, Simon McVittie]
  • GIMarshalling test has 3 failures with 1.81.90 on i686 [#642, !954, Philip Chimento]

Version 1.81.90

• Closed bugs and merge requests:
  • callbacks: fix sweeping check for incremental GC [!859, !950, Evan Welsh, Gary Li]
  • GJS doesn't handle query parameters in imports [#618, !944, Gary Li]
  • Integrate gobject-introspection-tests as submodule [!946, Philip Chimento]
  • module: Include full module specifier in import.meta.url [!947, Philip Chimento]
  • doap: Remove invalid maintainer entry [!948, Sophie Herold]
  • installed tests have the wrong libexecdir [#636, !949, Jeremy Bicha]
  • Inheriting final class crashes GJS [#640, !951, Gary Li]
  • Various maintenance [!952, Philip Chimento]

Version 1.81.2

• New JavaScript features! This version of GJS is based on SpiderMonkey 128, an upgrade from the previous ESR (Extended Support Release) of SpiderMonkey 115. Here are the highlights of the new JavaScript features. For more information, look them up on MDN or devdocs.io.
  • New APIs
    • The new Object.groupBy() and Map.groupBy() static methods group the elements of an iterable according to the return value of a key function.
    • The new Promise.withResolvers() static method returns a Promise as well as its resolve and reject functions, shorthand for a common pattern used when promisifying event-based APIs.
    • Strings have gained the isWellFormed() and toWellFormed() methods which help when interoperating with strings that may have unpaired Unicode surrogates. This usually does not come up in the GNOME platform.
    • ArrayBuffers have gained the transfer() and transferToFixedLength() methods, which transfer ownership of a data buffer to a new ArrayBuffer object, without copying it, and invalidating ("detaching") any existing references to the buffer. There is also a new property, detached, which allows checking whether an ArrayBuffer is in the detached state.
    • The new Intl.Segmenter class allows splitting a string into graphemes, words, or sentences, in a locale-aware way.
    • Intl.NumberFormat has gained formatRange() and formatRangeToParts() methods, which allow formatting number ranges, like "3–5".
    • Intl.PluralRules has gained a selectRange() method, which allows selecting the proper plural form based on a range of numbers, like "30–50 feral hogs".
  • New behaviour
    • The Intl.NumberFormat and Intl.PluralRules constructors support new options: roundingIncrement, roundingMode, roundingPriority, and trailingZeroDisplay.
    • The Intl.NumberFormat constructor also supports the new option useGrouping.
  • Backwards-incompatible changes
    • The behaviour of Date.parse() has been changed to be more consistent with other JavaScript engines. (But don't use Date.parse().)
• Closed bugs and merge requests:
  • Invalid search paths cause failed assertions when printing imports.gi [#629, !935, Gary Li]
  • SpiderMonkey 128 [#630, !936, !945, Philip Chimento]
  • Pretty-printing byte array in gjs-console throws a type conversion error [#434, !937, Gary Li]
  • js: Add gjs_debug_callable() debug function [!940, Philip Chimento]
  • build: Build Cairo from subproject if not found [!941, Philip Chimento]
  • Bump CI image to Fedora 40 [!942, Philip Chimento]
  • CI tools updates [!943, Philip Chimento]

Version 1.81.1

• Breaking change: When creating a GObject with the new operator, the constructor takes a single argument consisting of a property bag with GObject construct properties and their values. This was often confused with the new static method that may take arguments that are not interpreted as property bags. For example, Gio.FileIcon was one of the many affected APIs:

new Gio.FileIcon({file: myFile})

vs

Gio.FileIcon.new(myFile)

Confusion between the two often lead to bug reports when confusing these two and calling new Gio.FileIcon(myFile) - the constructor would look for a nonexistent file property on myFile, causing an improperly initialized object.

This is now no longer allowed. The argument to new Gio.FileIcon(...) must be a plain JS object, not a GObject.

It's possible that existing code legitimately used a GObject here. If your code does this and a quick migration is impractical, please get in touch and we will revert this change before 1.82.0 in favour of a longer deprecation period.

• The get_data(), get_qdata(), set_data(), steal_data(), steal_qdata(), ref(), unref(), ref_sink(), and force_floating() methods of GObject now throw if called. These methods never worked, but sometimes they would silently appear to succeed, then cause crashes or memory leaks later.

If you were trying to use the get_data() family of methods, just set a JS property instead. If you were trying to modify the refcount of a GObject in JS, instead set the object as the value of a JS property on some other object.

• Closed bugs and merge requests:
  • doc: Document how to get a stack trace [!864, Sonny Piers]
  • TextDecoder should accept GBytes [#587, !903, Sriyansh Shivam]
  • Possible use-after-free with GLib.Regex.match/GLib.MatchInfo [#589, !920, Philip Chimento]
  • method get_line of Pango.Layout doesn't work. [#547, !921, Philip Chimento]
  • Block calls to g_object_get_data and friends [#423, !922, Philip Chimento]
  • Crash when calling Pango.Layout.get_pixel_size() with a badly init:ed Pango.Layout [#580, !923, Philip Chimento]
  • doc: avoid reference to Gio.UnixInputStream [!925, Andy Holmes]
  • Add a CI check for config.h, and some other useful checks [#447, !926, Philip Chimento]
  • Incorrect UnixOutputStream warning [#610, !928, Philip Chimento]
  • Various maintenance [!929, !931, Philip Chimento]
  • Docs: Various markdown fixes [!930, Frank Dana]
  • Some build fixes for the main (and gnome-46) branches for Visual Studio [!932, Chun-wei Fan]
  • GJS doesn't log undefined values [#621, !933, Gary Li]
  • property objects are printed as empty js objects [#622, !934, Gary Li]

[Xi Ruoyao]

Fixed r12.2-357-ge29beb9a0d.