NEWS.md

In QuickJSR: Interface for the 'QuickJS' Lightweight 'JavaScript' Engine

QuickJSR 1.7.0

• Remove usage of disallowed entrypoints in compiled code

QuickJSR 1.6.1

• Update bundled QuickJS-NG engine to v0.9.0 (see https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/releases for release notes)

QuickJSR 1.6.0

• Sync bundled QuickJS-NG engine to 9d6e372 to address gcc-ubsan error
• Patch bundled cpp11 headers for whitespace in literal operator declarations

QuickJSR 1.5.2

• Fix conversions of NULL/NA/undefined values between R and JS

QuickJSR 1.5.1

• Fix compilation under emscripten/WASM

QuickJSR 1.5.0

• Update bundled QuickJS-NG engine to v0.8.0 (see https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/releases for release notes)
• Update vendored cpp11 headers to 0.5.1

QuickJSR 1.4.0

• Update bundled QuickJS-NG engine to v0.6.1 (see https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/releases for release notes)

QuickJSR 1.3.1

• Fix installation under R < 4.2

QuickJSR 1.3.0

• Bundled QuickJS engine updated to the QuickJS-NG fork, which is under more active development than the original QuickJS engine
• Several Non-API R calls fixed
• Unity/jumbo build implemented for QuickJS sources, allowing for faster compilation and improved compiler optimisations
• Bugfixes for feature detection when system CC differs from R CMD config CC

QuickJSR 1.2.2

• Fix non-canonical CRAN URL in READMEE

QuickJSR 1.2.1

• Fix installation under C++11
• Fix installation for FreeBSD
• Fix detection of atomics support under Windows and ARM64
• Fix module loading
• Add $get() and $assign() methods to JSContext
• Support passing R environments, getting and setting values
• Add global R object with access to package environments

QuickJSR 1.2.0

• Rcpp dependency replaced with vendored cpp11 headers
• R6 dependency removed
• R and JS interoperability added, removing jsonlite dependency
• Fixes for libatomic linking on 32-bit systems
• Added to_json and from_json functions for testing R/JS interop

QuickJSR 1.1.0

• Fixed UBSAN error in JS_Eval
• Fixed compilation errors with older GCC & Clang (stdatomic.h not found)

QuickJSR 1.1.0

• Bundled QuickJS engine updated to the 2024-01-13 release:
  • top-level-await support in modules
  • allow 'await' in the REPL
  • added Array.prototype.{with,toReversed,toSpliced,toSorted} and TypedArray.prototype.{with,toReversed,toSorted}
  • added String.prototype.isWellFormed and String.prototype.toWellFormed
  • added Object.groupBy and Map.groupBy
  • added Promise.withResolvers
  • class static block
  • 'in' operator support for private fields
  • optional chaining fixes
  • added RegExp 'd' flag
  • fixed RegExp zero length match logic
  • fixed RegExp case insensitive flag
  • added os.sleepAsync(), os.getpid() and os.now()
  • added cosmopolitan build
  • misc bug fixes

QuickJSR 1.0.9

• Bundled QuickJS engine updated to the 2023-12-09 release:
  • added Object.hasOwn, {String|Array|TypedArray}.prototype.at, {Array|TypedArray}.prototype.findLast{Index}
  • BigInt support is enabled even if CONFIG_BIGNUM disabled
  • updated to Unicode 15.0.0
  • misc bug fixes

QuickJSR documentation built on April 13, 2025, 5:12 p.m.