v2.0.0

Changelog for RingoJS 2.0.0

Release date: 27 July 2020

With 2.0.0 the HttpServer module has been completely rewritten. It supports a fluent configuration style and has renamed misguiding configuration options. The module is battle-tested by the @orfon team in various production environments.

Breaking Changes

• Updated to Rhino 1.7.12 commit
• Updated to Jetty 9.4.30.v20200611 commit
• Switched to new httpserver module by @grob commit
• Removed fs.workingDirectory(), fixes #393 commit

New Features

• Added supportsFileAttributeView() to file utils commit
• Hardened default ssl configuration commit
• HttpClient's user agent includes its corresponding Ringo version commit

Bugfixes

• Fixed JAVA_HOME_DIRS to work in Docker builds commit
• Adds AdoptOpenJDK's HOME_DIR to deb package rules commit
• Updates debian package configuration commit
• Fixed #404 to improve compatibility with the new HttpServer module commit
• Adds additional test for new date methods commit
• Removes GAE workaround, fixes #367 commit
• Dates test need to run in local time commit
• Adds java.time helpers, fixes 394 commit
• Harmonizes toISOString() with Date commit
• POSIX permissions won't work on Windows commit
• Fixed classloader error with Java 9+ commit
• Changed order of module scope modifications commit
• Only set executable permissions on non-Windows filesystems, as fs .changePermissions() throws on Windows commit

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu
• Simon Oberhammer

v1.2.1

Changelog for RingoJS 1.2.1

Release date: 10 November 2017

This release fixes a major bug introduced with the update to Rhino 1.7.7.2, so we switched back to 1.7.7.1.

Changes

• Updated to SLF4J to 1.7, commit

Bugfixes

• Revert back to Rhino 1.7.7.1, commit
• Dropped Xbootclasspath which allows Ringo to run on JDK9, commit, #381

Signed Checksums

Beginning with RingoJS 1.2.1 the release checksums are signed by Philipp Naderer-Puiu with fingerprint DE2A A9A1 B018 6C2F 622F D9EF 3F47 C28B 23EB 3072.

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu
• Simon Oberhammer

v1.2.0

Changelog for RingoJS 1.2.0

Release date: 27 October 2017

Features & Changes

• updated to Jetty 9.4.7 to prepare JDK 9 support, enables native ALPN/SSL provider, Hazelcast session management, better HTTP2 support, see commit
• updated to Rhino 1.7.7.2, see #380
• added new helpers setHeaders() and setContentType() in the JSGI response module, see #371
• switched to Java NIO.2 in file system utils ringo/utils/files, see #376
• enabled permissions on a temporary file, see #379
• added optional custom separator and equals delimiter in http.urlEncode(), see #375

Bugfixes

• ringo/term required both write and writeln imported to be functional, which has been resolved, see #377
• a file test failed on Windows commit
• fixed the standard log4j.properties, see #372
• fixed file-based streams if using response.stream(), auto-closing now, see commit

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu

v1.1.1

Changelog for RingoJS 1.1.1

Release date: 22 February 2017

Bugfixes

• in high-load environments a circular dependency between ringo/utils/dates and ringo/utils/strings could cause a deadlock in the module loader - commit

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu

v1.1.0

Changelog for RingoJS 1.1.0

Release date: 20 February 2017

Features & Changes

• Updates to Jetty 9.4, fixes #364 - commit
• Adds HTTP Range Request support, fixes #363 - pull request
• Re-adds pom.xml and RingoJS returns to the Maven Central Repository, fixes #315 - commit

Bugfixes

• javac source and target switched back to 1.7 instead of 1.8 to keep RingoJS compatible with Google App Engine - commit

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer-Puiu
• Simon Oberhammer

v1.0.0

The first major stable release of Ringo!

Features & Breaking Changes

• Updates to Rhino 1.7.7.1, fixes #337 - commit
• New objects.clone(); ports the node-clone package to Ringo (#345) - commit
• Improved string and dates util modules (#343) - commit
  • Adds custom date format to dates.parse()
  • Adds toggle for lenient date parsing
  • Adds strings.isDate() check
  • Removed unnecessary import of binary module
• Allow HTTP middlewares to preserve & modify input stream (#351) - commit
• ringo -version displays patch version number - commit

Bugfixes

• Fixed response.stream(); adds response.binary() for binary HTTP responses - commit
• Stricter check for multipart form request data - commit
• Adds content type parameter for BinaryPart in multipart/form-data requests - commit
• Switched to ringo/mime instead of Java's guessContentTypeFromName() in the HTTP client - commit
• Accept Content-Encoding values case-insensitive (#354) - commit
• Fixes ringo-admin - commit
• Adds <async-supported> to web.xml - commit
• Fixed behaviour of http.setCookie() for negative numbers - commit

v1.0.0-rc1

This is a release candidate of Ringo's first major release. We will fix bugs, but no new features or breaking API changes will be accepted.

Features & Breaking Changes

• Updates to Rhino 1.7.7.1, fixes #337 - commit
• New objects.clone(); ports the node-clone package to Ringo (#345) - commit
• Improved string and dates util modules (#343) - commit
  • Adds custom date format to dates.parse()
  • Adds toggle for lenient date parsing
  • Adds strings.isDate() check
  • Removed unnecessary import of binary module
• Allow HTTP middlewares to preserve & modify input stream (#351) - commit

Bugfixes

• Fixed response.stream(); adds response.binary() for binary HTTP responses - commit
• Stricter check for multipart form request data - commit
• Adds content type parameter for BinaryPart in multipart/form-data requests - commit
• Switched to ringo/mime instead of Java's guessContentTypeFromName() in the HTTP client - commit
• Accept Content-Encoding values case-insensitive (#354) - commit
• Fixes ringo-admin - commit

v0.12.0

Changelog for RingoJS 0.12

Release date: 17th June 2016

General

• Java 8 is required, dropped official support for other versions
• Updated to Rhino 1.7.7
• Updated to Jetty 9.3
• Dropped POSIX wrappers from fs module and switched to Java NIO.2
• Package loader automatically loads JAR files defined in the package descriptor

Security

• ringo/utils/http supports first-party only cookies
• Added cookie path check for CTL characters
• Stricter implementation of RFC 2231 in MIME parser
• Added two missing unsafe characters to escapeHtml in ringo/utils/strings (via Mathias Bynens)

Core and Modules

• Rewrite of the fs module using Java NIO.2
• Removed ringo/jsdoc, ringo/parser, ringo/markdown, and ringo/mustache
• Server-Sent event support via ringo/jsgi/eventsource
• ringo/jsgi/connector changed handleRequest() to not expect a module exporting a property containing the handler function (eg exports.app), but also allow using module.exports to export the handler
• ringo/httpclient dropped callbacks since it has never been async
• ringo/httpserver now uses IPv4 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as default, initializer now respects jetty.xml
• HTTP query parameter parsing: adds support for multi-key parsing, e.g. ?a=1&a=2 becomes an array a=["1", "2"]; empty parameters are supported now instead of being dropped
• AsyncResponse uses Servlet 3.1 asynchronous response writes instead of continuations
• Removed Jetty Continuation support
• HTTP server's addWebSocket() now accepts an optional onCreate callback function
• ringo/utils/http fixed to run on Google App Engine
• ringo/utils/http supports complex objects in urlEncode()
• Added more MIME types to the MIME parser
• Multiple HTTP header support in various modules
• Resolve ModuleLoader.java file descriptor leak points
• Better worker.toString() for easier tracking of individual threads
• Added response.stream() method to JSGI helper
• Added a shutdown hook to save the shell history to disk
• Console module now prints to stderr for .error() and .warn()

Documentation

• Improved the module documentation, added a lot of examples
• Removes old ringo-doc command

Contributors

• Robert Gaggl
• Philipp Naderer
• Simon Oberhammer
• sclee15

v0.11.0

Core and Modules

• Dropped Narwhal support
• addToClasspath() throws an exception if it fails
• Changed redirect() and notModified() to return the JsgiResponse instance instead of a plain JS
• Added missing removeAllListeners() proxy method to JavaEventEmitter
• Added y64encode, y64decode, isInt, isFloat, isUpperCase and isLowerCase to ringo/utils/strings
• Minor improvements in the fs module
• Removed UTC based calculation for dates.diff()
• Added charset to JsModuleLoader's getReader() call
• Allow setting of session cookie domain and path too
• module.resolve() was broken on windows
• Made httpserver more configurable

Documentation

• Improved the module documentation, added a lot of examples
• Droped Maven's pom.xml: no longer maintained
• Building a RingoJS-package for distribution now requires an empty /packages directory
• Fixed JavaDoc errors

General

• Switched to Jetty 8
• Improved the Google App Engine skeleton
• Dependencies: Instead of .orbit dependency: use direct download for Jetty
• Adds new ant build target jsdocs

RingoJS 0.11 Release Candidate

If no objections, this will be RingoJS 0.11 on Monday.