Subj : Rhino 1.6R2 release candidate available
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Norris Boyd
Date : Thu Aug 25 2005 02:39 pm

We have a release candidate for Rhino 1.6R2 available for download at 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/rhino1_6R2RC1.zip. See the
docs directory in the distribution for information on the release; I've
copied the release notes below.

Please let us know of any regressions or incompatibilities with the
previous release (1.6R1). We hope to have this version rather than
1.6R1 included as part of J2SE 6.0, so avoiding regressions is
paramount.

Thanks to Igor Bukanov and Attila Szegedi for their work on the release.

--Norris

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Rhino 1.6R2 is a new maintenance release of Rhino. New to Rhino 1.6Rx is 
support for ECMAScript for XML (E4X). See Change Log for Rhino 1.6R1 for 
more details.

This version of Rhino should be binary compatible with the current 
embeddings that use only public API unless the code use the previously 
deperected classes as documented below. Please report any 
incompatibilitiy issues to Bugzilla.

Bugs marked fixed in Rhino 1.6R2
ID 	Summary
238649 	Removal of deprecated features after 1.5R5
243057 	enhancement - ability to assign to Java function result a...
252122 	double expansion of error message
255595 	Factory class for Context creation
258844 	Continuation support in interpreter
264637 	InterpretedFunction memory footprint could be lighter
271401 	JS prototypes for superclasses with ScriptableObject.defi...
274467 	Add JavaScript stack trace to exceptions
274996 	Exceptions with multiple interpreters on stack may lead t...
277537 	isXMLName() should be properly implemented
277935 	Assignments to descendants like "msg..s = something" => f...
278701 	Minimised windows don't indicate that breakpoints have be...
280047 	Not implementing Scriptable in Undefined
280629 	When using the debugger within another program the only w...
281067 	ThreadLocal in Context prevents class unloading
281247 	JDK compatibility via special class
281537 	ScriptRuntime.toNumber warns on Undefined
282447 	NPE trying to report error when trying to convert null to...
282595 	Patch for BeanProperties to work with several setters for...
286251 	initFunction can be called twice
289294 	Infinite loop during a script compilation
289603 	Update rhino-n.tests to eliminate spidermonkey only tests
290034 	Cannot catch in JavaScript the original exception thrown ...
291591 	Rhino has differing behaviour to spidermonkey, and does n...
292324 	ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException while compiling a script
298786 	Infinite loop when compiling with optimization
299539 	Bad bytecode for function assignments
299613 	Runtime support for function-results-as-lvalue
302501 	constructor property shouldn't be readonly
303572 	Need access to underlying RhinoException in rethrown erro...

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