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1.5

• Homebrew has moved V8 (again), now it's called [email protected]

1.4

• Fix autobrew for OSX Mavericks

1.3

• Extract autobrew script to separate repo
• Add symbol registration

1.2

• Improve configure script to check for the correct version of libv8
• Fedora 25+ requires v8-314-devel instead of v8-devel

1.1

• Use C++ 'new' and 'delete' instead of nodelist to keep contexts in scope

1.0.3

• Update homebrew URL in configure script

1.0.2

• Update URL of browserify logo

1.0.1

• Fix internal stop() function for new testthat
• ctx$eval(character(0)) does not raise error anymore
• Remove references to new_context() in favor of v8()
• Use the new 'COMPILED_BY' variable on windows
• Updated the URL to the V8 homepage in DESCRIPTION

1.0

• Remove UTF-8 workarounds now that Rcpp has proper UTF-8 support

0.10

• Add the console.r callback JavaScript api

0.9

• Fix for OSX cran builder
• Add 'v8' as a more descriptive alias for 'new_context'
• Update libv8 on Windows to 3.15
• Add support for the new windows tool chain

0.8

• Fix configure script for OSX
• Add 'v8' as a more descriptive alias for 'new_context'
• Update libv8 on Windows to 3.15
• Add support for the new windows tool chain

0.7

• Deprecated support for I() removed. Use JS() instead
• Refactored configure script to use pkg-config if available.
• Updated libv8 brew script on OSX to v8-3.15
• Update libv8 static builds on windows to v3.14.5.10
• Ship separate libraries for win32 for more recent compilers

0.6

• Breaking change: use JS() instead of I() to mark strings as literal JavaScript.
• ct$source() now always assumes UTF-8 data, even on Windows.
• Use the new V8_types.h feature from Rcpp 0.11.5
• Start with custom code completion within ct$console() for R 3.2.0

0.5

• Add support for Typed Arrays

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