-Rhino 1.6R1 is the last qualified release. It includes support for ECMAScript for XML (E4X). To implement E4X runtime Rhino uses XMLBeans library and if you would like to use E4X you need to add xbean.jar from XMLBeans distribution to your class path.
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ href="http://xmlbeans.apache.org/">XMLBeans library and if you would like to ++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. +
+ +| 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... | + +