What is v8cgi

Small set of C++ and JS libraries, allowing coder to use JS as a server-side HTTP processing language. Basic functionality includes IO, GD, MySQL, Sockets, Templating, FastCGI and Apache module.

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News

15. 12. 2011

Version 0.9.2 is ready! v8cgi is now considered stable and recommended for general usage. Apart from the downloads provided at Google Code, there is now a PPA Repository with Ubuntu packages.

Version 0.9.2 is probably the last major release before 1.0 will be available. There are several changes which increase the compatibility with CommonJS: most notable, the include function was finally removed for good. Also, Config.libraryAutoload is no longer available.

Major changes are available in the Changelog; most interesting highlights:

• Improved sockets (non-blocking; select)
• Websocket library
• TLS module

26. 9. 2011

Version 0.9.1 is ready! This is a bugfix release, containing numerous small improvements commited during last months. Most notable changes:

• Faster global object reusing
• Refactored error handling
• Thread safety
• More robust HTTP uploads

9. 12. 2010

Version 0.9.0 is ready! This release is a major step in v8cgi development (hence the big increase in version number); I am proud to announce a large number of improvements and changes:

• FreeBSD support
• Many new modules (hash, base64, mail, fibers, memcached, profile, zlib)
• Binary finally completely available (in form of CommonJS Binary/F Buffer implementation)
• Improved wiki documentation
• Several backwards-incompatible changes:
• Removed module "util"
• Planning to remove "include" function
• Session no longer automagically creates global variable

UPDATE: Windows build of v8cgi 0.9.0 is finally available for download :)

23. 5. 2010

Version 0.8.2 released. This is only a very minor bugfix update.

12. 5. 2010

Release 0.8.1 is ready! This is a bugfix release, no new major features were added. Improvements were made in SConstruct build process, Apache, MySQL and DOM modules. New binary module (binary-f) is present; hopefully, one day will all these proposals converge to a final binary library.

Windows binary is still compiled without Context reusing. The XDOM module is slowly getting obsoleted. The configuration option Config.httpHandler was removed.

For a full list of changes, see the Changelog.

8. 2. 2010

Release 0.8.0 is ready! Some big changes and features made it into this release: Binary/B is available and test/assert modules are now also CommonJS compatible. v8cgi now builds on Mac, features the "global.v8cgi" free variable, supports multiple MySQL queries. A new DOM module was introduced.

Windows binary is compiled without Context reusing, as this feature is still somewhat problematic. Also, the XDOM (Xerces-based DOM) module is not included in Windows release. Use the JS DOM module instead.

For a full list of changes, see the Changelog.

16. 11. 2009

Release 0.7.5 is ready! Many things have changed and more features are available. v8cgi achieves higher level of compatibility with CommonJS Modules/1.1 and Windows users can now use DOM and PostgreSQL modules. For a full list of changes, see the Changelog.

20. 10. 2009

Release 0.7.0 (anniversary edition) is ready! This release brings many new modules (postgresql, process, dom, gl, sprintf more), better (configurable) error handling, stability fixes and more improvements. Version 0.7.0 also features code from much more contributors than before.

25. 6. 2009

Release 0.6.0 is ready! Numerous improvements, features and fixes were implemented in this version. New support for SQLite and Context reusing. New unit tests, reworked global.system object, refactored DB libraries and much more.

15. 6. 2009

Revision 454 renames several scons options. Type scons -h to see a list of them.

3. 6. 2009

Release 0.5.2 is ready! Complete V8 sources are now included in the src tarball. New features include Securable Modules compliance, testing framework, assert+getopt modules and lots of stability and compatibility-related fixes.

14. 4. 2009

Starting from revision 391, v8cgi now ships with an assertion module, basic set of unit tests and a tiny testing framework runner.

8. 4. 2009

Revision 381 is compliant with Securable Modules specification and passes all current tests at http://code.google.com/p/interoperablejs/ :)

30. 3. 2009

Release 0.5.0 is ready! This version fixes several fatal bugs and adds support for command line arguments. The MySQL module now automatically closes opened connections on exit. UPDATE: 0.5.1 contains a critical bugfix regarding MySQL with Apache module :)

26. 2. 2009

Release 0.4.0 is ready! Module system has been rewritten to support both include() and require() methods; path handling is better and MySQL module is able to close its database connection.

6. 2. 2009

Release 0.3.0 is ready! Apache module included, for both Windows and Linux platforms. Also, the build process on MacOS X is now a bit easier :)

22. 1. 2009

Release 0.2.0 is ready! This one contains many improvements and libraries: sockets, http client, fastcgi and GD. Windows build does not contain FastCGI support.

6. 1. 2009

Release 0.1.0 is ready!