CheerpJ 3.0

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CheerpJ 3.0 is now available!

To use CheerpJ 3.0:

<script src="https://cjrtnc.leaningtech.com/3.0/cj3loader.js"></script>

This release contains breaking changes. If you are using CheerpJ 2.3 or earlier, please read the migration guide.

Read the full release notes on the Leaning Technologies Developer blog

Changelog

• Completely new JIT-based architecture
• Removed AOT compiler
• Full classloader support
• New scalable JNI architecture (cheerpjInit natives option)
• Library mode (cheerpjRunLibrary)
  • Removed cjCall and cjNew
• cheerpjInit is now asynchronous
• cheerpj-dom.jar removed
• cheerpjRunJarWithClasspath removed
• CheerpJWorker removed (3.0rc2 adds support for importScripts)
• com.leaningtech.handlers HTTP handler no longer needed. HTTP(S) requests just work
• Reduced verbosity of debug messages
• Support for synchronised methods in the JIT
• Restored support for AWT to the same level as CheerpJ 2.3
• Improved reflection support
• Support for Web Workers (just use importScripts)
• Improved clipboard support
• Improved library mode with support object field access, arrays, instanceof, quality-of-life and debugging
• Improved support for fonts
• Improved support for class loaders
• Fixed preloading support
• Support for ClassCastException
• cheerpjAddStringFile deprecated, renamed to cheerpOSAddStringFile
• Support all Java opcodes in the JIT
• Better support for missing JNI symbols
• Improved support for socket syscalls
• Support for loading native libraries as JavaScript modules
• Support zero-copy passing of primitive arrays in library mode
• Restore support for image filtering
• Restore support for printing
• Optimized font handling
• Improved error message when server does not support content ranges