lvcabral/brs-engine v1.0.0

v1.0.0 - Simulation Engine Release

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After 4 years of Alpha and Beta stages, the project is stable and performant enough to finally be released as version 1.0 and with that, we decided to give it a new name:

brs-engine - BrightScript Simulation Engine

The term simulation engine was chosen instead of the former emulator to better represent the nature and purpose of the project, as there is no intention to fully emulate a Roku device (OS and Hardware), but rather simulate the behavior, as a development tool and as an engine/framework to run BrightScript apps in different platforms.

In this release the new CLI was introduced, still with some limitations (e.g. no OffScreenCanvas support), but allowing basic BrightScript code to be executed, either via REPL or files. It also performs the encryption of a .zip file into a .bpk package to protect the source code.

Release Changes

• Renamed package to brs-engine
• Renamed libraries to brs.api.js and brs.worker.js
• Reorganized src folder by library, subfolders: api, cli and worker
• Added new CLI with REPL (bin/brs.cli.js) (#181)
• Added support for Conditional Compilation (#93)
• Added support for webp file format in roBitmap (#166)
• Added support for interfaces ifGetArray and ifSetArray (#170)
• Added support for .bpk encrypted package file (#188)
• Added support optional chaining operators: ?., ?(, ?[, and .@ (#176)
• Moved models list to API library and updated serialNumber format
• Added new API event registry
• Added check for break debug command during the roMessagePort loop
• Added code to pause sound when Micro Debugger is triggered (does not affect wav)
• Added option to stop on Micro Debugger when a crash happens (#198)
• Added partial try/catch implementation (#195)
• Improved error handling and added warning for RSG usage
• Added stub roAppMemoryMonitor and roDeviceInfo.enableLowGeneralMemory (#196)
• Added new method getAllPurchases and changed doOrder to return false (#178)
• Added formatLocation method in the Interpreter to help show location in warning messages
• Added Bundle Stats Analyzer and replaced dependencies to reduce package size
• Updated default firmware to 11.0 and added new models to the list
• Updated images and layout of sample Web application
• Updated roDateTime.GetTimeZoneOffset() to consider roDeviceInfo.GetTimeZone() (#94)
• Finished implementation of ifEnum on all array/list objects (#171)
• Fixed multiple cascading calls for dot-chained methods (#55)
• Fixed roRegion offset not being properly applied when setWrap was true (#194)
• Fixed Val() function not compliant with Roku (#162)
• Fixed duplication of exception handling messages (#126)
• Fixed code smells and bugs based on Sonar Cloud recommendations (#169)
• Replaced luxon by day.js on roDateTime and roTimespan (#193)
• Replaced module jszip by the lighter fflate
• Removing ua-parser-js dependency for the API
• Bumped version of several dependencies
• Removed Node 14.x from the build (#182)

Full Changelog: v0.10.22...v1.0.0