The (Unofficial) Blog-style Changelog for the V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 release v14.7

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Features (1)

Math.sumPrecise

Category: JavaScript

A TC39 proposal to add a method to sum multiple values to JavaScript. Add an iterable-taking `Math.sumPrecise` method which returns the sum of the values in the iterable using a more precise algorithm than naive summation.

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V8 release v14.8

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No new features in this version.


V8 release v14.9

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Tags:javascript

Features (1)

Programmatic scroll promises

Category: JavaScript

Web developers currently have no way to know when a programmatic smooth-scroll has completed. This feature provides a solution to the problem: make the programmatic scroll methods return Promise objects that get resolved on scroll completion.

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  "summary": "Web developers currently have no way to know when a programmatic smooth-scroll has completed. This feature provides a solution to the problem: make the programmatic scroll methods return Promise objects that get resolved on scroll completion."
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