Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:mozjs140 Owner: jeremy.bi...@canonical.com
Package Name: mozjs140 Version: 140.0 Upstream Author: Mozilla etc License: mostly MPL-2.0, other files are licensed under other open source licenses Programming Lang: C++ Description: SpiderMonkey JavaScript library SpiderMonkey is the code-name for Mozilla Firefox's C++ implementation of JavaScript. It is intended to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript. . This library is intended for use in contexts where only trusted JavaScript code will be run, such as GNOME's gjs, Cinnamon's cjs, and polkit's rules parsing. It should not be used to run untrusted JavaScript from web pages: use a security-supported implementation such as Firefox, Chrome or WebKitGTK's JavaScriptCore instead. Other Info -------------- mozjs is the JavaScript engine from Firefox ESR. Tomorrow, a new Firefox ESR series will be released. It will be supported by Mozilla for about 14 months. mozjs140 is unlikely to be backported for trixie. Forky is likely to use the new series after mozjs140 once it's available in 2026. I expect that either GNOME 49 or 50 (specifically gjs 1.86 or 1.88) will switch from mozjs128 to mozjs140. The other user of mozjs* in Debian is Cinnamon, specifically their cjs fork of gjs. Recently, the cjs developers have changed their update processes to make it easier for distros to fully switch to newer versions of mozjs. cjs's new version numbering system makes this more obvious: trixie's cjs 128 is compatible with mozjs128. mozjs packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mozjs References ---------- https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/690 Thanks, Jeremy Bícha
